Producers and filmmakers pitched via pre-made videos.
Hungarian documentary Queen Of Chess has won the HBO Europe award at ZagrebDox Pro, which moved its industry platform online for the first time following the coronavirus outbreak.
Selected from 12 projects, director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter and producers Gabor Harmi and Peter Stern will receive a diploma and €2,000 for project development. Tuza-Ritter’s first feature, A Woman Captured, played in competition at Sundance 2018.
Queen Of Chess centres on the life and the tournaments of Judit Polgar - considered the greatest female chess player of all time - and her sometimes controversial matches against legendary grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
Hungarian documentary Queen Of Chess has won the HBO Europe award at ZagrebDox Pro, which moved its industry platform online for the first time following the coronavirus outbreak.
Selected from 12 projects, director Bernadett Tuza-Ritter and producers Gabor Harmi and Peter Stern will receive a diploma and €2,000 for project development. Tuza-Ritter’s first feature, A Woman Captured, played in competition at Sundance 2018.
Queen Of Chess centres on the life and the tournaments of Judit Polgar - considered the greatest female chess player of all time - and her sometimes controversial matches against legendary grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
- 3/24/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
ZagrebDox Pro will go ahead online.
Two key film events in Eastern Europe have become the latest to be impacted by concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.
Meeting Point Vilnius (Mpv) was due to take place from March 30 to April 1 during the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania but has been cancelled.
The three-day platform attracts hundreds of film industry professionals but many have had to cancel their plans due to travel restrictions, imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19.
It means filmmakers who were selected to pitch projects during the event will not receive consideration from sales agents and...
Two key film events in Eastern Europe have become the latest to be impacted by concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.
Meeting Point Vilnius (Mpv) was due to take place from March 30 to April 1 during the Vilnius International Film Festival (Viff) in Lithuania but has been cancelled.
The three-day platform attracts hundreds of film industry professionals but many have had to cancel their plans due to travel restrictions, imposed to curb the spread of Covid-19.
It means filmmakers who were selected to pitch projects during the event will not receive consideration from sales agents and...
- 3/10/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Croatia's biggest documentary film event, which was set to take place from 15-22 March, has been pushed back, the festival announced on Monday. Croatia's biggest documentary film event, ZagrebDox, which was set to take place from 15-22 March, has been postponed, the festival announced on Monday. “Based on our communication with the Republic of Croatia’s civil protection headquarters, and after talking to the cinemas, as well as local and foreign filmmakers, we had hoped that we would be able to host this year’s festival in the previously announced period, albeit on a smaller scale. However, unfortunately, the deterioration of the situation in Europe, especially in our particular region, as well as today’s decision by and recommendation of the headquarters, have forced us to postpone the festival," said ZagrebDox director Nenad Puhovski in the official statement. The new dates for the festival are expected to be announced soon.
The important Balkan gathering is about to welcome more than 100 films to a new venue while still focusing on its highly curated programme. The ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival has already unveiled the full line-up for its 16th edition. Helmed by its founder, Nenad Puhovski, the most important documentary event in Croatia and one of the leading ones in the Balkans will this year host 112 documentaries across its various sections. A total of 34 films will be participating in the two official competitions – International and Regional – for the festival’s Big Stamp Award, while up-and-coming directors under 35 years of age will also be eligible for the Little Stamp Award. ZagrebDox, which this year runs from 15-22 March, has also switched its main venue, so all of the screenings and events will now be hosted at the CineStar Zagreb – Branimir Mingle Mall. Seventeen documentaries, including Oscar-nominated...
Seven Croatian features comprise the main competition, while Independence Day: Resurgence and Ghostbusters play in the international strand.Scroll down for the full list of titles
Croatia’s Pula Film Festival has revealed the line-up for its 63rd edition, which will take place July 9-16.
Croatian titles
Receiving 105 submissions from Croatian film-makers, festival president Hrvoje Pukšec and artistic directors Mike Downey and Tanja Miličić have selected 16 features and 18 shorts for the Croatian programme.
In competition will be Ivan–Goran Vitez’s second feature Shooting Stars [pictured], after his debut Forest Creatures premiered in Pula in 2010, and Berlinale premiere On The Other Side, the latest feature from Zrinko Ogresta, who has received multiple accolades at Pula for previous features including 1995’s Washed Out and 1999’s Red Dust.
