Festival Scope opens up to documentaries
by Cineuropa
The platform for film professionals Festival Scope, which provides the programmes of selected festivals around the world for online viewing on demand, has added documentaries to its 2011 billing, through partnerships with four European documentary showcases: the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece), Cinéma du Réel (Paris, France), FID Marseille (France) and CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark).
According to Festival Scope CEO Alessandro Raja, “the boundaries between fiction and documentary are increasingly blurred. As film professionals show more interest in documentary productions, Festival Scope can be of help in developing new distribution opportunities across these borders”.
Some of the international and Greek documentaries recently shown in Thessaloniki will be available online in the upcoming days for film professionals around the world.
The same goes for a selection from the national and international first film competitions of Cinéma du Réel, currently underway. Titles include The Last Buffalo Hunt (USA) by Lee Anne Schmitt, João Trabulo’a No Company and Slow Action (UK) by Ben Rivers.
FID Marseille (July 6-11) and Scandinavia’s biggest documentary festival, CPH: DOX (November 3-13), will reveal their selected Festival Scope titles as their programmes are announced.
Funded in 2010, Festival Scope currently works with over 35 festivals, including the Berlinale (Panorama and Forum), Rotterdam, Göteborg, Clermont Ferrand, Valdivis, Cartagena and Melbourne.
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