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Fremantle’s Fiction Valley Ties With ‘Dirty Lines’ Creator Pieter Bart Korthuis Fremantle label Fiction Valley has struck a three-year deal with Netflix’s Dirty Lines creator and showrunner Pieter Bart Korthuis.  The agreement will see Fiction Valley, which is run by Annemike van Vliet, develop and produce a slate of…

Leading UK documentary event Sheffield Doc/Fest has named former London and Sydney film festival director Clare Stewart as interim CEO. Stewart will steer the fest through its 2022 edition, which will run June 23-28. In addition, Oscar-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia has been named guest curator for next year, the…

UPDATE, 08/31: UK festival Sheffield Doc/Fest has apologized to a group of programmers who published an open letter complaining to the org that they were unceremoniously released from their contracts after this year’s edition. “We apologize to the signatories for not communicating better.  We very much appreciate…

Cíntia Gil, the director of international doc event Sheffield Doc/Fest, has left her position citing "artistic differences over the present and future direction [of the event]” with the board of trustees. Gil had been at the helm for two years, steering the event through a tricky pandemic period that saw the 2020…

Sheffield Doc/Fest, the key UK documentary event, has revealed its full line-up for this year, including an international competition comprised of 11 features. Those titles are: Charm Circle by Nira Burstein (USA, World Premiere); Rancho by Pedro Speroni (Argentina, World Premiere); Factory to the Workers by Srđan…

UK documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 4-13) will open with the European premiere of Questlove's acclaimed Summer Of Soul, which scooped the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance this year. The doc chronicles the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and will be released by Searchlight Pictures and Hulu…

Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the key events in Europe's factual calendar, has unveiled a line-up for its 2020 edition featuring 115 films from 50 countries, including 31 world premieres. As Deadline previously reported, this year's edition, which runs from June 10, will take place largely in an online capacity due to…

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…