Nick Cunningham

6 days ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

In her emotional pitch, delivered via video due to illness back home in Romania, Ana Vîjdea explained her new and  very personal project Nava Mama, for which returns to the village where she grew up in order to break the cycle of violence that she experienced throughout her childhood. “I had left the village because of the violence in my family and in the homes of mostly everyone I knew. It was a violence that seemed so pervasive that my grandmother used to cry herself to sleep.

6 days ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

German production and sales maestro Heino Deckert was handed the 2025 Docs d’Honor Award during the opening ceremony of the 28th Docs Barcelona. The festival is screening two of his films, the Oscar-nominated Rabbit à la Berlin by Polish Bartosz Konopka, and Heimat is a Space in Time, the final film of Thomas Heise, who passed away in 2024.

6 days ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

A New Yorker with an astonishing voice and the most vagabond of creative sensibilities, 82-year old Meredith Monk is the genius that few people have ever heard of. “You’re not alone,” director Billy Shebar says of the subject of Monk in Pieces, sold by Cinephil and selected for  Visions Competition at DocsBarcelona. “I mean, it’s a very common response from people who know a lot about music.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Organisers of the 32nd Sheffield DocFest (18-23 June) announced May 7 their full film programme of films and public talks. The Industry programme will be announced on 14 May. “As the UK’s leading documentary festival and one of the world’s most influential markets for documentary projects,.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

The 28th edition of the Catalan launches May 8, heralding 11 days of frenetic professional and public-facing doc activity. Some 48 films are selected across eight sections, six of which are competitive: Official Competition; Official Competition – Visions; Docs & Archive; Docs&CAT for Catalan documentaries; DOC-U for student docs, and Docs&Teens for youth documentaries.