The Grand Jury Prize for Worldwide Competitors at Sheffield DocFest has gone to On the Door of the Home, Who Will Come Knocking, the function directorial debut of Maja Novaković, a filmmaker from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
A clearly overwhelmed Novaković accepted the award at a ceremony Sunday night that additionally noticed The Boy and the Suit of Lights and No Other Land – the winner of the highest prize for documentary on the Berlin Movie Pageant – additionally declare awards. Scroll for the total listing of winners.
“Thanks [to] my small however very courageous movie crew,” Novaković mentioned, holding again tears. “I don’t know what to say. I’m so blissful and thrilled and, should admit, confused. I want a brandy.”
Director Maja Novaković accepts the Grand Jury Prize for Worldwide Competitors at Sheffield DocFest.
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Deadline exclusively premiered the trailer of the movie earlier this month. On the Door of the Home, Who Will Come Knocking facilities on an growing older man named Emin, and his equine companion — “his solely true confidant.”
Of their quotation, jurors mentioned, “With cinematic excellence the director slowly reveals a narrative of isolation and trauma in a panorama of magnificence but deep historic scars. An rising director to observe.”
The Boy and the Swimsuit of Lights received the Grand Jury Award for the Worldwide First Function. The movie directed by Inma De Reyes revolves round Borja, a boy rising up in a small city in Spain who is inspired by his grandfather to pursue bullfighting.
“I might see in younger Borja’s expressive eyes that he felt a way of stress from his household that didn’t match nicely together with his persona,” De Reyes has written. “I’ve seen him develop right into a younger grownup in entrance of the digital camera. I’ve felt each second as he has, realizing that his function was given to him from beginning, and but his coronary heart was struggling to make sense of the world with the love for his mom and youthful brother Erik. In my movie, I needed to replicate the fact as Borja felt it, capturing the light passing of time in a timeless coming-of-age story.”
Basel Adra in ‘No Different Land’
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The competition’s Tim Hetherington Award — named for the late British photojournalist who was killed whereas overlaying the civil battle in Libya – went to No Different Land, a movie that has already racked up a dozen awards internationally starting with its world premiere on the Berlinale.
The Palestinian-Israeli filmmaking collective of Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor directed the documentary which gives a visceral depiction of life for Palestinian villagers within the rural Masafer Yatta space of the occupied West Financial institution. Basel Adra, his household and different villagers try to carry onto their dignity and their properties within the face of a marketing campaign by the Israeli military to grab their land and destroy their dwellings, purportedly to make use of the world for navy coaching.
Along with successful two awards on the Berlinale, No Different Land received the highest prize for documentary at Millennium Docs In opposition to Gravity in Poland, and viewers awards at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen and Visions du Réel in Switzerland.
‘Flowers’
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Flowers, directed by José Cardoso, received Sheffield DocFest’s Grand Jury Award for the Worldwide Brief Movie, robotically qualifying the movie for Oscar consideration.
Sheffield DocFest, probably the most prestigious all-documentary competition within the U.Ok., concludes its 31st version on Monday. This 12 months, DocFest showcased 48 world premieres, together with quite a few worldwide, European, and U.Ok. premieres.
That is the total listing of winners introduced on Sunday night:
2024 Award Winners:
Worldwide Competitors (Grand Jury Award):
The Grand Jury Award for the Worldwide Competitors was awarded to At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking directed by Maja Novaković (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024). This Award is Academy Award accredited and honors movies that greatest show sturdy inventive imaginative and prescient and brave storytelling.
The Jury had been: Heather Haynes (Sizzling Docs, Director of Pageant Programming), Mohamed Saïd Ouma (DocA-Documentary Africa Govt Director), and award-winning filmmaker Havana Marking.
The jury mentioned: “With cinematic excellence the director slowly reveals a narrative of isolation and trauma in a panorama of magnificence but deep historial scars. An rising director to observe.”
Particular Point out: Mom Metropolis dir. Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert (South Africa, 2024)
The jury mentioned: “The jury wish to give a particular point out to Mom Metropolis for the filmmakers bravery, ardour and dedication, a narrative the world must know.”
Worldwide First Function Competitors (supported by Netflix)
The Grand Jury Award for the Worldwide First Function Competitors is introduced to The Boy and the Swimsuit of Lights dir. Inma de Reyes (Scotland, UK, 2024). This competitors honors the way forward for non-fiction movie and celebrates promising new expertise and is supported by Netflix.
The Worldwide First Function Competitors jury members had been: Liselot Verbugge (CEO, Movie Harbour), Kristine Barford (Nordland Photos founder), Diego Pino Anguita (Govt Director of the Chilean Documentary Company).
The jury mentioned “The jury has chosen the successful movie for its visually gorgeous reflection on tradition and society, advised by the journey of a boy discovering his solution to manhood. It triggers an internal dialogue, difficult our concepts in regards to the fashionable world versus fading traditions and beliefs.”
