The latest news and background articles about IDFA and documentary filmmaking.
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08-05-12 | Short film challenge FOCUS FORWARD
IDFA is thrilled to announce that it is partnering again with the FOCUS FORWARD – Short Films, Big Ideas initiative.
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08-05-12 | IDFAcademy partnering with DocStories Black Sea
IDFAcademy (IDFA) is partnering with DocStories Black Sea, offering a training program for projects in the Black Sea region.
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08-05-12 | IDFAcademy's Summer School announces 2012 selection
Sixteen projects have been selected for the fifth edition of IDFAcademy Summer School 2012.
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01-05-12 | Second selection round Jan Vrijman Fund cancelled
IDFA's Jan Vrijman Fund has decided to cancel its second Selection Round of 2012, which was planned for May.
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20-04-12 | Good Pitch Europe 2012 project selection announced
The lineup for the Good Pitch Europe 2012, which returns to the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London on Monday 25th June, is announced.
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16-03-12 | 14th One World Film Festival Winners
14th One World Film Festival Winners
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16-03-12 | Honorary event for IDFA director Ally Derks
At the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, IDFA director Ally Derks was presented with an honorary plaque as a token of appreciation for her overall contribution in the field of documentary.
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09-03-12 | DOX BOX Global Day 2012
DOX BOX organizers decided that the documentary film festival would not be held this year. As a statement against the regime the festival organizes a DOX BOX Global Day from 14 March through 16.
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09-03-12 | Looking back at the FORUM 2012
Looking back at the FORUM 2012
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30-01-12 | 5 Broken Cameras wins Sundance award
5 Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi won the World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance. The film was made with support from the Jan Vrijman Fund.
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27-01-12 | Oscar nomination for Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky is nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Oscar.
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24-01-12 | IDFA Spotlight presented at EFM initiative Meet the Docs in Berlin
IDFA and the European Film Market decided to join forces to promote quality documentaries.
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23-01-12 | New dates IDFAcademy Summer School 2012
From June 18 - 23, IDFAcademy organizes the fifth edition of the Summer School: a tailor-made training program for emerging filmmakers.
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24-01-12 | IDFAcademy will expand with an extra day
This coming festival year, the IDFAcademy will officially expand by adding an extra day to the event.
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20-01-12 | 18DaysinEgypt.com will be launched Friday january 20
A launch party for the website 18DaysinEgypt.com, a cross media project at the FORUM 2011, invites people to upload Egyptian Revolution photos and footage.
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20-01-12 | Diane Weyermann receives HotDocs' Doc Mogul Award 2012
Diane Weyermann, Vice President of Documentary Films for Participant Media and founder of the Sundance Documentary Fund, will be presented with the 2012 Doc Mogul Award.
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17-01-12 | 3rd Durban Filmmart 2012 open for project submissions
The 3rd Durban FilmMart (South Africa) will take place from 20-23 July 2012.
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06-01-12 | The Good Pitch
The Good Pitch Europe will be held on June 25th and the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is calling out to European filmmakers to apply.
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08-12-11 | Festival Scope highlights IDFA 2011
Festival Scope added eight new IDFA 2011 titles to their selection.
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08-12-11 | The JVF Film 5 broken Camera wins Audience Award
JVF film 5 Broken Cameras wins IDFA Audience Award.
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08-12-11 | Position among the Stars wins IDA-Humanitas Award
Position among the Stars by Leonard Retel Helmrich received the International Documentary Association Humanistas Documentary Award.
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06-12-11 | 5 Broken Cameras at Sundance
5 Broken Cameras, The Ambassador, Putin's Kiss and Big Boys Gone Bananas!* screened at Sundance.
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25-11-11 | Planet of Snail wins VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary
The winners of the various IDFA competition programs were just announced in Escape, during the awards ceremony of the 24th IDFA.
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23-11-11 | Nominations IDFA 2011 announced
The nominations for the various IDFA competition programmes were announced Wednesday November 23 at the IDFA Talkshow in Escape.
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20-11-11 | Mini concert with Paul Williams
Mini concert with Paul Williams
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19-11-11 | Last Days Here winner firstIDFA PLAY Award for Best Music Documentary
Last Days Here winner first IDFA PLAY Award for Best Music Documentary
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19-11-11 | No public transport on Sunday November 20
No public transport on Sunday November, 20
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19-11-11 | Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima at IDFA
Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima attended the premiere of the Sound of the Bandoneón.
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16-11-11 Ally Derks Opening Speech IDFA 2011
Read the complete IDFA 2011 opening speech by Ally Derks.
