DocuArt Film Centre (Budapest)
Adress: Ráday str 18 (Entrance from Erkel street) / Budapest / Hungary
Tel-Fax: (+36.1) 403.03.52 / +36-70) 409-77-44 (V. Bottlik) / +36-20) 993-40-30 (Z. Füredi)
Email: info at docuart.hu
Contact: Miss Virág Bottlik (cinema manager) / Mr Zoltán Füredi (chairman of the foundation)
www.docuart.hu/
1 screen , 50 seats
Tech: DVD, VHS, DV, DVCAM, 35 mm, 16 mm
History: DocuArt Film Centre was founded 2006 with the aim of contributing to the integration of the Hungarian documentary film to the international scene and introducing it to a wider audience in Hungary. From the very beginning it was a multifunctional place: we had professional gettogeothers, thematical filmklubs, 2-3 days series showing one authors works (András Szirtes e.g), special 2 days event dedicated to the memory of a very important Hungarian director (Judit Ember e.g.), and screenings for fictional fstivals also (BuSho). Besides, we run here to DocuArt Video Library a place where people can come in and watch the documentaries of the DocuArt Archive in place free of charge.
Organisational structure: DocuArt Film Centre is managed by Palantir Film Visual Anthropological Foundation which has another main project since 2004: it organizes Dialëktus European Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival. Both projects are linked in many ways, not just in realizing different distribution forms of documentaries. DocuArt from the year of the founding is the main location of the Dialektus Festival programmes (screening and professional programs) and the DocuArt Archive consists approx. 70% of the docs having been entered to Dialektus Festival.
Editorial Line:Documentaries, anthropological films, sometimes experimental films also
Regularity: It depends on the season, but if we take the yearly avarage it is about ten screening days per month.
Other stuff: Mainly we organize the screening in the form of filmklubs or other events. So they are mostly combined with discussions or other events. In some perionds we also host not film-based training project of some partner NGO-s, and – as a permanent distribution programm – we make the Video Library accessable during our opening hours.
Publicity: Website, mailing list, program magazines, flyers
Audience: Students, documentary professionals, anthropologists, sociologists, mostly young and middle aged intellectuals
Funding:We apply for fundings by various Hungarian or European institutions to finance our projects and overhead, which is naturally not enough, so we have to have some profit-orientated activities also.