DocsBarcelona Industry Awards

 DocsBarcelona Industry has announced the winners of the 2025 edition this Thursday evening, with Capitán by Laura Otárola taking home the DocsBarcelona Award for Best Project. The awards ceremony was held at Casa Montjuïc and marks the conclusion of DocsBarcelona Industry, the leading non-fiction market in Southern Europe. This year’s edition brought together more than 750 accredited professionals from around the world for four days of pitching sessions, networking events, and many industry-oriented activities. Discover all the awarded projects:

● DocsBarcelona Best Project Award: Capitán — Laura Otárola
● Special Mention DocsBarcelona Best Project Award: Gaza Sunbirds — Flavia Cappellini ● DocsBarcelona Best New Tech Project Award: There is something in the silence — Patricia Fernández
● Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Co-production Award: Gaza Sunbirds —  Flavia Cappellini
● HBO Europe Best Pitch Award: All we have is us — Aline Juárez
● Music Library Award: Kalari Kid (WT) — Maria Kaur Bedi, Satindar Singh Bedi 
● Antaviana Best Pitch Award: Tokyo Meltdown — María Urquijo
● Women Make Movies Award: Before the Feast — Rajani Mani
● Sónar+D New Tech Pitch Award: Lid Scape — Sebastián Carrasco
● San Sebastian Lau Haizetara Forum Award: Gaza Sunbirds —  Flavia Cappellini
● FipaDoc Award: Capitán — Laura Otárola
● East Doc Platform Award: Berliner — Anna Khazaradze
● MIA DOC Award: Julian Assange: This Is All About You — Etienne Huver
● Dok.fest München Award: When you’re not there — Pol Picas, Marta Sellart
● DOCXS Consultancy Award: Romania vs Romania — Anelise Salan
● CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator Award: Tokyo Meltdown — María Urquijo
● Nuevas Miradas EICTV Award: La Taca — Mònica Llop
● Doklab Navarra Grant: Barceloneta 1/4 — Alba Maria Sueiro 
 
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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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