Dox Box
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Dox Box (
Dox Box Festival was organised by a Syrian production company, Proaction Film, as a non-profit free-admission event to spread awareness and increase interest in documentaries. In its fourth edition, Dox Box 2011, it reached 28,000 admissions according to the festival's website.[1]
In March 2012, The organizers of Dox Box festival decided to refrain from holding its fifth edition in protest against the killing and oppression of civilians in Syria according to a statement released on the official festival site. On 15 and 16 March 2012, a "Dox Box Global Day" screening was launched and exhibited several Syrian documentary movies in 39 cities across the world.is a nonprofit institution for support and training in documentary film-making. Based in Berlin since 2014, with one foot in Europe and the other in the Arab/African region, it proposes carefully designed programs targeting diversity, skills transfer and alternative visual perspectives. The mission is to support distinct and singular voices from the region to ensure that a vibrant, growing and inclusive space for documentary film-making continues to thrive.[2]
Programs and Activities
Residency
The editing residency program is one of the oldest forms of support offered by DOX BOX to filmmakers from the Arab/African region. The residency is directed at films at their rough-cut stage or filmmakers who want to take the time to conceptualize their visual material to produce trailers and/or assembly versions of their films. Residents are offered a financial contribution, access to the editing facilities in Berlin, Germany, and emotional and artistic support throughout the residence period
DOX Garage
DOX Garage (
The program is designed to provide tailor-made advice or practical reflection to support and facilitate the eventual finalization of projects. Recipients are matched with seasoned professionals for a number of consultancy hours, either online or in person.
Powered by Dox Garage is a physical version of this program that relocates worldwide, bringing the ‘tool kit ‘ to film festivals and conventions. It provides on-spot diagnosis and helps identify the appropriate professionals necessary to assist each project individually.
Mouatheqat/Women in DOX
Mouatheqat/Women in DOX (
Community
The community (
Doc Convention
Documentary Convention is an annual international convention of documentary professionals, artists & decision-makers from the Arab world, Africa, Europe and around the globe. Documentary Convention 2020 has been postponed. New dates have not been announced for next edition.
DOC Convention 2018
Modules of the DOC Convention 2018 included Share & Save: The Heritage of Arab Documentary, Ethics of Co-Production, Diversity in Documentary, Distribution in Challenging Times, and Mapping Arab Documentary Landscapes.[4]
DOC Convention 2019
The program of the Documentary Convention 2019 was structured around leading themes. These were: Co-Production & Cross-Border Collaboration, Distribution, Circulation & Sales, Data is Beautiful – Data is Ugly, and Continuous Workshop: Restitution: Archive, Agency and Access.[5]
Festival program 2008-2011
In its 4 editions, 2008–2011, Dox Box showed annually a selection of 40+ international creative-documentary films from around the world, to present the genre to the Syrian audience and at presenting regional documentaries.
Among such screenings included documentary films such as The Beloves by Russian director
Previous festival's guests included
The activities of Dox Box usually split into public screenings and professional/capacity-building and networking activities. Screenings are divided into 5 sections, the Official Selection, where films from around the world compete for the Damascus Audience Award (the very first audience award to be introduced in Syria), and two thematic sidebar selections (in 2009 these were: Voices of Women & Notes on War), then a "Meet The Master" section where four films of a master of the documentary art are shown in the presence of the filmmaker, and finally a selection of four films that took the documentary world by storm most recently. Dox Box screenings are with English and Arabic subtitles and of free admission.
Organizers and sponsors
Dox Box operates in close collaboration with the
Support and grant-making organisations are supporting Dox Box annually, these include The Netherlands'
Suspension in 2012
Before the time for the 4th edition of Dox Box in March 2012, the organizers made a public statement announcing they will hold back the edition, and all further editions, in protest against the violation of human rights in Syria. In 2012 and 2013, Dox Box Global Day for Syria was the festival's international showcase of Syria documentary films, screened in various venues around the world,
References
- ^ Dox Box 2010 Archived January 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Dox Box Network partner". princeclausfund.org. The Netherlands: Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. 2024. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
Dox Box Independent Documentary Film Festival is the main activity of Proaction Film, a small-sized independent film production company established in 2002 . In the absence of both film schools and art house cinemas in Syria, Dox Box was established to provoke a missing connection between film and the audience. Its first edition took place in February 2008.
- ^ "DOX BOX". community.dox-box.org/. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "Documentary Convention • DC 2018". Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "Documentary Convention • Program 2019". Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ EDN: EDN Website
- ^ "Syria's DOX BOX festival goes global amid violence at home".
- ^ "The film festival in exile". The Guardian.