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Day 3: Friday 15 June – Secret screening, the Kogi, Ai Weiwei skype, AA Gill and Nick Fraser
The secret screening tonight at 21.00, Showroom, takes a peak at the lengths celebrities will go to for fame and attention. The festival is very pleased to get a sneak preview of two episodes of Lee Kern’s forthcoming six part Channel 4 / E4 series: Lee Kern’s Celebrity Bedlam, which in the first episode sees him posing as a scientist and convincing some celebs that he can make a clone of them… who they are about to meet. And in episode two Kern convinces celebs that they are about to meet a rare and exotic tribe who’ve been kept in a zoo in Cheshunt.
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Day 2: Thursday 14 June – Nick Fraser on why documentaries matter
Today at 14.00 at the ITV Town Hall Reception Rooms Nick Fraser will talk about his new publication Why Documentaries Matter, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. In the book, Nick Fraser looks at how definitions of documentary have change and the fragility of funding for documentary. Complementary copies of Nick’s book will be available at the session.
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Day 1: Wednesday 13 June – Sixto Rodriguez
The Sheffield Doc/Fest film programme officially opens tonight with the European premiere of Searching for Sugar Man, followed by the Opening Night Party at Queens Social Club from 22.30 to 01.30, where the singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez will perform some of the songs that kept his name alive, when he had apparently disappeared into oblivion. Also attending tonight are the director Malik Bendjelloul, producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire) and executive producer John Battsek (One Day In September).
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Day 1: Wednesday 13 June – Interactive at Sheffield
The world’s most exciting documentary and digital media festival kicks off today with the Crossover Summit curated by Mark Atkin. The summit, which is open to all delegates and takes place at The Chapel today from 10.30, explores cross-platform, immersive development, commissioning and viewing. Speakers from Google, YouTube, TFI New Media Fund, Screen Yorkshire, Campfire, Channel 4, ARTE, the BFI, Sadler’s Wells and the BBC will take part in sessions throughout the day. See http://sheffdocfest.com/view/interactive
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Press release: Doc/Fest Awards 2012
This year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest has a number of awards to honour special achievements amongst the filmmakers of the festival. There are seven Sheffield Doc/Fest award categories and one guest category: the Special Jury Award, the Sheffield Innovation Award, the Sheffield Green Award, the Sheffield Youth Jury Award, the Student Doc Award, and the Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award, along with the Inspiration Award given to an filmmaker who has excelled in the field of documentary. In addition for the first time this year the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc (AWFJ) will present an award for the Best Female-Directed Film. The winners will be announced at the Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards Ceremony on Sunday 17 June 2012.
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Press release: Doc/Fest hosts Article Monoplex event – 14 hours of docs and music
Sheffield Doc/Fest has collaborated with Article Magazine to provide an evening of films and new music on Saturday 16th June. Article Monoplex will create 14 continuous hours of the freshest documentaries and best music around, brought together in a unique river fronted urban space for one unforgettable party.
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Press release: Jeremy Deller to present a master class at Sheffield Doc/Fest plus multi-artist exhibition: A peculiar form of fiction
Sheffield Doc/Fest, S1 Artspace and Site Gallery are delighted to announce that Jeremy Deller, will attend the festival on Sunday 17 June for a live event with Alexis Petridis: In Conversation with Jeremy Deller. His documentary film work also forms part of a new multi-artist exhibition: A Peculiar Form of Fiction.
A Peculiar Form of Fiction draws together works from the 1970s onwards by artists who have used the techniques and tropes of documentary in their work because of its directness, impact and its unstable position in relation to truth. The exhibition, which takes place at the city’s S1 Artspace and Site Gallery, includes key works by Phil Collins, Duncan Campbell, John Smith, Hito Steyerl, and Gillian Wearing and brings together a selection of work by Jeremy Deller headlining with Battle of Orgreave (2001) a re-enactment of the confrontation between striking miners and the police in the coking plant Orgreave, which has particular pertinence to Sheffield’s industrial history.
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Press release: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012 – The place to people watch
The sun has come out and Doc/Fest is coming to town! Back for its 2nd year in June, and 19th year in Sheffield, the festival will once more take over the city’s cinemas, theatres and art galleries, and 4 days of free outdoor screenings at the Howard Street Screen. Sheffield’s doc lovers can immerse themselves in a programme of over 120 films from more than 20 countries, including features, shorts and multi-media, cross platform films, as well as attend on-stage interviews with some big names of TV and films.
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Press release: Turner-prize winning artist Jeremy Deller to present a master class at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield Doc/Fest, S1 Gallery and Site Gallery are delighted to announce that Jeremy Deller, will attend the festival on Sunday 17 June for a live event with Alexis Petridis: In Conversation with Jeremy Deller. His documentary film work also forms part of a new multi-artist exhibition: A Peculiar Form of Fiction.
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Press release: Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012 – This Sporting Life
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012 film programme includes nine films about sports, including the world premiere of Glory Road, which follows three British boxing Olympic hopefuls from Liverpool, including Natasha Jonas who is the first British woman boxer to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics. Other sports docs include stories from the Beijing and Barcelona Olympics plus football, ping pong, skateboarding and boxing in China. Many films will be followed by a question and answer session by the filmmaker.
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