The Durban FilmMart and the Hotdocs Blue Ice Group Fund invite documentary professionals attending the Durban FilmMart to join us for a Documentary Speed Meeting event. Presenting a perfect (and fast) way to get to know filmmakers and producers from across the continent, the session kicks off with an information session on the Hot Docs Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund, and an introduction to the five recipient HDBIGF 2014 Fellows and Elizabeth Radshaw, Director of Industry Programmes - Hotdocs.
Come meet the HDBIG Fellows, get more information about the grant and other programme at Hotdocs and more importantly connect with documentary professionals from across the continent.
Date: Sunday, 20 July
Time: 15h00 - 16h00
Venue: Suite 5, Elangeni Hotel
More about the Hotdocs Blue Ice Group Fund:
The Hot Docs Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund will provide financial support, professional development and industry mentorship to independent documentary filmmakers based in African countries.
The $1-million Fund was created to help enable more African documentary filmmakers to tell their own stories and contribute to a new generation of the African documentary community. www.hotdocs.ca/funds The application period for the 2014 round of disbursement is now open, with a final deadline of August 22, 2014, at 5:00 pm EST
HOTDOCS BLUE ICE GROUP FUND FELLOWS - 2013 2014
Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund Development Grants:
PAPA & PROPAGANDA
Director: Samora Sekhukhune
Producer: Chevelle Francis
South African Father and daughter set out on a road trip hoping to meet President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and come face to face with half-truths, and secrets about politics, global media and each other, along the way.
WHERE THE DESERT MEETS THE MOUNTAIN
Director/Producer: Saad Eddine Said Morocco
The film shares the memories of Said, a nomad who left his community decades ago to settle in industrial Casablanca, supplemented by stories of the daily lives of the last nomad families trying to survive the Atlas Mountains.
2013 Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund Production Grants:
GITI-PARADISE IN HELL
Director: Yves Montand Niyongabo Rwanda
The 1994 nation-wide genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda claimed an estimated one million lives, but the Hutu residents of Giti, a small Rwandan village, stood against all odds and refused the government's call to participate in the slaughter of their Tutsi friends, family and neighbours.
THE REVOLUTION WON'T BE TELEVISED
Director/Producer: Rama Thiaw
Senegal Thiat and Kilifeu, two Senegalese activists and hip-hop singers, experienced a year of revolution in 2012. Their story highlights the emerging African urban youth movement, and how youth involved in hip-hop culture helped to radically transform the Senegalese civil society. The revolution won't be televised, but it will be documented.
2013 Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund Completion Grants:
EGYPT'S MODERN PHARAOHS
Director: Jihan El-Tahri
Producer: Laurence Uebersfeld, Egypt
EGYPT'S MODERN PHARAOHS is an autopsy of Egypt's contemporary history from 1952 to 2011, including its role on the international stage. Political, military and religious key characters, as well as personalities from civil society, will provide an in-depth understanding of how revolution in Egypt was inevitable.
THE SHORE BREAK
Director: Ryley Grunenwald
Producer: Ryley Grunenwald, Odette Geldenhuys South Africa
Two cousins from South Africa's Wild Coast are pitted against one another in a battle for retaining their traditional way of life through eco-tourism or foregoing it by mining their land in the name of development.
WHEN BUDDHA COMES TO AFRICA
Director/Producer: Nicole Schafer, South Africa
A unique glimpse into the complex relationship between China and Africa through the story of a Malawian teenager growing up in a Chinese Buddhist orphanage, and a Buddhist monk on a mission to spread his faith and save the orphans of Africa.
THE PHOTOGRAPH
Director: Victor Viyuoth
Producer: Victor Viyuoh, Miramu Amadou, Cameroon
THE PHOTOGRAPH explores why 25 rural Cameroonian Muslim girls posed for their first group picture at the 1981 Eid al Adha, who was left out, and what has happened to these women who came of age as HIV became a widespread global issue.
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