DOKweb

DOKweb Content

www.DOKweb.net is a portal dedicated to East European documentary film. The news section provides up-to-date information on upcoming and just completed films, interviews with filmmakers and other documentary professionals, in-depth articles exploring the state of documentary filmmaking in various parts of the region, as well as insightful texts on current trends, funding, etc. The portal also boasts the largest published databases of completed and upcoming documentary films from Eastern Europe, an industry directory, as well as trailers and original video content. www.DOKweb.net is IDF´s key online project that provides comprehensive details on all IDF´s activities and links them with general information service.

Institute of Documentary Film’s Activities

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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.

AFIC - Association of Italian Film Festival

Country Italy Type of link Organization/Institute

AFIC - Associazione Festival Italiani di Cinema was established in 2004 in order to coordinate the network of film festivals in Italy, with the aim of promoting film culture in the country. AFIC wants to make the festival network more regulated and transparent in order to encourage support from sponsors, funding bodies and the general public.

Contact

AFIC - Association of Italian Film Festival
Via Villafranca, 20
00185 Rome

Phone:

+39 064 456 643

Fax:

+39 064 911 63

WWW:

www.aficfestival.it

Email:

info@aficfestival.it

AFiS - Asociace Film & Sociologie

Country Czech Republic Type of link Producer

Contact

AFiS - Asociace Film & Sociologie
Pod Zvonařkou 10
120 00 Praha 2

Phone:

+420 222 561 410

WWW:

www.afis.cz

Email:

fas@seznam.cz

Africa Film Festival

Country Belgium Type of link Festival Event month March

The festival first took place in 1996 and its programme offers a variety of African feature, short and documentary films. Debates with filmmakers, actors and experts have long been part of the festival. The festival aims to present Africa not as a place of unrest but as a versatile assembly of regions with an inherent treasury of cultural products that withstand every critical probe.

Contact

Africa Film Festival
Elfnovemberlaan 29
3010 Leuven

Phone:

+32 495 86 84 68

WWW:

www.afrikafilmfestival.be

Email:

guido.huysmans@skynet.be

Africa in Motion - Edinburgh African Film Festival

Country United Kingdom Type of link Festival Section fiction, documentary Formats Beta SP, Digi Beta, DV, HD Deadline month May Event month October

Africa in Motion accepts entries from all filmmakers of African nationality working in Africa or abroad. The festival is particularly interested in giving exposure to young, emerging African filmmakers living and working in Africa. Films could be fiction, animation, experimental or documentary and shot in any format. Fiction films should be no longer than 40 minutes and documentaries no longer than 60 minutes.

Contact

Africa in Motion - Edinburgh African Film Festival
148/8 Lower Granton Road
EH5 1EY Edinburgh

Phone:

+44 (0)7807 485 058

WWW:

www.africa-in-motion.org.uk

Email:

info@africa-in-motion.org.uk

Africa in the Picture Film Festival

Country The Netherlands Type of link Festival Deadline month June Event month October

The festival was first held in 1987 as a retrospective of African cinema but has gradually evolved into Europe’s biggest African film festival. The programme focuses on new productions. Each year as many filmmakers as possible are invited. Their presence makes for very lively screenings, and boosts the debate with audiences and among the filmmakers. In 2005, the festival became an annual event, featuring films (some in open-air screenings) from Africa and its Diaspora (the Americas, Europe, Surinam, and the Caribbean). The festival screenings take place in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven.

Contact

Africa in the Picture Film Festival
Nieuwe Leliestraat 169
1015 HB Amsterdam

Phone:

+31 (0)20 622 7151

Fax:

+31 (0)20 627 1544

WWW:

www.africainthepicture.nl

Email:

festival@aitp.nl

Africa International Film Festival

Country Nigeria Type of link Festival Section short, fiction, documentary, animated Deadline month July Event month November

The Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) is a platform for the world to zoom in on the talent and beauty of Africa through film. Starting December 2010, it will hold yearly in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria hosting both local and international filmmakers, celebrities, actors, directors, film buyers, distributors, visual artists, film students, amateurs, film lovers and the press.

