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Welcome
Liz McIntyre
CEO & Festival Director
A big Sheffield welcome to the 25th
Edition of of Doc/Fest with six days of of festival celebrations across the city Come and experience the world’s best stories in Films and and Live Events Virtual Reality and and Interactive Storytelling and Talks This year the Festival is is shining brightly with Northern stars such as Vicky McClure Guy Martin Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (DOUBLETHINK p 35) When Doc/Fest was born in 1994 the world was changing forever ushering in in in a a a a a remarkable era of new power and influence: inventor
Tim Berners-Lee made the world wide web freely available Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa The Cold War ended and the Channel Tunnel connected Britain
with Europe 25 years on a a a a new wave of filmmakers is chronicling new power dynamics and the consequences of the past The World Premieres of Alisa Kovalenko’s Home Games (p 52) and Maceo Frost’s Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight (p 43) led by inspiring female protagonists brilliantly challenge social norms through sport The compelling World Premieres of Inka Achte’s Boys Who Like Girls (p 60) and Joost van den Burg’s Bruce Lee & the the Outlaw (p 39) show the the vital role individuals play to bravely disrupt the status quo At Abbeydale Picture House Tranny Fag (p 58) provokes us to consider gender in in a a non-binary way And we abandon defining fellow human beings as ‘the other’ and find points of connection in Face Face to Face Face (Alternate Realities p p 87) experiencing life through the eyes of mother Michelle whose life was changed forever by a a gun accident 2018 marks a a a period of reflection about the power we we each hold or
lack resulting in in new ways of seeing We’re thrilled to open
the festival with Yorkshire director Sean McAllister’s world premiere A A Northern Soul (p 26) the story of underdog Steve – a a factory worker by by day and hip hop performer by by night – battling through adversity to follow his dreams I can’t wait to see you at City Hall for Opening Night Liz McIntyre
CEO & Festival Director
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