The Location Guide, Filmmakers for Ukraine and EUFCN join forces for fundraiser at Cannes...
The Location Guide, Filmmakers for Ukraine and EUFCN are organising a fundraising campaign at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in support of the Ukrainian filmmaking community. Ukrainian lapel pins will be sold during Cannes Film Festival at events and pavilions, and a minimum donation of EUR10 is required by scanning a QR code.
Filmotor acquires double Vision(s)
Filmotor has revved up its slate with two docs that world-premiered at Visions du Réel (Switzerland) in April 2022. The Prague-based sales agent will handle world rights on two debut features, Tizian Buchi’s Like an Island and Manuel Bauer’s Steel Life. Both films won major awards at the Nyon-based docfest.
Bowie doc Moonage Daydream to open Sheffield
Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream will open this year’s Sheffield DocFest on 23 June. Written, directed, edited and produced by Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) the doc presents "a genre-defying immersion into the art and sounds of David Bowie." Moonage Daydream will world premiere as a Midnight Screening at Cannes 2022.
Ukrainian ‘Mother of Angels’ wins Gravity pitch prize
The Bank Millennium Award for the Best Eastern European Project was presented to Tetiana Dorodnitsyna (pictured) and Andriy Litvinienko (both from Ukraine) following the Eastern Europe Against Gravity pitch session at Poland’s 19th Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF. The prize is valued at €6000.
Submissions deadline of May 31 for Verzió FF 2022
The 19th Verzió International Human Rights Doc FF will be held 8–16 November 2022 in art cinemas in Budapest, and in cities across Hungary. Applicants are invited to submit their documentaries up to 31 May 2022. The films should address the latest human rights and social issues, and fall into one of three categories: International, Student & Debut Film, or Hungarian Competition.
DOK.fest Munich: Festival and Industry winners
The Viktors of the 37th DOK.fest Munich were awarded May 14. The winner of the main International Competition was named as Trenches by Loup Bureau, while the top German-speaking doc was Zusammenleben (Living Together) by Thomas Fürhapter. In DOK.horizonte, Akuol de Mabior won with No Simple Way Home. All awards follow, plus Industry awards that were announced May 12.
DOK.fest Munich review: If You Are A Man by Simon Panay
A striking portrait of a young teenager working as a labourer around the Perkoa gold mine in Burkina Faso, If You Are A Man sees the young Opio face the toughest of decisions as he realises that the only way to make money to pay for his schooling is to head down into the mine himself, a prospect that terrifies him.
Vesna Cudic joins Sky Studios as Head of Doc Partnerships
In the newly created role, Cudic will be responsible for Sky Studios’ partnerships with leading filmmakers and creatives from across the globe to develop and produce unscripted projects targeted at Sky’s platforms and channels across Europe, the company writes.
Millennium Docs Against Gravity set to roll
The 19th edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity kicks off May 13 running to May 22, before heading online from May 24 to June 5. Presented across numerous Polish locations, this year the city of Lodz becomes an eighth epicentre for festival activities. Twelve films to compete for the core Millennium Bank Award (valued at €8,000). Eight local titles will compete for the Best Polish Film Award (€3,000).
Three Minutes – A Lengthening and Loving Highsmith selected for Europe! Voices of Women...
Three Minutes – A Lengthening, written and directed by Bianca Stigter, and Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith are selected for the 7th edition of Sydney FF’s Europe! Voices of Women programme, presented in collaboration with European Film Promotion (EFP). The two docs, both sold by Autlook Filmsales, join fiction features by eight other outstanding European women filmmakers. Sydney FF runs 8-19 June.
