Geoffrey Macnab

Director Anthony Giacchino and producer Alice Doyard discuss their poignant and heart-rending film about a 90-year-old former French Resistance fighter, who, together with a teenage companion, visits the Nazi concentration camp where her beloved brother died.

It is just over a year now since Ed Accura, producer of new documentary feature Blacks Can't Swim: The Sequel, co-founded the Black Swimming Association (BSA), set up to encourage black and ethnic minorities to swim. He gets in deep with Business Doc Europe.

He may have acted in Game Of Thrones and Bohemian Rhapsody, but over the past decade Brit Tim Plester has had a thriving career as a docmaker, starting with a film about Morris dancing selected for SXSW, and now Southern Journey (Revisited), which recreates ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s famous 1959 road trip through the Deep South.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald has a phrase for his brand of documentary: “humanitarian cinema.” In his three most recent films, 50 Feet From Syria (2015), Lifeboat (2018) and now Hunger Ward (2020), Fitzgerald has chronicled both the depths of human suffering and the heroic attempts to alleviate it.

British director Toby Paton (pictured) discusses his C4 doc Max Clifford: The Fall Of A Tabloid King, about the publicist to the stars who died in prison in 2017 after his conviction as a sex offender.

Joe Berlinger goes back to basics with Business Doc Europe to discuss the ongoing influence of Truman Capote, and especially his revered, if perhaps flawed, non-fiction novel ‘In Cold Blood’, published in 1966 and which chronicled the murder of a family in Kansas by a pair of drifters.

Anais Clanet’s Reservoir Docs has added a new title to its slate. The French sales outfit is set to handle world rights on Swedish director Manal Masri’s new jazz-themed feature doc and series Legacy.

A new documentary by BAFTA-winning director Stuart Urban shines the spotlight on a shocking missing person case that has intrigued the British public for the past 35 years. The director explains his reasons for making the film to Business Doc Europe.

Docs are at the beating heart of this year’s BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival (17-28 March). This is the UK’s longest running queer film event. It began life as Gay’s Own Pictures in 1986, later rebranded as the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and then, in 2014, changed its name to BFI Flare. Programmer Brian Robinson talks to BDE

Nadezda Motina’s Capella Film, one of Russia’s most prolific and adventurous independent distribution outfits, is getting the documentary bug. with the acquisition of Russian rights to Rodney Ascher’s mind-bending Sundance doc A Glitch In The Matrix, sold by Magnolia.