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Master Class Werner Herzog online
The Polish Planete+ Doc Film Festival and the VOD platform DAFilms.com present a master class with Werner Herzog at DAFilms.com. Meet the living legend of feature and documentary film, author of more than 50 films and the director who throughout his life has posed questions about the limits that nature and mankind impose on each other. As a filmmaker, he overcomes these limits and presents to the audience what he has found on the other side.
Stream for FREE until 20 January.
Madeleine Avramoussis (C.E. ARTE) about co-producing in Greece
Madeleine Avramoussis, ARTE's renowned Commissioning Editor has a long experience in Co-Producing. She has been doing it for the past 20 years! In this television interview she gave me for ERT in Spring 2012 she talks about co-production in Greece, the festival, the prices and future plans. Arte is planning a special theme day about Greece in August 2013.
Watch the complete interview:
A new documentary about Greece and Democracy
Democratia, the way of the cross
An independent Greek feature-length documentary made by Marco Gastine about the campaign for the parliamentary election on May 6 2012 in Greece. The film follows four candidates, giving us a unique opportunity to explore the current political situation in Greece from a different perspective. The politicians belong to four different parties - a former minister from PASOK, a young politician with a family tradition in politics (his father was also MP), a woman from the left-wing SYNASPISMOS, and a candidate from Golden Dawn, the extreme right-wing party.Everybody tries to reach out to their voters and no-one has any real answers to Greece's pressing issues.
Demokratia the way of the cross is an observational, character-driven documentary without narration, a great insightful portrait of Greek politics.
Even though it's about the May 2012 election, Unfortunately for Greece it's still topical. Things don't change so quickly, especially when they have been in the same status quo for so many years.
It would have been better if it had been possible to have had this hot documentary ready sooner, but Marco Gastine told me that he preferred to have the premier in festivals, which is understandable.
The documentary was directed and produced by Marco Gastine jointly with Katerina Patroni, Nikolia Apostolou, Haris Raftogiannis, Christos Georgoutsos and Yiannis Misouridis. Each of these Greek filmmakers and camera-men and -women followed one politician. They had already worked together as a team for the series Docville, produced by Gastine.
The documentary (91 min, 52 min) was in the Market at DOK Leipzig and will be distributed in theatres in Greece in January.
On Wednesday December 5, the film will be screened at the French Institute in Athens (Sina 31, Kolonaki).
Listen to the interview (English) Marco Gastin gave me in November 2012 in Athens.
A great Greek feature-length film at idfa 2012
One step ahead (Ena vima mprosta) is the portrait of the unconventional Greek wine producer Yannis Boutaris and his bid to become the mayor of Thessaloniki, the second-largest city in Greece, in 2010. Athiridis' camera follows closely the charismatic entrepreneur throughout his political campain and personal moments, while Greece sinks further into the financial crisis. What I liked the most about this film is its balance, with its second layer where he talks about his background and private life, his alcoholism and the death of his wife, while we watch great previously unseen family footage. In 132 min. (could be 10 min. shorter) Dimitris Athiridis provides us with a deep look into the Greek society and helps us to understand the current situation in Greece. Artemis Anastasiadou has done a good job in the editing room and both Stavros Gasparatos and Terry Papadinas have chosen great music for the soundtrack of the film. The film is co-produced by ZDF/ARTE, ERT and YLE. It is a world premiere at idfa and will be broadcast on ARTE's special theme day on Greece, in June 2013.
You can still watch it on Thursday November 22 and Saturday 24 at idfa.
Thursday 22/11, at 21.45 Munt 13 and
Saturday 24/11, 14.45 Munt 13
Greek productions at idfa (Amsterdam)
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the greatest European documentary festival,idfa, is taking place until November 25 2012 in Amsterdam.
Follow the proceedings at idfa's well-laid-out website.
To premiere and compete in Amsterdam is Dimitris Athiridis' film One step ahead on Yannis Boutaris, mayor of Thessaloniki. In Greece, the film will be screened in the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in March. It will also be aired during the ARTE special day-long feature on Greece, in May 2013.
Also participating in the EBU pitching: Agora (Εxandas), The New Plastic Road (Myrto Papadopoulos and Angelos Tsaoussis) and Little Land (Nikos Dayandas, Anemon Productions-Rea Apostolides). Based on my idea and research, Little Land is taking place on the island of Icaria. It will be aired as part of the day-long television tribute to Greece by ARTE in May 2013. Also in idfa's main pitch on Monday November 19 2012 in Amsterdam, the Greek-produced and -directed documentary Kismet (Nina-Maria Paschalidou, Anemon Productions-Rea Apostolides) on Turkish TV soap-operas.
Meet the Fokkens!
Meet the Fokkens (Ouwehoeren), from the Netherlands!
