The business of independent motion picture production and distribution - a truly collaborative process - reaches its peak every year at the American Film Market. Over 8,000 industry leaders converge in Santa Monica for eight days of deal-making, screenings, seminars, red carpet premieres, networking and parties. Participants come from over 70 countries and include acquisition and development executives, agents, attorneys, directors, distributors, festival directors, financiers, film commissioners, producers, writers, the world’s press all those who provide services to the motion picture industry.

Annecy International Animated Film Festival is one of the world’s largest event dedicated to animation. It is a fun and friendly way to discover the latest in animation masterpieces, meet major players and young talents, check out new trends, and find ideal business partners, all in one place.

Asia Television Forum (ATF) is the International market in Asia for the financing, co-producing, buying and selling of entertainment content across all platforms. Bringing together international sellers and Asia Pacific buyers, ATF is your gateway to Asia’s entertainment content business.

Asian Side of the Doc is the most important coproduction meeting for the documentary professionals in Asia. Bringing together producers, distributors and broadcasters Asian Side of the Doc offers a platform to build strong professional and international networks, to promote deals and presales for programs in production and to initiate new coproduction projects.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is a two-and-a-half-day event for about 450 international producers, sales agents, distributors as well as broadcasting and funding representatives active in the field of co-production.

The European Film Market (EFM) runs for nine days as part of one of the most important film festivals in the world, the Berlinale. Each year, producers, distributors, buyers and sales agents converge at the EFM where both commercial art-house and specialized mainstream are given star billing. It is an opportunity to meet and network with a wide variety of industry colleagues.

BIL - International Film Locations & Movie Tourism Exchange is promoted by the City of Rome's Tourist Department under the patronage of: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Econonomic Development and the ICE - Italian Institude for Foreign Trade. During the Roma International Film Festival on next November 2011 we will present the first meeting point in Europe between tourism and cinema industry: a new appointment for the promotion of territories through cinema and television productions. The first-of-a-kind and typology in Europe for the services offered, BIL is set to be real a "exchange" not only to promote agreements between movie industry and the territories but also to represent an extraordinary opportunity to exchange experiences and an ideal context in which to develop events, conferences and workshops dedicated to professionals in this sector. BIL is also closely linked to the new phenomenon known as "movie induced tourism". This is the kind of tourism that inspires the traveller to visit the places that have been seen in a movie, TV series or a documentary. Once it has been seen by an audience this same place gains the potential to become a trourist destination.

CentEast is a specialised market for films from Central and Eastern Europe, held during the Warsaw International Film Festival. Cent East Market Warsaw is the meeting point of film business professionals: producers, sales agents, distributors, TV buyers, festival programmers, and representatives of film funding bodies, involved and/or interested in films from Central and Eastern Europe.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam launched CineMart more than 25 years ago as a regular film market. However, it quickly became apparent that there was a greater need for a new kind of platform to present projects looking for additional financing. With that in mind, the IFFR remodelled CineMart as an effective co-production market, the first of its kind. Throughout its history, CineMart has proven to be an integral part of the film industry, providing an indispensable platform to support the realization of new film projects and heralding the start of each new film year. The formula of introducing projects to potential co-producers, sales agents, television buyers, distributors and financiers in one-on-one meetings has proven to be so effective that many festivals have used the same blueprint to create their own co-production markets.

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.

DOX:MARKET is a documentary film market running in conjunction with CPH:DOX. DOX:MARKET is a curated market that reflects CPH:DOX's overall interest in visually and artistically strong documentary films. All films selected for an official festival screening at CPH:DOX are automatically included in the digital market.

Cross Video Days is looking for innovative digital content such as webdoc, webseries, short pro-grammes, ARG, crossmedia, transmedia projects...

Founded in 1991, DISCOP is the only television content and formats market strictly targeted at Central & Eastern European marketplaces: television, cable, satellite, DVD, theatrical, mobile and broadband sectors. DISCOP brings key programming, acquisition, production, marketing and "new business" executives from Central and Eastern Europe -- representing broadcasters, thematic channels, regional TV stations, digital TV operators, DVD distributors and local producers as well as a growing number of multiplatform distribution networks -- together with international television content format sales orgranizations. You can establish a secure footprint in this rapidly emerging market by exhibiting at, advertising at, sponsoring during or attending DISCOP.

