British Pathé Archive Award 2020 QUEEN OF CHESS , British Pathé and

The British Pathé Archive Award honours outstanding archive and compilation film projects. Highquality archive footage is often invaluable for documentaries. The use of historical or commercial film excerpts on a larger scale, however, increases the required production budget substantially. With the Archive Award, British Pathé and aim at promoting projects utilising licensed material and thus strengthening this traditional documentary genre. Award winner 2020: QUEEN OF CHESS Jury Statement: QUEEN OF CHESS tells the unbelievable and largely forgotten story of Hungarian Judit Polgár who, as a young girl, was able to achieve fame in the maledominated world of chess. Enriched by extensive archive material, it weaves an unlikely but true tale of power in all its complexity. Historic footage that draws us into the world of latecommunist Hungary is interwoven with home movies from the Polgár familys private archive as well as television reports of competitions with that eras Chess World Champions