A New Wave for Arab Cinema?
17th floor of the Hotel Africa in the capital of Tunisia. Early morning, the city prepares for a new day. Sunshine. To the right the beautiful clock with the sea behind it, to the left a look down the Avenue…
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Rasmus Dinesen: Verdens bedste kok
Selvfølgelig er det fascinerende, men præcist hvad er det, som er så fascinerende? Filmen går ud fra, at det er en selvfølge, og der tager instruktøren fejl. Og fejltagelsen er fatal for hans film, for han bruger den derfor ikke…
Documenting the Revolution/ 1
The cph:dox festival deserves credit for (also) putting a focus on the changes in the Arab world. With the support of IMS (International Media Support, Danish state supported organisation), no less than a dozen screenings and debates, entitled ”Free Radical”,…
Targeting: Bin Laden
Jeg har det med filmen, som jeg har det med ordet drejebog, som jo betyder to ting på dansk. Naturligvis er en drejebog en plan for en film, men det er i nutidssprog også en plan for en hvilken som…
Danfung Dennis: Hell and Back Again
Dokumania, DR’s flagskib for dokumentarfilm, hver tirsdag på DR2, i morgen kl. 21, viser den prisbelønnede amerikanske dokumentarfilm “Helvede tur-retur”, som har vundet flere første-priser og er med i køen til at blive Oscar-nomineret. Helt fortjent. Jeg var i juryen…
East Silver Awards 2011
Alina Rudnitskaya is a very talented filmmaker from Saint Petersburg. Her newest 25 minutes long documentary from this year, ”I will forget this Day” (photo) has already been awarded at several festivals for its stylistically strong vision of women and…
ITVS
stands for The Independent Television Service’s (ITVS). It supports documentary projects for broadcast in the US – subject-wise from all over the world. 8 films have been supported out of ITVS International Call for 2011, where 476 submissions were received…
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
I don’t want talking faces, you often hear documentary filmmakers say. To be understood: it is boring television stuff. In this case, and in many other, of course, the talking faces, at least most of them, are interesting to look…
Jacob Jørgensen og Henrik Lundø: Min dal
Så er det en fryd at se tv. Skonnerten som fartøj passer perfekt til Kirsten Klein og Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, og de to passer perfekt til den i hastighed, blidhed, stilfærdighed og gedigen faglighed. Det er en uafbrudt tilfredsstillelse at…
Frederik Gertten: Bananas
De kommer langsomt, lidt efter lidt, den ene efter den anden, men de kommer, alle de vidunderlige film, Tue Steen Müller ser rundt om i verden og skriver om her på bloggen. Alle vi frustrerede, som ikke kommer på festivaler,…
Cattin & Kostomarov: The Mother
This international renowned film by Swiss Antoine Cattin and Pavel Kostomarov reaches Danish Television (DR/TV) on tuesday October 11 as part of the strand Dokumania and under the Danish title, ”Den russiske mor”. The film was at the Magnificent7 European…
Alexis Spraic: Shadow Billionaire
Den amerikanske titel spiller måske sprogligt på en berømt succes. Den blæser sig op, og det holder den slet ikke til. Det er bestemt ikke et værk, der sætter foden i døren. “Den forsvundne millionær” hedder dokumentaren stilfærdigt scherfigsk i…
Ulla Boje Rasmussen: Thors saga /3
Den store fortælling om den magtfulde islandske familie Thors i fire generationer og med vægt på to biografier, den danske udvandrer Thor Jensens og hans oldebarn, finansmanden Björgólfur Thor Björgólfssons vævet ind i Islands politiske og økonomiske historie gennem mere end hundrede år…
The End of Pitching Sessions?
