The Connected Edition of Sunny Side of the Doc and PiXii Festival announced the winners live online during its awards ceremony on June 25, the last day of this year\u2019s digital event.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, we fixed ourselves the objective of continuing the fight for the documentary genre while reinventing Sunny Side of the Doc. We are obviously incredibly delighted and eager to host the festival once again in La Rochelle next June, together with all industry professionals,\u201d said Roman Jeanneau, CEO of Doc Services. \u201cYves used to say, and we all thought the same, that \u2018As much as the documentary genre must be recognized as a public entity, Sunny Side of the Doc is necessary and vital to the documentary genre.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winning titles at Sunny Side of the Doc 2020 include Kozak<\/em> from Ireland\u2019s Dot TV & Films (Best History Pitch); A Perfect Spy<\/em> from France\u2019s Little Big Story (Archives Storytelling Award); The Tiger Mafia<\/em> from Switzerland\u2019s HOOK Film (Best Wildlife Pitch); Roma<\/em> (wt) from Moon Man in Ukraine, Tangerine Tree in the Netherlands and Final Cut For Real in Denmark (Best Social Issues Pitch); The Mayor, Me Mussolini and the Museum<\/em> from Road Televisionin Italy and Ill\u00e9gitime D\u00e9fense in France (Best Arts & Culture Pitch\/ West Lake IDF Award); Behind Lucy<\/em> from Spain\u2019s Somadrome (Best Science Pitch); Ancestral Secret VR<\/em> from Chile\u2019s Galgo Storytelling (Best Digital Experiences Pitch); Pure Unknown<\/em> from Jump Cut in Italy, Sisyfos Film in Sweden and Amka Film Production in Switzerland (East Doc Market Award, DAE Talent Encouragement Award); Long Live My Happy Head<\/em> from Scotland\u2019s Melt the Fly (AIDC Award); E. Is for Escovedo: The Sheila E. Story<\/em> (wt) from Walnut & Rose Pictures in the U.S. (IMZ Award); and System Terror<\/em> from Germany\u2019s Tondowski Films (Dox Box Mentioning Prize).<\/p>\n More than 1,700 accredited industry professionals from 950 companies from more than 60 different countries took part in the Connected Edition of Sunny Side of the Doc. The event\u2019s platform\u2014with the video library\u2014registered near 100,000 viewed pages. The program featured pre-recorded conferences, interactive sessions held live or with a chat interface, an online screening library and networking activities.<\/p>\n Mathieu B\u00e9jot, director of strategy and development at Sunny Side, said: \u201cIt\u2019s an excellent result for our first Connected Edition which has been able to bring together the documentary community from around the world. We would like to give a warm thank you to all industry delegates taking part, for their agility and collective commitment towards this digital adventure. For the very first time, the ratio of French to international accredited industry delegates is equal at 50\/50, which gives us material to think about the global reach an online event can have.\u201d<\/p>\n B\u00e9jot added: \u201cAfter the health crisis and lockdown which we have all faced, this is a strong signal which highlights the crucial need for new documentary productions for television channels and platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n PiXii Festival also went digital, providing exposure to immersive experiences (AR, VR, 360-degree, binaural sound and physical installations) from the Official Selection. Video pitches created especially by project holders to get around the lack of a physical showroom in La Rochelle. For its 4th edition, the international festival of digital cultures featured projects from Israel, Denmark, Singapore, Poland, Australia and Canada.\u00a0These pitch videos will also be available free to watch on the Sunny Side of the Doc website as of July 1.<\/p>\n St\u00e9phane Malagnac, development executive of PiXii, said: \u201cThese pitch presentations are real assets for the creative teams, as they\u2019ll be able to use them for other purposes once the Connected Edition is over.\u201d<\/p>\n The connected.sunnysideofthedoc.com platform is open to accredited delegates until June 30. From July 1, all projects and programs, as well as conference and round tables replays, will be available (for accredited professionals) via sunnysideofthedoc.com until September 30. The Pitch Sessions are available until June 30.<\/p>\n The 32nd edition of Sunny Side of the Doc and the 5th edition of PiXii Festival are slated to take place next year from June 21 to 24, with a focus on documentary co-productions with Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Connected Edition of Sunny Side of the Doc and PiXii Festival announced the winners live online during its awards ceremony on June 25, the last day of this year\u2019s digital event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":14740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1076],"class_list":["post-14739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-sunny-side-of-the-doc","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n