Katrine Kiilgaard appointed MD of Copenhagen Film Festivals
Katrine Kiilgaard has been appointed Managing Director of the organization behind the three biggest Danish film festivals CPH:DOX, CPH PIX and BUSTER. Together with Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm, she will have the overall responsibility for running and further developing the festivals.
CPH:DOX interview: Kathryn Ferguson on Nothing Compares
Northern Irish director Kathryn Ferguson’s feature doc Nothing Compares has its subject, Sinéad O’Connor, as its narrator. ‘Powerful’ and ‘heartrending’ are among the terms that reviewers have used to describe the film, which premiered at Sundance and screened in Copenhagen last week. The director explains to BDE how and why she was drawn to the life and work of the mercurial and very brilliant Irish singer-songwriter.
CPH:DOX interview: How To Survive A Pandemic by David France
If future generations want to know how the world’s scientific community responded to coronavirus, one of their first starting points is likely to be US director David France’s How To Survive A Pandemic, sold by Dogwoof. The film, screening in CPH: Science, tells the story of how scientists across the world raced to develop vaccines against a virus which has been killing millions. France explains his doc to BDE.
CPH:DOX Forum pitch: Copa 71 by Rachel Ramsay, James Erskine
The World Cup. 1971. Crowds numbering in excess of 100,000 in Mexico City’s iconic Azteca stadium. But you’ve never heard of it. Why? Because it was a women’s tournament, and one conveniently airbrushed out of history. Until now. “I think it's no exaggeration to say that we have actually uncovered one of the greatest secrets in sport,” Copa 71 co-director Rachel Ramsay told the professional audience at Forum 2022.
Into The Ice to open CPH:DOX 2022
The Danish film Into The Ice by Lars Ostenfeld is selected as the opening film of this year's CPH:DOX, and will compete in the festival’s main competition: DOX:AWARD. The March 21 world premiere will be held in Copenhagen. The festival runs 23 March to 3 April 2022 with screenings and events in and about Copenhagen and viewings hosted simultaneously in a number of cities around Denmark.
BDE interview: Sierra Pettengill on Riotsville USA
When she speaks to Business Doc Europe, US filmmaker Sierra Pettengill is in Zagreb for this week’s screenings of her documentary Riotsville, USA at ZagrebDox. She has come to town straight from CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. The festival dates are racking up for the film (sold by Dogwoof) which premiered in Sundance but is also due to screen at Hot Docs, at the Seattle International FF and in New Directors New Films in New York.
CPH:DOX review: Outside by Olha Zhurba
The backdrop might well be the hard streets of Ukraine, but the themes of Outside are universal ones – the story of a young man growing up on the streets, lost within an uncaring system and struggling to break free from a cycle of petty criminality and rebellion…a lost soul for sure, but also one that director Olha Zhurba has come to worry about and care for.
CPH:DOX review: Under the Sky Shelter by Diego Acosta
A dreamlike documentary that weaves together the timeless, historical and experimental qualities of shooting on 16mm black-and-white film in its observation of mountain shepherds and their flock. The combined effect of image and sound is a mix of direct, ethnographic observation and dreamlike, manipulated reflection.
CPH:FORUM reveals selection for 2022 edition
Women will take centre stage in the 2022 CPH:FORUM line-up (March 28-31), both as characters and storytellers. The event will feature new projects by Jialing Zhang, Ilinca Calugareanu, Tova Mozard, Elizabeth Lo and Lana Wilson among others. Out of the 72 filmmakers and producers from 33 countries, most plan to attend CPH:FORUM 2022 physically, organisers confirm.
Visions du Réel/Movies That Matter interview: No Place For You In Our Town by...
In his feature doc No Place for You in Our Town (screening in Visions du Réel Latitudes and presenting at Movies That Matter, following its world premiere at CPH:DOX), Bulgarian director Nikolay Stefanov returns to his home town of Pernik to look at the lives of some of football club FC Minyor’s most die-hard supporters, who are part of a once-prospering, now struggling, mining community.
