Business Doc Europe

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Over the coming months, the Prague-based dok.incubator rough-cut programme will workshop eight documentary projects from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, soon to be released to international audiences. These will be presented in parallel with the eight International projects, previously announced.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Acid will screen world premieres of Sepideh Farsi’s Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk, and Namir Abdel Messeeh’s second feature doc Life After Siham, as well as the French premiere of Sylvain George’s Obscure Night – Ain’t I A Child? The Critics Week sidebar for first and second features will include a sole doc, Imago by Déni Oumar Pitsaev, as will Directors Fortnight, which has selected the Ukrainian feature doc Militantropos by Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith and Simon Mozgovyi.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

É Tudo Verdade / It’s All True – International Documentary Festival, one of Latin America’s core non-fiction film events, this weekend announced the winners of its 30th anniversary edition which closed April 13. Directed by Carine Wallauer, Copanwon the Brazilian Feature and Medium-Length Film Competition, receiving both a R$20,000 cash prize (approx. €3,000) and the It’s All True Trophy.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Nick Cunningham

Clarisa Navas’ The Prince of Nanawa and Bani Khoshnoudi’s The Vanishing Point were awarded Visions du Réel’s two main international competitions prizes during the festival’s April 12 closing ceremony. Argentinian director Navas won the Grand Prize in the International Feature Film Competition with The Prince of Nanawa, an expansive film that follows the transformations of Ángel over 10 years, from childhood to adulthood, on the border between Argentina and Paraguay.

1 week ago | businessdoceurope.com | Geoffrey Macnab

Fiery Liverpool author and spoken word performer ‘Roy’ (real name PJ Smith) has built a strong cult following since the publication of his book of stories, ‘Algorithm Party,’ in 2020. These are raw, scabrously funny and sometimes very violent tales dealing with drugs, alcohol and domestic abuse – and partly drawn from his own experiences growing up in the city’s suburb of Toxteth. “All my writing comes from my experiences of dealing with insecure men. I am an insecure man as well.