DocsBarcelona 2021 Awards

DOCSBARCELONA 2021 Awards

DocsBarcelona Award for Best Film : Gunda, directed by Victor Kossakovsky. New Talent Award: Inside the Red Brick Wall, directed by Hong Kong Documentary Filmakers. Latitud Award: El secreto del Doctor Grinberg, directed by Ida Cuéllar. Amnistia Internacional Catalunya Award: Room Without a View, directed by Roser Corella. Audience Award: The Return: Life after ISIS, directed by Alba Sotorra. DOC-U Award: La ermitaña, directed by Anna Hanslik. Docs&Teens Award: El niño de fuego, directed by Ignacio Acconcia. Young Jury Reteena Award: The Return, Life After ISIS, directed by Alba Sotorra. Docs del Mes Award: Honeyland, directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.

Industry Awards

Public Pitch Award: Unbound, directed by John English and Tom Garner. Speed Meetings Award: Touche, directed by Martina Moor. Doc Series Award: Queen of Chess, directed by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter. Rough Cut Pitch Award: Age, directed by Gustav Ågerstrand, Åsa Ekman, Oscar Hedin y Anders Teigen. Public Pitch Award: Ole mi coño – The Riposte to Digital Violence, directed by Patricia Franquesa. DAE Award: Pepi Fandango, directed by Lucija Stojevic. FipaDoc Award: The Click Trap, directed by Peter Porta. East Doc Platform Award: Unbound, directed by John English y Tom Garner. DokFest Munich – Doc Around Europe Award: Ole mi coño – The Riposte to Digital Violence, directed by Patricia Franquesa. San Sebastian Lau Haizetara co-production forum: The Click Trap, directed by Peter Porta.

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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