MeetMarket is designed to match selected documentary makers’ most innovative project ideas with over 50 national and international executive producers, broadcasters and distributors attending AIDC 2010. MeetMarket provides the opportunity for creative and original ideas to be fast-tracked within a supportive and structured setting. Projects entered may be at any stage of development, production or post-production. Executive producers, broadcasters and distributors view online two-minute pitch teasers of up to 25 selected documentary projects in advance of attending AIDC. After viewing, these executives choose which projects they wish to discuss further in one-on-one meetings with the documentary producers scheduled during the AIDC within a specially designated room at the conference.

BaKaFORUM TV and Media Forum is a meeting point and platform for exchange and cooperation for broadcasters, independent producers as well as cultural, educational and societal organizations interested in quality TV work, global education and development education. The annual conference includes sessions, a contest, screenings and workshops. During the year, BaKaFORUM is committed to continuously support common initiatives and projects in line with its mission. BaKaFORUM working process is an annual meeting and continuous cooperation and support for projects connected with the BaKaFORUM focus. The BaKaFORUM is being organized by the International Basel-Karlsruhe Media-Forum Foundation, established in December 2005 by Swiss Television and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Baltic Event is the main annual showcase of feature films from the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. First held in November 2002 in Tallinn, Estonia, Baltic Event is growing steadily with more distributors, sales agents, festival representatives and journalists attending every year. Baltic Event coincides with the Black Nights Film Festival to offer our guests the opportunity to immerse in the celebrations of one of the largest film festivals in the Nordic region.

Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries is a market of ideas for documentary films for all distribution platforms with international potential. Baltic Sea Forum consists of both a pitching workshop and session. The workshop will give the participants the chance to develop their documentary projects as well as the pitch of the project. The pitching session will give the participants the opportunity to present their project to a panel of international commissioning editors followed by scheduled individual meetings with them. Projects from documentary film and TV producers from the Baltic States, Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Georgia will be developed in a workshop run by international experienced producers and filmmakers. At the pitching session 24 projects are presented to a panel of around 16 commissioning editors from the Baltic, Nordic and European TV stations. Each project may be pitched for five minutes, with further time for discussion at the discretion of the host. Each project may be pitched by up to two representatives. The pitch has to be supported with video clips of your new project or clips from your previou

Below ZERO is a new international pitching session for documentary projects focusing on life above the Arctic Circle. This event is initiated in order to bring together filmmakers, producers, financiers and organisations whose common interest is documentaries thematically rooted in the Northern Polar region. Below Zero is set in Tromsø, Northern Norway, during the last days of the polar night.

CARTOON is an international non-profit association based in Brussels. CARTOON’s remit is to support the European animation industry and for 20 years, it has received financial support from the MEDIA Programme of the European Union to run its activities, which concentrate on 3 areas: Cartoon Masters, Cartoon Forum and Cartoon Movie.

CARTOON is an international non-profit association based in Brussels. CARTOON’s remit is to support the European animation industry and for 20 years, it has received financial support from the MEDIA Programme of the European Union to run its activities, which concentrate on 3 areas: Cartoon Masters, Cartoon Forum and Cartoon Movie.

The Central European Pitching Forum (CEPF) is to take place at the 2007 Pécs International Film Festival in Hungary. It is organized by Fade In, an independent initiative of emerging Hungarian screenwriters, along with the Motion Picture Public Fund of Hungary and the Hungarian Screenwriters’ Guild, and supported by other private sponsors. The CEPF is open for screenwriters and/or writer-directors from the Eastern European and Balkan region who do not yet have a producer attached to their projects. It is the first occasion for emerging screenwriter talent from the region to meet European producers in the hope of facilitating actual and long-running work relationships and an international network of young professionals in order to boost the film industry in the continent as well as in the region. The call for projects is open to individual screenwriters and production teams with the project from the new member countries in the EU (Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slo

CineLink is the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Its activities are spread throughout the year and are designed to meet the current needs and expectations of Southeast Europe’s film industry in transition. It includes: Project Development Workshops, Co-production Market, CineLink Awards, Industry Screenings, Conferences, Industry Office Services.

