Maiken Baird’s Untitled Edward Stated Documentary, concerning the Palestinian-American author and activist, was among the many winners on the Business platform of CPH:DOX.
Baird’s movie took the inaugural €10,000 Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Co-Manufacturing award, for a venture within the Discussion board that highlights pressing issues of our occasions.
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Stated, who died in 2003, was a cultural critic who wrote books together with 1978’s Orientalism, which critiqued how the Western world perceives the Orient. The movie shall be advised utilizing his voice and archival footage; and is produced by acclaimed US documentarian Alex Gibney, with Paul Dallas and Sarah Mowaswes.
Accepting the award, Baird mentioned it was welcome as a result of lack of help for the venture within the US. “It’s been a desert in New York, we’ve had no help in any way for a 12 months now doing this,” mentioned Baird. “The help that we’ve had this week has given us hope in humanity.”
A number of winners and presenters on the CPH:Business awards spoke concerning the ongoing battle in Gaza, in help of the Palestinian individuals. “At a time when Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed and the worldwide group has finished little to intervene, it’s extra necessary than ever to grasp how historical past has formed our current actuality,” mentioned Rasmus Steen, head of IMS Documentary Movie and jury member for the Al Jazeera award.
Rami Jarboui’s The Salt of the South received the Unifrance/Titrafilm Doc Award for finest French manufacturing or co-production within the Discussion board, with €5,500 in advantages.
Tunisian filmmaker Jarboui devoted his award to Hamdan Ballal, co-director of Palestinian-Israeli documentary No Different Land, who was overwhelmed by Israeli settlers and arrested by Israeli police this week (since launched). “Now they’re going after the storytellers,” mentioned Jarboui. “So that is additionally for him.”
Battle zones had been distinguished in a number of of the trade winners, together with Home No. 7, winner of the €3,000 Rise and Shine award for finest Discussion board pitch venture with worldwide potetial and no gross sales agent connected. In choosing Rama Abdi’s Syria title, the jury credited “a robust story of resilience, sisterhood, and the pursuit of normalcy in a spot the place even security can turn out to be a jail.”
The Millennium Docs Towards Gravity award for a venture within the Change trade strand went to Ukrainian title Lacking In Motion, a couple of former border guard trying to find her lacking brother, a fight medic who disappeared in Donetsk in 2023.
The CPH:Business programme concludes at this time (Friday, March 28), with the competition winners offered this night.
CPH:DOX Business winners 2025
CPH:Discussion board awards
Sandbox Movies Science Pitch prize – Metropolis (India-US), dirs. Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan; prod. Anirban Dutta
Al Jazeera Documentary Channel Co-Manufacturing award – Untitled Edward Stated Documentary (US) dir. Maiken Baird, prods. Paul Dallas, Alex Gibney, Sarah Mowaswes
Rise and Shine award – Home No. 7 (Syr) dir. Rama Abdi, prod. Hazar Yazji
Unifrance/Titrafilm Doc award – The Salt Of The South (Tun-Fr) dir. Rami Jarboui, prods. Ramzi Laamouri
Millennium Docs Towards Gravity award – Lacking In Motion (Ukr) dirs. Marharyta Melnychuk, Kateryna Holovko; prod. Aliona Kachkan
CPH:Lab awards
Eurimages Outreach award – Turning into Lucien (Fr) dirs. Lucien Pin, Alex Haugmard; prod. Thibault Elie
Eurimages Innovation award – A Sanctuary Of Stuff (Den-It-Hun) dirs. Francesca Tremulo, Eszter Varhidi
Onassis ONX Studio award – The Place Past (Fr-Ger) dirs. Elena Lyubarskaya, David Steiner
Sunny Facet of the Doc award – A Sanctuary Of Stuff (Den-It-Hun) dirs. Francesca Tremulo, Eszter Varhidi
Newimages – Discussion board Des Photographs award – Turning into Lucien (Fr) Lucien Pin, Alex Haugmard; prod. Thibault Elie