[KineJapan] Indiewire's list of best documentary film festivals

[Eija Niskanen]

I indeed did post in the comments section. Quentin: I think Docpoint of
Helsinki is counted as a European festival? Meaning the one good thing
about this list is that they even recognized that a country like Finland
has a film festival. :D

Eija


2014-03-26 4:08 GMT+02:00 Markus Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>:

> .There is no reason to be generous. Quentin is right. It is a silly,
> ignorant, empty list. The documentary "world" is unforgivably Eurocentric.
>
> I am working on my list for Sight and Sound's first best documentaries in
> history poll. I'm already depressed.
>
> Markus
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:01 PM, Quentin Turnour <Quentin.Turnour at nfsa.gov.au>
> wrote:
>
> Much more likely its just not on their radar, for the reasons that Abe
> Marcus Nornes has commented about - sharply - in various places over the
> years, such as in his piece the recent BFI Documentary anthology. It's a
> pretty dumb list, actually. IDFA and Nyon are the only Euro fests, Tel Aviv
> seems to be the only outside of the Euro/America-sphere. Sheffield,
> CPH:DOX, Yunnan (...or at least one of the Chinese fests...) and Yogakarta
> are stand-out omissions for me, but others will have their own.
>
> The only thing you can do with these things is to try to improve the
> quality of the conversation, as Eija did, by bombing the comments section.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Quentin Turnour, Manager, Arc Canberra Cinema Programs,
> National Film and Sound Archive of Australia,
>
>
>
>
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> From:        Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> To:        Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <
> kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>,
> Date:        26/03/2014 11:31 AM
> Subject:        Re: [KineJapan] Indiewire's list of best documentary film
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> If we were to be generous, one could say that since the article is really
> an announcement of the lineup of the 2014 Full Frame Documentary Film
> Festival, it is emphasizing festivals held in 2014. (YIDFF will not be held
> this year.) So perhaps they are just prioritizing festivals that are held
> annually, which Yamagata is not.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Mar 18, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Eija Niskanen wrote:
>
> Did anyone see this, and wonder why YIDFF was not included?
>
>
> *http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/guide-to-documentary-film-festivals#.Uyg-4I7ayVM.facebook*<http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/guide-to-documentary-film-festivals#.Uyg-4I7ayVM.facebook>
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> Eija
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