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The upcoming episode of “Pov,” titled “Twice Colonized,” promises to be an insightful exploration of Indigenous rights through the lens of Inuit lawyer and activist Aaju Peter. This episode, airing at 1:00 Am on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, on PBS, dives deep into the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples in today’s world.

Aaju Peter stands as a powerful voice for her community, advocating for their rights and fighting against the injustices they have endured. The episode showcases her journey, highlighting her dedication and resilience in the face of adversity. Through her work, Peter not only seeks justice for her people but also aims to raise awareness about the broader issues of colonization and its ongoing impact.

Viewers can expect a compelling narrative that intertwines personal stories with the larger struggle for Indigenous rights. “Twice Colonized” sheds light on the importance of activism and the role of legal advocacy in creating change.

On Monday, October 14, 2024, Pov returns with Season 37, Episode 9, titled “Twice Colonized,” airing at 10:00 Pm on PBS. This compelling episode highlights the journey of Aaju Peter, an Inuit lawyer and activist dedicated to defending the rights of Indigenous peoples. Aaju’s story is both inspiring and urgent, shedding light on the challenges faced by Indigenous communities in the fight for their rights and recognition.

Throughout the episode, viewers will see Aaju’s tireless work as she navigates the complexities of legal systems and advocates for the rights of her people. Her passion for justice and commitment to her heritage are evident as she speaks out against the injustices faced by Indigenous populations. The film explores the historical context of colonization and its ongoing effects on Indigenous cultures and rights.

This episode is a powerful reminder of the importance of advocacy and the need for continued support for Indigenous rights. “Twice Colonized...

Twice Colonized offers an intimate look at the remarkable Aaju Peter. As the film follows the Greenlandic lawyer over seven years, we see her contend with personal struggles like grieving the loss of her son and exiting an abusive relationship. Throughout it all, she continues advocating fiercely for Indigenous rights.

Director Lin Alluna presents a candid portrait of Peter without sensationalizing the more difficult moments. We experience Peter’s resilience in the face of challenges most could not imagine. She navigates trauma while directing her energy towards causes like establishing an EU forum for Indigenous voices.

Alluna allows us to appreciate both the personal complexity and professional achievements unique to Peter. Her story encompasses the interplay between struggles many can relate to and a global advocacy most cannot fully understand. By handling sensitive topics with empathy and preserving subject consent, Twice Colonized examines one woman’s life in a thoughtful...

Forget about “The Magnificent Seven”: It’s time for The Magnificent Six, competing for the Nordic Council Film Prize this year.

The nominees – consisting of four fiction and two documentary feature films and each representing one of the Nordic countries – were announced by Nordisk Film & TV Fond at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.

Denmark is represented by “The Son and the Moon,” directed by Roja Pakari and Emilie Adelina Monies. Written by Pakari – documenting her own struggle with cancer – and Denniz Göl Bertelsen, it’s produced by Sara Stockmann for Sonntag Pictures.

“Twice Colonized” by Lin Alluna, hailing from Greenland, was written by Aaju Peter and Alluna. Pic is produced by Emile Hertling Péronard for Ánorâk Film, Red Marrow Media and EyeSteelFilm.

“I’m extremely happy about the nomination and the fact that Greenland is now, for only the second time, represented at the Nordic Council Film Prize.

PBS this morning is holding court at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, kicking off a two-day slate of panels and presentations.

As part of its TCA presentation, PBS released its full slate of fall premiere dates for new projects and returning series, some of which may have been previously announced.

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New documentary Twice Colonized follows human rights lawyer Aaju Peter as she looks back at how both she and her homeland were colonized by Europe

As a child, the Inuk human rights lawyer Aaju Peter was sent far away from her native Greenland to live out her adolescence in Denmark, which has a long history of colonizing the island and which formally assumed its ongoing rule over it in 1814. Although Peter’s transfer to Denmark was viewed as a privilege for gifted children, she now sees it as a tragedy; it meant so profoundly losing touch with her culture that she had to re-learn her native language upon returning to Greenland as a young adult.

