I’m tickled to report that I will be heading off to England in a couple of weeks for the Sheffield Doc/Fest from November 5 - 9. Sheffield is heading into its 15th year, helmed by Heather Croall (since 2006), who came to the fest from the Australia International Documentary Conference. She has a wonderful ebullient energy and I’m so excited to have the chance to see what she and her team are doing. The festival opens with John Dower’s Thiller in Manilla, “For the first time Joe Frazier and his corner, including his trainer and his son, recount their version of his 1975 fight with Muhammad Ali – now considered to be the greatest boxing match in history.” There will be 140 shorts and features:

This year the strands will be Regime Change, Green Docs, Bent Docs, The Return of the Anti-Doc, Sports Docs and Music Docs, with the addition of two new strands, Arts Docs and Kinky Docs: a celebration of sex and its representation in documentary.

Let me know if you will be attending so we can be sure to meet up. If not, I’ll let you know how it goes!