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Alex Gibney-Produced Documentary About Palestinian-American Scholar Edward Said Among Winners at CPH:DOX Industry Awards
At the CPH:DOX industry awards, “Untitled Edward Said Documentary” won the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Co-Production Award.
On their motivation for choosing “Becoming Lucien,” the jury, including Screen Ireland’s Emma Scott, In-Doc programmer Gugi Gumilang and Northern Souls producer Marie Schmidt Olesen, said: “The project offers an exploration of gender identity through an intimate virtual reality experience that transforms personal narrative into a powerful tool for empathy and understanding. Bente Roalsvig of the Fritt Ord Foundation in Oslo, which had invested in 13 CPH:DOX competition titles, including the Norwegian opener “Facing War” and Georgian Human:Rights contender “9-Month Contract,” was impressed by the ability of documentarians to capture the zeitgeist, ahead of time. The latter stressed the good mix of politicians, policy-makers and thinkers, such as Matthias Pfeffer, head of the Council for European Public Space, whose thought-provoking talk about the “absolutely unacceptable concentration of power” among tech giants was one of the highpoints of the annual event.
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