DOComedy Now

Me and Docs – we are having some trouble; our 20-some years’ romance has halted a bit lately. I fell in love with documentaries around 1994, but … you know how it is… sometimes things just cool off. We’ve been through the usual: “it’s not you, it’s me” (even though we both know it’s not me) and we’ve tried not seeing each other. But you just realize you are in love deep down when you see the other party hobnobbing with all sorts of people and you feel that sting of jealousy … knowing that the others are not good for your loved one. And when you see someone taking advantage of the situation and suggesting all sorts of indecent things, you just want to go punch them in the face (and maybe film it simultaneous). So we went into therapy… and I bought a 188€ accreditation pass for CPH:DOX (with discount from Danish Film Directors, otherwise it would have been 235€ - but hey, therapy is always expensive) so I could go see if I - if WE - can re-find the affection and to expl...

Recently, I got this info on Facebook and by chance I was wearing their T-shirt on the very same day. Coincidence? Anyway, here is what the good people at Guth Gafa International Documentary Film Festival wrote: "A bit of sad news for all our friends and supporters, but hopefully with a positive ending. We have decided not to run our 7th Guth Gafa Festival this year because of funding difficulties. But we are going to be back - in April 2013 - in Derry and Inishowen. The full story is here on our website www.guthgafa.com " I also wrote about my visit to the festival in 2011 on www.filmkommentaren.dk , and I wish them the best.

One of the best places to follow the international documentary scene is the blog www.filmkommentaren.dk , run by the two Danish "nestors", Allan Berg Nielsen and Tue Steen Müller. And oh, I almost forgot: I write there from time to time too.