Sheffield Doc/Fest Programme Guide

Programme Guide 6—11 June 2019

Ways of Seeing

Films, Digital Art, Live Events, Talks, Parties & More

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Contents

4 Welcome

97 Alternate Realities

10 Schedule

98 Alternate Realities Summit 100 Exhibition 104 VR Cinema

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110 Craft Summit 112 Talks & Sessions

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Festival Info

23 Spotlight

109 Talks & Sessions

39 Films

126 Doc/Fest Exchange

Live Events

40 Strand Introductions

Focus Strands 79 Focus/Shapes That Move 81 New/Hits 84 New/Japan 87 New/Signals 90 New/UK

128 Partner Showcase & Events

129 Marketplace & Talent 135 Parties & Social

Contents

Main Strands 42 Doc/Adventure 48 Doc/Expose 55 Doc/Love 61 Doc/Rhythm 66 Doc/Think 73 Doc/Vision

141 Funders, Sponsors

& Partners 142 Index

146 Festival Map

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Welcome A big Sheffield welcome to Doc/Fest: Ways of Seeing – six days of films, live events, digital art, talks, parties and more across the City of Makers.

Having prepared our 2019 edition to the rumble of constant news alerts updating on somewhat divisive global events, the Doc/Fest team is proud to present a programme which shows the world in all its glorious shades of grey.

Welcome

Ways of Seeing offers multiple images of the world, and multiple perspectives of our part in it.

Our tagline is inspired by John Berger’s television series and book of the same name, with the programme giving a platform to a spectrum of voices, which together share, shape, and question the stories of our time.

Our Film Programme includes a vast line-up of 180+ titles by documentary makers who challenge world views, and in so doing, open up our own. We’re thrilled to be welcoming Ai Weiwei, Anand Patwardhan, Asif Kapadia, Jeanie Finlay, Nanfu Wang, Waad al-Kateab, Werner Herzog, and many more to Sheffield from countries around the world. Each year Doc/Fest attracts filmmakers from the world over, but we also offer our solidarity to those documentary makers unable to make it to Sheffield due to restrictions to their rights to travel.

Music features heavily at Doc/Fest as always, celebrating sound and song as a creative act of protest, with docs featuring PJ Harvey and Leonard Cohen, and with Kate Nash coming to perform following her premiere of Underestimate the Girl, and director Rita Maia attending to DJ a party following the premiere of Lisbon Beat.

Our retrospective, Shapes That Move, looks at collective filmmaking as an act of feminist solidarity. Our country focus brings talent from Japan to Sheffield, including noise rock band Bo Ningen who will play alongside shorts from radical filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto.

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Doc/Fest also offers new ways of seeing through cutting-edge technologies, as part of our digital arts exhibition, Alternate Realities. Our festival commission, Spectre, harvests personal data to test our understanding of truth, while other works use interactive and immersive narratives to highlight tales of injustice, with a focus on LGBTQI+ stories in Another Dream, Through the Wardrobe, and Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan.

As part of our Live Events programme, another new commission for the festival is The Lovers Table, which offers a contemporary template for a moving image led symposium, curated by artists Kazim Rashid and Lotte Andersen.

Our Talks programme engages emerging and established documentary makers, each giving an insight into their practice, and how they aim to effect change through their work: we welcome Werner Herzog to discuss his acclaimed career and latest film: Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin; Chidera ‘The Slumflower’ Eggerue will be in Sheffield to spread her message of body positivity and talk about her first venture in to documentary; Jenn Nkiru speaks about her explorations of black universality in BLACK TO TECHNO; and Paul Greengrass makes a passionate plea for more working class voices in film and television.

Beyond the programme, Doc/Fest is primarily a place to connect, to meet fellow documentary makers and documentary lovers - whether in our market, festival hub: The Exchange, or at our (in)famous parties.

See you in Sheffield – in the cinema and on the dancefloor.

Melanie Iredale Interim Director

Welcome Welcome to Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019.

As I write this, Sheffield has just got a football team in the Premier League for the first time in a decade. Back in the 70s, Sheffield United very nearly pulled off the transfer coup of the century, offering the princely sum of £200,000 to bring a young Argentinian prodigy to Bramall Lane. Sadly the deal fell through as the Blades couldn’t find the extra cash demanded by the player. But 41 years later, Doc/Fest is finally bringing Diego Maradona to Sheffield, in the shape of Asif Kapadia’s brilliant new film, which opens (I am struggling to avoid saying “kicks off”) this year’s festival. Asif’s film is firmly in the tradition of his previous portraits of Amy Winehouse and Ayrton Senna – wild, irreverent and compelling. We’re in for a treat.

As always, there’s an intoxicating range of films on offer. Coinciding with the dates of the Women’s World Cup, a very different portrait of the beautiful game emerges from Khartoum Offside by Marwa Zein, where a team of Sudanese women footballers are intent on defying their country’s policy which discourages women from participating in sport. And in contrast to Rodney P’s beats, Nick Broomfield is back with his new film telling the love story between Leonard Cohen and his legendary muse and lover Marianne Ihlen.

Indeed, thank you to all of our sponsors who help make this fantastic festival happen. In particular, Sheffield City Council, not just for their financial support but for the close working relationship we have developed over the years. I feel Doc/Fest really belongs to the city now and the council must take a lot of credit for that. Special thanks to Paul Billington, who is taking early retirement this year, for his unstinting support and encouragement.

Thanks also to the British Film Institute – we’re delighted to say we have just agreed another multi-year agreement with them. And also for the first time, we have a multi-year partnership in place with Wellcome, supporting the hugely popular Doc/Fest Exchange. The British Council helps us bring together so many international documentary makers from all over the world; Creative Europe supports our international marketplace, which allows these great movies to find funding in the first place; and last but not least our Broadcast partners – BBC, ITV and Channel 4 – who provide not only finance but brilliant content and talent too.

Welcome

Diego is not the only star attraction however.

This year we welcome eminent director Paul Greengrass to talk about his journey from investigative TV documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters. We have Stacey Dooley talking about her confronting documentaries… and maybe Strictly Come Dancing too; Rodney P talking hip hop, grime and beyond, and Nick Hornby assembling his mixtape of favourite documentaries in Desert Island Docs.

We’re thrilled that our Alternate Realities exhibition is returning to its spiritual home in the revamped and expanded Site Gallery and of course running alongside the exhibition will be the Alternate Realities Summit and the Alternate Realities Talent Market. Thanks to Arts Council England for supporting all of our Alternate Realities work and making us part of their National Portfolio.

Finally, a special thanks to Interim Director Melanie Iredale who has stepped up brilliantly this year and to her remarkable, prodigiously talented team. It’s a pleasure to work with each and every one of you.

And of course thanks to all of you who every year make Sheffield what it is – the smartest, sassiest and friendliest festival in the world.

Alex Graham Chair

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Festival Info Booking Information Film Screenings

To access the Programme with a Festival Pass

£10 / £7.50 concessions Weekdays before 13:00 – £5

To access Film screenings during the festival you can select e-tickets the day before, and the day of a screening via your My Doc/Fest account.

Visit sheffdocfest.com and click Log In. Alternatively, go to the Doc/Fest Exchange Box Office. Your e-tickets will be uploaded to your Festival Pass. If there are no longer advance tickets available you can join a standby queue at the venue 30 minutes before the screening.

Live Events, Talks & Parties Priced individually. See relevant pages.

Tickets are available to buy online from sheffdocfest.com or in person from any Doc/Fest Box Office. All ticket prices include booking fees.

Doc/Lover Wristband

Festival Info

Want to attend a number of films? The Doc/Lover Wristband gives you entry to up to 12 film screenings (except Opening Night) during the festival for only £69 / £59.50 concessions.

Available to buy online at sheffdocfest.com or in person during the festival at the Doc/Fest Exchange Box Office.

To access Film screenings with a Doc/Lover Wristband, first buy your Wristband online then choose which films to go to by logging into your My Doc/Fest account at sheffdocfest.com/logins Your e-tickets will be uploaded to your Wristband.

Please collect your Doc/Lover Wristband from the Doc/Fest Exchange Box Office before attending any screenings.

Festival Pass The only way to access the whole festival is to purchase a Festival Pass. You will have access to the very best film screenings, our Alternate Realities exhibition, inspiring Talks, our industry Marketplace and the best networking and parties.

A Festival Pass can be purchased online at sheffdocfest.com at any time, or in person during the festival at the Delegate Centre.

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Your Festival Pass (with photo ID) should be worn at all times and is required to access all films and events.

Festival Pass holders do not require advance e-tickets for Talks, Parties and Live events.

Go directly to the venue and show your Festival Pass. Please arrive early for these events to guarantee yourself a seat.

Important information for all Pass and Ticket holders Due to high demand, if you are not in your seat 5 minutes before the advertised event start time your ticket may be reallocated.

Concessions Concessions are available to full-time students, those aged 25 and under, senior citizens, and claimants.

Complimentary tickets or Festival Passes are available for Personal Assistants, carers and sign language interpreters, but must be booked in advance, and proof of DLA or a valid CEA card or international equivalent is required.

For 16–26 year olds, a limited amount of tickets are available at £5 for any event taking place at Sheffield Theatres from the Sheffield Theatres Box Office.

Please visit sheffieldtheatres.co.uk for more information.

Festival Info Box Office Locations

Showroom Cinema 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX Thu 9 May–Wed 5 June, 11:30–22:00 daily Thu 6–Tue 11 June, 08:30–until last film Doc/Fest Exchange Tudor Square, S1 2LA Wed 5 June, 17:00–20:00 Thu 6–Tue 11 June, 09:00–21:00 Curzon Cinema 16 George Street, S1 2PF Sat 8 June–Tue 11 June, 08:30–until last film

Alternate Realities Exhibition & VR Cinema

The Alternate Realities exhibition is free and open to all, with advance booking required for specific projects: the Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences in Site Gallery; the 360 screenings in the Igloo Dome on Site Gallery Square; the VR Cinema screenings at the Performance Lab. These can be booked on the day of the event at the Alternate Realities Box Office on Site Gallery Square. Places are subject to availability.

For age ratings for individual projects, please refer to sheffdocfest.com If you have booked for the above Alternate Realities events, please arrive 5 minutes early or your place may be reallocated.

Alternate Realities Box Office Site Gallery Square, Brown Street, S1 2BS Thu 6–Tue 11 June, 09:00–20:00

Delegate Centre

For all enquiries please email boxoffice@sheffdocfest.com or call +44 (0) 330 122 8870

Doc/Fest Exchange

Everyone is welcome at Doc/Fest Exchange, the festival hub on Tudor Square. Bringing together a specially curated programme of talks, films and conversations to revolutionise what makes a healthy planet, Doc/Fest Exchange is free and open to all between 09.00 and 22.00 daily. Kick starting at 10.00 with complimentary tea, coffee and pastries, there’s also a well-stocked licensed bar and a selection of local street food stalls.

For the full programme please visit sheffdocfest.com

Doc/Fest Delegate Centre is where to go if you are collecting or buying a Festival Pass. Based in the Workstation, the Delegate Centre is open 17.00–21.00 on Wednesday 5 June, then 9.00–21.00 Thursday 6 to Tuesday 11 June.

It also hosts a cloakroom, lost property, and the Doc/Player Lounge.

Festival Info

The Light Cinema The Moor, S1 4PF Fri 7–Tue 11 June, 08:30–until last film

Doc/Player Lounge

Doc/Player is an online platform featuring select films from Doc/Fest’s main programme and a further curated selection of recent titles seeking market exposure. Available to Festival Pass holders only, it can be accessed online via cinandovl.com/sheffielddocplayer between 6 June to 18 July or during the festival on terminals in the Doc/Player Lounge at the Delegate Centre between 11.00 and 18.00 daily. The Doc/Player Lounge also has hot desks for you to bring your own laptop to watch from.

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Festival Info Audience Award

A number of Films and Alternate Realities projects are up for Awards – and our biggest Jury is you, the audience! To rate the films and projects you see for the Audience Awards, please look out for volunteers with tear slips.

The Audience Award is in memory of Dr. Clifford Shaw.

The Alternate Realities Audience Award is supported by REWIND.

Safer Festival Policy

Festival Info

We aim to create a safer festival, where we care and look out for each other. Everyone at Doc/Fest is entitled to enjoy their experience safely, and on their own terms.

We do not tolerate harassment in any form, and encourage everyone to be active bystanders.

By attending Doc/Fest events you agree to abide by and embrace our shared code of conduct.

Anyone violating these principles will be asked to stop and are expected to comply immediately, and at the discretion of the organisers may be expelled from the event (without refund).

If you experience or witness harassment of any kind, please tell a member of the Doc/Fest staff or to security.

For further info, please visit sheffdocfest.com/view/saferfestival

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Babies & Children

Sheffield Doc/Fest is a breastfeeding-friendly event, and those with babies should feel welcome to breastfeed at Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square, along with all our participating venues. Doc/Fest has partnered with TLC Mobile Childcare to offer childcare services that come to you. To discuss, please email hospitality@sheffdocfest.com or call us on +44 (0) 114 276 5141 We have also partnered with the Showroom Cinema to programme its regular Kino Bambino screening for parents with babies under one year at 11.00am on Monday 10 June (p.55).

Wi-Fi

Doc/Fest is working with Idaq Networks Ltd to extend Sheffield Free Wi-Fi to outdoor areas of the festival, including Doc/Fest Exchange. Look out for the Sheffield Free Wi-Fi stickers. You don’t have to keep logging in – your device will automatically connect to the network whenever you are in an area of coverage.

For more information visit sheffield-free-wifi.uk

Festival Info Accessibility at the Festival

This year we’re working with a team of British Sign Language interpreters to make as much of the Talks programme available to BSL users as possible. If you are a BSL user and would like to attend one of our Talks, please contact us through the channels below and we will endeavour to meet your needs.

Talks in the Doc/Fest Exchange will be live captioned on screen.

To find out which of our Talks are already being BSL interpreted or live captioned, and to see an up-to-date list of subtitled or close captioned films, please visit: sheffdocfest.com/view/accessibility

Relaxed screenings are great for anyone who might benefit from a calmer environment; so lighting is softer, the volume is lower and staff are specially trained. They’re open to all but particularly ideal for people with an autism spectrum disorder, sensory or communication disorder, a learning disability or age-related impairments.

Age Ratings

We screen films prior to their distribution meaning that some films may not have an age rating at the time of going to print. In these cases, the film will be listed as Rating TBC and are accessible to those aged 18+ only. We are updating our ratings regularly so please check our website for the most up to date information.

For guidance on age ratings for the Alternate Realities Exhibition and VR Cinema projects, please refer to the programme online.

Subtitles Please note that all films marked [S] for subtitled are done so at the discretion of the filmmaker.

The festival cannot guarantee standard.

All information is correct at the time of printing.

Sheffield Doc/Fest reserve the right to make changes and updates.

Please visit sheffdocfest.com for up-to-date information on screenings, film Q&As and the festival schedule.

Festival Info

For accessible content in this guide, look for: [S] Subtitled (foreign language films) Closed Caption [DF] Dialogue Free

The Fine Print

All festival venues are wheelchair accessible.

Please note that wheelchair spaces in events and films are subject to availability.

Hearing loops and headphones are available at the Showroom Cinema, Curzon Cinema, and The Light Cinema.

For detailed information on all festival venues please visit: sheffdocfest.com/view/festivalvenues For all enquiries relating to accessibility and reasonable adjustments please email access@sheffdocfest.com or call +44 (0) 330 122 8870 Alternatively, speak to a member of the team at the Doc/Fest Exchange Box Office.

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Schedule Thursday 6 June

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09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

12:00 14:00

13:00 15:00

Don’t Be A Dick About It

14:00 16:00

Don’t Be A Dick About It

15:00

Tattooed Tears (40th Anniversary)

16:00

17:

Tattooed Tears (40th Anniversary)

Showroom Cinema 1

Honeyland

Honeyland

Knock Down the House Honeyland

Knock Down the House

Honeyland

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Hail Satan?

Hail Satan?

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

XY Chelsea

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Workstation Conference Room 2

Doc/Player Lounge

What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?

XY Chelsea

The Brink

What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?

The Brink

Doc/Player Lounge

Sheffield City Hall

Alternate Realities Exhibition: Alternate Realities Exhibition: Subconscious Sensibilities Subconscious Sensibilities

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square

Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Converging Sensibilities Converging Sensibilities

Performance Lab Site Gallery Café

Doc/Fest Exchange Our Planet, Shorts

Doc/Fest Exchange Our Planet, Shorts

Other

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lms

10:00

10:00

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

Events Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketplace

12:00 14:00

13:00 15:00

14:00 16:00

15:00

16:00

17:

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18:00

17:00 19:00

18:00 20:00

19:00 21:00

20:00 22:00

21:00 23:00

Schedule Thursday 6 June

22:00 00:00

23:00 01:00

00:00

01:

Showroom Cinema 1 Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

A Bigger Splash (New Restoration)

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

A Bigger Splash (New Restoration)

Workstation Conference Room 2

Night: Diego Maradona + Conversation Opening Night: Diego MaradonaOpening + Conversation Sheffield City Hall Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square Performance Lab

Crystal Bar Opening Night Drinks

Crystal Bar Opening Night Drinks Other

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Alternate Realities Preview Drinks

Site Gallery CafĂŠ

Alternate Realities Preview Drinks

18:00

17:00 19:00

18:00 20:00

19:00 21:00

20:00 22:00

21:00 23:00

Films

22:00 00:00

23:00 01:00

00:00

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Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketpla Events

Schedule Friday 7 June

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10:00

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

12:00 14:00

Dive: Rituals in Water

13:00 15:00

14:00 16:00

15:00

16:00 Hey, Bro!

Queen of Lapa

Queen of Lapa

Showroom Cinema 1

Dive: Rituals in WaterHey, Bro!

17:

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Dark Suns

Hermit

Dark Suns

Waiting for the Carnival

Waiting for the Carnival

Hermit

Kabul, City in the Wind

Kabul, City in the Wind

In Our Paradise

In Our Paradise

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Family Shorts

TheShorts Mortician of Family Manila

The Light Cinema 3 The Light Cinema 6

‘Now something is slowly changing’

‘Now something is slowly changing’

ClosingofTime The Mortician Manila

Norie

Norie

Symphony of the Shelter – Farewell to Eden Ursus Factory

Doc/Player Lounge

The Workstation Conference Room 2

On The President’s War Orders of Art

Closing Time

The Big House

The Big House

Danny

Danny

Shelter – Farewell to Eden Property

War of Art

Property

Absence

Just Don’t Thi I’ll Scream

Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

Doc/Player Lounge

Alternate Realities Exhibition: Subconscious Alternate Realities Sensibilities Exhibition: Subconscious Sensibilities

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square

Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Alternate Converging Realities Sensibilities VR Cinema: Converging Sensibilities

Performance Lab Crucible Theatre

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

Other

Doc/Fest Exchange Netflix Crucible Studio Netflix Crucible Studio Netflix Crucible Studio Our Planet,BAFTA Masterclass: BAFTA Masterclass:Paul Greengrass in Our HealthAsif Kapadia Asif Kapadia Conversation Doc/Fest Exchange Meet the Makers: Alternate Realities

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

Doc/Fest Exchange Living Off Grid

Other

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lms

The Light Cinema 8

Symphony of the Ursus Factory

On The President’s Orders

Don’t Be A Dick About It

Don’t Be A Dick About It

Netflix Crucible Studio Paul Greengrass in Conversation

Doc/Fest Exchange Meet the Makers: Alternate Realities

DINA DINA Documentary Lives Here: Doc Society Documentary Drop In Lives Here: Doc Society Drop In

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10:00

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

Events Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketplace

12:00 14:00

13:00 15:00

14:00 16:00

15:00

16:00

17:

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18:00

18:00 20:00

Doc/Rhythm Shorts

19:00 21:00

20:00 22:00

21:00 23:00

Doc/Rhythm ShortsDiego Maradona

Schedule Friday 7 June

22:00 00:00

23:00 01:00

00:00

01:

Diego Maradona Showroom Cinema 1

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

One Child Nation

Selfie

Flip The Script

Flip The Script

Selfie

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

One Child Nation

Apollo 11

Apollo 11

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

The Fortress

The Fortress

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

My First Film

My First Film

La Vida En Común

La Vida En Común

The Light Cinema 3

Push

Push

Jawline

Jawline The Light Cinema 6

ink

Your Turn

Your Turn

Lisbon Beat

Lisbon Beat The Light Cinema 8 The Workstation Conference Room 2

Site Gallery Café Meet the Alternate Territories Delegation Drinks

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square Performance Lab

The Rest + Conversation

The Rest + Conversation

Romantic Comedy + Live Score from Summer Camp

Romantic Comedy + Live Score from Summer Camp

Crucible Theatre

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Exchange We Are Neurodiverse We Are Neurodiverse Workstation Mezzanine Meet the Alternate Territories Delegation Drinks

Other

Theatre Deli Tamper Seller’s Wheel Theatre Deli Tamper Seller’s Wheel Lisbon Beat: The After Party (ends at 02:00) Thai Delegation Lisbon Beat: The After Party (ends at 02:00) Thai Delegation Drinks Reception Winter Garden Drinks Reception Winter Garden Exploring the Archives – Exploring the Archives – FOCAL International Drinks FOCAL International Drinks Other

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17:00 19:00

18:00

17:00 19:00

18:00 20:00

19:00 21:00

20:00 22:00

21:00 23:00

Films

22:00 00:00

23:00 01:00

00:00

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Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketplac Events

Schedule Saturday 8 June

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10:00

New/UK

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship

Another Paradise

Curzon Cinema 1 The Light Cinema 3 The Light Cinema 6 The Light Cinema 8

This Film is About Me

Chinese Portrait Jawline

The Sound is Innocent

This FilmSolidarity is About Me

The Workstation Conference Room 2

Doc/Player Lounge

American Factory

Seahorse + Conversation

Seahorse + Conversation

Reconstructing Utøya Doc/Love Shorts

Swarm Season While We Are Here

While We Are Here

About LoveMy Father The Spy

My Father The Spy

Doc/Player Lounge

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square Performance Lab

Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Converging Sensibilities Converging Sensibilities

Crucible Theatre

The Lovers Table (Part 1) presented The Lovers Table (Part 1) presented

by Kazim Rashid & Lotte Andersen

by Kazim Rashid & Lotte Andersen

Netflix Crucible Studio

My Big Break

My Big Break Breaking the Class Ceiling

Breaking the Class Rodney P talks Beats, Ceiling Bass and Docs p.109

Rodney P talks Bea Bass and Docs p.109

Crucible Adelphi

Portrayals of Youth: Growing Up On Film

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Through the Eyes of the Other

Portrayals of Youth Growing Up On Film

Craft Summit EyestheClose to the Edit Close to theThrough Edit the Filming of the Other Unfilmable

ITV Town Hall Committee Room 1

The Justice Syndicate

Filming the Picturing Unfilmable the Planet

PicturingShort and Smart Sound Unbound Sound Unbound the Planet

The Justice Syndicate The Justice Syndicate

Short and Smart

The Justice Syndicate

Doc/Fest Exchange Changin Visions of Home

Other

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

Doc/Fest Exchange Paradise Square Doc/Fest Exchange A Soft Rebellion in Paradise Breakfast

Paradise Square Doc/FestinExchange A Soft Rebellion Paradise Meet the Makers: Alternate Realities

Doc/Fest Exchange Meet the Makers: Alternate Realities

Doc/Fest Exchange Building Blocks

Other

10:00

Doc/Love Shorts

Hermit

Hermit

About Love

17:

What We Left Unfinished

Border South

Jawline

Alternate Realities Exhibition: Alternate Realities Exhibition: Subconscious Sensibilities Subconscious Sensibilities

Craft Summit

14

16:00

Border South

Swarm Season The Sound is Innocent

Solidarity

15:00

What We Left Unfinished

On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship

Reconstructing Utøya

Chinese Portrait

14:00 16:00

American Factory

In Search...

Watergate

Once Aurora

13:00 15:00

No Data Plan

Another Paradise

The Pit

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

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lms

12:00 14:00

In Search...

Tiny Souls

The Pit

Once Aurora

11:00 13:00 No Data Plan

New/UK

Tiny Souls

Watergate

10:00 12:00

New/Japan

Showroom Cinema 1

New/Japan

09:00 11:00

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

Events Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketplace

12:00 14:00

13:00 15:00

14:00 16:00

15:00

16:00

17:

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18:00

17:00 19:00

18:00 20:00

Property

Earth

Earth

The Light Cinema 6

Cool Daddio: The Second Youth Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore of R. Stevie Moore

The Light Cinema 8

The Black Tree

The Black Tree

The Light Cinema 3

3OHA & +6Gain

Curzon Cinema 1

3OHA & +6Gain

The Revenge of the Diva

The Revenge of the Diva

Films for Rebel Girls: Property Dream Screens

James Lee Byars: World Question Centre

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Films for Rebel Girls: Dream Screens

Midnight Traveler

A Dog Called Money + ExtendedA Dog Q&ACalled Money + Extended Q&A

The Rest

The Rest

01:

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

For Sama + Conversation

00:00

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

For Sama + Conversation

23:00 01:00

Khartoum Offside James Lee Byars: World Question Centre

Midnight Traveler

The Edge of Democracy

Schedule Saturday 8 June

22:00 00:00

Doc/Rhythm

Khartoum Offside

Doc/Think Shorts

The Edge of Democracy

21:00 23:00

Doc/Rhythm

D E E P Live

Doc/Think Shorts

20:00 22:00

Showroom Cinema 1

D E E P Live

19:00 21:00

The Workstation Conference Room 2

Site Gallery Square Igloo Vision Drinks

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square

Site Gallery Square Igloo Vision Drinks

Performance Lab

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Netflix Crucible Studio

ats,

Crucible Theatre

Untouchable + Conversation Untouchable + Conversation

Crucible Adelphi

h: m

The Justice Syndicate

The Justice Syndicate

ITV Town Hall Committee Room 1

Doc/Fest Exchange Michael Dapaah aka Big Shaq Talks...

Curzon Rooftop University of Stirling Drinks

Curzon Rooftop Tamper Sellers Wheel University of StirlingMeet Drinks the Filmmakers Drinks

Ambulo at Millennium Gallery Northern Docs Drinks

18:00

17:00 19:00

Winter Garden DINA DINA Scottish Delegation WHAM! Drinks British Tropical SummerWHAM! Party British at the Doc Tropical Society Summer Clubhouse Party at the Doc Society Clubhouse

Ambulo at Millennium Gallery Northern Docs Drinks

18:00 20:00

(Ends at 02:00)

19:00 21:00

20:00 22:00

Other

Winter Garden Scottish Delegation Drinks

Tamper Sellers Wheel Hope Works Hope Works Meet the Filmmakers The Lovers The Lovers Table (part 2) presented

by Table (part 2) presented by Drinks 4:3 x Sheffield Doc/Fest (Ends at 4:302:00) x Sheffield Doc/Fest (Ends at 02:00) Other

:00

Town Hall Lobby Craft Summit Drinks presented by Documentary Campus

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Town Hall Lobby Craft Summit Drinks presented by Documentary Campus

(Ends at 02:00)

21:00 23:00

Films

22:00 00:00

23:00 01:00

00:00

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01:

Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketpla Events

dule SundaySunday 9 June 9 June Schedule

:00

10:00

09:00 11:00

Showroom Cinema 1

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

That Which Does Not Kill

Curzon Cinema 1

Lemebel

The Light Cinema 6

Don’t Be A DickMother, About ItI Am Suffocating.

