Sheffield Doc/Fest, one of the world's leading factual film-making festivals, begins on Saturday, showcasing 130 documentaries. The festival's director of programming, Hussain Currimbhoy, has selected five films that could make waves globally.
Night Will Fall, directed by Andre Singer, documents the unfinished Alfred Hitchcock film about Nazi concentration camps. The original project, initiated by Granada TV founder Sidney Bernstein, enlisted Hitchcock as an advisor and Billy Wilder as director, but was never completed. Singer's film explores the ethics of using such footage.
All This Mayhem tells the tragic story of Australian skateboarding champions Tas and Ben Pappas. Ben murdered his girlfriend before taking his own life in 2007, while Tas served time for drug smuggling and assault. Now out of jail, Tas has turned his life around and will attend the screening.
The Soul of a Band: The Story of Spandau Ballet uses archive footage to chart the rise and fall of the 1980s pop group, from the Blitz club to legal battles in the 1990s. Another film, Beautiful Noise, examines the alternative music scene of the same era, featuring bands like The Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine.
Attacking The Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime focuses on the Sunday Times editor's campaign for compensation for thalidomide victims in the 1970s. The drug, licensed in the 1950s to treat morning sickness, caused serious birth defects.
