African heroes, the plunder of the Amazon, death-defying mountain climbers and 19th-century spiritualists were just some of the subjects filmmakers are tackling in new projects pitched on Thursday at San Sebastian’s Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum.
The forum offers the opportunity to present new docs to commissioning editors, potential funders and industry experts. Fourteen projects were selected to participate in the event, held online this year, with the first seven presented Thursday and the another seven to be presented on Friday.
Mehdi Bekkar, senior producer at Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, didn’t wait long before announcing a deal during the session for one of the participating projects, Alex Sardà’s “The Settlement.”
The film is set in northern Jordan, where a group of Spanish archaeologists are working to unearth one of the world’s oldest cities, which dates back 11,000 years, while focusing on a local worker, a fugitive from...
The forum offers the opportunity to present new docs to commissioning editors, potential funders and industry experts. Fourteen projects were selected to participate in the event, held online this year, with the first seven presented Thursday and the another seven to be presented on Friday.
Mehdi Bekkar, senior producer at Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, didn’t wait long before announcing a deal during the session for one of the participating projects, Alex Sardà’s “The Settlement.”
The film is set in northern Jordan, where a group of Spanish archaeologists are working to unearth one of the world’s oldest cities, which dates back 11,000 years, while focusing on a local worker, a fugitive from...
- 9/25/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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