This Is My Last Film About You.

On The President’s BLOCK Orders

The Light Cinema 8 Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square Performance Lab

Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Converging Sensibilities Converging Sensibilities

Crucible Theatre

In Conversation with Werner Herzog

Sunrise With Sea Monsters

In Conversation with Werner Herzog

Netflix Crucible Studio & Crucible Adelphi ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Imaginary Friends: Short Stories from ‘The Loneliest Generation’

Imaginary Friends: Born to Be a Short Stories from Contributor ‘The Loneliest Generation’

ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Chicken & Egg (Egg)celerator Lab Pitch

Chicken & Egg (Egg)celerator Lab Pitch

Who Do We Trust...

Born to Be a Sports Documentaries Contributor with ESPN

ITV Town Hall Committee Room 1 Cutlers’ Hall

Hadfield Hall Hadfield Hall Beyond Story: Meet the A Conversation...

Sales Agents

Hadfield Hall Main HallBeyond Story: Snap Chats: 10 Minute A Conversation...

Meets

Other

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Doc/Fest Exchange Exchange Climate Stories: Breakfast

BLOCK

Talk

The Silents of Avant Garde Paris

Crucible Adelphi Women to the Front: Who Do We Trust...

Sports Documentaries with ESPN

Korean Pitching Day: Part 2

The Justice Syndicate

Hadfield Hall Meet the Hadfield Hall DistributorsMeet the Sales Agents

Doc/Fest Exchange Encountering Virtual Realities

New Strategies

‘Now

Korean Pitching Korean Pitching Day: PartDay: 1 Part 2

The Justice Syndicate The Justice Syndicate

The Justice Syndicate

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

Other

10:00

Crucible Adelphi Jenn Nkiru talksCrucible Film, Art Adelphi Women to the Front: and Cosmic Archeology

Korean Pitching Day: Part 1

The P

Sunrise With Sea Monsters

The Silents of Avant Garde Paris

Crucible Adelphi Netflix Crucible Studio Alternate Realities Summit Jenn Nkiru talks Film, Art Crucible Adelphi Crucible Adelphi and Cosmic Archeology Shapes that Move: Shapes that Move: Archiving the...

Archiving the...

Rushing Green with

Lisbon Beat

Mother, I Am Suffocating.

On The President’s Orders This Is My Last Film About You.

Alternate Realities Exhibition: Alternate Realities Exhibition: Subconscious Sensibilities Subconscious Sensibilities

Doc/Expo

Sumercé

Sumercé

The Magic Life of V

A Wild Stream

17:

Radical Broad

Rushing Green with Horses

The Magic Life of V

A Wild Stream

16:00

Doc/Adventure Shorts

This Film is About Me Beat Lisbon

Solidarity

Solidarity

Tiny Souls

Hunting for Hedonia

This Film is About Me

15:00

The Unwanted:Radical The Secret Broadcasts Windrush Files

Doc/Adventure Shorts

Hunting for Hedonia

Hadfield HallOld Banquetting Hadfield Hall Main Hall Getting Past the Getting PastHall the Snap Chats: 10 Minute Gatekeepers...

Gatekeepers...

Marketplace Meets Café

16

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

The Machine That Kills Bad People The Machine That Kills Bad People

Apollo 11

The Light Cinema 3

:00

lms

Tiny Souls

14:00 16:00

That Which Does Not Kill

On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship

Don’t Be A Dick About It

Criminal Justice

13:00 15:00

The Border Fence

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship

12:00 14:00

JadeThe Border Fence

Lemebel

Apollo 11

11:00 13:00

Out in theCriminal Cold Justice

Out in the Cold

Jade

10:00 12:00

Hadfield Hall Meet the Distributors Doc/Fest Exchange Meet the Maker: Power of Podcasts

The Workstation Conference Room The Workstation 2 Conference Room 2 Doc/Player Lounge Doc/Player Lounge

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

Events Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketplace

12:00 14:00

13:00 15:00

14:00 16:00

15:00

16:00

17:

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18:00

17:00 19:00

19:00 21:00

Let It Burn

Let It Burn

War of Art

Hey, Bro!

Dark Suns

Dark Suns

The Light Cinema 6

Searching Eva

Searching Eva

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square

Site Gallery Café Meet the Alternate Realities Artists x Creative England Drinks

The Light Cinema 8

Site Gallery Café Meet the Alternate Realities Artists x Creative England Drinks

In Our Paradise

Praise the Lorde Hey, Bro!

The Hottest August

The Hottest August

Midnight Family

In Our Paradise

War of Art

Baracoa

king About Adultery

MOTHER

Midnight Family

Praise the Lorde

Baracoa

Doc/Think Shorts 2

MOTHER

01:

The Light Cinema 3

w something is slowly changing’

Once Aurora

00:00

Curzon Cinema 1

Pit

23:00 01:00

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

Schedule Schedule SundaySunday 9 June 9

22:00 00:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Mike Wallace Is Here

Mike Wallace Is Here

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

Once Aurora

Once Upon A Time In IraqShorts 2 Doc/Think

Once Upon A Time In Iraq

h Horses

21:00 23:00

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

ose Shorts

20:00 22:00

Showroom Cinema 1

dcasts

18:00 20:00

Performance Lab

Netflix Crucible Netflix Crucible Studio Channel 4Studio Interview: TheWiggins Smartphone Sir Bradley Orchestra ...

Netflix Crucible Studio The Smartphone Orchestra ...

Netflix Crucible Studio & Crucible Adelphi

Netflix Crucible Studio Channel 4 Interview: Sir Bradley Wiggins

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

Crucible Theatre

Marianne & Leonard: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love + Conversation Words of Love + Conversation

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Main Hall Marketplace Drinks

Tamper SellersTrust Wheel Tamper Deli Sellers Wheel Grierson Winter Garden Grierson Trust Winter Garden Theatre Theatre Deli Doc/Fest New Talent Drinks Storyville Drinks BBC Storyville Drinks New TalentBBC Drinks Shapes That Move: The Party (Ends at 02:00) Shapes That Move: The Party (Ends at 02:00) Exchange The Leadmill What If? Jonathan The Leadmill Deep in Vogue + Performance Deep in Vogue + Performance Pie Versus the...

Tamper Sellers Wheel Ambulo Millennium TamperatSellers WheelGallery Ambulo at Millennium Gallery DINA DINA British Council Drinks Sky ArtsCouncil Drinks Drinks British Sky Arts Drinks Acme Films presents: Rodney P’s Acme House Films Party presents: Rodney P’s House Party (with special guest DJ Charlie Sloth) (with special (Ends atguest 02:00)DJ Charlie Sloth) (Ends at 02:00) Curzon Rooftop Curzon Rooftop ESPN Drinks ESPN Drinks Other Other

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Cutlers’ Hall

Main Hall Marketplace Drinks

The Justice Syndicate

ITV Town Hall Committee Room 1

The Justice Syndicate

18:00

17:00 19:00

18:00 20:00

19:00 21:00

20:00 22:00

21:00 23:00

Films

22:00 00:00

23:00 01:00

00:00

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Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketpla Events

Schedule Monday 10 June

:00

10:00

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

RomanticDive: Comedy Rituals in Water

Another Paradise

Another Paradise

Showroom Cinema 1

Romantic Comedy

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Curzon Cinema 1 The Light Cinema 6

Border South

15:00

One Child Nation

Selfie

Selfie

The Light Cinema 8

Just Don’tThe Think Fortress I’ll Scream

17:

A British State of Being

A Dog Called Money

One Child Nation

Talking About Adultery What We Left Unfinished

Queen of Lapa

Queen of Lapa

16:00

Tattooed Tears A British State of Being (40th Anniversary)

The Fortress

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square

Alternate Realities Exhibition: Alternate Realities Exhibition: Subconscious Sensibilities Subconscious Sensibilities

Performance Lab

Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Converging Sensibilities Converging Sensibilities

About Lov

Funding and Famous Faces Commissioning: in New Spaces Feature Documentary

Famous Faces in New Spaces

Poverty in the UK: How to Tell Stories That Inspire Change

Poverty inFunding the UK:and Commissioning: How to Tell Stories Short Documentary That Inspire Change

Funding and Real Drama: What’s Next for the Commissioning: Access Doc? Short Documentary

The BBC Three Pitch

The BBC Three PitchUniversity of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea

Main Hall MeetMarket Drawing Room Meet the Festival

Drawing Room Producers Meet Producers Drawing Room Meet the Festival

Crucible Theatre & Adelphi

Funding and Commissioning: Feature Documentary

Netflix Crucible Studio

Reinventing the Celebrity BioPic

Da

Doc/Vision Shorts

The Magic Life of V

Theatre The Channel Crucible Adelphi Crucible Adelphi Crucible Theatre The Channel Crucible 4 FirstFunding Cut Pitch and The Renaissance of4 First Cut Pitch Commissioning: the Nations and Crucible Adelphi Crucible Adelphi Podcasts...

Regions Cinema and State...

Cinema and State...

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A ITV Town Hall Reception Room B Cutlers’ Hall

Drawing Room Producers Meet Producers Drawing Room Here’s What Really Happenned

Hi, AI

Absence

Crucible Adelphi The Renaissance of the Nations and Regions

University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea

A Do

For Sama

What We Left Unfinished About Love

Doc/Vision Shorts

The Magic Life of V

For Sama

Hi, AI

No Data Plan Cool Daddio: The Second Youth Cool Daddio: The Second Youth Absence of R. Stevie Moore of R. Stevie Moore

The Light Cinema 3

Main Hall MeetMarket

14:00 16:00

Reason

Reason

Dive: Rituals in Water Talking About Adultery

No Data Plan

Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

13:00 15:00

Dive: RitualsTattooed in Water Tears (40th Anniversary)

The Border Fence

The Border Fence

Dive: Rituals in Water

12:00 14:00

American Factory

American Factory

Border South

11:00 13:00

Closing Time

Closing Tim

CrucibleCrucible AdelphiAdelphi Funding Funding and and Commissioning: Commissioning: Arts, Music...

Podcasts...

Crucible Adelphi Funding and Commissioning: Arts, Music...

Reinventing the Celebrity BioPic

Real Drama: UKTV: Meet the What’s Next Commissioners for the Access Doc? The Joseph Rowntree Foundation X Guardian Pitch Drawing Room Here’s What Really Drawing Room Happenned Here’s What Really Happenned

UKTV: Meet th Commissioner

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation X Guardian Pitch

Drawing Room Here’s What Really Happenned

Cutlers’ Hall

Reception Room Switchboard &Reception SurgeriesRoom Switchboard & Surgeries

Old Banqueting Hall Marketplace OldCafé Banqueting Hall Marketplace Café Hadfield Hall Alternate RealitiesHadfield Talent Market Hall Alternate Realities Talent Market Other

Doc/Fest Exchange Room The Workstation Conference The Workstation 2 Conference Room 2 Doc/Player Doc/Fest Lounge Exchange Doc/Player Lounge Breakfast

Doc/Fest Exchange A Conversation with Jeremy Deller

Other

:00

lms

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

18

10:00

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

Events Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketplace

Doc/Fest Exchange Meet the Makers: Alternate Realities

12:00 14:00

13:00 15:00

Doc/Fest Exchange Perspectives on Reality

14:00 16:00

15:00

16:00

17:

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18:00

17:00 19:00

18:00 20:00

20:00 22:00

Lima Screams Memento Stella

Lima Screams

The Sound is Innocent

Los Reyes

Los Reyes

Waiting for the Carnival La Vida En Común

Waiting for the Carnival

The Light Cinema 8

La Vida En Común

me

Sound is Innocent Operate HeavyThe Machinery

The Light Cinema 6

Memento Stella

Seahorse

The Light Cinema 3

Operate Heavy Machinery

Danny

Seahorse

Curzon Cinema 1

anny

Hunting for Hedonia

Advocate

01:

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Hunting for Hedonia

ve

Late Announcement Film See p.54

Advocate

00:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

The Great Hack

Lemebel

Late Announcement Film

War In The Blood

23:00 01:00

Reconstructing Utøya

Kabul, City in the Wind Lemebel

War In The Blood

The Great Hack

Reconstructing Utøya

Schedule Monday 10 June

22:00 00:00

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Kabul, City in the Wind

21:00 23:00

Showroom Cinema 1

Rough/Ready Rough/Ready See sheffdocfest.com for details See sheffdocfest.com for details

og Called Money

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square Performance Lab

Crucible Theatre BBC Interview: Stacey Dooley

Crucible Theatre

: BBC Interview:

Stacey Dooley

Desert Island Bush,Docs: Boobs & Body Nick Hornby Positivity with The Slumflower

Bush, Boobs & Body Positivity with The Slumflower

Netflix Crucible Studio

Desert Island Docs: Nick Hornby

Crucible Theatre Crucible Theatre Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl + Live Performance + Live Performance p.35

Crucible Theatre & Adelphi

i

19:00 21:00

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

he rs

ITV Town Hall Reception Room B Cutlers’ Hall

Garden Irish Winter Garden Crystal Bar Irish Crystal Bar Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/FestWinter Exchange Delegation Reception Delegation Reception Channel 4 Party (Ends at 02:00)Channel 4 Party (Ends at 02:00) Fighting Shame ITV Showroom Fighting Bar Shame ITV Showroom Bar +Q&A +Q&A Curzon Rooftop Curzon Rooftop Polish Docs Pro Drinks Polish Docs Pro Drinks Halo Drinks Halo Drinks

Ambulo at Millennium Gallery Drinks with the Nordics

18:00

Curzon Rooftop UKTV The Leadmill Networking Drinks Toshio Matsumoto Shorts Ambulo at Millennium Gallery Drinks with the Nordics

17:00 19:00

18:00 20:00

+ Bo Ningen Live

19:00 21:00

The Leadmill Toshio Matsumoto Shorts + Bo Ningen Live

20:00 22:00

21:00 23:00

Films

22:00 00:00

Other

Curzon Rooftop UKTV Networking Drinks

Other

:00

Cutlers’ Hall

y

23:00 01:00

00:00

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Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketpla Events

Schedule Tuesday 11 June

:00

10:00

10:00 12:00

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Mike Wallace Is Here

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Baracoa

While We Are Here

The Light Cinema 3 The Light Cinema 6

Swarm Season

The Light Cinema 8

Swarm Season

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square

17:

Khartoum Offside

MOTHER

While We Are Here Hi, AI

Hi, AI

A Wi

Sunrise With Mother, Sea Monsters I Am Suffocating.

Mother, I Am Suffocating.

This Is My Last Film About You. This Is My Last Film About You.

Anot Ano

Let It Burn

Let It Burn

The Hottest August

16:00

Kate Nas

Khartoum Offside

The Amazing JohnathanMOTHER Documentary

My Father The Spy

15:00

My Father The Spy

The Hottest August

The Black Tree

The Black Tree

Midnight Traveler

Midnight Traveler

Alternate Realities Exhibition: Alternate Realities Exhibition: Subconscious Sensibilities Subconscious Sensibilities

Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Alternate Realities VR Cinema: Converging Sensibilities Converging Sensibilities

Performance Lab

Commissioning: Specialist Factual

Commissioning: Commissioning: SpecialistFactual FactualEntertainment

Commissioning: Commissioning: Factual Entertainment Documentary for Broadcast

Commissioning: Documentary for Broadcast

Updating the Classics: How Do You Refresh...

UpdatingCriminal the Justice: Classics:Letting How Dothe You Refresh...Cameras In

Criminal Inside Justice:National Letting the Geographic Cameras In

Inside National Original Geographic Documentaries preview with Channel 5

Up: A Longitudinal Case Study

Up: A Longitudinal Secrets and Lies: Case Study Testimony and Archive...

Secrets and Lies:Focus: Pulling TestimonyA and Spotlight on Archive...Directors’ Wellbeing

Pulling Focus: A Spotlight on Directors’ Wellbeing

The Thai Delegation Pitch

The Whickers The Thai Delegation Pitch Pitch

Netflix Crucible Studio Crucible Adelphi

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A ITV Town Hall Reception Room B Cutlers’ Hall

Main Hall MeetMarket

14:00 16:00 In Search...

Sumercé

Sunrise With Sea Monsters

Earth

13:00 15:00

In Search...

The Great Hack

The Great Hack

Earth

BLOCK

Mike Wallace Is Here The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

Your Turn

Curzon Cinema 1

Your Turn

12:00 14:00

Rising Directors Scheme Sumercé 2019 Showcase

Rising Directors Scheme 2019 Showcase

Baracoa

11:00 13:00

Chinese Portrait BLOCK

Showroom Cinema 1

Chinese Portrait

09:00 11:00

Drawing Room Budgeting Masterclass

Drawing Room Some Like It Short Drawing Room Budgeting Masterclass

Original Documentaries preview with Channel 5

The Whickers Pitch

Drawing Room Some LikeDrawing It ShortRoom Ask a Lawyer

Drawing Room Ask a Lawyer

Reception Room Switchboard & Surgeries Cutlers’ Hall

Old Banqueting Hall Marketplace OldCafé Banqueting Hall Marketplace Café Hadfield Hall Alternate RealitiesHadfield Talent Market Hall Alternate Realities Talent Market Other

:00 20

lms

Doc/Fest Exchange Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

10:00

Doc/Fest Exchange Room The Workstation Conference The Workstation 2 Conference Room 2 Doc/Fest Doc/Player Doc/Fest Lounge Exchange Doc/Player Lounge Exchange Breakfast Living with Robots Doc/Fest Exchange Food Matters

09:00 11:00

10:00 12:00

11:00 13:00

Events Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketplace

12:00 14:00

13:00 15:00

Doc/Fest Exchange Living with Robots 14:00 16:00

15:00

Doc/Fest Exchange Alternate Realities: Meet the Maker 16:00

17:

:00

18:00

17:00 19:00

19:00 21:00

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

War In The Blood Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

The That Which Does Not KillRevenge of the Diva

Push

Untouchable

The Campaigners

The Campaigners

Diego Maradona

other ther Mother Mother

Shelter – Farewell to Eden

Symphony Shelter – Farewell to Eden of the Ursus Factory

Midnight Family

Advocate

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

3OHA & +6Gain

3OHA & +6Gain

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Searching Eva

Searching Eva

Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards

Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards

The Light Cinema 8

Advocate

Los Reyes

The Light Cinema 6

Midnight Family

Los Reyes

Symphony of the Ursus Factory

The Light Cinema 3

Lima Screams

01:

Curzon Cinema 1

Diego Maradona

00:00

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

The Revenge of the Untouchable Diva

ild Stream

Lima Screams

23:00 01:00

War In The Blood

Push

The Edge of Democracy

Schedule Tuesday 11 June

22:00 00:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

That Which Does Not Kill

21:00 23:00

Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

The Edge of Democracy

20:00 22:00

Showroom Cinema 1

h: Underestimate the Girl

18:00 20:00

Site Gallery & Site Gallery Square Performance Lab Netflix Crucible Studio Crucible Adelphi ITV Town Hall Reception Room A ITV Town Hall Reception Room B Cutlers’ Hall Cutlers’ Hall

:00

18:00

Tamper ITV Showroom Sellers Wheel Bar BBC ITV Arts Drinks Drinks

17:00 19:00

Tamper Sellers Wheel BBC Arts Drinks

18:00 20:00

19:00 21:00

The Leadmill The Leadmill Closing Night Party (Ends at 02:00) Closing Night Party (Ends at 02:00)

20:00 22:00

21:00 23:00

Films

22:00 00:00

23:00 01:00

Other

ITV Showroom Bar ITV Drinks

00:00

21

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Films Alternate Events Realities AlternateTalks RealitiesMarketplace Talks Marketpla Events

Schedule The Light Free Screen on Howard Street Thu 6 June

09:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

Mon 10 June

Tue 11 June

Docsercise p.94

Docsercise p.95

Docsercise p.95

Green Screens 1 p.93

VICE 3 p.94

Made in Yorkshire 1 p.94

Global Citizens 2 p.95

Dazed p.95

Global Citizens 2 p.93

The Guardian 2 p.94

NOWNESS p.94

Jessica Bishopp p.95

The Guardian 2 p.95

Made in Yorkshire 1 p.93

Access All Areas 2 p.93

Jessica Bishopp p.94

Random Acts p.94

Green Screens 2 p.95

NOWNESS p.95

Global Citizens 1 p.93

NOWNESS p.93

Access All Areas 1 p.94

Women on Screen 2 p.94

Random Acts p.95

Global Citizens 3 p.95

Access All Areas 1 p.93

Queer Perspectives 2 p.93

Women on Screen 1 p.94

VICE 1 p.94

Dazed p.95

Green Screens 1 p.95

Queer Perspectives 1 p.93

Women on Screen 2 p.93

Green Screens 2 p.94

Global Citizens 1 p.94

VICE 2 p.95

Access All Areas 1 p.95

Dazed p.93

Random Acts p.93

Global Citizens 3 p.94

Jessica Bishopp p.94

Made in Yorkshire 2 p.95

VICE 3 p.95

VICE 1 p.93

The Guardian 1 p.93

Made in Yorkshire 2 p.94

Green Screens 1 p.94

Women on Screen 1 p.95

Queer Perspectives 2 p.95

Women on Screen 1 p.93

VICE 2 p.93

Queer Perspectives 1 p.94

Access All Areas 2 p.94

The Guardian 1 p.95

Made in Yorkshire 1 p.95

The Great Pretenders p.93

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché p.93

Special Screening p.94

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché p.94

Special Screening p.95

Special Screening p.95

20:00

21:00

22:00 22

Sun 9 June

Docsercise p.94

11:00

13:00

Sat 8 June

Docsercise p.93

10:00

12:00

Fri 7 June

Films

ht Spotlight Spotlight Spotlight Sp

Premiere screenings and deep conversations with contemporary masters of non-fiction cinema.

Capturing reality is a messy art form: never distant from the events unfolding on screen, slicing up stories that live beyond the film.

This year we are introducing Spotlight conversations to embrace the story beyond the film. Spotlight creates a forum for discussion, debate and learning by framing a series of films with poignant, pressing and prescient conversations on the art and subjects of non-fiction cinema.

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Spotlight Opening Night Film

Spotlight

Diego Maradona

+ Conversation with Asif Kapadia

Thu 6 Jun / 18:00 / Sheffield City Hall / ÂŁ12/ ÂŁ10

Our opening night film will be the UK premiere of Diego Maradona, a revealing and immersive work of archival craft. Having never won a major tournament, SSC Napoli had always underachieved. But when Diego Maradona arrived in 1984, all hell broke loose. In a city where the devil would have needed bodyguards, Maradona became bigger than God himself. This is the wild and unforgettable story of a God-given talent, glory, despair and betrayal, of corruption and ultimately redemption.

See p.43 for further screenings 24

Spotlight The Rest

+ Conversation With Ai Weiwei

Fri 7 June / 18:00 / Crucible Theatre

The Rest is a film about refugees who fled war and persecution and arrived in Europe, the world’s bastion of human rights, yet have not found the safe havens of their dreams.

Instead, they now live in limbo within a disintegrating humanitarian aid system, no longer the centre of media attention. The film is a mirror of the European political zeitgeist, demonstrating how pan-European values of liberalism and democracy have largely failed in practice.

See p.69 for further screenings

Spotlight

Seahorse

+ Conversation with Jeanie Finlay and Freddy McConnell Sat 8 June / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom 4

Freddy is 30 and yearns to start a family but this poses unique challenges. He is a gay transgender man. Deciding to carry his own baby took years of soul searching, but he was unprepared for the reality of pregnancy, both physically and challenging society’s fundamental understanding of gender and family. Against a backdrop of hostility towards trans people, he is forced to confront his naivety.

See p.58 for further screenings

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Spotlight For Sama

+ Conversation with Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, hosted by Jon Snow Sat 8 June / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom 4

Told as a message from a young Syrian mother Waad al-Kateab to her daughter, For Sama traces Waad’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth. An intimate, visceral documentary about the female experience of war, Waad’s camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as she wrestles with an impossible choice – whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life.

Spotlight

See p.49 for further screenings

Untouchable

+ Conversation with Ursula Macfarlane

Sat 8 June / 18:00 / Crucible Theatre

The inside story of the meteoric rise and monstrous fall of movie titan Harvey Weinstein, revealing how Weinstein acquired and deployed his formidable power over the course of decades. Former staffers, college friends, and reporters reflect upon the public perception of Weinstein as a visionary, while detailing his ruthless attempts to preserve his power as scandal threatened to engulf him.

See p.70 for further screenings

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Spotlight Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

+ Conversation with Werner Herzog Sat 8 June / 21:15 / Crucible Theatre

When British writer and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, he gave his friend Werner Herzog the rucksack that he carried on all of his adventures around the world. Now, three decades later, carrying the rucksack, Herzog sets out on his own journey inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life.

See p.45 for further screenings

Spotlight

A Dog Called Money

+ Conversation with Seamus Murphy Sat 8 June / 21:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom 4

Award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy has made an illuminating film that investigates the creative process behind his project with PJ Harvey. While tracing the sources of her songs and detailing the journey of their birth, he brings to life the people and places at their very heart. The artist and creative act are unfolded in fragmented scenes of inspiration and musical process.

See p.61 for further screenings

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Spotlight Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love + Conversation with Nick Broomfield

Sun 9 June / 18:15 / Crucible Theatre

Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen’s love began on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in 1960 as part of a bohemian community of foreign artists, writers and musicians. The film follows their relationship from the early days on Hydra, a humble time of ‘free love’ and open marriage, to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician.

See p.63 for further screenings Spotlight 28

Live Events Live EventsLive Events

The Live Events programme at Doc/Fest showcases creativity in documentary across all artistic media – from music to live performance to social experiments bringing you unforgettable experiences whilst continuing to centre non-fiction storytelling.

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Live Events Romantic Comedy

+ Live Score by Summer Camp Fri 7 June / 21:30 / Crucible Theatre / £12/ £10

Having devoured them as a young teen into womanhood, rom coms have played a leading role in the formation of director Elizabeth Sankey’s identity, and fantasies of love. How does Hollywood dictate what love looks like, and who deserves it? A vibrant essay film with brilliant use of archive from recognisable favourites. The film will be presented with the world premiere of a live score from Sankey’s band, Summer Camp.

For further screenings, see p.58 Live Events

Part of Film Feels: Obsession, a UK-wide season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network

The Justice Syndicate

Sat 8 & Sun 9 June / 12:00, 14:45, 17:30 / ITV Town Hall Committee Room 1 / £10/ £8

A top surgeon accused of a serious crime.

