The nineteenth edition of DocsBarcelona Documentary Film Festival will be taking place from Monday, May 23rd to Sunday, May 29th of 2016. This festival is a competition between the best new international documentary films. Among the films, you will see the first announced bellow:
- A Syrian Love Story (2015) Dir: Sean McAllister
- Alcaldessa (2016) Dir: Pau Faus
- Bakur (2015) Dir: Çayan Demirel, Ertuğrul Mavioğlu
- Call Me Marianna (2015) Dir: Karolina Bielawska
- Chechen Family (2015) Dir: Martín Solá
- Freightened – The Real Price of Shipping (2016) Dir: Denis Delestrac
- Inside the Chinese Closet (2015) Dir: Sophia Luvarà
- Sonita (2015) Dir: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
- The Room of Bones (2015) Dir: Marcela Zamora
InterDocsBarcelona
InterDocsBarcelona is the interactive and transmedia documentary section of DocsBarcelona Documentary Film Festival. It’s a professional meeting designed to help understand, disseminate, create, finance and exhibit interactive documentaries. InterDocsBarcelona includes the following activities:
- Conference: Each year, the conference focuses on a specific thematic area. Most of them focus on the international scene, with topics including transmedia creation and storytelling. The first guests announced are: David Dufresne (SRF), Emilie Bessard (ARTE France) and Fernando Irigaray (UNR)
- Interactive Pitch: The interactive pitch is a presentation of interactive projects in front of a selection of financiers who are especially interested in this kind of project, as well as accredited DocsBarcelona professionals.
- Interactive Pitch Workshop: This activity is only for directors and producers with interactive projects which have been selected for the interactive pitch, in order to allow them to work on their projects and improve their pitching and presentation skills.
- InterDocsBarcelona Meeting Point: This is a place specially dedicated to those professionals interested in interactive and transmedia documentary in Barcelona. At this meeting point many activities are organized, including presentations of papers, cast studies, discussions of projects in development, financing strategies and ways to attract audiences.
All sections
A new competitive section has been launched this year. « Latitude DocsBarcelona » includes a selection of the best documentaries made on the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. In this section, the winner will receive a specific award sponsored by Antaviana Films and will also receive €3.000 of completion work (conformation, graphics, color correction and final deliveries) for the director’s next film.
You will also find the basic section: DOC-U, which is devoted to documentary productions from local universities. This is a space where film students from various Catalan schools can present their work. Of course, the best overall film will be awarded with the DOC-U award, which is sponsored by Ovide. Last year, the winner was Itsaso Arizkuren, with « En el Bar ».
Other sections included in this festival will be: Doc&Wine, Doc&Teens, and Master Classes. For more information, please have a look at the official website of DocsBarcelona
If you are future director, if you are passionate by the movies, or if you want to learn more about how to make a movie, the new techniques and get some expert advice, this festival is absolutely meant for you!
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