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Kim Longinotto

Kim Longinotto (born 1952) is a British documentary filmmaker, well known for making films that highlight the plight of female victims of oppression or discrimination. Longinotto studied camera and directing at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, England, where she now tutors occasionally.

Longinotto was born to an Italian father and a Welsh mother; her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt. At the age of 10 she was sent to a draconian all-girls boarding school, where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after she became lost during a school trip. After a period of homelessness, Longinotto went on to Essex University to study English and European literature and later followed friend and future filmmaker, Nick Broomfield to the National Film and Television School. While studying, she made a documentary about her boarding school that was shown at the London Film Festival, since when she has continued to be a prolific documentary filmmaker.

Longinotto is an observational filmmaker. Observational cinema, also known as direct cinema, free cinema or cinema verite, usually excludes certain documentary techniques such as advanced planning, scripting, staging, narration, lighting, re-enactment and interviewing. Longinotto’s unobtrusiveness, which is an important part of observational documentary, gives the women on camera a certain voice and presence that may not have emerged with another documentary genre. She has received a number of awards for her films over the years, including a BAFTA for her documentary
Pink Saris and Best Director Award at Sundance for Dreamcatcher.

Source: Women Make Movies

 

Caspar Sonnen

Caspar Sonnen is Head of New Media at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and curator of the festival’s IDFA DocLab, a conference, exhibition and industry program for new forms of documentary and interactive storytelling. In 2007, Sonnen founded IDFA DocLab to create a platform for interactive and multimedia documentary storytelling that expands the genre beyond traditional cinema.
Besides his work at IDFA, he is co-founder of the Open Air Film Festival Amsterdam and advisory board member of SXSW Film, IFP New Media Centre in New York and MIT Open DocLab. In 2015, he received the annual EDN Award for Outstanding Contribution to European Documentary Culture.

Cecilie Bolvinkel

Cecilie Bolvinkel, EDN Network and Partnerships Manager

 

Cecilie holds a Masters Degree in Film Studies from the University of Copenhagen with additional studies in Arts and Culture, and before joining EDN she worked as a festival assistant for shorts & documentaries at the Danish Film Institute. At EDN Cecilie is responsible for keeping track of all training and workshop activities that EDN is organising or involved in, she manages fund applications and reports, is Editor in Chief of the EDN Financing Guide and is involved in either the management or running of a number of workshops and market events. Among others she organises the Nordic Co-production Workshop Twelve for the Future and the Asian - European training programme Crossing Borders. Furthermore Cecilie is EDN's coordinator of the screening network Moving Docs and she is in charge of EDN Member of the Month for edn.dk.

 

Cathy de Haan

Cathy de Haan is of German-Dutch-English-Polish Origin. As an eclectic artist, she works with film, music, text and performative arts and produces films as well as cultural events. As curator and film activist she initiates around the world programs - the focus on interdisciplinary art projects and independent film making. She advises film festivals and cultural institutions and is an acclaimed lecturer for creative writing, dramaturgy and film aesthetics.

Peter Albrechtsen

Peter Albrechtsen is a sound designer and music supervisor based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from The Danish Film School in 2001 and has since then worked on more than a 100 productions and done both feature films and documentaries, both domestically and internationally.

 Among Peter Albrechtsen’s recent credits are the multi award-winning The Queen of Versailles and festival favorites Putin's Kiss, Canned Dreams and The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song. At CPH:DOX 2012, Peter was awarded the 'Sonic Dox Award' for the sound design of White Black Boy. At the same time, Peter has been working on a long list of fiction films, one of the latest being last year’s Sundance winner Teddy Bear and previous work include sound effects editing on both The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Lars von Trier's Antichrist (2009). Peter is a member of the US association of sound designers, MPSE.

 

Music

Σάββατο | Saturday 01.08.2015 22:30

Ο Δημήτηρης Ζαχαρίου συναντά τον Άνθρωπο με την Κινηματογραφική Μηχανή: Μια οπτικοαουστική παράσταση...
Μια μοναδική παράσταση όπου ο Δημήτρης Ζαχαρίου με τον Ανδρέα Ροδοσθένους στο μπάσο και τον Ανδρέα Στεφάνου στα κρουστά θα παρουσιάσουν νέα μουσικά ακούσματα για την θρυλική ταινία του Dziga Vertov. Η ταινία έχει ψηφιστεί πρόσφατα από 300 κριτικούς και σκηνοθέτες ως το καλύτερο ντοκιμαντέρ όλων των εποχών. Την ψηφοφορία διοργάνωσε το έγκριτο περιοδικό Sight & Sound του British Film Institute. Ο Άνθρωπος με την Κινηματογραφική Μηχανή καταγράφει την καθημερινή ζωή στις μεγαλουπόλεις της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης κατά τη δεκαετία του ’20.

Dimitris Zachariou Zachariou meets The Man with a Movie Camera: An Audiovisual Perfomance...
Α unique performance in which Demetris Zachariou together with Andrea Rodosthenous at the bass and Andrea Stefanou at percussions will perform live for Dziga's Vertov legendary film. The Man with a Movie Camera was recently voted as the greatest documentary of all time in a poll of some 300 film-makers and critics. The poll was organized by the Sight and Sound magazine, a British Film Institute publication. The film is a homage to everyday live in Soviet Union during the 20s.

 
Σάββατο | Saturday 08.08.2015 22:30

Πάρτυ Λήξης | Closing Party

The Sound of Thieves

@ έξω από το Κέντρο Ευαγόρα Λανίτη | outside Evagoras Lanitis Center

 
Venue Djs

Mahontayo Sounds: 1.8, Saturday & 2.8, Sunday
Yiorgos Daskalos: 3.8, Monday & 4.8, Tuesday
Marianna: 5.8, Wednesday
Miss K: 6.8, Thursday
Kineza - 7.8, Friday
Dr Kris - 8.8, Saturday

Docs Talk

Docs talk

10th Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival

 Schedule Docs Talk 2015

 

2, 5, 7 & 8 AUGUST 2015

 

Docs Talk is a parallel event that is organized within the framework of the “Lemesos International Documentary Festival” (1-8 August 2015), and is addressed to professional directors / producers and to anyone who is interested in learning more about the various aspects of documentary production.

DocsTalk is open for all and it will take place at Evagoras Lanitis Center (Queen Eleanor Suite), behind the medieval castle in Lemesos.

DocsTalk is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and is organized in collaboration with the Directors Guild of Cyprus.


English will be the working language of the various talks

 

 Docs Talk 2015 - Schedule

 

Κυριακή / Sunday 02.08.2015  11:00 – 13:00

Masterclass: Sound Design in Documentaries

Peter Albrechtsen, sound designer and music supervisor based in Copenhagen, Denmark, will talk about the art and science of sound design in documentary. What are the essential things for a great sounding documentary? How do you build an environment that realistically, emotionally and even subconsciously interacts with documentary visuals? How far can a sound designer go in altering a soundscape? These and others will be some of the questions that Peter will try to answer during this 2 hour presentation. By using examples from the numerous award winning documentaries on which he worked, he will explore the multifaceted role of sound design in the documentary medium.

 

Τετάρτη / Wednesday 05.08.2015 10:00 – 13:00

Event: "Three D"

"Three D" aims to further promote the technique of 3D Printing to the Cyprus public. It is officially part of the "Fab 11 Conference and Symposium, Boston" (Distributed Events) and is hosted by the ''Lemesos International Documentary Festival''. It includes a special screening of the documentary Print the Legend (11:00) as well as the in situ operation of 3D printers (from 10:00), which will be making shot glasses to go with the festival mood!
"Three D" is open for all. Both the screening of the film as well as the exhibition of 3D Printers in operation will take place at the Evagoras Lanitis Center on Wednesday 5th August. If you are a 3d printing enthusiast and you are interested in participating with your own printer, please contact us on 99491246.

