Due to planned cuts at the BBC, the internationally acclaimed series Storyville might lose as much as 60% of its current £2.2m. budget. At the moment, Storyville commissions and part-finances around 25 films a year. The cuts will end that role, and reduce the series to one which only buys in completed films.
For the past decade, the series has supported acclaimed documentary films in Britain and around the world. The independent filmmaking community now fears that the loss of the BBC’s backing and finance will have a hugely damaging effect on international documentary production.
Documentary filmmakers are shocked by the proposed 60% reduction in funding, especially in light of the fact that the overall cuts in the BBC’s budget are only planned to amount to 3%. An international campaign is now trying to save Storyville, and the online petition has already been signed by over 1600 people. You can add your signature on this website.
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In a half-hour documentary called “Running on Empty”, a leading NGO raises awareness about child poverty around the world, and campaigns for a change in aid culture.
The film was produced as part of a Save the Children UK project in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Myanmar, and is due to be broadcast on BBC World this autumn.
Through individual stories, the film draws attention to the hard facts about malnutrition, poverty and hunger around the world.
In her Reuters blog, Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive at Save the Children UK, suggests that instead of food supplies, donor countries should be urging low-income nations to channel cash to families in need. “People want cash because it gives them freedom to choose. It allows families to make their own decisions about what to buy now and what to save for the future.”
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A new creative documentary film has been completed about the Nigeria-based film industry, Nollywood. Franco Sacchi, the film’s director has been fascinated by the innovative spirit of Nigerian filmmakers, and celebrates new technologies, which he says have brought about an “egalitarian promise”.
Sacchi says African filmmakers make movies on shoestring budgets and are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit. An average production takes just 10 days and costs around 10,000 dollars. According to the director, Nollywood was born out of an “epidemic of crime and insecurity of the 1980s”. Read more about this story at the VOA site.
Europe’s biggest documentary film festival, the Amsterdam-based IDFA, is accepting applications until August 10. Every year, IDFA screenes over 250 documentaries. The organisers look for topical films which are cinematically intriguing or innovative, and stimulate the audience to reflect on the issues raised. The trailers for last year’s best films can be watched here.
A Hungarian journalist and documentary filmmaker was assaulted in Budapest on 23 June, and later rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Iren Karman was investigating illegal oil dealings of the 1990s and has recently finished her documentary called “Oiled relations”. The film has not yet been released.
The 40-year-old woman has also written a book entitled “Facing the Mafia” on illegal oil dealings which incriminate the Hungarian underworld, the police and politicians. Last November, a bag containing court documents relating to her book and a documentary tape were stolen from her car. While in hospital, she said she would keep working on these stories, and even plans a feature script.
Russian director Andrei Nekrasov’s recent film, “Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case”, which he completed for the BBC in the spring, was given a special slot at this year’s Cannes film festival. Despite some of its flaws, the film is an interesting insight into Litvinenko’s thinking and its screening was a good PR stunt for the festival. Read an earlier post about this film.
The decision about the film’s Cannes screening was made only three weeks prior to the festival, but before British prosecutors named Andrei Lugovoi as a suspect in Litvinenko’s murder and demanded his extradition from Russia. The film has so far only been seen in the UK (and for a few weeks on Google Video) but it will now be shown internationally. This will not please Russian authorities, even though the documentary only states the obvious about their state of democracy.
Here is Michael Moore’s most recent entry on his new film “Sicko”, which is apparently so controversial it might even be confiscated by the US government before this weekend’s premiere in Cannes.
“Friends! It’s a wrap! My new film, “Sicko,” is all done and will have its world premiere this Saturday night at the Cannes Film Festival. As with “Bowling for Columbine” and “Fahrenheit 9/11,” we are honored to have been chosen by this prestigious festival to screen our work there.
My intention was to keep “Sicko” under wraps and show it to virtually no one before its premiere in Cannes. That is what I have done and, as you may have noticed if you are a recipient of my infrequent Internet letters, I have been very silent about what I’ve been up to. In part, that’s because I was working very hard to complete the film. But my silence was also because I knew that the health care industry — an industry which makes up more than 15 percent of our GDP — was not going to like much of what they were going to see in this movie and I thought it best not to upset them any sooner than need be.
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