The eighth edition of the In-Edit.Beefeater Festival in Barcelona is revving up its engines, and the organization has begun creating the programming for this year’s festival, which will take place from October 28^th to November 7^th, 2010. This Festival is unique in Spain and one of the biggest and best in the world exclusively dedicated to music documentaries. (22.500 spectators in 2009). 

With the aim of appreciating and screening the most outstanding music documentaries of recent years, the festival opens its call for submissions of documentaries (and fiction films) that place music in a starring role, or have a very strong relationship to it. Submission rules and online registration forms (exclusive registration method) can be found at: www.in-edit.beefeater.es. 

The principal new feature of the present submissions call is its dual validity for the Festival and for the new music documentary market, which will be held from November 4^th to 7^th, in parallel with In-Edit.Beefeater. The market will constitute a leap in the Festival’s relationship with the genre and its determination that the industry will find a reference point within Barcelona, in which it can view the most outstanding International music documentaries. The market is designed for content buyers and will include the majority of documentaries participating in the Festival (40-50 documentaries) A further selection of pieces will also feature; those, that, for different reasons, do not form part of the festival programming but which the artistic department considers to be of interest for international agents connected to music documentaries.

It’s important to add that the In-Edit.Beefeater International submissions call is also the departure point for the participation of these documentaries in the world network of In-Edit festivals (currently Chile, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico). Documentaries of these nationalities may also be selected (if considered to be of mutual benefit for both parties) for the national sections of the festival in the respective countries.

Important dates:

Submissions call: Until July 16th

In-Edit.Beefeater Festival 2010 (8^th Edition): From October 28^th to November 7^th

Barcelona music documentary market (1^st Edition): From November 4^th to 7^th

Inedit Master Series (In-Edit.Beefeater label and Cameo present this deep study of the microcosmos that an orchestra means. Concespts such as ego/community, isolation and effort, competition/harmony are studied through a tour of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in Asia. A glance to the ego and personality of 126 musicians that must sound as one.

It seems like a classical music documentary, but the concepts it brandishes fly higher than the sun. This is the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, on a six city asian tour. Their trip and the concerts are an excuse for Grube to delineate his most fascinating questions, a series of queries that could just as easily be applied to the orchestra as to the human race in general. In certain modes, as their members do not cease to affirm here, the philharmonic is a microcosm, a society inside another society, and so has a culture and some subtleties that are only possibly appreciated via living on the inside. That is what makes Trip to Asia life within a grand philharmonic orchestra. And, during his stay, Grube asks himself: Where does the individual end and the group begin? How do the distinct personalities and particulars of 126 subjects harmonize? How do you acquire the necessary equilibrium between, on one side, ego and competitiveness (par for the course in this kind of community) and the other, yielding before the necessities of the group as a whole. All this and more is masterly scrutinized in Trip to Asia.
126 social outcasts, the geeks marginalized in their respective schools, speak here of obsession, dedication, isolation and loneliness, effort, interaction and competition. They talk about how they love their music, but also how this is a way to find appreciation, to fit in, to be loved. Their director, Sir Simon Rattle, gets close to them to try to explain what makes these displaced men and women exceptional people. And we don't forget the pieces, Thomas Ades' "Asyla", Beethoven's "Heroic Symphony" and Strauss' "Ein Heldenleben". When they unite that with magnificent photography, they have a poetically perfect picture of the ego of a philharmonic orchestra.

Director: Thomas Grube

Year: 2009

Country: Germany
Duration: 109