This year's Sheffield DocFest – the leading celebration of documentary film – has announced more of the highlights of this year's programme.
Among the films confirmed so far are The Cove, a story about threatened dolphins already proving a hit with international audiences; Transcendent Man, in which Ray Kurzweil discusses his ideas about the coming Singularity, when an exponential process of intelligent machines making more intelligent machines begins; and the engagingly satirical American: The Bill Hicks Story.
Winnebago Man finds out the truth about a salesman who accidentally became an internet celebrity, and there's the world premiere of October Country, looking at the difficulties faced by an ordinary American family under the shadow of war. Meanwhile, Shadow Play looks at the film of the already iconic Control, the story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis' last days.
As previously announced, the festival will run from November 4 to 8 and will open with Moving To Mars: A Million Miles From Burma. Following two Karen refugee families who have spent twenty years in a camp in Burma and are now faced with the prospect of asylum in Sheffield, Mat Whitecross' affecting film takes a sharp and often humorous look at the culture clash they experience. It's a much more positive look at life from the man who made The Road To Guantanamo.Look out for coverage here at Eye For Film.
