Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces and Guillaume Senez’s Our Struggles are also screening.
Naziha Arebi’s documentary Freedom Fields, about the creation of an all-women football team in post-revolution Libya, will open the sixth edition of the Doha Film Institute’s youth-focused Ajyal Film Festival, running Nov 28 to Dec 3.
Arebi, who has a Libyan father and British mother and grew up in the UK, received a grant for the production from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi) in 2012 when the project was still at the development stage.
The feature – which focuses on the personal stories of three team members as Libya...
Naziha Arebi’s documentary Freedom Fields, about the creation of an all-women football team in post-revolution Libya, will open the sixth edition of the Doha Film Institute’s youth-focused Ajyal Film Festival, running Nov 28 to Dec 3.
Arebi, who has a Libyan father and British mother and grew up in the UK, received a grant for the production from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi) in 2012 when the project was still at the development stage.
The feature – which focuses on the personal stories of three team members as Libya...
- 11/6/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Sheffield Doc/Fest CEO and Festival Director Elizabeth McIntyre is to step down after three years in charge.
McIntyre has run the British festival, which is one of the largest non-fiction festivals in the world, since 2016. She has welcomed names such as Tilda Swinton, Sir David Attenborough, Maxine Peake, Michael Moore, Shane Meadows, Lauren Greenfield, Jamal Edwards and Da Pennebaker to the northern city during her tenure.
This year, the former Discovery commissioner welcomed Sean McAllister’s A Northern Soul as the opening night film along with titles such as Mark Cousins’ The Eyes of Orson Welles, Marco Prosperio’s The Man Who Stole Banksy, Scott Christopherson-directed The Insufferable Groo and Sandi Tan’s Shirkers at the festival, alongside pitch projects from stars including Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming as well as producers such as Searching For Sugar Man’s John Battsek and Shooting Bigfoot’s Morgan Matthews.
Alex Graham,...
McIntyre has run the British festival, which is one of the largest non-fiction festivals in the world, since 2016. She has welcomed names such as Tilda Swinton, Sir David Attenborough, Maxine Peake, Michael Moore, Shane Meadows, Lauren Greenfield, Jamal Edwards and Da Pennebaker to the northern city during her tenure.
This year, the former Discovery commissioner welcomed Sean McAllister’s A Northern Soul as the opening night film along with titles such as Mark Cousins’ The Eyes of Orson Welles, Marco Prosperio’s The Man Who Stole Banksy, Scott Christopherson-directed The Insufferable Groo and Sandi Tan’s Shirkers at the festival, alongside pitch projects from stars including Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming as well as producers such as Searching For Sugar Man’s John Battsek and Shooting Bigfoot’s Morgan Matthews.
Alex Graham,...
- 8/15/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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