Latest festival news – Page 54
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NewsIDFA head Orwa Nyrabia to organise symposium to help festivals navigate turbulent political times
The documentary festival has experienced protests, open letters and film withdrawals this week.
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NewsEna Rahelić appointed head of industry for Meeting Point Vilnius
Rahelić is a former manager of Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Industry Days
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News‘1489’ leads 2023 IDFA winners
Documentary chronicles the Armenian director’s search for her missing soldier brother.
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NewsJonathan Glazer, Yorgos Lanthimos awarded Tallinn’s renamed Dennis Davidson Spotlight Award
Prizes will be presented at Tallinn’s closing night, with neither director present.
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NewsSaudi fantasy romance feature ‘HWJN’ to open Red Sea film festival
Story of a kind-hearted jinn is a co-production from Image Nation Abu Dhabi, MBC Studios and Vox Studios.
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NewsPaul Ridd named director of Edinburgh International Film Festival
Ridd, presently head of acquisitions at Picturehouse Entertainment, will take up the role in December.
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News“We made this film to be shown,” says Palestinian director of IDFA competition title ‘Life Is Beautiful’
“Standing here and talking about my film is the only way I can feel I am doing something,” said Mohamed Jabaly.
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NewsPeriscoop swoops on five docs at IDFA for the Netherlands
Periscoop is run by San Fu Maltha and Bruno Felix.
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NewsPeter Greenaway talks ‘Lucca Mortis’ starring Dustin Hoffman, living in the Netherlands and his eccentric concerns
Greenaway is being honoured at this week’s IDFA festival in Amsterdam.
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NewsLes Arcs unveils projects for 2023 Co-Production Village
The event runs December 16-19 in the French Alps.
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NewsNeon distribution head Elissa Federoff delivers upbeat doc forecast in IDFA keynote
“We have seen titles doing the best they’ve ever done before in this ‘unhealthy’ marketplace.”
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NewsPalestine Film Institute welcomes latest statement from IDFA
Festival statement followed a PFI statement lambasting IDFA’s earlier statement.
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NewsUS ‘Billy Elliot’-style doc ‘Call Me Dancer’ sells to Toei for Japan for First Hand Films (exclusive)
First Hand Films is at IDFA with a busy slate including portmanteau project ’The Ten Commandments’.
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NewsGeneva festival and digital market hands out prizes, celebrates buoyant year
The best feature prize went to ’Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’.
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NewsPalestine Film Institute urges withdrawal of films from IDFA following response to opening-night protest
The PFI has issued a petition demanding IDFA acknowledge the festival’s earlier statement ”unjustly criminalises Palestinian voices and narratives”.
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NewsIDFA apologises for “hurtful” slogan shown by activists at opening ceremony
”That slogan does not represent us, and we do not endorse it in any way.”
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NewsIDFA responds to open letter condemning inclusion of Russian film in programme
The letter said: “To continue providing space for representatives of the Russian cultural sector on international platforms means to normalize the unequal circumstances in which filmmakers in Russia and Ukraine live and work today.”
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NewsMagnolia acquires US rights to Participant, River Road doc ‘Food, Inc. 2’
Dogwoof boards international sales.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund selects 10 projects for 2023 Development Support scheme
Selection includes new projects from prize winning directors Martika Ramirez Escobar, Leonardo Martinelli and Le Bao.