Listen to director Rob Schröder's interview by Dimitra Kouzi at Prix Europa 2012 (2 parts)
«WHY POVERTY? – ΦΤΩΧΕΙΑ ΓΙΑΤΙ;» σε Avant Premiere 12 Νοεμβρίου 2012
ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ 12 ΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΟΥ, ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ 18.00 έως τις 22.00
ΣΤΟ ΓΑΛΛΙΚΟ ΙΝΣΤΙΤΟΥΤΟ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ (Σίνα 31)
Η ΕΡΤ παρουσιάζει, σε avant première, τέσσερα ντοκιμαντέρ του τμήματος Διεθνών Συμπαραγωγών της ΕΡΤ, στο πλαίσιο της διεθνούς πρωτοβουλίας «WHY POVERTY? - ΦΤΩΧΕΙΑ ΓΙΑΤΙ;».
Τα ντοκιμαντέρ που θα προβληθούν είναι :
EDUCATION, EDUCATION, σε σκηνοθεσία Weijun Chen
WELLCOME TO THE WORLD, σε σκηνοθεσία Brian Hill
POOR US – AN ANIMATED HISTORY OF POVERTY,
σε σκηνοθεσία Ben Lewis
SOLAR MAMAS, σε σκηνοθεσία Mona Eldaifef και Jehane Noujaim
Ποιό από όλα τα ντοκιμαντέρ σας ενδιαφέρει περισσότερο;
Στο πλαίσιο αυτής της βραδιάς θα παρουσιαστεί το 25ο Φεστιβάλ Ντοκιμαντέρ «Κινηματογράφος & Πραγματικότητα» που διοργανώνεταιαπό με την υποστήριξη του Γαλλικού Ινστιτούτου της Ελλάδος και του Ινστιτούτου Goethe.
Xορηγός επικοινωνίας είναι η ΕΡΤ.
Η είσοδος για το κοινό θα είναι ελεύθερη
The winners at DOK Leipzig 2012
The winners at DOK Leipzig 2012 are out! Read all about it.
From the German films I saw at the Leipzig screenings I really liked two:
The Last Catch, by Markus CM Schmidt, about the European bluefin tuna - overfishing in the Mediterranean Sea and the situation of the fishermen, who are also facing extinction. After watching this film I think twice about sushi...
The other film I liked is The Venice Syndrome by Andreas Pichler. It's a feature-length documentary about the consequences of mass tourism in Venice and the remains of urban life in this lovely city. The film argues that in 2030 there will be none of the 58,000 inhabitants living in Venice today. An elegy to the last Venetians and a thriller about the consequences of tourism. And a universal story: quite a few fantastic places around the world are faced with the same issues. Watch the official trailer.
Silver Eye Winners 2012
Year after year Jihlava IDFF closing ceremony have featured Institute of Documentary Film’s announcement of Silver Eye awardees. The holders of the awards are three documentaries from East Silver Market, selected in three individual categories. This year’s Silver Eye winners are: Cut-Paste (dir. Rafal Samusik, Poland, 2012) in Best short documentary category, We Will Be Happy One Day (dir. Pawel Wysoczański, Poland, 2012) in Best mid-length documentary category, Sofia’s Last Ambulance (dir. Ilian Metev, Bulgaria, Croatia, 2012) in Best feature-length category.
Jaro Vojtek was honored with Special mention for his energy-packed Slovakian documentary Gypsy Vote that premiered in Jihlava.
All the Silver Eye winners receive the trophy as well as 1500 EUR prize money. On top of that, the awarded films are about to enjoy the year-long distribution support within East Silver Caravan festival service, shipping them to more than 80 international film festivals.
Silver Eye 2012 winners:
Short documentary:
Cut-Paste | 2012 | Rafal Samusik | Poland
Mid-length documentary:
We Will Be Happy One Day | 2011 | Pawel Wysoczański | Poland
Feature documentary:
Sofia's Last Ambulance | 2012 | Metev, Ilian | Bulgaria, Croatia
Special Mention:
The Gypsy Vote | 2012 | Jaro Vojtek | Slovakia
Film proffesionals in Silver Eye jury:
Short documentary:
Thierry Detaille - Ventes - CBA/ Wip (Belgium)
Jukka-Pekka Laakso - Tampere Film Festival (Fiinland)
Georgy Molodtsov - Studio Ostrov, TV-Kultura (Russia)
Mid-length documentary:
Terry Stevens – Dogwoof (United Kingdom)
Laurien ten Houten – IDFA (Netherlands)
Anna-Lena Byström – SVT (Sweden)
Feature documentary:
Ina Rossow - Deckert Distribution (Germany)
Rada Sesić – Sarajevo FF, IFF Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Francis Kandel – CANALPLUS (France)