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Nominations announced for 2012 BAFTAs
- Posted 25-04-12
- Category Industry News
Among the factual nominees are Channel 4's Educating Essex and BBC Two's Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die. The full list of nomi...
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MyStreet 2012 open for entries
- Posted 25-04-12
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MyStreet is a chance for you to tell your story about your area, through film. Share with the world where you are, who you are a...
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Channel 4 First Cut Pitch
- Posted 25-04-12
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Five contenders will compete in front of a panel of executive producers and a Channel 4 Commissioning Editor for First Cut....
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Call for Entries - Grierson 2012 British Documentary Awards
- Posted 25-04-12
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GRIERSON 2012: The British Documentary Awards. The Grierson Awards - for factual programmes and documentaries - recognise outsta...
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Open City Docs May Screening: The Life of High Rises
- Posted 25-04-12
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Open City Docs Fest, in partnership with UCL’s Urban Laboratory, present their May screening event all about vertical city liv...
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The WorldView/Community Channel Sheffield Live Pitch
- Posted 24-04-12
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Worldview and Community Channel are seeking ideas for a 15 - 20-minute documentary that creatively explores positive stories abo...
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The Wellcome Trust Broadcast Development Awards Pitch
- Posted 15-04-12
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Awards of up to £10,000 are available and may be given to more than one project....
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Specialist Factual New Talent Pitch Call for Entries
- Posted 13-04-12
- Category Industry News
Do you have what it takes to bring science, history, business or religion alive for documentary audiences across the world?...
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Call for projects: 10x10 @ Sheffield Doc/Fest
- Posted 12-04-12
- Category Opportunities
This year, 10x10 gets a Sheffield Twist: We're focussing on the all-important trailer!...
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Call for Proposals: Mini-Meetmarket 2012
- Posted 11-04-12
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A unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary filmmakers to meet Executive Producers and pitch their idea in an intimate...
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Call for entries - IDFA
- Posted 23-03-12
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International Documentary Festival Amsterdam - Europe's largest documentary film festival....
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Picture This Presents: Marc Karlin
- Posted 23-03-12
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Marc Karlin (1943 - 99) was a key figure within the British film avant-garde of the 1970s....
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BAFTA TV Debate: Is structured reality corrupting documentary?
- Posted 23-03-12
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How have new ways of making programmes affected television's choice of subject areas, the kind of contributors who take part, an...
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Nicholas Philibert's Every Little Thing
- Posted 23-03-12
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Join Open City and Shooting People for a rare screening of Nicolas Philibert’s Every Little Thing (La Moindre des choses)...
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WorldView Sundance Institute Documentary Film Programme Developing World Award
- Posted 23-03-12
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One feature length cinematic documentary film in development stages will be awarded a £10,000 grant...
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The Edinburgh Pitch 2012
- Posted 22-03-12
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The only international documentary pitching forum in Scotland, now entering its 6th year and running alongside the Edinburgh Int...
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Call for Entries - Encounters Short Film Festival 2012
- Posted 22-03-12
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Submissions are now open for the Encounters 18th Short Film and Animation Festival in Bristol UK....
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Call for entries - Africa in Motion 2012
- Posted 20-03-12
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Features, documentaries and shorts by African filmmakers...
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Call for entries - FIFO Tahiti 2013
- Posted 20-03-12
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The competition is open to all productions concerning Oceania which are not older than three years....
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An African Election
- Posted 01-03-12
- Category Reviews
Jarreth Merz – who spent seven years of his childhood in Ghana - attempts to dismantle such negative stereotypes, challenging ...
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Ready Steady Doc!
- Posted 15-02-12
- Category Screening
Ready Steady Doc! brings together documentaries from all over Europe to help you see sport in a whole new light...
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Position Among The Stars
- Posted 10-02-12
- Category Reviews
The third and final instalment to Leonard Retel Helmich’s Indonesian trilogy: an intimate portrait of three generations of the...
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Office Space for Hire
- Posted 06-02-12
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Good-quality, cheap office space available to freelance directors/producers and factual TV start-ups....
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Interview with Bombay Beach Director Alma Har’El
- Posted 03-02-12
- Category Articles
The award-winning Bombay Beach, from first time director Alma Har’El, shapes a beautiful and unsettling image of a forgotten 5...
