DocLisboa announced November 1 the Arché 2020 award winners, from the 15 projects at varying stages of production presented during DocLisboa Arché 2020. The originating countries werw Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Mexico, Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil and Peru.
During the first ‘moment’ of the reconfigured 18th DocLisboa, each of the 15 projects was offered the opportunity to work with a tutor for several days within development workshops, providing them with visibility and networking, a presentation opportunity and one-to-one meetings with international producers, distributors, programmers and other agents.
“Arché was born from the need to build new bridges and to bring worlds together,” said DocLisboa after the 2020 pitch event awards were handed out November 1 2020. “The challenge has always been to envision and break new ground between film creators, researchers, programmers and audiences.”
The 2020 Arché Award winners are:
RTP Award
for Best Project in the editing or First Cut Stage
The Dependents, Sofia Brockenshire (Canada/ Argentina)
McFly Award
Special Arché Jury Award for a Project in the editing or First Cut Stage
Every Document of Civilization, Tatiana Mazú (Argentina)
Selina Award
for Best Project in the Writing or Development Stage
Gentlewomen, Cláudia Alves (Portugal)
NOVA / FCSH Award
for best project in Arché by NOVA / FCSH
Night Tears or the End of Innocence, Miguel Cabral (Portugal)
Special Mention
Here Be Dragons (Terra Incógnita), María Molina Peiró (The Netherlands)
Special Mention
Tristán, Martina Matzkin, Gabriela Uassouf (Argentina)
This year, Nebulae established a partnership with Pitch the Doc, a digital platform for projects in development, that gave a special mention to one of the selected projects from the Invited Country – Georgia programme, to boost its progress by granting a dedicated expert consultancy.
Pitch the Doc Special Mention
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