CPH:DOX puts climate change top of the agenda with opening film 70/30
Director Phie Ambo’s new doc follows the Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities and young environmentalists as they fight for a more sustainable world. 70/30 will be live transmitted on CPH:DOX’s streaming platform.
Flemish doc Nanu Tudor wins Golden Bear for Best Short Film
In the film, after 20 years of silence, filmmaker Olga Lucovnicova travels back to her great-grandparents house where she endured damaging traumas that left a deep lasting imprint on her memory. Jury statement underlines the “personal courage combined with cinematic mastery that creates a film that is both powerful and emotionally layered.”
EFM: Cinephil makes music in Berlin
Philippa Kowarsky’s Tel Aviv-based Cinephil announced this week it will handle world sales on Ted Braun’s new documentary ¡Viva Maestro!. The film has already been picked up by Greenwich Entertainment for its North American release.
First IDFA Bertha Fund selection of 2021 supports 10 projects
Ten doc projects to receive funding through IBF Classic, the Fund’s flagship grant program that supports independent, critical, and artistic voices from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Total funding support amounts to €125k.
CPH:FORUM reveals its 2021 projects
Thirty-five projects selected for the 2021 edition of CPH:FORUM, including new projects from Oscar-nominated Lucy Walker, Sundance winners Mads Brügger and Eugene Jarecki, Berlinale multi-award winning Geneviève Dulude-De Celle and Venice-Orizzonti winner Lech Kowalski.
EFM profile: Meurer on sun, sea and docs
Prolific Berlin-based producer/director Jens Meurer has given details of his latest documentary projects, one of which is as quintessentially English as one can imagine, about an end-of-the-pier variety show on the Norfolk coast.
Berlin Generation Kplus review: Last Days at Sea by Venice Atienza
A remote fishing village in the Philippines acts as a perfect and evocative backdrop for director Venice Atienza’s engaging and absorbing debut film.
Berlinale Special review: Tina by Dan Linday and T.J. Martin
Tina is about closure. There are no new revelations or lost footage, but instead a controlled determination to tell it as it is and was, and draw a final line under an astounding musical life.
Munich’s VFF Documentary Production Award nominees
DOK.fest München announces 13-film shortlist for the award’s fourth roll-out, valued at €7500 and the first award in Germany to focus on the work of documentary film producers. Fest also announces three-person jury.
Thessaloniki/Berlinale Talents team up on new doc award
The prize, valued at €5000, will be handed out March 4 to a documentary project participating in Doc Station of Berlinale Talents. Thessaloniki also announced a series of initiatives in honour of renowned Doc Fest founder Dimitri Eipides, who died in January 2021.
