Latest festival news – Page 165
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NewsSlamdance announces 2021 line-up, new disabilities showcase
Virtual festival runs February 12-25, 2021, includes 107 shorts, episodics.
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NewsIvaylo Hristov’s ‘Fear’ wins best film at Tallinn Black Nights
Nisan Dağ wins best director for ‘When I’m Done Dying’.
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NewsTallinn crowns 2020 industry winners
Lithuanian writer-director Eglė Vertelytė’s Tasty was named the winner of Screen International’s best pitch award.
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News‘Radiograph Of A Family’ wins best feature documentary prize at IDFA
The festival has received over 62,000 online film views.
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NewsGöteborg Film Festival to run as digital event in 2021
The move is in response to the increased spread of Covid-19 in Sweden.
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NewsSticking to the script could be “death of documentary”, says Gianfranco Rosi
The ‘Notturno’ director talked about the discovery in his filmmaking process during an IDFA masterclass.
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NewsIDFA starts conversation about “decolonising” the documentary world
”One big issue that is hard to address is the position of the filmmakers themselves,” said Tessa Boerman.
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NewsWhy Neon is experimenting with different VoD models
“We’ve had to figure out ways to make our films just as exciting and vibrant,” Neon’s Elissa Federoff told an IDFA panel.
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NewsOration Films picks up world sales on Tallinn Black Nights title ‘In The Mirror’ (exclusive)
Play on social media riffs on Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
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NewsIDFA Forum awards go to projects from Colombia, Lebanon, UK/Canada
Online edition of IDFA Forum wraps as juries give out awards to Alis, We Are Inside and Inside: A Journey Into The World Of Outsider Artist Judith Scott.
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NewsThe eight Coming Soon projects pitched at TorinoFilmLab 2020 (exclusive)
The initiative is a good pointer to next year’s festival favourites.
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NewsWinter swimming and forest BBQs replace indoor parties at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The festival is underway in Estonia with 80 international guests in town.
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NewsCharlotte Kirk, Neil Marshall action saga ‘The Reckoning’ lands US distributor
Film opened virtual Fantastia Festival in late summer.
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NewsLucrecia Martel’s ‘Chocobar’ gets €50K boost in latest Hubert Bals funding round
Selection includes projects from Gabon, Chile, Mongolia and Argentina.
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NewsDoha’s 2020 Ajyal festival kicks off in theatres, online and its first drive-in
Majid Majidi’s Venice prize winner Sun Children opened the festival on Wednesday evening.
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News‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’ wins two awards at Stockholm Film Festival
Swedish Film Institute announces Wild Card funding recipients for debut development funding.
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NewsFrance’s Series Mania 2021 to move to late May, early June
Event was forced to cancel the physical festival component of the 2020 edition earlier this year.
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NewsUK documentary filmmaking booms in pandemic year
Are non-fiction films easier to finance and produce in 2020?
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NewsIDFA opens with a show of online international solidarity
Directors were beamed in from around the world to join artistic director Orwa Nyrabia in an Amsterdam cinema.
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NewsBerlinale to reduce selection; festival directors call for unity with cinemas
Directors from the Berlinale, IFFR and Tallinn Black Nights discussed the future of film festivals.