What’s the biggest documentary festival in the world? The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. For now.
Upstart Cph:dox in Copenhagen aims to overtake IDFA as the top showcase for nonfiction film worldwide. On the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we sit down with Cph:dox Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm for a conversation about the growth of the festival in the Danish capital and how he aims to make it No. 1.
Engstrøm argues that Cph:dox has been central to the emergence of Denmark as one of the most important hubs for documentary on the planet. It’s a country of less than 6 million that has produced a remarkable number of Oscar-nominated documentary directors and producers in recent years, including Signe Byrge Sørensen, Monica Hellström, Simon Lereng Wilmont, Jonas Rasmussen, Sigrid Dyekjær and Kirstine Barfod.
In our report from the field at Cph:Dox, we also talk with filmmaker Benjamin Ree about Ibelin,...
Upstart Cph:dox in Copenhagen aims to overtake IDFA as the top showcase for nonfiction film worldwide. On the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we sit down with Cph:dox Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm for a conversation about the growth of the festival in the Danish capital and how he aims to make it No. 1.
Engstrøm argues that Cph:dox has been central to the emergence of Denmark as one of the most important hubs for documentary on the planet. It’s a country of less than 6 million that has produced a remarkable number of Oscar-nominated documentary directors and producers in recent years, including Signe Byrge Sørensen, Monica Hellström, Simon Lereng Wilmont, Jonas Rasmussen, Sigrid Dyekjær and Kirstine Barfod.
In our report from the field at Cph:Dox, we also talk with filmmaker Benjamin Ree about Ibelin,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Cph:dox, the prestigious documentary film festival in Copenhagen, has announced a competition program across six categories that features 47 world premieres.
The event, which has emerged as a rival to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) as the biggest and most important all-documentary festival in the world, will unfold from March 13-24 in the Danish capital. The Dox:award lineup – all world premieres – features films from the U.S., Canada, the Nordic countries and many other parts of Europe, including France, Ireland, and the U.K. Scroll for the lineups in all six competition strands.
“We’re thrilled to present this year’s competition films, which span from global geopolitics to intimate, existential queries,” noted Niklas Engstrøm, Cph:dox artistic director. “What unites these films is their ambition to engage with the world in a meaningful way. This year’s competition sharpens its focus on the most urgent issues of our time, from...
The event, which has emerged as a rival to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) as the biggest and most important all-documentary festival in the world, will unfold from March 13-24 in the Danish capital. The Dox:award lineup – all world premieres – features films from the U.S., Canada, the Nordic countries and many other parts of Europe, including France, Ireland, and the U.K. Scroll for the lineups in all six competition strands.
“We’re thrilled to present this year’s competition films, which span from global geopolitics to intimate, existential queries,” noted Niklas Engstrøm, Cph:dox artistic director. “What unites these films is their ambition to engage with the world in a meaningful way. This year’s competition sharpens its focus on the most urgent issues of our time, from...
- 2/16/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:Dox) has unveiled the line-ups for its five competitive sections for its 2024 edition. All films in the main Dox:Award competition are world premieres for the second successive year.
Scroll down for the full list of competition titles
Titles in that section include Alessandra Celesia’s The Flats, a France-uk-Ireland-Belgium co-production about Belfast youngsters accessing their memories of the Troubles. Belfast-based Italian filmmaker Celesia has previously made documentaries including 2017’s Anatomy Of A Miracle, which played at Locarno.
The 12-strong Dox:Award competition also includes Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter’s UK title Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other,...
Scroll down for the full list of competition titles
Titles in that section include Alessandra Celesia’s The Flats, a France-uk-Ireland-Belgium co-production about Belfast youngsters accessing their memories of the Troubles. Belfast-based Italian filmmaker Celesia has previously made documentaries including 2017’s Anatomy Of A Miracle, which played at Locarno.
The 12-strong Dox:Award competition also includes Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter’s UK title Two Strangers Trying Not To Kill Each Other,...
- 2/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
18th edition runs June 17-21.
A 59-strong line-up at AFI Docs announced on Monday (June 8) includes Deirdre Fishel’s exploration of race, gender and violence in the Minneapolis police department in Women In Blue, and a look at immigration policies under the Trump administration in Blood On The Wall by Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested.
The 18th edition of the festival takes place online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, and is set to run from June 17-21.
As previously announced, AFI Docs will open with Sundance hit and Apple and A24 acquisition Boys State by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine,...
A 59-strong line-up at AFI Docs announced on Monday (June 8) includes Deirdre Fishel’s exploration of race, gender and violence in the Minneapolis police department in Women In Blue, and a look at immigration policies under the Trump administration in Blood On The Wall by Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested.
The 18th edition of the festival takes place online this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, and is set to run from June 17-21.
