News & Press
RIP: A Remix Manifesto Screening at hmvcurzon
March 3rd, 2010
RIP: A Remix Manifesto will be screening as part of the Doc Days strand at the Curzon Cinema’s newly opened hmvcurzon on March 28th 2010. For further information and to book tickets visit the Curzon website here.
Dr. Nakamats at True/False Film Festival
February 25th, 2010
MercuryMedia’s newly acquired The Invention of Dr. NakaMats will be screening at this years prestigious True/False Film Festival in the city of Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. The Invention of Dr. NakaMats follow’s Dr. NakaMats, an 80-year-old inventor and Japanese celebrity who is responsible for 3,357 inventions, including the floppy disk. More>
Mercury Reputation Rising with Global Sales Success
February 23rd, 2010
London based film distributor MercuryMedia International is pleased to announce its latest international sales to broadcasters across all five continents. More>
Soviet Story Director to Feature on Fox News
Janurary 12th, 2010
Writer and director of The Soviet Story Edvins Snore, will be featured on a special edition of the Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck Show on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 5:00 PM EST. More>
2010 Festival Activity for Antoine
Janurary 11th, 2010
Mercury title Antoine is pleased to annouce presence across the 2010 festival circuit. The film is in official selection at the Istanbul International Film Festival, held on the April 14th - 15th and also at the Planete Doc Festival in Warsaw, Poland held on May 07 - 16 2010 More>
Mercury CEO Tim Sparke Discusses Top Docs of Decade
December 22th, 2009
“The English Surgeon demonstrated how a skilled storyteller could craft an emotionally compelling narrative. It demonstrated the power of an individual who made it his business to give life to the dying. I wept when I watched it.” More>
Welcome to Hebron
December 16th, 2009
Congratulations to the team behind Mercury title Welcome to Herbron. The film has scooped another award, with the addition of the Première Œuvre documentaire award at International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and News Film in Marseille, the festival took place between the 9 -14th of December.
Mercury Titles on IDFA’s Docs for Sale Platform
December 10th, 2009
MercuryMedia has finished the 2009 festival circuit with a successful IDFA. We hope you had an enjoyable and successful market as well. More>
MercuryMedia and joiningthedocs.tv Annouce Partnership with Artefact DVD label
December 1st, 2009
MercuryMedia and sister VOD channel joiningthedocs.tv are pleased to announce an official partnership with the Artefact DVD label effective of January 1st 2010. More>
Mercury on the Rise in Europe
December 1st, 2009
UK-based factual distributor MercuryMedia has completed a raft of international sales, licensing single documentaries into Ireland, Poland, Israel, Denmark and Italy. More>
Sea Point Days at The London African Film Festival
November 27, 2009
Mercury title Sea Point Days will be showing as part of The London African Film Festival. A screening of the film will take place at The Lexi Cinemain London at 4pm on Sunday November the 20th.More>
Simon Shaps to join MercuryMedia as Chairman
November 26, 2009
MercuryMedia announces today that Simon Shaps, is joining Mercury as Chairman.
The former ITV Director of Television takes the helm at Mercury effective January 2010 as the fourth member of the board which includes, Nick Ware; Editorial Director, Tim Sparke; CEO and a former partner at McKinsey & Co.
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Welcome to Hebron Wins Eyes Open Award
November 23, 2009
More success on the festival circuit for MercuryMedia title Welcome to Hebron. The film has scooped the Open Eyes Award at the Med Film Festival 2009, the festival took place in Rome from 7th to 15th of November. The film was praised as being “A beautiful example of daily struggle in a forgotten place of Palestine”. Congratulations go out to the team at Ekadalen Produktions.
UK Press for Antoine
November 18, 2009
Novemeber 12 - 18 2009 Time Out Magazine Londonhas cited MercuryMedia title Antoine as one of the ’strongest films at Sheffield’. Congratulations go out to Antoine producer Laura Bari and her team for this well deserved recognition. More>
Docs for Sale:IDFA 2009
November 14, 2009
MercuryMedia will also showcasing several titles across Docs for Sale segment at IDFA 2009.