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16-11-11 | Nelleke Koop wins Media Fund Documentary Award
Nelleke Koop received the award of € 125,000 for the realization of her film Floating Bodies (Waterlijken).
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15-11-11 | IDFA presents new documentary project Focus Forward in collaboration wit Cinelan
IDFA presents the new documentary initiative Focus Forward in collaboration with Cinelan.
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11-11-11 | Katayoun was freed on bail
Katayoun was freed on bail Wednesday, November 9, she now awaits trial.
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11-11-11 | Call for Entry The Good Pitch² the Hague 2012
The Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague is launching its first Good Pitch²
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01-11-11 | IDFA opposed to Iran's Cinema Verité Festival
IDFA is asking filmmakers with a film selected for the Cinema Verité Festival to seriously consider withdrawing their film and decline any invitation from the festival.
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28-10-11 | IDFA starts new club, the Special Friends of IDFA
In anticipation of possible funding cuts, IDFA starts new club, the Special Friends of IDFA.
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25-10-11 | IDFA and ECF present the second annual Doc Next
Under the title Doc Next, IDFA and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) are to screen documentaries by a new generation of European filmmakers at IDFA 2011.
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20-10-11 | Position among the Stars and ¡Vivan las Antipodas! nominated
Position among the Stars and ¡Vivan las Antipodas! are nominated for the European Film Awards.
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19-10-11 | FORUM Selection 2011
A total of 57 projects have been selected for the upcoming FORUM, IDFA's international co-finance market.
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14-10-11 | Official Selection IDFA 2011
The selection for the 24th IDFA, which will take place in Amsterdam from 16 to 27 November, is now online.
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06-10-11 | The FORUM launches new online platform
The FORUM is launching a new online platform where promising documentary projects can be presented to international financiers and producers.
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06-10-11 | IDFAcademy and the NFTA join forces
IDFAcademy and the Netherlands Film and Television Academy join forces and launch new program: Meet the Participants
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06-10-11 | Charlotte Cook is the new director of programming at HotDocs
Canadian festival Hot Docs has hired Charlotte Cook to be its new director of programming.
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06-10-11 | IDFA 2011 opens with Danish documentary The Ambassador
IDFA 2011 opens with The Ambassador by Danish filmmaker and journalist Mads Brügger Cortzen.
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29-09-11 | Presumed Guilty wins Emmy
The documentary Presumed Guilty by Roberto Hernández, Layda Negrete and Geoffrey Smith, won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.
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27-09-11 | IDFA presents new competition for music documentaries
IDFA has compiled a programmof international music documentaries in cooperation with PLAY, the music film festival organised by Amsterdam pop venue the Melkweg
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Six Iranian filmmakers arrested
Iran has arrested at least six people who it claims were working clandestinely inside the country for the London-based BBC Persian television
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20-09-11 | Steve James will present this year's Top 10 at IDFA
The Top 10 for this 24th IDFA will be compiled by American filmmaker Steve James.
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14-09-11 | Special program Cinema do Brasill at IDFA
Linking up with the Brasil Festival Amsterdam IDFA will be devoting attention to the development of the Brazilian documentary during the past decade.
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06-09-11 | Photography meets multimedia storytelling
Debate, masterclass and workshops on multimedia and photography during PhotoStories at Noorderlicht photofest.
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25-08-11 | IDFA and reelisor.com team up
IDFA will be partnering with reelisor.com, the online cooperation platform for the professional European documentary film world.
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25-08-11 | EDN member discount at IDFA
This year EDN members can enjoy discounts for various IDFA festival passes.
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01-08-11 | Successful 1st DFM Doc Pitch comes to an end
During the new initiative DFM Doc Pitch the projects Homage to the Buddha and Nyindoda, I'm a Man have been selected as 'most promising documentary projects'.
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29-07-11 | Vivan las Antipodas! by Victor Kossakovsky is the second film on the Opening Night
The new film by the great Russian documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky, Vivan las Antipodas! will be the second film on the Opening Night
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18-07-11 | Film Presumed Guilty nominated for an Emmy
The film Presumed Guilty is nominated for an Emmy. This was announced Thursday 15 July.
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12-07-11 | IDFAcademy's Summer School report 2011
From 4 to 9 July 2011, cultural center De Brakke Grond in the heart of Amsterdam was host to the 4th annual IDFAcademy Summer School
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12-07-11 | Call for entry IDFA DocLab
The annual submission deadline is coming up for the IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Documentary Storytelling
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12-07-11 | IDFA joins Festival Scope
IDFA's Docs for Sale will be partnering with Festival Scope
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30-06-11 | Mahnaz Mohammadi, an Iranian documentary filmmaker was arrested
Last Sunday, Mahnaz Mohammadi, an Iranian documentary filmmaker was arrested in her house by unidentified security agents.
