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Screenings of Doc Next films

Videos and photos from the Doc Next Media Collection are shown at many offline events throughout the world! By screening our films on any occasion, we want to contribute to and engage others in the investigation and discussion of media in our societies. We love to ‘infiltrate’, thus creating a link between the traditional media and the constantly developing world of free culture.

REFRAME / Philanthropy House / Belgium / 19 March – 12 May 2014

Accompanying the exhibition ‘Reframe – Perspectives on Europe through comics from Algeria, Turkey and the UK’ at the Philanthropy House in Brussels (Belgium), Doc Next films are screened till 12 May 2014.

WE THE PEOPLES FILM FESTIVAL / London / UK / 3 November 2013

I Was Five – Maryam Tafakory
Cudzoziemiec do Wynajęcia (Foreigner for Rent) – Agnieszka Małek
El precio de un sueño (The Price of a Dream) – John Gómez
Cinnet (Insanity) – Osman Yüksel Bayram

MARGARET MEAD FILM FESTIVAL / New York / USA / 20 October 2013

Top Ten LDN – Tara Manandhar

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL / London / UK / 11 + 17 October 2013

Congregations – Onyeka Igwe

BBC THREE FRESH (ONLINE TV) / UK / September 2013

Hair And Now – Matthew Kay

BERWICK FILM ARTS FESTIVAL / Berwick / UK / 27 September 2013

Fishcakes & Cocaine – Alex Nevill

COMMUNITY CHANNEL (TV) / UK / 6 July 2013

Hitching the A1 – Gary McQuiggin & Onyeka Igwe

REFUGE IN FILMS LAUNCH / London/ UK / 22 June 2013

Limbo – Hamid Reza Rejaby
You are Rich Because I am Poor – Shorrsh
First Steps (Sorry + Please) – Cedoux Kadima
Helping Others – Adhurim Demiraj
Congratulations – Salih Ahmed
Communication – Alicja
Crossing/Transito – David Gallardo
Nowhere – David Sypniewski

OPEN CITY DOCS FEST / London / UK / 20 – 23 June 2013

Doctor Loco – Matthew Kay & Anna Snowball
Comforting Austerity – Gary McQuiggin & Onyeka Igwe
Rollercoaster Poets – Tara Manandhar
On Site – Matthew Kay
My Family’s House – Anna Snowball
Seeing Sound & Hearing Colour; A Music Video for Synaesthesia – Taran Burns

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL / Cannes /France / 15 – 26 May 2013

2×2 – Iza Kiszczak (Poland)
Rollercoaster Poets – Tara Manandhar (UK)
Murciegalo – Rocia Garcia Martinez (Spain)
Astronauts – Jaha Browne & Tara Manandhar (UK)
Comforting Austerity – Gary McQuiggin & Onyeka Igwe (UK)
The Lights of Flushing – Anna Snowball (UK)
Life in Tarlabasi – Busra Ornek (Turkey)
Refika – Ozge Deniz Ozker (Turkey)
Doctor Loco – Matthew Kay & Anna Snowball (UK)
Unbounded: Wildfire in the Aegean – Sena Basoz (Turkey)
Tea House – Jan Mencwel (Poland)
On Site – Matthew Kay (UK)

IMG_0199-300x200 CIHANGIR PARK / Istanbul / Turkey / 26 June & 4 July Remapping Europe Istanbul remix videos were showcased by Doc Next Network partner MODE Istanbul as part of Documentarist 2013, which coincided with the beginning of the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul. This gave way to an initiative of MODE Istanbul to hold an ongoing series of screenings after the Gezi protests had turned into small meetings across Istanbul’s many neighborhood parks as gathering places for people to collectively discuss the events and to formulate demands and solutions in the form of forums.

Portmanteau – Hande Zerkin (TR)
How Do You Know Tarlabasi – Büşra Örnek (TR)
Migrant-Settler – Hulya Mete (TR)
Gurbet City – Mehmet Sami (TR)

DOCUMENTARIST 2013 / Istanbul / Turkey / 6 June 2013

Astronauts, Jaha Browne and Tara Manandhar
How Would You Like to Migrate?, Fatih Bilgin
The Silent Excursion ’89, Enes Uysal,
Separation, Pinar Idil Yakut
Nowhere, David Sypniewski (Poland)
Yu-gos-lav-ya, Sahika Karatepe
Portmanteau, Hande Zerkin
How Do You Know Tarlabasi?, Melis Goker
Gurbet City, Mehmet Sami
Settler Migrant, Hulya Mete
Map of Migration, Suleyman Sahin
Forced Migration, Gulten Okcuoglu
Insanity, Osman Yuksel Bayram
Crossing
Mobile Inner Peace, Ayse Aybuke Samast

