Baltic Sea Docs Workshop

After a long first day of the Baltic Sea Docs, the tutors were invited for dinner on top of Riga. Two of the tutors come from Georgia and Ukraine: Salomé Jashi and Darya Bassel. Both of them play an important role for documentaries in their country.

Salomé is head of the documentary association DOCA that is fighting against the horrible conditions for filmmaking in the country. DOCA is boycotting the Georgian Film Centre that now is run by people in the ministry of culture performing censorship. You have to be careful, when someone is knocking on your door… needless to say that Salomé is a great filmmaker, hope you have seen “Taming the Garden”.

Darya is behind the annual festival DocuDays in Kyiv, she is a producer and a constant communicator on what is going on in her country at war. Yesterday morning she was talking to the participants of the Baltic Sea Docs about the film she was producing, Olha Zhurba’s masterpiece, Songs of Slow Burning Earth. Mikael Opstrup was the moderator for the good informative session.

It’s a scoop to have the two here in Riga!

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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