Judging of the 2019 Imago International Awards for cinematography is well underway, with the 2nd IMAGO International Awards for Cinematography presentation to be held in Belgrade on March 16th. at the Yugoslovenska Kinoteka, hosted by the Serbian Society (SAS), led by it’s President, Predrag Bambic SAS

 The entry submissions closed on the15th of December and around 60 jurors are now evaluating all entries. We have 39 Feature films, 26 TV Drama episodes, 31 Documentaries, 28 Student films and18 feature films for the Young Emerging Cinematographer category. To judge the best films of each category there are 60 jurors from IMAGO society members involved, plus all Society presidents who will choose the winner of the Young Emerging Cinematographer category.

From the total of 52 member societies of IMAGO, 40 have made at least one entry in one  category, with many submitting entries for all 5 categories. This result gives a rate of 76,9 % of participation.

The panel of judges are viewing and classifying all films and the final list of nominees will be announced on 2nd February for the Feature, TV Drama and Documentary categories.

On the same day a short list will be announced for the other two categories; Student Films and Young Emerging Cinematographer. The winner for the Student Film Category will be announced on 16th February on the IMAGO websites www.imago.org / www.imagoawards.org and the winner for the Young Emerging Cinematographer on the 23rd February also on the IMAGO website.

To check a full list of entries go to www.imagoawards.org 

The list of jurors are

Last year group photo: by Alejandro Lorenzo