For 10 years, NGO Docudays has been successfully growing its own alternative distribution network, Docudays UA film clubs. The DOCU/CLUB Network makes the life cycle of films in distribution longer, introduces audiences of various ages to relevant documentaries, and distributes films in cities, towns and villages all over Ukraine.
Film screenings help enrich social life: inspired by discussions of films, audiences come together to solve collective problems, initiate change, and implement advocacy campaigns in their communities. By now, 424 film clubs in the DOCU/CLUB network have become centres for civil society building.
Throughout the year, Docudays UA film clubs organise over 15,000 screenings and demonstrate films from a collection of over 130 award-winning documentaries featured in the programmes of various international festivals.
How does the process of updating the film library for the Network’s film clubs go? Which films become long-term regulars in film club screenings? What film topics do Ukrainian audiences want to see more of?
Participants:
Nina Khoma, Project Manager of the DOCU/CLUB Network;
Gennady Kofman, member of the Board of NGO Docudays and the Selection Council, producer;
Yulia Davydiuk, moderator of the OVRUCHdim Film Flub at the Pokaliv Lyceum;
Ilona Korotnitsyna, moderator of the Docudays UA film club at the Charity and Health Fund, director of the Vgoru Media Platform.
Moderator: Olha Babchuk, Communications Manager of the DOCU/CLUB Network.
