Eurimages Supports 7 Documentaries

First the bigger numbers from the press release of Eurimages… The Board of Management of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund agreed to support 22 fiction, 1 animation and 7 documentaries at a meeting in Skopje, for a total amount of €5,598,535.

A very good result for the documentary genre. Here are the documentaries supported:

”Frem” by Viera Cakányova, €53.000, Czech Rep. & Slovak Rep.

”Baltic New Wave” by Audrius Stonys & Kristine Briede, €70.000, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia

”Ingmar Bergman-Legacy of a Defining Genius”, €86.000, by Margarethe von Trotta and Felix Moeller, Germany, France

”Fugue” by Artemio Benki, €100.000, Czech Rep., France, Argentina, Austria

”Epicentro” by Hubert Sauper, €190.000, Austria, France

”Photograph-Women” by Ester Sparatore, €100.000, France, Belgium, Italy

”Exemplary Behaviour” by Audrius Mickevicius, €50.000, Lithuania, Bulgaria

Readers of this site will recognise several strong names, auteurs, as the French call those who use the camera as a pen.

Photo: The people behind “Baltic New Wave” at the pitch in Riga 2016, with Kristine Briede speaking.

https://rm.coe.int/support-decisions-at-the-148th-eurimages-board-of-management-meeting/1680760c5c

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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