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#33 - Feb 2010
Kia ora! The Documentary Edge Festival is about to open in Auckland this Saturday 27th February and tickets are selling fast. Check out the programme and book your tickets today. Tickets are now on sale in Wellington too. Documentary Edge Forum will open on 1st March at AUT, Auckland and we invite you to register for the main documentary industry event of the year.
Here is the latest from the Documentary Edge hub.
The Documentary Edge Team
1. Documentary Edge Festival – Welcome director Jason Ressler
The countdown to the festival continues and on Saturday 27 Feb at 12pm, the 5th Documentary Edge Festival will open in Auckland at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket. The Festival Hub will open just next door to Rialto Cinemas (at the top of the escalators) and you are all welcome to stop by to collect materials, ask questions, or just chill out and read the programme.
Local and international guests will be descending on Auckland in the next few days to attend the Festival and Forum. The first guest, American director Jason Ressler, arrived from Israel, where he completed his film Sid Bernstein Presents.... The World Premiere of the film will be held on Sunday 28 Feb at 2.30pm followed by a Q&A session with Jason.
2. Q&A sessions at Documentary Edge Festival 2010
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet with filmmakers and hear more about the films at Documentary Edge Q&A sessions.
Saturday 27 Feb 2010
| Time | Session details |
|---|---|
| 12:30pm | My Father, My Uncle with German director Christoph Heller |
| 1:35pm | He Wawata Whaea: The Dream of an Elder with director Shirley Horrocks |
| 3:15pm | Marching On with directors Charlie Gates and Justine Heany Dance of the Instant with director Shirley Horrocks |
| 4:40pm | Stolen with Australian director Daniel Fallshaw |
| 5:15pm | Kit and Maynie. Tea, Scones and Nuclear Disarmament with directors Claudia Pond- Eyley and Susi Newborn |
| 6:45pm | The Unnatural History of the Kakapo with Rod Morris |
The Opening Night Film is The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story. The specially priced event includes drink, nibbles and giveaways.
Sunday 28 Feb 2010
| Time | Session details |
|---|---|
| 12:30pm | Five Hours with Raja with director Anna McKessar |
| 12:45pm | Kiri Wai Inner Skin (World Premiere) with director Bruce Giglio and producer Bernard Giglio |
| 2:30pm | Sid Bernstein Presents... (World Premiere) with director Jason Ressler |
| 3:30pm | The Red Race with Simon Ho |
| 5:15pm | New Beijing with Australian director Georgia Wallace-Crabbe |
| 6:45pm | The Club with producer Madeleine Sheahan |
| 8:30pm | When the World Breaks (World Premiere) with director Hans Fjellestad and producer Joe Mundo |
Other Q&A sessions
| Day | Time | Session details |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 1 Mar | 8:45pm | You Are Here with director John Di Stefano |
| Tue 2 Mar | 8:45pm | Journey from Zanskar with director Frederick Marx |
| Sun 7 Mar | 4:40pm | Tibet in Song with Thuten Kesang |
| Sun 14 Mar | 7:00pm | The Desert of Forbidden Art with director Amanda Pope |
See the Documentary Edge website for a complete list of filmmaker Q&A sessions. Tickets can be booked online.
3. Quad Bar - 2 for 1 drink offer
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The Quadrant Hotel Auckland - bronze sponsor of the Documentary Edge Festival - would like to introduce you to Quad Bar, the funkiest bar in town! Open to the public ’til late, Quad Bar is the perfect location for a catch up with friends or an important date. Download and print the Quad Bar voucher then stop at Quad Bar on your way to Rialto - present it to the barman, and your second drink is on us! Offer valid until 31 Mar 2010. Guest can redeem one voucher per visit. |
4. Documentary Edge Forum – Register today
If you are serious about documentary filmmaking, you can’t afford to miss Documentary Edge Forum.
You can still register for the upcoming Documentary Edge Forum to be held at AUT, Auckland March 1-3. Well-known international and local speakers and industry decision-makers join us to discuss and debate important issues as well as learn from each other.
Sessions
- The future of documentary
- What is NZ content?
- What is a cinematic documentary?
- Crossing over-360 degree content creation and delivery
- To DIY or not to DIY?
