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On 11 November 2006 in Warsaw was established European Off Film Academy - now known as GRAND OFF -World Off Film Awards Cinema Art Foundation based on long experience and a wide range of international relations initiated GRAND OFF European Off Film Awards. Officially the institution was established on the 11th of November 2006 in the Luna Cinema in Warsaw. On that day representatives from 17 countries - Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Croatia, Luxemburg, Germany, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine, Italy and Poland signed the founding act. This is the first and only institution in Europe which aims at initiating an exchange between all Europeans countries and facilitating the emergence of the best Polish productions of independent cinema. Founding Members: Jan Baca (Spain), Zeljko Balog (Croatia), Leszek Boguszewski (Poland), Ulrika Bokstad (Sweden), Tomasz Drozdowicz (Poland), Maciej J. Drygas (Poland), Jan Essing (the Netherlands), Katarzyna Figura (Poland), Georges Fondeur (Luxemburg), Wolfgang Freier (Belgium), Jeanne Glass (France), Max Hänsli (Switzerland), Reiner Hasselbarth (Germany), Beata Hyczko (Poland), Jaak Järvine (Estonia), Ursula Kräuchi (Switzerland), Andrzej Kuśmider (Poland), Dominique Lesage (France-Poland), Helmut Ludwig (Germany), Paweł Łęski (Poland), Rolf Mandolesi (Italy), Waldemar Piątek (Poland), Damian Pietrasik (Poland), Agnieszka Prokopowicz (Poland), Stanisław Puls (Poland), Erich Riess (Austria), Grzegorz Sadurski (Poland), Franz Schlager (Austria), Hans Schober (Switzerland), Zuzanna Skoludova (Slovakia), Mieczysław Szcześniak (Poland), Alois Urbanek (Austria). Among the members there are directors of World Independent Film Festivals. the representatives of World Film Union UNICA, professional filmmakers and the best authors of European Independent Cinema. Patronage over GRAND OFF European Off Film Awards is taken by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Director of Polish Film Institute and Mayor of Warsaw. The institution was initiated and organised by Cinema Art Foundation and supported by the City of Warsaw and Ministry of Culture. Upon the request of Wim Wenders (European Film Academy) we changed the name European Off Film Academy to GRAND OFF - European Off Film Awards. 
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