Emerging Producers Present Their Documentaries at Ji.hlava Film Festival
The Emerging Producers section at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival has a growing reputation for its ability to spot the producing talent of the future. Producers to have passed through its...
View Article‘Caught in the Net’ Directors on How They Trapped Sexual Predators
“We want you to act as 12-year-olds.” This was the bizarre, admittedly creepy direction Vit Klusak gave to a gaggle of 19-year-old actresses who turned up for a casting call on his newest docu project,...
View ArticleVirtual Reality Grows in Sophistication but Fees Remain a Challenge,...
The virtual reality distribution market is like a “jungle” with wildly different fees being asked for projects, says Andrea Slováková, programmer of the VR section at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary...
View Article‘The Building’ Filmmakers Ask Questions With Film About Soviet-Era ‘Palace’
A characteristic of many documentaries at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival, says festival director Marek Hovorka, is that they don’t necessarily provide answers but provoke questions. That’s...
View ArticleIrony and Sense of Dramaturgy Distinguish Czech Documentaries at Ji.hlava
The 21 films in the Czech Joy section at the Ji.hlava docu fest represent a remarkably wide range of stylistic approaches, several representing international collaboration and taking on weighty...
View ArticlePrison-Set Documentary ‘Fonja’ Wins Main Award at Ji.hlava Film Festival
Stories of transcendence in the face of adversity dominated the Ji.hlava docu fest in the Czech Republic Monday, with a precedent-setting award for best film shared among 10 imprisoned juveniles in...
View ArticleThe Esthetic and the Political Are Inescapably Intertwined, Says Documaker...
A handful of docus from the Central and Eastern European region screening at the Ji.hlava fest have impressed the jury for this key section for their embrace of unconventional structure and political...
View Article‘Deathless Woman’s’ Roz Mortimer on Documenting Far Right Violence Then and Now
In Roz Mortimer’s “The Deathless Woman,” a main competition entry at the 23rd Ji.hlava docu fest, a British woman becomes increasingly obsessed with answering the call of a Roma Holocaust victim whose...
View ArticleJi.hlava Winner Lina Zacher on How She Taught 10 Young Prisoners to Make a Movie
Crowned the best world documentary at this year’s Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival, “Fonja’s” journey to the screen is an extraordinary story of perseverance and motivation in the most...
View ArticleAre Eastern European Films Under-Represented at Western European Film Festivals?
Are Eastern European films under-represented at Western European film festivals? Concern that this might be the case prompted Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival to carry out research this year to...
View ArticleRoberto Minervini on Anger, Aggression, Fear in American South
Roberto Minervini, an Italian-born Texas-based documentarian, former punk band singer and IT technician, is known for spending months or years building connections and trust within communities as he...
View ArticleCoco Fusco on Angela Davis, Racial Representation, Citizen Surveillance
The thoughtfully curated doc tribute section Black Cinema Matters has generated wide interest at the Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival – and not just among Czechs. Screening 13 films covering...
View ArticleCatarina Vasconcelos on Fictionalized Documentary ‘The Metamorphosis of Birds’
The fictionalized documentary “The Metamorphosis of Birds,” the debut feature from Portuguese director Catarina Vasconcelos, was the closing film of the Berlinale’s new Encounters sidebar. This week it...
View ArticleLas Tesis, Collective Behind Anti-Rape Protest Song, on Campaign Against...
The viral anthem that accompanied Harvey Weinstein’s trial, “Un Violador en Tu Camino” (A Rapist in Your Way) was heard again at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday during an online...
View ArticleSouth Korean Documentaries Finally Get Their Due at Ji.hlava
Following its successful retrospective dedicated to Taiwanese documentary cinema in 2017, Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival decided to focus on South Korea this time, securing “99.9% of the...
View Article‘White on White’ Helmer Viera Cakanyova is Ready to Explore the ‘Brave New...
Slovak director Viera Čákanyová, about to present her documentary “White on White” at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival – which sees her conversing with A.I. during her stay at a Polish...
View ArticleViera Cakanyova’s ‘White on White’ Wins Ji.hlava Film Festival
Fearless truth-seeking and empathy won the day at the 24th Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival Saturday, with Viera Cakanyova’s Arctic-shot video diary “White on White” taking the Opus Bonum main...
View ArticleOscar-Nominee Hubert Sauper Takes a Swipe at Teddy Roosevelt, Teases Upcoming...
Joining Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival‘s online audience on Friday from his hotel room in Spain, Hubert Sauper – behind Oscar-nominated “Darwin’s Nightmare” – discussed his career and latest...
View ArticleJi.hlava Film Festival Nurtures Next Generation of Documentary Talent
It’s always been about discovering the next generation of documentary filmmakers and getting them the tools and connections they’ll need at the 24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival. So...
View Article‘U.S. Is a Culture Rooted in Violence,’‘Bulletproof’ Director Todd Chandler Says
“I don’t think that the Second Amendment is ever going to get changed,” said U.S. documentary filmmaker Todd Chandler at Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival during an online Q&A on Sunday,...
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