Open City Documentary Festival Returns!
Many people think documentaries are easy to make. Sure, you find yourself a great topic, open up a camera, and then shoot something of vague interest. That’s great if you want a terrible and boring documentary. Most directors of true life films and bringing these stories to the big screen offer up a spectacular and enthralling angle that evolves these tales into glorious movies.
Now celebrating its sixth year, Open City Documentary returns this summer to celebrate the best in filmmaking talent from across the globe! Uniting cinemas such as Picturehouse Central, the ICA, Regent Street cinema, and Deptford Cinema, this week long festival will screen 35 feature films, 3 programmes of short films,
Oliver Wright, Open City Documentary Festival (OCDF) Programme says: “This year, we are pleased to present two focuses featuring international documentantarians: the US-based Ross brothers and the French experimental ethnographer Vincent Moon. We will show the Ross brothers’ ‘Americana Trilogy’ consisting of ‘45365’, Tchoupitoulas’ and ‘Western’. The Ross brothers are amongst the most exciting non-fiction filmmakers working today and whose work is rarely screened in the UK. Vincent Moon will be attending the festival to present a selection of his hugely diverse body of work which 
moves across film, audio and performance.”
Michael Stewart, Founding Director of Open City Docs adds: “I am hugely proud to be leading the extraordinary team that is bringing the sixth edition of London's only international documentary film festival to audiences in London and beyond. Our goal remains the same as when we set out in 2011: to bring the best in global cinematic documentary to London in a festive and truly open celebration of the work. Today documentary cinema is booming as never before - with more and more young filmmakers concerned to make art and not just reportage - and at Open City Documentary Festival we continue to support these new and emerging talents in non-fiction filmmaking. Since we set out on this journey we have set up Open City Docs School, the courses of which promote the art-form as a discipline. The quality of the work produced by the students on our MA course - led this year by Richard Alwyn, Vikram Jayanti, Sandhya Suri and Penny Woolcock - is testament to the skill of the next generation of filmmakers."
We’re very excited to see the excellent festival come back, how about you?
Open City Documentary Festival begins 21 - 26 June 2016
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