Organizers:
HUB Design and Engineering Platform (https://www.facebook.com/HubDesignPlatform)
(http://www.hub.com.cy/)

Sponsor:
Department of Fine and Applied Arts
School of Fine and Applied Arts
Cyprus University of Technology (www.cut.ac.cy)

Supporters:
[ARC] Department of Architecture
University of Nicosia (www.arc.unic.ac.cy)
www.tellalis.com

 

Παρασκευή / Friday 07.08.2015

11:00 – 13:00

Presentation: In Love with Music

Music and films have a long lasting love affair. In this session film curator and transmedia artist Cathy de Haan will provide an overview of various film formats which feature music as their topic and introduce you to their background. An encounter with documentaries, fiction films and hybrid forms which oscillate between the genres. We will discuss content, structure and reception of these examples and let us get inspired for our own projects.

In cooperation with Piranha Arts/WOMEX.


15:00 – 16:00

Παρουσιάση από το Σημείο Επαφής για το πρόγραμμα Δημιουργική Ευρώπη για τις δυνατότητες χρηματοδότησης οργανισμών του πολιτιστικού και οπτικοακουστικού τομέα.
Presentation from the National Contact Point of the Creative Europe Programme for the various possibilities for support within the cultural, creative and audiovisual sectors.

16:00 – 18:00

EDN Session – Tools and Possibilities in Navigating the International Documentary Market

EDN - the European Documentary Network is an international membership organisation for documentary professionals, which provides information about possibilities for funding, financing, development, co-production, distribution and collaboration across borders. This is done via individual consultancy to members on documentary projects, activities like workshops, seminars and conferences as well as through the two indispensable resource publications: The EDN Financing Guide & The EDN Co-production Guide.

In this session EDN Network and Partnerships Manager Cecilie Bolvinkel will provide an overview of the work and services provided by EDN including useful examples and cases from workshops, pitching sessions, and the two EDN Guides.

 

Σάββατο / Saturday 08.08.2015

11:00 – 13:00

Presentation: Latest Trends in Interactive Documentary and Virtual Reality Storytelling

The internet is nothing new. The world wide web is over 25 years old and filmmakers, journalists and digital artists have been successfully creating web documentaries, transmedia projects and other new forms of non-fiction storytelling for over a decade. But, as the web is maturing (and losing its innocence), new breakthroughs in virtual reality, science and technology are rapidly redefining the art of digital documentary and interactive non-fiction storytelling.

Caspar Sonnen is Head of New Media at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and founder of the festival's IDFA DocLab, a pioneering platform for digital and interactive non-fiction, multimedia journalism and virtual reality. During his session at the festival, he will present an overview of the latest trends in digital storytelling and showcase some of his favorite new and upcoming projects. Bring your internet-connected device and let's play with reality.

 16:00 – 18:00

Kim Longinotto Masterclass

One of the foremost documentary filmmakers working today, Kim Longinotto is renowned internationally for creating extraordinary human portraits and tackling controversial topics with sensitivity and compassion.
She has won numerous awards for her work, including a Peabody Award and the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Prix Art et Essai for Sisters in Law, a Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA) for Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, a BAFTA Award for Divorce Iranian Style, World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for Rough Aunties. For her latest documentary Dreamcatcher, which will be screened at the Festival, she has won the Directing Award – World Cinema Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
In this Masterclass, Kim Longinotto will present her work, show visual material of selected film titles and discuss it with the audience.

''In this session I'll bring clips from a variety of films. Hopefully the audience will get involved and I'll be able to show clips that respond to their questions or comments. I have excerpts from films set in the UK, Iran, Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, USA, Japan, Egypt and India (Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.) I hope we'll have an interesting time." – Kim Longinotto