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18TH ANNUAL SHEFFIELD DOC/FEST THIS WEEK Now in its 18th year, Sheffield Doc/Fest the most important documentary and digital media festival in the UK - packs an impressive 120 films and 70 sessions into five intense days, starting tomorrow 8 June with Morgan Spurlock’s Pom Wonderful: The Greatest Movie Ever Made. Unique in the UK film festival calendar with its highly successful market place, which, in 2010 resulted in an injection of over £20million (through sales and investment) into the documentary
industry. This year boasts another impressive film line-up - including a new outdoor screening programme on Devonshire Green - Sheffield Doc/ Fest looks set to attract record number of industry delegates and film-going public through its doors this week. The guest line-up including Morgan Spurlock, Molly Dineen, Nick Broomfield, Albert Maysles, Steve James and Adam Curtis plus Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Mark Thomas, Ozwald Boateng and Pat and Sam from My Big Fat Gypsy
Wedding, together with the new June dates, have contributed to create an unprecedented pre-festival buzz among delegates and press this year. This year’s festival is embracing the current rise in protest and revolution. The conference session on Saturday 11 June: The Revolution Will be Tweeted includes presentations from people at the heart of the Arab Spring who broke through the various regimes attempts to curtail internet traffic. These so called Hacktivists operate in a grey area between what’s
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legal and what’s right but they, together with people grabbing raw footage with hand-held devices, have made history and forced change in the MiddleEast. On Sunday 12 June the festival closes with a screening of the Tunisian film No More Fear directed by Mourad Ben Cheikh, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Elsewhere within the film programme a number of films take a look at the wider protest movements: If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front directed by Marshall Curry;
Just Do It directed by Emily James; Up in Smoke directed by Adam Wakeling; Wiebo’s War directed by David York; You’ve Been Trumped directed by Anthony Baxter; Inside Job directed by Alex Gibney; Zero Silence directed by Javeria Rizvi Kabani, Jonny Von Wallstrom, Alexandra Sandels and UK Uncut directed by Gemma Atkinson, Fred Grace. Other festival highlights includes a surprise screening and of Kevin MacDonald and YouTube’s Life In A Day on Saturday 11 June. On
Wednesday 8 June, Jeanie Finlay, the director of Sound It Out - about the only surviving vinyl shop in the North East - will attend the festival with her pink and portable juke box! And on Thursday 9 June the French artist Jean Marc Calvet, subject of Dominic Allan’s Calvet, will adorn the wall of the Sheffield Showroom bar with his distinctive artwork. All films and many sessions are open to the public. For more information visit: www. sheffdocfest.com.
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