According to indieWIRE the audience at Hot Docs jumped 42% from 2008 to 2009 and had record breaking numbers this year (122,000). This is fantastic news for a festival with such a superb line-up of documentaries. The top 10 audience votes reflect just a tiny percent (and range) of the films screened: 1. The Cove (D: Louie Psihoyos; USA) 2. 65_RedRoses (D: Philip Lyall, Nimisha Mukerji; Canada) 3. Inside Hana’s Suitcase (D: Larry Weinstein; Canada, Czech Republic) 4. Best Worst…
The call for entries is now open for the Good Pitch at Hot Docs. The Good Pitch gives filmmakers a unique opportunity to pitch social-issue documentary projects and associated campaign strategies to an audience of NGOs, foundations, campaigners, advertising agencies, brands and media. The Good Pitch at Hot Docs welcomes submissions from filmmakers of any nationality working on documentary projects with a human rights focus. There is no entry fee to apply. Deadline: 20 Feb 2009. Apply at www.britdoc.org/goodpitch. The…
The Intelligent Factual Televisual Festival starts tomorrow at The Arts Club in London – 2 days of televisual education with panels allowing you to hear from lots of different commissioning editors. Topics include Alternative Sources of Funding and Where Next for Factual and feature loads of big names in British telly like Peter Bazalgette, Roger Graef, and Stephen Lambert – plus some great doc filmmakers including Kim Longinotto, Brian Woods and Leo Regan. I’m at Silverdocs till Thursday so shall…
Silverdocs have announced their competition line-up. And here it is: US FEATURE COMPETITION BULLETPROOF SALESMAN / USA, 2008, 70 minutes (Director: Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein)—For civilians, diplomats, and soldiers, roadside bombs in war-torn areas are a constant scourge. For Fidelis Cloer, they are a check in the mail. Cloer sells armored vehicles to the highest bidder, and his business acumen provides a disturbingly simple and unsentimental context in which to understand international conflict. CHEVOLUTION / USA, 2008, 90 minutes…
