"Docu Minus 420": Israeli Annual Documentary Film Seminar -  Ein Gedi

In collaboration with the New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and TV
In the Kibbutz of  Ein-Gedi, by the Dead Sea
artistic director : Yoav Shamir 

 Docu Minus 420, 25-27.2 2010

About 100 Forum members participated

Israeli filmmakers conference that hosted key Israeli and International filmmakers
 during three days for encounters, panels and discussions.

 The guests of  honor 2010  Nick Broomfield, one of the most ground breaking
documentary makers of his generation who won among other awards the main
award in Sundance Festival. His film Kurt & Courtney, which also premiered in Israel,
examines the different conspiracy theories related to the suicide of rock star
Kurt Cobain in 1994.

 Another guest of the event was Italian documentary filmmaker Erik Gandini,
who premiered in Israel his new provocative film Videocracy, which deals
with the controversial control of  Italy's president  Silvio Berlusconi of the contents
of commercial television in Italy.

 
Other issues discussed in the panels were turning the internet into a marketing tool
for documentary film, the importance of research work in documentary cinema
and whether social changes can be made using documentary film.

The relationship between directors and musicians writing soundtracks for documentary
films - an artist workshop  was held with leading Israeli musicians: Ofir Leibovitch,
Yishay Adar and Ori Ofir.