Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the IDFA Bertha Fund, which was originally created to support documentary filmmaking in developing countries, has seen a series of pivotal changes in both its budget and scope of financing in the last couple of years.
Speaking to Variety, Bertha Fund managing director and IDFA deputy director Isabel Arrate Fernandez commented on the fund’s recent changes: “One of the big changes this year is that we were able to raise the contributions and the number of projects we select in a year. We started the year with the aim to support 25 projects through the Ibf Classic and we ended up supporting 35 because we added an entire Ukrainian leg.”
Isabel Arrate Fernandez
By the Ukrainian leg, Fernandez means the IDFA Bertha Fund Classic – Ukrainian Support special call, funded by the Open Society Foundation. “It came about very quickly as a hands-on reaction to what was going on.
Speaking to Variety, Bertha Fund managing director and IDFA deputy director Isabel Arrate Fernandez commented on the fund’s recent changes: “One of the big changes this year is that we were able to raise the contributions and the number of projects we select in a year. We started the year with the aim to support 25 projects through the Ibf Classic and we ended up supporting 35 because we added an entire Ukrainian leg.”
Isabel Arrate Fernandez
By the Ukrainian leg, Fernandez means the IDFA Bertha Fund Classic – Ukrainian Support special call, funded by the Open Society Foundation. “It came about very quickly as a hands-on reaction to what was going on.
- 11/9/2022
- by Rafa Sales Ross
- Variety Film + TV
81 more titles have been added to the festival programme.
Bella Ciao, a documentary about the anthem that symbolized the Italian partisans’ fight against facism in the Second World War, is one of 81 new titles added to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) programme.
Directed by Giulia Giapponesi, Bella Ciao will have its international premiere at IDFA, having first played at Italy’s Bari International Film Festival in March.
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Adapted from Italian folk tune ‘Mondine’, the song ‘Bella Ciao’ has experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent weeks, partly as a show of...
Bella Ciao, a documentary about the anthem that symbolized the Italian partisans’ fight against facism in the Second World War, is one of 81 new titles added to the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) programme.
Directed by Giulia Giapponesi, Bella Ciao will have its international premiere at IDFA, having first played at Italy’s Bari International Film Festival in March.
Scroll down for the Luminous, Frontlight feature additions
Adapted from Italian folk tune ‘Mondine’, the song ‘Bella Ciao’ has experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent weeks, partly as a show of...
- 10/11/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Featuring vital fables and folklore from South America, the comic book anthology The Lizard Prince and Other South American Tales (the final release in the Cautionary Fables & Fairytales series) is now being crowdfunded by C. Spike Trotman's Iron Circus Comics, and we've been provided with an exclusive excerpt from Shadia Amin's "Madre de Agua" to share with Daily Dead readers!
Here's what Shadia Amin had to say about bringing "Madre de Agua" to life:
“I really enjoyed working on Colombian folklore—it’s scary and the threat of the river taking you is often. Thanks to this anthology I discovered Madre de Agua, and I hope I did justice to her story.”
Below, you can check out chilling preview pages from Shadia Amin's "Madre de Agua" as well as details on the crowdfunding campaign for The Lizard Prince and Other South American Tales. To learn more about how to support this new anthology,...
Here's what Shadia Amin had to say about bringing "Madre de Agua" to life:
“I really enjoyed working on Colombian folklore—it’s scary and the threat of the river taking you is often. Thanks to this anthology I discovered Madre de Agua, and I hope I did justice to her story.”
Below, you can check out chilling preview pages from Shadia Amin's "Madre de Agua" as well as details on the crowdfunding campaign for The Lizard Prince and Other South American Tales. To learn more about how to support this new anthology,...
- 8/26/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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