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Alex Szalat

About
Alex Szalat is a Director of short films, documentaries and TV series since 1977. His filmography is extensively covering a full range aspects dealing with European life culture and society. In 1987, A. Szalat founded KS VISIONS, an independent producers society and has produced over a hundred documentaries and TV series for Canal +, Arte, FR3, FR2, TF1, Planete, IBA, RTBF, Dutch Channel 1 amongst others. Since 2005 A. Szalat was commissioning editor for the Geopolitical Europe and Society department of Arte France, and from 2008, he heads the Current affair, Social issues and geopolitical department. Since September 2011, he is Deputy Director of the Society and Culture department of Arte France.
IDFA History
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Docs
2008 Taste the Revolution Co-producent
2008 The Dalai Lama - From One Life to Another Co-producent
2005 clara lemlich: strike leader's diary Director, Production, Co-Production, World Sales
Forum
2012 Commodity Traders Commissioning Editor
2011 It's a Bet ! Commissioning Editor
2008 Gaza/Sderot: Life in Spite of Everything Commissioning Editor
2008 Something about Georgia Commissioning Editor
2007 Taste the Revolution Co-producent
2006 Eyes Wide Open - A Journey through Today's South America Commissioning Editor
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.
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 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).
VPRO Oxfam Novib de Volkskrant Marie Stella Maris
SNS Reaal Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds