International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

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Free accommodation
• IDFA guest services will only book hotels for filmmakers with a film in the 2012 program and special delegates.
• Filmmakers with a film in one of the competition programs and the Reflecting Images program are offered three to four hotel nights by the festival. For filmmakers with films in other IDFA programs the festival offers two to three nights. If your personal invitation states that IDFA will pay for your hotel, please contact our Guest Services. They will make your hotel reservation.
• IDFA does not offer accommodation to Dutch filmmakers with a film in the festival program.

Rithy Panh to present Top 10 at IDFA Cambodian director Rithy Panh (1964, Phnom Penh) is to compile this year’s IDFA Top 10. Rithy Panh broke through in 2003 with his documentary S21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. His new film, l’Image Manquante, features in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes film festival, which begins this week.

IDFA present at GRI Conference In collaboration with the Global Reporting Initiative, IDFA presents two films about sustainability at the Global Conference on Sustainability and Reporting, held May 22-24 in Amsterdam. The program includes Solar Mamas and Greenlit.

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IDFA WorldView Summer School announces 2013 selection A total of 16 projects from participants all over the world have been selected for the sixth edition of the IDFA WorldView Summer School, which will take place July 1-6, 2013. The projects hail from 14 different countries and range from archive-driven narratives to stories shot in a cinema vérité style.

IDFA 2013 Film Entry now open! Submissions for IDFA 2013 can now be entered. Deadlines are May 1 (for documentaries completed before April 1) and August 1 (for documentaries completed after April 1).