After selection, the audience and audience awards were selected. The opening film was Canada’s ‘First Supper’.
The EBS International Documentary Film Festival (EIDF) opened on the 23rd. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the film screenings will be minimized this year as well as last year, and the film festival will be held mainly on TV and online.
EIDF, which celebrates its 18th anniversary this year, will screen 64 works from 29 countries under the slogan ‘Capturing the specialness of everyday life’ from this day to the 29th. Last year, 69 documentaries from 30 countries were introduced.
Although the number of films screened has decreased, the ‘audience jury’ to increase audience participation and ‘EIDF Industry’ for supporting and networking new works will be introduced this year as well.
The opening film was directed by Canadian director Suzanne Crocker. am. Crocker’s family ate food that was only obtained from hunting, gathering and growing in nature for a year after a highway was temporarily closed due to a landslide in Dawson, Yukon, Canada. Food It is a work that closely examines the environmental and social impacts of the food transport system in the modern society.
There are a total of nine EIDF program sections this year. ‘Contemporary Documentary Panorama’, which focuses on animals, family, empathy, and communication, which EIDF has taken as its goal; Memory of space’, etc.
A special exhibition will be held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and the Netherlands. The Netherlands is the host country of the Amsterdam Documentary Film Festival (IDFA), the world’s largest documentary film festival. From the 26th to the 29th at ‘KOTE’, a complex cultural space in Insa-dong Four Dutch documentaries are screened.
The official competition section, ‘Festival Choice’, was divided into a global section and an Asian section. The Grand Prize, Special Jury Award, and Viewer/Audience Award are selected in each of the two categories.
Six works from eight countries entered the global category, and seven films from six countries entered the Asian category.
Due to the difficulty of screening in theaters due to COVID-19, the new audience judging method that was established last year will be introduced this year as well. The audience jury, which has undergone the selection process, will watch the works that have entered the festival’s choice competition and select the works for the viewers and audiences.
The EIDF Industry event is a forum that supports long and short documentaries, and will be held for five days from today to the 27th. This year’s event will revolve around pitching (an opportunity for filmmakers to explain their plans to attract producers’ investment).
This year’s EIDF will be screened through EBS 1TV and ‘D-BOX’, a documentary VOD-only service. The theatrical screening will be held from the 27th to the 29th at Megabox Ilsan Velacita.
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