IDFA 2022: Curated Watch List with Wouter Jansen of Square Eyes

With such an overwhelming number of films on offer at IDFA, we invited Wouter Jansen to help curate a watch list of films that will be on display. Wouter is the founder of Square Eyes, a sales and distribution company based in Vienna specializing in bold, author driven features and shorts. This year, he will be at IDFA with two titles, ANHEIL 69 by Theo Montoya and EUROPE by Philip Scheffner.  In this episode, we go through each section of the program at IDFA and take turns selecting titles of interest to help navigate our festival experience.  Films discussed include PARADISE by Alexander Abaturov, NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, HOW DARE YOU HAVE SUCH A RUBBISH WISH by Mania Akbari, and A ROBUST HEART by Martin Benchimol, among many others. For our full Docs in Orbit x Square Eyes x IDFA 2022 watch list, please visit here . EPISODE TIMECODES: 00:00 - Intro / About Square Eyes |  10:30 - Best of Fests  |  16:30 - Paradocs  |  23:25 - International Shorts Competition  |  32:10 - Competition DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction  |  35:35 - IDFA on Stage   |  40:28 - Envision Competition  |  45:35  - International Competition  |  52:30  - Laura Poitras Top 10SPECIAL GUEST BIO: Wouter Jansen is the founder of the sales and festival distribution company Square Eyes. He worked as the head of programming at the Go Short - International Film Festival during the first 10 editions. In 2013 he started Some Shorts, which changed to Square Eyes in 2019, which specializes in having outstanding non-mainstream films find the audience and recognition they deserve. With Square Eyes, Wouter represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and collaborates closely with the filmmakers to devise bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. This has resulted in a small catalogue of films premiering at prestigious festivals and winning multiple awards over the last few years like main prizes at Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand. Wouter has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy and is an expert for Locarno Open Doors and First Cut Lab. He has moderated as well as lead workshops at festivals like IDFA, True/False, Winterthur, VIS Vienna Shorts and others. He is a Berlinale Talents alumni.For show notes, visit docsinorbit.com and be sure to follow us on social media @docsinorbit