06.14.2013 China, Shanghai: Czech Republic director Olga Sommerova (left) poses with documentary jury chairman Yves Jeanneau after she won the award for Best Documentary yesterday.
The Magnolia International Documentary Awards announced the winners of both the competition and 2013 MIDA Filmmaker Plan yesterday.
The award for Best Documentary 60 minutes and up went to “Vera 68,” directed by Olga Sommerova from the Czech Republic.
The biographic documentary is about Vera Caslavska, a gymnast in 1960s who won seven gold and four silver Olympic Medals in Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City (1968).
“I’m honored with my film about the most famous Czechoslovak gymnast Vera Caslavska, a gymnast who has ‘superpower,’” Sommerova said yesterday.
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