IDFA congratulates, bids farewell to senior programmer Raul Niño Zambrano
 |
| Zambrano |
According to the IDFA press
release on Zambrano’s IDFA exit: ‘After more than 13 years as an integral
member of the IDFA Program team, our beloved Raul Niño Zambrano is moving on to
his next adventure.
‘From the end of January (2022) he
will be Head of Film Programmes at Sheffield DocFest, and we wish him all the
best in the lead-up to the festival’s 2022 edition and beyond.
See also
A festival to make you fulfilled
IDFA signs the 5050x2020 pledge
IDFA bids farewell to 20-year senior programmer te Pas
Ally Derks announces her departure from IDFA in 2017
‘In his tenure at IDFA, Raul
helped launch the careers of countless filmmakers and brought renewed attention
to the documentary masters of our time, many of them lesser known within the
Netherlands. With his profound expertise on Latin American cinema and LGBTQIA+
documentary films, his keen eye for emerging documentary talent and his
remarkable ability to make lasting personal connections with filmmakers,
professionals and audiences, Raul played a core role in IDFA and the
international documentary community surrounding it.
‘Since coming to IDFA in 2008
after completing his studies in Media and Culture, Raul has contributed to an
impressive range of landmark film programs at the festival. In 2011, he curated
the focus program Cinema do Brasil, a sweeping presentation of contemporary
Brazilian documentary cinema in tandem with a retrospective on auteur Eduardo
Coutinho.
‘In 2013, he created Queer Day,
an extensive program of screenings, panel discussions and performances that
showcases queer documentary stories from around the world which has since
become a mainstay of IDFA. In 2013, after a research trip to Malaysia, Cambodia
and Myanmar, he led the Emerging Voices from Southeast Asia program, and in
2014, he conducted a large-scale study on the position of women within the
documentary world as part of the program The Female Gaze. From 2015 to 2020, he
also oversaw the IDFA Competition for First Appearance, giving an important platform
to dozens of emerging filmmakers as they premiered their first feature.
‘Finally, Raul has also been a
friend to many IDFA colleagues over the years thanks to his warmth, compassion
and infectious sense of humor which will be dearly missed. We are confident he
will do great things at Sheffield DocFest, and we congratulate him on this
exciting new step in his career.’
Comments
Post a Comment