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IDF reminder of upcoming East Silver Market 2020 deadline Rough cut projects to be in by July 31. Additionally, East Doc Market award for Pure Unknown at Sunny Side. Plus upcoming East Caravan selections.

During its first module, running in October 2020, leading Portuguese docfest will host a programme dedicated to work, presented in partnership with the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

“Black people have spoken, and now it’s time for allies at places like Doc Society to respond with actions,” says the NY/London non-profit organisation, as it announces five key measures, including the creation of two new senior roles.

On 26 June at the closing event of online Cannes Docs 2020 the following awards were handed out projects pitched during the Docs-In-Progress sessions. These included the €10,000 IEFTA cash prize.

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has issued a plea to for the use of geo-blocking technology to protect films and festivals in the digital era. The petition has already been signed by 18 major international film festivals.

UK-based Screenbound International Pictures announced Marché sales activity on Simon Sheridan’s doc Everything, about the 1970s UK soul combo The Real Thing. The company is also handing sales on Audrey Rumsby’s vaudeville-themed Barry and Joan, screening June 26.

Halted in March due to the global pandemic, new dates have been selected for continuation of the “world’s largest human rights film festival”, organisers say.

In the final part of his Sicilian trilogy, Michele Pennetta shows the economic/familial similarities between two marginalized characters sharing the sun-scorched island, a teenage boy and a young Nigerian immigrant.