The 9th European Integration FORUM (EIF) on Integration of Migrant Youth / Brussels / Belgium / 4 & 5 June 2013

Hoodforts, Mile End Community Project (UK)
Crossing, David Gallardo (Spain)

PLANETE+DOC FESTIVAL / Warsaw + Wroclaw / Poland / 10 – 19 May 2013

A Life in Tarlabasi (”Tarlabasi’nda Bir Yasam”), Busra Ornek
Congregations, Onyeka Igwe, Wielka Brytania
Education (“Murciegalo”), Rocío García Martínez
Enclosure (”Kapanim”), Akile Nazli Kaya
O rządach miłości (”The Governance of Love”), Adela Kaczmare
Refika (“Refika”), Ozge Deniz Ozker
The mural of care (“El mural de los cuidados”), Héctor Rojo Letón
Trzy Głosy (”Three Voices”), Michalina Musielak
Remix Films: Gurbet City, Portmantea, How Would You Like to Migrate, Separation, The Silent Excursion 89, Settler Migrant, Coffee for one, Arrested with no papers, Velitas, Lifes tell me your story, Crossing, I’m going to dance pegao

HOLLAND DOC / Dutch National Television / March 2013

Where to start if you just entered the film and television industry? Dutch documentary Channel Holland Doc 24 has a weekly slot for young documentary makers on national TV. Every Sunday at half past eight in the evening are now one or more short documentary films by young filmmakers. All films are also broadcasted online.

98LAB SHOWCASE / Seville / Spain / 26 February 2013

The Mural of Care, Héctor Rojo Letón
An Andalusian Grandmother, Juanma Moreno
Keep calm and love on, Álvaro S. Fernández
Milk, Carmen Higueras ”
Outside Mirror, Ángel Montalbán
Jamming the Code, Ro Trejo Zamorano
Self Portrait, Ariana S. Cota
Grooves, Gema Luque Higueras
Murciegalo, Rocío García Martínez’’
Gleams and Reflections, Lucas Tello
Wander, Álvaro Cantero

DOCUMENTARY MONDAYS at Centrul Ceh / Bucharest / Romania / 25 February 2013

Glued, Benoit Detalle, Belgia, 2011, 6’
Illustrated Stories (Cuentos Ilustrados), Pablo Domínguez (Spain)
Decision (Decyzja), Monika Jankowska Olejnik (Poland)
The Life of Allotments (Działkowcy), Anastazja Kądziela (Poland)
Jorge, Lucas Tello Pérez (Spain)
Now, Listen!, Dominik Dušek (Czech Republic)
Pszów, Agata and Monika Zajac, Michalina and Marzena Krakowczyk a.o. (Poland)
Faster, Harder, Stronger, Melisa Uneri (Turkey)
Hoodforts, Mile End Community Project (UK)
Astronauts, Jaha Browne and Tara Manandhar (UK)
Enclosure (Kapanım), Akile Nazli Kaya (Czech Republic)

FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL / London / UK / 16 – 18 February 2013

Doctor Loco, Matthew Kay & Anna Snowball
Coming Alive, Jaha Browne
Rollercoaster Poets, Tara Manandhar
Seeing Sound & Hearing Colour, a Music Video for Synaesthesia, Taran Burns
On Site, Matthew Kay
Bordered, Onyeka Igwe
Hitching the A1, Gary McQuiggin & Onyeka Igwe
The Lights of Flushing, Anna Snowball
Fishcakes & Cocaine, Alex Nevill

UTOPIA FESTIVAL SHOWCASE / Codoba/ Spain / 5-8 December 2012

This the Type of Birds (Taki Typ Ptactwa), Małgorzata Goliszewska, Poland, 2011
Without Spectator (Bez Widza), Rafał Andrzej Głombiowski, Poland, 2011
Enclosure (Kapanım), Akile Nazli Kaya, Czech Republic, 2011
Never Too Late to Reach It (Llegando a Todo), Raquel Campuzano Godoy, Spain, 2011
Let Yourself Go, Bethan Lloyd, UK, 2011
Astronauts, Jaha Browne and Tara Manandhar, UK, 2012
No husband but a pig in Estonia, Sasha Kheyfets, Estonia, 2011
Refika, Ozge Deniz Ozker, Turkey, 2012
Illustrated Stories (Cuentos Ilustrados), Pablo Domínguez, Spain, 2011

url International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012 / The Netherlands, / 14-25 November 2012

