Millennium Docs Towards Gravity simply wrapped the in-person version of the nonfiction pageant, which takes place concurrently in seven cities in Poland (the web version runs at the moment till June 2).
The Grand Prix – the Financial institution Millennium Award – went to Yintah, directed by Jennifer Wickham, Brenda Michell and Michael Toledano. The award mechanically qualifies Yintah for Academy Award consideration (MDAG is among the few festivals on the planet with the excellence of being an Oscar qualifier for Finest Documentary Movie).
The jury – made up of Salma Abdalla of the Austrian Movie Institute, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont and two-time Oscar-nominated producer Rémi Grellety – awarded a Particular Point out to A Need in Her, directed by Myrid Carten (the filmmaker appeared on Deadline’s Doc Speak podcast after the world premiere of her movie at IDFA).
For the primary time, Doc Speak traveled to Poland to cowl MDAG. Within the new episode of the pod, we converse with pageant creative director Karol Piecarczyk about how the pageant acquired its uncommon identify, how MDAG managed to take care of its creative independence in the course of the eight years of right-wing rule in Poland (which got here to an finish in 2023), and the challenges and alternatives introduced by holding a pageant in seven cities on the similar time.
We additionally converse with Northern Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins, who introduced his newest movie, A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Issues, to MDAG, together with a number of of his earlier movies. He additionally held what he referred to as an “anti-masterclass” on the pageant, designed to encourage the viewers to assume creatively about approaches to documentary filmmaking.
Cousins tells us about collaborating along with his good friend Tilda Swinton as soon as once more on A Sudden Glimpse. And he discusses how his filmmaking fashion has advanced over time – initially from “BBC home fashion,” then to “indignant” filmmaker infiltrating a neo-Nazi group, to his present fashion, which he describes as “non-macho” and delicate. He additionally reveals tales behind his a number of tattoos, together with one in tribute to Marie Curie, the two-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
That’s on the brand new episode of Doc Speak, co-hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s documentary editor. The present is a manufacturing of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.
Hearken to the episode above or on main podcast platforms together with Spotify, iHeart and Apple.