Contact

Africa International Film Festival
5th floor, Delta-Afrik Engineering Building,
Plot 1367, Adetokunbo Ademola Street
Victoria Island, Lagos

WWW:

www.africafilmfest.com

Email:

info@africafilmfest.com

Africalia

Country Belgium Type of link Funding

Africalia is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2001 and aims to make a contribution to sustainable development based on the needs and priorities of people and organizations in Africa. Africalia wants to draw public attention to contemporary African art and culture, particularly in Belgium. Africalia organizes a variety of cultural events and supports contemporary African art - in the audiovisual field, cultural organizations based in Africa can apply for a grant of up to 25,000 euro for projects in these categories: film, radio, documentary / animated / short films, postproduction and distribution of feature films.

Contact

Africalia
Boulevard Leopold II 170
1080 Brussels

Phone:

+32 (0)2 412 58 80

Fax:

+32 (0)2 412 58 90

WWW:

www.africalia.be

Email:

africalia@africalia.be

Afrique Taille XL

Country Belgium Type of link Festival

The festival was founded in 2005 in order to introduce African cinema to Belgian audiences. The programme includes the following sections and events: AfriCannes - a selection of films that were featured at the Cannes Intl. Film Festival; Goûter au réel - documentary films; a selection of short films, debates, seminars and lectures.

Contact

Afrique Taille XL
2 Rue Saint Boniface
1050 Brussels

Phone:

+32 2 652 35 66

Fax:

+32 2 652 35 66

WWW:

www.afriquetaillexl.com

Email:

info@afriquetaillexl.com

After Image Productions

Country Austria Type of link Organization/Institute, Producer

After Image Productions works in the area of film and cinema since 1988 and initiates and conceptualises events that also incorporate other artistic and scientific disciplines. The discovery and establishment of new venues is an important part of its concept and this includes a nomadic search for motifs and content. Important factors for the form of the events are the discourse with the development of the media and changes in society as well as the use of the analytical gaze of cinema.

Contact

After Image Productions
Goethegasse 1
A-1010 Vienna

Phone:

+43 158 523 240

Fax:

+43 158 523 2422

WWW:

www.afterimage.at

Email:

office@afterimage.at

AG DOK - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm

Country Germany Type of link Organization/Institute

The German Documentary Association / AG DOK is the largest professional association of independent producers in Germany, numbering more than 800 members. It is the first and foremost film and media lobbyist for the documentary genre, but is open to representatives from all film genres.

Contact

AG DOK - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm
Schweizer Straße 6
D-60594 Frankfurt am Main

Phone:

+49 696 237 00

Fax:

+49 614 296 6424

WWW:

www.agdok.de

Email:

agdok@agdok.de

AG Studio, s.r.o.

Country Slovak Republic Type of link Producer

Production company.

Contact

AG Studio, s.r.o.
Azalkova 8
821 01 Bratislava

Phone:

+421-2-4329 3544

Fax:

+421-2-4329 3544

Email:

agstudio@euroweb.sk

Agadir Filmproduktion AB

Country Sweden Type of link Producer

Production company

Contact

Agadir Filmproduktion AB
Sibyllegatan 43
114 42 Stockholm

Phone:

+46 (0)8 651 15 12

WWW:

www.agadir.se

Email:

info@agadir.se

Against Gravity sp. z o. o.

Country Poland Type of link Distributor

Against Gravity is a film distribution company founded in Poland in 2004. It distributes high-quality documentary and feature films. Its distribution channels include i.a. theaters, public and private television, VOD, home video and internet cinemas. Against Gravity has distributed such titles, as Oscar-nominated "Waltz with Bashir", Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the end of the world", "It might get loud!" and Patrice Chereau's "Persecution". Against Gravity is also the organizer of Planete Doc Film Festival (formerly known as Planete Doc Review), one of the major documentary film festivals in Europe. Planete Doc is a member of a prestigious Doc Alliance - a partnership which emerged as a result of the co-operative effort of five key European documentary film festivals – CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc and VISIONS DU REEL Nyon.

Contact

Against Gravity sp. z o. o.
Widok 5/7/9 lok. 410
00-023 Warsaw

Phone:

+48 22 828 10 79

Fax:

+48 22 828 10 79

WWW:

www.againstgravity.pl

Email:

info@docreview.pl

Agat Films

Country France Type of link Producer

Contact

Agat Films
52, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud
75011 Paris

Phone:

+33 153 363 232

Fax:

+33 143 570 022

WWW:

www.agatfilms.com/

Email:

sarah@agatfilms.com

Age d'Or Prize & Cinédécouvertes Prizes

Country Belgium Type of link Festival

As a tribute to Luis Bunuel’s masterpiece, the Royal Belgian Film Archive awards the Age d’Or Prize to a film of which the authenticity, the peculiarity of purpose and of style mark a break with cinematographic uniformity. This prize amounting to €5000 is granted by the Jacques Ledoux Foundation. During this same competition the Jury will also award two Cinédécouvertes (Film Discovery) Prizes. These prizes (€ 10.000 each), financed by the French Community of Belgium, are granted to two films unreleased in Belgium, which have not yet found a local distributor. The Age d’Or prize and one of the Cinédécouvertes prizes can be awarded to the same film.

