DoxBox 8
Another fine new initiative from DoxBox 2009 is the “Point of View” festival newsletter. Editor-in-chief is Danish Ulla Jacobsen, who by this year decided to leave the post of the DOX Magazine after more than a decade as the brilliant editor of (my biased opinion as former director of EDN, the organisation behind DOX) this best independent documentary film cultural publication. Ulla Jacobsen now works free lance as a journalist and video photographer. Here follows a clip from her intro to the “Point of View”:
… the intention is to create a space for reflection on and debate about the films that will be shown at the festival and the subjects they deal with. Each day a new edition will be published that will include reviews of the films at the festival, interviews with the filmmakers, reports from the corridors and highlights of the programme. One of the pages in the bulletin will be reserved for the side programme titled “Voices of Women” as this bulletin will also have a special focus on gender issues.
The bulletin is written by 9 young women from Syria, Morocco, Jordan and Denmark – and it also a product of a workshop that takes place during the festival which is training the nine participants to write about cinema and gender issues, and more specifically about documentary films and how gender issues are represented in this film genre…
The results can be read on
