DAFilms Portal Celebrates 10 Years
… and you will, as one of the presents from this excellent ”online documentary cinema” vod, be able to watch 5 films for free, three of them by directors Peter Liechti, Viktor Kossakovsky and Sergei Loznitsa… until January 31. More generous offers like this will follow, it is announced on the site.
Also it is interesting to read a short interview with the manager of the vod, Nina Numankadić, here is a quote:
“Today, online distribution is a common thing, but in the beginnings, we were trying to set the rules and see how festival echoes would work, for instance. We were wondering whether presenting films online could endanger the festival or not, whether festival visitors would come anyway or stay athome with their computers, or how the viewers would react if the film was released online before it was released in regular theatrical distribution. However, in the course of time, even those filmmakers who first refused to put their films online, such as Russian director Victor Kossakovsky and Czech director Jana Ševčíková, dispelled their fears and their films are available on our portal today. What was important for us from the very beginning was the quality of the selected films; we were never after quantity…”
Clever words – and test it yourself, browse the list of directors whose works are available: Peter Kerekes, Helena Trestikova, Miroslav Janek… to mention some of the Central European auteurs, but also Kossakovsky, Jørgen Leth, Loznitsa…
Congratulations!
