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Nominees mixed and mingled at a casual luncheon sponsored by Kodak
Man on Wire, Waltz With Bashir, La Corona come out on top, interviews with guests and more!
Spectrum, Frontier, Park City at Midnight include nonfiction.
Day 7--Deliberation Day We wrapped up our screenings and, following a final fantastic lunch and two more screenings, we sat down for two hours of bare-knuckled deliberations. Actually, the process was...
Thirty-two films chosen from 1,623 submissions.
IDA and Good present a screening of IDA/Jacqueline Donnet Emerging Filmmaker Award winning film.
Day 4--Still Lost in Amsterdam Following a seven-film jury session, we repaired to the Escape club, the hub of social activities at IDFA, including the Guests Meet Guests happy hours, the TalkShow and...
International Documentary FilmFestival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the sine qua non of documentary festivals, having debuted in 1988, when few documentary-specific showcases existed. Twenty years later, IDFA...
Mix of first-timers and established filmmakers receive support.
The minute I opened my hotel room door, I went right to work-on Documentary magazine-related matters back home. Working through a jet-lagged and sleep-deprived fog, I managed to get things done-and being nine hours ahead of my colleagues helped! I went out into a raw and rainy Amsterdam to catch opening night-and I got lost. Many times. After asking three people for directions, I stumbled upon the theater. But the screening had started 15 minutes earlier, and I was in a somnambulant state of mind, so I made my way