Astorga takes over from outgoing Doclisboa artistic director Miguel Ribeiro.
Mexican producer, director and curator Paula Astorga has shared her vision for Doclisboa in her first interview since being announced as the new artistic director of the Lisbon-based documentary film festival.
“I have two passions,” Astorga said. “Projects at development stages and exhibition because I love audiences. I think this opportunity at Doclisboa is the perfect place to put these two passions together.”
She takes over from outgoing Doclisboa artistic director Miguel Ribeiro, who has been appointed head of programming at new Lisbon arts centre Casa Do Comun. Her appointment was made by Aprodoc,...
Mexican producer, director and curator Paula Astorga has shared her vision for Doclisboa in her first interview since being announced as the new artistic director of the Lisbon-based documentary film festival.
“I have two passions,” Astorga said. “Projects at development stages and exhibition because I love audiences. I think this opportunity at Doclisboa is the perfect place to put these two passions together.”
She takes over from outgoing Doclisboa artistic director Miguel Ribeiro, who has been appointed head of programming at new Lisbon arts centre Casa Do Comun. Her appointment was made by Aprodoc,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Council approves one-year grant extension as interim measure.
Sheffield DocFest is to receive a reduced one-year grant from Sheffield City Council, while the latter determines the level of its long-term commitment to the event.
Today (November 7), the council’s finance committee will approve a one-year grant extension to provide £100,000 to help support the festival as it celebrates its 30th edition in 2023. The grant is £50,000 less than the festival has received in previous years.
The one year grant has been made to ensure the factual festival’s “stability and viability” according to a report by the council.
The report read: “Providing...
Sheffield DocFest is to receive a reduced one-year grant from Sheffield City Council, while the latter determines the level of its long-term commitment to the event.
Today (November 7), the council’s finance committee will approve a one-year grant extension to provide £100,000 to help support the festival as it celebrates its 30th edition in 2023. The grant is £50,000 less than the festival has received in previous years.
The one year grant has been made to ensure the factual festival’s “stability and viability” according to a report by the council.
The report read: “Providing...
- 11/7/2022
- by Heather Fallon Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Annabel Grundy currently project-manages the BFI’s UK Global Screen Fund.
Sheffield DocFest has hired Annabel Grundy to the newly created role of managing director.
Grundy will join in December from her current position project-managing the BFI’s UK Global Screen Fund.
The role is a new joint leadership position alongside acting creative director Raul Niño Zambrano, and will see Grundy head up DocFest’s business affairs, partnerships and fundraising, production and operations, and audience development. Former head of film programmes Zambrano was promoted in August to help deliver the 2023 edition.
Grundy, a Sheffield local, has also worked with the British Council,...
Sheffield DocFest has hired Annabel Grundy to the newly created role of managing director.
Grundy will join in December from her current position project-managing the BFI’s UK Global Screen Fund.
The role is a new joint leadership position alongside acting creative director Raul Niño Zambrano, and will see Grundy head up DocFest’s business affairs, partnerships and fundraising, production and operations, and audience development. Former head of film programmes Zambrano was promoted in August to help deliver the 2023 edition.
Grundy, a Sheffield local, has also worked with the British Council,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Annabel Grundy is set to join leading U.K. documentary festival Sheffield DocFest as managing director following its return to a predominantly in-person event this June.
Grundy will join in December from her current role as project manager with the British Film Institute’s U.K. Global Screen Fund.
As MD of Sheffield DocFest, which saw attendances exceeding 30,000 this year, Grundy will be responsible for the charity’s business affairs, partnerships and fundraising, production and operations as well as audience development. The role is a new joint leadership position and will work collaboratively with Raul Niño Zambrano who serves as acting creative director.
Zambrano is responsible for setting the agenda across the festival’s film programs, alternate realities exhibition, marketplace and talent activities, and talks and sessions for the 30th edition in 2023.
Grundy is a Sheffield local with over 20 years of experience including producing festivals and film industry events in Sydney,...
Grundy will join in December from her current role as project manager with the British Film Institute’s U.K. Global Screen Fund.
