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Sheffield Doc/Fest is UK's premier documentary marketplace, festival and conference, taking place 13-17 June 2012.
Sheffield Doc/Fest has become an important annual platform for the documentary industry and offers extensive marketplace opportunities for all delegates. The event is at the forefront when it comes to embracing the cross-platform media landscape.
In 2011, 217 decision-makers attended Sheffield Doc/Fest, which is an ideal place to meet potential production investors and production partners. The relaxed atmosphere provides a forum to hold informal and formal meetings in and around the Marketplace, the Showroom Bar, the Industry Delegate Centre or the many bars and cafés around the area.
Members of the Nordic Delegation to Sheffield Doc/Fest will be offered:
Reduced rate delegate pass of GBP 185 + VAT which gives access to all Doc/Fest screenings, events and marketplace opportunities (except for MeetMarket, which has a selection process. Deadline for MeetMarket: 29 March 2012)
Enhanced visibility in the Doc/Fest catalogue and on the Doc/Fest website
Special attention and networking opportunity at the Nordic Vodka Hour
Help and support from the FkN and Doc/Fest staff
Possibility to upgrade to a mentorship pass of GBP 265 + VAT offering special mentoring before Doc/Fest and help setting up meetings at Doc/Fest advised by Karolina Lidin (MeetMarket Executive Producer) and Charlie Phillips (Marketplace Director)
To express interest and for more information, please email Christina Jul Gregersen, Nordisk Forum Manager at Filmkontakt Nord, no later than 5 March 2012.
MeetMarket
MeetMarket is one of Europe’s top pitching forums offering a unique way to pitch new and groundbreaking documentary projects. MeetMarket has a selection process and is not included in the discounted fee. Guidelines for eligibility are:
MeetMarket is open to documentary makers from any country and to projects at any stage of development, production, or post-production
Projects do not need to have financing already in place
Projects must have international appeal and take an innovative/fresh approach to either the content, the execution of the idea or both
Interactive factual/documentary, broadband, web-based, mobile phone/mobile device content, cross-platform and convergent media projects are also eligible and indeed highly encouraged
Projects may take any form or specialist focus, e.g. feature documentaries, television, series or specialised genres. Natural history, science and arts projects are very welcome
MeetMarket also welcomes projects looking to raise finance and distribute/exhibit their projects through alternative strategies including via crowd funding, self/hybrid distribution and third sector support, as well as those with innovative outreach strategies
Deadline for applications: 29 March 2012.
Other pitching & marketplace events for all delegates
Videotheque, a fully-digitised library of all films in the festival plus a selection of the best new documentaries looking to be acquired
Pitch Competitions, with £100k of funding and opportunities up for grabs, including the only crowd funding pitch at a doc festival
Round-Table Sessions and Matchmaking Sessions, where all delegates can informally meet around 15 key international documentary decision-makers in a group discussion and information-sharing format (Round Tables) or 18 decision-makers in short sharp meetings (Matchmaking)
Who's Who, a lively session where key commissioners, buyers and other decision-makers present introduce themselves to delegates
Mini MeetMarket, a unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary filmmakers to meet industry mentors in an informal setting
Commissioning Panels, a chance to hear the up to date priorities for the world's major factual commissioners in dedicated panel discussions
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