Short Film News (SFN) - The 8th DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival has organized a retrospective of the renowned British documentary film makers Nick Broomfield's work.
The program includes nine Broomfield's documentaries and he along with Richard
Leacock will be attending Festival as honored guests.
Short Film News (SFN) - Danish documentary producer Mikael Opstrup was elected as the new chairman of the European Documentary Network (EDN), while at the same time a new executive committee was elected.
Opstrup has been a member of the committee for three years, where he among other things has contributed to outlining a survey on the status of the European documentary industry. He is producer at Final Cut Productions in Copenhagen.
Short Film News (SFN) -Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country, a documentary by Anders Ostergaad and a co-production of Denmark, Sweden, England, and Norway, was announced as the most successful documentary in IDFA this year.
Short Film News (SFN) -Petr Lom, a famous documentaries from Czech Republic, with the financial sponsorship of Sundance Organization whose manager id Robert Redford, is making a documentary on Iranians letters to their president.
Short Film News (SFN) - The 21st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam - IDFA 2008 announced nominations in various competition programs.
The winners will be announced on Saturday evening at the closing ceremony of the 21st IDFA in Pakhuis de Zwijger, when the Dioraphte Audience Award will also be announced, as will the winner of the IDFA Documentary Workshop.
Short Film News (SFN) - Winners for the International Documentary Association’s 2008 IDA Documentary Awards competition were announced today in several major categories, including limited series, continuing series, music, and student awards
