Melanie Sevcenko
Dining out at Dokufest 2011
FILMRealscreen contributor Melanie Sevcenko sends a report summing up the ingredients of this year’s 10th anniversary edition of Kosovo’s DokuFest, which featured a tantalizing mix of open-air screenings (including Our School, pictured), workshops and panels.
Expansive edition of IDFA enthralls
FILMThe International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) made its home in the ‘Winter Wonderland’ of Amsterdam’s Rembrantplein square for two packed weeks of documentary cinema, attracting growing numbers from both the public and the industry alike.
DOK Leipzig investigates DIY alternatives for doc-makers
FILMThe industry component of last week’s DOK Leipzig conference promoted documentary DIY strategies to an eager European market.
PBS fund searching for Explorer-friendly pitches
TVPBS has launched a new $20 million Diversity and Innovation Fund, with an aim to create a weekly primetime series directed at its target audience archetype, dubbed ‘The Explorer.’
Berlin Documentary Forum moves docs into performance ring
FILMExperimental in nature, the new Berlin Documentary Forum has emerged at a time when new technologies raise questions about old modes of consumption, thus re-contextualizing the very idea of documentary.
Doc Alliance Selection announced
FILMDuring the VISION DU REEL Nyon press conference in Switzerland last week the Doc Alliance Selection 2010 was officially announced. The Doc Alliance Selection is an annual series of five innovative documentaries selected by each of the Doc Alliance partner festivals, CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review Warsaw and VISION DU REEL Nyon. All five docs will tour each festival throughout the year and contend for the Doc Alliance Award, which will be granted by an international jury during IDFF Jihlava 2010. The selected films are Into Eternity by Michael Madsen (Denmark, Finland), The Arrivals by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard (France), Metrobranding by Ana Vlad and Adrian Voicu (Romania), Steam of Life by Joonas Berghäll and Mika Hotakainen (Finland, Sweden) and Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) by Nicolas Wadimoff (Switzerland, France).
Berlinale celebrates its 60th with top docs and attendance record
FILMFrom Banksy to Blank City: Melanie Sevcenko reports on some of the top doc draws at the 60th anniversary edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
PBS unveils Need to Know
TVBeginning this May, PBS will launch a new weekly cross-media current affairs magazine series, aptly titled Need to Know and created by WNET.ORG in New York.
Le Clef unleashes CAT&Docs
NEWSAfter three years with one of the world’s leading international sales companies, Fortissimo Films, nine years with Paris-based Doc & Co, and fifteen years with Films Transit International in Montreal, Catherine Le Clef has finally decided to do it her way by founding her own documentary distribution company, the cleverly-titled CAT&Docs.
Shopping docs and pushing boundaries at the East European Forum
FILM / TVTwenty European projects will pitch this weekend to a panel of esteemed commissioning editors in the Czech Republic. But with an eclectic selection of projects, industry professionals might be asking, are Eastern European films too off-the-wall for television?
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Factual Entertainment Forum 2011 - Nick Tweed-Simmons and Shannon Tweed share a ring bump during the “Reality Royalty” panel at the Realscreen Factual Entertainment Forum.