Conviction would mean planned operations will not go ahead – and the evidence is far from conclusive. The Justice Syndicate is a piece of playable theatre drawing on a jury format. It asks how we fill in the gaps, how we deal with our preconceptions, and how being part of a group can affect all this. Power and privilege; trust and technology; thought and action. How will you vote?

A collaboration between recovering theatre company fanSHEN, computational artist Joe McAlister and neuroscientist Dr Kris De Meyer.

Contains both discussion of sexual assault and explicit description of consensual sexual activity.

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Live Events The Lovers Table (Part 1) Presented by Kazim Rashid & Lotte Andersen Sat 8 June / 13:30 / Crucible Theatre / £10/ £8

Conceived by artist Lotte Andersen and director Kazim Rashid. This video conference invites an interdisciplinary group of thinkers to present an aspect of their practice, be it video, sound or visual sketch. In this instance, work will be shared by Giles Duley, Ayo Akingbade, Sean Frank, Bafic, Ondine Viñao and Kayus Banks of Young Fathers.

Rashid and Andersen will additionally premiere new projects.

Live Events

See The Lovers Table (Part 2): Presented by 4:3 x Sheffield Doc/Fest p.138

The Silents of Avant Garde Paris

Sun 9 June / 15:30 / Crucible Theatre / £12/ £10

Three films from masters of the surreal and avant-garde in 1920s Paris, ‘Live Cinéma’, explores seminal works by Man Ray, René Clair and Fernand Léger with music by Erik Satie and two new scores by Olivier award-winning composer Terry Davies.

These scores include the world premiere of Ballet Mécanique and will be performed live

by Modulus Quartet and Charlie Pyne Quartet in a new collaboration between string and jazz ensembles.

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Live Events Deep in Vogue

+ Performance by House of Ghetto Sun 9 June / 19:00 / The Leadmill / £12/ £10

Deep in Vogue presents a colourful perspective on the vogueing subculture in Manchester. Comprised of interviews, archive, and behind the scenes footage, this vibrant documentary provides a firsthand account of the glamour and the confidence that a thrilling vogue ball provides for the LGBTQI+ community. The screening will be followed by a performance by House of Ghetto.

Presented in partnership with Live Cinema UK, supported by Film Hub North, proud to be part of the BFI Film Audience Network.

Live Events

The Smartphone Orchestra Presents: The Social Sorting Experiment Sun 9 June / 20:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

With every action you do on social media, you leave a digital data trail behind. When this digital trail is combined with psychological insights, a very accurate digital caricature is created. Recent events show this is not only used to make your online experience more personalised, but also used against your own interest. Would you rather get to know yourself so well, that you can no longer be manipulated? You will be measured and judged on the data trail you leave behind during the show. Experience how your data is used in unexpected ways in this absurdist, serious and fun interactive performance where you and your smartphone become the main star of the show.

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Live Events Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl + Kate Nash Live

Mon 10 June / 20:00 / Crucible Theatre / £12/ £10

A broken foot was the catalyst for Nando’s employee Kate Nash to kickstart her music career; her success was meteoric. With frank video diaries – a format echoing former criticisms of her style – Nash shares her journey and the unhealthy expectations of women perpetuated by the media. From pop to wrestling, Nash has come a long way, and she isn’t compromising.

For further screenings, see p.62 Live Events

This event is part of Film Feels: Obsession, a UK-wide season, supported by the National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.

Toshio Matsumoto Shorts + Bo Ningen Live

Mon 10 June / 20:30 / The Leadmill / £10/ £8

In this meeting of Japanese psychedelia, Doc/Fest presents a chronology of rarely seen seminal short films of Toshio Matsumoto (1931-2017) with a sensory wave of sound from contemporary noise rock band Bo Ningen. From the mechanic rhythm of textile production in his early documentary film work The Weavers of Nishijin (1961) to the weaving of frames within frames in video work Engram (1987), Matsumoto’s world reverberates with cuts in observation and sound. Bo Ningen’s performance fuses disparate sounds and influences into a fierce, eclectic torrent of grooves.

For further information, see p.85

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Where will change emerge from?

From the marginalised or from within?

What questions need to be asked, how will they be vocalised? By whom?

This year’s programme reflects a global wave of socio-political malaise and seeds of contestation for new order. The cinema is a portal to infinite identities and horizons, brooding epics are punctuated by illuminous scenes, worlds contract to minutes, moments expand to hours, hearts thump out of time.

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Films Strands Doc/Adventure p.42

Doc/Rhythm p.61

Doc/Expose p.48

Doc/Think p.66

Doc/Love p.55

Doc/Vision p.73

Take a ride through dramatic tales and challenging personal journeys.

These scenes of shared adventures roll with raw, informal and often difficult images of friendship, either budding or radically close.

Films

Thrilling investigations exposing the truth from frontlines to headlines. This programme offers an emphasis on citizens: those tyrannised and those who fight back. Discover epic and sober works of journalism, with deep reflection rarely afforded in short flashes of news streams.

Pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family and friendship. A collection of playful, subversive and tender films which question love and power through stories of identity, equality and family to rupture inherited, often patriarchal forms of societal norms.

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Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of music and contemporary culture. Float in symphonies of sonic futures in an auditorium of Detroit techno, Peruvian noise, Portuguese Afrobeat, and Post-Soviet culture, resonant with chants for the soul, for identity, for love.

Explore new ways of seeing and thinking about the world. Through documents of restless discovery we witness battles in the terrains of body, labour and land. Whether through the eye of art or the endoscope of science beneath the surface we witness the spirited terrains of the soul.

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists and bold cinematic visions. Imagination meets reality through topographies of temporary conditions: illegal presence in America, queer happenings in Chile, Taiwan in neon light, New York during high summer, and dusty processions through Lesotho.

Films Focus Strands Focus/Shapes That Move p.79

An intersectional feminist focus that brings to the foreground the collaborative power of those who have contributed to shaping new futures in Britain using the medium of cinema, turning the act of filmmaking into an act of solidarity.

New/Hits p.81

New/UK p.90

In these raw scenes of a country in flux, a generation of UK filmmakers question values, flip assumptions, and walk the streets of the here and now.

Films

Powerful new masterpieces selected fresh from the best international film festivals. Each of these films marches with courage of character and depth of dignity: whistleblowers, new political disruptors and wild bee-keepers open their doors and hives to the camera.

New/Signals

p.87 The best in new broadcast, episodic and online films followed by deep conversations. This chamber of formatted works are signals of the now, and echoes of unresolved histories. Big stories of politics and justice from the invasion of Iraq, to the Windrush scandal and Watergate.

New/Japan p.84

Discover a creative new wave of stories and images from Japanese filmmakers. These images glow beyond comprehension, from the intimate and familial lens to the abstract flickering cosmos of the imagination.

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Films Strand

Doc/Adventure

Take a ride through dramatic tales and challenging personal journeys.

These scenes of shared adventures roll with raw, informal and often difficult images of friendship, either budding or radically close.

Films

Still from La Vida En Común, p.44

A Bigger Splash (New Restoration)

Rating TBC

Jack Hazan / UK / 1974 / 106 mins / European Premiere

When David Hockney’s beautiful lover, Peter Schlesinger, breaks up with him, it leaves David a complete emotional wreck. This unique docudrama presents a semi-fictionalised account of the story behind A Bigger Splash.

Thu 6 June / 21:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

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A Wild Stream

Rating TBC

Nuria Ibañez Castañeda / Spain / 2018 / 72 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Chilo and Omar live on a deserted beach, their lives seemingly cut off from the world. They fish to survive and at night they drink, swapping stories about their past.

Sun 9 June / 11:50 / The Light Cinema 8 Tue 11 June / 16:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Films

Doc/Adventure

American Factory

Rating TBC

Julia Reichert, Steve Bognar / USA / 2019 / 113 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

The Campaigners

Rating TBC

Jamie Taylor / UK / 2019 / 93 mins / World Premiere

In Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and cultures collide in this insight on the changing landscape of working class America Sat 8 June / 14:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

A Sunday morning changing room romance with the bleary-eyed, battle-weary brothers of the Woodseats Working Men’s Football Club.

Tue 11 June / 21:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Doc/Fest Youth Award Nominee

Baracoa

Pablo Briones, The Moving Picture Boys / Argentina, USA / 2019 / 90 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Films

Mon 10 June / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

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Diego Maradona

Rating TBC

Asif Kapadia / UK / 2019 / 127 mins / UK Premiere

Bittersweet, closely observed blend of doc and fiction follows two Cuban boys, timid Lionel and volatile Antuan, roaming through their dying industrial town in the final, lazy days of summer.

From the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning team behind Amy and Senna, Diego Maradona is a wild and irreverent look at one of the world’s most iconic sportsmen, both on and off the pitch, during his infamous time in Naples.

Sun 9 June / 18:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Thu 6 June / 18:00 / Sheffield City Hall

Tue 11 June / 09:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Fri 7 June / 21:00 / Showroom Cinema 1 Tue 11 June / 19:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

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Films

Doc/Adventure

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

The Fortress

Rating TBC

Andres Torres / Colombia / 2019 / 84 mins / International Premiere / [S]

Rating TBC

Marwa Zein / Sudan / 2019 / 76 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

The Bucaramanga supporters are notorious football fans. Beside the stunning Andean Mountains, a group of young men make a long-distance pilgrimage to an away game, looking for trouble along the way.

A cinema verité look at a Sudanese female football team intent on defying their Islamic country’s policy discouraging women from playing sports.

Sat 8 June / 21:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Tue 11 June / 15:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Films

Fri 7 June / 21:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Mon 10 June / 11:00 / The Light Cinema 8

Doc/Fest Youth Award Nominee

Jawline

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Liza Mandelup / USA / 2019 / 98 mins / UK Premiere

La Vida En Común

16-year-old Austyn is hoping his positivity-exuding live streams will take him away from Tennessee.

But not all goes to plan in this nuanced exploration of the cost of the social media gold rush.

In Pueblo Nación Ranquel, an indigenous community in the north of Argentina hunting is a rite of passage. Uriel, however, wants to follow a different path.

Fri 7 June / 21:45 / The Light Cinema 6

Fri 7 June / 22:00 / The Light Cinema 3

Sat 8 June / 13:00 / The Light Cinema 3

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Khartoum Offside

12A

Rating TBC

Ezequiel Yanco / Argentina / 2019 / 70 mins / UK Premiere

Mon 10 June / 19:30 / The Light Cinema 8

Films

Take a ride through dramatic tales and challenging personal journeys.

Doc/Adventure

My Father The Spy

Rating TBC

Gints Grube, Jaak Kilmi / Estonia, Latvia / 2019 / 85 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Selfie

Rating TBC

Agostino Ferrente / Italy / 2019 / 78 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

In this original slice-of-life film, teenagers and best mates Pietro and Allesandro make a selfie-style doc about their rough Naples neighbourhood, in the wake of the senseless killing of their friend.

Born into a family of spies, Leva’s fate was sealed at birth. This is the personal spy story of the Cold War investigated by a CIA and KGB double agent’s daughter.

Fri 7 June / 21:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Sat 8 June / 16:30 / The Light Cinema 8

Films

Mon 10 June / 12:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Tue 11 June / 12:10 / The Light Cinema 6

Doc/Fest International Award Nominee

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

Werner Herzog / UK / 2019 / 89 mins / European Premiere

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

Told in Werner Herzog’s distinctive style, this is a portrait of one of the 20th century’s most charismatic writers, full of memorable characters and encounters.

Subversive magician John Edward Szeles was given a year to live in 2014, but is still alive. As reality shifts, director Ben Berman becomes disoriented by the smoke and mirrors.

Sat 8 June / 21:15 / Crucible Theatre

Sun 9 June / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Rating TBC

Rating TBC

Ben Berman / USA / 2019 / 91 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Tue 11 June / 11:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 45

Films Doc/Adventure

War of Art

Rating TBC

Tommy Gulliksen / Norway, Germany / 2019 / 102 mins / UK Premiere

While the world is on the verge of nuclear war, a group of western contemporary artists are invited into the eye of the storm – North Korea.

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Fri 7 June / 15:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Sun 9 June / 19:10 / Curzon Cinema 1

Films Doc/Adventure

Take a ride through dramatic tales and challenging personal journeys.

Short films in this strand Family Shorts

If You Knew [DF]

A collection of creative short films for young families. Free to attend.

After months of fighting and no communication, two teenage twin brothers come together to spend a day in Canvey Island.

Various

Fri 7 June / 09:30 / The Light Cinema Screen 3

99 Problems

Ross Killeen / Ireland / 2018 / 13 mins / UK Premiere

The inside scoop on the murky world of the ice-cream business. Through the eyes of Pinky, the self declared ‘king of the ice-cream men’, we’re taken into this unregulated industry.

Sun 9 June / 13:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Ian Bell / USA / 2018 / 8 mins / World Premiere

When an emergency warning for a missile threat hit Honolulu, people believed they were facing their final moments. As we live in public, streams of smartphone footage shared their experiences.

Sun 9 June / 13:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Canal

Chris Penty / UK / 2019 / 11 mins / World Premiere

Canal is a psychogeographic essay exploring notions of marginalisation, degradation, creativity and depression around abandoned sections of London’s Grand Union Canal.

Sun 9 June / 13:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Sun 9 June / 13:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Doc/Fest Short Award Nominee

The Tide

Miguel Novelo / Mexico / 2018 / 11 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Storms and sunsets pass overhead in the stunning landscapes of Seybaplaya, Campeche in Mexico.

We are submerged in Jorge’s world, where time slows down, in pursuit of the Mexican dream.

Films

808: How We Respond

Stroma Cairns / UK / 2018 / 5 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Sun 9 June / 13:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Wild Berries [DF]

Marianna Vas, Hedda Bednarszky, Romulus Balazs / Hungary, Romania / 2018 / 19 mins / International Premiere

A boy appears in a thicket. With an impish awareness of the camera, he forages and plays with the environment surrounding him, from daylight into the cloak of darkness Sun 9 June / 13:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Doc/Fest Short Award Nominee

The Cemetery Lightens

Luis Alejandro Yero / Cuba / 2018 / 14 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Havana, among other towns, has fallen. On the eve of fatality, a man considers the meaning of death and continuity of existence, while a nightclub pulsates with bodies and life.

Sun 9 June / 13:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

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Films Strand

Doc/Expose

Thrilling investigations exposing the truth from frontlines to headlines. This programme offers an emphasis on citizens: those tyrannised and those who fight back. Discover epic and sober works of journalism, with deep reflection rarely afforded in short flashes of news streams.

Films

Still from Sumercé, p.52 La Vida En Común, p.xx

Advocate

Rating TBC

Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaiche / USA, France / 2019 / 108 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Most Israelis call them ‘terrorists’. But Lea Tsemel calls her Palestinian clients ‘freedom fighters’. For decades she has taken on the impossible struggle of representing their humanity and motivations in court.

Mon 10 June / 21:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Tue 11 June / 18:00 / The Light Cinema 8 48

Another Paradise

Rating TBC

Olivier Magis / Belgium / 2019 / 82 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Fifty years ago, a small community was expelled from the Chagos archipelago by the British authorities, in order to lease the island to the US Army. Now, Chagossian exiles attempt to return home.

Sat 8 June / 12:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Mon 10 June / 09:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Films Doc/Expose

Thrilling investigations exposing the truth from frontlines to headlines.

Doc/Fest International Award Nominee

BLOCK

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee Rating TBC

Victoria Alvares, Quentin Delaroche / Brazil, France / 2018 / 76 mins / International Premiere / [S]

During a country-wide blockade, striking Brazilian truckers hope military intervention will bring a solution. But when the army finally arrives to end the crisis, nothing goes quite as expected.

Sun 9 June / 16:00 / The Light Cinema 6

Rating TBC

Julien Elie / Canada / 2018 / 154 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Director Juilan Elie’s stark, unremitting epic displays grave potency in its complex exploration behind the disappearances of thousands of Mexican men and women.

Fri 7 June / 09:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Sun 9 June / 21:10 / The Light Cinema 6

Films

Tue 11 June / 11:10 / Showroom Cinema 1

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Border South

Dark Suns

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee Rating TBC

Raul O. Paz Pastrana / Mexico, USA / 2019 / 83 mins / World Premiere / [S]

For Sama

Rating TBC

Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts / Syria, UK / 2019 / 96 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Hundreds of thousands of migrants cross Mexico annually, seeking new lives. Following the migrant trail are Gustavo, recovering from being shot by Mexican police, and Jason, who is examining the trail’s grisly remains.

For Sama tells the story of one young woman’s journey through love, marriage and motherhood across five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria.

Sat 8 June / 15:35 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Mon 10 June / 16:25 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Mon 10 June / 09:10 / The Light Cinema 6

Sat 8 June / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

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Films Doc/Expose

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

Let It Burn

Maíra Bühler / Brazil / 2019 / 85 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Midnight Traveler

Parque Dom Pedro Hotel in São Paulo opened its doors to over 100 people suffering from drug addiction and homelessness. Swinging between lucidity and intoxication, the residents tussle for love.

After filmmaker Hassan Fazili receives a Taliban death sentence, the Afghan director and his family seek asylum in western Europe, keeping a mobile phone diary of their perilous journey.

Rating TBC

Films

Tue 11 June / 14:45 / The Light Cinema 8

Tue 11 June / 13:30 / The Light Cinema 3

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee Rating TBC

Luke Lorentzen / USA / 2019 / 81 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Mike Wallace Is Here

Rating TBC

Avi Belkin / USA / 2019 / 88 mins / European Premiere

A father and his sons spend almost every night operating their private ambulance in Mexico City; an unstable income in a low-employment crisis.

With financial pressures, their priorities as first responders are compromised.

An engaging look at the life and career of legendary 60 Minutes newsman Mike Wallace — and how he redefined broadcast journalism with his hard-hitting interview style.

Sun 9 June / 21:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Tue 11 June / 09:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Tue 11 June / 17:45 / The Light Cinema 6

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Hassan Fazili / Afghanistan / 2019 / 87 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Sat 8 June / 21:20 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Sun 9 June / 19:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

Midnight Family

Rating TBC

Sun 9 June / 18:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Films Doc/Expose

Thrilling investigations exposing the truth from frontlines to headlines.

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched

On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee Rating TBC

One Child Nation

Rating TBC

Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang / China, USA / 2019 / 85 mins / UK Premiere

Karen Stokkendal Poulsen / Denmark / 2019 / 97 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Sun 9 June / 09:00 / Curzon Cinema 1

First-time mother and filmmaker Nanfu Wang uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Fri 7 June / 18:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Mon 10 June / 13:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Sat 8 June / 12:35 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

On The President’s Orders

Rating TBC

James Jones, Olivier Sarbil / UK, France / 2019 / 72 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Shot like an intense Hollywood thriller, this visceral exposé lays bare the deadly heart of darkness behind Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte’s single-minded war on drugs.

Fri 7 June / 12:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Reason

Films

In Karen Stokkendal Poulsen’s incisive and gripping dissection of Myanmar’s disastrous transition to democracy, a series of military leaders frankly detail how they went about opening up the country without ultimately losing control.

Rating TBC

Anand Patwardhan / India / 2018 / 237 mins / UK Premiere

India, the world’s largest democracy once aspired to Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and non-violence. Today, supremacists are using Faith and the national flag to hunt down the ‘demons’ of Rationality.

Mon 10 June / 11:35 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Sun 9 June / 13:40 / The Light Cinema 6

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Films Doc/Expose

Reconstructing Utøya

Rating TBC

Carl Javér / Sweden / 2018 / 96 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Four survivors from the Utøya massacre of 2011 reconstruct their memories in a black box studio together with 12 young participants, in order to share and remember their experiences.

Sat 8 June / 13:30 / Curzon Cinema 1

Films

Mon 10 June / 21:30 / Showroom Cinema 1

Tattooed Tears (40th Anniversary)

Rating TBC

Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill / USA / 1979 / 85 mins

This is an intimate encounter with a maximumsecurity juvenile correctional facility in Chino, California, and a 13-week odyssey into hell, depicting young men’s struggle for survival in a brutal environment.

Thu 6 June / 15:40 / Showroom Cinema 1

Mon 10 June / 13:10 / Showroom Cinema 1

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Sumercé

Victoria Solano / Colombia / 2019 / 93 mins / World Premiere / [S]

In a battle over the country’s access to fresh water, Sumercé follows agricultural educator Rosita, veteran activist Don Eduardo, and rising political leader César Pachón as they fight their government.

Sun 9 June / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Tue 11 June / 12:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 52

Rating TBC

Tiny Souls

Rating TBC

Dina Naser / Jordan / 2019 / 85 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

After escaping the Syrian war, a free-spirited young girl and her family must navigate confined life, stranded in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.

Sat 8 June / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Sun 9 June / 09:20 / The Light Cinema 8

Films Doc/Expose

Thrilling investigations exposing the truth from frontlines to headlines.

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Your Turn

Rating TBC

Eliza Capai / Brazil / 2019 / 93 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Three students debate over a right to speak and to share their points of view regarding the largest student struggle of the century and the recent political context in Brazil.

Fri 7 June / 18:20 / The Light Cinema 8 Tue 11 June / 09:15 / Curzon Cinema 1

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Films Doc/Expose Short films in this strand Ghosts of Sugar Land

Bassam Tariq / USA / 2019 / 22 mins / European Premiere

In Sugar Land, Texas, a group of young MuslimAmerican men ponder the disappearance of their friend “Mark,” who is suspected of joining ISIS. Sun 9 June / 16:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Doc/Fest Short Award Nominee

Limbo

Alexander L. Fattal / Colombia, USA / 2019 / 26 mins / World Premiere

Films

Former FARC guerilla Alex tells his story in the back of a moving lorry. The truck is a camera obscura, contorting and projecting passing landscapes as his inner reality unfolds.

Sun 9 June / 16:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Sandoval’s Bullet

Jean-Jacques Martinod / Ecuador / 2019 / 17 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Isidro meanders through the rainforest as he and his brother recount the times he found himself face to face with death itself.

Sun 9 June / 16:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Late announcement film to be confirmed.

Visit sheffdocfest.com for details.

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Thrilling investigations exposing the truth from frontlines to headlines.

Films Strand

Doc/Love

Pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family and friendship. A collection of playful, subversive and tender films which question love and power through stories of identity, equality and family to rupture inherited, often patriarchal forms of societal norms.

Still from Seahorse, p.58 Films

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

About Love

Archana Atul Phadke / India / 2019 / 91 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Three generations of the Phadke family live and work together in South Mumbai. As they prepare for a wedding, director Archana Atul Phadke observes the shifting, often funny, household dynamics.

Sat 8 June / 13:50 / The Light Cinema 8 Mon 10 June / 16:15 / Curzon Cinema 1

Rating TBC

Dive: Rituals in Water

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Elín Hansdóttir, Hanna Björk Valsdóttir, Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir / Iceland / 2019 / 73 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Joyful portrait of Icelandic swimming pioneer and baby whisperer Snorri Magnusson who lovingly instructs his infant students to dive, sing and even stand upright on his palm.

Fri 7 June / 13:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

Mon 10 June / 09:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 Kino Bambino /Mon 10 June / 11:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

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Films Doc/Love

Don’t Be A Dick About It

12A

Ben Mullinkosson / USA / 2018 / 69 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Kabul, City in the Wind

Rating TBC

Aboozar Amini / Afghanistan / 2019 / 88 mins / UK Premiere

Films

In affluent suburban Maryland, teenage brothers Matthew and Peter while away the summer days, alternatively bickering and bonding, filmed by their cousin Ben Mullinkosson. A funny and astutely observed story of brotherhood.

A portrait of the city Kabul through daily details of two kids and a bus driver, set against the background of a city destroyed by political and religious powers.

Relaxed Screening / Thu 6 June / 13:00 / Showroom Cinema 1 Fri 7 June / 09:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Sun 9 June / 09:00 / The Light Cinema 6

Mon 10 June / 19:15 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Fri 7 June / 12:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Doc/Fest Youth Award Nominee

In Our Paradise

Rating TBC

Claudia Marschal / France / 2019 / 76 mins / World Premiere / [S]

This is a family saga recounting the trials and tribulations of two determined sisters as they battle between France and Bosnia, towards their fantasised paradise.

Fri 7 June / 15:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Sun 9 June / 22:00 / Curzon Cinema 1

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Los Reyes

Rating TBC

Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff / Chile / 2018 / 78 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

In this creative observational documentary we see the Los Reyes skatepark in Santiago de Chile through the eyes of Chola and Football — two dogs who keep a bemused eye on the park’s goings-on.

Mon 10 June / 22:00 / The Light Cinema 6 Tue 11 June / 19:30 / The Light Cinema 3

Films Doc/Love

The Magic Life of V

Pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family and friendship.

Tonislav Hristov / Bulgaria / 2019 / 87 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

The Pit

Veera transforms into the confident V through elaborate live-action role plays. The intense situations are helping her to confront memories of her often traumatic childhood in Finland.

It’s winter, 5 degrees and the water is steaming.

What, at first glance, looks like a beautiful spa by the sea, the people of Varna simply call The Pit.

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Rating TBC

Hristiana Raykova / Bulgaria / 2019 / 73 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Sat 8 June / 09:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Sun 9 June / 14:00 / The Light Cinema 3

Mon 10 June / 13:40 / The Light Cinema 8

Films

Sun 9 June / 16:40 / Curzon Cinema 1

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched Doc/Fest International Award Nominee

MOTHER

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Kristof Bilsen / Belgium / 2019 / 80 mins / World Premiere / [S]

In Thailand, Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s. Separated from her children; she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as a new patient arrives from Switzerland.

Sun 9 June / 21:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Tue 11 June / 14:25 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Queen of Lapa

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Theodore Collatos, Carolina Monnerat / Brazil, USA / 2019 / 73 mins / International Premiere

A proud transgender sex worker since the age of 11, Luana Muniz, now 59, shapes a new reality in her ‘hostel’ by housing a new generation of trans sex workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Fri 7 June / 15:20 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Mon 10 June / 11:55 / The Light Cinema 6

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Doc/Fest Future Producer School Alumni Doc/Fest Youth Award Nominee

Romantic Comedy

Elizabeth Sankey / UK / 2019 / 78 mins / UK Premiere

Swarm Season

An obsession with romantic comedies fuelled the filmmaker’s fantasies of love as she grew up. This ode to the rom com bounds through their legacy and the myths they have engendered.

A sensory opus from the volcanic island of Hawaii, where honey bees, the original people’s cosmology and a NASA project are all part of a thoughtprovoking ecosystem.

Fri 7 June / 21:30 / Crucible Theatre

Sat 8 June / 13:40 / The Light Cinema 6

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Sarah J Christman / USA / 2019 / 85 mins / UK Premiere

Films

Mon 10 June / 09:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

Tue 11 June / 09:15 / The Light Cinema 8

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched Doc/Fest Youth Award Nominee

Seahorse

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

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Jeanie Finlay / UK / 2019 / 90 mins / European Premiere / [S]

One trans man’s pioneering quest to fulfil an age-old desire: to start his own family.