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PLANETE+DOC FILM FESTIVAL / Warsaw and Wroclaw / Poland / 11 – 20 May 2012 1. Let’s experiment

Launderette by Alex Nevill (UK)
A Man Without Face by Tadas Vidmantas (Lituania)
TRON by Felipe G. Gil (Spain)
Illustrated stories by Pablo Domínguez Sánchez (Spain)
Ebb and Tide by Nazil Kaya (Turkey)
Sounds and Shadows by Selin Gunduz (Turkey)

2. Polska.doc

Taki typ ptactwa by Małgorzata Goliszewska (Poland)
Decyzja by Monika Jankowska (Poland)
Działkowcy by Anastazja Kądziela (Poland)
Biuro rzeczy zagubionych by Anna Rok, Agnieszka Kokowska (Poland)

ZEMOS98 FESTIVAL / Seville / 14th April 2012

Glued by Benoit Detalle (Belgium) – 5’42″
Rock the Caucuses by Smearballs (Canada) – 3’22″
Now, Listen! by Dominik Dušek (Germany) – 3’
Subasta II by Smalouli (Marrocco) – 2’51″
The Manufacture Of Consent by Enrico Argento (Portugal) – 2’22″
WakeUpArtists! (Dedicated to Malish) by SpriteHat (Italy) – 4’
Mutantes by Duplex Corporeition (Spain) – 4’24″
A mi tío by Lacasinegra (Spain) – 1’33″
Our Dangerous Demands by Malaventura (Spain) – 2’
Live Free or Die Hard (Project 12, 8/12) by Diran Lyons (USA) – 1’12″
Abra la boca (Open Your Mouth) by Montserrat Santalla Gasco (Spain) – 3’31″
Rap News X: #Occupy2012 (feat. Noam Chomsky & Anonymous) by Hugo Farrant and Giordano Nanni (Australia) – 7’48″

BFI’s FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL / London / 18 – 19 February 2012

Brothers (Poland)
Cuentos Ilustrados (Spain)
Decision (Poland)
Decision Only – about a street masseuse in Brighton (UK)
Ece-Esque (Turkey)
I’m Looking for Someone (Poland)
Laundrette (UK)
One of Us (Turkey)
Recover & Rebuild: Croydon – about the aftermath of the London Riots (UK)
Sex Sense (Spain)
Sounds & Shadows (Turkey)
Tron (15M Version) (Spain)
Wires (UK)

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2011 / The Netherlands: Thepartnership of IDFA and Doc Next Network is based on a mutual concern for the inclusion of young D-I-Y media talent in public opinion. IDFA scouts for new talents by visiting film schools, writings to broadcasters and using international scouts. Many young filmmakers also know where to find IDFA and send their work directly to the festival.

More than 30 Doc NExt films were screened at IDFA 2011.

SEVILLE EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL / Spain / 4 – 11 November 2011

A Way, Sergey Kirasyan (Armenia)
Biżuteria Publiczna, Iwo Kondefer (Poland)
Bracia, Emi Mazurkiewicz (Poland)
Ece’esque, Bahar Demirkan, Okyar Igli, Hayati Kose and Morteza Moghaddam (Turkey)
Grown up at age of 11in Macedonia, Vladimir Tevcev (Macedonia)
Guilty until Proven Innocent, Danyal Laskar (UK)
Launderette, Bertie Telezynski and Alex Nevill (UK)
Lost in Translation, Akile Nazli Kaya (Turkey)
Sex Sense, José Manuel Borrego, José Manuel Expósito, Pedro Fernández, Rosario Fernández, Noelia Fernández, Belén Márquez, José Antonio Márquez, Iván Ruiz Vergara and Pablo Domínguez (Spain)
The last communist in Berlin, Robin Meurer (Germany)
TRON, Felipe G. Gil (Spain)
Zero Point, Gjorgje Jovanovic (Macedonia)

EUROPEAN CULTURE CONGRESS in Wroclaw / Poland / 8 – 11 September 2011

A Way by Sergey Kirasyan (Armenia)
Biżuteria Publiczna by Iwo Kondefer (Poland)
Bracia by Emi Mazurkiewicz (Poland)
Ece’esque by Bahar Demirkan, Okyar Igli, Hayati Kose and Morteza Moghaddam (Turkey)
Grown up at age of 11 in Macedonia by Vladimir Tevcev (Macedonia)
Guilty until Proven Innocent by Danyal Laskar (UK)
Launderette by Bertie Telezynski and Alex Nevill (UK)
Lost in Translation by Akile Nazli Kaya (Turkey)
Sex Sense by José Manuel Borrego, José Manuel Expósito, Pedro Fernández, Rosario Fernández, Noelia Fernández, Belén Márquez, José Antonio Márquez, Iván Ruiz Vergara and Pablo Domínguez (Spain)
The last communist in Berlin by Robin Meurer (Germany)
TRON by Felipe G. Gil (Spain)
Zero Point by Gjorgje Jovanovic (Macedonia)

