The EuroForum Audiovisual Co-production Market is organized as part of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. Euroforum was established with the aim of providing space for the promotion of national and international feature film coproductions. It is a forum for European directors who can present their projects to producers, distributors and investors in order to establish new agreements of cooperation which will allow them to promote film projects of great quality. Every year the event includes approx. 30 film projects from Spain and other European countries.

FIDLab, the professional platform of the FIDMarseille, arose from a desire to help jump-start the production of fragile and unusual works - fiction or documentary projects at any stage of production. Neither a market nor a forum for promotion, the FIDLab wants to create a dynamic framework where production and artistic activities can intersect and expand. Selected filmmakers will be invited for the duration of the FIDLab where they will be able to benefit from the privileged environment offered by the festival, thereby increasing their production potential. Every year the FIDLab will select film projects from those submitted and will organize for each director/producer individual meetings with producers, distributors, sellers, and international sponsors. Filmmakers will also present their project during a meeting with the audience. After the festival, the FIDLab will provide a follow-up for contacts, accompanying the filmmakers and producers until their films are finished.

The aim of The Financing Forum for Kids Content is to promote and enhance co-production and distribution possibilities for high quality multi-faceted screen content for children's media: Film, TV, Cross- and Transmedia.

Francophone Co-production Meetings are organised by the Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles du Québec (SODEC), with the support of the Centre du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel, Communauté française de Belgique et Wallonie-Bruxelles Images, the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), the Film Fund Luxembourg, the Office fédéral de la Culture Duisse, SwissFilms, Téléfilm Canada, TV5 Monde, and in collaboration with ACE and EAVE.

The Holland Film Meeting (HFM) is a sidebar of the Netherlands Film Festival that provides a series of business-oriented events for the international professionals in attendance. The HFM consists of the Benelux Screenings, the Netherlands Production Platform (NPP), professional workshops and panels, the Variety Cinema Militants Programme and the Binger-Screen International Interview. Each year, a maximum of 25 feature films in development are selected and introduced to a selected group of international industry professionals, sales agents, producers, distributors and broadcasters during the Netherlands Production Platform. Designed as a 4-day event where filmmakers and financers meet and discuss, the focus is on reviewing the stories, international appeal and consequently market potential of the projects.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary festival and features the renowned two-day Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF). Launched in 2000, the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF) is widely regarded as the most effective international market in North America for the documentary industry. Over 150 key international broadcasters from Europe, Australia, Japan, the USA and Canada regularly attend, and both participating and observing producers report high success rates for their projects. The TDF is a dynamic presentation forum that aims to stimulate international co-production financing for projects at various levels of completion. Selected documentary producers publicly pitch their projects to a round-table of international commissioning editors, financiers and buyers, while accredited TDF Observers look on.

The FORUM is the largest and most influential meeting place for documentary filmmakers, producers, commissioning editors, funds, private financiers and other documentary stakeholders in Europe. We exist to help facilitate the financing of important, unique and ground-breaking creative documentaries, whether these be single docs, series or emerging new media formats. Like IDFA itself, the FORUM puts the creative documentary first, and our focus is continually trained upon a shifting documentary landscape in which cross-media projects are becoming as prevalent as traditional linear documentaries.During the three days of the FORUM approximately 50 independent producer/director teams pitch their projects (selected in advance by FORUM doc experts) within different pitch set-ups determined by subject matter, stage of financing and stage of development. The FORUM is the place where broadcasters, co-producers, distributors, film funds and sales agents can identify, isolate and invest in the creative documentary product that will form the basis of their ongoing business. The public pitch formats consist of the traditional Central Pitches and the more intimate Round Table Pitches. Approximately 20 Central Pitch projects and 25 Round Table Pitch projects are selected each year. The FORUM organises a further 600 one-on-one meetings between filmmaking teams and parties who express a strong interest in their project. Central Pitches take place in the main hall of Amsterdam’s Compagnietheater, where some 25 commissioning editors from leading international broadcasters are in attendance, alongside 300 observers. This pitch set-up offers maximum exposure for you and your project. Leading independent producers and newcomers alike take turns pitching their fledgling projects before a question-and-answer session during which the commissioning editors get to grips with what they are being asked to consider investing in. Two moderators stimulate post-pitch discussion to encourage financiers to commit to the project. In the Round Table set-up, projects at any stage of development (from script to rough cut) and with or without funding are pitched within an intimate setting to a small group of commissioning editors, and other financiers who have indicated a specific interest in the project. This setting allows for a more informal discussion of the film’s style and content. Round Table Pitches also enable all parties to engage in more in-depth discussion after the pitch. The Individual Meetings Projects are designed for projects submitted to the FORUM but not developed sufficiently for public pitching. The producers will get the chance to meet experts in the field during the one-on-one meetings. They will be on hand to advise on the subsequent development of the projects. (Note: You cannot apply for this category. The FORUM committee will decide on the project selection out of all project submissions.) If you are a producer without a selected project in the FORUM, you can attend as an observer. This offers an invaluable opportunity to network with leading professionals in the documentary field, and to observe at first hand how the event works in terms of what broadcasters are looking for and how best to prepare for future applications and attendance. Furthermore, the FORUM offers a series of services and training opportunities to help you make the most of your pitch and your time at IDFA. From the EDN pitch training, expert meetings, and industry publications, to social events and plenty of networking opportunities.

