When a classic film industry meets at a market, what do they debate. One issue is maybe paramount these days: Distribution. The distribution of classic documentaries was at the heart of discussions at the Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Film Market (Mifc) in Lyon, France on Oct. 18.
Industry members ran through the challenges they face in bringing not just doc, but heritage doc, to the audience – a “niche within a niche,” according to Gérald Duchaussoy, who oversees programming and coordination for the Mifc.
For Catherine Bizern, managing and artistic director of doc fest Cinéma du Réel(CdR), heritage documentaries have their place in a booming classic film market.
“The key to getting classic docs back into theaters lies in restoration,” she says. “Instead of organizing retrospectives of forgotten movies that would be shown in poor-quality copies only once at our festival, it’s more interesting to support film restoration...
Industry members ran through the challenges they face in bringing not just doc, but heritage doc, to the audience – a “niche within a niche,” according to Gérald Duchaussoy, who oversees programming and coordination for the Mifc.
For Catherine Bizern, managing and artistic director of doc fest Cinéma du Réel(CdR), heritage documentaries have their place in a booming classic film market.
“The key to getting classic docs back into theaters lies in restoration,” she says. “Instead of organizing retrospectives of forgotten movies that would be shown in poor-quality copies only once at our festival, it’s more interesting to support film restoration...
- 10/21/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Running 12 to 21 March, the 43rd edition of the festival will take online form, offering up an abundant programme including an international competition screening 21 titles. Having been forced to improvise and adapt last year on account of the eruption of the health crisis, the Parisian team behind the Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Film Festival, steered by Catherine Bizern, has planned meticulously for this year’s 43rd edition, which has been renamed CanalRéel and will be accessible live, online, from 12 to 21 March via the festival’s website. The event is due to be pre-opened by an invitations-only Special Screening of the film which triumphed within the Berlinale’s Encounters competition: We by Alice Diop (which will also be available to the public during the festival’s pre-closure). Stealing focus on the international competition agenda are 21 films,...
We take a look at the 14 projects selected for the 30th instalment of the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival’s Development Grant. Tomorrow, Tuesday 20 October, will mark the beginning of the Cinemed Meetings: three days of professional meetings organised within the 42nd Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (read our news and interview with Christophe Leparc). Standing out on the agenda is the 30th instalment of the Development Grant, which has supported 101 feature film projects since 1991. This year, the 14 selected fiction projects hail from 14 Mediterranean countries and will be presented by their directors and producers to a jury composed of Georges Goldenstern (director of Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation), Marianne Dumoulin (Jba Production), Michel Zana (Sophie Dulac Distribution) and Catherine Bizern (Céci Moulin d’Andé). Two Development Grants will be handed out at the event (funded by the Cnc and the Occitanie region and further consisting of technical expertise from...
- 10/19/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Hungary’s “Kix” and Czech Republic’s “Frem” won the Docu Talent Awards, chosen from a field of 10 documentary features from Central and Eastern Europe, at the Sarajevo Film Festival on Sunday.
“Kix,” directed by David Mikulan and Balint Revesz, is the story of Sanyi, a troubled youth, as he grows from eight to 18, morphing from young mischief-maker to public enemy.
Viera Cakanyova’s “Frem,” a visual essay about the rise of artificial intelligence and the growing redundancy of human thought, is described as “an audiovisual requiem for homo sapiens.”
The jury was composed of Cinema du Reel director Catherine Bizern, Israeli producer Noemi Schory, Sundance Film Festival programmer Harry Vaugh, Natalia Arshavskaya from Current Time TV, and Jarmila Outratova, representing the organizer of the section, Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
In a statement the jury said: “We were very impressed by this eclectic lineup of projects and decided...
“Kix,” directed by David Mikulan and Balint Revesz, is the story of Sanyi, a troubled youth, as he grows from eight to 18, morphing from young mischief-maker to public enemy.
Viera Cakanyova’s “Frem,” a visual essay about the rise of artificial intelligence and the growing redundancy of human thought, is described as “an audiovisual requiem for homo sapiens.”
The jury was composed of Cinema du Reel director Catherine Bizern, Israeli producer Noemi Schory, Sundance Film Festival programmer Harry Vaugh, Natalia Arshavskaya from Current Time TV, and Jarmila Outratova, representing the organizer of the section, Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
In a statement the jury said: “We were very impressed by this eclectic lineup of projects and decided...
- 8/19/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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