Sat 8 June / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Mon 10 June / 21:45 / Curzon Cinema 1

Talking About Adultery

Bara Jichova Tyson / Czech Republic, USA / 2019 / 72 mins / World Premiere

What does it mean to live in a committed relationship? Determined to probe the relationship between desire, love, and commitment Bara Jichova Tyson creatively intertwines collage, archive and confessional interviews with unseen subjects.

Sun 9 June / 16:45 / The Light Cinema 8 Mon 10 June / 11:30 / Curzon Cinema 1

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This Film is About Me

Pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family and friendship.

Rating TBC

Alexis Delgado Búrdalo / Spain / 2019 / 61 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Renata and Alexis are making a film together. The charismatic Renata is happy to perform when Alexis visits her in the penitentiary. She’s less inclined to discuss why she is there.

Sat 8 June / 09:15 / The Light Cinema 8

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Marcelo Gomes / Brazil / 2019 / 86 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

A small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation’s capital of jeans. It’s also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.

Fri 7 June / 09:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Mon 10 June / 21:50 / The Light Cinema 8

Films

Sun 9 June / 11:55 / Curzon Cinema 1

Waiting for the Carnival

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Pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family and friendship.

Short films in this strand After the Silence

Sonam Larcin / Belgium / 2018 / 23 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

David suffered a homophobic attack so was forced to leave his country and his love behind. Opening up about his sexuality is new territory, as is being on safe ground.

Sat 8 June / 16:30 / Curzon Cinema 1

Alone Together

Guus Voorham / Netherlands / 2018 / 16 mins / UK Premiere

Films

Found footage reveals whispering women evoking the girlfriend experience. Ear-lickers, ego-soothers and one-way conversations simulate the fantasy of intimacy in a bizarre commodification of emotional connection.

Sat 8 June / 16:30 / Curzon Cinema 1

Playhouse

Adda Elling / Denmark / 2019 / 26 mins / World Premiere

A couple visit a holiday home, where they re-enact scenes of powerplay and desire from classic films.

Conversations and tensions explore their dynamic and how they relate to cinematic representations.

Sat 8 June / 16:30 / Curzon Cinema 1

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Snap

Felipe Elgueta, AnankĂŠ Pereira / Chile / 2018 / 20 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Snapchat is the height of transforming our lives into instantaneous, disposable narratives.

These glimpses into the lives of others are meant to evaporate, but this film resists that throwaway trajectory.

Sat 8 June / 16:30 / Curzon Cinema 1

The Vibrant Village [DF]

Weronika Jurkiewicz / Poland / 2019 / 7 mins / World Premiere

In a quiet Hungarian village, men gather to swill beer at the bar. Meanwhile the women are busy at work, contributing their time to the mass production of sexual satisfaction.

Sat 8 June / 16:30 / Curzon Cinema 1

Films Strand

Doc/Rhythm

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of music and contemporary culture. Float in symphonies of sonic futures in an auditorium of Detroit techno, Peruvian noise, Portuguese Afrobeat, and Post-Soviet culture, resonant with chants for the soul, for identity, for love.

Films

Still from Searching Eva, p.63

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

A Dog Called Money

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee Rating TBC

Seamus Murphy / Ireland, UK / 2019 / 90 mins / UK Premiere

Accompany PJ Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy on a journey through the creative process behind a PJ Harvey album, conceived by their travels around the globe.

Sat 8 June / 21:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Mon 10 June / 16:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore

Rating TBC

Imogen Putler, Monika Baran / UK, Poland / 2019 / 79 mins / World Premiere

The greatest undiscovered musical genius of all time. He has recorded 400 albums in 40 years... in his bedroom. Unique and eccentric.

Unrecognised outside of a small group of music insiders, until now.

Sat 8 June / 21:45 / The Light Cinema 8

Mon 10 June / 11:40 / The Light Cinema 3 61

Films Doc/Rhythm

Hey, Bro!

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Aleksander Elkan / Russia / 2018 / 73 mins / UK Premiere

Through alternative music, Lima Screams displays a constellation of moments that become intertwined and develop a musical dialogue within a space.

Fri 7 June / 15:35 / Showroom Cinema 1

Films

Mon 10 June / 19:35 / The Light Cinema 6

Sun 9 June / 22:00 / The Light Cinema 3

Tue 11 June / 17:00 / The Light Cinema 3

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Amy Goldstein / USA / 2018 / 89 mins / UK Premiere

A Myspace sensation who experienced instantaneous success; Kate Nash was dropped by her record label for being too punk. She shares her experiences of navigating a sexist industry and evolving.

Mon 10 June / 20:00 / Crucible Theatre Tue 11 June / 16:30 / Showroom Cinema 1 62

Rating TBC

Dana Bonilla, Ximena Valdivia / Peru / 2018 / 77 mins / International Premiere / [S]

Mark, 18, and Krill, 20, have only known one another a month, but together they head out on holiday to indulge in their passions for girls, dancing, cloud rap and skateboarding.

Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl

Lima Screams

Lisbon Beat

Rita Maia, Vasco Viana / Portugal / 2019 / 75 mins / International Premiere / [S]

An exuberant and illuminating portrait that highlights the innovative Afro-Portuguese music scene thriving amid the suburban margins of Lisbon’s teeming metropolis.

Fri 7 June / 21:00 / The Light Cinema 8 Sun 9 June / 14:15 / Curzon Cinema 1

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Films Doc/Rhythm

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of music, dance and contemporary culture.

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

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The Revenge of the Diva

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Gustav Ahlgren, Emelie Jönsson / Sweden / 2019 / 80 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Nick Broomfield / UK / 2019 / 97 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is a beautiful yet tragic love story between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen.

Sun 9 June / 18:15 / Crucible Theatre

Sat 8 June / 21:45 / Curzon Cinema 1

Tue 11 June / 19:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Films

Tue 11 June / 20:30 / The Light Cinema 6

This stylish and highly entertaining musical confection charts the delicious fall and rise of Sweden’s former reigning court soprano Siv Wennberg, cast out from the opera world for excessive divaness.

Doc/Fest Youth Award Nominee

Once Aurora

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Stian Servoss, Benjamin Langeland / Norway / 2019 / 70 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Searching Eva

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Pia Hellenthal / Germany / 2019 / 83 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Once Aurora is a coming of age story from inside the music industry about a girl trying to find who she will be as an artist and as a woman.

Eva is used to sharing: for years, the young Italian’s life has been an open book to online viewers. In this boundary-pushing performative documentary we look for the real Eva.

Sat 8 June / 09:00 / The Light Cinema 6

Sun 9 June / 22:00 / The Light Cinema 8

Sun 9 June / 21:45 / Showroom Cinema 1

Tue 11 June / 21:00 / The Light Cinema 8

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Films Doc/Rhythm

The Sound is Innocent

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Johana Ožvold / Czech Republic / 2019 / 68 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Films

Sat 8 June / 11:25 / The Light Cinema 6

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched Rating TBC

Jaśmina Wójcik / Poland / 2018 / 61 mins / UK Premiere

Proud workers from the closed-down Ursus tractor factory relive their past through re-enactments.

Their movements, formed through muscle memory and combined with sounds from the factory, create a symphony.

Tue 11 June / 21:30 / Curzon Cinema 1 64

A kaleidoscopic depiction of outsider culture in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s dissolution; 30HA, is a hypnotic critique of consumer culture and the endless simulation of our memories.

Sat 8 June / 18:45 / The Light Cinema 6

Tue 11 June / 22:00 / The Light Cinema 3 Screening with +6 Gain, p.65

Mon 10 June / 21:30 / The Light Cinema 3

Fri 7 June / 09:00 / The Light Cinema 8

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Clayton Vomero / UK / 2018 / 66 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

First-time director Johana Ožvold’s creative approach to telling the story of electronic music matches the playfulness of the genre itself, where programmers become poets, and experiments rule the day.

Symphony of the Ursus Factory

3OHA

Films Doc/Rhythm

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of music, dance and contemporary culture.

Short films in this strand +6 Gain

Father Figure

On the border between reality and fiction, Symen and Sam try to deal with the monotony of their suburb. The smothering silence of their environment resonates with the invisible presence of Gabber. They end up searching for the core of their desire.

In this impressionistic sense of dual identities, Guilliano shares the roles he juggles and prejudices he faces. As the founder of a Kiki House in Rotterdam, voguing galvanised his self-acceptance.

Jorn Plucieniczak / Belgium / 2019 / 26 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Sat 8 June / 18:45 / The Light Cinema 6

Tue 11 June / 22:00 / The Light Cinema 3 Screening with ZONA, p.64

Ross Meckfessel / USA / 2018 / 11 mins / UK Premiere

Glittering figures dance in kaleidoscopic neon visions. From video games to drones and go-pros, there is an unnerving sense of disconnect or that the course of nature has been reset.

Sat 8 June / 21:15 / Showroom Cinema 1

BLACK TO TECHNO

Jenn Nkiru / UK, USA / 2018 / 21 mins / UK Premiere

Through intersecting narratives, conceptual frameworks, archive and original imagery, BLACK TO TECHNO asserts that Techno is not just a musical gesture but a philosophical, sonic and anthropological model for overcoming of alienation.

Sat 8 June / 21:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 Doc/Fest Short Award Nominee

Distant Planet: The Six Chapters of Simons

Sat 8 June / 21:15 / Showroom Cinema 1

Here, We Are

Viviana ZuĂąiga / Mexico / 2018 / 13 mins / International Premiere / [S]

Laughter and joy ring out in a community besieged by drug wars. In Santiago Tuxtla, Veracruz, the vivacity of Rafael and Joel’s music brings people together and lifts them up.

Fri 7 June / 18:30 / Showroom Cinema 1

Films

The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs [DF]

Bibi Fadlalla / Netherlands / 2019 / 25 mins / International Premiere / [S]

Hype Master

Isaac Reeder / UK / 2019 / 40 mins / World Premiere

Shaun Lewis AKA Stormin was one of the pioneers of Grime. While sharing the story of his rise to mainstream fame from the underground scene, his battle with cancer returns.

Fri 7 June / 18:30 / Showroom Cinema 1

Shirley Temple

Audrey Nantel-Gagnon / Canada / 2018 / 16 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

This rare insight into the intensity of female relationships introduces 17-year-olds Margot and Amaryllis. The pair encounter jealousy, first love, heartbreak and the sense of their evolving identities and friendship.

Fri 7 June / 18:30 / Showroom Cinema 1

Josh Blaaberg / UK / 2018 / 29 mins / UK Premiere

A trio of time-travelling Italo Disco stars reunite on a fantastic voyage through the genre. In the parallel universe they created, they reflect on the feelings beneath the futuristic utopias.

Sat 8 June / 21:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 65

Films Strand

Doc/Think

Explore new ways of seeing and thinking about the world. Through documents of restless discovery we witness battles in the terrains of body, labour and land. Whether through the eye of art or the endoscope of science beneath the surface we witness the spirited terrains of the soul.

Still from Property, p.69 Films Doc/Fest International Award Nominee

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Doc/Fest International Award Nominee Rating TBC

Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky / Canada / 2018 / 87 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Humans are making such profound changes to our planet that scientists argue we are in a new epoch: the Anthropocene. This visually stunning documentary traverses the globe showing the devastating impact of our lives on Earth.

Fri 7 June / 18:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Tue 11 June / 19:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 66

The Black Tree

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Mรกximo Ciambella, Damiรกn Coluccio / Argentina / 2018 / 80 mins / International Premiere

At the centre of the Earth is a black tree, those who can reach it may be able to talk to the trees, send messages through birds and heal curses.

Sat 8 June / 19:15 / The Light Cinema 8

Tue 11 June / 15:00 / The Light Cinema 6

Films Doc/Think

Explore new ways of seeing and thinking about the world.

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

The Border Fence

Nikolaus Geyrhalter / Austria / 2018 / 112 mins / UK Premiere

The Edge of Democracy

Amid a refugee crisis, the Austrian government announces the construction of a border fence. Two years later, the fence is still in a container, as the inrush of refugees never occurred.

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis; combining unprecedented access to leaders past and present, with accounts of the filmmaker’s own family’s complex political and industrial past.

Sun 9 June / 10:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Sat 8 June / 18:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Rating TBC

Danny

Aaron Zeghers, Lewis Bennett / Canada / 2019 / 50 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Petra Costa / Brazil / 2019 / 113 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Tue 11 June / 18:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Films

Mon 10 June / 09:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

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The Great Hack

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Karim Amer, Jehane Noujaim / USA, UK / 2019 / 139 mins / European Premiere

After being diagnosed with leukemia in 1993, Danny begins filming. What comes forth is a hilarious and heartbreaking found-footage film about disease, mental illness and the meaning of life.

The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation with astounding access to the personal journeys of key players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/ Facebook data scandal.

Fri 7 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Mon 10 June / 18:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Mon 10 June / 16:50 / The Light Cinema 3

Rating TBC

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Films Doc/Think

Hi, AI

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Isa Willinger / Germany / 2019 / 88 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Films

Mon 10 June / 15:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Tue 11 June / 13:45 / Showroom Cinema 1

Rating TBC

Pernille Rose Grønkjær / Denmark / 2019 / 88 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Hunting for Hedonia examines and elucidates the future use of so-called ‘deep brain stimulation’ and explores how this technology will impact human identity and our sense of self.

Mon 10 June / 19:00 / Curzon Cinema 1

Two decades after experiencing the painful and dangerous practice of female genital mutilation, Kenyan filmmaker Beryl Magoko makes an emotional journey back home to undergo surgery to restore her genitals.

Sat 8 June / 11:50 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Tue 11 June / 14:10 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Sun 9 June / 12:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

‘Now something is slowly changing’

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mint film office / Netherlands / 2018 / 106 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Feelings and vulnerability are met with words of reassurance and inspiration. People hunt for a sense of purpose, inner-peace or self-confidence, while coaches and programmes meet the growing demand.

Fri 7 June / 09:10 / The Light Cinema 6

Sun 9 June / 16:45 / The Light Cinema 3 68

Rating TBC

Beryl Magoko / Kenya / 2018 / 90 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Laconic, futuristic melding of doc and sci-fi follows a lonely American researcher and a disaffected Japanese family trying to find a human connection with their recently acquired robots.

Hunting for Hedonia

In Search...

Films Doc/Think

Property

Explore new ways of seeing and thinking about the world.

Rating TBC

Matthias Lintner / Italy, Germany / 2019 / 85 mins / UK Premiere

Refugees who arrived in Europe and are now living in limbo within a disintegrating humanitarian aid system, no longer the centre of media attention and unable to move forward.

Fri 7 June / 18:00 / Crucible Theatre

Fri 7 June / 13:45 / The Light Cinema 8

Sat 8 June / 19:15 / Curzon Cinema 1

Films

Sat 8 June / 21:00 / The Light Cinema 3

Rating TBC

Fredrik Gertten / Sweden / 2019 / 92 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Landlords without faces. Apartments without renters. A documentary exploring the new, unliveable city.

Fri 7 June / 19:00 / The Light Cinema 6

Tue 11 June / 21:15 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Rating TBC

Ai Weiwei / China / 2018 / 78 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

To the occasional random visitor, the quiet courtyard with its dreamy linden trees presents as an enchanted garden right off the busy life of Torstrasse in the centre of Berlin.

Push

The Rest

Shelter – Farewell to Eden

Rating TBC

Enrico Masi / Italy / 2019 / 81 mins / UK Premiere

Pepsi is a transgender militant born in the Philippines and looking for a new identity in Europe, crossing boundaries in search of gender equality, citizenship and recognition as a human being.

Fri 7 June / 11:15 / The Light Cinema 8

Tue 11 June / 19:00 / Curzon Cinema 1

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Films Doc/Think

Solidarity

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Lucy Parker / UK / 2019 / 76 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Rating TBC

Ursula Macfarlane / UK / 2019 / 98 mins / European Premiere

Films

Solidarity is about the secretive methods used against UK activists and trade unionists.

Blacklisted construction workers and activists spied on by the police share their ongoing struggles.

The inside story of the meteoric rise and shocking fall of movie titan Harvey Weinstein, Untouchable reveals how Weinstein craved, gained and gravely abused his power.

Sat 8 June / 11:15 / The Light Cinema 8

Sat 8 June / 18:00 / Crucible Theatre

Tue 11 June / 22:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Sun 9 June / 11:30 / The Light Cinema 3

That Which Does Not Kill

Alexe Poukine / Belgium / 2019 / 85 mins / UK Premiere

War In The Blood

A man that Ada knows invites her to dinner.

Everything goes to quickly. He rapes her.

Her story intertwines with others, each one different, yet all the same.

An intimate feature-length documentary following two patients through ground-breaking ‘first in-human’ trials for a treatment described as the beginning of the end of cancer.

Sun 9 June / 09:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Mon 10 June / 19:10 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Rating TBC

Tue 11 June / 17:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

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Untouchable

Rating TBC

Arthur Cary / UK / 2019 / 100 mins / World Premiere

Tue 11 June / 21:45 / Showroom Cinema 1

Films Doc/Think

What We Left Unfinished

Explore new ways of seeing and thinking about the world.

Rating TBC

Mariam Ghani / USA, Afghanistan, Qatar / 2019 / 71 mins / UK Premiere

The incredible true story of five unfinished films from the Communist Era in Afghanistan (19781991) when films were weapons, filmmakers became targets, and the dreams of constantly shifting political regimes merged with the stories told on screen.

Mon 10 June / 13:45 / Curzon Cinema 1

Films

Sat 8 June / 15:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

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Films Doc/Think Short films in this strand A Love Song for Latasha

Diary of Cattle

A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, this film reimagines a more nuanced narrative of Latasha Harlins by excavating intimate memories shared by her cousin and best friend.

A parade of unexpected gleaners populates a landfill site. An unnatural, mesmerising sight unfolds; this herd of cows has adapted to life on pastures far from green.

Sat 8 June / 17:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Sun 9 June / 21:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

America [DF]

Dramatic and Mild

Interweaving archive silent film footage with ethereal monochrome visions, America reframes the trajectory of Black cinema, and sees the triumphant figures of history connecting and resonating into the future.

A security guard stands in a small room with a Kandinsky painting. As people enter the space their interactions with him are as bewildered as their response to the unusual context.

Sophia Nahli Allison / USA / 2018 / 20 mins / International Premiere

Garrett Bradley / USA / 2019 / 29 mins / UK Premiere

Films

Sat 8 June / 17:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Doc/Fest Short Award Nominee

Body All Eyes [DF]

Saara Ekström / Finland / 2019 / 15 mins / World Premiere

This 8mm split-screen film explores the symmetry in the shapes that take flight and the bodies that remain. Myth and technology collide in monochrome textures and fine lines of aviation.

Sun 9 June / 21:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Curupira, Creature of the Woods

Félix Blume / France / 2018 / 35 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

In the Amazonian rainforest of Tauary, Brazil, locals listen to a strange sound captured by the filmmaker. A legendary forest spirit summons a trail of anecdotes in this sonic mystery.

Sun 9 June / 21:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

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Lidia Afrilita, David Darmadi / Indonesia / 2019 / 18 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Nastia Korkia / Russia / 2018 / 7 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Sat 8 June / 17:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Misericórdia

Xavier Marrades / Spain / 2018 / 21 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Where do we go to in our dreams? This portrait of the Itaparica Island community in Brazil explores the space they inhabit through their living and dreaming, where nature prevails.

Sat 8 June / 17:45 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Doc/Fest Short Award Nominee

Terraria

Hanna Hovitie / Finland / 2019 / 17 mins / World Premiere / [S]

In peaceful swampland, a solitary man wades through long grass, crawling carefully through the water. This man’s connection to cold-blooded reptiles runs thicker than blood.

Sun 9 June / 21:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Films Strand

Doc/Vision

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists and bold cinematic visions. Imagination meets reality through topographies of temporary conditions: illegal presence in America, queer happenings in Chile, Taiwan in neon light, New York during high summer, and dusty processions through Lesotho.

Still from Lemebel, p.75 Films

Absence

Ekta Mittal / India / 2018 / 82 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Chinese Portrait

In search of a man who disappeared from his village in rural India, we encounter people offering hints of his fate. Beyond the shadows and ambiguity, what do we leave behind?

A personal contemporary portrait of a country, a population and a society by Wang Xiaoshuai.

Please note: This film is in Chinese Mandarin but does not have English subtitles.

Fri 7 June / 16:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Sat 8 June / 10:45 / The Light Cinema 3

Mon 10 June / 14:20 / The Light Cinema 3

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Wang Xiaoshuai / Hong Kong / 2018 / 79 mins / UK Premiere

Tue 11 June / 09:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

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Films Doc/Vision

Closing Time

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Nicole Vögele / Switzerland / 2018 / 116 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Fri 7 June / 13:10 / The Light Cinema 3

Films

Doc/Fest International Award Nominee Rating TBC

Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans — with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people, in mines, quarries and at large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.

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Fri 7 June / 12:55 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Doc/Fest Art Award Nominee

Nikolaus Geyrhalter / Austria / 2019 / 115 mins / UK Premiere

Tue 11 June / 09:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Astonishingly spare and poetic portrait of a haunted Russian recluse’s life deep in the forest, acutely observed through each of the four seasons.

Sat 8 June / 16:00 / The Light Cinema 3

Mon 10 June / 16:25 / The Light Cinema 8

Sat 8 June / 21:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Rating TBC

Artem Moskalev / Russia / 2018 / 67 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

While the tropical depression hangs heavy over Taipei, Kuo and his wife work through the humid nights, serving food to the sleepless and restless.

Earth

Hermit

The Hottest August

Rating TBC

Brett Story / Canada / 2019 / 95 mins / UK Premiere

In the blazing heat of August, 2017, filmmaker Brett Story journeyed to all five boroughs of New York City asking people their thoughts and hopes for the future.

Sun 9 June / 19:15 / The Light Cinema 8

Tue 11 June / 11:50 / The Light Cinema 8

Films Doc/Vision

James Lee Byars: World Question Centre

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists and bold cinematic visions.

Rating TBC

Lemebel

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Joanna Reposi Garibaldi / Chile / 2019 / 96 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Jef Cornelis / Belgium / 1969 / 63 mins

A 50th anniversary presentation. In this societal litmus test, artist James Lee Byars assembles a heterogeneous ensemble of intellectuals including Marcel Broodthaers and John Cage to ask “What is Significant Today?”.

Sun 9 June / 09:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Films

Sat 8 June / 23:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

A creative portrait of Chilean artist and activist Pedro Lemebel, whose groundbreaking performance art featuring body, blood and fire, reflected the reality of the LGBTQI+ community’s living in fear during years of dictatorship.

Mon 10 June / 22:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

Rating TBC

Frank Beauvais / France / 2019 / 75 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Writer and director Frank Beauvais crafts a blistering and brilliant essay recounting an intense personal crisis he experienced; utilizing clips from 400 films he watched during the painful six month period.

Fri 7 June / 16:20 / The Light Cinema 8

The Machine That Kills Bad People: O’er The Land

Rating TBC

Deborah Stratman / USA / 2009 / 52 mins

A meditation on the milieu of elevated threat addressing national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patriotism and the possibility of personal transcendence.

Sun 9 June / 12:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Mon 10 June / 09:00 / The Light Cinema 8 75

Films Doc/Vision

The Machine That Kills Bad People: The Sky on Location

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Zia Anger / USA / 2018 / 75 mins / European Premiere

Babette Mangolte / USA / 1982 / 77 mins

Films

Through the photographs of Ansel Adams, the film attempts to construct a geography of the land through colours instead of maps, capturing the mood of the landscape as in a Turner painting.

In My First Film, the artist uses expanded cinema to recount the stories behind her lost and abandoned work.

Fri 7 June / 19:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Sun 9 June / 12:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Doc/Fest Art Award Nominee

Mother, I Am Suffocating.

This Is My Last Film About You.

Doc/Fest Art Award Nominee Rating TBC

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese / Lesotho, Germany, Qatar / 2018 / 76 mins / UK Premiere

A farewell letter, a furious lamentation to a mother, a land, a hero, a victim, a martyr. This is a symbolic social-political voyage of a society spiralling between religion, identity and collective memory.

Sun 9 June / 11:20 / The Light Cinema 6 Tue 11 June / 14:20 / Curzon Cinema 1 76

My First Film

No Data Plan

Rating TBC

Miko Revereza / Philippines / 2018 / 70 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

In this unusual travelogue, filmmaker Miko Revereza is an unnoticed passenger crossing America on an Amtrak train. His thoughts and overheard monologues paint a portrait of an America where nothing can be taken for granted.

Sat 8 June / 12:30 / Showroom Cinema 1

Mon 10 June / 09:25 / The Light Cinema 3

Films Doc/Vision

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists and bold cinematic visions.

Doc/Fest Art Award Nominee

Rushing Green with Horses [DF]

Doc/Fest Art Award Nominee Rating TBC

Rating TBC

Clarissa Campolina, Luiz Pretti / Brazil / 2019 / 78 mins / UK Premiere

Ute Aurand / Germany / 2019 / 82 mins / UK Premiere

Filmed over 20 years, celebrated German experimental filmmaker Ute Aurand’s Rushing Green With Horses is a collection of moments – private scenes at home and at play with family and friends.

In a world divided by borders and walls, While We Are Here presents a story where love overcomes cultural and geographical distances.

Sat 8 June / 16:15 / The Light Cinema 6

Tue 11 June / 11:40 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

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Sun 9 June / 16:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Sunrise With Sea Monsters

While We Are Here

Rating TBC

Myles Painter / UK / 2019 / 71 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Sunrise With Sea Monsters follows a wandering desktop hard drive in a quest to explore the new methods and technologies being developed to store and preserve human knowledge for humanity in the future.

Sun 9 June / 14:15 / The Light Cinema 8 Tue 11 June / 12:00 / Curzon Cinema 1

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Films Doc/Vision

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists and bold cinematic visions.

Short films in this strand Adversarial Feelings

Lorem (Francesco D’Abbraccio) / Italy / 2019 / 22 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Artificial Intelligence has a wild imagination.

With an esoteric creative voice, it experiments with music, text and images, reflecting its perception of the landscapes and shape-shifting forms of human life.

Mon 10 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 6

D E E P Live

Various / United States / Various Years / Run Time TBC / Various Premiere

Films

D E E P is a traveling presentation of experimental shorts, web videos, and art pieces unearthed from the darker side of the internet, curated by filmmaker Chris Osborn.

Sat 8 June / 18:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

E-Ticket [DF]

Simon Liu / Hong Kong SAR China, UK / 2019 / 13 mins / UK Premiere

A rapid succession of 35mm photography fires through colourful rambling visions. From Hong Kong to India, we race through a cloud of personal archives, where time is non-linear and textured.

Past Perfect

Jorge Jácome / Portugal / 2019 / 23 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Dreamy, unfocused images evoke an impression of a softer, golden time. In the lament for days of yore, the deeper, political implications of nostalgia are brought to the surface.

