Echoes of Ji.hlava extended to New York, Belgium, France
The Echoes of the 24th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival will kick off online this Thursday for audiences in the Czech Republic. Selected films will then be available also to viewers in Belgium, France and New York. This year’s Ji.hlava documentary spring will offer award-winning films, discussions with filmmakers and masterclasses. The Echoes are held in partnership with Czech Centers network.
“The global pandemic put a spoke in the wheels of the filmmaking world: cinemas remain closed, producers put off film shooting and many festivals have months-long delays. This is also why are launching our Echoes already in the springtime – we want to give documentary film fans and filmmakers a chance to connect”, says Ji.hlava IDFF director Marek Hovorka.
Director Tiago Siopa wins Doc Alliance 2020 award By TPN/Lusa, in News · 28-12-2020 08:00:00 · 0 Comments
Tiago Siopa s film Ghosts: Long way Home won the Doc Alliance 2020 award, created by the international network of European festivals dedicated to documentaries.
The award is an initiative of the Doc Alliance network, which brings together seven European documentary film festivals, including DocLisboa, and recognises first works by directors from the European space, being awarded the prized a value of €5,000 for the development of the next project.
According to the jury of this edition of the award, the film is deeply rooted in the personal universe of the director, while addressing the idea of collective - the particular and the general, the psychic and the non-psychic, appear intertwined in each other,