Impact Pitch is a free and open platform and invites filmmakers and Impact Producers from anywhere. Impact Pitch connects stories with audiences. Through Impact Pitch, filmmakers seek the help of Impact Producers to get their films seen. Impact Producers are people who think a certain film should be seen by as many people as possible because the story is beautiful, urgent, revealing, entertaining, or for any number of possible reasons. Impact Producers can be individuals, organisations, NGOs, social networks, or basically anybody who is connected to social or professional networks.

The InkTip Pitch Summit is a two-day event designed for professional and committed screenwriters. Just like InkTip.com, InkTip Pitch Summit is focused on getting results, so we’re changing the writer/company ratio to allow writers to take meetings with an average of 35 companies in one day. That’s up to three times the average of other pitch events.

The fourth edition of Latin Side of the Doc will take place in Mexico for the first time, a co-production audiovisual meeting that focuses on the documentary genre, in which filmmakers, producers, TV production companies and funds; this event will take place in Mexico City from November 7 to 9, 2012. A three-day co-production and networking event it will gather Producers and Decision Makers from both sides of the Atlantic initiate international co-production projects, share their experiences and mutual needs, and strive to build a strong international documentary filmmaking network. This initiative emerges from the collaboration between Sunny Side of the Doc, an important International co-production meeting with La Rochelle, France as its host city, and DocsDF, the International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City.

Lisbon Docs is an international financing and coproduction forum for documentary film, organized by EDN (European Documentary Network) and AporDoc (The Portuguese Documentary Association), which takes place in the framework of doclisboa - International Film Festival. During Lisbon Docs, 21 documentary projects will be developed in the intense workshop, pitched to a panel of leading broadcasters and individually matched for meeting with potential collaborators. Lisbon Docs is open for all European documentary professionals and has a limited number of seats for participants coming from outside Europe. Submissions are accepted from professionals, who want to take part in an intense creative dialogue and development process as well as present their project to potential financiers and co-producers. In the past Lisbon Docs has proven to be successful in pushing filmmakers into the international scene.

MDOX is the yearly industry meeting for the Swedish documentary scene consisting of master classes, work in progress sessions, film screenings and a pitch for Swedish broadcaster SVT. MDOX is organised by the local film fund Film i Skåne. EDN Film Consultant Ove Rishøj Jensen will be present and organise part of the program.

A unique euromediterranean documentary market. An exclusive selection of documentary projects, films and programmes, aiming to enhance the professional and creative exchange between the 12 Mediterranean countries and 25 EU countries, encouraging the development, promotion and distribution of European and Mediterranean audio-visual works. This small-scale event is intended to improve on the promotion and development of new European and Mediterranean independent production of documentary films and the networking of audio-visual professionals and operators.

In order to support international distribution, the Málaga Film Festival created two international markets in 2001: Market Screenings and Mercadoc, to which TV Market and Art TV were added in 2005. Mercadoc is a specialized market which presents only Spanish, Portuguese or Latin-American documentary production, of any length, genre and theme, as well as documentaries from any other country – especially European – as long as the subject matter is related to Spain, Latin America, Portugal or the United States Hispanic community. Mercadoc also offers a Project Bourse, organized in collaboration with the European Documentary Network (EDN). The Bourse will entail a Project Forum and Pitching Sessions.