Peter’s childhood features centrally in the Danish director Lin Alluna’s documentary Twice Colonized, which tells the twinned stories of how Peter was colonized by the European nations that claimed ownership of her homeland,...

The Cinema Eye Honors announced the winners for its documentary films and series competition Friday in Manhattan, with “32 Sounds” taking the honor for outstanding nonfiction feature. Maite Alberdi won outstanding direction for “The Eternal Memory” together with Kaouther Ben Hania for “Four Daughters,” while “Paul T. Goldman” won outstanding nonfiction series.

See all the winners below:

—Outstanding Nonfiction Feature

32 Sounds

Directed by Sam Green

Produced by Josh Penn and Thomas O. Kriegsmann

—Outstanding Direction

Maite Alberdi

The Eternal Memory

Kaouther Ben Hania

Four Daughters

—Outstanding Editing

Michael Harte

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

—Outstanding Production

Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, Raney Aronson Rath, Derl McCrudden and Vasilisa Stepanenko

20 Days in Mariupol

—Outstanding Cinematography

Ants Tammik

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

—Outstanding Original Score

Jd Samson

32 Sounds

—Outstanding Sound Design

Mark Mangini

32 Sounds

—Outstanding Visual Design

Thomas Curtis and Sean Pierce

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

—Outstanding Debut

Kokomo...

The International Documentary Association announced its shortlists of features and shorts in the running for the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, a list as notable for what was left out as for what films made the cut.

A total of 17 feature docs earned a place on the shortlist, including Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, directed by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster, National Geographic’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President, Cannes winner The Mother of All Lies, and the Ukraine-themed film In the Rearview.

Among notable films left off the list: The Errol Morris documentary The Pigeon Tunnel, Kokomo City, Sundance winner The Eternal Memory, Roger Ross Williams’ Stamped From the Beginning from Netflix, and another Netflix title, American Symphony — the Matthew Heineman documentary about musician Jon Batiste. Scroll for the full list of nominated films.

Up to 10 nominees in the feature and short documentary...

Renowned Greenlandic Inuit lawyer-activist Aaju Peter was subject of 2016 documentary ’Angry Inuk’.

Film Movement has picked up US theatrical and home entertainment rights to Lin Alluna’s Cph:dox opening night selection Twice Colonized.

Alluna’s feature directorial debut centres on renowned Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and activist Aaju Peter as she embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonisers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.

As Peter attempts to establish an Indigenous forum at the European Union, she tries to mend her own wounds made worse by the death of her youngest son.

Peter was the subject of the 2016 documentary Angry Inuk,...

The International Documentary Association announced the 17 feature-length and 25 short documentaries included on the shortlists for the 39th IDA Documentary Awards, which will be held during the week of Dec. 11in Los Angeles.

The nominees will be announced on Nov. 21, and IDA members will vote for Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Documentary until Dec. 5.

“The 39th IDA Documentary Awards continues the tradition of celebrating the best of international nonfiction media of the year,” said Ken Ikeda, IDA’s Interim Executive Director. “This year’s Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Documentary shortlists reflect important work from twenty-one countries. We are excited to celebrate the work of our community and present winners this December in Los Angeles.”

The 2023 shortlists and nominees are selected by independent committees of 280 documentary makers, curators, critics and industry experts from 40 countries. IDA received 669 total submissions in all categories from 48 countries.

Best Feature Documentary Shortlist

Against the Tide...

The International Documentary Association (IDA) on Tuesday announced its best feature and short shortlists for the 2023 IDA Documentary Awards.

The ceremony will be held during the week of Dec. 11 in Los Angeles — venue information is set to follow. Starting Nov. 7, IDA members will be able to view each of the shortlisted films on IDA Virtual Cinema, and up to 10 nominees from each category will be selected. The nominees will be announced on Nov. 21.