As previously announced, AFI Docs will open with Sundance hit and Apple and A24 acquisition Boys State by Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine,...
- 6/8/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Photo by John Nowak/TCM
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today announced Trailblazing Women, a multi-year initiative created to raise awareness about the historical contributions of women working behind the camera. The programming event, hosted by actress, producer and director Illeana Douglas, premieres October 1 and airs every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the entire month, and will shine a spotlight on cinema’s greatest female filmmakers and women who challenged gender stereotypes while carving out successful careers in an industry where men hold the bulk of the power.
The Trailblazing Women initiative marks a multi-year partnership between TCM and Women In Film (Wif), Los Angeles that will showcase the current gender gap in the film industry as statistics prove a lack of parity in positions behind the camera such as:
Men outnumbered women 23-to-1 as directors of the 1,300 top-grossing films since 2002
A 5–to-1 ratio of men working on films to women
15 percent...
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today announced Trailblazing Women, a multi-year initiative created to raise awareness about the historical contributions of women working behind the camera. The programming event, hosted by actress, producer and director Illeana Douglas, premieres October 1 and airs every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the entire month, and will shine a spotlight on cinema’s greatest female filmmakers and women who challenged gender stereotypes while carving out successful careers in an industry where men hold the bulk of the power.
The Trailblazing Women initiative marks a multi-year partnership between TCM and Women In Film (Wif), Los Angeles that will showcase the current gender gap in the film industry as statistics prove a lack of parity in positions behind the camera such as:
Men outnumbered women 23-to-1 as directors of the 1,300 top-grossing films since 2002
A 5–to-1 ratio of men working on films to women
15 percent...
- 9/3/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the New York University Orphan Film Symposium will present this year’s installment of “The Real Indies: A Close Look At Orphan Films,” a two-day screening series on Friday, October 31, and Saturday, November 1, at the Academy Theater in New York City.
The series serves as an opportunity to re-discover and re-appreciate orphan films – rarely seen, previously neglected cinematic works deserving preservation and revival. This eclectic showcase will open on Friday at 7:30 p.m. with the New York premiere of the newly restored 35mm print of the cult horror-comedy classic Spider Baby, written and directed by Jack Hill. Filmmaker William Lustig, known for his low-budget indie horror films, will introduce Hill and Spider Baby, as well moderate a conversation with Hill afterwards.
Filmed in 1964 but not released theatrically until 1968, Spider Baby marked director Hill’s solo debut. Cheekily subtitled “The Maddest Story Ever Told,...
The series serves as an opportunity to re-discover and re-appreciate orphan films – rarely seen, previously neglected cinematic works deserving preservation and revival. This eclectic showcase will open on Friday at 7:30 p.m. with the New York premiere of the newly restored 35mm print of the cult horror-comedy classic Spider Baby, written and directed by Jack Hill. Filmmaker William Lustig, known for his low-budget indie horror films, will introduce Hill and Spider Baby, as well moderate a conversation with Hill afterwards.
Filmed in 1964 but not released theatrically until 1968, Spider Baby marked director Hill’s solo debut. Cheekily subtitled “The Maddest Story Ever Told,...
- 10/10/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Though the baby boomer stranglehold on the media would have you believe that it’s the 60s, a far stronger case could be made that the 1980s were, on the international stage, the most revolutionary decade in the half century following World War II. Despite the fact that this ten year span saw the fall of communism, the spread of the AIDS virus, and the riots in Tiananmen Square, there are depressingly few definitive texts on any of these topics, with all too many prominent historians preferring to focus on either the glory days of the greatest generation or the discontent and revolt of their children.
To this narrow landscape, Have You Heard from Johannesburg is an almost invaluable contribution, an expansive yet cohesive history on the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. Though the last few years of the struggle (which finally culminated with the release of Nelson Mandela...
To this narrow landscape, Have You Heard from Johannesburg is an almost invaluable contribution, an expansive yet cohesive history on the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. Though the last few years of the struggle (which finally culminated with the release of Nelson Mandela...
- 6/24/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
[Our thanks to Frako Loden for offering her review to the Twitch readership.]
I spent a weekend enthralled, watching Connie Field's monumental 8½-hour-long epic documentary, Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, on DVD screeners. Those of you who choose to watch it in one go--from 1:00 to 10:30Pm on June 27 at the Roxie Film Center in San Francisco--are in for a richly layered and thrilling filmgoing experience. Choosing instead to watch it in three separate parts over as many evenings--which is roughly what I did at home and which you can do both at the Roxie and the Rafael Film Center (starting June 25)--would be less immersive and communal but also less exhausting.
