Established in 2001, DocPoint is the largest documentary film festival in the Nordic region. In Finland, it is the only one dedicated solely to documentary films. Every year, the festival offers both a national and an international selection of the latest movies, celebrated classics, and a special selection of documentary films for children. In addition, a wide range of seminars, lectures and workshops is organised. There is no official selection procedure for non-national films. The international program of the festival is based on thematic selections that are not published prior to the presentation of the program. Filmmakers can, nevertheless, send an email with the synopsis of their film or send a screener (DVD or VHS Pal) to DocPoint's address.

DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival will be from 2010 held also in Tallinn. The programme of DocPoint Tallinn focuses on Finnish documentary films but also shows international highlights.

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

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.

DocsBarcelona (Pitching Forum) extended its activities with regard to the general public and in 2007 organized its first showcase of documentary films. The DocsBarcelona Festival was conceived to offer viewers a selection of carefully chosen series of films made by internationally renowned documentary filmmakers. The festival has the following categories: 1/ Panorama - dedicated to recent documentary productions, 2/ Le Dernier Repas - an experienced documentary professional selects his or her favourite documentary films, 3/ History - documentaries with innovative approaches to historical narration, 4/ 12 - 16 - documentaries targeting teenagers between the ages of 12 and 16.

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.

DOCSIDE Production was created in April 2008 by Sylvie Barbe, Jean-Marc Robert and Yves Bourgeois. DOCSIDE Production was formed by - and replaces – MVC (a production company owned by Sylvie Barbe and Jean-Marc Robert, created in 1993) and ATOM, (a production company owned by Yves Bourgeois, created in 1989). This rapprochement between MVC and ATOM arises after several years of working under the same roof and coproducing together (Trafalgar, 52’ for ARTE, Santo Planet Island, 110’ for France 3 and 2 × 52 for France 5). DOCSIDE Production’s goal is to produce documentaries, dramas, and corporate films that bear witness to great human adventures, the discovery and understanding of the world and its history, and that investigate contemporary issues.

The DocsOnline Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization with its main office in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The organization is controlled by an independent management board and employs 4 staff members. The Utrecht office acts as the hub for a network of professional contacts worldwide. Our mission is to support professional documentary makers financially by exposing their work on a wide international scale to a paying audience. The DocsOnline Foundation further aims to encourage the use of documentaries as a valuable resource of information and promote an unrestricted exchange of views and opinions. To this end, the DocsOnline foundation organizes a documentary-on-demand website that is designed to increase public interest worldwide and provide the documentary tradition a lasting presence on the internet, thereby promoting the genre and fostering sales.

Docstories Black Sea – Storytelling in Documentary Film is a workshop aimed at developing creative documentary projects and innovative non-fiction formats in the greater Black Sea region. The workshop is organized in partnership with the Noosfera Foundation (Georgia) and the Georgian National Film Center. Documentary filmmakers, producers, editors, authors, commissioning editors and other TV or media professionals from Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Armenia may apply. A limited number of EU-nationals from countries outside of the Black Sea region will be also accepted as long as they make proof of their interest to co-produce in the greater Black Sea region.

Docu Regio is a two-part training program for European regional producers. The initiative is based on a network of European regions already funding documentary production and promoting co-productions among themselves.

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DocuDays was founded in 1999 with the aim of raising public awareness for the non-fiction genre as an entertaining and informative tool. The Beirut International Documentary Festival is still the premiere festival in the Arab world totally dedicated to documentary films. The programme is divided into an international and a national (pan-Arab) competition (feature, mid-length, short documentary film).

Since 2003, all the documentary hits are traditionally screened at Docudays UA, the only one international human rights documentary film festival in Ukraine. Every year famous filmmakers and talented young screenwriters, film directors and producers from Europe, America, Asia and Africa come to Kyiv to present their films and take part in discussions, round tables, workshops, etc. About 400 films from more than 120 countries were submitted for 8th edition of Docudays UA in 2011. More than 24 000 viewers attended Docudays UA in 2011. Therefore Docudays UA is considered to be the largest information campaign on human rights in Ukraine. The main purpose of the Festival is raising the level of Ukrainian documentary films, promotion of an open dialogue on moral problems in society, human rights, understanding of human dignity as the supreme value, creating the foundation for democratic future of the country. Since 2006, Docudays UA is a member of the Human Rights Film Network (HRFN).