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Transcendent Man at IDFA 2009
November 13, 2009
MercuryMedia is proud to be screening ‘Transcendent Man’ ‐ the story of Ray Kurzweil, a famous inventor , futurologist and described by Bill Gates as ‘’the best person I know at predicting the future”, in competition at this years IDFA.More>
Nominations for RIP: A Remix Manifesto
November 13, 2009
Announcements of the Cinema Eye Award nominations, in which Rip: A Remix Manifesto was nominated for Best Graphic Design and Animation! Congrats to Brett Gaylor and the cast of thousands of open source cinema enthusiasts who contributed to animate the wacky world of copyright infringement. More>
The Grierson Awards 2009
November 5, 2009
November 2nd hosted the annual Grierson Awards,a celebratation of innovative and exciting new documentary films, set up by renowned documentary filmmaker John Grierson. The awards were first set-up in 1972 and have run annually.More>
The People’s President
November 4, 2009
It has been almost a year since Barack Obama was elected president. Last night HBO Films aired the documentary By the People: the Election of Barak Obama across the U.S. The documentary, from Edward Norton’s production company has been following Obama since his 2004 DNC speech, and has received an unprecedented response in celebration of Obama’s first year in office. More>
RIP: A Remix Manifesto Screenings
November 4th, 2009
MercuryMedia title RIP: A Remix Manifesto will be hosting its avant London screening on November 10th at The Frontline Club. Following the screening there will be a Q & A with producer Brett Gaylor. For more details and to reserve a place visit the Frontline Clubs website More>
Sheffield Doc/fest 2009
November 2nd, 2009
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009is fast approching.We look forward to seeing you at the screenings of the following Mercury titles at both Doc/Festand Videotheque. More>
Welcome to Hebron Wins at Cinefest Awards 2009
October 22, 2009
Mercury Media is pleased to announce further success for Welcome To Hebron, with the recent winning of Women in Focus Special Prize at The Cinefest 2009 Awards. This is the latest addition to the film’s portfolio of awards.
Additional Wins For Bilal
October 20, 2009
More success follows Mercury title Bilal with recent wins across the festival circuit that include the Best Documentary Feature at the Festival Cinematográfico Internacional El ojo cojo Palmarés 2009, The Audience Choice Award at 12th Auburn International Film Festival For Children and Young Adults and the prestigious Community Cinema Award at Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. More>
More Success For Antoine
October 19, 2009
It is with great pleasure that we announce further successes of Mercury Media title Antoine.
The Multi-award winning film’s avant-premiere took place on September 28th in Antoine’s very own school. Following this success the film opened in cinema’s across Montreal on October 2nd. With the help from The Montreal School Commission there are plans to promote the film widely to teachers with the hope of including Antoine in their syllabuses. More>
Mercury Appoints New Team
October 14, 2009
Mercury Media and Joiningthedocs welcomes two new members of staff.
