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Eva Mulvad, born 1972, is a Danish documentary film director. She graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. Eva is a director of documentaries for DR TV since 1997. In 2006 she received IDFA Silver Wolf Award and World Cinema Jury Prize at Sundance for Enemies of Happiness. She also was a winner of the 2006 Women in Film and TV award for young film talents. The Good Life (2010) was shown at IDFA and won the award for Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary IFF. Her film A Modern Man (2017) premiered at CPH:DOX, and it will be screened at Biography Dox program at this year’s ZagrebDox.

In this case study, Eva Mulvad will share her views on the process of making cinematic documentaries. The talk will be accompanied by visual material of her selected film titles.

“Reality is a mess, how do we create stories that feel coherent, with a clear focus and a cinematic openness to the sensitivity of image and sound? Stories that make us think, laugh and cry? How do we work with our main characters? How do we get close enough? And what is too close?” – Eva Mulvad