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.

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Documentary Development: Roads to Funding Hosted by 'Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation. Using case studies this presentation will outline the importance of your documentary development from writing a proposal to delivering a trailer. Luke Moody (Editorial Assistant) and Sarah Mosses (Good Screenings Producer) of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation will demonstrate some strategies to get your film funded and into production. They'll also introduce you to a wealth of resources to pursue. Dogwoof presents the Ambassadors Programme Anna Sissons, Outreach Co-ordinator at Dogwoof, will be presenting the company’s new initiative in film distribution, the Ambassadors Programme. Dogwoof, the leading distributor in social issue films and documentaries, is allowing access to its new releases so that they may be premiered regionally by individuals across the country. Ambassadors are given the opportunity to represent a flourishing distributor, bring films of social importance to their community, and become film entrepreneurs in the process. Anna explains the benefits, the set up and how this is the future in film distribution.

This Coaching Programme is one of the Binger Filmlab projects. Binger Filmlab is an Amsterdam based international feature-film development centre where talented writers, directors, producers and script editors from around the world can place both their projects and their usual working practices within an inspiring environment of fellow filmmakers, to be coached and supported by internationally acclaimed mentors and advisors.

DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival New Zealand is an international competitive documentary film festival. It aims to foster and promote the art of documentary film-making cinema and to facilitate in New Zealand the meeting of documentary film from all around the world. The festival accepts films in three different categories: short (less than 30 minutes), medium (30 to 70 minutes) and feature (over 70 minutes) documentary films. Preference is given to New Zealand or world premieres.

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 Educational Resources is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 for the purpose of producing and distributing cross-cultural documentary film for educational use. Our company focus then and now is to support filmmakers who have long-term commitments to the people that they film. We find that filmmakers who work collaboratively with their subjects produce film with integrity. It is also our focus to distribute media that has the power to overcome barriers to cross-cultural understanding. Media can be the first step in growing sensitivity and awareness of other cultures. Our archive is one of the most historically important resources of ethnographic film in the world today. In 1975 DER co-founders John Marshall and Timothy Asch were key figures in establishing the Human Studies Film Archives at the Smithsonian Institution and their bodies of work are among the most significant ethnographic collections within the HSFA. We continue to collaborate with the Smithsonian on the use of our films for research. Our films have been screened everywhere, from villages and refugee camps in Africa and Native American reservations, to classrooms, museums and theaters worldwide.

The Documentary Film Centre serves as a meeting point for anyone interested in documentary films. It is the Centre’s job to collect, research and promote German and international films and TV documentaries. The range includes artistic and socially committed documentaries| industrial, nature, educational and cultural films as well as journalistic forms such as reports, features and documentation. The Documentary Film Centre organizes regular conferences on the current and historical developments of documentary film. It also offers workshops and symposiums on subjects relating to film and television production.

Diverse insights into contemporary developments in documentary film production, is increasingly pervasive and widely accepted art form. Political, socially documentaries, portrait documentaries, movies about myths and cultural icons and intimate portraits.

King Sigismund College (Budapest, Hungary) with the support of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary is organizing a three-day film screening and international conference on the latest developments in the theory of documentary cinema and contemporary Hungarian documentaries. The organizers offer a full day of film projections, interspersed with Q&A sessions with the creators of the films. Then on the second day, international and Hungarian scholars will present lectures on the latest trends in documentary filmmaking and documentary theory.

The Documentary Filmmakers Group is a comprehensive resource for those involved in, or interested in the art and production of documentary film and video. We provide professional, convenient and affordable training in touch with the needs of documentary filmmakers at various stages of their careers. Over the past few years, DFG Training has established an international reputation as a professional training centre and point of exchange between established and new producers, directors, researchers, editors, crews and visual artists.

The Documentary Filmmakers Group - DFG - is the national organisation working to promote documentary filmmaking talent and innovation in the UK. A single aim links all our work: to encourage, stimulate, promote and support the growth of a strong community of documentary filmmakers and film audiences. We have been running since 2001, operating as a non-profit organisation. Our presence, our activities and our community continue to expand, showing that there is real demand for a group dedicated to serving the needs of documentary film in all its aspects. DFG is the leading provider of industry-focussed training for established and aspiring documentary filmmakers and a member of the elite Skillset Media Academy Network. We run a range of networking, information and advice events for documentary filmmakers at different stages in their careers, as well as pitching opportunities and screenings. We also provide a number of resources for our members, a growing community of documentary filmmakers. Through our unique partnership with the award-winning Mosaic Films, DFG provides a combined level of expertise that positions us to collaborate on a range of exciting training and film production initiatives in partnership with Channel 4, Five, and ITV, amongst other organisations. In keeping with our mission statement, these initiatives are designed either to promote talent, diversity and equal opportunities within the documentary filmmaking industry, or to promote innovation in a particular strand of documentary programming.

Final Cut Pro Editing Week covers the fundamentals of documentary editing, using industry relevant equipment, Final Cut Pro software and important areas such as preparing a project for the edit and the Grammar of Editing.

You will learn how to access, analyse and use information in a confident manner: how to make the best use of the Internet for film research, how to access archive footage and stills and how to find contributors and locations.

A resource page providing numerous information aboutfilmmakers, festivals, film sites, TV, interview, reviews.

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 Documentary Network acts as a place to come together for reflection and discussion, to ensure that documentary maintains its essential position in the world of cinema. The Network aims to ensure that documentary plays its rightful role in the defence of democracy, tolerance, and open-mindedness. It encourages speaking out and public debate sparked by films that tackle the issues, aspirations and values of society. The Network works to improve the conditions that enable Canadian POV documentary creation and production and to facilitate access to POV documentary for all audiences.

Eight to ten young film authors/makers from Georgia, Armenia and North Caucasus will be hosted in a writing residency for a two-week workshop, aiming to: - Carry out a diagnostic and detailed critical analysis of their projects, - Develop an actual documentary script for their project, - And finally, carry out exercises in rough video sketches. Two tutors from France, both writer and director, will mentor the programme. The best documentary filmmakers involved in the Caucasus Eurasiadoc residency will have the opportunity to attend the co-production meetings at the Golden Apricot International Film Festival, in Yerevan, in July 2013, to pitch their project developed during the writing residency.

Documentary blog that attempts at grappling some of the deeper issues that arise in both popular media and academic discourses.

VOD-Platform with free streaming of documentaries, plus filmmaker support, news, articles, tutorials. Producers can promote their films and projects for free.

DocumentaryTech is an open-source collaborative project exploring documentary filmmaking techniques and technology.

DocuMentor is the only professional organization of Romanian documentary filmmakers. Its members are personalities of Romanian documentary film.

DocumFest International Festival is organized by TVR Timişoara (the Regional Studio of the Romanian National Television, which broadcasts for the South-Western area of Romania), in partnership with The City Hall and the City Council of Timişoara, the Timis County Council and co-organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute.