Good News and Best Practice for Documentaries Using Archive Footage

Imagine Michael Moore’s CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY without Jimmy Carter’s downer speech on the economy and other audiovisual artefacts of U.S. collective memory; Sophie Fiennes and Slavoj Zizek without any clips from Hitchcock or David Lynch films to psychoanalyse for THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA; or Jean-Luc Godard’s HISTOIRE(S) DU CINEMA without, well, the cinéma. Without archival footage, BBC’s own conspiracy theorist Adam Curtis could go on the dole tomorrow. Use of third party content is a crucial practice for documentarians: to evoke another place and time, to portray and discuss historical events and to analyse the way the media shapes our perception of the world. (more…)

ITVS International Call

ITVS International Call: US production funds for non-US documentary producers

The ITVS International Call funding initiative was created to give US audiences access to international programming and voices on American television. International Call funding is only available to independent producers who are neither US citizens nor residents of the US. (more…)

THE ACCREDITATION FOR NORDISK PANORAMA IS NOW OPEN!

As an accredited guest you will have free access to all screenings, seminars and other events during the festival. Please register before 20. august to get an early bird discount.

Welcome to Bergen, Norway 24.-29. September!

Nordisk Panorama travels between the Nordisk Panorama Host Cities of the five Nordic countries: Bergen, Århus, Oulu, Malmø and Reykjavik, adding the colours of local and regional filmmaking to the vast landscape of Nordic short films and documentaries. This year the city of Bergen will be hosting Nordisk Panorama for the fourth time. Once again, we look forward to welcoming filmmakers and film lovers, festival programmers and international buyers, students and professionals to the beautiful west coast of Norway.

The City of Bergen (more…)

Berlin Documentary Forum 1 at the House of World Cultures

Today June, 2, 2010, the event series Berlin Documentary Forum 1 opens at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany.

The Berlin Documentary Forum 1 explores the role of documentary imagery in contemporary social processes. This thematic discourse will be held by way of lectures, exhibitions, film screenings and interventions. OK, one must admit that it all sounds rather academic. Perhaps the series seems to address less the people who are affected by the politics of the image than those who deal in media theory. Nonetheless, opening a space for this type of discussion is always a good thing. Hopefully people from a variety of disciplines will meet and participate in this discourse during the 5 days of the Documentary Forum. (more…)

Ahoj Prague

The One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Prague opens today with the Iranian film “Green Days” by Hana Makhmalbaf. More information here

Films screened at partner festival One World Berlin are available on realeyz.tv, such as BOY WHO PLAYS ON THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN, TAMBOGRANDE or TERRORISTS: THE KIDS THEY SENTENCED.