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Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) is an international documentary festival held every March in Thessaloniki, Greece. TDF, founded in 1999, features competition sections and ranks among the world's leading documentary festivals. Since 2018, TDF is one of the 28 festivals included in the American Academy of Motion Picture, Arts and Sciences Documentary Feature Qualifying FestivaList''. TDF is organized by the Thessaloniki Film Festival cultural institution, which further organizes the annual Thessaloniki International Film Festival, held every November. French producer Elise Jalladeu is TDF's general director; film critic Orestes Andreadakis serves as its director. Overview The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival focuses on independent documentary film and emerging documentarists from around the world. TDF is one of the leading documentary festivals globally, with an audience measuring up to 85.000 yearly. TDF is held at the historical “Olympion” theater at the cen ...
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Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capital city, capital of the geographic regions of Greece, geographic region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, the administrative regions of Greece, administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek language, Greek as (), literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the () or "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. Thessaloniki is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is bounded on the west by the delta of the Vardar, Axios. The Thessaloniki (municipality), municipality of Thessaloniki, the historical center, had a population of 317,778 in 2021, while the Thessaloniki metro ...
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COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ...
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Animated Documentary
The animated documentary (also known as anidoc) is a moving image form that combines animation and documentary. This form should not be confused with documentaries about movie and TV animation history that feature excerpts. History The first recognized example of this genre is Winsor McCay's 1918 12-minute-long film '' The Sinking of the Lusitania'', which uses animation to portray the 1915 sinking of after it was struck by two torpedoes launched by a German U-boat; an event of which no recorded film footage is known to exist.DelGaudio, Sybil. ''If Truth Be Told, Can Toons Tell It? Documentary and Animation''. Film History 9:2 (1997) p. 189-199 Since the 1920s, animation has been used in educational and social guidance films, and has often been used to illustrate abstract concepts in mainly live-action examples of these genres. Early examples of fully animated educational films are ''The Einstein Theory of Relativity'' and ''Evolution'' (both 1923) by Max and Dave Flei ...
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Talal Derki
Talal Derki (Arabic language, Arabic: طلال ديركي ''Ṭālāl Dīrkī'') is a Syrian Kurdish director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Damascus and of Kurdish descent, Derki studied film directing in Athens at , graduation in 2003. He worked as an assistant director for feature film productions and was a director for different Arab TV programs & TV films between 2009 and 2012. He worked as a freelance cameraman for CNN and Thomson Reuters. He was Oscar nominated in 2019 and became a member of the Academy. He is the winner of the German Film Awards, Lola, in 2019. Talal Derki's short films and feature length documentaries received tens of awards at various festivals. Both of his films Return to Homs and Of Fathers and Sons won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2014 and 2018. Filmography * 2003 - ''Hello Damascus, goodbye Damascus'', short fiction, 16mm (12min) * 2005 - ''A whole line of trees'', short fiction, 35 mm (8min) * 2010 - ''Hero of All Seas'', doc ...
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Heddy Honigmann
Heddy Honigmann (1 October 1951 – 21 May 2022) was a Peruvian-born Dutch film director of fictional and documentary films. Early life and education Honigmann was born on 1 October 1951 in Lima, Peru, to Jewish refugees. Her mother, Sarah Pach Miller, an actress and homemaker, was from Poland; her father, Witold Honigmann Weiss, an artist and illustrator, was from Vienna. Career Most of Honigmann's films were Dutch productions, but were made in a variety of languages. In 2003 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a retrospective showing of a number of her films, as did the International Documentary Film Festival Munich in 2020. Honigmann won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. In November 2011, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held a retrospective showing of all of her films. She toured Europe from 2012 to 2014 performing the art of mime. She graced the stages of many prestigious theaters including the Düssel ...
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Albert And David Maysles
Albert Maysles (November 26, 1926 – March 5, 2015) and his brother David Maysles (January 10, 1931 – January 3, 1987; ) were an American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style. Their best-known films include ''Salesman'' (1969), ''Gimme Shelter'' (1970) and ''Grey Gardens'' (1975). Biography Early lives The brothers were born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, living there until the family moved to Brookline, Massachusetts when Albert was 13. Albert and David's parents, both Jewish, were immigrants to the United States; their father, born in Ukraine, was employed as a postal clerk, while their mother, originally from Poland, was a schoolteacher. The family originally settled in Dorchester to be near relatives (the brothers' great-uncle Josef Maysles and his daughter and son-in-law, Becky and Joe Kandib) who had moved there earlier. Albert originally pursued a career as a psychology professor and researcher. After serving in t ...