Mon 10 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Westinghouse Three [DF] Kevin Jerome Everson / USA / 2019 / 3 mins / International Premiere

The film showcases an old consumer product produced at the Westinghouse factory in Mansfield, Ohio, the filmmaker’s hometown in the 1960s.

Mon 10 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Wittnerchrome Notes I & II [DF] Nick Collins / UK / 2018 / 3 mins / UK Premiere

A brief filmmaker’s notebook, in two parts, both silent. The first was filmed in and around a village in Messenia, Greece, and the second in the Cévennes region of the south of France.

Mon 10 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Mon 10 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 6

Fordlandia Malaise

Susana de Sousa Dias / Portugal / 2019 / 41 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Postcards depict the colonisation of the Amazon jungle to build Fordlandia, a land of rubber and recklessness. Locals tell stories of the spirits and folklore that haunt the decimated landscape.

Mon 10 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 6 Doc/Fest Art Award Nominee

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Below: E-Ticket

Films Strand

Focus/Shapes That Move An intersectional feminist focus that brings to the foreground the collaborative power of those who have contributed to shaping new futures in Britain using the medium of cinema, turning the act of filmmaking into an act of solidarity.

Another Mother

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Films for Rebel Girls: Dream Screens, p.80

Rating TBC

Various Directors / UK / Various Years / 81 mins

The role of Mother is one of the most densely overdetermined feminine archetypes. In this pairing of films, we encounter a different view of maternity: one that emanates outwards from subjective experience and gives space to the complexity of what it means to be a woman, a parent, and a human being – all at the same time.

Tue 11 June / 16:45 / Curzon Cinema 1

A British State of Being

Rating TBC

Various Directors / UK / Various Years / 87 mins

Who belongs on this island in the ocean? The thread of identity that relates to Britishness is as divisive as it is unifying, and here we present a selection of films tug at some of the frayed edges of the tapestry of nationality – its past and its present.

Mon 10 June / 15:45 / Showroom Cinema 1

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Films Focus/Shapes That Move

Films for Rebel Girls: Dream Screens

Rating TBC

Films

To shine a light forward into the future, we co-present a selection of short films for young people together with Pavilion’s Art School for Rebel Girls – an ongoing arts project fostering confidence, creativity and collaboration between young women in Leeds.

Sat 8 June / 18:30 / The Light Cinema 3

Rating TBC

Various Directors / UK / Various Years / 86 mins

Turning normative gender and sexuality on its head, we find the world looks different from this angle. The films of Flip the Script both celebrate and galvanise of the power of the LGBTQI+ community to interrupt binaries, disrupt the strictures of the status quo, and liberate the world from its own constraints.

Fri 7 June / 19:15 / The Light Cinema 3

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Rating TBC

Various Directors / UK / Various Years / 64 mins

Various Directors / UK / Various Years / Run Time TBC

Flip The Script

Operate Heavy Machinery

History has not always paid due recognition to the to the women who have been vital cogs that keep the machine turning. This selection of films celebrates the women of the north and their mobilisation, resilience and innovation in the world of work.

Mon 10 June / 19:15 / The Light Cinema 3

Praise the Lorde

Rating TBC

Various Directors / UK / Various Years / 71 mins

The great contribution of Audre Lorde’s intellectual irreverence to the thinking of her contemporary and succeeding generations was profound. Three short fims explore her British influence, serving as a primer for those who have yet to be introduced to her brilliance, and an homage for those who have.

Sun 9 June / 19:50 / The Light Cinema 3

Films Strand

New/Hits

Powerful new masterpieces selected fresh from the best international film festivals.

Each of these films marches with courage of character and depth of dignity: whistleblowers, new political disruptors and wild bee-keepers open their doors and hives to the camera.

Still from Honeyland, p.82 Films

Apollo 11

Rating TBC

Todd Douglas Miller / USA / 2019 / 93 mins

Never-before-seen footage takes you straight into the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin embark on a historic trip to the moon.

Relaxed Screening / Fri 7 June / 21:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Sun 9 June / 09:10 / The Light Cinema 3

The Brink

Rating TBC

Alison Klayman / USA / 2019 / 91 mins

Follow Trump’s former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon through the 2018 mid-term elections in the United States, elucidating his efforts to mobilise and unify far-right parties to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliament elections.

Thu 6 June / 15:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

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Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

Rating TBC

Director Jeanie Finlay’s portrait of the final season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, telling the bittersweet pleasure of what it means to create a world, then having to say goodbye.

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Rating TBC

Kotevska Tamara, Stefanov Ljubomir / Macedonia / 2019 / 85 mins

Jeanie Finlay / Nothern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, Spain / 2019 / 116 mins

In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a middle aged beekeeper, lives in peace tending her bees and her bedridden mother — then a family moves in next door and everything changes.

Thu 6 June / 11:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Thu 6 June / 15:50 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Sun 9 June / 21:30 / Crucible Theatre

Hail Satan?

Honeyland

Penny Lane / USA / 2019 / 94 mins

Knock Down the House

Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history, the Satanic Temple.

Go behing the scenes as four determined women - including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – challenging big-money politicians in the 2018 race for Congress.

Thu 6 June / 12:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Thu 6 June / 13:15 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Rating TBC

Rachel Lears / USA / 2019 / 86 mins

Rating TBC

Films New/Hits

Powerful new masterpieces selected fresh from the best international film festivals.

Doc/Fest Future Producers School Alumni

What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?

Rating TBC

Roberto Minervini / Italy, USA, France / 2018 / 123 mins

A Black community in the American South tries to cope with the lingering effects of the past and navigate their place in a country that is not on their side.

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Tim Travers Hawkins / UK, USA / 2019 / 92 mins

What would you do if you had access to terrible secrets withheld by the system, and the optimism that sharing them could change the world for the better?

Thu 6 June / 12:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Films

Thu 6 June / 15:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

XY Chelsea

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Films Strand

New/Japan

Discover a creative new wave of stories and images from Japanese filmmakers.

These images glow beyond comprehension, from the intimate and familial lens to the abstract flickering cosmos of the imagination.

Still from Norie, p.85 Films

The Big House

Rating TBC

Kazuhiro Soda, Markus Nornes, Terri Sarris / USA / 2018 / 119 mins / UK Premiere

Shot against the backdrop of the 2016 election and the rise of Donald Trump, The Big House, America’s largest stadium, presents a microcosm of America by showing everything but the game.

Fri 7 June / 16:00 / The Light Cinema 3

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Memento Stella [DF]

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Takashi Makino / Japan, Hong Kong / 2018 / 60 mins / UK Premiere

Director Takashi Makino coined the phrase “Memento Stella” to remind himself to “never forget that we too reside among the stars”, so that perhaps we might find shared expression beyond the divisions that tear us apart.

Mon 10 June / 17:25 / The Light Cinema 6

Films New/Japan

Norie

Rating TBC

Yuki Kawamura / Japan / 2018 / 81 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Filmmaker Yuki Kawamura embarks on a roadtrip with his father to Sapporo, Japan, to talk to the people who knew Norie, Yuki’s mother, who died when he was only three years old.

Fri 7 June / 12:00 / The Light Cinema 6

Toshio Matsumoto + Bo Ningen Live

Rating TBC

Toshio Matsumoto / Japan / Various / 69 mins

In this meeting of Japanese psychedelia Doc/Fest presents a chronology of rarely seen seminal short films of Toshio Matsumoto (1931-2017) with a sensory wave of sound from contemporary noise rock band Bo Ningen.

Films

Mon 10 June / 20:30 / The Leadmill

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Films New/Japan Short films in this strand A Tiny Place Is Hard to Touch Shelly Silver / USA / 2019 / 39 mins / UK Premiere

Science fiction and desire collide when an American researcher meets a Japanese translator.

Clouds drift beyond the towering high rise blocks; down below, nature suffocates in a Tokyo river.

Sat 8 June / 09:15 / Showroom Cinema 1

Chiyo

Chiemi Shimada / Japan / 2019 / 13 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Films

With the warm textures of 16mm colour, the filmmaker paints a sensuous portrait of her grandmother, Chiyo. From her home in the Japanese suburbs, Chiyo shares her dreams and reality.

Sat 8 June / 09:15 / Showroom Cinema 1

Mountain Plain Mountain Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby / Japan, Peru / 2018 / 22 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Obihiro is the last Ban’ei racecourse – a rare form of horse racing involving heavy sleds. Jockeys ride imaginary races, and mysterious names are reeled off with strange poetry.

Sat 8 June / 09:15 / Showroom Cinema 1

The Pearl of Tailorbird

Rei Hayama / Japan / 2019 / 29 mins / World Premiere

The recorded birdcall sound was decelerated speed and lowered pitch until it became closer to the voice tone of human. The sound was misinterpreted into Japanese and sang by artist.

Sat 8 June / 09:15 / Showroom Cinema 1

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Films Strand

New/Signals

The best in new broadcast, episodic and online films followed by deep conversations. This chamber of formatted works are signals of the now, and echoes of unresolved histories. Big stories of politics and justice from the invasion of Iraq, to the Windrush scandal and Watergate.

Criminal Justice

Films

Still from Once Upon A Time In Iraq, p.88

Rating TBC

Chris Rowe, Dan Dewsbury, Paddy Flanagan / UK / 2019 / 47 mins / World Premiere

Jade

Rating TBC

Rob Coldstream / UK / 2019 / 50 mins / World Premiere

This film is about the law of unintended consequences. A present tense examination of the aftermath of new Labour’s sentencing policy, brought in under Tony Blair and David Blunkett.

Exploring the rise and fall of Britain’s most loved – and hated – reality star – Jade is a dark fairytale that shines a light on the battlegrounds of class politics and social change in Britain at the turn of the 21st century.

Sun 9 June / 11:30 / Showroom Cinema 1

Sun 9 June / 09:00 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

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Films New/Signals

The Mortician of Manila

Rating TBC

Leah Borromeo / UK, Phillipines / 2019 / 25 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Films

Fri 7 June / 11:15 / The Light Cinema 3

Rating TBC

James Bluemel / Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, USA / 2019 / 60 mins / World Premiere

Multi-BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning director James Bluemel focuses on first person narratives from both sides of the 2003 Iraq War, in an attempt to better understand the world today.

Sun 9 June / 19:15 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

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Rating TBC

Alison Millar / 45 mins / 2018 / 180 mins

A grim and compelling journey through the eyes of an undertaker and the lives and deaths of victims shaping the Philippines in President Rodrigo Duterte’s lethal drug war.

Once Upon A Time In Iraq

Out in the Cold

Accused of killing her new-born baby, young mother Ashley Ard is going on trial for murder.

But what really happened that winter night in Anchorage, Alaska?

Sun 9 June / 09:30 / Showroom Cinema 1

Radical Broadcasts

Rating TBC

Mike Dibb / UK / Various Years / 90 mins

Radical Broadcasts, an on-going season programmed by Matthew Harle and Colm McAuliffe, celebrates the work of television director Mike Dibb who shaped “more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation.”

Sun 9 June / 16:15 / Showroom Cinema 1

Films New/Signals

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

The best in new broadcast, episodic and online films, followed by deep conversations.

Rating TBC

Tim Kirby, James Ross / UK / 2019 / 59 mins / World Premiere

David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the hostile environment for black British immigrants has been 70 years in the making

Rating TBC

Charles Ferguson / USA / 2018 / 6x45 mins / UK Premiere

New interviews with journalists, Nixon administration officials, members of congress and prosecutors, with archival footage and information from the Nixon White House tapes, bring a fresh perspective on the Watergate case.

Sat 8 June / 09:15 / Curzon Cinema 1

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Sun 9 June / 14:00 / Showroom Cinema 1

Watergate

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Films Strand

New/UK

In these raw scenes of a country in flux, a generation of UK filmmakers question values, flip assumptions, and walk the streets of the here and now.

Films Still from The Circle, p.91

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Films New/UK Short films in this strand And It Was The Same With My Son

Noemi Varga / Hungary, UK / 2018 / 9 mins / World Premiere

We rarely hear about the parents who are left behind to pick up the pieces when they lose a child to radicalisation. With poetic reconstruction, one mother shares her journey.

Sat 8 June / 09:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

The Circle

Lanre Malaolu / UK / 2019 / 15 mins / World Premiere

Sat 8 June / 09:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Doc/Fest Future Producer School Alumni

Alice Aedy / UK / 2018 / 14 mins / World Premiere / [S]

The present appears to be a sci-fi dystopia. Against visions of British cities and faces illuminated by smartphones, anonymous voicemails from young people are left for the Minister for Loneliness.

Sat 8 June / 09:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Fast Talk

Jobie Nam / UK / 2018 / 11 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Fast Talk takes a fascinating look at the strange phenomenon of competitive fast-talking in the late 1980s.

Sat 8 June / 09:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

The Masses

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Two brothers have their experiences of growing up in London, racism and family dynamics embodied in dance. The manifestation of thoughts and feelings brings a fluid physicality to the unseen.

Disconnected

Dorothy Allen-Pickard / UK / 2019 / 12 mins / World Premiere

The Masses is a visceral and empathetic portrayal of three neighbours’ devotion to their respective religions: Islam, Christianity and football.

Sat 8 June / 09:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2 Doc/Fest Future Producer School Alumni

Below: And It Was The Same With My Son Below right: Fast Talk

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Films A Soft Rebellion in Paradise

Conceived in response to Sheffield’s proud history as a city known for its political activism, and more especially as the city where the UK’s first women’s suffrage organisation was founded in 1851, artist Chloë Brown questions the systematic contemporary and historical silencing of woman’s voices.

The film was shot on location in Paradise Square, the historical site of many protests, and was produced by an all-female cast and crew.

A Soft Rebellion in Paradise proposes a powerful invocation, a call-to-arms for the voices of women to be heard.

This is the international premiere of A Soft Rebellion in Paradise, commissioned by Arts Council England through Sheffield Culture Consortium.

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Sat 8 June / 12:00–21:00 (various times) / Paradise Square / Free Entry

Free Entry

Films Outdoor Screen Thu 6 June

12:00 Made In Yorkshire 1 A selection of films featuring work by local filmmakers.

13:00 Global Citizens 1 These films showcase internationality, incorporating filmmakers from all over the world.

14:00 Access all Areas 1 These films attempt to increase visibility of disability on screen.

15:00 Queer Perspectives 1 A series of films by and about individuals who identify as LGBTQI+, examining the importance of identity and community in the face of oppression.

Free Screen on Howard Street

Free Entry

Fri 7 June

09:00 Docsercise Start your morning right with our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

10:00 Green Screens 1 A collection of shorts covering all aspects of our beautiful and complex relationship with our planet.

11:00 Global Citizens 2 These films showcase internationality, incorporating filmmakers from all over the world.

12:00 Access All Areas 2 These films attempt to increase visibility of disability on screen.

13:00 NOWNESS A series of shorts curated by global video channel Nowness.

17:00 VICE 1 A selection of cutting-edge documentaries provided by VICE.

14:00 Queer Perspectives 2 A series of films by and about individuals who identify as LGBTQI+, examining the importance of identity and community in the face of oppression.

18:00 Women on Screen 1 A focus on the remarkable work, stories, and talents of women from around the globe.

19:00 The Great Pretenders Set at TribFest, the self-proclaimed biggest tribute festival in the world, this documentary looks at tribute bands and the individuals behind them.

Films

16:00 Dazed A series of shorts from Dazed, covering contemporary experiences.

15:00 Women on Screen 2 A focus on the remarkable work, stories, and talents of women from around the globe.

16:00 Random Acts A collection of visually arresting shorts from Channel 4’s Random Acts.

17:00 The Guardian 1 A collection of informative shorts from The Guardian.

18:00 VICE 2 A selection of cutting-edge documentaries provided by VICE. 19:00 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Narrated by Jodie Foster, this is a documentary about the first female filmmaker, Alice GuyBlaché, which explores the heights of fame and financial success she achieved before she was shut out from the very industry she helped create.

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Films Outdoor Screen

Free Entry

Sat 8 June

Sun 9 June

10:00 VICE 3 A selection of cutting-edge documentaries provided by VICE.

10:00 Made In Yorkshire 1 A selection of films featuring work by local filmmakers.

11:00 The Guardian 2 A collection of informative shorts from The Guardian.

11:00 NOWNESS A series of shorts curated by global video channel Nowness.

12:00 Jessica Bishopp A focus on the work of Jessica Bishopp, who experiments with a range of media, exposing the magic in the mundane.

12:00 Random Acts A collection of visually arresting shorts from Channel 4’s Random Acts.

09:00 Docsercise Start your morning right with our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

Films

13:00 Access All Areas 1 These films attempt to increase visibility of disability on screen.

14:00 Women on Screen 1 A focus on the remarkable work, stories, and talents of women from around the globe.

15:00 Green Screens 2 A collection of shorts covering all aspects of our beautiful and complex relationship with our planet.

16:00 Global Citizens 3 These films showcase internationality, incorporating filmmakers from all over the world.

17:00 Made In Yorkshire 2 A selection of films featuring work by local filmmakers.

18:00 Queer Perspectives 1 A series of films by and about individuals who identify as LGBTQI+, examining the importance of identity and community in the face of oppression.

19:00 Special Screening A screening of a surprise feature film.

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Free Screen on Howard Street

09:00 Docsercise Start your morning right with our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

13:00 Women on Screen 2 A focus on the remarkable work, stories, and talents of women from around the globe.

14:00 VICE 1 A selection of cutting-edge documentaries provided by VICE. 15:00 Global Citizens 1 These films showcase internationality, incorporating filmmakers from all over the world.

16:00 Jessica Bishopp A focus on the work of Jessica Bishopp, who experiments with a range of media, exposing the magic in the mundane.

17:00 Green Screens 1 A collection of shorts covering all aspects of our beautiful and complex relationship with our planet.

18:00 Access All Areas 2 These films attempt to increase visibility of disability on screen.

19:00 Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché Narrated by Jodie Foster, this is a documentary about the first female filmmaker, Alice GuyBlaché, which explores the heights of fame and financial success she achieved before she was shut out from the very industry she helped create.

Films Outdoor Screen

Free Screen on Howard Street

Mon 10 June

Tue 11 June

10:00 Global Citizens 2 These films showcase internationality, incorporating filmmakers from all over the world.

10:00 Dazed A series of shorts from Dazed, covering contemporary experiences.

11:00 Jessica Bishopp A focus on the work of Jessica Bishopp, who experiments with a range of media, exposing the magic in the mundane.

11:00 The Guardian 2 A collection of informative shorts from The Guardian.

09:00 Docsercise Start your morning right with our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

12:00 Green Screens 2 A collection of shorts covering all aspects of our beautiful and complex relationship with our planet.

14:00 Dazed A series of shorts from Dazed, covering contemporary experiences.

15:00 VICE 2 A selection of cutting-edge documentaries provided by VICE. 16:00 Made in Yorkshire 2 A selection of films featuring work by local filmmakers.

17:00 Women on Screen 1 A focus on the remarkable work, stories, and talents of women from around the globe.

18:00 The Guardian 1 A collection of informative shorts from The Guardian.

19:00 Special Screening A screening of a surprise feature film.

09:00 Docsercise Start your morning right with our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

12:00 NOWNESS A series of shorts curated by global video channel Nowness.

13:00 Global Citizens 3 These films showcase internationality, incorporating filmmakers from all over the world.

14:00 Green Screens 1 A collection of shorts covering all aspects of our beautiful and complex relationship with our planet.

Films

13:00 Random Acts A collection of visually arresting shorts from Channel 4’s Random Acts.

Free Entry

15:00 Access All Areas 1 These films attempt to increase visibility of disability on screen.

16:00 VICE 3 A selection of cutting-edge documentaries provided by VICE. 17:00 Queer Perspectives 2 A series of films by and about individuals who identify as LGBTQI+, examining the importance of identity and community in the face of oppression.

18:00 Made in Yorkshire 1 A selection of films featuring work by local filmmakers.

19:00 Special Screening A screening of a surprise feature film.

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Our digital art programme showcases powerful interactive narratives and immersive experiences. Installations that test your understanding of truth, immersive stories that highlight injustice and prejudice, talks and events that challenge the documentary form.

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Alternate Realities Summit Sun 9 June / Netflix Crucible Studio

All events in the Alternate Realities Summit are available with a Festival Pass.

Alternate Realities Summit tickets are available for £65/£55 from sheffdocfest.com

Incomputable Sensibilities

A day dedicated to discussions about the role of digital artists.

Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities Summit Welcome

Meet the artists and thinkers who strive for a balance between creation and automation, experimenting with the latest advances and radical innovations to enable new forms of storytelling.

Converging Sensibilities: Considering Creative Practice

Sun 9 Jun / 10:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Sun 9 Jun / 11:10 / Netflix Crucible Studio

The Alternate Realities team welcomes you to a thought provoking day of talks and discussions with the international digital storytelling community.

Meet three emerging artists unafraid to take on sensitive subjects and deliver creative and compelling stories about sexuality, disability, conflict, climate, courage and faith.

Speakers Dan Tucker and Joe Cutts (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

Chair Tonya Nelson (Arts Council England)

Producer

Nikki Stearman

Designing Around the Brain

Speakers Sadah Espii Proctor (Girl Icon, p.106), Maria Belen Poncio (4 Feet: Blind Date, p.104), Nyasha Kadanara (Le Lac, p.106)

Future Lab Africa: Storytelling with Audio

Sun 9 Jun / 10:20 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Sun 9 Jun / 12:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio

As we move into a world in which our interaction with information starts as soon as we walk through the door, the role of experience design is becoming more and more important. A seasoned practitioner in designing experiments for ‘real’ reality, Tea Uglow gives insight on how to create for the cleverest machine we have: the brain.

To this day radio, by far, is the dominant mass medium in Africa. Future Lab Africa is an experimentation in the most intimate space, between your ears, with an audible treat that inspires us to cultivate new ideas about the future and the future of storytelling.

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This year’s summit looks to a future of increasing algorithmic intervention into our daily lives, and asks ‘what is left that cannot be computed or replicated’ and ‘how do we retain sensibilities that cannot be synthesised?’.

ea Uglow T (Google Creative Lab Sydney)

Speaker

Jepchumba (Future Lab Africa)

Alternate Realities Summit Sun 9 June / Netflix Crucible Studio In Posse: Making ‘Female’ Sperm

Alternate Realities Summit Closing Comments

Sun 9 Jun / 14:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Sun 9 Jun / 16:20 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Throughout history semen has been revered as a magical substance – a totem of literal and symbolic potency. Described variously as ‘life force’, ‘substance of the soul’ and ‘that which sows the seeds of virtue in the female soul’.

Bio artist Charlotte Jarvis aims to re-write this cultural narrative; using art and science to disrupt the hierarchy.

The Alternate Realities team take to the stage to share some closing thoughts, invite some lucky participants to join the Social Sorting Experiment and encourage everyone else to meet the Alternate Realities artists for drinks at Site Gallery (p.138).

Speaker

Charlotte Jarvis (Artist)

Smartphone Orchestra: Social Sorting Experiment

Sun 9 Jun / 14:35 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Sun 9 Jun / 16:45 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Identity-questioning installations that make us think again about how we see each other.

Witness a discussion between three radical artists who have created some of the most thought provoking experiences in the Alternate Realities Exhibition: Subconscious Sensibilities.

A live event like no other. A selection of summit citizens will be manipulated in an absurdist interactive performance that uses the digital data trail we leave behind with our social media activity.

Chair Verity McIntosh (University of the West of England)

Alternate Realities

Subconscious Sensibilities: Considering Creative Practice

Speakers Dan Tucker, Joe Cutts and Emma Von Cooper (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

See p.34 for more

Speakers Bill Posters, Dr Daniel Howe (Spectre, p.103), Georgie Pinn (Echo, p.102), Rob Eagle (Through the Wardrobe, p.103)

AI Voyage: Can Conscious Storytelling Save Us?

Sun 9 Jun / 15:35 / Netflix Crucible Studio AI filmmaker Karen Palmer, the Storyteller from the Future, shares insights into her emotionally responsive film RIOT and the intersection of, AI and bias, gaming, art, neuroscience, behavioural psychology and consciousness. Returning to share with us the future in order that we might be able to change it through the superpower of conscious storytelling and technology.

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Alternate Realities Exhibition

Subconscious Sensibilities

Stimulate your senses and engage your sensibilities in our group exhibition of multidisciplinary artworks.

Site Gallery and Site Gallery Square Alternate Realities

Thu 6 June 12:00–20:00

Fri 7 – Sat 8 June 11:00–20:00

Sun 9 June 11:00–19:00

Mon 10 – Tues 11 June 11:00–20:00

Some experiences require booking — See p.7

Free Entry Still from Echo

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Aftermath: Euromaidan

Algorithmic Perfumery

On 20 February 2014, Ukrainian government police opened fire against protesters in Independence Square, Kiev. This experience places you at the heart of the revolution.

What if every human could have their own unique scent? Using personal data to train an AI system that adapts and learns from every exchange, this installation makes an original scent for every visitor.

Alexey Furman / Ukraine / 2019 / 30 mins / First UK Exhibition / Virtual Reality Installation

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Frederik Duerinck / Netherlands / 2018 / 15 mins / First UK Exhibition / Installation

Alternate Realities Exhibition Subconscious Sensibilities

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Another Dream

Tamara Shogaolu / Egypt, Netherlands, Norway, USA / 2019 / 25 mins / First International Exhibition / Virtual Reality Installation

Clit Moi

Audrey Malo, Catherine Sabourin, Laurence Gélinas, Léa Martin, Maude Fraser, Noémie Beaulac, Stéphanie Dupuis, Vincent Paradis, Loïc Darses / Canada / 2019 / 5 mins / First Festival Exhibition / Interactive Documentary

We all know what a penis looks like.

It’s about time we became better acquainted with the clitoris. This game demystifies female sexual satisfaction.

Alternate Realities

How do you rebuild a life when you know you can never go home? The gripping story of an Egyptian lesbian couple who, facing a postrevolution backlash against their community, must choose between love and home.

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market Alumni

Apparatum

Common Ground

Inspired by the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, this installation employs analogue sound generators, based on magnetic tape and optical components to create a unique score for visitors who play with its digital interface.

Welcome to the Aylesbury Estate, home to thousands of Londoners, a concrete monument to the history and legacy of social housing in the UK, and a stark insight into the realities of gentrification and social cleansing.

Krzysztof Cybulski, Krzysztof Goliński, Jakub Koźniewski / Poland / 2018 / 5 mins / First UK Exhibition / Audio Installation

Darren Emerson / UK / 2019 / 30 mins / First European Exhibition / Virtual Reality Installation

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Alternate Realities Exhibition Subconscious Sensibilities

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Echo

Georgie Pinn / Australia / 2018 / 4 mins / First UK Exhibition / Interactive Installation

Alternate Realities

Step into the shoes of another through a virtual mirror, select a shared story and discover layers of yourself echoed back to you in this deeply personal exploration of human experience, identity and empathy.

Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market Alumni

Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan

Zoyander Street / Japan, UK / 2018 / 15 mins / Game

A playful representation of transgender people from Japan, this cybertwee experience uses the nostalgic style of early gaming to create a connection with its contributors.