I spent a weekend enthralled, watching Connie Field's monumental 8½-hour-long epic documentary, Have You Heard From Johannesburg?, on DVD screeners. Those of you who choose to watch it in one go--from 1:00 to 10:30Pm on June 27 at the Roxie Film Center in San Francisco--are in for a richly layered and thrilling filmgoing experience. Choosing instead to watch it in three separate parts over as many evenings--which is roughly what I did at home and which you can do both at the Roxie and the Rafael Film Center (starting June 25)--would be less immersive and communal but also less exhausting.
- 6/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Before surveying what the critics are saying about movies opening in theaters this weekend, let me note that Wednesday's entry, covering Fassbinder's World on a Wire, Ghobadi's No One Knows About the Persian Cats, Connie Field's Have You Heard from Johannesburg, Bette Gordon and Handsome Harry, Alain Tanner, Akira Kurosawa and Swedish Cinema in New York, Manny Farber and Noël Coward in Los Angeles and Crossroads in San Francisco, has been updated. Now then.
- 4/16/2010
- MUBI
Have You Heard from Johannesburg, a film by Connie Field.When this summer’s World Cup kicks off in Johannesburg in June, the world’s eyes will be fixed on South Africa once again—but this will be the “new” South Africa, the so-called Rainbow Nation that’s emerged in the two decades since Nelson Mandela walked out of prison in 1990. But just how far under the surface is the old South Africa when, as the novelist Damon Galgut has written, “The past has only just happened. It’s not past yet”? Well, if context is what you’re looking for, a new seven-part, eight-and-a-half-hour documentary, Have You Heard from Johannesburg, opening this Wednesday at New York’s Film Forum, gives you just that—and some. Filmmaker Connie Field (Freedom on My Mind, Forever Activists, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter) has produced a staggering, panoramic film-history of...
- 4/14/2010
- Vanity Fair
From the email I received:
Connie Field is the director of some of the most exciting, politically potent documentaries of our time: The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter and Freedom On My Mind. Her new film is nothing less than the definitive cinematic history of the worldwide effort to destroy South African apartheid.
Working over 10 years, filming throughout the world, interviewing dozens of the major players – Field constructs a brilliant, epic 7-film history that will stand as the final word on how a violent, racist, intractable government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades. This formidable accomplishment is anything but dry and academic: It’s a lively, tension-filled, heart-rending and ultimately thrilling journey.
I’ve actually never seen Have You Heard From Johannesburg. But I’m going to rectify that! If you’re in New York,...
Connie Field is the director of some of the most exciting, politically potent documentaries of our time: The Life And Times Of Rosie The Riveter and Freedom On My Mind. Her new film is nothing less than the definitive cinematic history of the worldwide effort to destroy South African apartheid.
Working over 10 years, filming throughout the world, interviewing dozens of the major players – Field constructs a brilliant, epic 7-film history that will stand as the final word on how a violent, racist, intractable government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working on multiple fronts inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades. This formidable accomplishment is anything but dry and academic: It’s a lively, tension-filled, heart-rending and ultimately thrilling journey.
I’ve actually never seen Have You Heard From Johannesburg. But I’m going to rectify that! If you’re in New York,...
- 4/4/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Opening in theaters this month this month amid a flurry of festivals are some noteworthy docs. Connie Field's Have You Heard from Johannesburg, a sprawling, seven-part, ten-years-in-the-making series about the history of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, comes to Film Form in New York. The project is a counterpart, of sorts, to the monumental Eyes on the Prize, Blackside's definitive series on the American Civil Rights Movement, which Field herself explored in her 1994 Academy Award-nominated film Freedom on my Mind.
Also coming to the big screen are Michel ...
Also coming to the big screen are Michel ...
- 4/1/2010
- by twhite
- International Documentary Association
MONTREAL -- German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature The Lives of Others grabbed the People's Choice award at the Vancouver International Film Festival, which ended Friday. Henckel's political thriller, set in 1984-era East Berlin, was selected as the top international film by festival audiences, with Mystic Ball, Greg Hamilton's portrait of a Burmese sport coming away with the audience award for most popular Canadian film. Political and social-policy themed films took home the bulk of trophies. The juried best documentary feature award went to Connie Field's Have You Heard From Johannesburg. Vancouver's competition jury also gave a Special Jury Prize to Radiant City, a treatise on the changing face of the suburbs from Canada's Gary Burns and Jim Brown. Earlier in the festival, John Torres took the Dragons and Tigers Award for Todo Todo Teros (the Philippines), a film dealing with politics and terrorism. And the best western Canada feature film award went to Everything's Gone Green, a drama set in Vancouver from director Paul Fox, and with a screenplay by Generation-X novelist Douglas Coupland. Carmen Moore grabbed the Artistic Merit Award for her performance in Unnatural and Accidental, Canadian director Carl Bessai's adaptation of a play about aboriginal women.
- 10/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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