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Newsletter 6.2.2007: DocPoint attracts record audience, Virpi Suutari Follows Kristina Schulgin as artistic director, Leth's masterclass well received
The 6th edition of DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, organized in 24-28th of January 2007, attracted a record audience. During the five-day festival, cinema admissions climbed up to 17 000 and admissions in all DocPoint events reached 21 000. DocPoint is the largest documentary film festival in the Nordic countries. Mrs. Virpi Suutari Follows Mrs. Kristina Schulgin as Artistic Director of DocPointMrs. Kristina Schulgin, who has worked as DocPoint’s artistic director since 2004, leaves her position after three years to continue her career as a film director. DocPoint’s new artistic director is Mrs. Virpi Suutari. The unique tradition of having an active documentary film director as an artistic director continues at DocPoint. ”The past three years at DocPoint have been a rich period in my life. Founder of DocPoint Arto Halonen left me an excellent film festival to direct. DocPoint has now reached it’s sixth edition and an interntionally acclaimed status among film festivals around the world. Finnish documentary film culture is unique in a global scale”, Kristina Schulgin says. ”I accept the post of DocPoint’s artistic director with joy and curiosity. What would be more educative for a film maker than viewing thousands of documentaries and programming the next edition of DocPoint festival? I wish to continue the tradition of screening both new and old Finnish and international films alongside classics of documentary cinema. I would especially like to promote new Finnish documentary titles, according to the intentions of the founders of the festival,” Virpi Suutari states. Virpi Suutari (40) is the director, screenwriter and editor of such acclaimed documentary films as Sin (1996), White Sky (1998), Soapdealer’s Sunday (1998) and The Idle Ones (2001), co-directed with Susanna Helke. Retrospectives of the pair’s work have been screened in Linz (2006), Rennes (2005), Arhus (2002) and Tampere (2003). Suutari has been a member of European Film Academy since 2002 and headed the jury of the international competition at Visions du Réel, Nyon in 2002. Successful DocPoint Masterclass by Jørgen Leth and Asger LethDocPoint’s guest of honour, legendary Danish director Jørgen Leth and his son Asger Leth, director of the acclaimed debut documentary Ghosts of Cité Soleil, gave a relaxed joint Masterclass at DocPoint on Sunday the 28th of January. Finnish film students and professionals had a chance to discuss documentary film making and art with two generations of documentary film makers. A lively dialogue was prompted by comparison of extracts from both speakers’ films made in and about Haiti. Joint projects The Five Obstructions and New Scenes from America were analyzed in depth. The speakers themselves found the event inspiring. Contact for more information:Liisa Lehmusto
Press Coordinator DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
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