The festival will also host the out-of-competition world premiere of Rade and Danilo Šerbedžija’s Second World War drama The Liberation Of Skopje.
Minority Croatia co-pros selected to play include Mirjana Karanović...
Croatia’s Pula Film Festival has revealed the line-up for its 63rd edition, which will take place July 9-16.
Croatian titles
Receiving 105 submissions from Croatian film-makers, festival president Hrvoje Pukšec and artistic directors Mike Downey and Tanja Miličić have selected 16 features and 18 shorts for the Croatian programme.
In competition will be Ivan–Goran Vitez’s second feature Shooting Stars [pictured], after his debut Forest Creatures premiered in Pula in 2010, and Berlinale premiere On The Other Side, the latest feature from Zrinko Ogresta, who has received multiple accolades at Pula for previous features including 1995’s Washed Out and 1999’s Red Dust.
The festival will also host the out-of-competition world premiere of Rade and Danilo Šerbedžija’s Second World War drama The Liberation Of Skopje.
Minority Croatia co-pros selected to play include Mirjana Karanović...
- 6/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
The 12th Edn Award was presented to Marianne Lévy-Leblond. She received the award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture, with her work in the field of online and interactive documentary.
As Head of Web and Transmedia Productions within the web department at Arte France, Marianne Lévy-Leblond has supported innovative cross-platform and interactive projects allowing innovative creators to work with new forms of documentary storytelling. Upon the presentation of the Edn Award, Edn Film & Media Consultant Ove Rishøj Jensen stated: "Marianne Lévy-Leblond has been part of creating structures that many of us will operate in, in our future work with documentary stories. She had been part of developing projects that we in the future will refer to as early interactive classics. For this pioneering work, we are paying tribute to her, by presenting her the 2016 Edn Award."
Among the many unique projects Lévy-Leblond has passionately supported are titles such as "Do Not Track," a web project illustrating how data shared by users on the web benefits large corporations like Google, Facebook and other global players in the field. Interactive works like "Alma" and the webseries "Affaires Familiales" are also on the long list of projects she commissioned and supported. With a view on "Alma," a story about social issues and preventing violence in war-torn Guatemala, Lévy-Leblond explained: "Interactive documentary is not a geek affair, it can bring stories to life from a world that is far away when seen from our sometimes very abstract western preoccupations. And it can do so by using these new tools to make viewers meet characters on very different terms from the ones we're used to through papers or television".
Prior to her current position, Lévy-Leblond has worked as a documentary commissioning editor at Arte France for 10 years, having been an executive producer for numerous documentaries and TV programs. The award was presented to Lévy-Leblond at The Edn Award ceremony on 18 March 2016 during the Edn workshop Docs in Thessaloniki. The workshop was held in the framework of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Images of the 21st Century.
The Edn Award is presented annually during Docs in Thessaloniki to an institution, group or private person for outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture.
Previously The Edn Award has been presented to:
2015 Caspar Sonnen for his pioneering commitment to interactive documentary work
2014 Tue Steen Müller for a lifelong commitment to the documentary genre
2013 Stefano Tealdi and Joan Gonzales for initiating and running Documentary in Europe and DocsBarcelona, respectively
2012 Diana El Jeiroudi, Orwa Nyrabia and The Dox Box Team for initiating the Dox Box festival in Syria
2011 Dimitri Eipides: Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
2010 Irdfa - Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association: Director's guild in Iran focusing on documentary filmmakers
2009 Nenad Puhovski and Zagreb Dox For initiating Zagreb Dox in Croatia
2008 Idf Institute of Documentary Film: Prague based institute promoting documentary films from East- and Central Europe
2007 Svetlana and Zoran Popovic: For initiating and running Magnificent 7 in Belgrade, Serbia
2006 The Jan Vrijman Fund: Dutch film fund supporting filmmakers and festivals in developing countries
2005 Yle Documentary: The documentary department of Yle, the national public service broadcaster in Finland ...
As Head of Web and Transmedia Productions within the web department at Arte France, Marianne Lévy-Leblond has supported innovative cross-platform and interactive projects allowing innovative creators to work with new forms of documentary storytelling. Upon the presentation of the Edn Award, Edn Film & Media Consultant Ove Rishøj Jensen stated: "Marianne Lévy-Leblond has been part of creating structures that many of us will operate in, in our future work with documentary stories. She had been part of developing projects that we in the future will refer to as early interactive classics. For this pioneering work, we are paying tribute to her, by presenting her the 2016 Edn Award."
