Films Announced for Baltic Sea Docs Riga/ 2
Some additional good news about the film programme in Riga. The Danish film about the newspaper Ekstra Bladet, “The Newsroom – Off the Record” (photo), directed by Mikala Krogh, is not only screened as the opening film on September 2 in connection with the Baltic Sea Docs workshop and pitching forum, it is also the starting point for a discussion of the situation for a daily printed newspaper in a changing media landscape, in Denmark and Latvia. The producer of the film, Sigrid Dyekjær, and the chief-editor of the newspaper, Poul Madsen will visit Riga to take part in the discussion. The film comes to Riga awarded as the Best Documentary yesterday at the yearly TV-Festival in Copenhagen.
… and Sean MacAllister is in Riga present to meet the audience with his “A Syrian Love Story” on September 3. To quote the review on this site: “…there are few documentarians who like McAllister, goes from the journalistic point of view and the anynomous reportage, to be a true storyteller who captures your attention fully because of the closeness to the characters he can create, because he always involves himself – he is in this case an intruder into the lives and destinies of a refugee family that he met in 2009 and kept a close relation to until this year, 2015. His presence simply changed their lives…”
Finally Hubert Sauper’s “We Come as Friends” is screened – a film with a lot of praising words attached.