So, no more pitching sessions, the young distributor said to me during the Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries in Riga? She had followed the Doc Discussion on this blog, and had read the many skeptical texts from filmmakers, who saw…
Docs: George Harrison, Neil Young, Paul McCartney
This autumn brings three new documentaries with music icons George Harrison, Neil Young and Paul McCartney, made by film icons Martin Scorcese, Jonathan Demme and Albert Maysles. ”George Harrison: Living in the Material World” is a two-part documentary by Martin…
Det går godt for Dokumentarfilmen
A small text on good times for the documentary in cinemas and media coverage in Denmark. More films in cinemas, much more press than before, reviews in daily newspapers of dvd’s Jo, det ser godt ud for dokumentaren. Ihvertfald var…
Nanna Frank Møller: Let’s Be Together
Under titlen ”En Feminin Dreng” viser DR2’s Dokumania en af de væsentligste, nye danske dokumentarfilm, som har vakt berettiget opsigt både inden- som udenlands under sin originaltitel, ”Let’s Be Together”. Her er anmeldelsen, som vi bragte, da filmen blev vist…
Lichtpunt: Claudio Magris
Intelligent television. A talk with a writer, one of the best, for many years and still a candidate to receive the Nobel Prize of Literature, Italian or should one say European Claudio Magris, interviewed in his flat in Trieste by…
Dokumania: Løb for Livet
This is an announcement especially for our Danish readers about the screening tomorrow of Serbian Mladen Matičević award winning documentary ”Run for Life” on the tuesday evening strand ”Dokumania” on DR I will therefore switch to Danish language Det er…
Storydoc Session in Corfu/ 1
Documentary film projects from 11 countries, 21 of them, were developed during 5 days at the Ionian University in the city of Corfu. From morning till evening, July 11-15, the filmmakers, directors and producers, had meetings with invited tutors –…
Moscow Film Diary/4
”My Perestroika” is a fine documentary by Robin Hessman. It was screened the other day for an American audience on the pov – documentaries with a point of view. A trailer from the film + loads of information on the…
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
British tv Channel4 broadcast a week ago a tv-documentary on what happened during the final weeks of the 25 year long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers. The programme was presented by the journalist…
Edinburgh Documentary Pitch/1
There is a lot of film political commitment and competence in the activities of the SDI (Scottish Documentary Institute). The small staff (Noë Mendelle, Sonja Henrici, Flore Cosquer, Amy Hardie and Finlay Pretsell) stands behind the talent development production scheme…
Edinburgh Documentary Pitch/2
It is a public secret that most public broadcasters do not have a young audience. ”Young people do not watch television”, it is being said again and again when television people meet. They watch films, including documentaries, online, or they…
Edinburgh Documentary Pitch/3
YLE and arte, television channels – for many years leading in creative documentaries when it comes to international orientation, involved in coproductions and acquisitions of documentaries from all over the world. As an organiser of meetings where producers come to…
Adam Schmedes: Kamæleonernes strand
Pludselig blev den vist på DR1 forleden og forinden af DFI og Filmland på P1 og BT og meget mere lanceret som en nyhed. Det var sært, men det var da godt, og Adam Schmedes har under alle omstændigheder fortjent opmærksomheden.…
Christian Sønderby Jepsen: Min fætter er pirat
Det kan godt være, at rammen er faderens godnathistorie for børnene, at meningen er at fortælle en moderne Robin Hood historie, som det stod i DFI pressemeddelelsen i november, eller vel nærmere berette en nutidig sørøverhistorie. Så vidt så godt. Det…
Bosse Lindquist og Jesper Huor: Wiki Rebels
Naturligvis handler Lindquists Huors film om det forståelige modsætningsforhold og uundgåelige brud mellem de to vidt forskellige personligheder og ledere af Wikileaks Julian Assange og Daniel Domscheit-Berg, og det er for så vidt filmen værd i det journalistiske nu. Men det er…
Parallel 40: Joan Gonzalez
For many of us it never goes beyond the words, when it comes to put into reality all the good intentions about the promotion of the documentaries. Few have had the strength and courage to link all the elements of…
Images from the Revolution in Egypt
I was watching the Danish news magazine Horisont (modelled after the BBC Panorama strand) last night, prime time on DR, our public service channel. They had 25 minutes on Egypt. I sat down with some expectation that was competely let…
Sami Saif: Tommy
Tommy Seebach, popstjerne, vinder af det danske melodi grand prix adskillige gange, blev 53 år gammel. Han var, som det vist hedder, hård ved sig selv, knoklede for at få anerkendelse for sit talent, nåede toppen, faldt dybt, druknede sig…
Realscreen