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The Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival (DocuFest Atlanta) brings you the best in independent documentary film and video from across the globe. DocuFest Atlanta showcases meaningful life stories which educate and entertain audiences of every demographic.

Documen.tv distributes independent films and documentaries through VoD. It explores to an alternative way to bring filmmakers´ works directly to the public worldwide, and contributes an independence of prodution and distribution. Documen.tv is dedicated to sharing the resources and revenues with independent producers/filmmakers

The Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival screens films that deal with human rights issues. Document invites applications from both established & emerging documentary filmmakers, to take part in the UK's only festival dedicated to international human rights. We understand human rights in its broadest terms to include a wide range of subjects, and will screen a representative selection of documentary films from home and abroad, addressing issues such as: Immigration & asylum; racism; miscarriages of justice; eviction; poverty; social exclusion; war and conflict; workers / unemployed rights; Africa; Palestine / Israel; Central / Eastern Europe; North & South America; Roma, Gypsies & Travellers; self determination; Central Asian former Soviet republics; mental health & social care; HIV / AIDS; young people; women; human trafficking; indigenous cultures; environmental exploitation & disaster; global policies versus local effects...

The festival wants to develop, strengthen and disseminate documentary film as an audiovisual medium. Documentary film is to be understood as a faithful reflection of the social, cultural, economic, artistic, environmental or any other real situation that can be found in the world. The festival programme comprises of four competitive sections: Original Documentary Section - full-length/short films that are innovative in form or content; Documentary Reporting Competition - informative documentary films dealing with current events; Madrid Competition - documentary films made in Madrid; Avid Xpréssate Documentary Marathon - intended for the directors whose films were selected for competition in any of the previously three sections.

DOCUMENTARIST – Istanbul Documentary Days is an independent initiative run by a group of young documentary filmmakers. Geared towards the new generation of filmmakers and film students as well as the filmlovers, the event is created mainly to support creative documentary filmmaking and to bring the best example of the genre to Istanbul.

documentary (formerly Documentary Channel) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the National Film Board of Canada and four other independent producers. Its programming is devoted to featuring documentary films along with select television series.

The aim of Documentary Campus is to provide advanced training for professionals and up-and-coming talents in the European documentary sector and to make them competitive for the international non-fiction market. Through a variety of workshops, seminars and public symposia with renowned international experts, Documentary Campus tackles special, contemporary themes pertaining to challenges and developments in the international non-fiction market and innovations in the genre. Topics cover among others script development, financing and coproduction skills, legal matters, distribution, marketing and new technologies. The heart of the initiative is the Documentary Campus Masterschool for project development. In a ten-months course, 15 European participants - authors, directors, producers and commissioning editors - develop documentary projects for the international market. They are being mentored by two internationally experienced tutors active in the non-fiction sector. Besides they take part in four workshops and pursue an internship in an internationally operating production or distribution company.

Documentary Campus is honoured to present a three-day industry event (March 11 - 13, 2011) during the acclaimed One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague (March 8 - 17). Thought-provoking panels and case studies for industry professionals will be run parallel with workshops in low-budget and online production for newcomers. Registration deadline: March 6, 2011.

The Documentary Campus Masterschool, a European masterclass in project development of documentary films for an international audience, forms the central core of our training initiative. It offers professionals a unique opportunity to find their way into the international non-fiction market and get their documentary project financed. Under the aegis of the Documentary Campus Masterschool, which makes a call for submissions once a year, up to 15 European authors and directors develop their documentaries. The range of genres developed in the Masterschool encompasses all kinds of creative documentaries, series, formats or multiplatform. All non-fiction formats that are internationally distributed are supported. The Masterschool consists of four main workshops that target story development and scriptwriting; international coproduction and financing; distribution and marketing; and project presentation and pitching. Highlights of the newly designed Masterschool 2013 include: A broader range of projects to include multiplatform, two-screen formats, specialist factual, series and one-offs Deeper industry engagement More focused mentoring program Closer relationship to funds and foundations A shorter, accelerated development period On-going support after the pitch from dedicated financing experts European documentary professionals are welcome to send in their applications for the 2013 Documentary Campus Masterschool before 10 December, 2012. We are looking for: All types of factual media: television series, one-offs, creative docs, multiplatform or two-screen formats. Genre films, such as history, science, arts, wildlife, natural history, environment, human interest. Great stories that need additional development before being pitched internationally. Stories and characters that can reach global audiences.