As MD of Sheffield DocFest, which saw attendances exceeding 30,000 this year, Grundy will be responsible for the charity’s business affairs, partnerships and fundraising, production and operations as well as audience development. The role is a new joint leadership position and will work collaboratively with Raul Niño Zambrano who serves as acting creative director.
Zambrano is responsible for setting the agenda across the festival’s film programs, alternate realities exhibition, marketplace and talent activities, and talks and sessions for the 30th edition in 2023.
Grundy is a Sheffield local with over 20 years of experience including producing festivals and film industry events in Sydney,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
A host of thorny issues face film festivals that want to retain their independence and integrity in a world where many would happily coopt them, said a group of professionals in the field during the 26th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
The recent controversy over whether fests should ban films from Russia, as a group of Ukrainian filmmaker has publicly urged, is just one example of the dilemma, say international fest programmers.
But this debate alone has led to splits among those who select fest films for a living: Should they reject just those films backed by Russian state funds? Or co-productions in which the Russian state is a partner? Or just those backed by Russian funds after the country invaded Ukraine in February? Should they also ban those made by Russian dissidents?
Viktoria Leshchenko, program director of the Docudays UA human rights film fest in Ukraine and a...
The recent controversy over whether fests should ban films from Russia, as a group of Ukrainian filmmaker has publicly urged, is just one example of the dilemma, say international fest programmers.
But this debate alone has led to splits among those who select fest films for a living: Should they reject just those films backed by Russian state funds? Or co-productions in which the Russian state is a partner? Or just those backed by Russian funds after the country invaded Ukraine in February? Should they also ban those made by Russian dissidents?
Viktoria Leshchenko, program director of the Docudays UA human rights film fest in Ukraine and a...
- 11/2/2022
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled the new team of programmers and consultants who will work with incoming delegate general Julien Rejl on his inaugural selection for May 2023.
Rejl will be supported by seven programmers.
Hervé Aubron, film academic and Cahiers du Cinéma critic Agathe Bonitzer, actress, whose credits include When Margaux Meets Margaux and A Bottle In The Gaza Sea Elsa Charbit, experienced programmer who was formerly artistic director of France’s Entrevues, Belfort International Film Festival Caroline Maleville, programming manager at the French Cinematheque Jean-Marc Zekri, head of Paris arthouse cinema Le Reflet Médicis Daniella Shreir, U.K. founder and co-editor of feminist film journal ‘Another Gaze’ Muyan Wang, Paris-based Chinese critic
They will be joined by four consultants
Alvaro Arroba, Buenos Aires-based Spanish film journalist and programmer for the city’s International Independent Film Festival (Bafici). He will advise on Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries. Cintia Gil, former Sheffield DocFest and Doclisboa head.
Rejl will be supported by seven programmers.
Hervé Aubron, film academic and Cahiers du Cinéma critic Agathe Bonitzer, actress, whose credits include When Margaux Meets Margaux and A Bottle In The Gaza Sea Elsa Charbit, experienced programmer who was formerly artistic director of France’s Entrevues, Belfort International Film Festival Caroline Maleville, programming manager at the French Cinematheque Jean-Marc Zekri, head of Paris arthouse cinema Le Reflet Médicis Daniella Shreir, U.K. founder and co-editor of feminist film journal ‘Another Gaze’ Muyan Wang, Paris-based Chinese critic
They will be joined by four consultants
Alvaro Arroba, Buenos Aires-based Spanish film journalist and programmer for the city’s International Independent Film Festival (Bafici). He will advise on Latin America and Spanish-speaking countries. Cintia Gil, former Sheffield DocFest and Doclisboa head.
- 9/28/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe 2022 poster for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight.Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight has announced the seven programmers and four consultants who will be supporting incoming artistic director Julien Rejl in his selection processes. Amongst the team is ex-Sheffield DocFest director Cintia Gil, Another Gaze founder Daniella Shreir, and Ming-Jung Kuo, former Program Director of the Taipei Film Festival.Dutch documentary festival IDFA has released the lineups for the first few strands of their 2022 edition, including the short and youth documentary competitions, plus a tribute to the late Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravičius.David Cronenberg’s Scanners is being remade as a TV series. Yann Demange (executive producer of Lovecraft Country and Top Boy) will direct, with Cronenberg also on board as an executive producer.Recommended VIEWINGAfter premiering in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, A Couple, Frederick Wiseman’s new fiction feature,...
