Another incredibly eye-opening and very well-made film I saw at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2013 was Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, and HBO- funded documentary directed by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, who also conducted an interesting Q&A after the film was premiered. The film shines a light on the state of Russian politics today and the […]
In late June 2013 I travelled to Washington, DC and Frederick, Maryland, to spend time with my boyfriend (now husband(!), but that’s a later story). It was the first time I had seen DC and it was an amazing time, I was especially amazed by how beautiful Maryland is during the summertime. We spent the […]
Last June, I visited Sheffield for a week to be part of Doc/Fest 20, the 2013 Sheffield documentary festival. I volunteered as a Sessions steward, which meant that I basically helped out with setting up, running mics and sitting in some of the talks in the Town Hall, which was great as I got to […]
Last month I spent a week in Germany, and of that about 3 days in Berlin. Clearly, this was not enough time spent there to absorb the incredibly rich history of the place, and I definitely plan on going back for much longer; a few things I managed to see though are here: […]
Two films about Indonesia have won prizes in the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival- The Act of Killing (Winner: Best Film) and Where Heaven Meets Hell (Václav Havel Jury Special Mention). I loved both films and I can’t think of a more deserving winner for Best Film- after the screening at Lucerna, I was speechless. As a […]
Yesterday, I attended two more East Doc Platform events which I found really inspiring. The first was a lecture by Helle Faber, producer of Putin’s Kiss (2012), speaking about how the film progressed from an idea to a feature-length production. The film follows the journey of Masha, a young spokesperson for Nashi, the increasingly popular Russian […]
One of the main cinemas of the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival is the Kino Lucerna, housed in a 1920’s Art Deco building complex which consists of the cinema, shops, bars and kavarnas (coffee shops), as well as a warren of interconnecting underground tunnels which are home to a variety of clubs in […]
As part of the East Doc Platform programme of events, I attended a screening of Catherine Bernstein’s Assasinant d’une Modiste (2005) at the charming Bio Ponrepo cinema. The film is based on minimal archival material (three photos and a few letters), about the life of the director’s great aunt, Fanny Berger, a Jewish hat-maker living in Nazi […]
On our first day in the city of Prague, us delegates were treated to the experience of full-on tourism and a trip to all the beautiful sights. We managed to be near the Charles Bridge in my favourite kind of light, around 4.30pm – somehow architecture always looks great when the sun is low in […]
I am in Prague as part of a group work placement programme to cover the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival and East Doc Platform, for Film New Europe and Ontente’s web-based TV. Incredible opportunity (one of my biggest interests at the moment is the uses of documentary forms by human rights/ humanitarian organisations), […]
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