Geoffrey Macnab

US film director Raoul Walsh made close to 150 films, and Argentinean director/film professor Nicolás Zukerfeld has seen a great many of them, he tells BDE. But there was something that Walsh may or may not have said which became an obsession for Zukerfeld, and which he was determined to get to the bottom of…

Anais Clanet’s Paris-based sales outfit Reservoir Docs, which earlier this week picked up international rights to new CPH: DOX and Hot Docs title Dark Blossom, has announced a raft of new sales on other titles on its current slate, including the Harry Belafonte doc The Sit-In.

Who’s that knocking at the door? For the subjects featured in A Man and a Camera, Guido Hendrikx’s playful and provocative new documentary, it’s the director himself, arriving on people’s doorsteps uninvited, waiting to see how they will respond. The Dutch docmaker explains more...

The Turkish/Norwegian director talks to Business Doc Europe about the force of nature that is Seyran Ateş, lawyer, author, feminist, female imam and social campaigner and now the subject of a feature doc competing in Nordic:Dox Award Competition, Seyran Ateş: Sex, Revolution & Islam.

In advance of his 2021 VdR masterclass, Pietro Marcello spoke to Business Doc Europe about why, after his success with the Jack London adaptation Martin Eden, he returned to documentary with his new film, Per Lucio (For Lucio), about the maverick Italian musician and singer-songwriter, Lucio Dalla.

The little girl is at the kitchen table looking with longing at her mother on a cellphone screen. The mother is far, far away and can’t come home. This is the situation shown in Russian director Anna Artemyeva’s poignant and intimate short, screening this week at Visions Du Réel and also selected for Hot Docs. BDE talks to the director.

One of Latin-America’s most fêted docmakers, Mexican-Salvadorian director Tatiana Huezo will be participating in a masterclass at Visions du Réel 22 April, speaking live from Mexico City. She set aside time in advance to talk to Business Doc Europe about how working on her latest film, a fiction, compares to the doc experience.

Award-winning Danish director Pernille Rose Grønkjær is promising that her new feature doc Solutions will “spike debate.” The film is based around a rendezvous in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at which leading scientists, philosophers and entrepreneurs came together to discuss no less than the survival of the planet. Grønkjær explains more to BDE.

Ask CEO Mario Adamson, who co-runs Swedish doc production company Sisyfos, just why the company has established its new Scottish outpost, and he explains it is not just because of the heather and the whisky. The producer points to “shared sensibilities” between the Scots and the Swedes. He shares even more with BDE.

As she approaches her final CPH:DOX (running April 21-May 12) before departing to become Director of the National Film School Denmark, Business Doc Europe finds the event’s founder and CEO Tine Fischer in resolute mood.