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| Location | London |
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| Established | 2010 |
| Founded by | Michael Stewart |
| Directors | María Palacios Cruz |
| Producers | Lucy Wardley |
| Selector | Oliver Wright |
| Website | opencitylondon |
The Open City Documentary Festival is a London-based documentary film festival run in early September. Its mission is to create an open space to support the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers.[1] The festival offers awards in three categories: Open City Award, given by the Open City jury; Emerging International Filmmaker Award, for first or second-time feature filmmaker; and UK Short Award, for engaging short-forms of a documentary.[2]
The London-based film festival was founded by anthropologist Michael Stewart in 2010.[3] In February 2019, the Open City Documentary Festival launched a development lab for creative documentary makers called Assembly.[4] In September of the same year, Miko Revereza was named the first winner of the initiative.[5] Chilean director Gabriela Pena was awarded in 2020 for her feature Here, The Silence is Heard.[6]
- ^ "Open City Documentary Festival". EUNIC UK. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Open City Documentary Festival". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ UCL (24 August 2020). "Open City Documentary Festival Announces 2020 Programme". UCL Anthropology. Retrieved 11 August 2021.
- ^ Dalton, Ben (4 February 2019). "UK's Open City Documentary Festival launches £10,000 development lab (exclusive)". Screen. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ Grater, Tom (9 September 2019). "Open City crowns inaugural winner of £10,000 development prize". Screen. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ Rosser, Michael (15 September 2020). "Chile's Gabriela Pena triumphs at Open City Documentary Festival". Screen. Retrieved 26 July 2021.