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The Documentary Edge E-Newsletter / Issue 37 – May 2010

Kia ora! Dozens of films have already been submitted to Documentary Edge Festival 2011 and the Early Bird deadline is less than a month away. If you attended the Festival this year, we invite you to fill in the survey and let us know what you think. Documentary Edge Campus will open later this year and we seek partners and supporters to come on board.

Here is the latest from the Documentary Edge hub.

The Documentary Edge Team

 
Documentary Edge Festival

In this issue

  1. Documentary Edge Festival - Early Bird deadline is on 15 June 2010
  2. Documentary Edge Festival 2010 - Survey
  3. Documentary NZ Trust News
  4. What's Up Doc?
  5. Calls for documentary submissions
  6. Send us your news

1. Documentary Edge Festival – Early Bird deadline is on 15 June 2010

The first submission deadline for Documentary Edge Festival 2011 is less than a month away. To take advantage of the reduced submission fee, please complete your submission on Withoutabox (WAB) by 15 June 2010.

Submissions can only be made through WAB. If you are are not already on WAB, it is free to register and easy to submit.

All deadlines:

2. Documentary Edge Festival 2010 - Survey

If you attended Documentary Edge Festival 2010, please help us make it even better by taking a few minutes to fill out the survey. It is very simple and would take approximately ten minutes of your time.

Congratulations to the 5 winners who completed the survey and won a Documentary Edge Festival T-shirt.

Complete the Documentary Edge Festival survey

 

3. Documentary NZ Trust News

Buy a Documentary Edge Festival T-shirt

Buy a Documentary Edge Festival T-shirt and support the Documentary New Zealand Trust. T-shirts are available in both male and female sizes and cost NZD$25 (inclusive GST and shipping within NZ).

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Documentary Edge in Shanghai

Our Trustee, Alex Lee, will attend MIDA in Shanghai in early June. Documentary Edge was invited to attend the event alongside the top documentary film festivals including IDFA, HotDocs, GZDOC, DOK Leipzig, and YIDFF. Alex will attend the European, American and Asian (EAA) Documentary Forum which includes a Summit of European, American and Asian Documentary Festival Presidents and Asian Image in global communication.

FIFO Tahiti

This month, we met with Pierre Ollivier, the director of FIFO Tahiti. We talked about ways and means to work more closely together. In our established tradition, we recommended films shown at Documentary Edge 2010 to FIFO.

Campus Resource Centre

The Documentary Edge Campus Resource Centre is scheduled to open in late 2010. It will house documentary films and written materials and will be available for the wider community to come and view films and use the available resources. We invite anyone who wishes to support/donate/sponsor/help to contact us at: campus@documentaryedge.org.nz.

Farewell interns

This month we said farewell to our French intern Benoit and Dutch intern Marinde. Both were great members of our team for the last few months and we wish them well back at home. We welcome our new French intern Axel and more interns will join our team in July and August.

4. What’s Up Doc?

New documentary strand on Triangle Stratos

Triangle and Stratos Television plans a regular primetime slot from July 2010 for New Zealand made documentaries. The airtime will be made available free of charge to participants and also include run on-air promos, website and press promotion for the series free of charge. If you are keen to make your film available, please contact us at info@documentaryedge.org.nz or call us at 09) 3600 329.

WIFT NZ’s new Executive Director

Congratulations to Susi Newborn for her appointment as the new Executive Director of WIFT NZ.  Susi comes to WIFT NZ from OXFAM where she is the climate change campaign coordinator, with a wealth of experience in the not-for-profit sector as a campaigner, educator, project manager, advocate and counsellor, and prizes and awards for her work. She has more recently become a filmmaker, nominated for Best Director and Best NZ Documentary (Short) at the 2010 Documentary Edge Film Festival, for the film Kit & Maynie: Tea, Scones & Nuclear Disarmament, which she co-directed and co-produced with Claudia Pond-Eyley.

Home By Christmas goes to Sydney

Congratulations to Gaylene Preston. Her latest film, Home By Christmas (currently in cinemas around NZ) was selected by the Sydney International Film Festival.

Out Takes Reel Queer Film Festival

The Out Takes Reel Queer Film Festival will starts this week in Auckland at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket. The festival will run from 27 May to 2 June.

TVNZ Amendment Bill

We urge filmmakers to keep an eye on the TVNZ Amendment Bill and make submissions to Parliament when submissions are called. It is important for filmmakers to be heard as there are major changes to TVNZ and TVNZ-held archives. A Broadcasting Landscape Forum was run by Screen Directors Guild NZ and Alex Lee spoke as part of the pan-industry panel. Our Partner, Screenhub, has put together a list of resources to get you up-speed on the Bill.

Congratulations to Pietra Brettkelly

Congratulations to Pietra Brettkelly who will join Dan Fallshaw (Stolen) as the 2010 intake to the prestigious Binger DOC in Amsterdam. Stolen, which screened at Documentary Edge Festival 2010, continues its festival march in its momentum towards qualifying for the Academy Awards.

Rolf de Heer on Conceiving and Crafting Cinema for a Modest Budget: A half-day seminar for writers, directors and producers

Script to Screen in association with The NZ Film Commission, The NZ Broadcasting School and Screen Dunedin and present two South Island seminars with acclaimed writer/director Rolf de Heer.

The Wairoa Maori Film Festival

The 5th edition of the Wairoa Maori Film Festival will open on Thursday, 4 Jun at Taihoa Marae, Wairoa, then continues at Kahungunu Marae, Nuhaka, 5-7 June. The programme celebrates  the best in Maori and indigenous film arts and entertainment.

Creative New Zealand funding

Berlin Documentary Forum

2-6 June 2010. The new bi-annual Berlin Documentary Forum presents documentary practices across disciplines, demonstrating the increasingly significant and much-debated role of the documentary in the visual arts, performance, literature and cinema.

Doc Meeting Argentina

Buenos Aires, 23-25 September 2010. Doc Meeeting Argentina includes: Conferences, Workshops and Seminars, One On One Meetings, and a Pitching Forum. Projects to the Pitching Forum must be submitted by 1 August 2010.

5. Calls for documentary submissions

6. Send us your news

If you have any documentary news to share with the Documentary Edge community, please send it through to newsletter@documentaryedge.org.nz.

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