Visions du Réel bolsters, restructures and reorganises 2021 team
International Film Festival Nyon has announced changes to its personnel set-up for the 52nd edition running 15 to 25 April 2021 that include new Selection Committee members, a restructuring of the international network and a reorganised Industry section. Plus deadlines approaching for both festival and industry.
Downstream to Kinshasa wins Golden Dove at DOK Leipzig
Silver Dove to The Poets Visit Juana Bignozzi; Golden Dove German Competition goes to Lift Like a Girl. Films will available online throughout Germany until 14 November.
18th DocLisboa Arché Awards 2020
Prize winners revealed from the 15 projects at varying stages of production presented during DocLisboa Arché 2020. Originating countries: Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, Mexico, Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Argentina, Brazil and Peru.
Ji.hlava IDFF: Silver Eye Award to A New Shift
The Silver Eye Award 2020 for the best feature length film in the East Silver Market, given by the Institute of Documentary Film, was awarded Jindřich Andrš’ story of a former miner who is forced to retrain in a new profession.
24TH Ji.hlava IDFF: And the winners are…
Viera Čákanyová’s White on White picks up Best World Documentary Film 2020 while Latvian Coyote by Ivars Zviedris wins Best Central and East European Documentary Film, valued at €10,000. Plus many more…
Cargo acquires world rights on ‘Surviving Sinaga’
NYC-based Cargo Film & Releasing announced October 30 the acquisition of George Attwood and Callum Roe’s doc about Reynhard Sinaga, the UK’s most prolific rapist who was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier in 2020.
DocLisboa announces details of its second ‘moment’, running November 5-11 2020
The leading Iberian doc fest “takes its next breath in Movements through the most diverse landscapes, reflecting physical and personal displacements and trajectories that flow between concepts of identity, space and time.”
You gotta be kidding!
Dec 3 submission deadline announced for three-part 2021 RealYoung programme (7th edition) designed to deliver ‘real life’ stories to young international audiences. Six places up for grabs.
Ji.hlava IDFF review: One Says No by Zhao Dayong
Heart-breaking, severe, revolutionary. Using simple but effective composition, Zhao Dayong’s story of one man’s resistance against property developers, screening in Opus Bonum competition, creates a raw atmosphere which never shies away from the harsh realities that many societies have to experience within China today.
December 10 deadline for IDFA Bertha Fund Classic support
Call for submissions for IDFA Bertha Fund grant program in two categories: Project Development and Production & Post-production. Target is docmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
