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Clip 2 ‘Beyond the Game’

Clip from the documentary Beyond the Game by Jos de Putter.

Clip 2 beyond the game

Clip ‘Beyond the Game’

Clip from the documentary Beyond the Game by Jos de Putter.

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IDFA tickets to Beyond the Game now available

Beyond the Game by filmmaker Jos de Putter is scheduled to have its world premiere at the largest documentary film festival in the world, the International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam, IDFA. IDFA will take place 20 - 30 November 2008 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Tickets are now available to three screenings at the event, read more below.

The premier of the film will take place Friday November 21 in Pathé de Munt at 18:00 CET, it is scheduled to last until 19:30. Standard tickets cost € 8,50, tickets with a Discount card or IDFA-coupon cost € 6,00. A second screening will take place Monday November 24 in Pathé Tuschinski at 12:00 CET lasting till 13:30. A third screening will take place at Thursday November 27 22:00 CET lasting till 23:30 once again in Pathé de Munt. Tickets to all screenings have the same prices.

To order tickets to see the Friday Nov 21 screening click here
To order tickets to see the Monday Nov 24 screening click here
To order tickets to see the Thursday Nov 27 screening click here

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Documentary

For me, the beauty of documentary filmmaking lies in the ability to make real portraits of real people during a period of time that is important to them, that defines them, and that in a way functions as a metaphor for where society is heading.
According to my taste, or preference, these portraits should concentrate on what is essential, which quite often means leaving out all kinds of ‘niceties’, that we encounter so often in documentaries.

For example, I am not interested in so-called ‘beautiful shots’ –they all too often hide the truth in creating a feel-good atmosphere. The same for interviews: basically, I don’t care about people’s opinions in documentaries. What I do care about is how they might reflect about their own lives, in a fragmentary sense rather than in a polished way. (more…)

Interesting reads and videos in e-Sports

There are countless websites dedicated to competitive gaming producing videos and articles focussing among other things on the WarCraft III scene. Here are some of the more interesting news-items, articles and videos produced in the past weeks.

Soul wins 6 million USD - GosuGamers (newspost) (more…)

Grubby wins WCG 2008

Protagonist of ‘Beyond the Game’ Grubby has moments ago (at time of writing) won the 2008 World Cyber Games which took place in Cologne, Germany. In the final match, which took 1 hour and 37 minutes, he faced the Korean Moon. They played three maps of WarCraft III with the winner needing to win two for victory (Moon won 1st, Grubby won 2nd and 3rd). There were many back-and-forths in the finals and Moon used a very risky style, the repeats will be watched for years to come. (more…)