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Visions du Réel 2021: Profiles of 9 Works in Progress
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In its biggest single showcase, Visions du Réel staged a three-hour showcase on Saturday where directors and producers delivered online presentations of nine doc features in post. Some will undoubtedly hit major festivals in the months to come. Following, bare bones profiles of the nine WIP titles:
“About Everything There Is to Know,” dir: Sofía Velázquez (Peru)
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A group of filmmakers arrive in Santiago de Chuco, a remote village perched high in the Peruvian Andes which was the birthplace of Cesar Vallejo, the most revolutionary of Latin American poets. Their casting for a play, inspired by Vallejo characters, provides the doc feature’s storyline. It also allows Velazquez to depict the village inhabitants and a mix of
Iva Plemić Divjak • Producer, Horopter Film Production cineuropa.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cineuropa.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Iva PlemiÄ Divjak ⢠Producer, Horopter Film Production
âIâm afraid we will soon be exclusively preaching to the convertedâ
Serbian producer
Iva PlemiÄ Divjak, of Horopter Film Production, one of the 2021 Emerging Producers, talks about his work and producing documentaries nowadays.
Why do you produce documentaries? Do you understand documentary film as an instrument of social and political change?
Iva PlemiÄ Divjak: The nature and dynamics of documentary filmmaking resonates with me more than any other kind of production work. The small crews chosen on merit as much as on gut feeling; patiently navigating the story together; progressing in a very natural way; having freedom to follow, if the truth (letâs call it that way) you are trying to capture shifts into a different register and takes you into a new direction. Thereâs way less artificial drama and much more flexibility then in making fiction.