The U.K.’s Sheffield Doc/Fest has announced 55 projects for pitching forum MeetMarket and 22 projects for the Arts Talent Market.
The events run in parallel June 9-11 as part of the wider festival, which runs June 4-13. The MeetMarket will see projects presented to industry partners and consisting of a mix of emerging talent and experienced filmmakers. The emerging talents include Agustina Comedi, Cassie Quarless, Cyril Aris, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Tom Fassaert and Usayd Younis. There are also several seasoned players, such as Andre Singer (“Meeting Gorbachev”), Andreas Voit (“Leipzig in The Fall”), Diane Quon (“Minding the Gap”), Göran Hugo Olsson (“The Black Power Mixtape”), Kellen Quinn (“Time”), Riel Roch-Decter (“All Light”), Sean Mcallister (“A Syrian Love Story”) and Sierra Pettengill (“The Reagan Show”)
The Arts Talent Market will connect 22 creatives and teams with industry representatives. The work is an almost equal split between immersive VR/Ar, and video art or installation pieces,...
The events run in parallel June 9-11 as part of the wider festival, which runs June 4-13. The MeetMarket will see projects presented to industry partners and consisting of a mix of emerging talent and experienced filmmakers. The emerging talents include Agustina Comedi, Cassie Quarless, Cyril Aris, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Tom Fassaert and Usayd Younis. There are also several seasoned players, such as Andre Singer (“Meeting Gorbachev”), Andreas Voit (“Leipzig in The Fall”), Diane Quon (“Minding the Gap”), Göran Hugo Olsson (“The Black Power Mixtape”), Kellen Quinn (“Time”), Riel Roch-Decter (“All Light”), Sean Mcallister (“A Syrian Love Story”) and Sierra Pettengill (“The Reagan Show”)
The Arts Talent Market will connect 22 creatives and teams with industry representatives. The work is an almost equal split between immersive VR/Ar, and video art or installation pieces,...
- 4/27/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The 55 projects selected for the pitching forum have been revealed.
Documentary projects about corruption in football, black representation in the arts and the explosion in Beirut are among those selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 2021 pitching forum MeetMarket.
The UK documentary market will take place virtually, as it did last year as a result of the pandemic, and will run from June 9-11. The public-facing festival will include physical screenings but the market has gone online-only due to travel restrictions for the mainly international delegates.
A total of 55 projects were selected from more than 570 applications and includes productions from 31 countries,...
Documentary projects about corruption in football, black representation in the arts and the explosion in Beirut are among those selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 2021 pitching forum MeetMarket.
The UK documentary market will take place virtually, as it did last year as a result of the pandemic, and will run from June 9-11. The public-facing festival will include physical screenings but the market has gone online-only due to travel restrictions for the mainly international delegates.
A total of 55 projects were selected from more than 570 applications and includes productions from 31 countries,...
- 4/26/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
New festival director Leena Pasanaen also talks future plans.
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
- 11/2/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
New films by Vitaly Mansky, Alexandru Belc and Joseph Gordillo are among the world premieres in competition at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 - Nov 1).
Mansky’s Russian-German-Czech-North Korean co-production Under The Sun, about the everyday life of a North Korean family, will compete in the festival’s international competition for feature-length documentaries and animation films with such films as Alexander Sokurov’s Venice title Francofonia, Wojciech Staron’s Brothers, Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side and Anca Damian’s animation The Magic Mountain. .
Greek filmmaker Maria Economou’s The Longest Run, about the fate of two young refugees picked up at the Greek border and the festival’s opening film, Time Will Tell by Andreas Voigt, are the other two world premieres apart from Mansky’s film.
German competition
New documentaries by Mario Schneider (Naked Beauty), André Schäfer (Herr von Bohlen) and Tom Lemke (Land on Water) are among the films to receive their world premieres...
Mansky’s Russian-German-Czech-North Korean co-production Under The Sun, about the everyday life of a North Korean family, will compete in the festival’s international competition for feature-length documentaries and animation films with such films as Alexander Sokurov’s Venice title Francofonia, Wojciech Staron’s Brothers, Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side and Anca Damian’s animation The Magic Mountain. .
Greek filmmaker Maria Economou’s The Longest Run, about the fate of two young refugees picked up at the Greek border and the festival’s opening film, Time Will Tell by Andreas Voigt, are the other two world premieres apart from Mansky’s film.
German competition
New documentaries by Mario Schneider (Naked Beauty), André Schäfer (Herr von Bohlen) and Tom Lemke (Land on Water) are among the films to receive their world premieres...
- 10/8/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
35 projects will be presented to 70 potential partners.
The 11th edition of Dok Leipzig’s Co-Production Meeting (October 26-27) will have a focus on Nordic documentary projects.
The selected Nordic projects include:
Napafilms’ Boys Who Like Girls and Kinocompany’s The Unforgiven (both Finland)Vilda Bomben Film’s Become The Media and Gründer Film’s The Filmdubber in Dar es Salaam (both Sweden)Piraya Film’s Kamera Haram (Norway)Hansen og Pedersen’s Mercedes Man (Denmark, in co-production with Germany)
In total, 35 projects – from the USA to Vietnam - will be presented over the two days to around 70 potential partners, including co-producers, broadcasters, sales agents, distributors, and funders.
Saxonia Entertainment, whose credits include Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline and Alexander Gentelev’s Putin’s Games, will be pitching the German-Russian documentary portrait Nemtsov, while Aheste Film and Les Films d’Antoine will be in Leipzig with the Turkish project Mr. Gay Syria and Kabul-based Afghanistan DocHouse will be looking...
The 11th edition of Dok Leipzig’s Co-Production Meeting (October 26-27) will have a focus on Nordic documentary projects.
The selected Nordic projects include:
Napafilms’ Boys Who Like Girls and Kinocompany’s The Unforgiven (both Finland)Vilda Bomben Film’s Become The Media and Gründer Film’s The Filmdubber in Dar es Salaam (both Sweden)Piraya Film’s Kamera Haram (Norway)Hansen og Pedersen’s Mercedes Man (Denmark, in co-production with Germany)
In total, 35 projects – from the USA to Vietnam - will be presented over the two days to around 70 potential partners, including co-producers, broadcasters, sales agents, distributors, and funders.
Saxonia Entertainment, whose credits include Vitaly Mansky’s Pipeline and Alexander Gentelev’s Putin’s Games, will be pitching the German-Russian documentary portrait Nemtsov, while Aheste Film and Les Films d’Antoine will be in Leipzig with the Turkish project Mr. Gay Syria and Kabul-based Afghanistan DocHouse will be looking...
- 10/6/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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