The aim of the Netherlands Production Platform (NPP) is to encourage co-production collaboration between the Netherlands and other countries, especially those with a similar production capacity. A presentation of Dutch and European feature films in development for a select group of international professionals - financiers, distributors, sales agents and commissioning editors, who assess the international appeal and consequently the market potential of the projects.

The aim of the European Short Pitch is to develop a European production of short film through promotion of projects starting from the phase of writing, by meetings between scriptwriters/directors and producers on the European level. Starting co-production in the writing stage would improve the financial development of short films, and thus their economic viability and European visibility. And also experiencing European co-production in short film, fostering contacts between young producers on small-scale projects economically speaking, would make the step to feature film production easier. Then, several European producers could combine their means and energies for discovering new talents, supporting them on their way to directing a first feature.

Since its establishment in 1994, Filmkontakt Nord has organised Nordisk Forum in conjunction with Nordisk Panorama - 5 Cities Film Festival. Nordisk Forum has developed into the main funding event for professionals involved in the Nordic documentary community, taking place during the Festival in order to maximise the professional benefits of the event. During Nordisk Forum a maximum of 26 new documentary projects are presented to the ca. 40 attending financiers. Based on the results of previous years, more than 70% of the projects are expected to secure financing as a result. In addition, observers and film school students attend Nordisk Forum for an intensive educational experience, experiencing the professional financing process first hand.

Pitch.Doc, a documentary pitching session, takes place under the Tbilisi International Film festival (TIFF). The Pitching Session is open for documentary film projects in development. Georgia, as convenient geographical location, has an important role being meeting point for neighbors like Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Moldova. We would like to use this opportunity in order to create an open space for meeting documentary filmmakers from different countries. Furthermore, to give them a chance to find additional funding sources fortheir projects. Why documentary? Project participant countries, all having the same communist past, are still in difficult transitional process from being a Soviet state to becoming European country. This effort is complicated, but very interesting to depict, especially for documentary filmmakers. We hope that meeting will support co-productions and collaborations between participant countries and create useful networking platform in future. www.sakdoc.ge

Power to the Pixel is a company dedicated to supporting film and the wider media in its transition to a digital age with a passion for connecting creative talent to audiences. All its cross-media services are dedicated to a core idea that success is driven by knowledge – most critically of how to work in a rapidly-evolving, customer-driven international market.

The Realscreen Summit is the most important non-fiction film & television industry event. Now in its 12th year, this highly anticipated annual event is dedicated to the development of business and creative opportunities for those in non-fiction and factual programming and content creation. In partnership with realscreen magazine, the ongoing mandate is to identify the best new ideas, recognize top industry talent, offer the forum for discussion and debate, explore issues and uncover trends and ultimately create an international network of connected individuals leading to business growth and career development.

Young scriptwriters, directors, actors, producers and film critics from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey are invited to take part in Sarajevo Talent Campus.

Sofia Meetings is an event, supported by Media Programme fo the European Commission. It has two modules: Second Films Pitching - presentation of first, second and third feature film projects, looking for financial support and co-producers. Balkan Screenings - showcase of the latest Bulgarian and regional feature and short films fro directors and programmers from different international festivals, world sales companies and journalists.

Sunny Side provides a unique and targeted venue for meetings with documentary professionals on the spot as well as participation in various forums, case studies and screenings in order to understand the market and its latest trends. Apart from this, Sunny Side of the Doc is the place to find financing for your next project. More than 1800 professionals attend the event every year. The market organizes meetings with commissioning editors, buyers and the documentary film market's newest talent, and offers forums and workshops to understand the latest technological and financial issues facing the profession. Other activities: The Best International Projects Showcase is a daily theme-based pitch sessions with key decision makers specialized in each theme; Innovations space: latest-generation breakthroughs, innovative production and shooting methods, alternative distribution and networks; indispensable catalogues; professional and public screenings series.

The Galway Film Fleadh – Ireland’s leading film festival, is a six day international film event held every July and welcomes a mad diversity of filmmaking from around the world. The Fleadh is very much a film lovers’ festival, and attracts directors, actors, cinematographers and artists of all generations and cultural backgrounds, who present their work before their peers.

The Good Pitch is a one-day live event bringing together specially selected foundations, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, broadcasters and potential corporate and brand partners to form powerful alliances around groundbreaking films. 8 filmmaking teams will pitch their film and its associated outreach campaign to the assembled audience with the aim of creating a unique coalition around each film to maximise its impact and influence.