24 April / 2 May 2020 – Udine – Teatro Nuovo & Visionario
FAR EAST FILM
FESTIVAL 22
THE FEFF'S INDUSTRY SECTION, FOCUS ASIA,
OPENS ITS DOORS TO WIPs (works in progress)!
The FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL becomes the only European Platform dedicated to Asian films in post-production.
UDINE - With Far East in Progress - the brand new section which will open its doors in April 2020 - the Far East Film Festival of Udine will become the first and only European pl...
DEFC (Documentary and Experimental Film Center) is the main center for production, distribution and promotion of documentary, animation and experimental films in which provides film festivals, film markets, TV Channels, theaters, universities, institutes and other organizations, which are interested in Iranian fiction, documentary, animation, experimental and feature films.
All of our films are available on Vimeo for viewing; our films have been selected at many international film fes...
BILL ROSS AND TURNER ROSS FILMS FEATURED IN BSDFF 2020 RETROSPECTIVE
Bill Ross and Turner Ross are an American filmmaking team whose immersive, place-based films have played to audiences around the world garnering numerous awards and accolades. Their first feature, 45365 was the winner of the 2009 SXSW Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary and the Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction prize. Their intimate and...
NEW: DOK.digital - Award for New Narrative Formats
Project submission to the Marketplace open - with Composition Funding, Archive Award and Pitch Award
VFF Documentary Film Production Award
German Documentary Film Music Award
What are contemporary forms for journalistic factual or documentary content? How can the possibilities of cross- and transmedial narration be put into practice?
DOK.digital seeks answers to the question of how stories...
BEYOND BORDERS
5th INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL IN CASTELLORIZO
23/8/2020 – 30/8/2020
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
“Let’s bring the world to Castellorizo and take Castellorizo to the world!”
The International Documentary Festival “Beyond Borders”, organized for the 5th consecutive year by the Hellenic History Foundation, during the last week of August, aims for the island of Castellorizo to become a meeting point for documen...
Launched in 1998, the 12th edition of TIDF will take place in Taipei from May 1-10, 2020. This is the FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSION!
Our competition programme is still looking for creative, innovative, non-fiction filmmaking with unique viewpoints in all length.
Films completed after December 1, 2017 are eligible for our three main categories. All forms and lengths are welcome. There's NO ENTRY FEE, a Taiwan Premiere is required. The final shortlist will be announced on our we...
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is proud to open its 22nd edition today Thursday, November 14, with the Quebec premiere of the film The Disappearance of my Mother, with director Beniamino Barrese and his mother Benedetta Barzini in attendance. The film is a touching, intimate portrait of a former fashion icon who now shuns the camera, wanting to disappear from this world of ubiquitous screens. The opening ceremony will start at 7 p.m. in the Alumni Auditorium (H-110...
submission deadline January 29th 2020
Apply for six months of intensive editing and development of your documentary film aiming for premiere by early autumn 2020:
/ work with more than 30 world-class editors, producers and distributors throughout the postproduction period
/ sharpen the storytelling and maximize your film’s international potential
/ get personal feedback ...
Artists and festivalgoers celebrate documentary cinema together
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is pleased to announce the return of the Beat Dox Sessions, now well established as an essential part of the festival. The music program for the 22nd annual RIDM, curated by Pomeline Delgado, invites us to dance to infectious beats while discovering local and visiting artists at RIDM Headquarters in the Cinémathèque québécoise (335 De Maisonneuve Blv...
The Montreal International Documentary Festival
“Where all stories meet”
Announcing the RIDM 2019 program
Montreal, Wednesday October 23, 2019 - The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is proud to announce the program for its 22nd edition, coming this November 14 to 24. With 154 films from 47 countries and numerous free discussions and activities, the RIDM is, more than ever, an essential event in the world of auteur documentary cinema.
Th...
The Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF) team are currently recruiting for the world's best documentaries and video essays to go head-to-head in our film festival competition in Melbourne, Australia in July 2020. We are looking for exclusive World, Australian or Melbourne premieres for feature documentaries to showcase in our competition. Let our 45 media partners, and publicist get behind and help promote YOU and YOUR project Down Under and get just the right momentum and expo...
The submission is open! We are looking for documentary stories for the big screen that move and open new horizons. From now on filmmakers, producers, distributors and composers are warmly invited to submit their latest documentary films for DOK.fest München 2020 (06th to 17th May 2020).
DOK.fest film programme
For the 35th DOK.fest München we are looking for outstanding national and international documentaries with a minimum length of 52 minutes whi...
Maiden, a film about the all-female crew that shocked the establishment in 1989 by entering the Whitbread Round the World Race, sailed away with the two top honours at Lunenburg Doc Fest this year.
As winner of the juried Best Feature Documentary Award and the Audience Award, Maiden was the consensus favourite of insiders and audiences alike, earning a cash prize of $2000 with the accolades.