Among the many unique projects Lévy-Leblond has passionately supported are titles such as "Do Not Track," a web project illustrating how data shared by users on the web benefits large corporations like Google, Facebook and other global players in the field. Interactive works like "Alma" and the webseries "Affaires Familiales" are also on the long list of projects she commissioned and supported. With a view on "Alma," a story about social issues and preventing violence in war-torn Guatemala, Lévy-Leblond explained: "Interactive documentary is not a geek affair, it can bring stories to life from a world that is far away when seen from our sometimes very abstract western preoccupations. And it can do so by using these new tools to make viewers meet characters on very different terms from the ones we're used to through papers or television".
Prior to her current position, Lévy-Leblond has worked as a documentary commissioning editor at Arte France for 10 years, having been an executive producer for numerous documentaries and TV programs. The award was presented to Lévy-Leblond at The Edn Award ceremony on 18 March 2016 during the Edn workshop Docs in Thessaloniki. The workshop was held in the framework of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Images of the 21st Century.
The Edn Award is presented annually during Docs in Thessaloniki to an institution, group or private person for outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture.
Previously The Edn Award has been presented to:
2015 Caspar Sonnen for his pioneering commitment to interactive documentary work
2014 Tue Steen Müller for a lifelong commitment to the documentary genre
2013 Stefano Tealdi and Joan Gonzales for initiating and running Documentary in Europe and DocsBarcelona, respectively
2012 Diana El Jeiroudi, Orwa Nyrabia and The Dox Box Team for initiating the Dox Box festival in Syria
2011 Dimitri Eipides: Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
2010 Irdfa - Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association: Director's guild in Iran focusing on documentary filmmakers
2009 Nenad Puhovski and Zagreb Dox For initiating Zagreb Dox in Croatia
2008 Idf Institute of Documentary Film: Prague based institute promoting documentary films from East- and Central Europe
2007 Svetlana and Zoran Popovic: For initiating and running Magnificent 7 in Belgrade, Serbia
2006 The Jan Vrijman Fund: Dutch film fund supporting filmmakers and festivals in developing countries
2005 Yle Documentary: The documentary department of Yle, the national public service broadcaster in Finland ...
- 3/26/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Other winners include Sacro Gra, The Special Need and Pipeline.
The tenth International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox (Feb 23 – Mar 2) wrapped with Chilean-German co-production The Last Station by Cristian Soto and Catalina Vergara winning main award the Big Stamp in the International Competition.
The observational documentary set in a Santiago nursing home was developed through the Idfa Bertha Fund and previously competed at Edinburgh, Hot Docs, Cph:dox and Leipzig.
Special mentions in the category went to Talal Derki’s Return To Homs (Germany-Syria) and Dutch-Belgian co-production Ne Me Quitte Pas by Niels van Koevorden and Sabine Lubbe Bakker.
Venice winner Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi won the Big Stamp in the Regional Competition, while Life Almost Wonderful by Bulgaria’s Svetislav Draganov and Stream Of Love by Hungary’s Agnes Sos received special mentions.
The Small Stamp for the best film by a director under 35 went to Carlo Zoratti for The Special Need, about a handsome...
The tenth International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox (Feb 23 – Mar 2) wrapped with Chilean-German co-production The Last Station by Cristian Soto and Catalina Vergara winning main award the Big Stamp in the International Competition.
The observational documentary set in a Santiago nursing home was developed through the Idfa Bertha Fund and previously competed at Edinburgh, Hot Docs, Cph:dox and Leipzig.
Special mentions in the category went to Talal Derki’s Return To Homs (Germany-Syria) and Dutch-Belgian co-production Ne Me Quitte Pas by Niels van Koevorden and Sabine Lubbe Bakker.
Venice winner Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi won the Big Stamp in the Regional Competition, while Life Almost Wonderful by Bulgaria’s Svetislav Draganov and Stream Of Love by Hungary’s Agnes Sos received special mentions.
The Small Stamp for the best film by a director under 35 went to Carlo Zoratti for The Special Need, about a handsome...
- 3/4/2014
- by vladan.petkovic@gmail.com (Vladan Petkovic)
- ScreenDaily
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