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Forest

My Mother’s Kitchen

A meditative experience in a hand-drawn landscape of ancient bristlecone pine trees, sculpted organic matter and transmuted earthy-electro music.

Share in the stories of eight LGBTQI+ individuals as they relay intimate memories of their mother’s kitchens. Filled with joy and comfort mixed with inequality and hardship.

Kelsey Boncato, Daniel Oldham / USA / 2019 / 8 mins / First European Exhibition / Virtual Reality Installation

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Maeve Marsden, Tea Uglow / Australia / 2019 / 8 mins / First Worldwide Exhibition / Interactive Documentary

Alternate Realities Exhibition Subconscious Sensibilities

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Panama Al Brown: A Mysterious Force

Camille Duvelleroy / France / 2018 / 60 mins / First UK Exhibition / Motion Comic

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Rob Eagle / UK / 2019 / 20 mins / First International Exhibition / Augmented Reality Installation

Discover a wardrobe where the possibilities of gender are endless. You are invited to explore the belongings of others and play with gender expression.

Doc/Fest Best Digital Experience Award Nominee

Spectre (Festival Commission)

To Call a Horse a Deer

A cautionary tale of computational propaganda, technology and democracy, curated by an algorithm and powered by personal data.

Based on the Chinese idiom, this game uses language, hand-eye coordination and acts of complicity. The ancient tale is akin to modern day political practice where systematic truth-bending has become a tool in reality.

Bill Posters, Dr. Daniel Howe / UK, Hong Kong / 2019 / 6 mins / First Worldwide Exhibition / Installation

Alternate Realities

Meet Alfonso Teofilo Brown, better known as Panama Al. The story of a gay black Panamanian who became the world’s first Hispanic World Boxing Champion at the age of 26, and his amazing life beyond the sport.

Through the Wardrobe

IP Yuk-Yiu / Hong Kong / 2018 / 2 mins / First UK Exhibition / Game

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Alternate Realities VR Cinema

Converging Sensibilities

A curated selection of 360º projects presented as a collaborative experience, highlighting racial injustice, sexuality and modernism.

Performance Lab Alternate Realities

Thu 6 June 12:00-20:00

Some experiences require booking — See p.7

Doc/Fest Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee

4 Feet: Blind Date

Maria Belen Poncio / Argentina / 2018 / 19 mins / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

Anxious to explore her sexuality, Juana, an 18-year-old woman in a wheelchair, overcomes her fears, doubts, and an inaccessible city to meet ‘Felipe’ for a blind date. Together they discover how their bodies feel.

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Free Entry

Fri 7 – Tue 11 June 11:00-20:00

Still from The Curse of Palm Oil

Doc/Fest Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee

Accused Number 2: Walter Sisulu

Gilles Porte, Nicolas Champeaux / France / 2019 / 15 mins / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

256 hours of audio archives bring back to life the political battle waged by Mandela and his seven co-defendants. This portrayal looks at one of them in particular: accused number 2, Walter Sisulu.

Alternate Realities VR Cinema Converging Sensibilities

Doc/Fest Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee

The Atomic Tree

Crackle Pop

A journey into the memories of one of the most revered trees in the world, a 400-year-old Japanese white pine bonsai, which witnessed and survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima.

Music and documentary collide in this immersive representation of the perceptual phenomenon of synaesthesia. Based on the real life experience of synesthetes listening to the music of Paul Russell’s post-punk orchestra, Human Pyramids.

Adam Loften, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee / USA, Japan / 2018 / 9 mins / First International Exhibition / 360° Video

John Lynch / UK / 2018 / 10 mins / 360° Video

Alternate Realities

Doc/Fest Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee

Bauhaus in Bavaria

The Curse of Palm Oil

Journey back in time and discover the Rosenthal factory buildings in Bavaria, Germany – the last architectural masterpieces of the Bauhaus icon, Walter Gropius.

This unsettling exposé looks at the rampant deforestation, displacement and conflict caused by Asia’s flourishing palm oil industry, unveiling the appalling social and ecological impact on Malaysian tribal communities.

Andrea Zimmermann, Stefan Goeppel / Germany, USA / 2019 / 11 mins / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

Viktorija Mickute / Qatar, Malaysia / 2018 / 7 mins / 360° Video

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Alternate Realities VR Cinema Converging Sensibilities

The Dreams of Henri Rousseau

Nicolas Autheman / France / 2018 / 7 mins / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

Alternate Realities

Step into the surreal and sublime greenhouse of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris as it transforms to reveal the secrets of the painter Henri Rousseau.

Doc/Fest Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee

Vikas Pandey / India / 2019 / 8 mins / UK / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

Take a spiritual trip, through the largest gathering of people on Earth, in India’s Kumbh Mela. A gathering of humanity so mammoth it can be seen from space.

Doc/Fest Best Digital Narrative Award Nominee

Girl Icon

Le Lac

Share in Rani’s journey to gain an education for herself and the other girls in her community. Inspired by Malala Yousafzai’s programme to change the lives of the 130 million girls who miss out on school.

Depended on by millions, Lake Chad has shrunk to a tenth of her former self. A journey through change and rupture, as told by the poetic voice of the lake herself.

Sadah Espii Proctor / USA, India / 2019 / 8 mins / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

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Hand in Hand: A Story of Faith and Friendship in Kumbh

Nyasha Kadandara / Chad, Kenya, South Africa / 2019 / 10 mins / First Worldwide Exhibition / 360° Video

Alternate Realities VR Cinema Converging Sensibilities

Potato Dreams

Traveling While Black

A surreal experience that tells the story of Little Potato’s journey growing up gay in the Soviet Union before and after the fall of communism. His mother struggles to create a better life for them both by becoming a mail-order bride to travel to America.

A detailed overview into the long history of constrained movement for black Americans and the creation of safe places in our communities.

Wes Hurley / USA / 2017 / 6 mins / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

Roger Ross Williams, Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael, Ayesha Nadarajah / USA, Canada / 2018 / 20 mins / First UK Exhibition / 360° Video

Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities Events

The Justice Syndicate p.32

The Smartphone Orchestra Presents: The Social Sorting Experiment p.34

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Talks, panels and debates with directors, producers, journalists, artists, editors, musicians, campaigners, distributors, influencers, screenwriters, politicians, designers, curators, commissioners, archivists, activists, authors, historians, presenters, anthropologists, cinematographers, vloggers, a slumflower, a blockbuster, a cosmic archaeologist, and a Strictly winner‌ to inform, challenge and inspire.

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Craft Summit Presented by Documentary Campus Sat 8 June / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Talks & Sessions

A curated day of panel sessions dedicated to the techniques that go into non-fiction filmmaking, from shorts to features. The creative minds behind many of the films in this year’s programme explore how they have developed their craft, the creative choices they make, and the tools and workflows they use.

All sessions in the Craft Summit are available with a Festival Pass.

Craft Summit: Through the Eyes of the Other

Sat 8 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sat 8 June / 11:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

We explore the craft of directing through films in this year’s Doc/Fest that focus on a central character. Taking us deep into their films and filmic method, directors on the panel will explore their approaches to character and taking the audience into their world. How does the relationship work, and what happens if it goes wrong?

Some say that the cutting room is where the real documentary magic happens. With stories from their recent work, hear the insight and experience of leading editors on their role in the creative process. What’s the relationship between director and editor in the cutting room? How different is editing for TV and cinema? And should the director always be close to the edit?

Chair

Chair

Krishan Arora

Speakers Jeanie Finlay (dir. Seahorse p.58) + more speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

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Craft Summit: Close to the Edit

Krishan Arora

Speakers Joelle Alexis + more speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

Craft Summit Presented by Documentary Campus Sat 8 June / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A Craft Summit: Filming the Unfilmable

Craft Summit: Sound Unbound

Sat 8 June / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sat 8 June / 15:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

How do documentary filmmakers tackle the most taboo of subjects and tell stories that can’t be shared openly, while respecting the ethical, legal and personal sensitivities of the people involved?

This session will look at radical and hybrid formats in bringing such subjects to screen, and explore the innovative techniques used by directors working in film and TV.

Sound is sometimes sidelined by the dominance of image and story in documentary making.

And yet it can have a powerful effect on the audience, working in a more evocative and subliminal way on our perception of the film.

Focussing on documentaries at this year’s festival which immerse the audience in sound, we will explore with their designers how the audio landscape is integral to the cinematic experience.

Chair

Krishan Arora

Craft Summit: Picturing the Planet

Chair

Krishan Arora

Speakers Johana Smarcova (dir. The Sound is Innocent p.64) Martin Ozvold (sound designer The Sound is Innocent p.64) Jaśmina Wójcik (dir. Symphony of the Ursus Factory p.64)

Craft Summit: Short and Smart

Sat 8 June / 14:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sat 8 June / 16:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Images of the natural world - and humankind’s impact on it - are a powerful way to raise awareness and encourage action. But does showing the beauty of the natural world detract from what we’re doing to it? What are the different ways to film environmental stories?

In this session, cinematographers will discuss their approaches, and give us behind the scenes stories to their most memorable shots.

What are the aesthetics of filmmaking using smartphones? Is the way we make documentaries changing fast enough to adapt to the ways people are viewing them? Filmmakers coming at short filmmaking from different perspectives will talk about their own work, how the equipment they use changes what they can make, and how the way they make their films helps in finding their audience.

Chair

Chair

Krishan Arora

Speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

Talks & Sessions

Speakers Colette Camden Carl Javér (dir. Reconstructing Utøya p.52)

Krishan Arora

Speakers Victoria Mapplebeck + more speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

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Talks & Sessions Fri 7 – Sat 8 June BAFTA Masterclass: Asif Kapadia Fri 7 June / 13:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8 The Academy Award and multi BAFTA-winning filmmaker, Asif Kapadia, elevated the art of archive documentaries with Amy and Senna, films which were both critically acclaimed and box office hits. His latest film Diego Maradona, explores the life of one of the world’s most iconic sportsmen. Asif will discuss his own career and inspirations, his filmmaking practise, and his personal connection to his work.

Session Producer Julia Carruthers (BAFTA) Chair

Mariayah Kaderbhai (BAFTA)

Talks & Sessions

Speaker Asif Kapadia (dir. Diego Maradona p.43)

Paul Greengrass in Conversation Fri 7 June / 15:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £12/ £10 Having cut his teeth on the investigative documentary strand World in Action, known for its unorthodox journalistic approach, Paul Greengrass has become one of the world’s most popular filmmakers. His films, which often explore real-world anxieties, include 22 July, three of the Bourne franchise, United 93 and Bloody Sunday.

Paul will talk to journalist, broadcaster and BFI Senior curator Danny Leigh about his journey from TV documentaries to Hollywood features, the evolution of his signature vérité-style, and his thoughts on the need to open up the film industry to less privileged and working class talent.

Session Producer Victoria Musguin-Rowe

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Chair

Danny Leigh (BFI)

Speaker

Paul Greengrass

My Big Break Sat 8 June / 11:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio Pursuing a career in Film or TV can be a daunting experience, and in the early stages of doing so it’s easy to feel that those around us find success with impossible ease. A panel of Film and TV professionals will discuss the highs and lows of their own journeys into the industry, offering insights from their experiences. An inspiring group of women look back on overcoming the obstacles and creating the opportunities that brought them to where they are today.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Oriana Franceschi Chair

Emma Morgan (Firecracker)

Speakers Roxy Rezvany, Ellie Flynn (BBC Three) Eliza Capai (dir Your Turn p.53) Lizzie Kempton

Breaking the Class Ceiling Sat 8 June / 13:45 / Netflix Crucible Studio In 2018, socio-economic inequality in the industry became national news, when the Panic!

Social Class, Taste and Inequalities in the Creative Industries report revealed that the industry was becoming even less welcoming to those from working class backgrounds. Much lip-service was paid to improving access, but what has changed in a year? Our panel discuss their experiences of making it without connections, a trust fund or private school education.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Victoria Musguin-Rowe Chair

Danny Leigh (BFI)

Speakers Carol Morley, Mia Bays, Paul Sng, Fiona Campbell (BBC), Billie JD Porter

Talks & Sessions Sat 8 – Sun 9 June Portrayals of Youth: Growing Up On Film

Alternate Realities Summit: Incomputable Sensibilities

Sat 8 June / 16:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Sun 9 June / 10:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio

The representation of youth culture has been frequently revisited by documentary filmmakers.

But how do you accurately capture an experience that is felt by everyone? And how do you protect your subjects as young people, whether they identify as vulnerable or not? This panel explores representations of youth culture and the responsibility of the filmmaker to truthfully document the human experience of growing up.

Festival Pass holders only

A day of provocative and artistic debate, with talks, presentations, panel discussions and performances from the world’s leading immersive and interactive storytellers. This year we focus on the colonialism of the connected world, examine the evolution of query based narrative and encourage an awakening in relation to personal data and unconscious bias. The Alternate Realities Summit returns to challenge preconceptions and disrupt narratives to deliver a new vision of documentary making.

Session Producers Kat Chirnside Ryan Finnigan Charlie Lyne

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Full details p.98

Speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

Rodney P talks Beats, Bass and Docs

Marketplace Summit

Sat 8 June / 16:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

Sun 9 June / 10:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Rodney P is widely regarded as the Godfather of British hip hop, and has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Omar, Roni Size, Nitin Sawhney and Björk. Recently Rodney has authored a number of documentaries exploring global music culture, including The Hip Hop World News, The Last Pirates – Britain’s Rebel DJs, and Bass; Beats and Bars – The Story of Grime. In conversation with music journalist Chantelle Fiddy, Rodney, along with Creative Director Jaimie D’Cruz (Acme Films), will discuss his musical and documentary career and future plans.

The Marketplace Summit gathers filmmakers and international industry delegates in one place to connect, share intel and discuss key issues concerning the production of new documentaries.

The day will feature four networking sessions including ‘Meet the Sales Agents’ and ‘Meet the Distributors’ as well as panels exploring the pitching and commissioning process. Whether you’re a new entrant or an industry veteran; come one, come all.

Festival Pass holders only Full details p.113

Session Producers Emma Garvie and Evie Buckley (Acme Films) Chair

Chantelle Fiddy

Speakers Rodney P, Jaimie D’Cruz (Acme Films) 113

Talks & Sessions Sun 9 June Shapes that Move: Archiving the Films of Feminist Collectives

Sun 9 June / 11:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Collectives give marginalised groups the opportunity to work outside of the mainstream and produce films that document their community. Who is best placed to archive that work, and how should it be exhibited? Members of filmmaking collectives represented in Doc/Fest’s Shapes of Movement focus discuss the production and continued life of their work with some of those who champion it through archiving and exhibition.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Oriana Franceschi

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Speakers Terry Wragg (Leeds Animation Workshop), Rehana Zaman (Liverpool Black Women Filmmakers), Chrissie Stanfield (Sheffield Film Coop) Campbell X (Club des Femmes)

In Conversation with Werner Herzog

Imaginary Friends: Short Stories from ‘The Loneliest Generation’

Sun 9 June / 11:00 / Crucible Theatre / £15/ £12

Sun 9 June / 11:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Arguably one of the greatest living filmmakers, who battled Klaus Kinski on the set of Aguirre, Wrath of God, dragged a ship over a hill for Fitzcarraldo and famously ate his own shoe on film after a losing bet, joins us to discuss his acclaimed career. His body of work includes over 60 films, on subjects as diverse as death row, Antarctica, the internet, volcanoes and bears, and his latest doc, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (p.45), explores the life of the famous travel writer and is screening at the festival.

In 2018, the UK’s Ministry of Loneliness was installed to combat the issue of isolation. Gen. Z has been singled out as ‘the loneliest generation’, with social media’s effects often receiving the blame. However, it’s online that young people can find a sense of companionship: a recurring theme in this year’s shorts programme. How can the Film and TV industry cater to the needs of an audience craving personal connections if social media is already their bff?

Festival Pass holders only

Speaker Werner Herzog (dir. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin p.45)

Session Producer Lena Nitsch Chair Dr. Chris Blackmore (University of Sheffield) Speakers

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Dr Suay Ozkula (University of Sheffield)

lice Aedy (Disconnected p.91) A Charlotte Angel (The ASMR Angel) + more to be confirmed, see sheffdocfest.com for details

Talks & Sessions Sun 9 June Chicken & Egg (Egg)celerator Lab Pitch

Born to Be a Contributor

Sun 9 June / 11:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Sun 9 June / 13:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

The (Egg)celerator Lab is a Chicken & Egg Pictures’ program that brings together ten nonfiction projects helmed by first- or secondtime women directors, with a special focus on underrepresented voices. The 2019 (Egg) celerator Lab participants will pitch their projects to a live audience and will receive feedback from international decision makers.

Festival Pass holders only

So what’s it like to be filmed your entire life?

Channel 4’s Born to be Different has been following the lives of six disabled children for 20 years. From birth to early adulthood they have laid bare their emotions for the cameras, and as viewers we’ve had the unique opportunity to see the children grow up on film. The show’s contributors reveal what it’s been like to have a TV crew document their lives. Has it been positive, empowering even?

Do they regret it? And how do they feel about the directors and crew who have been following them?

Festival Pass holders only Speakers Jo Ball (Ricochet), Zoe Ibbetson (contributor, Born to be Different) Emily Speirs (contributor, Born to be Different)

Talks & Sessions

Session Producer Cat Green (Ricochet)

Jenn Nkiru talks Film, Art and Cosmic Archeology

Sun 9 June / 13:15 / Crucible Adelphi / £10/ £8 Filmmaker and ‘cosmic archaeologist’, Jenn Nkiru, is one of the UK’s most exciting rising directors, with a unique and distinctive visual style. Her films are powerful explorations of black identity including commissions for Nowness, Frieze, Gucci and Channel 4. She has also collaborated on projects with Beyonce, Jay-Z and Kamasi Washington, and was a founding curator of Boiler Room’s video platform 4:3, alongside Elijah Wood, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Peaches. Jenn will discuss her work and upcoming projects, including new archive-based short BLACK TO TECHNO, which explores the origins and impact of the Detroit techno scene.

Session Producer Carmen Thompson Chair

Amar Ediriwira (4:3 by Boiler Room)

Speakers Jenn Nkiru (dir. BLACK TO TECHNO p.65)

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Talks & Sessions Sun 9 June Korean Pitching Day: Part 1 Sun 9 June / 14:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Sports Documentaries with ESPN Sun 9 June / 15:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Korean Pitching Day returns, offering participants Since the launch of 30 for 30 ten years ago, the of the Korean Delegation the chance to pitch series has become one of the premiere brands documentary ideas to a host of international in all of documentary film. With now over 90 decision makers in front of a live audience. documentaries under its belt, including the 2017 The event will feature 10 projects, with each Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, project receiving feedback from key international O.J: Made in America ESPN has helped foster a decision makers and buyers. genre that continues to grow exponentially.

Join ESPN Films producer Deirdre Fenton and Festival Pass holders only key directors as they discuss the evolution of

sports documentaries.

Festival Pass holders only Speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

Talks & Sessions

Women to the Front: Who Do We Trust with Creative Decisions?

Sun 9 June / 15:30 / Crucible Adelphi

In 2018 a Directors UK report, Who’s Calling the Shots?, revealed that there had been a decline in the number of women directing factual TV. The artistic direction of major film festivals is still largely the privilege of male curators, while the running of commercial aspects are left to their female peers. The industry still broadly entrusts its creative decisions and therefore its taste-making to men. While we strive for diversity on screen, our panel discusses whether the dominance of male programmers and directors still relegates women to the role of right-hand man.

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Korean Pitching Day: Part 2 Sun 9 June / 16:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B Korean Pitching Day returns, offering participants of the Korean Delegation the chance to pitch documentary ideas to a host of international decision makers in front of a live audience.

The event will feature 10 projects, with each project receiving feedback from key international decision makers and buyers.

Festival Pass holders only

Talks & Sessions Sun 9 — Mon 10 June Channel 4 Interview: Sir Bradley Wiggins

Sun 9 June / 18:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8 Sir Bradley Wiggins is Britain’s most decorated Olympians and the first British cyclist to win The Tour de France. He retired from cycling in 2016 and is now tackling an audacious record attempt, involving flying a pedal powered plane across the English Channel, for a major feature length Channel 4 documentary. He will be talking about sport, obsession and his love of a challenge. This will be a rare opportunity to hear first hand what drives one of Britain’s most successful athletes.

Speaker

Sir Bradley Wiggins

The Renaissance of the Nations and Regions

Mon 10 June / 10:00 / Crucible Adelphi Ahead of Channel 4’s much anticipated move to Leeds, a panel of representatives from broadcasters and regional indies discuss how all channels can support production companies beyond the M25. Broadcasters talk about how they plan to increase regional commissions and champion local talent, while the indies highlight the biggest barriers to those operating outside of the capital, posing the question: will the regions ever be able to catch up?

Festival Pass holders only Session Producers Zena Oliana & Holly Cocker (Hey Sonny TV) Manori Ravindran (TBI)

Speakers Mark Downie (IWC) Anna Hall (True Vision Yorkshire) Aisling O’Connor (BBC) Rachel Drummer-Hay (Drummer TV)

Funding and Commissioning: Feature Documentary

Mon 10 June / 10:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio With everything solid melting into air, and the documentary landscape never more varied and complex, this panel asks leading commissioners, funders & distributors: how do independent filmmakers get creative feature length documentary work made and seen today? We’ll hear what they are looking for, why they love the films they fund, and the advice they can offer to both emerging and established talent taking on the challenges of making feature length work.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Rajesh Thind & Chair Speakers Lisa Marie Russo (Doc Society) Mandy Chang (BBC Storyville) + more to be confirmed, see sheffdocfest.com for details

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Poverty in the UK: How to Tell Stories That Inspire Change

Mon 10 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Commissioners say they want to showcase stories of poverty, but are they the ones who know how best to do it, and do they know who’s watching?

How can we tell positive stories about people and communities in the grip of poverty and what are the best places for them to be seen in order to attract and build new audiences? Can we open up the viewer’s mind to the possibility of change?

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer David Alamouti Chair

Elhum Shakerifar (Hakawati)

Speakers Charlie Phillips (Guardian), Abigail Scott Paul (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Sally Ogden (True Vision Yorkshire, dir.

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Talks & Sessions Mon 10 June The BBC Three Pitch Mon 10 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B BBC Three is passionate about telling compelling stories from across the whole nation and championing new talent. Emerging filmmakers from the North have been invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of BBC commissioners, including BBC Three Controller Fiona Campbell, for the prize of a documentary commission for BBC Three. The live pitch will be preceded by a Q&A with last year’s pitch winner, Chanell Wallace, whose film Life After My Brother’s Murder was broadcast earlier this year.

Festival Pass holders only Talks & Sessions

Pitch Producer

Ryan Finnigan

Panel Fiona Campbell (BBC) Nasfim Haque (BBC) Beejal Patel (BBC)

Famous Faces in New Spaces Mon 10 June / 12:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio Transitioning from a well-known personality to a factual presenter is a difficult and delicate path to tread. In this session, presenters and producers alike discuss their experiences of creating some of the most entertaining television of the past twelve months. With a trend for ‘repurposing’ famous faces, this session will give you a first-hand insight in to the pitfalls and potential of such a move.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Dominique Foster (Expectation) Chair

Clare Mottershead (BBC)

Speakers Ed Balls (Travels in Trumpland, BBC) + more to be confirmed, see sheffdocfest.com for details

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Cinema and State: Developing Policy Frameworks for Feature Docs

Mon 10 June / 12:00 / Crucible Adelphi

UK film policy is almost entirely geared towards fiction, while the unique challenges facing the documentary sector are overlooked. It’s hightime the UK had a bespoke policy framework to support its documentary makers. What kinds of interventions are needed? How should they be developed? This session invites panelists and audience members alike to collectively brainstorm demands to better meet the needs of theatrical docs. The session is part of ‘UK Feature Docs’, an AHRC-funded study of the UK’s feature-length film industry.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Dr Steve Presence & Chair (University of the West of England) Speakers Lisa Marie Russo (Doc Society) Elhum Shakerifar (Hakawati) Christo Hird (Dartmouth Films) Jörg Langer (Langer Media Consulting)

Funding and Commissioning: Short Documentary

Mon 10 June / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

The recent awarding of the second Short Programme BAFTA reflects the establishment of Short Form in the mainstream. Digital platforms are enabling filmmakers to develop commercial relationships directly with viewers, while broadcasters and brands continue to commission shorts. This panel covers the main ways of funding Short Form: commissioning, brandfunding, crowd-funding and self-funding.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Maegan Tilock Chair

Adam Gee

Speakers Charlie Phillips (The Guardian) Erica Edwards (Lush Film Fund) Catherine Bray (Random Acts) Brandon Wade (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Talks & Sessions Mon 10 June The Channel 4 First Cut Pitch

Funding and Commissioning: Podcasts and Audio Documentary

Mon 10 June / 12:30 / Crucible Theatre

Mon 10 June / 14:15 / Crucible Adelphi

The Channel 4 First Cut Pitch is back! Once again Channel 4 will be offering five new directors the chance to pitch in front of some of Channel 4’s factual commissioning team and a live audience.

One winner will walk away with a commission from Channel 4 for their first 60’ film and one month of fully-paid development and mentorship with an indie to support the development of their idea.

Festival Pass holders only

Earlier this year Spotify paid a reported $230m for Gimlet - a US Podcast business. It was a jaw-dropping valuation by any standards.

However there’s no question that podcasting continues to grow - both in terms of audiences and content. More and more talent is turning to the medium to tell stories and reach audiences direct. Audible, Spotify and the BBC are pushing into the market, as are numerous advertisers.

We explore how podcast ideas can get to market, the different funding models and what audiences they can reach.

Festival Pass holders only

Pitch Producer

Janine Thomas (Channel 4)

Session Producer Jez Nelson (Somethin’ Else) Chair

Fiona Sturges (Financial Times)

Speakers Jason Phipps (BBC Sounds), Sophie Herdman (Acast), Steve Ackerman, (Somethin’ Else), James Cator (Spotify)

University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea

Real Drama: What’s Next for the Access Doc?

Mon 10 June / 12:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Mon 10 June / 14:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Selected academics from the University of Sheffield will pitch in front of a live audience, showcasing their fields of expertise to a panel of development producers and broadcast TV commissioners. Each academic will receive feedback on whether their areas of expertise have the potential as a possible TV format or segment, and advice on how to present their ideas effectively to documentary producers and commissioners.

Festival Pass holders only

So you’ve got brilliant, hard-won access, now what? With fiercer competition for audiences, it’s what you do with that access that’s all important.

We explore the ingredients needed for a hit series – from the inspiration behind the idea, to innovative approaches to storytelling. What are the secrets of turning access into a returnable brand, delivering compelling stories across platforms and pulling in the ever-elusive young audience?

