CPH PIX is an annual film festival in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark. The festival resulted from the merger in 2008 of the Copenhagen International Film Festival

Copenhagen International Film Festival

Copenhagen International Film Festival is a film festival held in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was first held in 2003, and is held annually. The main award at the Copenhagen International Film Festival is the Golden Swan, which will be awarded for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best...

 and the NatFilm Festival

NatFilm Festival

The NatFilm Festival, staged annually across 16 cinemas in Copenhagen, in addition to several in Odense, Aalborg and Århus, shows the widest programme of films to the largest festival audience in Denmark...

 to create an organisation called Copenhagen Film Festivals, which also manages the documentary film festival CPH:DOX and the Buster Film Festival for children and young people.

The first CPH PIX Film Festival was held in April 2009 and it had an audience of 36,500 people, which was the largest audience ever recorded for a film festival in Copenhagen. The second festival is scheduled for April 15-25 2010.

Awards

The festival presents two awards; the New Talent Grand PIX which goes to a first time filmmaker and the Audience Award. New Talent Grand PIX is awarded by an International jury while the Audience Award is decided by the audience.

The previous winners of these awards are:

Year	New Talent Grand Pix	Audience Award
2009	Peter Strickland for Katalin Varga Katalin Varga (film) Katalin Varga is a 2009 film directed by Peter Strickland.The directorial debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project. Filmed over several years in a Hungarian-speaking part of the Romanian region of Transylvania, Strickland completed the project...	C'est pas moi, je le jure! C'est pas moi, je le jure! C'est pas moi, je le jure! is a Quebec-French-language comedy movie released in Quebec on September 26, 2008. It is directed by Philippe Falardeau and is adapted from Bruno Hébert's novels C'est pas moi, je le jure! and Alice court avec René. The film's soundtrack contains original songs composed... (It's Not Me, I Swear) (Canada)

External links

• http://www.cphpix.dk official website for CPH PIX
• http://www.cphfilmfestivals.dk official website of Copenhagen Film Festivals