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With such an overwhelming number of films on offer at IDFA, we invited Wouter Jansen to help curate a watch list of films that will be on display. Wouter is the founder of Square Eyes, a sales and distribution company based in Vienna specializing in bold, author driven features and shorts. This year, he will be at IDFA with two titles, ANHEIL 69 by Theo Montoya and EUROPE by Philip Scheffner.  In this episode, we go through each section of the program at IDFA and take turns selecting titles of interest to help navigate our festival experience. 

Films discussed include PARADISE by Alexander Abaturov, NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH by Mania Akbari, and A ROBUST HEART by Martin Benchimol, among many others. For our full Docs in Orbit x Square Eyes x IDFA 2022 watch list, please visit here . 

EPISODE TIMECODES: 
00:00 - Intro / About Square Eyes |  10:30 - Best of Fests  |  16:30 - Paradocs  |  23:25 - International Shorts Competition  |  32:10 - Competition DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction  |  35:35 - IDFA on Stage   |  40:28 - Envision Competition  |  45:35  - International Competition  |  52:30  - Laura Poitras Top 10

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Wouter Jansen is the founder of the sales and festival distribution company Square Eyes. He worked as the head of programming at the Go Short - International Film Festival during the first 10 editions. In 2013 he started Some Shorts, which changed to Square Eyes in 2019, which specializes in having outstanding non-mainstream films find the audience and recognition they deserve. With Square Eyes, Wouter represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and collaborates closely with the filmmakers to devise bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. This has resulted in a small catalogue of films premiering at prestigious festivals and winning multiple awards over the last few years like main prizes at Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand. 

Wouter has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy and is an expert for Locarno Open Doors and First Cut Lab. He has moderated as well as lead workshops at festivals like IDFA, True/False, Winterthur, VIS Vienna Shorts and others. He is a Berlinale Talents alumni.

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In this episode, I am joined with filmmaker and dear friend, Venice Atienza ahead of her traveling to IDFA where we review the program. 

IDFA is one of the largest documentary film events, and their extensive programming is energizing for the international documentary film community but it’s also very overwhelming with over 260 titles and only ten days. 

So before boarding her flight, we went through each section of the program and co-curated a watch list to help guide our festival experience. 

Venice is a filmmaker currently living between Mumbai and Manilla. She is a graduate of the European film school, DocNomads and her first feature film LAST DAYS AT SEA debuted in March 2021 at the Berlinale and is closing out the year in the Best of Fests section at IDFA.

She is also a returning contributor to the podcast and sat with us earlier this year to discuss  LAST DAYS AT SEA, (episode linked here). 

We also have three additional filmmaker interviews featuring works that are included in the Best of Fests section at IDFA. 

• TAMING THE GARDEN with Salomé Jashi
• LOOKING FOR HORSES with Stefan Pavlović
• A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING with Payal Kapadia

And lastly, in this podcast, we reference an essay by Hito Steryel, IN DEFENSE OF THE POOR IMAGE that you can find here. 

Visit our website www.docsinorbit.com/IDFA2021 for a complete list of show notes! 

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Hacemos un breve alto en el camino de las entrevistas en esta tercera temporada para repasar las últimas novedades en ePrivacy, MarTech/AdTech, Zero-Party Data y Customer Centricity, Competencia y mercados digitales y futuro de los medios. A diferencia de lo que hemos venido haciendo en meses anteriores (con actualizaciones semanales), el análisis que sigue es una mirada atrás de varias semanas. Por eso se llama Newsroom de Otoño :)

Aquí puedes encontrar el post completo con todas las noticias comentadas y sus fuentes.

Con Cris Moro y Sergio Maldonado.

Un porcentaje elevadísimo de niños menores de 13 años está usando redes sociales en España y otros países, con consecuencias aún imprevisibles. Se endurece la protección de sus datos en Estados Unidos y se estrechan los controles en la UE y Reino Unido, mientras que Facebook anuncia un “Instagram para niños”, Google Analytics sustituye cookies por estadística avanzada y Android empieza a seguir los pasos de iOS en el control a las aplicaciones móviles. 

Con Cris Moro y Sergio Maldonado

As an answer to the obvious legal challenges of ID-based, cross-media deduplication (currently greater than those faced by third-party cookies), Google Chrome’s Privacy Sandbox, and its related W3C Working Group, provides a framework for advertisers and publishers to leverage a browser-level interest graph while preserving anonymity, through the use of aggregate data and minimum audience thresholds. As key drawbacks, there is little control on the consumer side, and local storage could result in data leaks when coexisting with either shared-identity, third-party cookies, and platform-specific IDs or walled gardens.

We will address these and other issues from a legal perspective (ePrivacy + GDPR, mostly), and your humble host (Sergio Maldonado) will be on his own for this particular mission.

References:

• The State of Cookieless (on Medium)

Acechadas por las autoridades de la competencia, las grandes plataformas siguen avanzando en su misión, buscada intencionadamente o designada por los astros: ser más papistas que el Papa y erigirse en el nuevo regulador de la protección de datos personales.

Apple no iba de farol y el ATT (App Tracking Transparency) ya es una realidad. Además: ni el New York Times dará soporte a Unified ID, ni los defensores de la privacidad piensan que resistirá al primer envite regulatorio. 

Con Cris Moro, Juan Pablo Guerrero y Sergio Maldonado

Jodi Daniels is Founder and CEO of Red Clover Advisors, a privacy consultancy helping companies from startup to Fortune 100 create privacy programs, build customer trust and achieve GDPR, CCPA, and privacy law compliance. Jodi as a Certified Informational Privacy Professional and serves as the outsourced privacy office for companies.

References:

• Red Clover Advisors
• Jodi Daniels on LinkedIn
• International Association of Privacy Professionals
• California Consumer Privacy Act

Las apps más poderosas de China podrían arruinar los planes de Apple para eliminar el perfilado de usuarios en iOS, tal vez con su propia connivencia. Facebook echa el lazo a periodistas y editores con una propuesta agresiva para aglutinar la monetización de newsletters y la publicidad asociada a Instant Articles. California prohíbe los patrones oscuros en gestores de consentimiento.

Con Cris Moro, Juan Pablo Guerrero y Sergio Maldonado.

In this episode, we feature a conversation with the esteemed Director Arami Ullón about her latest film Apenas El Sol (Nothing but the Sun) which was selected as the opening film at IDFA this year. 

NOTHING BUT THE SUN is set in the Paraguayan Chaco region, a semi arid region in Paraguay with very low population density that is being rapidly deforested. It is also the home of the Ayoreo, an indigenous people that have been colonized by missionaries.  

The film’s central protagonist is Mateo Sobode Chiqueno, who traverses the Chaco recording the voices of other Ayoreo who, like him, were born in the vast forest, free and nomadic, without any contact with white civilization, until religious missionaries forced them to abandon their ancestral territory, their means of subsistence, their beliefs, and their home.  Through Mateo, we are invited to listen to the stories, songs, and testimonies of the Ayoreo people as he attempts to preserve fragments of a disappearing culture. 

The entire film is an act of care, in which Ullón offers a dignified and honest representation of the Ayoreo people, not only as victims of the harsh and brutal colonial practices, but as complete men and women, owners of words and acts and ideas of their own, and of unique knowledge that we can all learn from. 

Mariana Cadenas moderates the conversation. 

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