Wang Bing & Peter Greenaway To Be Honored By IFDA Doc Fest
deadline.comChinese documentarian Wang Bing and UK filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway will be honored at the 36th International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), running from November 8 to 19.
Wang has been invited as the edition’s Guest of Honor, while Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover, Eisenstein in Guanajuato) will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.
As part of its celebration of Wang, IDFA will screen his ground-breaking 2002 work Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks as well as his more recent films Man in Black and Youth (Spring), which both premiered to acclaim in Cannes this year.
The latter title, which revolves around Chinese garment workers, was recently acquired by Icarus for North America. The Wang program also includes Alone (2012), ’Til Madness Do Us Part (2013), and Mrs.
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