Particular Point out: Silent Males dir. Duncan Cowles (Scotland, UK, 2024)
The jury mentioned “The jury was impressed by the susceptible method to a delicate topic, advised in a recent, open, even humorous tone.”
Worldwide Brief Movie Competitors
The Grand Jury Award for the Worldwide Brief Movie Competitors was awarded to Flowers dir. José Cardoso (South Africa, Ecuador, 2024). This Academy Award®, BAFTA and BIFA accredited award honors the most effective artistic approaches in documentaries beneath 40 minutes.
The Worldwide Brief Movie Competitors jury members had been: Andy Mundy-Citadel (founding father of Doc Hearts), Lindsay Poulton (Head of Documentaries at The Guardian), and Moustapha Sawadogo (Head of the Yennenga Workshops on the Pan-African Movie Pageant of Ouagadougou – FESPACO).
The jury mentioned “As a jury we loved this distinct and daring movie, which had a robust sense of function and magnificence. The director conveyed a transparent and pressing sense of storytelling. The jury left feeling impressed and considerate.”
Particular Point out: Dancing Palestine dir. Lamees Almakkawy (United Kingdom, 2024)
The jury mentioned “The movie offered a brand new and recent perspective on Palestine and its tradition, and the jury appreciated its ambition.”
Tim Hetherington Award (introduced in affiliation with Dogwoof)
The Tim Hetherington Award was introduced to No Different Land, dir. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal (Palestine, Norway, 2024 ). The award recognises a movie and filmmaker that greatest displays the legacy of photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington and is introduced in affiliation with Dogwoof.
Jurors for the Tim Hetherington Award had been: Joan Parsons (Head of Tradition and Arts for Queen’s College Belfast), award-winning producer Toni Kamau and founding father of the Kenyan based mostly “We Are Not the Machine”, and Mariia Tsypiashchuk (Ukrainian attorney-at-law, partnerships supervisor of the Ukraine Struggle Archive).
The Jury mentioned: “Two troopers, armed and masked, violently pin down an unarmed man as a voice shouts “I’m filming you”. This isn’t the one time that these phrases are uttered. We hear them once more as a squadron of troopers drag the journalist and filmmaker to the bottom, ripping him away from his digital camera.
Journalistic docs witness what we should not overlook, erase or rewrite.
This can be a highly effective collaboration amongst journalists from reverse sides of a political gulf, who come collectively to inform the story of the continued destruction of Masafer Yatta in Palestine.“
Worldwide Digital Actuality Competitors
The Worldwide Digital Actuality Competitors honors the most effective digital actuality non-fiction work. The award was introduced to Perinatal Dreaming. Understanding Nation, artistsMarianne Wobcke, Volker Keuchelmeister, Lucia Barrera(Australia, 2023).
Jurors for the Digital Actuality Award had been: Abby Solar (Worldwide Documentary Affiliation’s Director of Artist Packages), John O’Shea (Inventive Director of the Nationwide Videogame Museum), and director and programmer Zinha Morgan-Bennett.
The Jury mentioned: “Combining cultural, ancestral and embodied data, this work situates its viewers in visible and sonic landscapes which are full, complicated and spatial. For making the mundane magical, and channelling a full realisation of each the alternatives and limitations of the VR medium, the award goes to Perinatal Dreaming. Understanding Nation!”
Youth Jury Award
The Youth Jury Award was introduced to HAIYU – Insurgent Singer Mariem Hassan and the Battle for a Free Western Sahara dir. Alex Veitch, Brahim B. Ali, Mohamedsalem Uered, Anna Klara Åhrén (Sweden, Western Sahara, 2024) by 5 of the UK’s most passionate younger documentary lovers to have fun non-fiction cinema.
The Youth Jury had been: Luke Dobson, Rose Grover, Arabella Ladiero, Mikey Pugh, and Sakura Singh Corke. They curated a choice of six movies thought-about in a mentored deliberation.
The Jury mentioned: “Because the youth jurors, we’ve been fascinated by the place we discover hope on this local weather of uncertainty, division and worry for the long run. The movie now we have chosen as our winner shines hope on an unbelievable story regardless of the circumstances in Western Sahara. The movie shows music as a supply of resistance and refuge for the Saharawi individuals. The movie challenges the nonetheless very current view of ladies of color as oppressed figures. By depicting an genuine illustration of Mariem Hussain, the movie tells a narrative past prejudice and amplifies the necessity to free all occupied states.”
Particular Point out: Life on the Edge dir. Johnny Langenheim, Sebastian Feehan (Greenland, United Kingdom)
The Jury mentioned: “We commend its unbelievable group for championing and preserving indigenous tales, and actively working in direction of the destigmatisation of the suicide and psychological well being struggles of Greenland.”
2024 Pitch Session Winners:
Three pitch classes befell through the competition for chosen rising administrators to pitch their non-fiction tasks to panels of judges.
