Brüggers Performative Jounalism

10. nov 2011. BRÜGGER'S METHOD. Undercover reporter, documentarian, writer, TV personality and newly minted radio station manager. In his multifaceted work, media trickster Mads Brügger is unabashedly pursuing a…

If You Don't Go to Extremes, Why Even Go?

10. nov 2011 | EDITORIAL. If you don't go to extremes, why even go? the Danish COBRA artist Asger Jorn once said. His words naturally spring to mind when looking at the current crop of Danish documentaries. They go to…

Solar Mamas

10. nov 2011 | INTERNATIONAL DOC PROJECT. Mette Heide is producer of "Solar Mamas", one of the eight documentaries in "Why Poverty?", a project that speaks about global poverty through human stories. The experienced producer warmly welcomes…

The Courage to Think and Act

10. nov 2011. DOX:LAB, which kicked off in 2009, is a CPH: DOX initiative to stimulate talent development across all borders and cultures with the overall goal of evolving the documentary film genre. While its…

Win-Win Adoptions?

10. nov 2011 | IDFA FORUM 2011. For many Western childless parents adoption is a win-win situation. Unfortunate orphans are provided with parents and the childless are blessed with children. But behind the dream lies anoher reality…

The Diversity of Beauty

10. nov 2011 | INTERVIEW. Your dignity. Your beauty. Think about those
two words when you're on stage tonight, Antony gently encourages the transsexual performers in the show "Turning", as they prepare to go on stage, in…

An Audience of 500 Million

10. nov 2011 | INTERNATIONAL DOC PROJECT. Why, in the 21st century, do a billion people still live in poverty? To answer that question, the "Why Poverty" project has enlisted some of the world's best documentary filmmakers to produce 8 one…

Reconstruction of a father

10. nov 2011 | ONE TO WATCH. Two-time pitch award winner Lea Glob is one of this year's documentary graduates from the National Film School of Denmark. Intimate reality is rich material for Glob who graduated with a highly…

Dancing with Demons

09. nov 2011 | INTERVIEW. For two years, co-directors Christian Bonke and Andreas Koefoed tracked former International Latin World Champion Slavik Kryklyvyy as he struggled to get back to the top. For the Ukrainian ballroom…

Hybrid = Mixing

09. nov 2011 | VIEWING A TREND. There is currently a strong trend of mixing the methods and vocabulary of fiction and documentary films. The Nordic Film & TV Fund recently invited the commissioning editors of the Nordic film…