K.J. Yossman Asif Kapadia, the Oscar-winning guest curator for 2022’s Sheffield DocFest, has unveiled his program A Documentary Journey with Asif Kapadia.Kapadia, who is best known for his documentaries ‘Amy,’ about Amy Winehouse, and ‘Senna’ about Brazilian motor-racing champion Ayrton Senna, opened the last in-person iteration of Sheffield DocFest in 2019 with his feature about legendary Argentine footballer Diego Maradona.The festival, now in its 29th year, was digital only in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.Featuring “films that have had significant impact for him, inspiring his own style and creative choices as a filmmaker,” Kapadia has selected eight documentaries for the series, including “When We Were Kings” about Muhammad Ali (pictured above). “Without this film, there would be no ‘Amy.’ There would be no ‘Senna.’ There would be no ‘Diego Maradona,’” said Kapadia of the Ali feature.“This selection is personal to me, as someone who grew up in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s,” said Kapadia. “I didn’t come from an art or film background.
It was quite profound to know that it was possible for someone to make films like these.”The director will also take part in an in-person discussion with his frequent editor Chris King, to discuss the choices they made regarding which scenes to include and which to leave out in his best-known docs.Check out Kapadia’s selections for ‘A Documentary Journey with Asif Kapadia’ – as well as his comments on each film – below:“C’était un rendez-vous” (Claude Lelouch; France, 1976)“When I first saw it, I wondered if it was real or whether it was a fake.
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