Contact

Age d'Or Prize & Cinédécouvertes Prizes
Cinémathèque royale de Belgique
3 rue Ravenstein, Hôtel de Clèves
1000 Brussels

Phone:

+32 2 551 19 19

Fax:

+31 2 551 19 55

WWW:

www.ledoux.be/fr/age_d_or.htm

Email:

agedor@ledoux.be

Agence Culturelle d'Alsace

Country France Type of link Organization/Institute, Funding

Founded in 1976, Agence Culturelle d'Alsace is a non-profit organization that provides artistic and production resources for the implementation of various projects in the field of performing and visual arts and in the film and audiovisual sector.

Contact

Agence Culturelle d'Alsace
1 route de Marckolsheim
BP 90025
67601 Sélestat Cedex

Phone:

+33 388 588 758

Fax:

+33 388 588 750

WWW:

www.culture-alsace.org

Email:

agence@culture-alsace.org

Agence du Court Métrage

Country France Type of link Organization/Institute

L’Agence du court métrage is an association founded in 1983 by a group of professionals (directors, producers and distributors) wanting to improve the uncertain environment that short film industry experienced in the late 1970’s. The aim was to promote and develop the screening of short films in France, in order to have the films recognised as works of art in the true sense of the word. Today L’Agence du court métrage has become a cinema library of some 10,000 films. It is also working on providing the sector with a structure, as well as developing the screening of short films in France and abroad. Now more than ever, it provides a link between those who make short films and those who screen them.

Contact

Agence du Court Métrage
2, rue de Tocqueville
75017 Paris

Phone:

+33 144 692 660

Fax:

+33 144 692 669

WWW:

www.agencecm.com

Email:

info@agencecm.com

Agence pour le développement régional du cinéma

Country France Type of link Organization/Institute, Funding

The aim of ADRC is to support country-wide access to cinema, to encourage diversity of cinemas, films and audiences, and to maintain and develop local cinemas. ADRC gives subsidies for the restoration of classic films and for the production of additional prints.

Contact

Agence pour le développement régional du cinéma
4, avenue Marceau
75008 Paris

Phone:

+33 1 56 89 20 30

Fax:

+33 1 56 89 20 40

WWW:

www.adrc-asso.org

Agencia da Curta Metragem

Country Portugal Type of link Distributor

Distributor

Contact

Agencia da Curta Metragem
Apartado 214
4481-911 Vila do Conde

Phone:

+351 252 646 683

Fax:

+351 252 638 027

WWW:

www.curtasmetragens.pt

Email:

agencia@curtasmetragens.pt

Agência da Curta Metragem - Portuguese Short Film Agency

Country Portugal Type of link Organization/Institute

ACM was created in January 1999. ACM activity consists in the promotion and diffusion of short films at film festivals, exhibitions and short film markets, as well as by all potential exhibitors (distributors, television channels, etc.) at worldwide level, without cost to Portuguese producers.

Contact

Agência da Curta Metragem - Portuguese Short Film Agency
Apartado 214
4481-911 Vila do Conde

Phone:

+351 252 646 683

Fax:

+351 252 248 416

WWW:

www.curtasmetragens.pt/agencia

Email:

agencia@curtas.pt

Agencja Dystrybucji Filmowej

Country Poland Type of link Distributor

Agencja Filmowa for Polish TV

Country Poland Type of link Distributor

Contact

Agencja Filmowa for Polish TV
Woronicza 17
00999 Warszawa

Phone:

+48 22 547 8501

Fax:

+48 22 547 4248

Email:

bwz@waw.tvp.pl

Agencja Producentów Filmowych Sp. z o.o.

Country Poland Type of link Producer

Contact

Agencja Producentów Filmowych Sp. z o.o.
ul. Puławska 61
Warszawa

Agentura Koniklec o.s.

Country Czech Republic Type of link Organization/Institute

Founded in 1992, Agentura Koniklec is a non-profit association that focuses on efficient practices and the implementation of uncommon environmental projects and programmes.