DNN@European Culture Congress

Next Doc Network presented its activities to the public in Poland for the first time. The opportunity to meet and people and talk about the DNN was one of a kind: the European Culture Congress saw over 200 thousand participants over 4 days. The program was filled with over 100 interdisciplinary projects prepared by 550 artists and curators.

Among them the Doc Next Network screenings of films made by young artists from across Europe and a purpose built container, where films were were watched at all times (including on special projections during night time), information was obtained and many interesting conversations were held. We issued special publications in Polish and English, and produced a video to promote our activities.

Visitors at the Doc Next Network container watched films and talked to hubs representatives, acquired DVDs with the special Congress pick of 11 films from the DNN collection, our t-shirts and bags (which proved hugely popular among the Congress audience). Our guests had their photos taken with a polaroid camera and kept a DNN branded portrait. If you didn’t get a chance to visit or follow the (almost) real time commentary on Association’s “ę” facebook page.

The Congress was also an opportunity to meet the network’s partners. We exchanged experiences gained while working on our projects. We looked for similarities and further opportunities for exchange and cooperation. We examined how we differ from each other and how this diversity can provide inspiration for further work. Hubs tirelessly debated the events of the IDFA 2011 – the next meeting of the network in November. See you in Amsterdam!

Further reading: the DNN materials at the European Culture Congress.

Association of Creative Initiatives “ę” is the Polish partner the Doc Next Network.

DNN in Wroclaw, Poland

Doc Next Network will be present at the European Culture Congress in Poland in September 2011. In Poland Doc Next Network will have hour-long screenings of selected films from the media collection on 8 + 11 September in the Festival Club. At the congres Doc Next Network has its own space in a container, designed by young Polish architects and graphic designers from Super Super and video artist Karol Rakowski.

This trailer was made especially for the European Culture Congress by our Polish hub partner Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych „ę”.

We are nominated!!!

Doc Next Network is nominated for the Erasmus EuroMedia Awards 2011!

The Erasmus EuroMedia Award is an annual prize, launched in 1995, to outstanding media productions contributing to the development of a European society. Doc Next has been nominated for its media collection and the entire network that is providing content to this media collection.

The award ceremony will take place on 14 October 2011 in Vienna. The ceremony is a meeting point for international media professionals. The afternoon presentation of the winners and the festive evening reception provide the ideal ambiences to socialise and exchange ideas. Covered by news media from all over Europe, the EuroMedia Awards attract attention to our work.

The EuroMedia Awards honour media productions that:

enhance the media discourse on Europe
provide a qualitative discussion of objectives, perspectives and challenges for the development of European Societies
relate to European topics like cohesion, social values, migration, identity, solidarity …
show an educational ambition
invest ideas and ambition in an European Public Sphere

Çanakkale 2010 – A Story of a Year

This publication tells the story of an unusual year-long civic project that took place in the Turkish city of Çanakkale in 2010, carried out by Anadolu Kültür, who have been closely involved with the ECF European Neighbourhood programme since 2005. Chosen by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) as an example of good practice, the project encouraged the city’s entire population to get involved in cultural policies and activities – through workshops, focus groups, activities and meetings.
Downloadable in English and Turkish, this publication documents the project’s progress from start to finish in the words of the citizens themselves. It includes statements of mission and vision, activities that led to the development of a city-wide manifesto, press coverage showing the project’s visibility and evaluations of the project, as well as some suggested next steps.

The idea for Çanakkale 2010 was developed under the framework of ECF’s ‘(In)visible Cities’ project, which provided arts management training and advice to local cultural operators working on cultural projects in three different Turkish cities, including Çanakkale.

More information..

Exciting News from a BFI Video Art Bursary Winner

Some exciting news has been brought to our attention from mentor on the Video Art Bursary scheme here at the BFI, Phillip Warnell. Jacob Dwyer, who is a BFI Video Art Bursary Winner, was successful in being offered a place to study the brand new MA Experimental Film course at KingstonUniversity, London, which starts in October 2011. Jacob, who graduated Newcastle University this summer with an outstanding 1^st Class Honours degree in Fine Art, was then nominated by Phillip, who is also the director of studies on the course at KingstonUniversity, for an AHRX bursary to help him pursue this MA programme. Wonderfully he was successful in obtaining it. This bursary will cover his fees and maintenance costs for the duration of the one-year course.

