Marry de Gaay Fortman is the new chairperson of the IDFA board. She succeeds former chairman Derk Sauer, who departs from the position after two terms. De Gaay Fortman is well known to the organization as a board member of the IDFA Bertha Fund, the film fund affiliated with IDFA.
Today the IDFA Bertha Fund is pleased to announce its support of Aswang (dir. Alyx Ayn Arumpac, 2019) with a grant of €30,000 through the IBF Europe – Distribution funding scheme. The grant supports the distribution of documentary co-productions between European and non-European producers.
Next month we join forces with Frame, the Amsterdam-born publishing house and now world-leading spatial design media brand, for the upcoming edition of the Frame Awards. From February 19 to 20, the event will showcase the biggest spatial design talent, address today’s most pressing design questions, and provoke creative inspiration.
IDFA in Kriterion is Back! Every month from now, Kriterion in Amsterdam will screen one of the documentaries from the IDFA 2019 selection. This month's pick is Scheme Birds, a candid coming-of-age documentary about the lives of a group of youngsters in Motherwell, Scotland.
For many years now, we've partnered with Melkweg to bring you the most electrifying stories about music. On Sunday, January 19, the series continues. Come watch three of the best music documentaries from IDFA 2019, plus a screening of D.A. Pennebaker's classic Monterey Pop.
During IDFA 2019, we organized the IDFA Industry Talk Filming 'the other'; entitlement or privilege?, which gathered international filmmakers to elaborate on awareness, gaze and entitlement in documentary filmmaking. Among the speakers was Rwandan filmmaker Kivu Ruhorahoza, whose latest film Europa, "Based on a True Story" world-premiered at the festival in our feature-length competition. After the Talk, we caught up with Ruhorahoza to discuss the representation of marginalized communities and, through making a film in the UK, his efforts to claim the same privilege that Western filmmakers take when making films in the Global South. Read the interview here.
