The programme is organised by Czech documentary festival Ji.hlava Idff.
Elevation by Ukrainian director Max Rudenko has won the Docu Talent Award for most promising documentary project from Central and Eastern Europe, awarded during Saraejvo’s Cinelink Industry Days.
The winner of the $5,000 prize was selected from the nine feature documentaries in the 2020 Docu Talents From The East programme, organised by Czech documentary festival Ji.hlava Idff.
The projects hailed from Croatia, Czech Republic, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine, and are planned for theatrical release in the next 12 months.
Elevation is a Ukrainian-Romanian-Polish coproduction that tells the...
Elevation by Ukrainian director Max Rudenko has won the Docu Talent Award for most promising documentary project from Central and Eastern Europe, awarded during Saraejvo’s Cinelink Industry Days.
The winner of the $5,000 prize was selected from the nine feature documentaries in the 2020 Docu Talents From The East programme, organised by Czech documentary festival Ji.hlava Idff.
The projects hailed from Croatia, Czech Republic, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine, and are planned for theatrical release in the next 12 months.
Elevation is a Ukrainian-Romanian-Polish coproduction that tells the...
- 8/21/2020
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
We give an overview of the five Ukrainian documentaries at the rough-cut or post-production stage that won awards after being presented to industry professionals at Docudays. We profile the five winners of Docudays UA's Ukrainian Doc Preview, which presented six Ukrainian documentaries at the rough-cut or post-production stage to festival selectors, and representatives from international sales companies, funds and broadcasters. The jury consisted of Olga Birzul, head of film programmes at the Ukrainian Institute; Zdeněk Blaha, programme director at the Prague-based Institute of Documentary Film; Natalia Arshavskaya, commissioning editor at Current Time TV; and Patrizia Mancini, international development executive at Sunny Side of the Doc. [img 123138] Salt from Bonneville by Simon Mozgovy Ukrainian Institute Award Salt from Bonneville - Simon Mozgovy (Ukraine/Poland/Georgia)Previously pitched at Visions du Réel, Beldocs, Odesa and Cinedoc Tbilisi, the director's first feature-length documentary, billed as an "adventure drama", follows two Ukrainian men who set out.
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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