Interviews

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.

It’s all a question of why. In Groningen (Netherlands) in 2007, three men deliberately injected other acquaintances they met at sex parties with HIV-infected blood. Tim Leyendekker’s films Feast explores the circumstances behind the case.

Vincent Boy Kars arrives at CineMart with ‘Future Me’, the third part of his millennial trilogy that attempts to understand the collective psyche of his generation. In his new project he presents and examines his developing self as he progresses into a very personal, very Karsian, future.

Miriam Guttmann has been the toast of Sundance this week. Her three-part documentary series Seeds Of Deceit (sold by Dogwoof), about the notorious Dutch fertility doctor Dr Jan Karbaat, has been screening at the festival to admiring reviews.

Dutch producer Corine Meijers, formerly of Submarine Channel and now MD of Utrecht-based Studio Biarritz, is a participant at Rotterdam Lab 2021 where she will be both honing her production skills and promoting her impressive slate of documentary, immersive and interactive projects.

Director Tylor Norwood talks to Business Doc Europe about his doc Robin’s Wish, about the late, great Robin Williams, which throws new light on the reason for the actor/comedian’s death by suicide in 2014 - his suffering from a neurodegenerative disorder for which there is no cure.

By any standards, Sofija Sonja Vujanović led a remarkable life, Serbian director Marta Popivoda tells BDE. Sonja was a Marxist partisan fighter in Yugoslavia during WW2. She was captured and tortured by the Nazis and ended up as a political prisoner in Auschwitz. Somehow, she survived.

Camilla Nielsson, whose new film President premiered in Sundance World Documentary Competition to rapturous reviews this weekend, never thought she would be going back to make a second film in Zimbabwe. The director speaks to Business Doc Europe about the “three-month physical marathon” of covering the country’s 2018 general election.

“Anarchist, libertarian and rebel.” European Film Academy Chairman Mike Downey pays tribute to Italian filmmaker Cecilia Mangini who died on January 21 2021.

Telling the extraordinary story of Amin, an Afghan refugee who came to Denmark at an early age as an unaccompanied minor, Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary Flee world-premieres at Sundance 2021.