DR: Dokumania

It is not very often you feel like praising the programming of a public broadcaster when it comes to documentaries. But what DR, the Danish public broadcaster, has done by introduction of the prime time slot (8.40pm every tuesday) Dokumania deserves to be mentioned. Here are the four coming documentaries to be broadcasted on these tuesdays starting from tonite. In original version with subtitles, with a good website (In Danish but with links to the film sites):

1)The excellent ”The Times of Harvey Milk” by Epstein and Schmiechen. Go to their site and see the trailer and how to get hold of it. 2) A Danish doc premiere about the rise and fall of the Danish political party, ”New Alliance”, by Christoffer Guldbrandsen. 3) Alex Gibney´s awarded ”Taxi to the Dark Side”, reviewed in Danish on filmkommentaren.dk. 4) Alan Berliner’s ”Wide Awake”, read about it on the HBO site and watch trailer and interview with the always interesting Berliner.

For our Danish readers: You can sign up for a Dokumania newsletter, site below.

http://www.thetimesofharveymilk.com/
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/wideawake/index.html
http://www.dr.dk/DR2/Dokumania

Photo: The Times of Harvey Milk.

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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