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Bombay Beach
- Posted 03-02-12
- Category Reviews
Bombay Beach is the living embodiment of the failed American dream, although the use of the word ‘living’ could be questiona...
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The Mini-Meetmarket Comes To London
- Posted 17-01-12
- Category Workshop
In partnership with Sheffield Doc/Fest...
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Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund and TFI New Media Fund Open for Submissions
- Posted 17-01-12
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Deadline 6th March 2012...
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10x10 Spring 2012
- Posted 16-01-12
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The original (and best, natch) doc-in-progress workshop...
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Call for Entries - Edge of the City 2012
- Posted 13-01-12
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South-East London festival accepting documentaries up to 30 mins in length...
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Call for Entries - Docville 2012
- Posted 13-01-12
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Documentary festival in the Belgian city of Leuven...
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Bridging the Gap+ Calling for Applications
- Posted 12-01-12
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Development and commissioning opportunity for Scottish filmmakers...
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PUMA Creative Catalyst Award Spring Call 2012
- Posted 05-01-12
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International documentary development fund of up to €5000 per film....
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Call for Entries - Rushes Soho Shorts 2012
- Posted 05-01-12
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Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2012 has opened for submissions for their 14th celebration of everything short....
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2012 MeetMarket Submissions Now Open
- Posted 03-01-12
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Matchmade meetings between the world's best documentary and digital creators and the top funders and mentors who can support the...
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Submission Deadline - Sheffield Doc/Fest
- Posted 01-01-12
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The festival accepts short, medium and feature length docs from both new and established filmmakers with an equal sized smile....
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Documentaries at the London Short Film Festival 2012
- Posted 16-12-11
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LSFF returns with Night of the Living Docs and a new screening at Occupy London...
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Opportunities for Central and Eastern European Documentary-makers with IDF
- Posted 16-12-11
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East European Forum, Doc Launch Presentation and East Silver Market open for submissions...
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Filmmaking Is About Restraint - An Interview with Carol Morley
- Posted 16-12-11
- Category Articles
Carol Morley's film interweaves interviews with imagined scenes from the life of Joyce Vincent, whose body lay undiscovered for ...
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Creative England Development Fund Opens
- Posted 12-12-11
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Open to individual writers, writer/directors and/or producers based in the English regions for the development of all types of f...
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London Recut film screens as part of Imperial War Museum Film Festival
- Posted 09-12-11
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Air, one of the winning films produced as part of Mosaic Films' 2010 project London Recut, has been selected to screen at the 20...
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Call for Entries - One World Media Awards 2012
- Posted 07-12-11
- Category Industry News
Recognising the most outstanding media coverage of the developing world....
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Two new funds from BRITDOC and the Bertha Foundation
- Posted 24-11-11
- Category Opportunities
Documentary Journalism Fund and Outreach Fund launched....
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Hackney Life - A New Crowdsourced Doc from Mosaic Films
- Posted 18-11-11
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Record your view of Hackney and upload it via YouTube for the chance to be part of a film that will be screened during summer 20...
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This Our Still Life - Win Tickets
- Posted 18-11-11
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To celebrate the release of This Our Still Life out today (18th November), we have teamed up with the BFI to give two lucky winn...
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Documentaries at the UK Jewish Film Festival
- Posted 18-11-11
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Documentaries screening at the final weekend of the 2011 UK Jewish Film Festival...
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The Documentary Summit 2011-12
- Posted 18-11-11
- Category Industry News
Learn the state of the industry, tips for storytelling and production and new avenues of distribution...
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Call for Entries - Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Posted 17-11-11
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Edinburgh International Film Festival is especially interested in films by emerging filmmakers whose work manifests stylistic bo...
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Call for Entries - One World Prague
- Posted 17-11-11
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Outstanding documentaries on social and political issues are chosen based on the quality of the filmmaking and the power of thei...
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Good Pitch 2012 Opens for Applications
- Posted 17-11-11
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The Good Pitch is returning to New York’s Ford Foundation on May 25th 2012, with Good Pitch Europe and San Francisco events in...
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Hot Docs Forum 2012 Opens for Submissions
- Posted 16-11-11
- Category Call for entry
A dynamic pitching event that stimulates international co-production financing for projects at various levels of completion....