- 9/27/2022
- MUBI
Project Funding
The Asian Cinema Fund, a bursary scheme for film and documentary projects operated alongside the Busan International Film Festival, has announced six Korean recipients and seven hailing from elsewhere in Asia. The fund was put on hiatus during the two years of Covid, which also reduced the festival in size and turned the Asian Contents & Film Market into a virtual event. Three winners – “In the Land of Brothers,” by Raha Amirfazali, “Life I Stole,” by Putri Purnama Sugua and “Smart City,” by Rohin Raveendran – each receive KRW10 million for script development and are invited to participate in the Acfm’s Asian Project Market. Three films currently in post-production — “Birth,” by Yoo Jiyoung, “Juhee from 5 to 7,” by Jang Kunjae and “Mariam,” by Arvind Pratap — will receive in-kind support for digital intermediates, Dcp production, sound mixing and sub-titling, and are expected to premiere as finished works at the Busan festival.
The Asian Cinema Fund, a bursary scheme for film and documentary projects operated alongside the Busan International Film Festival, has announced six Korean recipients and seven hailing from elsewhere in Asia. The fund was put on hiatus during the two years of Covid, which also reduced the festival in size and turned the Asian Contents & Film Market into a virtual event. Three winners – “In the Land of Brothers,” by Raha Amirfazali, “Life I Stole,” by Putri Purnama Sugua and “Smart City,” by Rohin Raveendran – each receive KRW10 million for script development and are invited to participate in the Acfm’s Asian Project Market. Three films currently in post-production — “Birth,” by Yoo Jiyoung, “Juhee from 5 to 7,” by Jang Kunjae and “Mariam,” by Arvind Pratap — will receive in-kind support for digital intermediates, Dcp production, sound mixing and sub-titling, and are expected to premiere as finished works at the Busan festival.
- 7/15/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A record 5,100 short films were submitted to the Cairo Film Festival’s short film competition this year, thanks to a new collaboration with FilmFreeWay. Around 1,200 shorts are sent in more usually for the region’s only A-list festival. The section comes with the added bonus of the winning film being submitted to the Oscars’ long list.
“We expanded the team to nine people, including volunteers, so we could properly assess each one,” Marouan Omara, the director of the Short Film Competition, tells Variety.
More than 3,800 shorts were submitted via the FilmFreeWay platform alone.
This year, 22 films are vying for the Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film, which comes with a $5,000 prize, sponsored by Clacket Media.
Ten of the films are by women directors. Five come from Egypt. Five from the Arab/Africa region. There are 12 international films.
“The selected films are diverse and show underrepresented communities and countries,” says Omara.
“We expanded the team to nine people, including volunteers, so we could properly assess each one,” Marouan Omara, the director of the Short Film Competition, tells Variety.
More than 3,800 shorts were submitted via the FilmFreeWay platform alone.
This year, 22 films are vying for the Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film, which comes with a $5,000 prize, sponsored by Clacket Media.
Ten of the films are by women directors. Five come from Egypt. Five from the Arab/Africa region. There are 12 international films.
“The selected films are diverse and show underrepresented communities and countries,” says Omara.
- 11/29/2021
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
Documentaries from Brazil, the UK and Colombia among those awarded.
Brazilian documentary Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land! has been awarded the best international film prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021.
The film, directed by Brazilian Indigenous filmmakers Isael and Sueli Maxakali and collaborators Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero, exposes the hardship of the Tikmun’un people following the arrival of white settlers.
The documentary was selected from 11 features that played in the international competition of Doc/Fest, which took place as a hybrid event from June 4-13.
At a physical ceremony, hosted by festival director Cintia Gil...
Brazilian documentary Nũhũ Yãg Mũ Yõg Hãm: This Land Is Our Land! has been awarded the best international film prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021.
The film, directed by Brazilian Indigenous filmmakers Isael and Sueli Maxakali and collaborators Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero, exposes the hardship of the Tikmun’un people following the arrival of white settlers.
The documentary was selected from 11 features that played in the international competition of Doc/Fest, which took place as a hybrid event from June 4-13.
At a physical ceremony, hosted by festival director Cintia Gil...
