IDFA
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SHORT DOCS AT IDFA 2007: Celebrating Diversity
To define a “short film” is complicated. There is the industry’s definition that anything under 50 minutes is a short. Or the rules of many festivals where shorts are less than 40 minutes. There’s the TV half-hour, which runs approximately 26 minutes, and the typical student film, often 10 to 20 minutes.
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POV: Time to Infiltrate TV
Just came back from Documentary in Europe in Bardonecchia. Fine experience. Good film programme, many people, high quality projects for pitching, nice atmosphere in a small but good panel of committed editors from European (and one Canadian) channels.
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IDFA 2005: Film for Thought
The selection of films and the topics of the many talk shows and debates demonstrated that IDFA is-as always or even more so-deeply devoted to the documentary as a political art form.
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FESTIVAL REPORTS: Street Fighting at Hot Docs
Any filmmaker will tell you that getting your title right is half the battle. Canada's annual international documentary festival is blessed with the coolest name in the business: Hot Docs.
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Interactive documentary: When Spectators Become Players
LUCINDA BROADBENT participated in Mediamatic’s workshop Non-linear Storytelling for Documentary Makers’ at IDFA November 2002. She shares her experiences in creating an interactive documentary using the «korsakow system».
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IDFA 2002: The World in Short
During the years 1995-2000, a IDFA Silver Wolf prize was annually awarded to docs made on video, parallel to the Joris Ivens celluloid film competition.
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IDFA 2000: Documentary Globetrotting
ANETTE OLSEN journeyed to the most distant corners of the world through the films shown at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam last November. She reports on some of her cinematic adventures.