Doc/it – Italian Documentary Association is known in and outside of Italy as the official association representing producers and filmmakers in the Italian Documentary Film Industry. The purpose of Doc/it is to promote the documentary genre, to nurture its growth and to work towards its widest possible diffusion. In order to fulfill this mission, Doc/it operates on many different fronts: - Coordinating and encouraging the work of firms and filmmaker in the field; - Participating in and contributing to festivals, exhibitions and markets; - Improving institutional awareness; - Promoting projects, research, cataloguing, archives, and the collection of projects and information; - Organizing workshops, seminars and courses in order to spread the culture of the documentary.

DocClub is a documentary filmmaker safeguarding organization. The founders believe that a strong professional safeguarding organization would be able to help create the conditions for quality and open-minded documentary making in Hungary, and lead to competitive production. The members find the present situation of the Hungarian documentary film untenable, because its position is taken by popular news, reports of inferior quality and pseudo-documentaries.

DocHouse was formed to support and promote documentary in the UK. DocHouse aims to: increase participation and develop new audiences for documentaries in the cinema, on television and emerging media; create easier access to UK and international documentary; promote the use of documentary through education at all levels; nurture and encourage new talent for the future.

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.

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 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.

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

DFI is dedicated to film appreciation, education, and building a dynamic film industry in Qatar that focuses on nurturing regional storytellers while being entirely global in its scope. With culture, community, education and entertainment at its foundation, DFI serves as an all-encompassing film hub in Doha, as well as a resource for the region and the rest of the world. We firmly believe in the power of film to change hearts and minds, and our motto reflects the sentiment that “Film is Life”.

The Association of Austrian Documentary Filmmakers was established in 1999 and represents the interests of documentary filmmakers in Austria. Dok.at is also active in all debates concerning media and film policies in Austria; lobbies for the improvement of funding conditions for independent filmmakers, esp. in the field of documentary film; aims to make documentary films more accessible both to cinema audiences and TV viewers; supports the improvement of current distribution channels and the creation of new ones; provides information about Austrian documentary professionals.

Dokukino Croatia is a cinema that is dedicated exclusively to documentary film.

The Finnish Documentary Guild was founded in 1996. The organization is a national forum for all professionals, students, producers and critics associated with documentary films. It also serves as an intermediary group between the European Documentary Network (EDN) and the Finnish documentary filmmakers. The Finnish Documentary Guild organizes meetings, seminars, screenings, debates, excursions, workshops, training, etc. Currently there are approx. 200 members in the Guild.

Civic association „Docs, Youth & Society, c.a.“ was founded in October 2006 and has been following the activities of the company Sunfilm Productions s.r.o. Its activities since 2006 are these: 1. Distribution of the project „Lost Neighbours – Teen Cameras Search for Traces of Jewish Fellow-Citizens“ 2. Production of the audio-visual project „Daughters of the Enemy“, one part of this project are the Audiovisual Testimonies of the Daughters 3. Development of the feature-length documentary „Schkola Without Borders“ about the common everyday life of Czech, German and Polish children (supported by EU, the Media Programme).

DOORS Art Foundation is a non-profit art foundation founded in January 2004 in New York City. Its main goal is to create cross-cultural dialog between Croatia and the US as a vital step in the affirmation of the Croatian cultural heritage worldwide. DOORS Art Foundation hopes that bringing Croatian literature, visual arts, music and other forms of cultural expression to American audiences will foster a deeper understanding of the range of the past and present accomplishments in Croatian art, and that this exchange will create a further impetus for artistic creativity and a renewed interest in the work of contemporary and future Croatian artists.

Danish trade union of actors, opera singers, dancers, and choreographers. DSF was founded in 1904 as one of the first professional actors’ associations in the world. As a trade union, DSF aims to protect the interests of the members - collective agreements, working conditions, copyrights protection, social and educational needs, etc.

OTP represents medium-sized and large independent television production companies.

NVPI seeks to improve the legal position of producers of sound, video and interactive-media productions. NVPI represents the industries concerned in other bodies and in negotiations, fights piracy and provides objective information about developments in the market.

Nederlandse Federatie voor de Cinematografie (NFC), Dutch Federation for Cinematography

The association represents the interests of independent and major film distributors.

The Dutch Screenwriters Guild represents 400 writers in TV, film, radio, animation, multimedia and documentary. Members benefit from access to specialist advice and information, legal services, regular events and publications.

Euskal Aktoreen Batasuna - Basque Actors Association

The East Anglian Film Archive is the East of England region’s moving image archive. It preserves film, video and television material relating to Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk and the work of the region’s film makers both amateur and professional.

EAVE is a professional organisation providing an intensive and innovative professional training programme which develops the skills of already well-established European film, television and documentary producers and related professionals. The aim of the programme is to renew and improve production and co-production methods and to encourage co-operation. EAVE provides long and short seminars - the workshops and the forums - as well as continuous services on-line to European producers and professionals.

ECLA Aquitane was established in 1999 with the aim to facilitate participation in co-productions by local producers, support, encourage, promote and market film in the country or region by encouraging film-makers to produce in the geographical area and to work with regional film commissions and other similar organisations.

EDOKO INSTITUTE Vienna was founded in 2004 by the artist/filmmaker Edgar Honetschläger. Our task is to produce films, realize public art projects, seek synergies between science and film and the fine arts against the background of promoting intellectual exchange between Austria/Europe and Japan.

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), located in Brussels, started work on 1 January 2006. Its mission is to implement certain strands of programmes and actions funded by the Community in the areas of: - education and training (Lifelong Learning, Erasmus Mundus, Tempus, Bilateral Co-operation with Industrialised Countries), - audiovisual (Media), - culture (Culture), - active citizenship (Europe for Citizens), - youth (Youth in Action). Bringing these programmes together under the same roof enables coordinated management and the provision of a full service to programme beneficiaries. The mandate of the Agency includes the Eurydice network, which is responsible for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information on education systems. While the Agency has its own legal identity, it operates under the supervision of three Commission directorates-general: Education and Culture (EAC), the EuropeAid Cooperation Office (AIDCO) and Communication (COMM) , which remain responsible for programming, evaluation and for policy elaboration. The Agency is responsible for most aspects of programme management, including the drafting of calls for proposals, project selection, signature of project agreements, financial management, project monitoring (interim and final reports), communicating with beneficiaries and on-site project inspections. The strands managed by the Agency are all centralised and support technical projects, and in no way involve making political decisions.