- 6/14/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Lisbon festival is now spread over six “moments”, each based on a different theme, from October 2020 to March 2021.
The first part of the line-up of Portugal’s documentary festival Doclisboa has been announced, with this year’s edition staged across six months and comprising 31 world premieres.
The Lisbon festival was due to take place in October but is now spread over six “moments”, each based on a different theme, from October 2020 to March 2021. Screenings will take place in physical cinemas in Lisbon; while Nebulae, Doclisboa’s industry hub will run entirely online.
The first instalment, titled ‘Signals’, will run...
The first part of the line-up of Portugal’s documentary festival Doclisboa has been announced, with this year’s edition staged across six months and comprising 31 world premieres.
The Lisbon festival was due to take place in October but is now spread over six “moments”, each based on a different theme, from October 2020 to March 2021. Screenings will take place in physical cinemas in Lisbon; while Nebulae, Doclisboa’s industry hub will run entirely online.
The first instalment, titled ‘Signals’, will run...
- 10/13/2020
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Wash Westmoreland Heads Lff Jury; Polanski Added To Efa List; Tokyo Fest Competition — Global Briefs
Colette director Wash Westmoreland will head this year’s BFI London Film Festival (Lff) main jury. He will be joined by Game Of Thrones actress Lena Headey, Egyptian writer and producer Mohamed Hefzy, I, Daniel Blake actress Hayley Squires, director Sudabeh Mortezai (whose Joy won last year’s Lff Competition) and magazine editor Jane Crowther. The Lff First Feature Competition jury will be led by Jessica Hausner, whose Little Joe screens at this year’s fest. Joining her are filmmaker Shola Amoo, whose The Last Tree was at Sundance this year, playwright Theresa Ikoko, and Lilting director Hong Khaou. The festival’s Documentary Competition will be overseen by Strong Island director Yance Ford, with outgoing DocLisboa head Cintia Gil, soon to take over at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Skate Kitchen producer Julia Nottingham. Finally, the short film jury consists of filmmakers Amrou Al-Kadhi and Mark Jenkin, actor Alex Lawther, and actress and writer Marli Siu.
- 9/26/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Cintia Gil: “In this region, it is not normal for this to happen.”
Speaking to Screendaily, Cintia Gil, co-director of DocLisboa, has revealed the full extent of the pressure that the festival has come under in recent days to withdraw films for “political reasons.”
On the same day last week, the festival was contacted by both the Ukrainian and the Turkish embassies, asking that it pull two titles. One was Russian director Aliona Polunina’s Their Own Republic. The other was Yilmaz Güney’s 1982 classic, Yol, due to be screened this week in its full version.
Their Own Republic...
Speaking to Screendaily, Cintia Gil, co-director of DocLisboa, has revealed the full extent of the pressure that the festival has come under in recent days to withdraw films for “political reasons.”
On the same day last week, the festival was contacted by both the Ukrainian and the Turkish embassies, asking that it pull two titles. One was Russian director Aliona Polunina’s Their Own Republic. The other was Yilmaz Güney’s 1982 classic, Yol, due to be screened this week in its full version.
Their Own Republic...
- 10/17/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled the three-person jury that will judge the documentary films in this year's selection.
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, who worked as a producer on Richard Linklater’s screen adaptation of his nonfiction best-selling exposé of the industrial food industry; German documentary director Ulrike Ottinger; and Cintia Gil, co-director of Portuguese documentary film festival Doclisboa, will select the winner of this year's Glashutte Original Documentary Award.
In addition to Fast Food Nation, Schlosser was a producer on Robert Kenner's 2008 Oscar-nominated doc Food Inc. and Paul Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Be Blood (2007),...
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, who worked as a producer on Richard Linklater’s screen adaptation of his nonfiction best-selling exposé of the industrial food industry; German documentary director Ulrike Ottinger; and Cintia Gil, co-director of Portuguese documentary film festival Doclisboa, will select the winner of this year's Glashutte Original Documentary Award.
In addition to Fast Food Nation, Schlosser was a producer on Robert Kenner's 2008 Oscar-nominated doc Food Inc. and Paul Thomas Anderson's drama There Will Be Blood (2007),...
- 1/29/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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