Exclusive: A diverse group of documentary filmmakers and major industry professionals will converge on the Maine coast next month for the 20th Camden International Film Festival (Ciff), one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the year for the nonfiction film community.
The Points North Institute, which produces the festival, today announced an unprecedented number of filmmakers and projects have been selected to take part in this year’s Artist Programs, which run in tandem with Ciff. The institute also unveiled its Points North Forum program, which features artist talks and field-building conversations during the festival. Scroll for complete information.
“Eight years after Ciff launched the Points North Institute to provide more robust, year-round support to documentary filmmakers, the organization is supporting more projects-in-development and filmmaking teams than ever across 6 different fellowship programs and multiple partnerships with mission-aligned nonprofits,” the institute said in a release. “Each program is designed to connect filmmakers with mentors,...
The Points North Institute, which produces the festival, today announced an unprecedented number of filmmakers and projects have been selected to take part in this year’s Artist Programs, which run in tandem with Ciff. The institute also unveiled its Points North Forum program, which features artist talks and field-building conversations during the festival. Scroll for complete information.
“Eight years after Ciff launched the Points North Institute to provide more robust, year-round support to documentary filmmakers, the organization is supporting more projects-in-development and filmmaking teams than ever across 6 different fellowship programs and multiple partnerships with mission-aligned nonprofits,” the institute said in a release. “Each program is designed to connect filmmakers with mentors,...
- 8/30/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
International sales agency Lightdox has acquired documentary “Marching in the Dark” in advance of its world premiere at Cph:dox. The feature debut from Kinshuk Surjan focuses on how the growing number of suicides among farmers in India is affecting the agricultural community. The trailer debuts exclusively on Variety below.
“Marching in the Dark” screens as part of the festival’s new Human:Rights competition section. Surjan and two people who feature in the film, Sanjivani Bhure and Dr. Milind Potdar, will attend the premiere.
The storyline of the film takes place over a number of years amidst India’s deepening farmer suicide crisis, and focuses on the journey of a young widow, Sanjivani, with two children to care for, after her husband is gone. Her community practices a cultural tradition of socially distancing widows, but Sanjivani unexpectedly finds healing when a mental health experiment instead brings widows together.
“Marching in the Dark” was filmed in Maharashtra,...
“Marching in the Dark” screens as part of the festival’s new Human:Rights competition section. Surjan and two people who feature in the film, Sanjivani Bhure and Dr. Milind Potdar, will attend the premiere.
The storyline of the film takes place over a number of years amidst India’s deepening farmer suicide crisis, and focuses on the journey of a young widow, Sanjivani, with two children to care for, after her husband is gone. Her community practices a cultural tradition of socially distancing widows, but Sanjivani unexpectedly finds healing when a mental health experiment instead brings widows together.
“Marching in the Dark” was filmed in Maharashtra,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Documentary follows Somi and her husband, who are struggling to live an ordinary life after their past as Naxalite guerrillas
If it’s the function of a documentary to open a window on the world – a part of the world that isn’t revealed by the nightly TV news – then this film is a distinct and deliberate success: a product of the NoCut Film Collective, founded in 2016 by Romanian Cristina Hanes, Indian Arya Rothe and Italian Isabella Rinaldi to explore collaborative and transcultural ways of film-making.
A Rifle and a Bag is about the life of a quiet Indian couple, Somi and her husband Sukhram, who have one son and a baby on the way. They are looking for work and are concerned about schooling for their children, but their condition is more complex than most: they are former Naxalites, ex-members of a Maoist guerrilla group that operated in the...
If it’s the function of a documentary to open a window on the world – a part of the world that isn’t revealed by the nightly TV news – then this film is a distinct and deliberate success: a product of the NoCut Film Collective, founded in 2016 by Romanian Cristina Hanes, Indian Arya Rothe and Italian Isabella Rinaldi to explore collaborative and transcultural ways of film-making.
A Rifle and a Bag is about the life of a quiet Indian couple, Somi and her husband Sukhram, who have one son and a baby on the way. They are looking for work and are concerned about schooling for their children, but their condition is more complex than most: they are former Naxalites, ex-members of a Maoist guerrilla group that operated in the...
- 7/17/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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