IDFA Podcast

This episode features the recording of the IDFA 2018 Industry Session: Data driven audience engagement. Speakers are Sarah Mosses from Together Film and Sonja Henrici of the Scottish Documentary Institute. The session was recorded on November 20, 2018.

This episode features the recording of the IDFA 2018 Industry Talk: The Act of… Releasing: How to Bring Documentaries to Theatres Successfully. Is there an ‘X factor’ that makes a documentary suitable for theatrical distribution? And what are the recipes to get audiences in the screening room? This Talk was co-hosted by Europa Distribution.

The guests are: Huub Roelvink (Cherry Pickers), Kateřina Dvořáková (Aerofilms), Greta Akcijonaite, (Greta Garbo Films), Cecilie Bolvinkel (EDN/Moving Docs), Dan Braun (Submarine Entertainment). The session is moderated by Mathias Noschis (Alpha Panda).

This episode features the DocTalk with among others director Steve James that took place after the full-day screening of the documentary series America to Me. It was recorded on November 18, 2018 and hosted by Sean Farnel.

Industry Talk: Solidarity with Filmmakers at Risk

This episode features the recording of the IDFA 2018 Industry Talk: Solidarity with Filmmakers at Risk

With civil society shrinking in many parts of the world, documentary filmmakers are increasingly struggling to make their voices heard, leading to their arrest, imprisonment and sometimes even murder. IDFA invited filmmakers and other stakeholders to share their experiences, and to try to outline a possible coordinated strategy for action, a strategy that effectively serves filmmakers at risk.

Guests - among others - are: Maxim Tuula (Marx Film), Tuki Jencquel (Oninokia Filmproduktion), Steven Markovitz (Big World Cinema), Andrea Kuhn (Human Rights Film Network), Cara Mertes (JustFilms, Ford Foundation), Claire Aguilar (International Documentary Association), Jess Search (Doc Society), Julie Trebault (Artists at Risk Connection, PEN America), Rasmus Steen (International Media Support), and Rebecca Lichtenfeld (Bertha Foundation). This session was moderated by Boris Dittrich - human rights activist, former politician and writer - and was recorded on November 18, 2018

This episode features a recording of the IDFA 2018 Doc Talk with director Avi Mograbi about his semi-documentary Happy Birthday, Mr Mograbi. In this 1998 film, screened as part of IDFA 2018 focus program “Me”, Mograbi connects the very personal with the geopolitical through an unforgettable tint of black humor. This Doc Talk was recorded on November 16, 2018

This Talk looks to the growing need for fair co-producing practices. How can we come to a just practice of co-producing that respects aesthetics, cultures, and economies across borders?

This was discussed by guests: Cecilia Lidin (Danish Film Institute), Diana El Jeiroudi (Dox Box), Estelle Robin-You (Les Films du Balibari), Gema Juárez Allen (Gema Films) and Isabel Arrate Fernandez (IDFA Bertha Fund). The session is moderated by Mikael Opstrup of the EDN and was recorded on November 17, 2018.

Welcome to the podcast of IDFA 2018. 

In this podcast we’re presenting a selection of recordings from this year’s industry sessions and doc talks. Please check out recordings of other talks and events of IDFA at idfa.nl and subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date.

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Director Raed Andoni enlists Palestinian former prisoners to first reconstruct the infamous Israeli prison that once held them, and then re-enact their own suppressed memories. After the screening, filmmaker Eyal Sivan interviews director Raed Andoni about his award-winning, poignant and confrontational film. (Recorded November 19, 2017 at De Kleine Komedie.)

In the late 1980s, Depeche Mode invited D.A. Pennebaker and his wife Chris Hegedus to make a film about the band, using Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back as an example. Like that film, Depeche Mode: 101 is largely in the Direct Cinema style that characterizes Pennebaker’s work, and it’s much more than a concert recording. After the screening, Eric Hynes talks with the legendary documentary duo about the film and shooting music documentaries in general. (Recorded November 19, 2017 at EYE Cinema.)

Wolfgang Thaler only filmed 30 days for the three-part Whores’ Glory by Michael Glawogger. He captured the lives of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico, and not without putting his own life in danger. Eric Hynes talks with Thaler, Ulrich Seidl’s go-to cameraman, about his cinematic choices and his experiences during the shoot. They also discuss his long-lasting collaboration with Glawogger, who died in 2014 and with whom he also filmed Megacities and Workingman’s Death. (Recorded November 18, 2017 at EYE CInema.)