IDFA Statistics and Info

It is a good idea to get on the mailing list for the idfa newsletter. The one from January 18 includes statistics on the 25th edition of the festival last November and communicates deadlines for the IDFA Bertha Fund (before Jan Vrijman Fund), the Docs for Sale, the festival and the Academy Summer School. How to it, quote from the newsletter:

If you would like to stay in tune with IDFA and all our industry deadlines and events, then subscribe now to IDFA’s monthly Industry Newsletter. Subscribing is easy and can be done via your MyIDFA account.

… and for the news: the 25^th edition of the festival in 2012 had 2700 festival guests and 200.000 tickets sold. Twohundredthousand tickets!!!

Furthermore IDFA, the European Film Market and EDN runs a documentary newtworking platform at the upcoming Berlinale (February 7-15), where 16 documentaries from the idfa festival are screened – among them are “The Gatekeepers”, “Elena” (photo) and “Beware of Mr. Baker”.

Link to idfa.nl

Link to efm-berlinale.de

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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