Today we spoke to Steve Gravestock, Senior Programmer of the 38th TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DEADLINE • 31 May 2013 This year the award from NETPAC for the Best World or International Asian Feature Film Premiere, as selected by a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema will return. We will have our People’s […]
documentary

CPH:DOX
Today we spoke to Mads Mikkelsen, Programmer of the 11th COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL / CPH:DOX DEADLINE • 31 May 2013 I think the new thing this year is that we have launched a non-competitive cross-media relationship which is an open platform developing the projects throughout the year to then be presented at the festival […]

EVA STOTZ and her GLOBAL HOME: The Festival Circuit with a Couchsurfing Documentary
Couchsurfing. Of course you have heard of it but have you gone forth, taken the risky hike and tried it? Through the documentary GLOBAL HOME, filmmaker Eva Stotz gives a close insight into the experiences in traveling this unorthodox way. A co-production of Sabotage Films, ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel and supported by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, […]

ACHTUNG BERLIN Opens For 2013: Filmmakers Vocalize Local
Achtung Berlin’s 2013 festival opening was our local to-do last night, screening Aron Lehmann’s wildly entertaining Kohlhaas oder die Verhältnismässigkeit der Mittel at Kino International. While ‘local’ is the frequented word here, my position is closer to the ongoing conversation between local versus international, intimate versus immensely-boast-able and which of the extremes filmmakers should ground themselves in […]

A List Festivals, a tightly curated list.
In your hot and clammy hands you need more tightly curated festival lists, relevant festival deadlines and a hell of a lot of time and patience. Here’s a A list film festivals we dedicated time to this week to add to your briefcase. As a result of the numerous festivals operating each year in the […]

DOK LEIPZIG – The Documentary and animation festival forum
[decoline]International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film: [details] [item title=”City”]Leipzig[/item] [item title=”Country”]Germany[/item] [item title=”Founded”]1955[/item] [item title=”Edition”]55th[/item] [item title=”Date”]10/29 – 11/04/2012 [/item] [item title=”URL”]DOK Leipzig[/item] [item title=”Entry fee”]none[/item] [/details] [decoline] As the oldest independent film festival in Germany, DOK Leipzig is a FFL Festival Member we have longed to speak with since the very beginning. […]

PLAY International Music + Film Festival
This weekend Amsterdam is the place to be. Besides the established IDFA festival, PLAY, the music film festival organized by Amsterdam pop venue the Melkweg, will have its first edition. From November 17 to 20 film and music will be staged in every hall of the Melkweg. PLAY shows music films, fiction films and documentaries, […]

The Documentary Film Festival List
Documentary film festival: the genre in which authenticity and controversy play the main role. For FilmFestivalLife’s new list we tried to cover all continents and as many regions as possible. As usual, we have created handy shortlists for the must have festivals, the important ones and those you should keep on the radar In addition […]

IFPRODUCTIONS • INTERVIEWED
Please meet Ilse and Femke van Velzen, sisters and an amazing filmmaker duo from the Netherlands. Since 2002 they have specialised in making documentaries, in which they want to expose injustice (in developing countries) to a worldwide audience and give oppressed people a voice. Ilse and Femke develop, produce and direct documentaries as independent […]

Julian Reich • INTERVIEWED
Please meet Julian Reich, an American born German director and producer, who has a background in various areas of filmmaking. Since graduating in 2001 with a BfA in Film and Photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, he has directed commercials, music videos, short films, […]