Nick Cunningham

Deadline of February 25 for Public Pitch of new doc projects. DocsBarcelona Industry will this year be presented online 18-30 May. Professional activities include a financing market for documentary projects, as well as conferences and round-tables and workshops.

The 2021 online Glasgow Film Festival is about silver linings and certainly not gloom and doom, co-director Allan Hunter tells Business Doc Europe ahead of the 17th edition which kicks off February 24.

Lock Doc Development looks to offer support for the documentary slates of up to ten production companies, both for existing documentary film plans affected by Covid and for new feature doc film plans. Overall spend on the package amounts to €600,000. Deadline of 23 March.

52nd edition of the leading Swiss docfest will celebrate the work of directors Tatiana Huezo Sánchez (Mexico/El Salvador) and Pietro Marcello (Italy) by holding two major retrospectives and in-depth online masterclasses.

Producers Fan Wu (Taiwan) and Venice Atienza (Philippines, also director) have released the trailer for their Generation Kplus selection ‘Last Days at Sea’. The logline reads how, in the isolated village of Karihatag, every boy grows up to become a fisherman. However, when the first rains come, Reyboy (12) will leave for the city to study.

Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, a look at the life and legend of the Manchester United manager and directed by his son Jason, will have world premiere 6 March. GFF will also host UK premiere of Tina, a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner.

Deadline of March 31 for films released in 2020, May 31 for films completed in 2021 and released by May 31, and July 31 for rough cuts and films yet to have world prem. Additional deadline of March 31 for two-part EMERGING PRODUCERS programme to be held October 25–29 in Jihlava and February 2022 in Berlin.

“All of a sudden I realised I could actually apply my music skills to something I could be really passionate about. It was 1997 and from that moment on I just made that my goal, to become part of the documentary film community.” Last week, film composer Miriam Cutler gave an IDF online masterclass in which she analysed the marriage of music and doc. BDE reports.

Alexander Nanau, Maya Daisy Hawke and Anja Salomonowitz are among the eight guest tutors joining the 3rd session (March 6-17) of the 2020/21 Ex Oriente Film workshop programme, held online. Twelve projects are selected, out of a record 108 submissions.

As WaterBear, the free interactive video and digital platform dedicated to supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, kicks off its “new era of action” on February 15, company founder Ellen Windemuth talks to Business Doc Europe about change and conservation, Tiger King - and octopuses.