Co-directors Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke and Teresa MacInnes received the Atl...
DocsMX would like to thank the 1,373 filmmakers who believe in this festival and answered the call for entries. The festival wouldn’t exist without you. After a long and enriching process of deliberation and evaluation it is our honor to announce the 2019 Official Selection, comprised of 79 films from 29 countries, divided into 11 sections.
Ever conscious of the responsibility to represent our changing world, especially in these times of crises both human and ecologic...
Fresh off the world premiere and historic opening as the first ever Canadian documentary to open Toronto International Film Festival, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band will kick off the 6th annual Lunenburg Doc Fest on September 19. Once Were Brothers tells the story of the roots-rock act that changed folk music forever, drawing from the memoirs of Canadian rock icon Robbie Robertson and featuring must-see testimonial from musical legends Bruc...
DocForest is a documentary retreat in the Pacific Northwest hosted by Seattle Documentary Association (SeaDoc), which cultivates and supports an equitable and professional community of nonfiction storytellers. From tents to now mountain cabins, for over a decade DocForest has provided much needed space for professional and creative development on projects that will go out into the world and inform our larger media and cultural landscape.
DocForest 2019 is taking place for the f...
BIG SKY FILM INSTITUTE WELCOMES BSDFF 2020 GUEST PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR JOANNE FEINBERG
The Big Sky Film Institute is pleased to welcome Joanne Feinberg as the Guest Programming Director of the 2020 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Joining the institute to helm the selection process for the 17th annual event, Feinberg succeeds long-time Director of Programming Doug Hawes Davis, who is on sabbatical, and Senior Programmer Michael Workman who will begin his MFA in Doc...
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OPEN CITY DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SEVEN SELECTED PROJECTS FOR ASSEMBLY DOCUMENTARY DEVELOPMENT LAB
[London, 8th July 2019] Open City Documentary Festival are pleased to announce the participants for Assembly, a new development lab for creative documentaries taking place in London in September 2019.
The lab is a project-based intensive workshop for international filmmakers working on their first or second feature. Participants fro...
The 17th International Festival Signs of the Night (Signes de Nuit)
will take place at Paris, October 3-13, 2019
We will realize competition programs for:
Documentaries
Short Films
Cinema in Transgression "experimental"
Further we prepare focus programs with recent films from Argentina,
Czech Republic, Japan, Mexico, Norway and Portugal et al.
The festival will take place in different cultural spaces in Paris.
We would like to i...
Doclisboa - International Film Festival will hold an outdoor screening on Cinemateca Portuguesa's rooftop terrace on Friday July 26 at 10.30 p.m., as an announcement and preview of the festival’s two major retrospectives this October.
Jocelyne Saab's LETTRE DE BEYROUTH will be screened as a prelude to one of the largest ever retrospectives of the filmmaker’s work. Lew Hohmann's PAULE IN CONCERT will be screened in the context of the forthcoming retrospective Rise and Fa...
ON THE ROAD TO FIPADOC 2020!
Six months before FIPADOC raises the curtain on its second edition, a sneak-preview!
From 21 – 26 January 2020, come and discover outstanding documentary works in every format from around the globe, in Biarritz in the heart of Basque country!
FIPADOC is 6 days of screening exceptional works from around the world – as well as meet-and-greets and Q-and-As with the people who made them – for professionals and public alike, in exceptional...
Submissions deadline: November 1st, 2019
The International Health Film Festival - ImagéSanté is an international biennale that takes place in Liège [Belgium] to present approximately 25 documentaries about health from all around the world.
ImagéSanté is 5 days devoted to universal health education, new therapeutic technologies and resources, medical research, prevention all by means of the image.
ImagéSanté talks about man...
Open City Docs is home to several projects in the world of documentary. Founded at UCL by Michael Stewart in 2010, Open City Docs is dedicated to developing and supporting non-fiction storytellers. The organisation nurtures the next generation of filmmakers, audio producers and VR filmmakers through training programmes, an annual film festival and other screening projects throughout the year.
Celebrating the art of non-fiction, Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in Lon...
Cosenza (Italy): 15th-19th October 2019
THE CALL CLOSES 31TH JULY 2019
Third ediction of a Mediterranean Film Festival on Migration and Human Rights.
MyART is a Mediterranean Film Festival on Migration and Human Rights. In the heart of the Mediterranean (Cosenza, Calabria), we create space for alternative storytelling and debates. We showcase independent, high-quality film and documentary productions and organize a number of events before, during, and after the festival.
This yea...
Call for submission January 22 – May 15 2019
BEYOND BORDERS
4th International Documentary Festival
Castellorizo, August 25th – September 1st 2019
“Let’s bring the world to Castellorizo and take Castellorizo to the world!”
Launched in 2016 by the Hellenic History Foundation (IDISME) in Athens and internationally supported by the Association Ecrans des Mondes in Paris (AEM) the 4th International Documentary Film Festival &l...