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NEW EDN DIRECTOR: LEENA PASANEN
On 1 November, the new director of EDN will move from Finland to Denmark. Her name is Leena Pasanen and she has been heavily involved with EDN for many years already.
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RYSZARD SOLARZ: Directing via MSN Messenger and FedEx
How do you make a documentary that transcends the influx of daily news from a conflict area where your own security is at stake and the local inhabitants are reluctant to talk to westerners? In making a film about Baghdad, Swedish-Polish Ryszard Solarz decided to stay in Stockholm and direct a team of local reporters…
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Facing an unknown future
The construction of the gigantic Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze River in China has been widely criticized by international organisations.
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Banned abortion and contraception in Romania and created a “lost generation”
Filmmaker Florin Iepan and an estimated two million others of his generation, now in their 20s and 30s, came into this world only thanks to Nicolae Ceausescu and his Decree 770 prohibiting abortion and contraception.
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VIKALP: an Alternative to Censorship
A group of Indian filmmakers created an alternative festival to the MIFF in twenty days on a shoestring budget. The festival evolved from a protest action into a huge success and a celebration of diversity and committed filmmaking.
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STEPS FOR THE FUTURE: Initiative With Impact
The "Steps for the Future" doc collection was established to take an innovative approach to addressing the serious HIV/AIDS problems in Southern Africa. A recently completed ‘Steps Impact Study’ and a new doc film take a closer look at the actual effect of the collection.
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The personality of a psychopath!
"The Corporation" does something very few docs do: goes directly for the jugular of the world’s true power institutions, i.e., the corporations, and insistently runs this phenomenon through a merciless examination from a historical, legal and critical angle, even subjecting it to psychoanalysis (concluding that it has the personality of a psychopath!).
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From a fisherman into a man who stands up against authorities
Hungarian fishermen along the Tisza River had been earning their living from the fish in the river for generations.
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MARK FRITH, DUAN JINCHUAN: bringing China to the West
Two British producers had a strong desire to bring Chinese directors to Europe to present China to Western audiences. They started out with a workshop in Beijing in 1999, which resulted in a four-part series entitled "Interesting Times", and which is being shown by a number of European broadcasters this spring. The production process demanded…