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Sheffield Doc/Fest is the latest film festival to feel the coronavirus disruption, with organizers announcing today that the UK event's industry activity will take place entirely online this year. The program of film screenings talks, panels, artists' events and community engagement activities will all be pushed to…

This year's TV Drama Vision event (January 29-30) at the Goteborg Film Festival, which in 2020 will present 40 new series, has finalised its line-up. The sold-out showcase, which has grown in international prominence in recent years, will host attendees from CAA, Curtis Brown, Gersh, WIIP and the local Salomonsson…

Sheffield Doc/Fest senior programmer Adam Cook has resigned from his role following allegations made on Twitter by his former fiancé. The festival, which investigated the matter this week, said today, “Sheffield Doc/Fest informs that as of yesterday, Adam Cook, our Senior Programmer, handed in his resignation, with…

Sheffield Doc/Fest director Cíntia Gil, who joined the UK doc event this year after a stint running Portugal's Doclisboa, has rounded out her selection team. In total, 60% of the team are women. Adam Cook will lead the film programming team and will be joined by Agnès Wildenstein who is associate programmer. On the…

Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of Europe’s leading documentary festivals, has named Cíntia Gil as its new festival director. Gil will join from Portuguese event DocLisboa, which she has co-run with Davide Oberto who himself will be leaving to focus on work at the Torino Film Festival. Gil will join the UK fest in November so…

Luke Lorentzen's Midnight Family won the grand jury award at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, which held its closing ceremony last night (June 11). The Sundance premiere follows a family trying to make a living by operating a private ambulance in Mexico city. The jury praised the film for providing a “timely warning to…

The BBC has picked up a slew of feature docs including Oscar-nominated Minding The Gap and Sundance titles One Child Nation and Maiden. This comes as the British public broadcaster has revamped its feature doc strand Storyville with films launching on youth-skewing network BBC Three for the first time as it looks to…

Rock documentaries about the likes of Sinead O'Connor, The Happy Mondays and The Towers of London as well as films about boxer Frank Bruno and Murakami Haruki make up the line-up of the Sheffield Doc/Fest's pitch scheme MeetMarket. The event runs in the northern British city from 6-11 June with execs from broadcasters…

EXCLUSIVE: The Quiet One, the feature doc about former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, has had its European premiere pulled by the Sheffield Doc/Fest. The film, which is directed by Oliver Murray, was due to screen at the British documentary festival, held in the northern UK city, on June 7. Wyman, who was the bass…

Sheffield Doc/Fest CEO and Festival Director Elizabeth McIntyre is to step down after three years in charge. McIntyre has run the British festival, which is one of the largest non-fiction festivals in the world, since 2016. She has welcomed names such as Tilda Swinton, Sir David Attenborough, Maxine Peake, Michael…

Feature documentaries from stars including Tilda Swinton and Alan Cumming as well as producers such as Searching For Sugar Man's John Battsek and Shooting Bigfoot's Morgan Matthews are some of the high-profile projects searching for funding at this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest. Major broadcasters including HBO and the…

Working with Weinstein producer Natasha Dack has urged broadcasters to budget for harassment protection in the same way as environmental concerns, while presenter and filmmaker Billie JD Porter said that more men in the UK television business need to be held to account over their actions in a wide-ranging #TimesUp…