- Hybrid forms: New forms in documentary film
- Made for TV
- Recreating reality – docu-dramas and re-creations
- Camcorder revolution-video activists, politically committed documentaries and international public
Workshops
- Pitching Masterclass/ Pitching your way to success
- Proposal Writing
- China Day; documentary filmmaking in China and co-productions
- Campaigns & communities: A practical guide to building a community around your documentary
- Networking and funding sessions
- Meet the Industry
- Doc Pitch
- Date a Doco
Find out more…
5. Documentary Edge Forum - New session
Marc and his Amazing Tehnicolour Dreamcoat: Breaking the Colour Bar (working title)
Marc Boothe leads a crucial discussion on how to get the industry more diversified; encourage ethnic storytellers to participate; the importance of diversity in storytelling; and how to ensure that non-ethnic storytellers tell ethnic storylines or direct ethnic characters truthfully.
How can we ensure that storytellers, storywriters and directors are culturally true and sensitive in their writing and directing? With the numbers of other ethnic minorities growing exponentially, especially the Asian population, what must be done to capture their stories and involve them in decision-making processes?
6. DOC Pitch - Finalists
Congratulations to the projects selected to DOC Pitch 2010. The finalists will present their projects on Wednesday, 3 March at Documentary Edge Forum.
- 4:20, Arik Reiss
- Army With No Guns, William Watson
- Asexuality: The Making Of A Movement, Josh Davidow
- Electronic Wasteland, Esmeralda Kasmara
- Eye Of The Land Promo, Jim Marbrook
- Helen Clark P.M., Claudia Pond Eyley
- Into The Slums, Paula Jone
- Ringcon, Prue Langbein
- Whale Like Me, Wright Malcolm
- Whare Maori, Karen Mackenzie
7. Documentary Edge Awards Night - Celebrating the best in NZ and international documentaries
Documentary Edge Awards night will be held March 3rd at Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Silver Rd, Epsom.
Limited tickets are available at $35 per head. Contact Eventimento NZ Ltd on (09) 846 1861 or 027 222 5516. Email: eventimento@xtra.co.nz.
8. Breaking News - New mentors for Lab
The Documentary New Zealand Trust is pleased to announce the addition of the following mentors to DOC Lab 2010.
Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath
Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath has just arrived in Auckland to take up a teaching position as a Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Unit at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. For several years he has been teaching courses on computer games, tangible interaction, and new media at different universities.
In his dissertation thesis he thought about play as a perspective for the everyday interaction with the computer. The topics of his interest include game theory, game design, art and play, and mixed reality environments. More info at www.dace.de.
Frederick Marx
Emmy Award and Academy Award nominated Frederick Marx is the director of Journey to Zanskar that will have its international premiere at the Documentary Edge Festival. He co-produced/co-edited/co-wrote Hoop Dreams, voted No. 1 Documentary of all time by the International Documentary Association. Recent works include the feature film The Unspoken, documentary mini-series Boys to Men? and the sequel New American Heroes.
He brings fresh formal ideas, a unique sense of humour, a passion for multiculuralism and an urgent empathy for the sufferings of the disadvantaged to every subject he tackles. Marx was named the 1994 Chicago Tribune Artist, a 1995 Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of a Robert F. Kennedy Special Achievement Award. His mission statement is "Bearing witness, creating change".
9. Calls for documentary submissions
- Wairoa Maori Film Festival Entries now open from Maori and indigenous film makers for the Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2010. Deadline: 28 Feb 2010.
- Cinestrat- International Documentary Film Festival, Finestrat, Spain. Deadline: 5 Mar 2010.
- Silverdocs –AFI, Silver Spring, United States. Deadline: 12 Mar 2010.
- Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France. Deadline: 16 Mar 2010.
- International Documentary Film Festival of Marseilles- FIDMarseille, Marseille, France. Deadline: 19 Mar 2010.
- Encounters Documentary Festival, Vlaeburg, South Africa. Deadline: 31 Mar 2010.
- Sole Luna, International Documentary Film Festival on Mediterranean and Islamic Cultures, Palermo, Italy, 18-25 July 2010. Deadline: 15 Apr 2010.
- The International Documentary Challenge returns to the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto. This year's challenge takes place Mar 4-8, 2010 with the Hot Docs premiere of the Finalists in early May. Registration is now open.
- BBC’s My World - a documentary competition open to anyone in the world to enter and they are looking for original, short docs (max 2 min.) with the brief "My World". The project aims to find original stories from each continent, with compelling personal narratives. The aim is to be able to create a vivid and compelling picture of life in the world today. In total 50 films will be broadcast internationally by the BBC.
- DOCSDF 2010 International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City, Deadline: 30 Apr 2010.
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