Sheffield Doc/Fest new Initiative

Here is a follow-up to the text about joiningthedocs, quite interesting and if I get it right, you don’t have to travel to Sheffield (which by the way could be quite nice!) to watch a selection of the films in the coming festival. Read what is coming up:

“Sheffield Doc/Fest brings the international documentary family together to celebrate the art and business of documentary making for five intense days in November. As part of the 2009 festival, Doc/Fest is partnering with online documentary specialists joiningthedocs.tv to offer a selection of the festival’s films online, in an effort to broaden the impact of the festival’s films by bringing them to a larger audience.

joiningthedocs.tv is building a dedicated microsite for Doc/Fest’s online festival coverage, using a powerful new video platform. Each film will have a page dedicated to it, similar to the style of Doc/Fest’s current Videotheque. Visitors will be able to watch a trailer, purchase the film for a high-quality streaming experience, leave comments, and if they are a professional industry member, contact the film’s producer directly.”

www.sheffdocfest.com (photo: Nick Broomfield, retro-serie at the festival in 2008)

www.joiningthedocs.tv

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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