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9th International Festival of Films and TV Documentaries
on Technical and Industrial Monuments 
 
TECHNÉ OSTRAVA 2010
20 – 22 October 2010
Poklad Cultural Centre, Ostrava – Poruba
The TECHNÉ OSTRAVA Festival was established in 2002 in order to draw attention to the issues of and the necessity to protect technical and industrial monuments as an integral part of our as well as European cultural heritage. This will be our 9th year. It is organized in a city rich with industrial tradition where, within a small area, numerous monuments of a technical and industrial architecture are condensed, documenting the extensive industrial revolution that marked the look of the city, primarily during the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to the technical element, the festival also entails strong cultural charge. Its topics, both for competing films and TV documentaries shown during the festival projections as well as for scientific colloquium and presentation materials of the proceedings, cover the protection of technical and industrial heritage and the possibilities of its new use.
From the very beginning the very point of the festival is to inform experts as well as the general public with the possibilities and outcomes of care and protection of industrial and technical monuments in the Czech Republic as well as abroad. The festival hosts expert seminars, encounters and discussion programmes, excursions for experts and students to technical open air museums in Ostrava and its vicinity which is connected with monuments of the industrial past. The importance of the festival is emphasized by the patronage of the Mayor of Ostrava and the Chancellor of VSB – Technical University Ostrava.
The organizers successfully co-operate with VSB – Technical University Ostrava and the LANDEK Foundation, Mining Museum Landek and Mining Museum in Příbram. Among the foreign participants it is important to mention the Mining Museum in Kremnica, Hornonitriansky Mining Open Air Museum Cigeĺ, Silesian Polytechnics in Glivice, Katowice School of Economics, Museum of Mining in Zabrz, Bergbaumuseum Freiberg or the Technische Universitat Bergakademie in Freiberg and other institutions.
In terms of scientific content the festival not only covers technical and industrial monuments but also wider aspects related to the technical monuments, such as tourism, architecture, original handicrafts, culture of labour, history and social aspects of industrial development, influence of industry on the development of towns, development of level of education, etc. These topics are most significantly reflected in the annually published proceedings of expert lectures from the international colloquium of the TECHNÉ OSTRAVA festival.
The concept of the festival focuses on domestic (Czech) conditions and positive examples of what has been achieved abroad in this area – how the individual countries preserve their industrial heritage and technical monuments and how they use them; e.g. how the protection and use of technical monuments help develop tourism in seemingly little attractive industrial areas.
The festival invites authors and experts in the respective topics from European countries with an industrial tradition, TV and film companies and other institutions involved in the area of technical and industrial monuments.
As mentioned above, the organizers of the festival have co-operated since the very beginning with VSB – Technical University of Ostrava where students may sign up for subjects related to technical monuments and their use. This co-operation later engaged other universities covering similar fields. The result of this co-operation concerns the scientific colloquiums organized as a part of TECHNÉ OSTRAVA, contributions of which are annually published in the proceedings.
Festival topics
  • Technical and industrial monuments and their practical utilization
  • Enlightenment and promotion of technical and industrial monuments
  • Architecture and engineering of historical buildings
  • Historical crafts and preservation of their tradition
  • Former industrial regions seek their new face
  • Importance of industrial heritage in development of tourism in regions
  • Specific use of brownfields for new activities
  • Importance and use of sites enlisted in the UNESCO World Heritage List to increase the number of visitors of the region
  • Methods of managing tourist destinations and efficient use of their potential with respect to the promotion of technical and industrial monuments
The festival is dedicated to all who are engaged in the area of technical monuments, both among experts – conservationists, historians and art historians, researchers in geosciences and mining tourism, teachers, state authorities’ clerks, architects, sociologists, etc. as well as university students, secondary technical schools and the general public who are interested in these topics or are not indifferent. The International Festival on Films and TV Documentaries on Technical and Industrial Monuments, TECHNÉ OSTRAVA, has, in the past years, gained the attention of domestic and international institutions and experts in this area and has addressed a higher number of the general public.
Festival Awards
Every year festival awards called Ostrava Venus are announced. The main award goes to the best film or TV documentary and another award is for individual contribution to the protection and use of technical monuments and their popularization. In co-operation with the LANDEK Foundation the festival also awards a prize for merits in the care of monuments in the area of coal and ore mining.
The expert jury also awards honourable mentions for significant film enterprises and traditionally the prizes of the Chancellor of VSB – Technical University Ostrava and the Chancellor of the Katowice School of Economics for the best theses and papers on the given topics are awarded to the students of Czech and foreign universities. 
 
Accompanying Programmes
The festival significantly enriches the opportunities for mutual recognition of the participating countries with respect to the protection and new use of technical and industrial monuments in tourism. For the experts, it offers a very beneficial opportunity to exchange experiences, both in theoretical and practical fields. The festival hosts numerous accompanying events, excursions to Ostrava technical monuments and sights, trips to industrial museums and open air museums, exhibitions and multimedia presentations.
Scientific Colloquium
The festival is concerned with the history, protection and use of technical and industrial monuments and as its integral part an international colloquium is held. The seminars and colloquium dedicated to expert lectures and discussions create a space for the generous exchange of experience between secondary school teachers, theorists and people from practice in the area of care of monuments, architecture, public administration and municipalities, tourism, etc., in the form of contributions to the discussion, both theoretical and practical.  
TECHNÉ OSTRAVA Proceedings
Within the scope of the festival the proceedings of the expert lectures and discussion contributions, both from the colloquium and seminars of the TECHNÉ OSTRAVA festival, are issued. It is important for all festival participants that these proceedings are already available upon arrival to the festival and thus they may be used for their further needs. Another important aspect of the proceedings lies in the fact that they have been assigned an international standard serial number, ISSN. 
The Best Bachelor’s or Master’s Thesis Competition
Since 2003, the festival has been organizing the Best Bachelor’s or Master’s Thesis Competition inviting theses focused on technical and industrial monuments or tourism. Every year the winners are awarded prizes of the Chancellor of VSB – Technical University Ostrava.
As a part of this year’s festival a competition is being organized inviting pupils of primary schools and students of secondary schools to create art works on “The World of Machinery and Technology at Times of our Great Grandparents”.