Connecting Cottbus is an East-West co-production market which paves the way for ideas to be realized. Producers could submit new feature film projects together with their screenwriter or director. An expert jury selects the projects which are presented to the professional audience of experienced producers, buyers and financiers - often for the first time outside of the home country. The audience reaction soon makes it clear whether the project will have a chance of finding its audience in the various countries. Topical insights into the production landscape of East and Central European countries are offered in discussions and case studies. Over time, not only co-productions but also a lively network have been created between Eastern and Western Europe.

CoPro is the first and only organization of its sort in Israel that serves as an independent marketing channel for documentary films. CoPro is a non-profit organization that promotes the making of documentaries in Israel by arranging for Israeli filmmakers and producers to meet television network executives and producers from around the world, thereby creating a cultural dialogue and encouraging joint productions. During the 13 years of its existence CoPro has earned a reputation and secured real economic achievements, creating a revolution in the scale of international co-productions for Israeli documentaries. About 145 commissioning editors and film fund representatives from all over the world have to date attended CoPro events. Over 218 films have been co-produced so far through its various programs. In 2005 CoPro won the Knesset Speaker’s prize for its work. The organization was founded and is run by Orna Yarmut.

Launched successfully in 2007 DOX:FORUM is an exclusive 3-day distribution forum and market event running in conjunction with CPH:DOX. DOX:FORUM has been launched to explore other distribution possibilities for documentary film than TV and focuses on theatrical as well as alternative distribution venues as online platforms, museums and art galleries.

Directors Across Borders (DAB) was established in 2005 to promote the idea that film and its makers are in a unique position to explore and penetrate the borders, to understand the neighbor—in the largest sense of the term. As a co-production forum, it launched within the framework of Golden Apricot - Yerevan International Film Festival. Initially, it was a regional network of film directors and film professionals living in Caucasus and in the neighboring countries: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and etc. - who agreed that cinema is one of the unique tools that could transform human relations without the need for recognizing political, ideological, racial or religious borders. DAB firstly was just a forum of independent filmmakers to determine the common problems typical for states in transition. By emphasizing multinational and multicultural approaches DAB hoped to contribute to establishment of a new ‘common space’ - which would expand from the former Soviet borders and respect the differences of those who have lived together for ages.

DOC Meeting Argentina is a space devoted to documentaries meant to encourage the construction of networks among cinematography and television industry professionals, at the national, regional and international levels; the development of projects under process; the creation of an area for the discussion of different strategies for co-production, marketing and distribution of the documentary genre; and, undoubtedly, a business area created to market documentaries filmed in various formats. DOC Meeting Argentina is divided into three distinct sections: * Conferences, Workshops and Seminars. Two-day duration. Representatives of television networks and co-production funds and forums, among other professionals, will be presenting lectures on topics such as co-production, acquisitions, distribution, new technologies, legislation and copyright. * One On One Meetings. One-day duration. A business roundtable will be held as part of DOC Meeting Argentina. In this roundtable, producers, buyers and sellers will have a chance to show their projects – completed or under development – to co-producers, television representatives and organizations. * Pitching Forum. In DOC Meeting Argentina, producers and/or directors will have a chance to present their projects to a group of 12 Commissioning Editors (representatives of international television networks who are responsible for the co-production or pre-purchase of documentaries), with the intention of receiving international financing for their projects. Twenty-four projects will be selected.

International meeting aimed at constructing work, cooperation and business networks in Latin America to foster relations among television channels and independent makers and producers

Docs in Thessaloniki is organized by EDN, European Documentary Network in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century, which includes a national & international program as well as a doc market and parallel events. The participants of the Pitching Forum will have access to the festival. The programme schedule consists of 5 days intensive training and information, including a general overview of the world market situation for documentaries, case studies, lectures, pitching sessions, group and individual sessions. Representatives from international TV networks attend the event. Projects should be sent to EDN by email.

The Pitching Forum is the DocsBarcelona branch that serves the documentary industry. The programme for professionals is arranged around the Pitching taking place over two days. 24 projects are presented to the commissioning editors’ panel and an audience made up of industry professionals who wish to sign up as observers for these sessions. As a preparation for the Pitching, there is a Pitching Workshop; pitchers and tutors have 2 days to work together intensively on project presentations.