Alice Broughton has joined as a Marketing Executive and will be assisting in development and execution of marketing and communication activity. Alice joins us from both an agency and in-house marketing background having worked across a client base which included; Tate Modern, Paramount Pictures and MTV. Graduating from University of Leeds in 2007 with a degree in History of Art, Alice has also completed Post Graduate courses in marketing.More>
MercuryMedia licences ‘Dominick Dunne: After The Party’ to More 4
September 10, 2009
Following the recent passing of Dominick Dunne, MercuryMedia today announces the sale of the film of his life ‘Dominick Dunne: After The Party’ to UK Digital Network More 4. The film, which was made in 2008, had its UK debut at Sheffield International Documentary Festival last year and was also an audience favourite at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Hamptons International Film Festival. It is currently in competition for the 2009 Grierson awards. More>
Sea Point Days continues festival success
June 2, 2009
SEA POINT DAYS, a feature-length documentary film directed by local Emmy-award winning filmmaker Francois Verster has been selected for the Sterling World Feature Competition at the prestigious SilverDocs Film Festival. The festival is hosted by the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel in Washington DC later this month. The film has also been nominated for the festival’s coveted Cinematic Vision Award, and festival programmers have described the film as being “amongst the very best the documentary form has to offer”. More>
Bilal profiled on IDFA website
May 29, 2009
Bilal, the story of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy growing up with completely blind parents, was screened at IDFA 2008. This year the documentary travels around the world, receiving awards at film festivals from Qatar to Mexico. Bilal will even be screened at the prestigious Museum of Modern Arts (MoMA) in New York. Director Sourav Sarangi reflects on the production of Bilal, from a project supported by IDFA’s Jan Vrijman Fund to an award-winning documentary. More>
Emmy win for Women of Tibet: a Quiet Revolution
May 22, 2009
Women of Tibet: a Quiet Revolutionhas won a 2009 Emmy award for Oustanding Achievement Historic/Cultural - Program Special. More>
Rave reviews for Icons Among Us
May 15, 2009
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the present tense has been getting rave reviews from a wide spectrum of the press. Here is just a sample of what’s being said. More>
Mercury sells docs to France, Israel
May 12, 2009
UK-based documentary distributor MercuryMedia has finalised its first batch of post MipTV deals, selling titles into France, Spain and Israel. More>
Bilal wins Al Jazeera gong
May 1, 2009
Bilal, the Indian film directed by Sourav Sarang won the top Al Jazeera Golden Award in the fifth Al Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival. More>
Plugging the gap in documentary funding
29 April 2009
Charlie Phillips in Broadcastnow
There is an issue over decreasing funding for new UK documentaries from traditional avenues, especially broadcasters. But that just means documentary-makers have to look beyond the limited UK opportunities and seek support from beyond the UK and beyond TV, writes Charlie Phillips. More>
Mercury to take doc site into France, Germany
April 1, 2009
MIPDOC NEWS: MercuryMedia-backed video portal Joining The Docs is here in Cannes looking for funding and content to launch French and German versions of its docs-on-demand site within three years. More>
CineWomen On Screen: A NYWIFT Series
presents MOTHERLAND
April 30, 2009
CineWomen On Screen celebrates the work of emerging female filmmakers from all over the world. Films that are included in the series must be directed, co-directed, produced, written, edited or shot by women. This month’s film is the award-winning MOTHERLAND, directed by Jennifer Steinman. There will be a Q&A following the screening with the filmmaker, and an after-party to follow.
Joining The Docs lands BAFTA winner
April 29, 2009
EU Media-backed factual portal Joining The Docs (JTD) has agreed a deal with True Vision Productions to offer BAFTA-winning Channel 4 documentary Chosen (1×98′) through its website.
Mercury sells West Bank doc to Japan
March 29, 2009
MIPDOC NEWS: UK-based factual distributor MercuryMedia has sold Welcome To Hebron, a film about a young Palestinian woman living in the Middle East, into Japan. More>
Motherland wins at SXSW
Motherland winds the Audience Award EMERGING VISIONS award at SXSW. Read more
Nick Ware, MD of joiningthedocs.tv interviewed in Broadcastnow
What kind of documentaries will you be looking to acquire in 2009?
Director-led films with strong points of view. You might have seen them on Storyville or the True Stories strand, or they might have only played in festivals or in cinemas. Read more
joiningthedocs.tv recieves funding from EU MEDIA fund
February 16, 2009
Joiningthedocs.tv, a new pay-per-view broadband channel for independent documentary films, will announce at the Berlin Film Festival on Monday it’s won €200,000 in funding from the European Union’s MEDIA digital distribution fund. Read more
Dominick Dunne in the Times
February 12, 2009
Dominick Dunne, scourge of the rich and infamous, talks to The Times. Read more