I have written about and praised the DOX magazine a couple of times as the magazine for the creative (artistic, authored, call it what you want) documentary. But if you want to follow what happens in the more commercial sector…
Sophia Tzavella: Paradise Hotel
It seems to be in the middle of nowhere, and isolated it is, what was meant to be (25 years ago) a place to live, in noble decency, planned to house the Romas by the socialist government. Today block 20…
SVT and Documentaries
Well, it is first and foremost for us Northeners, who can read Swedish… but I write this text in English anyway to praise the documentary profile, quality and volume of the SVT, Swedish public broadcaster, that publishes a very good…
Vaclav Klaus on Camera
Below is a text about a new Danish television documentary, ”The President”, which describes the absurd process that lead to the nomination of totally unknown haiku-poet and politician, Belgian Herman van Rompuy, as President of the EU – according to…
Christoffer Guldbrandsen: Præsidenten
Det er så ikke, som man ellers efter pressebilledet kunne tro, Romano Prodi, der fortæller historien. Det er Guldbrandsen selv, som er fortælleren, i hvert fald af den journalistiske, handlingsbaserede historie, som er bundet i hans speak. Det er nok de fire klippere,…
Carsten Foldbæk: Med døden som makker
Jeg synes, det er uheldigt, at DR2 og Carsten Foldbæk leverer os dokumentarisk sjusk og blot i slutteksterne indrømmer, at billederne ikke passer til det, som fortælles. Det er så synd at billeddække Helge Hansens fornemme fortælling med et arkivmateriale så…
Hugues le Paige: The Prince
The director of this film used to be a strong and passionate commissioning editor at RTBF, the French language Belgian public broadcaster. He left when the channel decided to be less active in the commitment to the creative documentary. Le…
Nahid Sarvestani: The Queen and I
Ja, selv om jeg var ved at segne af træthed hang jeg på. Jeg havde jo regnet ud, hvordan det ville udvikle sig mellem de to kvinder… (jeg kunne have læst det på Dokumanias hjemmeside ser jeg nu bagefter), men det…
Francois Truffaut: Kvinden overfor
TDC har forsynet mig med en sort boks, som kan gemme filmene fra gamle dage, som DR K denne tid sender i gedigne serier. Det betyder gensyn efter årtier og derefter gensyn på gensyn af værker, som ellers kun havde…
POV: Cakes, Ellsberg and A World in Conflict
POV means Point of View and is the name of ” American television’s longest-running independent documentary series”, part of the PBS in the US and led by executive producer Simon Kilmurry, who is a frequent visitor to documentary events all…
US Documentary Channel
Wish we had a documentary channel in Europe! We do not. The Americans have: The Documentary Channel, that also offers a very valauable newsletter that advertises the broadcasts of the channel AND a so-called Docstore, where films can be bought…
Tribeca Film Festival
Could not resist, had to bring that photo, even if I have now idea about the film – it has its premiere at the festival. Here is what is written about it on the site: The first big piece of…
Gainsbourg Forever
Tomorrow, 2nd of March, it is twenty years ago that the French artist icon, Serge Gainsbourg, died. This is being celebrated by the French. Yesterday the daily newspaper ”Libération” brought a black & white poster photo with ”Gainsbourg nu”, at…
Good Docu News from Czech Republic
On this blog you have often met the sentence ”East Beats West” referring to this blogger´s enthusiasm for original documentaries from Eastern Europe. The central point for spreading knowledge about the situation, and for stimulating the sector through festivals, workshops,…
van der Valk & Gavan: Geert Wilders – the Movie
Almost 3 years ago we brought a review of a film signed by Geert Wilders, Fitna – the Movie, an anti-islam 16 mins. long visual pamphlet that stirred a lot of debate – it is to be watched online, if…
Yoav Shamir: Defamation/2
Det kan som nævnt i Ekko og her på siden være vanskeligt at komme til at se Shamirs vigtige film. I dag er det muligt. 22:00 sendes den på svensk tv. SVT1 i aften klokken ti. Senere (2. februar): Nå,…
Nina Hedenius: Naturens gång
For mig findes begrebet dokumentarfilm ikke. Jeg oplever selv, at jeg laver film om, hvordan tingene skulle kunne tænkes at være, ikke om hvordan de er… (Nina Hedenius) I FOF filmklubben i aften skal vi se Naturens gång af Nina…
Steffen Moestrup: Danske dokumentarister/2
Steffen Moestrups programserie på DR4 “Danske dokumentarister” fortsætter i den kommende tid med følgende afsnit: Nicole N. Horanyi 23. januar 14:30 (genudsendelse) Jesper Ravn (FOTO) 23. januar 18:30 Mikala Krogh 27. januar 18:00 Andreas Møl Dalsgaard 30. januar 14:00
Dokumania: Annie Leibovitz
Next week’s Dokumania on Danish DR2 this coming tuesday at 9pm, prime time, is the film about American Photography icon Annie Leibovitz, reviewed on this site. If you can not watch Danish television and want to update your knowledge about…