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Best Wishes and we are looking forward to the 53 rd DOK Leipzig from 18. - 24. Oktobre 2010.For their joint and new international documentary programme Crossing Borders – The Eurasia-Pacific Documentary Training spanning from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region and back again, Documentary Campus and the EDN – European Documentary Network are calling for projects.
Crossing Borders is a three-part training programme where knowledge and networks are being exchanged. The first part of the programme takes place in June 2010 with a project development workshop in Shanghai. The second part will consist of a workshop further developing the participating projects and observing the Final Pitching Session of the Documentary Campus Masterschool in Leipzig in October 2010. Finally, all participants will pitch their documentary projects at GZDOC Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in December 2010.
We are looking for documentary professionals (authors, directors, producers) coming from Australia, China, Europe, Singapore and Korea who have experience in their domestic market but strive to work in the international field and make documentaries for an international audience.This month, DOC ALLIANCE FILMS offers FREE STREAMING of over 60 short films and presents 6 newly acquired documentaries.
FREE STREAM: VISIONS DU REEL PRESENTS HAIKUS
From December 12 to January 3, Doc Alliance Films will offer FREE STREAMING of over 60 SHORT FILMS. To commemorate the 15th anniversary of Visions du Réel, the festival has asked select filmmakers for the gift of images, in the form of cinematic HAIKUS. Each short film in the HAIKU series is comprised of “three shots to contemplate reality and to capture, in the manner of Japanese poems, the unforeseeable, fleeting, and eternity of a moment, to be discovered at the beginning of each projection."
NEW FILMS ON THE PORTAL: THE FINAL PICKS OF 2009
Doc Alliance Films is pleased to acquire SIX DOCS this month, the final selection of this year. The films include two from Peter Mettler – Balifilm is a mystical exploration of an extraordinary culture and Picture of Light ventures to Canada's arctic in search of the Northern Lights. Alexandru Solomon’s Great Communist Robbery attempts to restore the truth about an infamous bank heist in communist Romania, and Three Men and a Fish Pond by Latvian filmmakers, Maris Maskalans and Laila Pakalniņa, is a meditation on the physical and spiritual understanding of the world. The Korea/Bolivia co-production, Daughter of Chorolque by Park Mi-Sun, follows the lives of three female miners against the mesmerizing backdrop of Bolivia, and Alix Didrich’s short film, Portrait of a Wedding Day (detail) examines the transition from a fleeting pose to an immortal image of happiness.
All of the following films will be available to stream or download on www.docalliances.com by the end of the month. Select titles are available now. Please check out RECENTLY ADDED films to watch the newest additions to Doc Alliance Films.
FREE STREAM OF CPH:DOX COMPETITION DOCS
On November 15 & 16, Doc Alliance will offer a FREE STREAM of documentaries in the two competitive sections of CPH:DOX – SHORT:DOX AWARD and DANISH:DOX AWARD.
FREE STREAM 2008 DOC ALLIANCE SELECTION FILMS
From November 23 to 29, Doc Alliance will also present all FIVE FILMS from the 2008 Doc Alliance Selection for FREE STREAMING.
CELEBRATE THE 7TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAJDA SCHOOL
This year the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing celebrates its 7th anniversary. On this occasion – from November 23 to 29 – you can watch the schools’ best films on www.docalliancefilms.com for free.
