Dansk Filmklipperselskab // The Society of Danish Film Editors

Invites you to a special screening of the personal documentary A Family Affair openingsfilm at #idfa in 2015.

After the screening we are honoured to have a conversation about the editing process

with director #Tom Fassaert and Editor #Claudio Hughes moderated by #Eva Mulvad

Tom Fassaert debuted with his feature length documentary An Angel in Doel about a small Belgian village threatened with demolition. It premiered at the Berlinale, screened at +50 festivals worldwide and won several international awards. Fassaert's second feature length documentary is A family affair. A film that explores the delicate terrain along the fault lines of his own family. It was the Opening Film of IDFA 2015 where Fassaert also received the prestigious Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds Documentary Award for his works. After winning the Special Jury Award at IDFA, the film started its journey to many international festivals and already received numerous awards. It recently won the Gouden Kalf (Dutch Academy Award) for best long documentary, was nominated for the European Film Award 2016 and is acquired by Netflix to be broadcasted globally.Variety recently named Fassaert ‘One of the Ten Docu-makers to Watch'.

Born in Uruguay, Claudio Hughes has lived in Brazil before settling down in Paris, France in the 90s where he became editor of many documentaries and feature films. In the past years he has been editing and also teaching. His work has been selected in festivals like Cannes, Locarno, Sundance, Toronto and IDFA with two opening films: A Family Affair (2015) and Stranded (2008) that won the Joris Ivens prize and was also selected for the best european documentary in the European Film Academy Awards (Berlin), for the Directors’ Guild of America and the International Documentary Association Awards (Los Angeles).

In 2011 Eva Mulvad (born 1972) won the prestigious, Danish ”Roos Award ” granted for her entire body of work. Mulvad graduated from the Danish Film School in 2001 and by 2006 she had her international break-through with Enemies of Happiness, which focused on the female politician Malalai Joya’s political campaign ahead of the first democratic elections in Afghanistan 2005. The film won the Silver Wolf Award at IDFA and subsequently the World Cinema Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

With her intrinsic flair for drama and with many international awards in the baggage, Eva Mulvad is one of the most prominent Danish film-makers. Most recently Mulvad spent three years working on family-chronicle entitled The Good Life (2010). The film was shown at IDFA and went on to win the award for Best Documentary at Kalovy Vary International Film Festival. Right now she is in competition at CPH- DOX for the NORDIC:DOX AWARD with her latest film A modern Man.

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