A Bitter Taste of Freedom
The latest film of the Russian documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya is the documentary A Bitter taste of Freedom (2011). The film is about her late friend, the Russian investigative journalist and … Continue reading
Finnish docs on the rise
Finnish documentary filmmaking has been on the rise in recent years. Nine documentaries premiered in Finland in 2010, but between 2002 and 2009, two to five docs premiered annually, according … Continue reading
IDFA awards 2011
Planet of Snail (2011, South Korea) was awarded The VPRO IDFA Award for Best Feature-Lenght Documentary at the IDFA documentary film festival award ceremony last friday. Planet of Snail, directed … Continue reading
The Sunday Doc
On Documentary Heaven one can choose from hundreds of titles to watch for free. Films can be looked up easily, either by their title or by category like economics, music, … Continue reading
The Vodka Factory
The Vodka Factory (2010) by Jerzy Sladkowski was one of the most memorable documentaries at Nordisk Panorama in Århus last september. The doc tells the story of Valentina who lives … Continue reading
Animation + documentary = Interesting mix
The Swedish Jonas Odell is a noteworthy director. Odell was one of the founders of Filmtecknarna, a storytelling and design-based production based company in Stockholm and New York, founded in … Continue reading
Doc Alliance
Dafilms.com is one of the most interesting European documentary VoD websites. Dafilms.com is partnership of five European documentary film festivals, CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, Denmark, DOK Leipzig in Germany, Jihlava IDFF … Continue reading
CPH:DOX 2011
PINA 3D received Politikens Audience Awards at this years CPH:DOX, and seven other documentaries were awarded at the film festival. CPH:DOX is one of Europes biggest documentary film festival and … Continue reading
What next?
The Startup weekend at Höfn is over and I´m very pleased to tell you that me and my team partner Sigrún Sveinbjörnsdóttir received a special mention for accomplishing the most … Continue reading
Busy like a bee
It´s been a busy weekend. I´ve been participating in a startupweekend at Höfn, southeast Iceland, with my startup idea; Docs & Film Festivals. So far there is blog, a Facebook … Continue reading
I’m on it!
Welcome to my new blog about documentaries and film festivals. The blog is for documentary and film festival enthusiasts, filmmakers and other professionals in the film industry … basically everyone interested … Continue reading
Docs & Film Festivals 