“The 39th IDA Documentary Awards continues the tradition of celebrating the best of international nonfiction media of the year,” said Ken Ikeda, IDA’s interim executive director. “This year’s best feature documentary and best short documentary shortlists reflect important work from twenty-one countries. We are excited to celebrate the work of our community and present winners this December in Los Angeles.”

280 documentary filmmakers, curators, critics and industry experts from 40 countries selected the shortlists. IDA received 669 total submissions from 48 countries.

The 39th International Documentary Awards have announced their shortlists for the best nonfiction entries of the year, with a ceremony to take place during the week of Dec. 11 in Los Angeles in a venue to be named. The films were selected by independent committees comprised of 280 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 40 countries. IDA received 669 total submissions in all categories from 48 countries.

New York Times Op-Docs dominated the Documentary Short category with seven mentions, including entries from the Netherlands (“Neighbour Abdi”), Mexico (“Victoria”) and Hungary (“Away”) among the shortlisted selections. The Documentary Feature category appeared to favor less-buzzy international titles this season.

What is surprising about the IDA shortlist is how many of the year’s presumed top contenders are not included. Of the 21 nonfiction films that have been nominated by the Critics Choice Documentary Awards or placed on the Doc NYC shortlist of likely awards titles, only...

The International Documentary Association has unveiled their shortlist for their 39th annual award ceremony, celebrating the best in documentary filmmaking.

17 feature-length documentaries — including “Bobi Wine: The People’s President,” “Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project,” and “Anonymous Sister” — were selected for the shortlist, as were 25 short films. The films hail from over 20 countries, including Canada, India, Cambodia, Denmark, Uganda, France, and South Africa.

From the shortlist, up to 10 nominees in both the Best Feature Documentary and Best Short Documentary categories will be selected by IDA members. In addition, awards will be given to additional films in the following categories: Best Curated Series, Best Episodic Series, Best Multi-Part Documentary, Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series, Best Short Form Series, Best Stand-Alone Audio Documentary, Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series, David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award, Best Music Documentary, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Writing, Best Music Score, ABC News VideoSource Award,...

Ten documentary projects from eight countries have been selected as grantees of Project: Hatched, a Chicken & Egg Pictures program designed to support directors as they develop and launch strategic impact campaigns.

Many of the selected projects had prestigious premieres at film festivals, including Sundance and IDFA. But despite the high-profile debuts, the dismal docu marketplace has forced filmmakers to figure out various alternative distribution models. Project: Hatched funding can help filmmakers ensure an impact campaign around a project that in all likelihood took years to make. Even films such as this year’s Project: Hatched grantee title “Pay or Die,” which was acquired by MTV Documentary Films, are in need of funding for an impact campaign.

Each of the 10 selected film will receive $30,000, which will go towards completion funding and impact campaigns. This is the first year that the grant’s criteria were expanded to include international projects. Additionally, this...

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival awarded its best international feature film prize to Danish filmmaker Christian Einshøj’s The Mountains, a portrait of a Scandinavian family struck by a tragedy.

Einshøj also won the best emerging international filmmaker award at the Toronto festival, which handed out its top jury prizes on Saturday. Hot Docs opened its 30th edition with another Danish film, Twice Colonized, Lin Alluna’s feature about Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and protector of her ancestral lands, Aaju Peter, after a world premiere at Sundance.

The Canadian documentary festival also gave its special jury prize for best international feature to director Edward Lovelace’s Name Me Lawand, which follows a young deaf Kurdish boy joyfully learning communication skills at a U.K. school after a treacherous journey from Iraq, only to later face deportation from his new home.

Other winners included the best Canadian feature documentary award...

