 06/10/08 |
Docúpolis hands Docúpolis award for Best Documentary to “The Red Race”, a Chinese film by Chao Gan. The documentary shows the hard training of 6-year-old children,
futur Olympic sportsmen. Apart from the official categories, Docúpolis gave honorific
awards. The award Tercer Ojo to Best experimental documentary
was for “Solo”, by Maciej Pisarek (Poland);
the Human Rights Award was for “Fighting
the silence”, by Lles and Femke van Velzen (Holand);
the best Latin-american Documentary was for Andres
di Tella’s “Fotografías” (Argentina)
and finally, the Audience Award was for “Mari
Carmen España. El final del silencio”, by Martin Jonson
and Pontus Hjorthén. |
| 03/10/08 |
The showings follow on Docúpolis during the weekend, from 12am to 23pm On Saturday starts Recovery section, wich is dedicated to the work of four Quebec writers Documentaries follow on Docúpolis with a remarkably public afluence. During the days of the Festival there will be more screenings of the official sections and parallel activities. Tomorrow starts a new section in the Mirador of the CCCB, the Recovery section, in which Québec is the invited country. Saturday 4 Sunday 5 On Sunday 5th at 20h will be handed the awards Docúpolis to the Best Documentary Film, Best First Documentary Award, and OFF Docúpolis Award. Also will be handed the honorary awards: Tercer Ojo Award to the best experimantal documentary, Best Latin American Documentary, Human Rights Award and Audience Award. |
| 01/10/08 |
Docúpolis
open its doors - Over 500 people assist to the world premiere of
Mari Carmen España. El final del silencio. At 8.30pm, the ceremony started. After a brief saxo melody, the assistants could have a short advance of the documentaries that are competing for the Docúpolis prize in the next days: impacting images of several topics. Subsequently talked Hugo Salinas, the director of the festival,
who said that “although the difficulties, the illusion of
the team made possible this new edition of Docúpolis”.
Later was the turn of Martin Jönson and Pontus Hjorthén,
authors of the documentary Mari Carmen España. El final del
silencio, which was screened closing the act. The directors said
they were “very happy to present the documentary in Spain”,
the country who shares name with the main character of the film,
Mari Carmen España. The documentary, 60 minutes of hard review
about Franco dictatorship and Spanish Civil War sequels, was widely
applauded by the assistance when it finished. |
| 22/09/08 |
The documentary “MARI CARMEN ESPAÑA. The end of silence” opens Docúpolis in a world premiere In the opening ceremony will be present the Swedish directors Martin Jönson and Pontus Hjorthén, authors of the documentary, and her main character, Mari Carmen España. |
| 22/09/08 |
Docúpolis draws on its opening ceremony to Tuesday, September 30th. Docúpolis advances its planning one day, and its opening
ceremony will be celebrated on Tuesday, September 30th in the CCCB
Hall. Hugo Salinas, the director of the festival, will present the
ceremony... |
| 11/09/08 |
Docúpolis publishes the selected films of the International Competition. Best Documentary Film, Best First Documentary, Best Short Documentary Film and Off-Docúpolis have already finalists aspiring to the award. |
| 10/09/08 |
| Director Presentation This year I will not talk about the importance of documentary film, I will not talk about the recovery of memory, I will not insist on the unified thinking, I will not talk about our lack of financing, I will not talk about a liquid modernity, I will not talk about the responsibility of those who are elected, I will not talk about a renovation of documentary... more |
| 14/07/08 |
| Docúpolis 2008 Seminar We’ve opened the call for registering in the documentary cinema seminar that will be given by the director Isaki Lacuesta. The seminar will be from 29th September to 2nd October. You can find all the information at Seminar |
| 04/06/08 |
The period of summons for the Internacional Competition has already been closed. We want to thank you very much for the amazing volum of participation. |
| 07/05/08 |
| Last days to register We invite all those who even have not inscribed your documentaries to doing it as soon as possible. The period of summons will finish next June 1. The inscription is free and opened. |
| 25/02/08 |
Docúpolis 2008 begins the period of inscription that will opened remain three months Inscription: 1 of March until the 1 of June of 2008 Next March 1 begins the process of inscription of documentaries for the international contest of this eighth edition of the International Festival of Documentaries of Barcelona. They will be able to take part all the persons, producers or entities that want to compete for someone of our four official and honorific prizes that are kept in our already eighth consecutive edition. We expect to continue having the enthusiasm of the producers around the world that see in Docupolis an opportunity to plan and promote their work. Docupolis 2008 will be celebrated as every year in the Centre Of Culture Contemporánia Of Barcelona, CCCB between the 1 and October 5. The organization already works to define and to develop the new offers that will form the programming of this year. The activities parallel to the contest will support the retrospective of country and of author and there will add a series of spaces and specific events that will give body to the appointment of October in the CCCB. Deadline : The closing of inscriptions will be day 1 of June
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