Astorga takes over from outgoing Doclisboa artistic director Miguel Ribeiro.
Mexican producer, director and curator Paula Astorga has shared her vision for Doclisboa in her first interview since being announced as the new artistic director of the Lisbon-based documentary film festival.
“I have two passions,” Astorga said. “Projects at development stages and exhibition because I love audiences. I think this opportunity at Doclisboa is the perfect place to put these two passions together.”
She takes over from outgoing Doclisboa artistic director Miguel Ribeiro, who has been appointed head of programming at new Lisbon arts centre Casa Do Comun. Her appointment was made by Aprodoc,...
Mexican producer, director and curator Paula Astorga has shared her vision for Doclisboa in her first interview since being announced as the new artistic director of the Lisbon-based documentary film festival.
“I have two passions,” Astorga said. “Projects at development stages and exhibition because I love audiences. I think this opportunity at Doclisboa is the perfect place to put these two passions together.”
She takes over from outgoing Doclisboa artistic director Miguel Ribeiro, who has been appointed head of programming at new Lisbon arts centre Casa Do Comun. Her appointment was made by Aprodoc,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Sofía Peypoch won international film competition for her doc ’Earth Altars’ (’La Tierra Los Altares’).
In what turned out to be festival director Miguel Ribeiro’s final edition at the helm, Doclisboa’s City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film was won by Mexican visual artist and director Sofía Peypoch for her film Earth Altars (La Tierra Los Altares).
In the film, the director returns to the site of her own kidnapping, an incident in which she was apprehended on the highway by five armed men. The jury credited the documentary for its “ability to finely interweave personal history,...
In what turned out to be festival director Miguel Ribeiro’s final edition at the helm, Doclisboa’s City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film was won by Mexican visual artist and director Sofía Peypoch for her film Earth Altars (La Tierra Los Altares).
In the film, the director returns to the site of her own kidnapping, an incident in which she was apprehended on the highway by five armed men. The jury credited the documentary for its “ability to finely interweave personal history,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The Portuguese doc fesitival has a reputation for showcasing formally bold films with attitude.
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
As it celebrates its 21st edition this year, Doclisboa is one of the most radical and innovative of the autumn documentary festivals. It opens today (October 19), taking place in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon until October 29.
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro prides himself on programming films with attitude and this year’s international competition includes shorts screening in the same section as features. Six are world premieres.
Whether they are dealing with politics, art or music, the titles screening in Lisbon tend to be opinionated and formally...
- 10/19/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The programme for Doclisboa’23 is now known; the festival will take place between 19 and 29 October at the usual venues: Culturgest, Cinema São Jorge, Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema and Cinema Ideal. In all, the 21st edition of Doclisboa is showing 250 films from 42 countries, including 35 world premieres and 39 Portuguese films. The films reveal the pulse of the world and those who inhabit it.
Doclisboa travels to the inside of the human brain through the lens of Werner Herzog (Theater of Thought), and to the pressing issues of work in The Liberated Broom, Listen to the Story I Was Told, by Coline Grando; delves into memories of past wars and to the current war in Ukraine; film archives; music; and dance.
The press conference was held this morning at Culturgest and was hosted by Miguel Ribeiro (Director of Doclisboa), Mark Deputter (Chairman of the Board – Culturgest), Marco Guerra (Head of the Cultural...
Doclisboa travels to the inside of the human brain through the lens of Werner Herzog (Theater of Thought), and to the pressing issues of work in The Liberated Broom, Listen to the Story I Was Told, by Coline Grando; delves into memories of past wars and to the current war in Ukraine; film archives; music; and dance.
The press conference was held this morning at Culturgest and was hosted by Miguel Ribeiro (Director of Doclisboa), Mark Deputter (Chairman of the Board – Culturgest), Marco Guerra (Head of the Cultural...
- 9/30/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The Portuguese festival showcases documentaries from around the world.
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
The 21st edition of DocLisboa will open with Wang Bing’s Man In Black, and will close with Baan from Portuguese director Leonor Teles.
Man In Black premiered at Cannes and Baan made its debut at Locarno earlier this year.
The festival will take place in Lisbon from October 19-29.
Wang Bing, via videoconference, and Telles both participated in the festival press conference on September 28 at which festival director Miguel Ribeiro revealed this year’s programme in full.
Bing explained his film profiles 86-year-old Wang Xilin, one of China’s most important contemporary classical composers,...
- 9/29/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Festival director Miguel Ribeiro described a busy and joyful festival.
The 20th edition of Doclisboa closed this weekend on an upbeat note with festival director Miguel Ribeiro reporting audiences were back to pre-pandemic levels.
“We are closing the festival with a great sense of having been a big celebration of cinema, a great get-together,” said Ribeiro. ”There was a feeling of joy in the corridors of the venues and during the informal encounters, the parties at the end of each day.”
Nikita Lavretski’s A Date In Minsk won the festival’s main prize, the City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film.
The 20th edition of Doclisboa closed this weekend on an upbeat note with festival director Miguel Ribeiro reporting audiences were back to pre-pandemic levels.
“We are closing the festival with a great sense of having been a big celebration of cinema, a great get-together,” said Ribeiro. ”There was a feeling of joy in the corridors of the venues and during the informal encounters, the parties at the end of each day.”
Nikita Lavretski’s A Date In Minsk won the festival’s main prize, the City of Lisbon Award for best international competition film.
- 10/17/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Films need to be given longer runs, they added.
The struggle to reach cinema audiences in the wake of the pandemic was one of the main subjects under discussion at Doclisboa’s panel, ‘State of the Art Audience Development: practices, methods and tools in different windows,’ staged in collaboration with Creative Europe Media.
“During the pandemic, there have been three moments of confrontation and we are now in the third,” said programmer and filmmaker Christopher Small from Prague -based platform DAfilms.com, the Czech-based streaming arm of Doc Alliance. The first, he suggested, was in March 2020 when “everybody realised they...
The struggle to reach cinema audiences in the wake of the pandemic was one of the main subjects under discussion at Doclisboa’s panel, ‘State of the Art Audience Development: practices, methods and tools in different windows,’ staged in collaboration with Creative Europe Media.
“During the pandemic, there have been three moments of confrontation and we are now in the third,” said programmer and filmmaker Christopher Small from Prague -based platform DAfilms.com, the Czech-based streaming arm of Doc Alliance. The first, he suggested, was in March 2020 when “everybody realised they...
- 10/17/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Hardman’s doc examines workplace inequality 40 years after release of classic comedy ’9 to 5’.
Camille Hardman, the co-director of documentary Still Working 9 To 5, has attacked the “absolutely shocking” and “abhorrent” current conditions for women in low-paid work in the US at a ‘Women in Film, Women at Work’ roundtable event at this week’s Doclisboa festival in Portugal.
“The minimum wage, it’s 7.25 an hour. You can be a single mother with two kids and earn 14,000 a year…it’s a very, very, very low wage,” said Hardman. “Women have to use food stamps. They socially have to get help.
Camille Hardman, the co-director of documentary Still Working 9 To 5, has attacked the “absolutely shocking” and “abhorrent” current conditions for women in low-paid work in the US at a ‘Women in Film, Women at Work’ roundtable event at this week’s Doclisboa festival in Portugal.
“The minimum wage, it’s 7.25 an hour. You can be a single mother with two kids and earn 14,000 a year…it’s a very, very, very low wage,” said Hardman. “Women have to use food stamps. They socially have to get help.
- 10/13/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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