Festival Pass holders only

Pitch Producer

Session Producer Max Gogarty (BBC) Catriona White (BBC)

Kat Chirnside

Talks & Sessions

Panel Rita Daniels (Channel 4) Rowan Deacon Dave Nath (Story Films) Danny Horan (Channel 4)

Panel Lucy Vernall (The Academic Ideas Lab) Paul Windle (Shiver), Lucy Pilkington Chair Mobeen Azhar (Milk and Honey Productions) Speakers Sophie Leonard (Minnow, Valley Cops), Colin Barr (Expectation, Murder 24/7), Clare Sillery (BBC) 119

Talks & Sessions Mon 10 June Reinventing the Celebrity BioPic Mon 10 June / 14:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Mon 10 June / 16:15 / Crucible Adelphi

Why choose the unlikely figure of Jade Goody to explore the subject of social change in modern Britain? How do Hollywood stars become receptacles for alternative narratives of World War Two? As part of a filmmaking trend that started with OJ Simpson: Made in America, this panel looks at how documentary makers are now looking past the obvious politicians, dignitaries and royals to the lives of unapologetically pop culture figures in order to uncover surprising and unconventional social and historical narratives about who we are.

Festival Pass holders only

What does the future of arts programmes look like in a world where there is more choice than ever? Our panel of commissioning editors will discuss the diverse and creative landscape of arts commissioning, from subcultures to the mainstream, and how to build a loyal and passionate audience as well as draw in new viewers. It will explore the parameters of what we define as art, from music to dance to the visual arts, and look to identify the ingredients that make an arts documentary a success.

Festival Pass holders only

Talks & Sessions

Session Producer Patrick McMahon Speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation x Guardian Pitch

Session Producer Suzy Gregg Chair

Pegah Farahmand

Speakers Katie Metcalfe (Nowness), Mark Bell (BBC), Shaminder Nahal (Channel 4) Alex Hoffman (Noisy/Vice)

UKTV: Meet the Commissioners

Mon 10 June / 15:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Mon 10 June / 16:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Come and hear filmmakers presenting ideas for short documentaries that explore the nature and impact of poverty in the UK, in a way that can open up minds, improve public understanding of the issue and start to shift attitudes towards some of the most marginalised people and communities. JRF and the Guardian are looking to support two short films with funding and global release via theguardian.com Festival Pass holders only

With established channel brands including Dave, W, Gold and Yesterday, delivering an innovative mix of original programming, UKTV is an award-winning multichannel broadcaster. Its commissioning team are giving the greenlight to more productions than ever before, so join Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment, Hilary Rosen, and senior commissioning editor Helen Nightingale to find out what they’re on the lookout for, which factual and fact ent shows get them excited, and what shows are working well on their channels.

Festival Pass holders only

Pitch Producer

David Alamouti

Panel Elhum Shakerifar (Hakawati), Charlie Phillips (Guardian), Abigail Scott Paul (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) Sally Ogden (True Vision Yorkshire) Jacqueline Edenbrow (The Guardian)

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Funding and Commissioning: Arts, Music and Cultural Documentary

Session Producer Kerry Goode & Ali Laurie (UKTV) Chair

Ben Gale (Little Gem)

Speakers Hilary Rosen (UKTV) Helen Nightingale (UKTV)

Talks & Sessions Mon 10 June BBC Interview: Stacey Dooley Mon 10 June / 17:00 / Crucible Theatre / £12/ £10 Stacey’s television career began a decade ago when she brought her insightful documentaries exploring domestic violence, drug abuse and child migration to BBC Three. Her first book, On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back (2018), draws on her encounters with the brave women featured in her films, and she continues to stare down some of the world’s toughest topics with upcoming documentaries exploring the arms trade and American vigilantism. Stacey will discuss her remarkable career so far and what it feels like to become a household name following her Strictly Come Dancing win.

Fiona Campbell (BBC)

Speaker

Stacey Dooley

Desert Island Docs: Nick Hornby

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Bush, Boobs & Body Positivity with The Slumflower

Mon 10 June / 17:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

Mon 10 June / 19:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

Nick Hornby, bestselling author and screenwriter, continues to be a feature of cinemas and bookshelves after 25 years. His most recent work, the comedy mini-episodic State of the Union directed by Stephen Frears, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and recent screenwriting credits, including An Education, Wild, and Brooklyn have won him multiple Academy Award nominations. Best known for the novels Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About a Boy, which have all been adapted into hugely popular films, Nick will discuss his own work and the documentaries that have inspired his writing.

Chidera Eggerue preaches messages of selflove to hundreds of thousands on her blog, The Slumflower, and with hugely successful campaigns like #saggyboobsmatter. Her debut book, What a Time to be Alone, quickly became a bestseller and her second book, Scribble Yourself Feminist – a collaboration with illustrator Manjit Thapp – is an interactive and empowering journal addressing everyday sexism. We welcome Chidera to Doc/Fest to discuss her campaigning work and new documentary project for Channel 4.

Chair

Francine Stock

Chair

Speaker

Nick Hornby

Speakers Chidera Eggerue, Lucy Pilkington (Milk and Honey Productions)

Session Producer Sarah El’Taki Leah Green (Guardian)

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Talks & Sessions Tue 11 June Commissioning: Specialist Factual Tue 11 June / 10:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio In a world where ratings are king, how do you make specialist factual popular? How can the genre appeal to the biggest audience with content that on first impression may seem niche?

Key commissioning editors reveal how they’ve done it and what they are looking for. Topics include: supersizing specialist factual with talent, appealing to global audience and creating a crossover with factual entertainment.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Jeremy Phillips Rob Holloway (Discovery)

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Dan Chambers (Blink Films)

Speakers Fatima Salaria (Channel 4) Tom McDonald (BBC) Victoria Noble (Discovery) Lucy Willis (Channel 5)

Updating the Classics: How Do You Refresh and Reinvigorate Factual TV? Tue 11 June / 10:00 / Crucible Adelphi In an ever-crowded marketplace with FAANG disruptors and increased competition, a senior industry panel including award-winning producers and commissioners explore how to breathe new life into ever-popular fields of documentary, from the medical arena to police access documentary.

How do you reinvent, cut through, and stand out?

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Ziyaad Desai Speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

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Up: A Longitudinal Case Study Tue 11 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A First broadcast in 1964 the Up series was one of the first unscripted observational documentaries and is widely regarded as one the greatest factual series of all time. For more than 50 years this social experiment has followed its fourteen subjects, selected to represent the range of socioeconomic backgrounds in Britain. The production team and contributors talk about the making of the series: how it all begin, the filmmaker/ contributor relationship and plans for the future.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Sally Evans (Shiver) Chair

Tony Robinson

Speakers Clare Lewis (The Gate Films), Kim Horton (editor, Up), George Jesse Turner (cameraman, Up), Peter Davies (contributor, Up)

The Thai Delegation Pitch Tue 11 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 welcomes the first Thai filmmaker delegation, supported by DITP. Five filmmaking teams from Thailand will pitch innovative documentary ideas to a panel of international decision makers in front of a live festival audience. Each project will receive feedback from international commentators and decision makers.

Festival Pass holders only

Talks & Sessions Tue 11 June Commissioning: Factual Entertainment

Tue 11 June / 12:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio Factual Entertainment sits at the heart of the TV schedule but with budgets, ratings and platforms more challenging than ever, how does terrestrial fact ent punch through? We ask our panel of commissioners whether the big plays are only for the big players or whether a small indie can still have a shot at the main prize?

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Caroline Clayton (Boundless) Chair

Neil Smith (Boundless)

Criminal Justice: Letting the Cameras In

Tue 11 June / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

This session explores the resurgence of archive and testimony in history filmmaking, with a panel of producers and contributors from some of the BBC’s most successful projects. The panellists will discuss the opportunities afforded by the interplay between archive and testimony; why this mode of storytelling is back in full force and the ethical lines in films of this kind.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Nancy Bornat (Wall to Wall) Chair

Tom McDonald (BBC)

Speakers David Glover (72 Films, A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad), Liza Williams (Wall to Wall, The Yorkshire Ripper Files), Michael Dobbs (author and contributor, Thatcher)

Inside National Geographic

Tue 11 June / 12:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Tue 11 June / 14:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Three years in the making, this landmark Channel 4 series, with unprecedented access to multiple agencies – police, prison, parole and probation – aims to get to the heart of the modern dilemmas within the criminal justice system. We talk to leading people within the System, to assess the process of letting documentary cameras inside and explore how criminal justice is analysed via modern day documentary-making, pioneering a novel blend of present-tense observational filming and past-tense archive storytelling.

Festival Pass holders only

National Geographic’s bold and distinctive premium content strategy is resonating with audiences around the world. In this session, the UK-based commissioning team presents case studies of recent successes that spark viewer curiosity, break new storytelling ground and support the National Geographic Society’s core mission of science, exploration, conservation and education. Hear what it takes to work with this year’s BAFTA and Academy Award winning channel in the era of ‘fewer, bigger, better’ programmes.

Festival Pass holders only

Session Producer Emily Lawson Speakers to be confirmed, check sheffdocfest.com for details

Talks & Sessions

Speakers Alf Lawrie (Channel 4) David Brindley (BBC) Kate Teckman (ITV) Greg Barnett (Channel 5)

Secrets and Lies: Testimony and Archive in Contemporary History

Speakers Carolyn Payne (National Geographic), Bernadette McDaid (National Geographic), Simon Raikes (National Geographic)

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Talks & Sessions Tue 11 June The Whickers Pitch

Talks & Sessions

Tue 11 June / 12:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Tue 11 June / 14:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Who will be awarded the coveted £80,000 Film & TV Funding Award to make their first featurelength documentary? The Whickers Pitch brings together five emerging directors to pitch their non-fiction projects to a panel of industry judges.

Come and support the finalists, be your own armchair judge and bear witness as the legacy of pioneering broadcaster Alan Whicker brings another exceptional documentary idea to life.

Festival Pass holders only

Directors UK invite you to join us for a ‘healthy’ debate and discussion on the growing pressures placed by factual directors today, posing the question - is it ever ok to just say no? We delve into those unanswered questions surrounding mental health, the importance of your safety on and off set, how to deal with the demands from the production companies and reveal some essential guidelines for maintaining that work-life balance.

Festival Pass holders only

Pitch Producers Jane Ray Phoebe Hall (Whicker Awards)

Session Producer Laura Adams & Amy-Jo Bryant (Directors UK)

Panel Paul Pauwels, Oli Harbottle (Dogwoof), Lucila Moctezuma, Mandy Chang (BBC Storyville), Kate Townsend (Netflix), Mak CK

Speakers Ben Steele Ursula Macfarlane (dir. Untouchable p.70) Rebecca Day (Film in Mind)

Commissioning: Documentary for Broadcast

Tue 11 June / 14:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio Highlighting their priorities, leading commissioners talk about forthcoming commissioning opportunities as they take part in our own version of Question Time. Commenting on recent successes, they discuss the changing landscape, the renewed focus on diversity and how producers can keep innovating for their channels. With a spotlight on relationships and with audience questions throughout, this is your chance to really get to know some of the UK’s most prolific commissioners.

Festival Pass holders only Session Producer Kate Monaghan Freya Watson (Hey Sonny TV) Chair

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Pulling Focus: A Spotlight on Directors’ Wellbeing

David Glover (72 Films)

Speakers Danny Horan (Channel 4), Clare Sillery (BBC), Jo Clinton-Davis (ITV), Guy Davies (Channel 5)

Doc/Fest Exchange Our Planet, Our Health

Doc/Fest Exchange

Everyone is welcome at Doc/Fest Exchange, the festival hub on Tudor Square.

Bringing together a specially curated programme of free talks, films and conversations to revolutionise what makes a healthy planet.

Join us daily in the Exchange to rethink how we can live together in a time of planetary uncertainty. Inspired by the convergence of social, environmental and digital movements you’ll hear from filmmakers, artists, commissioners, scientists, journalists, comedians, academics, community organisers and activists.

Take part in the debate on climate inequalities by tuning into the politics of everyday life as portrayed in documentary films from around the globe. Tap into the latest insights from health research, environmental science and storytelling across borders to consider our collective stake.

Everyday of the festival the Exchange hosts a range of in conversations, panel discussions and special screenings inspired by films and immersive and interactive projects from across the Doc/Fest programme.

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Supported by

Doc/Fest Exchange is free and open to all from 12:00 on Thursday 6 June, and 09:00 for the rest of the festival with complimentary tea, coffee and pastries from 10.00. Food stalls are on offer throughout the day and evenings, hosted by Peddler, specialists in independent street food with an emphasis on vegetarian and vegan cuisine, and a bar featuring local craft beer, ale and creative cocktails. This year, we welcome Oatly who offer a range of oat drinks and oat-based food, made without taxing the planet’s resources.

For the full programme of talks and screenings please visit sheffdocfest.com or visit the Doc/Fest Exchange Box Office on Tudor Square during the festival.

Doc/Fest Exchange Our Planet, Our Health

Supported by

Highlights Our Planet, Shorts Thu 6 June / 13:00

Dip into our specially curated series of short films to revolutionise how we might imagine the health of our planet.

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast Daily from Fri 7 June / 10:00

Meet the Makers: Alternate Realities Daily from Fri 7 June / 16:00

Venture into the realm of Alternate Realities – hear from the creators of immersive and interactive reality experiences that open up new perspectives on the health of the planet.

We Are Neurodiverse Fri 7 June / 18:00

What began as an experiment has become a movement. Over the past four years 104 films have been developing new neurodiverse filmmakers in Bristol. Come and marvel at these new films, experience a different way of looking at the world and meet the directors behind them. Join the movement!

Encountering Virtual Realities Sun 9 June / 14:00

The Waiting Room is a smartphone documentary and VR project through which director Victoria Mapplebeck explores her breast cancer journey from diagnosis to recovery – from waiting rooms, to ultrasound scans, and chemotherapy sessions.

Join Victoria Mapplebeck, oncologist Dr Anna Rigg in conversation with Professor Mandy Rose to discuss what nonfiction VR offers to documentary and to new perspectives on cancer. Commissioned by the EPSRC Virtual Realities research project.

Sun 9 June / 18:00

The first global climate school strike on March 15th this year coincided with the tenth anniversary of the solar-powered, green-carpet premiere of climate change blockbuster The Age of Stupid.

This special event with director Franny Armstrong and comedian Tom Walker (aka YouTube star Jonathan Pie) discusses the small matters of what we must do to avoid extinction and whether the climate crisis is all the media’s fault.

This event may content adult themes and language. Recommended age rating 15+

Fighting Shame Mon 10 June / 18:00

Fighting Shame documents a group of women who use everyday items to tell of the sacrifices and difficult choices they face, and the community initiatives they have launched in an attempt to tackle the shame surrounding poverty and make policy makers listen.

Join the filmmakers, protagonists filmmakers and commissioners, Abigail Scott Paul of Joseph Rowntree Trust and The Guardian’s Head of Documentaries, Charlie Phillips for this special screening and conversation.

Doc/Fest Exchange

Breakfast is on us at the Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees. Get there quick – visit Oatly on Tudor Square daily from 10:00, complimentary coffee and pastries only available whilst stock lasts!

What if? Jonathan Pie Versus the Age of Stupid

Living with Robots Tue 11 June / 14:00

Drawing inspiration from the documentary, Hi, AI, in which humanoid robots work, shop, sing and go to the movies, ethicist Professor Andy Miah, cognitive psychologist, Dr Maria Panagiotidi and Afrofuturist, Florence Okoye, to delve into a world in which humanoid robots become part of our everyday lives. How might this change how we are cared for, how we care for others, and how we live together in the future.

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Partner Showcase & Events Documentary Lives Here: Doc Society Drop In

Partner Showcase & Events

Fri 7 June / 10:00 – 18:00 / DINA

Tue 11 June / 10:00 – 11:30 / Oatly Showroom Cinema 2

Filmmaker friends! Documentary Lives Here.

Drop by and sign up for a 1-2-1 advice surgery with a Doc Soc teamster over a Yorkshire brew.

We will also share bitesize presentations on the hour every hour about our funds and resources, including advice on BFI Doc Society funding, how to make impact with your film and to how to keep your project Safe + Secure. A day of doc news, views and networking with fellow filmmakers, open to one and all. No pre-registration required, just roll up when you can.

Second successful year of this ambitious training programme for diverse, emerging TV directors with a burning idea for their first documentary short. Run by ITF ScreenSkills and supported

by BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 via the TV Skills Fund (TVSF). Our goal is to identify and develop rising non-scripted TV directors. Each director was given a budget of £5,000 to make a 3-min short, guided by mentoring from renowned documentary executive producers, and supported with an intensive directors training programme and bespoke industry-led masterclasses.

Check @TheDocSociety for updates.

10:00 Open 1-2-1 doc advice surgeries (15min sessions) 11:00 Bitesize: BFI Doc Society Fund News The BFI Doc Society team share updates on funding deadlines and guidelines.

1-2-1 doc advice surgeries (15min sessions) 12:00 Bitesize: Safe + Secure Checklist Hostile environments, dark PR, legal conundrums…Doc filmmaking can be a risky business – get prepared with our Safe + Secure checklist .

1-2-1 doc advice surgeries (15min sessions) 14:00 Bitesize: The Tax Credit 101 The how, the what, the why - expert advice on the UK tax credit and how to qualify.

1-2-1 doc advice surgeries (15min sessions) 15:00 Bitesize: Impact Field Guide Culture is power! We share tips on making films for social change from the Impact Field Guide.

1-2-1 doc advice surgeries (15min sessions) 16:00 Bitesize: Made of Truth BFI Doc Society team share news on our Made of Truth Short Film Fund and other funding opportunities for short docs.

1-2-1 doc advice surgeries (15min sessions) 17:00 Doc Happy Hour 18:00 Close

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Rising Directors Scheme 2019 Showcase

For more information or to be involved in next year’s scheme please contact – Fiona Thompson, Programme Director Fiona.thompson@screenskills.com or Gilly Cohen, Director of Learning & Development Gilly.cohen@screenskills.com

Original Documentaries preview with Channel 5

Tue 11 June / 16:00 – 17:15 / Crucible Adelphi

Channel 5 introduces a sneak peek of exciting, upcoming documentary singles and series and Q&A with the programme makers, with a couple of special surprises.

rketplace Marketplace Marketpla

Over 300 industry Decision Makers come to Sheffield every year seeking collaborations with established and emerging talent.

Doc/Fest has a wide range of initiatives to support the creation of new documentaries.

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Marketplace Summit Sun 9 June / Cutlers’ Hall The Marketplace Summit is an opportunity for all Festival delegates who are interested in making documentaries to find new collaborators, connect with industry representatives and clue-up on key issues facing filmmakers today.

If you’re attending Doc/Fest to gain market intel and expand your network, get yourself to Culters’ Hall on Sunday.

All sessions in the Marketplace Summit are accessible with a Festival Pass.

Marketplace

Getting Past the Gatekeepers: Dos and Don’ts of Pitching

Sun 9 June / 10:00 – 11:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Sun 9 June / 11:00 – 12:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Main Hall

The marketplace for pitching documentaries is highly competitive. Thousands of ideas are vying for support from industry Decision Makers whose attention is often difficult to access. There are numerous hoops to jump through, boxes to tick and important elements to have in place that determine which proposals gain traction, and which struggle. In this session, forum organisers will share advice and insights about pitching and explain how to make your proposal stand out from the rest.

The number one reason delegates come to Doc/Fest is to meet. So let’s do this! Whether you’re looking to find new collaborators for your next film, contribute to someone else’s project, or simply expand your network of doc enthusiasts, get yourself to this mixer. The format is simple: take a seat, chat with the delegate opposite, every 10 mins we’ll ring the bell, move one seat to the left, meet someone new. All festival delegates welcome.

Speakers Alice Burgin (AIDC), Amelia Hapsari (In-Docs), Karolina Lidin (Sheffield Doc/ Fest), Manon Euler (Sheffield Doc/Fest), Patrick Hurley (Sheffield Doc/Fest), Tereza Šimíková (CPH:Forum), Yorinde Segal (IDFA Forum).

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Snap Chats: 10 Minute Meets

Marketplace Summit Sun 9 June / Cutlers’ Hall Beyond Story: A Conversation for the Industry

Meet the Distributors

Sun 9 June / 13:00 – 14:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Sun 9 June / 16:00 – 17:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

‘What’s the story?’ It’s the question documentary filmmakers must answer when pitching new ideas to commissioners. A contained cast of central characters and coherent narrative has become the preferred form among most industry gatekeepers. Why is this? And what space is there for documentaries that aren’t structured around character-led linear stories? In reference to a recently published manifesto called ‘Beyond Story’ (Alexandra Juhasz and Alisa Lebow) this session will interrogate the supremacy of story and think together with commissioners, filmmakers and academics about the creative possibilities of documentary beyond story.

A chance to find out more about how distributors handle a doc’s delivery to the audience by managing and marketing its journey through the various exhibition platforms. In this session, we invite executives from different distribution companies to introduce themselves, explain how they work with filmmakers and comment on the kinds of documentaries they are seeking with reference to recent examples. Following the presentations, there will be time for filmmakers to connect with distributors and exchange business cards.

Marketplace

Speakers Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex), Brett Story (Dir. The Hottest August, p.74), Mandy Chang (BBC Storyville) + Additional speakers TBC

Meet the Sales Agents

Marketplace Drinks

Sun 9 June / 15:00 – 16:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Sun 9 June / 17:00 – 18:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

International sales agents can help a film find distribution partners in markets worldwide, often inputting into marketing and festival strategy. In this session, executives from a range of international sales companies will introduce themselves, explain their approach to acquisitions – what they’re looking for – and share examples of films they have recently worked on. Following the presentations, there will be time for delegates to connect with sales agents and exchange business cards.

Rounding off the Marketplace Summit and kicking off a new week of industry activity, Marketplace Drinks offers an opportunity to get to know Decision Makers and fellow documentary makers better. The event welcomes everyone involved in the Marketplace Summit, MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Talent Market, Doc/Player and all Marketplace initiatives. The Marketplace & Talent team will be present so do come by for a drink, say hello and tell us about your documentary projects – we’re here to help get them made!

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Marketplace Marketplace Summit Sun 9 June / 10:00 – 18:30 / Cutlers’ Hall The Marketplace Summit is an opportunity for all Festival delegates who are interested in making documentaries to find new collaborators, connect with industry representatives and clue-up on key issues facing filmmakers today. If you’re attending Doc/Fest to gain market intel and expand your network, get yourself to Culters’ Hall on Sunday.

See p.130 for info on individual sessions.

Alternate Realities Talent Market Mon 10 – Tue 11 June / 09:00 – 18:00 / Cutlers’ Hall The Alternate Realities Talent Market exists to foster collaborations between creatives and organisations focused on using digital technologies to push storytelling in exciting new directions.

The Market is for discussing new projects that are interactive, immersive, virtual reality, augmented reality, web-doc, games, 360-video, live performance, motion comic, room-scale experience and/or installation. 25 selected artists and creative teams will be connected with industry Decision Makers from tech companies, funding bodies, NGOs, broadcasters, international festivals, galleries, production companies and distribution platforms for new media.

Marketplace

Live Pitches Sun 9 – Tue 11 June / Various Venues Doc/Fest hosts a number of live pitch events where delegates are invited to observe filmmakers pitching to a panel of industry Decision Makers for commissions and/or creative feedback. This year’s live pitches include the Chicken & Egg Accelerator Pitch (p.115), the Korean Pitching Day (p.116), the Channel 4 First Cut Pitch (p.119), the BBC 3 Pitch (p.118), the Joseph Rowntree Foundation x Guardian Pitch (p.120), the Thai Delegation Pitch (p.122), University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea (p.119) and the Whickers Pitch (p.124).

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MeetMarket Mon 10 – Tue 11 June / 09:00 – 18:00 / Cutlers’ Hall MeetMarket is one of the world’s largest documentary pitching forums offering documentary makers the opportunity to meet with hundreds of international funders, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors.

Doc/Fest offers a bespoke way to pitch new projects through match-made meetings between filmmakers and Decision Makers for creative and financial discussions. Projects include features, series and formats in varying stages of development/production. The Marketplace & Talent team will personally arrange more than 1,500 meetings for 62 projects, selected from approx. 500 submissions.

Marketplace Switchboard & Surgeries Mon 10 - Tue 11 June / 09:30 – 17:30 / Cutlers’ Hall Need some advice on how to navigate the international documentary industry and take your project forward? Drop by the Marketplace Switchboard in Cutlers’ Hall. Our Switchboard Mentors, Danielle and Jean-Jacques, are available to offer guidance on packaging your project, intel on industry Decision Makers and feedback on your pitch. No need to make an appointment, drop by anytime 09:30–17:30 on Monday and Tuesday. See the Doc/Fest website for timings & topics of specialist advice ‘Surgeries’, held adjacent to the Switchboard desk.

Meet the Execs Monday 10 June / 14:00 – 17:00 Meet the Execs is a unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary makers to connect with experienced Executive Producers for expert guidance and advice about a specific documentary project. Coordinated by Mosaic Films, successful applicants will be given pitch-training and paired with an experienced industry EP for project-specific feedback and pointers on development, where to go to next, and how to improve the chances of securing funding and distribution. Advance application via the Doc/Fest website required.

Marketplace

Marketplace Sessions Mon 10 June / 10:00 – 17:30 / Cutlers’ Hall Tue 11 June / 10:00 – 15:30 / Cutlers’ Hall Documentary makers and producers – these sessions are for you! Connect with industry representatives from international festivals, markets and shorts platforms. Gather with other filmmakers for in-depth producer-led case studies about recent releases. Find co-production partners. Get expert advice on budgeting and legal matters. Spots in these sessions are limited by capacity and advance sign-up is required. Visit the Doc/Fest website to see session themes and times and to sign-up.

A stand-by queue will be in operation.

Doc/Dinner Monday 10 June / 18:00 - 21:00 Founded by Reggie Yates in 2017, Doc/Dinner is a special evening during the festival for dinner and doc-chats between established industry leaders and emerging talent. A chance for mutual learning and connection. This year’s dinner will bring commissioners, producers and mentors, together with 20 young filmmakers.

Places at Doc/Dinner are limited and filmmakers aged 18-25 can apply to take part via the Doc/Fest website.

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s & Social Parties & Social Parties &

Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...

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Parties & Social Thursday 6 June Alternate Realities Preview Drinks Thu 6 June / 17:00–18:15 / Site Gallery Cafe / Free

Join us for the opening of the Alternate Realities exhibition. Enjoy new ways of seeing, hearing and exploring stories and experiences at the new reopened and extended Site Gallery. Join the Alternate Realities and Site Gallery team, along with Darren Henley, Chief Executive of Arts Council England, to raise a glass to innovation in storytelling.

Free and open to all

Opening Night Drinks Parties & Social

Thu 6 June / 21:30-01:00 / Crystal Bar

Welcome to Sheffield! We’re glad you’ve joined us. Come along for a drink and a catch up with old friends and new, following the screening of our opening night film: Diego Maradona (p.24).