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28-06-11 | Kick-off Summer School 2011
On Monday 4 July the Summer School 2011, an IDFAcademy program for beginning filmmakers from around the world, will start.
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21-06-11 | Sean Farnel is leaving Hot Docs
Hot Docs' director of programming is leaving North America's largest doc festival after six years.
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09-06-11 | African Filmmakers will pitch documentary projects at the 2nd Durban FilmMart
African Filmmakers will pitch documentary projects at the 2nd Durban FilmMart (South Africa).
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07-06-11 | Jennifer Fox's My Reincarnation breaks records with Kickstarter
Jennifer Fox’s newest film, My Reincarnation, has just raised $150,456 via Kickstarter.
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12-05-11 | A Call from Syrian Filmmakers to Filmmakers Everywhere
Sign the petition of Syrian Filmmakers against the crimes and violence Syria is living today.
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10-05-11 | IDFA congratulates Flying Anne with award at Hot Docs
Flying Anne wins prize for Best Short Documentary at the Hot Docs Film Festival.
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04-05-11 | IDFA director Ally Derks receives Mogul Award at Hot Docs
Founder and director of IDFA Ally Derks is the recipient of this year’s Doc Mogul Award at the Hot Docs documentary festival in Toronto.
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19-04-11 | El Velador by Natalia Almada has been selected for the Director's Fortnight in Cannes.
El Velador by Natalia Almada has been selected for the Director's Fortnight in Cannes. The film was made with script and production support from the Jan Vrijman Fund, POV and Sundance Documentary Fund.
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14-04-11 | Flying Anne won award at Visions du Réel
The film Anne Vliegt (Flying Anne) and People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am received awards at the prestigious Visions du Réel.
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13-04-11 | Call for Entry: The Good Pitch 2011
The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is calling out to European filmmakers working on social and environmental justice film projects to apply.
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06-04-11 | Emmy Award for HIGHRISE and nomination Collapsus
HIGHRISE/Out My Window (IDFA DocLab 2010) won a Digital Emmy Award and Collapsus was nominated in the Digital Program.
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05-04-11 | Doc Next program continues in 2011
IDFA & Doc Next investigate the impact of a DIY generation of talented young documentary-makers.
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05-04-11 | Israeli peace activist Juliano Mer Khamis shot dead in Jenin
Actor, filmdirector and political activist Mer-Khamis (52) was shot five times by masked militants.
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10-03-11 | Why Poverty?
Steps International is commissioning thirty short films as part of the global documentary series Why Poverty
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24-03-11 | Richard Leacock dies at 89
Documentary filmmaker Richard Leacock has died at the age of 89.
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23-03-11 | Tears of Gaza wins the Audience award at TDF
Tears of Gaza wins the Audience Award at TDF in the International Selection.
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23-03-11 | The EDN Award 2011 goes to Dimitri Eipides
Dimitri Eipides, director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, has received the EDN Award 2011.
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22-03-11 | Festival director Ally Derks guest at DocedgeKolkata
Foreign financiers and broadcasters are interested in Indian documentary filmmakers.
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17-03-11 | Docs find new auds on Internet TV
Variety has published a nice interview with festival director Ally Derks and managing director Cees van 't Hullenaar about IDFA TV.
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10-03-11 | Little Voices
Little Voices won the prize for Best Documentary at the Cartagena International Film Festival
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07-03-11 | IDFA DocLab at SXSW
For the third year, IDFA’s new media program DocLab will present a guest program at SXSW.
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28-02-11 | Inside Job Wins the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary
IDFA congratulates Charles Ferguson on winning an Oscar for his film Inside Job.
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10-11-11 | IDFA in MoMA
Nine IDFA films will be screened at MoMA's 2011 Documentaries Fortnight Festival (16 to 28 Feb.)
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07-02-11 | Filmmaker Omar Amiralay passed away
Outspoken Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay passed away.
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07-02-11 | Transcendent man
Transcendent Man made its international premiere at IDFA 2009 and will be launched worldwide.
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31-01-11 | Position among the Stars winner Sundance
Position among the Stars won the World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Documentary Film at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
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18-01-11 | Position Among the Stars at Sundance
Dutch documentary and IDFA award winner, Position Among the Stars has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival 2011.
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IDFA Daily 2011
The IDFA Daily online contains background articles, interviews, film tips and the Kill Your Darlings section.
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