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Docs Barcelona
Viva Docs Barcelona! I mean the city is great, but now there's also a documentary film festival. I was invited with "THIN ICE" for a special screening for school kids. The film worked extremely well and afterwords I was bombarded with questions on every aspect of filmmaking and on life in distant Ladakh. Kids are smart. Especially 12 year olds.
Docs Barcelona is organized by the production company Parallel 40. Great and hardworking people. For ten years there has been a pitching forum. I pitched my film "An ordinary family" with great results three years ago. Last year I returned and screened the film at Fundacio Tapies. A very good feeling. Now for the first year it's a full film festival with a very good selection of films. It ment of course a lot of meetings with collegues, but as the pitching Forum was on it ment also a lot of meetings with the so important commissiong editors from several European broadcasters. I met my friend Jenny Westergaard from YLE, Bert Janssens from Humanstic broadcasting The Netherlands and Wim van Rompaey, Lichtpunt Belgium. People who has supported some of my previous films.
As documentary film on the international level is a travelling circus I meet new and old friends all the time. Like mon chere frere Alexandre Cornu from Les Films du Tambour de Soie in Marseille, co producer on Belfast Girls. He pitched a project on Greek war children with the filmmaker Marco Gastine. I loved the project and look forward to see the film. We dined together at restaurante Bilbao in Gracia. A place to recommend!
Parallel 40 also are behind "Documental del Mes". They screen documentaries at 13 different cinemas around Catalunya. Last year my "The socialist, the architect and the twisted tower" was screened. With good results. Around 900 people came. Now Documental del Mes will show the film even more in Spain. We also signed a contract on "Thin Ice". Azucena Carrasco, Joan Gonzales from Parallel 40 and I celebrated with a glass of wine. Now it's less than one year to the next Docs Barcelona.
Docs Barcelona is organized by the production company Parallel 40. Great and hardworking people. For ten years there has been a pitching forum. I pitched my film "An ordinary family" with great results three years ago. Last year I returned and screened the film at Fundacio Tapies. A very good feeling. Now for the first year it's a full film festival with a very good selection of films. It ment of course a lot of meetings with collegues, but as the pitching Forum was on it ment also a lot of meetings with the so important commissiong editors from several European broadcasters. I met my friend Jenny Westergaard from YLE, Bert Janssens from Humanstic broadcasting The Netherlands and Wim van Rompaey, Lichtpunt Belgium. People who has supported some of my previous films.
As documentary film on the international level is a travelling circus I meet new and old friends all the time. Like mon chere frere Alexandre Cornu from Les Films du Tambour de Soie in Marseille, co producer on Belfast Girls. He pitched a project on Greek war children with the filmmaker Marco Gastine. I loved the project and look forward to see the film. We dined together at restaurante Bilbao in Gracia. A place to recommend!
Parallel 40 also are behind "Documental del Mes". They screen documentaries at 13 different cinemas around Catalunya. Last year my "The socialist, the architect and the twisted tower" was screened. With good results. Around 900 people came. Now Documental del Mes will show the film even more in Spain. We also signed a contract on "Thin Ice". Azucena Carrasco, Joan Gonzales from Parallel 40 and I celebrated with a glass of wine. Now it's less than one year to the next Docs Barcelona.
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