An unusual credit appears at the beginning of “Twice Colonized,” Lin Alluna’s candid documentary portrait of Greenlandic lawyer and activist Aaju Peter, and it belongs to the film’s subject-star herself. “Lived by Aaju Peter” runs the text, and while that phrasing might initially seem a cute quirk, it proves fitting enough as Alluna’s camera follows her for seven years: In that time, Peter has an awful lot of difficult living to do, as she navigates personal tragedy and domestic abuse while making a name for herself as an outspoken campaigner for the rights of her fellow Inuit and other Indigenous people. “Twice Colonized” doesn’t treat her personal life as a background to her professional one, or vice versa. Rather, the film holds both narratives in balance, each informing the other, and both equally essential to understanding this defiantly singular woman.

As a character study, then, “Twice...

Danish filmmaker Lin Alluna’s “Twice Colonized” will open the 30th anniversary edition of Hot Docs, which unveiled its full slate of 214 films—including 119 features—from 72 countries on Tuesday.

North America’s largest documentary festival, conference, and market continues its commitment to gender parity with 53% female directors in this year’s official selection. Hot Docs runs April 27 to May 7.

International co-production “Twice Colonized,” which premiered at Sundance and opened Cph:dox, follows Inuk lawyer Aaju Peter, a renowned human-rights defender of the Arctic’s Indigenous peoples, as she works to bring colonizers Canada and Denmark to justice. The film was produced by Emile Hertling Péronard of Greenland-based Ánorâk Film and Canadian producers Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Stacey Aglok MacDonald of Red Marrow Media and EyeSteelFilm’s Bob Moore.

“If there is a theme resonating throughout the festival, it’s this idea of making connections in every sense,” Hot Docs artistic director Shane Smith told Variety,...

The folk music documentaries Joan Baez I Am a Noise and Alexandria Bombach’s Indigo Girls documentary It’s Only Life After All are getting international premieres as part of the Hot Docs Festival, which unveiled its 2023 lineup on Tuesday.

Co-directors Miri Navasky, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle’s portrait of Baez, the American folk singing legend and civil rights activist, bowed in Berlin. Bombach’s film about Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, who became folk-rock duo Indigo Girls and eventually environmental activists, premiered at Sundance.

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival’s 30th edition will be filled with a host of films about activists, as the festival is set to open with a screening of Twice Colonized, Danish director Lin Alluna’s film about Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and protector of her ancestral lands, Aaju Peter.

The Danish film, which had a world premiere at Sundance, will also launch the Copenhagen documentary film festival Cph:dox.

In 2015, Danish filmmaker Lin Alluna invited Aaju Peter out for a cup of coffee. Alluna didn’t know Peter but was “immediately captivated” by the Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and activist. “I was honored that she took time to meet with me, and those first hours I spent with Aaju were life-changing,” says Alluna. “She revealed hidden truths about myself and the history of my country that I knew I had to find a way to share.”

So, in 2017, Alluna began filming Peter as she fought to defend the human rights of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and also bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice. The result is “Twice Colonized,” a documentary about Peter’s fight for justice, her efforts to establish an Indigenous forum at the European Union and mend her own personal wounds.

Eight years after that cup of coffee, Alluna’s “Twice Colonized” is opening Copenhagen’s Cph:dox.

What does it mean to confront the colonial sins of the past and truly make reparations for the erasure of cultures? Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized directly explores this question through its subject: Aaju Peter, a lawyer, activist, and grandmother who travels the world to address a growing crisis of opportunity in the Arctic. Without opportunity, traditions cannot continue. Early she takes offense to Seal Hunt activists, asking for an Inuit exemption so hunters can continue to hunt as they’ve done for generations.

The film and Peter confront the question of indigenous rights in a modern economy built on the goal of “sustainability.” Without seal hunts the Canadian arctic and its traditions risk becoming a thing of the past. Not everyone aspires to pack up and move to Toronto or work in the oil fields.

A boundary-breaker who confronts her friends and their views of what it means to...