Festival Pass holders only

Friday 7 June

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast Fri 7 June/ 10:00-11:00 / Doc/Fest Exchange

Breakfast is on us at the Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees. Get there quick – visit Oatly on Tudor Square daily from 10:00, complimentary coffee only available whilst stock lasts!

Thai Delegation Drinks Reception

Fri 7 June / 18:00-19:30 / Tamper Sellers Wheel

You’re invited to a networking drinks reception hosted by DITP to celebrate the first filmmaker delegation from Thailand to attend Sheffield Doc/Fest. Meet the renowned filmmakers representing Thailand to discuss possible future collaborations over a drink.

Festival Pass holders only

Meet the Alternate Territories Delegation Drinks

Fri 7 June / 18:30-20:00 / Site Gallery Cafe

Working with British Council, the Alternate Realities team welcome a group of curators, artists and cultural influencers from around the world, who work with interactive and immersive art forms, to the festival. Join the Alternate Territories delegation at Site Gallery Cafe for a drink.

Festival Pass holders only

Exploring the Archives – FOCAL International Drinks

Fri 7 June / 19:00-20:30 / Winter Garden

Archives are the future of storytelling.

Come meet the FOCAL team and our unique Archive Libraries and Researcher members from across the globe for drinks. Find out how to delve into the world’s incredible film and TV archives to unearth discoveries for your next project. The future of production lies in the past.

Festival Pass holders only

Lisbon Beat: The After Party

Fri 7 June / 22:00-02:00 / Theatre Deli / £10

Vasco Viana and Rita Maia’s Lisbon Beat is a journey around Lisbon’s suburbs through the lives of a handful of musicians establishing their place in a city of complex identity struggles. We’ll be bringing the sounds of Lisbon’s underground to Sheffield, with DJ Rita Maia and special guests.

Open to all 136

Parties & Social

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Saturday 8 June

Igloo Vision Drinks

Sat 8 June / 10:00-11:00 / Doc/Fest Exchange

Come and visit Site Gallery Square for drinks courtesy of Igloo Vision. It’s a great opportunity to catch-up with people and trends from the world of immersive film and entertainment.

Festival Pass holders only

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast Breakfast is on us at the Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees. Get there quick – visit Oatly on Tudor Square daily from 10:00, complimentary coffee only available whilst stock lasts!

Craft Summit Drinks presented by Documentary Campus

Sat 8 June / 17:00-18:00 / Town Hall Lobby

University of Stirling Drinks

Sat 8 June / 17:30-19:00 / Curzon Rooftop

Kick off your Saturday night with drinks courtesy of the production team from the University of Stirling. Find out more about their new factual television Masters, their one day Festival of Factual TV in October and meet staff and students in the fabulous Curzon Rooftop bar.

Festival Pass holders only

Northern Docs Drinks Sat 8 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Ambulo at Millennium Gallery

Northern Docs invite you to this networking event, supported by Creative England, for filmmakers based in the North of England and those who’d like to work with them. The North has a vibrant and growing documentary scene. Northern Docs, based at the University of Bolton, has been established to facilitate opportunities for Northern filmmakers.

Festival Pass holders only

Scottish Delegation Drinks

Sat 8 June / 19:00-20:30 / Winter Garden

Please join the Scottish Delegation of producers, filmmakers, and Screen Scotland Executives present in Sheffield. Learn more about their films, about Scotland as a firstclass place for documentary filmmaking and co-production, and about opportunities to work with Screen Scotland as the dedicated partnership for screen in Scotland.

Festival Pass holders only

Meet the Filmmakers Drinks

Sat 8 June / 20:00–21:30 / Tamper Sellers Wheel

The Doc/Fest film programme team welcome you to gather at Tamper, where you can raise a glass or two to the talented directors and producers behind this year’s film programme.

Share stories, share a drink, and share the rest of your week with these awesome documentary makers.

Festival Pass holders only

Parties & Social

To conclude the 2019 Craft Summit, the Documentary Campus team invites you to mingle with speakers, Documentary Campus Masterschool alumni and this year’s participants.

Festival Pass holders only

Sat 8 June / 18:30-20:00 / Site Gallery Square

WHAM! British Tropical Summer Party at the Doc Society Clubhouse

Sat 8 June / 21:00–02:00 / DINA

Back by popular demand!... Let me take you to the place where membership’s a smiling face… brush shoulders with the (documentary) stars. Where strangers take you by the hand and welcome you to their (British) wonderland from beneath their Panamas. Club Doc Soc drinks are cheap, fun and there’s enough sunshine for everyone. All delegates welcome, arrive early for a cocktail on the house. Suntan not included.

Festival Pass holders only 137

Parties & Social The Lovers Table (Part 2): Presented by 4:3 x Sheffield Doc/Fest

Sat 8 June / 22:00–02:00 / Hope Works / £10

4:3 and Sheffield Doc/Fest are proud to present Part 2 of The Lovers Table; The Lovers Party. Join us in celebration of love and resistance, featuring Prestige Pak, Louise Chen and Boiler Room DJs. Part 1 of The Lovers Table is hosted in the Crucible Theatre (see p.33).

Open to all

Sunday 9 June Parties & Social

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast Sun 9 June / 10:00–11:00 / Doc/Fest Exchange

Breakfast is on us at the Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees. Get there quick – visit Oatly on Tudor Square daily from 10:00, complimentary coffee only available whilst stock lasts!

Marketplace Drinks Sun 9 June / 17:00–18:30 / Main Hall, Cutlers’ Hall

Rounding off the Marketplace Summit and kicking off a new week of industry activity, Marketplace Drinks offers an opportunity to get to know Decision Makers and fellow documentary makers better. The event welcomes everyone involved in the Marketplace Summit, MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Talent Market, Doc/Player and all Marketplace initiatives. The Marketplace & Talent team will be present so do come by for a drink, say hello and tell us about your documentary projects – we’re here to help get them made!

Festival Pass holders onlyy

138

British Council Drinks Sun 9 June / 18:00–19:30 / Tamper Sellers Wheel

Come and meet members of the British Council Film Team and the leading international documentary professionals they have brought from around the world to attend this year’s edition of Doc/Fest.

Festival Pass holders only

ESPN Drinks

Sun 9 June / 18:30–20:00 / Curzon Rooftop

Following the Sports Documentaries industry session, join the ESPN team for drinks and continued chats about sports docs at Curzon Rooftop.

Festival Pass holders only

Grierson Trust New Talent Drinks

Sun 9 June / 18:30–20:00 / Winter Garden

Come and join the members of The Grierson Trust board for a convivial get together and the opportunity to meet the talented young trainees who are part of the 2019 Grierson DocLab. Festival Pass holders only

Meet the Alternate Realities Artists x Creative England Drinks

Sun 9 June / 19:00–20:30 / Site Gallery Cafe

Directly following the Alternate Realities Summit, join the Sheffield Doc/Fest team, Creative England and fellow delegates for a chance to carry on the discussions from the Summit and meet the artists from this year’s Alternate Realities Exhibition.

Festival Pass holders only

Parties & Social Sky Arts Drinks

Sun 9 June / 19:30–21:00 / Ambulo at Millennium Gallery

Sky Arts is the UK’s only 24 hour TV channel dedicated to music, arts and culture. Voted ‘Best Specialist Channel’ for the past two years, Sky Arts acquires and commissions original documentaries across a range of genres and continues to look for new and innovative commissions. Please join us for a drink and to meet the Commissioning Editors and team.

Festival Pass holders only

BBC Storyville Drinks Sun 9 June / 20:30–22:00 / Tamper Sellers Wheel

Shapes That Move: The Party

Sun 9 June / 22:00–02:00 / Theatre Deli / £5

Shapes That Move is a wide-lensed, intersectional feminist focus in our film programme, that brings to the foreground the collaborative power of those who have turned the act of filmmaking into an act of solidarity.

Our afterparty, curated by Jade Jackman and Aleksandra Bilic, features a live stream DJ set

by Nesa Azadikhah from Deep House Tehran, a live DJ set by Nadine Artois of Pxssy Palace and BEARCAT represented by DISCWOMAN and a unisex nail bar.

Open to all

Acme Films presents: Rodney P’s House Party (with special guest DJ Charlie Sloth) Sun 9 June / 22:00–02:00 / DINA

The Godfather of hip hop (and Acme Films’ documentary presenter) Rodney P is bringing the house party vibe to Sheffield. With Rodney on the mic and DJs Charlie Sloth (Beats 1) and Jordss (Rinse FM, Reprezent Radio) plus guests dropping hip hop, grime and legendary bangers, this is a party not to missed.

Festival Pass holders only

Monday 10 June

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast Mon 10 June / 10:00–11:00 / Doc/Fest Exchange

Breakfast is on us at the Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees. Get there quick – visit Oatly on Tudor Square daily from 10:00, complimentary coffee only available whilst stock lasts!

Parties & Social

Please join Mandy Chang, Editor of BBC Storyville, Cassian Harrison, Controller of BBC Four and Fiona Campbell, Controller of BBC Three to celebrate the iconic global documentary strand; hear about upcoming films and plans for Storyville on BBC Four and BBC Three, alongside the unveiling of a refreshed new look.

Festival Pass holders only

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Drinks with the Nordics Mon 10 June / 17:30–19:00 / Ambulo at Millennium Gallery

Scandinavian Films and Nordisk Panorama are delighted to welcome industry delegates to Ambulo at Millennium Gallery. Join them for drinks and to meet the Nordic talent presenting their films and projects at the festival and the MeetMarket, alongside the Nordic film institutes.

Festival Pass holders only

UKTV Networking Drinks

Mon 10 June / 18:00–19:30 / Curzon Rooftop

Join UKTV’s commissioners for drinks at Curzon Rooftop. It will be an opportunity to meet the team responsible for the broadcaster’s growing slate of factual and factual entertainment UKTV Originals and network with festival delegates.

Festival Pass holders only

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Parties & Social

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Polish Docs Pro Drinks

Tuesday 11 June

Mon 10 June / 19:00–20:30 / ITV Showroom Bar

Come and meet the Polish Docs Pro Team and get to know their brand new TVP and Krakow Film Foundation initiative. Find out more about new Polish documentary projects in development and production and explore possible co-productions and partnerships within the Polish documentary industry.

Festival Pass holders only

Irish Delegation Reception

Mon 10 June / 20:00–21:30 / Winter Garden

Parties & Social

Screen Ireland is delighted to invite you to the Irish Delegation Drinks at Sheffield Doc/Fest.

The event celebrates the Irish work screening at the festival and provides the opportunity to meet and network with the Irish delegation of filmmakers in attendance.

Festival Pass holders only

Halo Drinks

Mon 10 June / 20:30–22:00 / Curzon Rooftop

You are invited to join Halo to watch the sun go down with a few drinks on Curzon’s rooftop bar. Members of Halo’s team will be on hand to talk docs and offer advice on any post-production queries.

Festival Pass holders only

Channel 4 Party

Mon 10 June / 21:30–02:00 / Crystal Bar

Come and join the C4 team for chat, dance and a drink...

Festival Pass holders only

140

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast Tue 11 June/ 10:00–11:00 / Doc/Fest Exchange

Breakfast is on us at the Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees. Get there quick – visit Oatly on Tudor Square daily from 10:00, complimentary coffee only available whilst stock lasts!

ITV Drinks

Tue 11 June/ 17:00–18:30 / ITV Showroom Bar

The ITV Factual team invites delegates to raise a glass to documentaries at ITV Showroom Bar. Festival Pass holders only

BBC Arts Drinks

Tue 11 June/ 18:30–21:00 / Tamper Sellers Wheel

The BBC remains a byword for excellence in arts programming and creative documentary strands in Britain and around the globe.

The BBC Arts Commissioning Team and channel executives from across the BBC, invite you to share ideas over a drink and hear more about the 2019 plans of landmark arts strand Arena – a watermark for maverick, original arts programmes – in addition to wider plans for BBC arts programming.

Festival Pass holders only

Closing Night Party

Tue 11 June / 22:00–02:00 / The Leadmill

Nobody likes saying goodbye, but alas, it’s that time. It’s your last chance to make those connections you hadn’t had the courage to make before, and dance the night away as we celebrate another year of Doc/Fest.

Festival Pass holders only

Thanks to our Funders, Sponsors & Partners Principal Funders, Sponsors and Partners

Major Funders, Sponsors and Partners

Funders, Sponsors & Partners

Funders, Sponsors and Partners

141

Index 3OHA 64

Bauhaus in Bavaria

105

4 Feet: Blind Date

BBC Arts Drinks

140

104

+6 Gain

65

BBC Interview: Stacey Dooley

121

808: How We Respond

47

BBC Storyville Drinks

139

99 Problems

47

The BBC Three Pitch

118

A Bigger Splash (New Restoration)

42

Beyond Story: A Conversation for the Industry

131

79

The Big House

A British State of Being A Dog Called Money

65

72

The Black Tree

66

A Soft Rebellion in Paradise

92

BLOCK 49

A Tiny Place Is Hard to Touch

86

Body All Eyes

72

A Wild Stream

42

The Border Fence

67

About Love

55

Border South

49

Absence 73

Born to be a Contributor

115

Accused Number 2: Walter Sisulu

Breaking the Class Ceiling

112

Acme Films presents: Rodney P’s House Party (with special guest DJ Charlie Sloth) Adversarial Feelings

104 139 78

Index

Advocate 48 After the Silence Aftermath: Euromaidan AI Voyage: Can Conscious Storytelling Save Us? The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs Algorithmic Perfumery Alone Together Alternate Realities Preview Drinks Alternate Realities Summit Closing Comments Alternate Realities Summit Welcome Alternate Realities Summit: Incomputable Sensibilities Alternate Realities Talent Market The Amazing Johnathan Documentary

60 100 99 65 100 60 136 99 98 98, 113 132 45

The Brink

81

British Council Drinks

138

Bush, Boobs & Body Positivity with The Slumflower

121

The Campaigners

43

Canal 47 The Cemetery Lightens The Channel 4 First Cut Pitch

47 119

Channel 4 Interview: Sir Bradley Wiggins

117

Channel 4 Party

140

Chicken & Egg (Egg)celerator Lab Pitch

115

Chinese Portrait

73

Chiyo 86 Cinema and State: Developing Policy Frameworks for Feature Docs The Circle

118 91

Clit Moi

101

America 72

Closing Night Party

140

American Factory

43

Closing Time

And It Was The Same With My Son

91

Commissioning: Documentary for Broadcast

74 124

Another Dream

101

Commissioning: Factual Entertainment

123

Another Mother

79

Commissioning: Specialist Factual

122

Another Paradise

48

Common Ground

101

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

66

Converging Sensibilities: considering creative practice

Apollo 11

81

Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore

98 61

Apparatum 101

Crackle Pop

105

The Atomic Tree

105

Craft Summit Drinks presented by Documentary Campus

137

BAFTA Masterclass: Asif Kapadia

112

Craft Summit: Close to the Edit

110

Craft Summit: Filming the Unfilmable

111

Baracoa 43 142

84

BLACK TO TECHNO

A Love Song for Latasha

27, 61

Index Craft Summit: Picturing the Planet

111

For Sama

Craft Summit: Short and Smart

111

Fordlandia Malaise

Craft Summit: Sound Unbound

111

Forest 102

Craft Summit: Through the Eyes of the Other

110

The Fortress

44

87

Free Screen

93, 94, 95

Criminal Justice Criminal Justice: Letting the Cameras In

123

The Curse of Palm Oil

105

Curupira, creature of the woods

72

D E E P Live

78

Danny 67 Dark Suns

49

Deep in Vogue + performance with House of Ghetto

34

Desert Island Docs: Nick Hornby Designing Around the Brain Diary of Cattle Diego Maradona

121 98 72 24, 43

Disconnected 91 65

Dive: Rituals in Water

55

Doc/Dinner 133 Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

136

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

137

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

138

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

139

Doc/Fest Exchange Breakfast

140

Documentary Lives Here: Doc Society Drop In

128

Don’t Be A Dick About It

56

Dramatic and Mild

72

The Dreams of Henri Rousseau

106

Drinks with the Nordics

139

E-Ticket 78 Earth 74 Echo 102 The Edge of Democracy

67

ESPN Drinks

138

Exchange: Our Planet, Our Health

126

Exploring the Archives – FOCAL International Drinks

136

Family Shorts Famous Faces in New Spaces

47 118

Fast Talk

91

Father Figure

65

Films for Rebel Girls: Dream Screens

80

Flip The Script

80

78

Funding and Commissioning: Arts, Music and Cultural Documentary

120

Funding and Commissioning: Feature Documentary

117

Funding and Commissioning: Podcasts and Audio Documentary

119

Funding and Commissioning: Short Documentary

118

Future Lab Africa: African Audio Sci-Tech Storytelling Game of Thrones: The Last Watch Getting Past the Gatekeepers: Dos and Don’ts of Pitching Ghosts of Sugar Land Girl Icon The Great Hack Grierson Trust New Talent Drinks

98 82 130 54 106 67 138

Hail Satan?

82

Halo Drinks

140

Hand in Hand: A Story of Faith and Friendship in Kumbh

106

Here, We Are

65

Index

Distant Planet: The Six Chapters of Simons

26, 49

Hermit 74 Hey, Bro!

62

Hi, AI

68

Honeyland 82 The Hottest August

74

Hunting for Hedonia

68

Hype Master

65

If You Knew

47

Igloo Vision Drinks

137

Imaginary Friends: Short Stories from ‘The Loneliest Generation’

114

In Conversation with Werner Herzog

114

In Our Paradise

56

In Posse: making ‘female’ sperm

99

In Search...

68

Inside National Geographic

123

Interactive Portraits: trans people in Japan

102

Irish Delegation Reception

140

ITV Drinks

140

Jade 87 James Lee Byars: World Question Centre

75

Jawline 44 Jenn Nkiru talks Film, Art and Cosmic Archeology

115 143

Index The Joseph Rowntree Foundation X Guardian Pitch

120 75

Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

76

The Justice Syndicate

32

Mountain Plain Mountain

86

56

My Big Break

Kabul, City in the Wind Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl

35, 62

My Father The Spy

Khartoum Offside

44

My First Film

Knock Down the House

82

My Mother’s Kitchen

Korean Pitching Day: Part 1

116

No Data Plan

Korean Pitching Day: Part 2

116

Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

La Vida En Común Le Lac

44 106

112 45 76 102 76 27, 45

Norie 85 Northern Docs Drinks

137

Lemebel 75

Now something is slowly changing’

68

Let It Burn

50

On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship

51

Lima Screams

62

On The President’s Orders

51

Limbo 54

Once Aurora

63

Lisbon Beat

Once Upon A Time In Iraq

88

62

Lisbon Beat: The After Party

136

One Child Nation

Live Pitches

132

Opening Night Drinks

Index

Los Reyes The Lovers Table (Part 1): Presented by Kazim Rashid & Lotte Andersen The Lovers Table (Part 2): Presented by 4:3 x Sheffield Doc Fest

56 33 138

The Machine That Kills Bad People: O’er The Land

75

The Machine That Kills Bad People: The Sky on Location

76

The Magic Life of V Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love Marketplace Drinks Marketplace Sessions Marketplace Summit The Masses

57 28, 63 138 133 113, 132 91

Meet the Alternate Realities Artists x Creative England Drinks

138

Meet the Alternate Territories Delegation Drinks

136

Meet the Distributors

131

Meet the Execs

133

Meet the Filmmakers Drinks

137

Meet the Sales Agents

131

MeetMarket 132 Memento Stella

84

Midnight Family

50

Midnight Traveler

50

Mike Wallace Is Here

50

Misericórdia 72 The Mortician of Manila 144

MOTHER 57

Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream

88

Operate Heavy Machinery Original Documentaries preview with Channel 5 Out in the Cold Panama Al Brown: A Mysterious Force Past Perfect Paul Greengrass in Conversation

51 136 80 128 88 103 78 112

The Pearl of Tailorbird

86

The Pit

57

Playhouse 60 Polish Docs Pro Drinks

140

Portrayals of Youth: Growing up on Film

113

Potato Dreams

107

Poverty in the UK: How to tell Stories that Inspire Change

117

Praise the Lorde

80

Property 69 Pulling Focus: A Spotlight on Directors’ Wellbeing

124

Push 69 Queen of Lapa

57

Radical Broadcasts

88

Real Drama: What’s next for the Access Doc?

119

Reason 130 Reconstructing Utøya Reinventing the Celebrity BioPic The Renaissance of the Nations and Regions The Rest

52 120 117 25, 69

Index The Revenge of the Diva

63

Toshio Matsumoto Shorts + Bo Ningen Live

35, 85

Rising Directors Scheme 2019 Showcase

128

Traveling While Black

107

Rodney P talks Beats, Bass and Docs

113

UKTV Networking Drinks

139 120

Romantic Comedy

58

UKTV: Meet the Commissioners

Romantic Comedy + Live Score with Summer Camp

32

Rushing Green with Horses

77

University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch your Academic Idea

119

University of Stirling Drinks

137

Sandoval’s Bullet Scottish Delegation Drinks Seahorse Searching Eva Secrets and Lies: Testimony and Archive in Contemporary History

54 137 25, 58 63 123

Selfie 45 Shapes that Move: Archiving the Films of Feminist Collectives

114

Shapes That Move: The Party

139

Shelter - Farewell to Eden

69

Shirley Temple

65

The Silents of Avant Garde Paris

33

Smartphone Orchestra: Social Sorting Experiment

139 34, 99

Snap 60 Snap Chats: 10 Minute Meets

130

Solidarity 70 The Sound is Innocent

64

Spectre 103 Sports Documentaries with ESPN Subconscious Sensibilities: considering creative practice

116 99

Sumercé 52 Sunrise With Sea Monsters Swarm Season Switchboard & Surgeries

77

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files

26, 70 89

Up: A Longitudinal Case Study

122

Updating the Classics: How Do You Refresh and Reinvigorate Factual TV

122

The Vibrant Village

60

Waiting for the Carnival

59

War In The Blood

70

War of Art

46

Watergate 89 Westinghouse Three WHAM! British Tropical Summer Party at the Doc Society Clubhouse

78 137

What We Left Unfinished

71

What You Gonna Do When the World’s On Fire?

83

The Whickers Pitch

124

While We Are Here

77

Wild Berries

47

Wittnerchrome Notes I & II

78

Women to the Front: Who Do We Trust with Creative Decisions?

Index

Sky Arts Drinks

Untouchable

116

XY Chelsea

83

Your Turn

53

58 133

Symphony of the Ursus Factory

64

Talking About Adultery

58

Tattooed Tears (40th Anniversary)

52

Terraria 72 Thai Delegation Drinks Reception

136

The Thai Delegation Pitch

122

That Which Does Not Kill

70

This Film is About Me

59

Through the Wardrobe

103

The Tide

47

Tiny Souls

52

To Call a Horse a Deer

103 145

Festival FestivalVenues Venues 1 1 Ambulo Ambulo at Millennium at Millennium Gallery Gallery 2 2 Birdhouse Birdhouse TeaTea BarBar & Kitchen & Kitchen 3 3 TheThe Botanist Botanist 4 4 Channing Channing HallHall 5 5 Crucible Crucible

Netflix Netflix Crucible Crucible Studio Studio Crucible Crucible Theatre Theatre Crucible Crucible Adelphi Adelphi 6 6 Crystal Crystal BarBar 7 7 Curzon Curzon Cinema Cinema

Curzon Curzon Cinema Cinema 1 1 Curzon Curzon Rooftop Rooftop BarBar 8 8 Cutlers’ Cutlers’ HallHall

Drawing Drawing Room Room Goodwin Goodwin Room Room Hadfield Hadfield HallHall Main Main HallHall OldOld Banqueting Banqueting HallHall Reception Reception Room Room 9 9 Delegate Delegate Centre Centre at at

11 11 Doc/Fest Doc/Fest Exchange Exchange 12 12 Doc/Player Doc/Player Lounge Lounge

at The at The Workstation Workstation 13 13 Hope Hope Works Works

TheThe Stage Stage 15 15 ITVITV Town Town HallHall

Committee Committee Room Room 1 1 Reception Reception Room Room A A Reception Reception Room Room B B 16 16 TheThe Leadmill Leadmill 17 17 TheThe Light Light Cinema Cinema

Screens Screens 3, 63,&68& 8 18 18 TheThe Light Light Cinema Cinema Free Free Screen Screen 19 19 Paradise Paradise Square Square 20 20 Performance Performance LabLab 21 21 Sheffield Sheffield CityCity HallHall 22 22 Showroom Showroom Cinema Cinema

Showroom Showroom Cinema Cinema 1 1 Oatly Oatly Showroom Showroom Cinema Cinema 2 2 PBSPBS America America Showroom Showroom Cinema Cinema 3 3 Bertha Bertha DocHouse DocHouse Showroom Showroom Cinema Cinema 4 4 ITVITV Showroom Showroom BarBar 23 23 SiteSite Gallery Gallery & Site & Site Gallery Gallery Café Café 24 24 SiteSite Gallery Gallery Square Square

25 25

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TheThe Workstation Workstation 10 10 DINA DINA

14 14 HUBS HUBS

45 45

Alternate Alternate Realities Realities BoxBox Office Office 25 25 Soyo Soyo 26 26 Tamper Tamper Sellers Sellers Wheel Wheel

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27 27 Theatre Theatre DeliDeli 28 28 TheThe Winter Winter Garden Garden

Hotels Hotels 29 29 Best Best Western Western

39 39 Kenwood Kenwood HallHall

30 30 Copthorne Copthorne Hotel Hotel

40 40 Leopold Leopold Hotel Hotel

31 31 Crowne Crowne Plaza Plaza

41 41 Mercure Mercure St Pauls St Pauls

32 32 Easy Easy Hotel Hotel

42 42 Novotel Novotel

33 33 Hampton Hampton by by Hilton Hilton

43 43 Premier Premier InnInn Angel Angel Street Street

34 34 Hilton Hilton Sheffield Sheffield

44 44 Premier Premier InnInn St Mary’s St Mary’s Gate Gate

35 35 Holiday Holiday InnInn

45 45 Rutland Rutland Hotel Hotel

36 36 IbisIbis

46 46 Sheffield Sheffield Metropolitan Metropolitan

37 37 Jonas Jonas Hotel Hotel

47 47 Travelodge Travelodge

38 38 Jurys Jurys InnInn

Key Key Films Films

Hotels Hotels

Events Events

Cafe/Bar Cafe/Bar

Realities Realities Alternate Alternate

Office Office Box Box

Talks Talks

Cloakroom Cloakroom

Marketplace Marketplace

Blue Blue Badge Badge Parking Parking

44 44

 

37 3739 39

13

31

33

34

43 36

19

47

32

29

8 7 40

3

5 4 21

6



11 Tudor Square

15

28

Bus  Station

41 10

1 42

18

22

17

20

Train Station



14 26

24

12

9

23

38

16

2

27 30



35



Towards Victoria Quays

46

Ways of Seeing

Illustration by Edwin Mingard — winner of the 2019 Sheffield Doc/Fest poster artwork competition.