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Helena Třeštíková
Helena Třeštíková is a Czech documentary film director, member of the European Film Academy, and briefly the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...'s Culture Minister. She resigned from the position in January 2007 after serving less than three weeks. References External links * 1949 births Living people Czech documentary filmmakers Czech women film directors Culture ministers of the Czech Republic Women government ministers of the Czech Republic KDU-ČSL Government ministers Women documentary filmmakers 21st-century Czech women politicians {{CzechRepublic-film-director-stub ...
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Claire Simon
Clair or Claire may refer to: *Claire (given name), a list of people with the name Claire *Clair (surname) Places Canada * Clair, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of Haut-Madawaska * Clair Parish, New Brunswick * Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada, municipality located on the Island of Montreal * Clair, Saskatchewan United States * Lake Claire (Atlanta), Georgia, neighborhood * Le Claire, Iowa, city in Scott County * Eau Claire, Michigan, village in Berrien County * Eau Claire, Pennsylvania, borough in Butler County * Claire City, South Dakota, town in Roberts County * Eau Claire, Wisconsin, city * Eau Claire County, Wisconsin * Saint Clair, Missouri, city * St. Clair County, Michigan * St. Clair, Michigan, city * St. Clair, Minnesota, city * St. Clair, Pennsylvania, city * St. Clair Shores, Michigan, city Scotland * Clair oilfield in the Atlantic Ocean, 75 km west of Shetland Other uses * Clair (Hampshire cricketer), English professional cricketer * "C ...
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Jennifer Fox (documentary Filmmaker)
Jennifer Fox (born 1959) is an American film producer, director, cinematographer, and writer as well as president of A Luminous Mind Film Productions. She won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her first feature documentary, '' Beirut: The Last Home Movie''. Her 2010 documentary ''My Reincarnation'' had its premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2010, where it won a Top 20 Audience Award. Early life Jennifer Fox was born into a Jewish family in 1959 in Narberth, Pennsylvania. Her father, Richard J. Fox, was a U.S. Navy pilot who served in the Korean War and co-founded Fox Companies, a property construction firm in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Her mother, Geraldine Dietz Fox, after losing hearing in her left ear at the age of 27, helped to establish the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and founded the National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation (NOHR) in 1988. One of five children, Fox a ...
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Bruce Sinofsky
Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was an American documentary film director, particularly known for his films the '' Paradise Lost'' trilogy, '' Brother's Keeper'' and '' Metallica: Some Kind of Monster'', all created with Joe Berlinger. Early life and education Sinofsky was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 1978. Career Sinofsky began his career at Maysles Films. As Senior Editor at the company, he worked on commercials and feature films until 1991, when he and Joe Berlinger formed their own production company, Creative Thinking International. They jointly produced, edited and directed documentary films which have appeared on over 50 critics choice lists, including '' Brother's Keeper'' (1992), the '' Paradise Lost'' trilogy (1996, 2004, 2011), '' Hollywood High'' (2003) and '' Metallica: Some Kind of Monster'' (2004). The first movie Sinofsky directed, in 1992, was the ...
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Joe Berlinger
Joseph Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. Particularly focused on true crime documentaries, Berlinger's films and docu-series draw attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in such films as '' Brother's Keeper'', '' Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills'', '' Crude'', '' Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger'' and '' Intent To Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction''. A 2017 ''HuffPost'' article said "''Brother's Keeper'' (1992) and the ''Paradise Lost'' trilogy (1996–2011) helped pioneer the style of documentary filmmaking eenin Netflix's recent true crime sensation, ''Making a Murderer''—a combination of artful cinematography, a stirring musical soundtrack, and a dramatic narrative structure as compelling as any scripted film." Berlinger spearheaded and directed two 2019 projects centered on the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy: the Netflix docu-series '' Conversations with a Killer ...
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Louie Psihoyos
Louis (Louie) Psihoyos (born April 15, 1957) is an American photographer and documentary film director known for his still photography and contributions to National Geographic. Psihoyos, a certified SCUBA diver, has become increasingly concerned with bringing awareness to underwater life. In 2009, he directed and appeared in the feature-length documentary '' The Cove'', which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Early life and career Psihoyos was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1957, the son of a Greek immigrant who left the Peloponnesos region after World War II. Psihoyos took an interest in photography at the age of fourteen. As a teenager, he worked as a photo intern with the ''Telegraph Herald'' newspaper. During that time he also worked as an extra on the set of the 1978 film '' F.I.S.T.'' Psihoyos attended the University of Missouri, majoring in photojournalism. In 1980, at the age of 23, he was hired by National Geographic and remained with the magazine for seventeen years ...
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