DOComedy Now

… because this year I wasn’t invited.  I really should stop bashing their opening venue, and if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all… and all that... you know… (I hear the ceremony was tasteful, though). I did go to the after-party upon receiving a mail in the afternoon from the organizers about some wrongly announced times, so at that point I knew when NOT to go for drinks at the French embassy and the awards show at Hotel d’Angleterre. But why do I care? I care because I want CPH:DOX to also be my festival. I care about the genre which I work with practically everyday year round and I want the festival to be something that I look forward to, even though I don’t have a film shown or a project being pitched. Yes, I do already look forward to it and I do watch a great deal of films (and review a couple at www.filmkommentaren.dk ), but I kind of miss that the festival embraces the local professional community a bit more. Not because we are professiona...

... because it was once again held at DR Koncerthuset which is quite unsuited for film screenings for a large part of the audience. The sound was horrendous and cut into the small fragile bones of my ears and other body parts; at least heard from my section of the concert hall. Main characer of "1989", Németh Miklós. A good guy (much better than the host). And even though the discussion afterwards was on an interesting topic (that of the film), there was not one word (maybe one) about the film itself. The curse of documentary filmmaking: The subject matter often overshadows the film as art form (hence point 2 here ). But maybe a documentary film festival should not be doing that on their opening night? Well, what the hell, they have a lot to think about and a lot of ideas to consider, so schwam darüber . And since I am still trying to get a ticket for the international guest's dinner party in Tivoli on Wednesday, I better shut up. See you at the festival ...