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Umbilical Cords premieres at Encounters International Documentary Festival, 8 June 2012.
The 16-strong delegation was the biggest at Hot Docs and stood out at the festival.
Most of the projects are in the development phase, but a few are completed and looking for distribution.
Co-production day at Hot Docs 2012 happened on Monday 30 April in The Chapel inside the Rogers Industry Centre.
Perspective
Perspective is a DFA publication that provides insight into the documentary filmmaking process.
Filmmaking, storytelling is intuitive, but filmmakers are sometimes insecure and not prepared to trust that intuition and may often wonder … am I doing the right thing? Perspective lets us watch documentary films and find out from their filmmakers what their processes were as a way to help us through our processes.
Interview with co-directors Miki Redelinghuys and Kyle O'Donoghue
Interview with director Rina Jooste
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