Greenlandic Inuit activist and lawyer Aaju Peter is the subject of Twice Colonized, a documentary by filmmaker Lin Alluna. Through her work, she forces colonizing forces Denmark and Canada to pay for their crimes, while also inspiring Westerners to grapple with the ways that they are also complicit in imperialist injustices. As she’s preparing for an Indigenous forum at the EU, however, her youngest son suddenly dies, bringing forth an extended period of intense grief and an eventual path toward healing. Editor Mark Bukdahl talks about cutting the film, including his non-cinematic inspirations and how “editing is an exercise in […]

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Greenlandic Inuit activist and lawyer Aaju Peter is the subject of Twice Colonized, a documentary by filmmaker Lin Alluna. Through her work, she forces colonizing forces Denmark and Canada to pay for their crimes, while also inspiring Westerners to grapple with the ways that they are also complicit in imperialist injustices. As she’s preparing for an Indigenous forum at the EU, however, her youngest son suddenly dies, bringing forth an extended period of intense grief and an eventual path toward healing. Editor Mark Bukdahl talks about cutting the film, including his non-cinematic inspirations and how “editing is an exercise in […]

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Twice Colonized, the documentary from filmmaker Lin Alluna, focuses on the life and activism of Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuit who advocates for the human rights of Arctic Indigenous people like herself. As a lawyer, she fights for accountability from Danish and Canadian colonizing forces, all while inspiring Westerners as a whole to confront their own colonial attitudes. As she’s preparing for an Indigenous forum at the European Union, she goes on a journey of personal healing and sudden loss when her youngest son tragically passes away. Dp Iris Ng discusses how she came aboard the project, the third cinematographer […]

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Twice Colonized, the documentary from filmmaker Lin Alluna, focuses on the life and activism of Aaju Peter, a Greenlandic Inuit who advocates for the human rights of Arctic Indigenous people like herself. As a lawyer, she fights for accountability from Danish and Canadian colonizing forces, all while inspiring Westerners as a whole to confront their own colonial attitudes. As she’s preparing for an Indigenous forum at the European Union, she goes on a journey of personal healing and sudden loss when her youngest son tragically passes away. Dp Iris Ng discusses how she came aboard the project, the third cinematographer […]

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Warner Bros. Discovery Appoints Emea Streaming Marketing Boss

Warner Bros. Discovery has appointed a marketing boss for streaming in Emea. Rebecca Rørmark will oversee the marketing of streamers discovery+ and HBO Max and the soon-to-launch HBO Max Discovery combined SVoD, which rolls out in the U.S. and LatAm later this year and Europe next year. The Oslo-based exec will lead the evolution of the streaming brands, growth of the subscriber base and marketing preparations for the launch. She has been with Wbd (formerly Discovery) for nearly a decade, running marketing for Nordic streamer Dplay since 2015 and overseeing that platform’s recent discovery+ rebrand. Past brands she has worked with include Netflix, Fox, National Geographic, Nickelodeon and MTV. “Consumers are craving great content, ease and consolidation and I believe we will deliver what they are looking for with our enhanced product,” said Rørmark.

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“Twice Colonized” by Danish filmmaker Lin Alluna will open Copenhagen documentary film festival Cph:dox, and will play in its competition section, Next:Wave. The festival will open on March 15 at Dr Koncerthuset, Copenhagen’s international concert venue.

The film centers on renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter, who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of indigenous people in Greenland.

Niklas Engstrøm, artistic director of Cph:dox, said: “’Twice Colonized’ is an inspiring and emotionally powerful documentary film. It deals with the personal consequences of colonialism and gives us a much-needed new perspective on the colonial history of Denmark, as well as in the rest of the world.

“The film succeeds in channeling the anger and the message of the Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter without losing the nuances or the complexity of reality.

“’Twice Colonized’ will hopefully be a powerful catalyst for our future discussions about indigenous people in the Arctic...

The feature debut from the Danish director world premiered at Sundance this month

Lin Alluna’s Twice Colonized will open the 20th Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) on March 15.

