All Broadcast articles in 10 June 2016
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Features
Doc/Fest: YouTube offering opportunities for minority voices
Diversity panel discussed emerging opportunities for minorities, defying stereotypes and pushing boundaries.
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Doc/Fest: VR projects highlight migrant crisis
Screen spoke to Sheffield Doc/Fest curator Mark Atkin to discuss the Alternate Realities programme.
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Ken Loach: keeper of the flame
Interviewed in the Wardour Street offices of his company Sixteen Films on a damp June morning, Loach is still clearly delighted at having won his second Palme d’Or last month for I, Daniel Blake.
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Doc/Fest: British Council welcomes Palestinian delegation
The British Council partners with FilmLab: Palestine to send five Palestinian delegates to this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest. “We aim to support new voices and younger talent,” notes Suha Khuffash, Arts Programme Manager, British Council Palestine.
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India In A Day: review
Following in the wake of Life In A Day (2011), Japan In A Day (2012), Christmas In A Day (2013), Italy In A Day (2014) et al, India In A Day emphatically proves there is still mileage in creating a snapshot of a country through videos contributed by its citizens.
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Serena: review
“Pressure is a privilege,” is the mantra that tennis champion Billie Jean King has bequeathed to Serena Williams, and the world’s number one tennis star never felt that pressure as keenly as she did during the 2015 season.
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The Confession: review
History is in the eye of the beholder in The Confession, a detailed, wide-ranging interview with Moazzam Begg, a former British detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
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Bobby Sands: review
This evocative documentary about the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands in 1981 probes some deeply contentious issues which benefit from a cooler 35-year perspective.
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Tempestad: review
Cerebral and emotional, Tempestad is a road movie fuelled by the memories of unjust punishment.
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D.A. Pennebaker: David Bowie & Bob Dylan collaborations
Veteran documentarian D.A Pennebaker (Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back) delivered a masterclass at Sheffield Doc/Fest on Sunday (June 12) in which he discussed his lengthy career in the business.
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Aardman & BBC talk VR collaboration
Placing the viewer in a boat of migrants travelling from Turkey to Greece, the virtual reality experience marks a first for both the BBC and Aardman.
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Louis Theroux reveals Scientology 'old school tactics'
The documentarian talked about the fallout from My Scientology Movie, which examines the controversial religion.
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Comment
Why the documentary musical?
Century Films managing director Brian Hill on the reasons he returns to song-based films.
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News
ITN reveals short film finalists
ITN Source has revealed the three short films which have made it through to the final of its second annual competition, held in association with Doc/Fest and Audio Network.
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Virtual reality comes alive in BBC trials
The BBC’s research and development department has unveiled a raft of virtual reality experiences including an Aardman project offering a first-hand glimpse of a refugee’s journey and a spacewalk aboard the International Space Station.
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AOL staffs up for video push
AOL UK has hired a head of video to oversee an expanded in-house team that creates content for sites including The Huffington Post and TechCrunch.
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Martin Davidson to leave the BBC
Long-standing BBC head of specialist factual commissioning Martin Davidson is leaving to set up a new venture “beyond television”.
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Execs back diversity quotas for tax incentives
Oona King and Kate Harwood have backed recent calls for diversity quotas to be attached to the UK film and TV tax relief.