DOC Pitch will allow selected filmmakers to pitch their project to a panel of local and overseas commissioning editors, buyers and other funders sitting together in a documentary specific pitching forum. This is a significant opportunity for filmmakers to pitch their documentary projects to local and overseas commissioners and buyers as well as to make important new contacts. The Panel is able to find out about new and exciting projects. Observers will hear international commissioning priorities direct from the decision-makers as well as to watch & learn from the pitching process. Up to twelve filmmaking teams will be selected. Selected applicants are invited to attend a master-class on pitching prior to the Pitching Forum.

Documentary in Europe is a no-profit cultural association that proposes to increase the value of the documentary culture, to highlight and promote it, in all its forms, with particular stress on Italian, European and International documentary. To achieve these purposes, the primary activities of the association are to organize meetings among the insiders of documentary world and to promote the popularization of the documentary genre among a larger audience. Documentary in Europe is a project started up from F.E.R.T. (Filming with a European Regard in Turin), but, since 2000, is an indipendent association. Since the beginning, Documentary in Europe cooperates with EDN (EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY NETWORK), the European net of the documentarists, that has its centre in Copenhagen, gathers about 900 members among producers, distributors, tv networks and film industries.

The Norwegian documentary festival was first held in 1997. It is the oldest and biggest Norwegian documentary film festival. The festival takes place in Volda, surrounded by beautiful nature. The festival awards the best Norwegian documentary, the best international documentary, best student production and the audience award.

DRAGON FORUM International Academy of Document is a series of workshop sessions dedicated to developing documentary projects and preparation for a pitching session with international TV commissioners. Each year the sessions take place in Warsaw and various other European Cities and ends with a pitching session at the Cracow International Film Festival. Every year about 20 documentary film projects are selected. Projects’ representatives attend sessions lead by international experts - directors, producers, commissioners form UK, The Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, United States). Dragon Forum also hosts the so-called Open Evenings – film screenings and discussions opened to public, which support the notion, that close contact between the creator and the audience is key in the contemporary film landscape.

East European Forum is the first meeting of East-European documentary filmmakers and significant European commissioning editors where the filmmakers and their independent producers offer their topics for realization. The Forum is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in cooperation with European Documentary Network and International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava. At the beginning of October, 12 projects selected by the EDN and IDF committee will be posted on the IDF website. The EEF programme begins with the Pitch Workshop. Under the supervision of top European documentary film producers, lecturers and distributors, the participants can learn to write up a suggested co-production, to create a budget according to European standards, and to publicly present their projects. The workshop is followed by the Pitching Forum, a public presentation in which the director and producer have an opportunity to present their film projects to leading East and West European television pro

The Edinburgh Pitch is open to all filmmakers based in the UK and abroad, and particularly aims at independent filmmakers with a feature documentary project who are trying to get into the international scene. The Edinburgh Pitch is the only international documentary pitching forum in Scotland, it runs alongside the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

This new thematic pitching format is based on an online video conference, where a selected number documentary projects are introduced. At the EDN Online Pitching four documentary projects are pitched to a group of leading international financiers and decision makers. Each session will have a specific focus like science, history or cross platform. The pitching takes place online in the EDN Video Conference Room and each session lasts one hour.

Euro Connection is a business platform dedicated to European producers whose projects include developing short films as European co-productions. Producers and representatives of funding bodies and television channels meet there to form partnerships. A network of national correspondents in fifteen associated countries is responsible for the selection of about twenty projects that will be presented during pitching sessions. Individual assistance will be available at the MEDIA Rendez-vous area to facilitate networking opportunities. Short films are a fertile ground for renewed creativity and promising talents who ensure the future of cinematographic and audiovisual creation in Europe. The success of Euro Connection since it was initiated two years ago has been a clear indicator of this. Responding to contemporary challenges for producing short films in Europe, Short Film Market is proud to organize the third edition of Euro Connection, the European short film co-production forum.