Phillip added that he was “delighted that Jacob has been offered the opportunity, both in joining the MA Experimental Film programme atKingston, and in gaining such an award. His film work undoubtedly merits his success”.

Congratulations and good luck on the course Jacob!

Holiday workshop in Pszów

First holiday workshops of Poland.doc finished in Pszów. Group of young people worked on a joint film project, telling the story of residents of this Silesian town. We watched classic and modern documentaries and practised basic language of film expression. Together, we worked on questions, which were later posed to our protagonists. After a week of intensive work we managed to complete materials for a short film etude. Participants from Pszów will be invited to the official premiere in September.

More photos at the Poland.doc blog

Studenten Docs

Op 4 juli start de IDFA Summerschool 2011. Naar aanleiding daarvan presenteert IDFA TV een speciaal themaprogramma rondom creative, jonge talenten. Het programma bestaat uit acht documentaires die de afgelopen jaren in de IDFA Competition for Student Documentary te zien zijn geweest. De documentaires zijn allemaal gratis te bekijken.

Het programma bestaat o.a. uit de documentaires What’s in a Name (Eva Küpper – winnaar van de IDFA Competition for Student Documentary 2010), Du Soleil en Hiver (Samuel Collardey – geselecteerd voor de IDFA Competition for Student Documentary 2006), en Paradise – Three Journeys in this World (Elina Hirvonen – winnaar van de IDFA Competition for Student Documentary 2007).

Bekijk de Studenten Docs hier online

Advisory Council Meeting in Budapest

Sabíamos poco de la ECF cuando por primera vez -en el otoño de 2010- se pusieron en contacto con nosotros para formar parte del programa Youth & Media, que finalmente ha derivado en esta red llamada Doc Next Network (DNN).

Desde entonces, nos hemos empapado de sus objetivos, hemos conocido a muchos de sus miembros y nos hemos reunido en varias ocasiones con nuestros socios de la DNN en Amsterdam (durante el festival IDFA), en Londres (mientras tenía lugar el Future Film Fest en el BFI) y en Sevilla(con la excusa del Festival ZEMOS98). En septiembre viajaremos a Wrocław, sede del Congreso Cultural Europeo, en Polonia.

Tras estos primeros meses de trabajo, la ECF consideró que teníamos algo que aportar en el Advisory Council Meeting, que se celebra anualmente, en esta ocasión en Budapest el día 6 de junio y con el título de Cultural Change Makers in Turbulent Times: Views on the Eastern European and Southern Mediterranean EU Neighbourhoods.

Desde sus primeros años, la ECF ha centrado su trabajo en la reflexión sobre el concepto de vecindad europea, entendiendo el continente más allá de sus fronteras políticas. Las revueltas árabes y europeas suponen cambios significativos y turbulentos para los países con los que colabora la ECF y, por tanto, en este consejo anual, se trataba de conectar experiencias e ideas para que las voces de los agentes de cambio cultural de los vecinos europeos se integren en el discurso de la UE en un doble proceso de aprendizaje, que fluya en ambos sentidos.

Lo que pretendía la ECF de nosotros y otros muchos colaboradores era una serie de consejos sobre cómo debe actuar la Fundación ahora y a largo plazo; también revisar sus acciones y su forma de organización del trabajo, con la idea de estar preparados para cambiar y adaptarse cuando sea necesario.

Desde nuestra perspectiva, apostamos por dos cuestiones clave para afrontar la nueva situación económica y política: atender, aprender y fomentar las formas de organización en red de las que han brotado las revoluciones árabes y europeas; y apostar e incentivar proyectos que actúen como medios/mediadores de información y comunicación (que actúen localmente y piensen globalmente) que no estén condicionados ni controladados por los poderes fácticos, como ocurre con los medios de comunicación mainstream.

Para ZEMOS98 fue un placer y un honor formar parte de este refrescante encuentro con vecinos de toda Europa, una Europa que no entiende de fronteras.

New Narratives for Europe

Amanda Vähämäki: White nights

We are not necessarily united by a song contest, a single market or a parliament. We do all share a war-torn history and a − resistible − rise in populism. The European Cultural Foundation launched an online space is for the stories − imaginative and confrontational − that make Europe move forward. The site includes insights, reflections and commentaries, keeping you up-dated on all narrative-related activities. The discoveries will also be showcased during an event in the autumn of 2012, in Amsterdam.