Arts & Culture Pitch
Official Selection
Discover the six documentary projects selected for the Arts & Culture Pitch at Sunny Side of the Doc 2022, live in La Rochelle from 20 to 23 June 2022. Project's holders will benefit from coaching and mentoring sessions by industry experts in order to prepare their presentation and convince the decision makers present on the market.
BLOWING UP AMERICA
Produced by: Heimatfilm GmbH + CO KG (Germany)
Directed by: Veit Bastian
Logline: An unlimited budget of millions, an Art House Italian arthouse director, a first time lead actor with a history of psychiatric problems, riots, the Black Panthers, FBI wire taps and a house to explode. What could possibly go wrong? --- Blowing Up America tells the extraordinary true story of director Antonioni and the making of Zabriskie Point.
CELTIC UTOPIA
Produced by: MDEMC (Sweden)
Directed by: Dennis Harvey, Lars Lovén
Logline: A feature music documentary about contemporary Irish identity, told through a new wave of young traditional musicians and archive material.
Logline: A feature music documentary about contemporary Irish identity, told through a new wave of young traditional musicians and archive material.
HUGO IN VENICE
Produced by : Fiumi Film (Switzerland)
Directed by : Stefano Knuchel
Logline : "Hugo in Venice" recounts Hugo Pratt's initiatory journey, starting from the small village of Malamocco, crossing the immensity of the Pacific Ocean, and finally arriving in Switzerland, where his quest becomes esoteric. It is a journey that presents the most spectacular of all human gestures: surpassing oneself.
THE HIDDEN EYE
Produced by: Wanda Films (Spain)
Directed by: Carlota Nelson
Logline: What brings us together as humans? How do we celebrate life, love, beauty, death? With these questions in mind and her camera in hand, Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero continues to travel the world alone at 72 to capture the strikingly different ways in which humans engage in rituals, festivities and celebrations.
Logline: What brings us together as humans? How do we celebrate life, love, beauty, death? With these questions in mind and her camera in hand, Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero continues to travel the world alone at 72 to capture the strikingly different ways in which humans engage in rituals, festivities and celebrations.
MATRIX, INSIDE & OUT
Produced by: Bellota Films (France)
Directed by: Benjamin Clavel
Logline: From the moment of its release, Matrix is a phenomenon of considerable influence, a moment of anthology that turned the history of cinema on its head. Matrix is also the birth certificate of the "bit generation", the kids of the eighties and nineties who are about to be propelled into cyberspace and the new millennium.
CAMERRAMAN
Produced by: Bridge Films (Czech Republic)
Directed by: Jana Hojdová
Logline: An aspiring Czech filmmaker, Jana Hojdova, embarks on a journey into the mind of cinematographer Robert Richardson, a three-time Oscar winner who has shot some of Hollywood’s most iconic films. As the two form a meaningful bond, Jana discovers his hidden scars and struggles, and learns that friendship and success both come at a price.