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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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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 - 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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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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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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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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Filmmaking Is About Restraint - An Interview with Carol Morley
- Posted 16-12-11
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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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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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The End of the Line wins the inaugural PUMA Creative Impact Award
- Posted 13-10-11
- Category Industry News
The PUMA.Creative Impact Award is a major new annual award to honour the documentary film creating the most significant impact i...
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Project Nim
- Posted 05-08-11
- Category Reviews
Far from being like the Brady Bunch with a monkey, Project Nim is a lot darker than director James Marsh's previous film, Man on...
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Finalists Announced for Inaugural PUMA.Creative Impact Award
- Posted 29-07-11
- Category Industry News
This 50,000 Euro award will honour and support the documentary film that has made the most significant impact on society. The to...
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Sound It Out
- Posted 01-07-11
- Category Reviews
Jeanie Finlay’s documentary portrait of the last surviving vinyl record shop in the North East of England explores the breadth...
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DocDays: Countdown To Zero plus Panel Discussion via Satellite
- Posted 14-06-11
- Category Screening
DFG has a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky member....
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Call for Entries - Sundance Film Festival
- Posted 13-06-11
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One of the most prestigious independent film festivals in the world, Sundance celebrates the independent spirit of interesting a...
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Sundance Documentary Fund Fall Cycle 2011
- Posted 09-06-11
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Development, production and completion funding available from this highly competitive fund...
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Cinereach Summer Grant Cycle Opens
- Posted 12-05-11
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Cinereach supports feature-length nonfiction and fiction films that are at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual art...
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Jennifer Arnold's Small Act
- Posted 15-04-11
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A Small Act rides the ripple effect of a good deed that runs from Sweden to Kenya, from Harvard to the UN, from World War II to ...
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A Small Act
- Posted 14-04-11
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A Small Act focuses on the current day consequences of one Swede’s good deed in sponsoring a young Kenyan student through scho...
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Call for Entries - IDFA
- Posted 24-03-11
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Europe's largest documentary festival awarding in multiple categories...
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Call for Entries - The Village Doc Festival
- Posted 10-03-11
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Alpha Males and Black Socks: Alex Gibney on Client 9
- Posted 02-03-11
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The story of the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was pored over obsessively in the States, but Oscar-winning di...
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Life With Murder - Interview with John Kastner
- Posted 24-02-11
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He is the biggest liar I have ever met and I say this with some awe......
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My Kidnapper
- Posted 11-02-11
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Back in 2003, news was received in England that eight tourists had been taken hostage in Colombia by the ELN. Amongst those take...
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It was weirdly cinematic - Mark Henderson on My Kidnapper
- Posted 11-02-11
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I have no other point of reference to this. I have never been surrounded by guys in uniform with guns. It was weirdly cinematic ...
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Going it alone
- Posted 10-02-11
- Category Workshop
Free seminar: Funding, Distribution and Exhibition for independent documentary features...
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ZagrebDox International Doc Fest - Call For Entries
- Posted 07-12-10
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ZagrebDox is an international documentary film festival taking place in Zagreb every February and/or March and lasting seven day...
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Silverdocs - Submission Deadline
- Posted 23-11-10
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SILVERDOCS is an exclusively documentary film festival. We screen a wide-range of international films within this genre – incl...
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Refuge In Films Event - Call For Entries
- Posted 23-11-10
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A unique cinematic event, Refuge in Films, is dedicated to raising awareness about refugee and migrant issues and returns this J...
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BRITDOC New Fund for Nature Doc: Submission Deadline
- Posted 09-11-10
- Category Industry News
During Sheffield Doc/Fest The Channel Four BRITDOC Foundation announced that The National Trust, in collaboration with the NHS S...
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East End Film Festival 2011 - Submission Deadline
- Posted 26-10-10
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The East End Film Festival strikes a balance between celebrating the local and the international, with one foot in the East End ...
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Hot Docs 2011 - Early Bird Deadline
- Posted 05-10-10
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North America's largest documentary festival will run from April 28 to May 8, 2011, presenting over 170 films from more than 35 ...
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Video Festival Imperia - Call For Entries
- Posted 28-09-10
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The Videofestival City of Imperia is organized by the Cineforum of Imperia and is dedicated to works regardless of their format...
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Byron Bay Film Festival- Submission Deadline
- Posted 28-09-10
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The growth of the BBFF is quite astonishing. Only in its fourth year and yet it has evolved from local, Australian driven to an ...
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Submission Deadline - Rory Peck Awards 2010
- Posted 15-07-10
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The Rory Peck Awards honour excellence in freelance news and current affairs camerawork. Established in 1995, it is the only awa...
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Microwave extends funding
- Posted 27-05-10
- Category Opportunities
Microwave, the groundbreaking training through production scheme, now has the funding to make three more feature films, giving ...