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Sheffield

13th - 17th  June 2012

DFG Members! Get your discounted pass for 2012. Find out more here.

Doc/Fest is the UK's leading documentary festival and a must-attend event on the industry calendar. It is where the international documentary family gets together under one roof for a week of intense deal-making, doc watching and debate.

Doc/Fest not only screens and awards films, it has an extensive industry sessions programme, an international marketplace, and is a frontrunner in the new media landscape.  It is also renowned as a launching pad for film students looking for an entrance into the film industry.

The festival is both a public film festival and an industry gathering dedicated to documentary film and TV. It is the only time in the UK when all of us working in documentary - independent producers, commissioners, TV company executives, academics, students and up and coming film makers can get together.

Doc/Fest hosts four documentary awards: The Green Award, The Innovation Award, The Youth Jury Award and the Audience Award.

International Marketplace
MeetMarket is Sheffield's international marketplace designed to match independent producers’ most innovate project ideas with UK and international commissioners and other financiers through 20 minute one-on-one meetings.

Videotheque
Films can be entered for the Videotheque – used by the festival industry delegates, television programme buyers, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers.

Sessions Programme
Around forty discussions, masterclasses, workshops and presentations in close co-operation with the industry. Part of the sessions programme is DigiDocs 360 a unique strand of sessions addressing the challenges of embracing the cross platform world.

The festival also encourages anyone to send in their session ideas: https://sheffdocfest.com

The Mini-Meetmarket is a roundtable project development and pitch training initiative for emerging talent. Details of the 2012 event will be available shortly.

Doc Day offers hands on surgery on your short documentaries from some of the best mentors in the documentary industry - including directors, editors, sound recordists, camera operators, distributors, television executives and more.

Other previous opportunities:

• Wellcome Trust Pitch
• Channel 4 Pitch
• Specialist Factual New Talent Pitch

Submission Guidelines

Documentaries produced after June 2011 are preferred but older productions can be entered. Feature and short documentaries are accepted for submission, as long as they have not been broadcast in the UK. Films must have English dialogue or English subtitles.

Submissions for 2011 are open until 27th January 2012.

An entry fee of £25 + VAT applies. For more details and to submit your film, see sheffdocfest.com

MeetMarket

Submit your project online, along with one-page treatments and a one-minute trailer teaser clip, in advance of Doc/Fest, allowing buyers to view your submissions of innovative documentary ideas. The application process is fully online.

Selected projects have project information and trailer available on our (password protected) website for the commissioners and other executives to review before the MeetMarket.

Documentary projects in development with international appeal in any format or genre (including cross-platform) and in any stage of development are accepted. Projects do not need to have any financing already secured.

Find out more here.