The Doc Shop is Hot Docs’ documentary market running concurrently with the Festival and conference. Doc Shop offers users an on-demand video library of 1500+ documentaries from which they can browse, select and view films at any one of the 40 on-site computer terminals.

Docs for Sale is a market place for creative documentaries, offering streaming video all year round and excellent network opportunities during IDFA in Amsterdam.

Organized by CoPro - Documentary Marketing Foundation (R.A), DocuShuk is a stimulating platform for the marketing of Israeli documentaries. Invited representatives of local and foreign networks, alongside representatives of Jewish and Arab communities around the world will enjoy as many as 120 newly produced documentaries in a multiply categorized catalogue.

DOK Market is a digital film library available during the DOK Leipzig Film Festival. It offers accredited professional guests the opportunity to view all documentary and animated films featured at the Festival. Additionally we show more than 100 further new documentaries with international appeal and sales potential. The DOK Market consists of 30 viewing stations, located in the impressive Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. The Market films will be promoted through the Market catalogue and online. It is the largest market for documentary films in Germany, its familiar atmosphere and friendly ambiance is particularly well suited for relaxed networking and discovering new documentary gems. Our guests include film professionals, sales companies, commissioning editors, buyers and festival programmers from all over the world.

East Silver is the first documentary market dedicated exclusively to Central and Eastern Europe. Its main goal is to provide an annual overview of new documentary releases, create a comprehensive catalogue and an open video library, accessible to a broad circle of film professionals (broadcasters, major film festivals, sales agents) throughout the year. East Silver is co-organized by the Institute of Documentary Film and the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.

The German Screenings are Germany’s largest programme market and have a long tradition: Every year the international programme buyers and media executives are invited to view the latest German-speaking television programmes

GOEAST PROJECT MARKET takes place in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung during the goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film in Wiesbaden, Germany. It is an opportunity for young filmmakers from Germany and Eastern Europe, with special focus on the Caucasus and the Black Sea region to present their ideas and find potential partners.

Golden Carpathian Market is a regionally-focused business market for TV and Digital Media Content industries from Central and East Europe plus Middle East and Middle Asia countries. The purpose of the event is not only buy and sell content but also to understand specific market demands and trends for audiovisual and digital content, understand what the competition is up to, and forge alliances, distribution partnerships, co-production deals and industry friendships.

The Göteborg Film Festival is the biggest public film festival in Scandinavia. Each year, some 400 films are screened for 110 000 visitors. Additionally, some 60 film related seminars attract roughly 5000 visitors. The aim of the festival is today two-fold. It is an annual opportunity to offer interested viewers a broad program of films that not always reach the cinemas. It is also a meeting place for the Nordic film industry. In 2000 the festival established a market place for Nordic film. The ambition was to strengthen the role of the festival as a Nordic meeting place and to be the interational link to new Nordic films. During four days, new films are screened for an international group of buyers, distributors and festival representatives. The market place, which runs parallel to the ordinary festival, is called the Nordic Film Market and hosts 130-140 specially invited guests each year. It is today the biggest single market place for Nordic films.

The Krakow Film Market is organized by the Krakow Film Foundation along with the Krakow Film Festival. Its main goal is to promote documentary and short film, and to encourage contacts among film professionals. Documentary, feature and animated films can participate in the Market.

For over a decade the media forum (formerly known as the Golden Umbrella Festival) has drawn interest from leading media companies from Central and East Europe and the Black Sea area. This meeting is unique for the reason that this is the only place on the old continent, where professionals from different media get together. They compete for winning the International Media Awards for news, show, radio, press, web and advertising media planning. In the course of the events there is an Exhibition, where participants negotiate for programs, where the newest technologies in the media industry are presented, accompanied by seminars and promotions.