The feature debut from the Danish director follows the fight by Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter’s for the rights of Indigenous people. It had its world premiere at Sundance earlier this month in the world documentary cinema strand.

Twice Colonized is produced by Greenland’s Ánorâk Film in co-production with Inuit-owned, Nunavut-based Red Marrow Media and Canada’s EyeSteelFilm.

The documentary will open the festival on March 15 and also compete in the main competition Next:wave.

The top Iefta (Intl. Film Talent Assn.) award for docs-in-progress at the Cannes Film Market’s documentary-focused industry sidebar Cannes Docs has gone to “Twice Colonized” by Lin Alluna.

The film was developed by the Circle Women Doc Accelerator, a training program for female-identifying documentary filmmakers.

The win marks a hat-trick for Circle since they started their partnership with Cannes Docs in 2020: previous Iefta Docs-in-Progress Award laureates at the industry event include “Beauty of the Beast” by Anna Nemes, produced by Circle 2018 alumna Ágnes Horváth-Szabó, and “Cent’anni” by Circle 2020 alumna Maja Prelog, produced by Rok Biček.

“Twice Colonized” tells the story of renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her youngest son unexpectedly passes away, Aaju embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.

It is produced by Emile Hertling Péronard...

The Circle Women Doc Accelerator, a training program for female-identifying documentary filmmakers, has selected the four projects that will take part in its showcase as part of the Cannes Docs program of the Cannes Film Market.

“Becoming Ema” by Patricia Drati and produced by Sidsel Lønvig Siersted for Danish outlet Good Company Pictures and Marcel Plazman for Frame Film in Slovakia (Circle 2020) follows a couple who decide to abandon modern city life and start a life deep in the countryside of Mallorca. One year into their dream, the pandemic hits, the man loses his job, and the family is forced to reevaluate their life.

“A Successful Man” (Nem haltam meg) by Asia Dér, produced by Noémi Veronika Szakonyi and Máté Artur Vincze for Match Frame Productions (Hungary), was developed through Circle 2019. When a life loving, successful gallery owner is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 50, he takes it...

The Cineuropa Marketing Prize went to Twice Colonized by Denmark's Lin Alluna, which was presented as part of the Circle Doc Women Accelerator. The industry awards of Dok Leipzig were given out in an online event on Tuesday night. The newly established Cineuropa Marketing Prize for a project from Circle Doc Women Accelerator went to Greenlandic-Danish-Canadian project Twice Colonized, the first feature-length documentary from Danish filmmaker Lin Alluna. The film, co-produced by the Danish, Greenland-based company Ánorâk Film and Canadian companies Eyesteelfilm and Red Marrow Media, follows the renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her son dies by suicide, Aaju embarks on a highly personal journey to bring her colonisers to justice. The Ewa Award for a project from Circle, worth €1,000, went to the project Ever Since I Know Myself from first-time Georgian filmmaker and photographer Maka...

Toronto — Director Hnin Ei Hlaing’s “Midwives,” which tells the story of two midwives who work side-by-side in a makeshift clinic, has won Hot Docs’ First Look program’s first prize and Can$30,000 cash, it was announced following the close of the Hot Docs Forum and Hot Docs Deal Maker events Wednesday afternoon.

“Midwives” was pitched by Hlaing and producers Ulla Lehmann (Germany’s Ama Film) and Mila Aung-Thwin (Canada’s EyeSteelFilm) at the Forum, the festival’s key international cofinancing market event. The Forum celebrated its 20th anniversary this year and saw a total of 21 projects representing 18 countries pitched to more than 300 international broadcasters, streamers, funders, producers and other observers.

“We’re thrilled with our 20th anniversary and in awe of the courage expressed by this exceptional group of filmmakers, as well as the generosity of spirit from our decision-makers,” said Hot Docs Forum producer Dorota Lech. “We cannot...