The Whickers Pitch,Movie & TV Funding Award 2024 with a prize of £100,000 went to Camels of the Sea, dir. Vikram Singh (India); the event prize of £20,000 went to Reproduction, dir. Chouwa Liang (China).
The award recognises authentic and modern documentary, and makes use of the beneficiant legacy of its namesake, pioneering broadcaster Alan Whicker, to assist rising, worldwide administrators engaged on their first feature-length documentaries.
The judging panel had been: Jane Mote (The Whickers), Raul Niño Zambrano (Sheffield DocFest), David Inexperienced (Editor and Director), Fozia Khan (Head of Unscripted at Amazon Studios UK), Ibrahim Nash’at (filmmaker and winner of Whickers award 2023) and Robin Smith (Blue Ice Docs Inc).
David Inexperienced, Movie Director and TV Producer, Whicker’s World, mentioned:“At each stage of The Whickers judging course of, I assumed the usual was extraordinarily excessive. I imagine it was the best ever. It was an enormous privilege to resolve on a winner amongst winners. Alan Whicker would have been intrigued by this course of and very pleased with the end result. Our successful undertaking is a compelling and heat cinematic movie about our relationship with the animal kingdom that touches on crucial points going through the world we reside in immediately.”
Particular Point out: Highness and Excellency dir. Sajad Imani (Iran).
The judges had been so impressed by Chouwa Liang’s deep dive into the world of A1 boyfriends that they determined to get an AI bot to write down the jury quotation on their behalf:
“On behalf of the Whickers Growth Award Jury, we’re thrilled to announce this 12 months’s recipient. This movie gives a groundbreaking exploration of AI relationships in China by the lives of three girls. It delves into the profound impression of AI companionship, highlighting a major cultural shift and elevating vital questions on the way forward for human relationships within the digital age. The authenticity and depth of the narrative are elevated by the director’s private connection to the topic.”
The Podcast Pitch first prize (£5000) went to Rewriting the Narrative by Christina Hardinge (UK), and the second prize (£2000) went to Degenerate by Matt Durai (Malaysia).
The winners had been chosen for being probably the most artistic and promising pitches, and the prizes had been funded by the Whickers basis.
The judging panel had been: Daniel Clarke (Commissioning Editor Factual, BBC Radio 4), Michelle Martin (Govt Producer, Wondery UK), Lisa Hack (Senior Technical and Affiliate Lecturer Audio, Goldsmiths).
First Prize: Rewriting the Narrative by Christina Hardinge (UK)
The Jury mentioned: “This undertaking might solely be achieved in audio. The manufacturing course of is very authentic and is massively nicely thought by. It has a novel twin operate in that it gives therapeutic advantages for the members in addition to making unbelievable audio.”
Second Prize: Degenerate by Matt Durai (Malaysia)
The Jury mentioned: “This undertaking has large ambition and comes from a extremely distinctive voice with a novel cause to make this collection. It has a worldwide tackle a difficulty that wants extra consideration.”
Particular Point out: Keening: The Music Earlier than The Stranding by Aoife Glass and Sam Gare (UK/Scotland).
The Jury mentioned the undertaking is a “Lovely and poetic method to pure historical past.”
Extra in regards to the pitching tasks might be discovered here.
Channel 4 First Lower Pitch noticed 5 short-listed administrators current and talk about a 3-minute micro-documentary on the themed temporary “The Change”. This was received by Helen Waddell, securing a fee from Channel 4 for his or her first 60-minute movie, and one month of fully-paid growth with an indie to assist the event of their concept.
The judging panel had been: Sacha Mirzoefff (Commissioning Editor, Documentaries and Factual Leisure, Head of Bristol, Channel 4), Rita Daniels (Commissioning Editor & Editor of First Lower Strand, Documentaries and Factual Leisure, Channel 4), Luned Tonderai (Sequence Director), Joseph Bullman (Author/Director).
Rita Daniels, Editor of the Channel 4 First Lower Strand mentioned, “Helen’s movie was uniquely Channel 4. It had coronary heart and humour but in addition a social message within the centre of the movie. I can’t wait to work with Helen on her first 60 minute movie.”
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Co-Manufacturing Award
The inaugural Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Co-production award for Sheffield DocFest MeetMarketsupports one undertaking chosen from the MeetMarket with a prize of 15.000USD awarded by the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel.
This was awarded to Kikuyu Land director/producers Andrew H. Brown and Bea Wangondu, producer Mike Morrisroe, and co-producer Joseph Njenga (USA, 2024).
Ahmed Mahfouz Nouh, MD Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, mentioned “This movie goes past reporting and captivates the essence of being Kenyan. A brave journalist, who ventures into civil proceedings in opposition to the British crown and behind the tea plantation veil, finds out extra than simply societal issues- insecurities engrained in households emerge too beneath the carpet.
It honors the bravery wanted to look backward whilst we seek for new paths. It was a story that needed to be shared, and It’s a narrative that wanted to be advised and shared with the younger technology and it’s our honor to recognise such a daring and impactful work.”
