How I love Le FIFA film festival - let me count the ways. Le FIFA not only celebrate art and artists on screen, but in everything you do. Our Le FIFA trophy just arrived by mail. Made by Quebec glass-blowing artist Jérémie St-Onge, it is itself a work of art. We shall treasure ours for Best Essay Prize. Thanks so much to Le FIFA and St-Onge for this beautiful and beloved addition to The Faithful’s own art collection. (pictured here among paintings by Kata Billups)
Read MoreThe Faithful Awarded Best Essay Prize at Le FIFA!
What an honor it was to be named the Winner of the Best Cinematic Essay Prize at Le FIFA 2023! Le FIFA is such a wonderful, inspiring festival that celebrates the arts, and we were so thrilled to be a part of it all. Thank you to the festival’s organizers for making everything possible, and to the film’s audiences for being so attentive, contemplative, and committed to the art of film.
Read MoreThe Faithful is an OFFICIAL SELECTION at Le FIFA, The International Festival of Films on Art
As the festival unveils the program for its 41st edition, we are ecstatic to announce that The Faithful: The King, The Pope, and The Princess is an official selection for Le FIFA, The International Festival of Films on Art!
Read MoreDOCPOINT May Just Be Our Favorite International Documentary Film Festival in the World!
February 6, 2023 in Helsinki, Finland with Director Annie Berman
Our International Premiere of The Faithful: The King, The Pope, The Princess at DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival was something special. Helmed by the brilliant Head of Programming filmmaker Inka Achté, and Executive Director Tape Riihimaki, and team, Docpoint Helsinki presented risk-taking films from around the world, a celebration of truly independent works of nonfiction after three long years without in-person togetherness. Throughout the festival, the chosen films showcased the many different ways to tell important stories and interpret the world through filmmaking, never avoiding difficult subjects or bold experiments. Each year, over one hundred of the best and most talked-about creative documentary films from all over the world are brought to screens in Helsinki, and we were honored to see The Faithful chosen as one of those films this year. Even more honoring was our nomination for the 2023 YLE Award for Best International Documentary Film–many thanks to all who made it possible.
It’s hard to describe the pure joy and delight of finally uniting with our closest collaborators, converging on Helsinki from Portugal, Ireland, England and Spain...to see our film projected in a beautiful theater with a thoughtful, inquisitive, gracious audience. It was a week of films, art, dinners, saunas, dancing, music and immense, gratifying joy.
Thank you Docpoint Helsinki for all of your hard work, generosity, and risk-taking programming. Thank you for bringing us all together. Thank you for introducing us to these brilliant films and filmmakers. And, thank you for showing us the beauty of Finland and its people. We will cherish these memories for a lifetime.
International Premiere announced: Docpoint Helsinki Feb 2, 2023! Nominated for Best Feature!
We couldn’t be happier to announce that The Faithful will make its International Premiere at DocPoint Helsinki in International Competition, nominated for Best Documentary Film of the Year Award!!! The festival, after two years of lockdowns, returns with new Head of Programming Inka Achté who expressed commitment to a vision of “cinema that won’t leave you alone - films that demand you get together with friends afterwards to discuss, ponder and dissect...even to dance...We want to show titles which aren’t easy to define: ones which blur our notions of what documentary cinema can be and break the rules without an ethical or moral bargain.” Director Annie Berman in attendance with sound designer Andrew Kirwan, colorist Paulo Cunha Martins and producers Matt Mankins and Oliver David - none of whom have yet to see the film on the screen with an audience - so this will be a grand celebration.