Ukraine Euromaidan

“There is a choice”, was the slogan expressed in connection with the DocuDays UA festival in Kiev in March 2013. I was there as member of the jury and enjoyed a very professional and committed reception from the filmmakers behind the festival. A FB post led me to the website of the festival. Here is a text that shows the active inclusion of the festival in the protests in Kiev:

“The series of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA screening events on Euromaidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv begins at December 13, 7 pm, Labour Union House. Entrance is free!

Docudays UA is an apolitical festival. But it is about human rights and the choice each one of us always has: to accept the dictatorship regime or to fight for the victory of democracy. The future of Ukraine depends on the choice each one of us has to make. That is why Docudays UA is with Maidan!

We invite you to the screening of Open Access documentary almanac (dir. Volodymyr Tykhy, Dmytro Konovalov, Serhiy Andrushko, Zhanna Dovhych, Dmytro Tiazhlov, Ukraine, 2013, 98’). The screening will be followed by the discussion with the almanac creators. Moderator: Maksym Butkevych, a journalist and human rights activist.

Open Access chronicles the establishment of civil society and the personal stories of leading characters. They live in different regions of Ukraine, their values and beliefs are dissimilar, they do not know each other. The only thing that unites them is their proactive stand on civil rights issues.

The world premiere of the almanac took place at Docudays UA in Kyiv, March 2013.”

http://www.docudays.org.ua/eng/2013/news/docu-info/docudays_ua_at_euromaidan_open_access/

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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