This year, and for the first time, Time For Peace will present a ceremony devoted exclusively to music and films from Europe. The European creativity in cinematography and music is rich in its diversity and recognized throughout the world for its high artistic quality.
It is with this in mind that the European cinematographic and musical works were selected – similar to the international works that the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards have honored for the past fifteen years – based on criteria of high artistic quality but also on those of humanist values, such as tolerance, respect for difference, solidarity, care provided to others, better understanding between peoples, freedom of expression, and so forth.
After the nominees were chosen, with the cooperation of professionals in the film and music industry, the jury committee for the first ceremony of the “European Time for Peace Film & Music Awards” now consists of 24 ambassadors to the European Council, under the patronage of Mr. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission and under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Mr. Thorbjørn Jagland
Moreover, this year a new category, the “Time for Peace Sport Film Award”, has been added to those already in existence. It will honor a film that tells an epic athletic story, which conveys humanist values, for, as the Olympic Charter emphasizes, sports should serve the harmonious development of mankind to promote a peaceful society, paying special attention to preserving human dignity.
Thus, six categories are now presented: Film, First Film, Actress, Actor, Sports Film, and Music.
It is the mission of the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards to show that films and music can – through works of high artistic quality – be bearers of values and raise human consciousness.
The ceremony of the European Time for Peace Film & Music Awards will be the only one presented this year. As of next year, it is our intention to present two ceremonies, one for European films that will take place in one of the great capital cities of Europe, and one for American films to be presented in the United States, either in New York or Washington, D.C.
It is the ambition of Time for Peace to develop similar ceremonies in Asia and South America in the near future.
In addition, like all great international cinematographic awards, following the example of the Academy Awards that develops Media Literary Programs every year, the Time for Peace Film & Music Awards, too, are working on building a data base of films of high artistic quality that convey humanist values or have ethical significance and that is to be used as a means by which to educate the world’s adolescents.
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