Sheffield Events
In 2010 Sheffield Doc/Fest will continue presenting selected docs each month at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, plus discussions with filmmakers, special offers and more!
Keep an eye on this page for more information on films and screening dates
Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX.
Box Office: 0114 275 7727
JUNE
Thursday 10 June – 8.30pm
Videocracy
+ Director Skype interview
Dir: Erik Gandini / 2009 / Sweden
Sheffield Special Jury Prize Winner 2009
Erik Gandini exploits his position as insider and ex-pat to make incisions into the new consciousness of Italy under Berlusconi, pointing a lens at three stories that centre on the country's obsession with fame, a sardonic new sexuality and greed. This is Italy through a lens darkly.
Saturday 12 June – 8pm
American: The Bill Hicks Story
+ Directors Q&A
Directors: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas / 2009 / USA
Bill Hicks was one of the most groundbreaking comics of his generation before he was struck down with cancer at 32. Hick's comedy partners, and immediate family, entertainingly take us through his life in this homage to a legend.
“The definitive record of one of America's most iconic modern heroes - a fearless voice as relevant today as ever.” - The British Films Catalogue
MAY
From 30 April
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
Dir. Frederick Wiseman / 2009 / USA
The great documentary director Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to the Paris Opera Ballet, one of the world’s greatest ballet companies. The result is an impressively fluid and insightful glimpse inside one of France’s foremost cultural institutions.
From 9 April
Food, Inc.
Dir. Robert Kenner / 2009 / USA
In 'Food, Inc.' filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the consumer. A shocking exposé of what we eat.
MARCH
Friday 26 March - 8.10pm
Mugabe & the White African
Dir. Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson / 2009 / UK
+ Q&A with the director and Doc/Fest’s Film Programmer Hussain Currimbhoy
Award-winning documentary about white farmer Mike Campbell taking the unprecedented step of challenging President Robert Mugabe to defend his farm - home to 500 black workers and their families.
"Nerve-shattering, tremendously moving cinema. This is one of those documentaries that stays with you for years. The injustice infuriates and the story, simply and deftly told, breaks your heart.”
Empire Magazine
Monday 29 & Tuesday 30 March – 18:20
Criminals
Dir. Joseph Strick / 1996 / USA
This a fierce documentary about crime in America featuring the action of decoy squads police videotapes of crimes in progress, unimaginable confessions and some heroic resistance.
'Criminals' will be screened together with short film made in 1971