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The Danish Film Institute (DFI) is the government agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture and for conserving these in the national interest. DFI operations extend from participation in the development and production of feature films, short and documentary films, over distribution and marketing, to managing the national film archive and the cinematheque. The DFI Film House, open to the public, is also an entertainment and edutainment facility, with its cinemas, videotheque, restaurant and café, bookshop and filmmaking studio FILM X. Located in central Copenhagen, the Film House also provides a vibrant meeting place for cinema-goers, filmmakers and filmbuffs alike.

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Deckert Distribution is a world sales company for documentaries and stands for excellent, director-led, award-winning films. We distribute creative documentaries from around the globe for which we see a potential on the international market. The films in our catalogue are very divers in style and content, but they all have one thing in common: we are convinced of their high quality and their high relevance, and we want to introduce these outstanding documentaries to a wide international audience. So our main goal is to make the connection between a film and its viewers, via TV as well as within the festival circuit. Deckert Distribution GmbH was established by managing director Heino Deckert in 2003 in Leipzig, Germany.

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After the successful launch ten years ago, Doc & Co, is the foundation structure of the sale of television documentaries joined by new shareholders who seek to broaden the company's business after its opening to international film distribution. The company combines documentary and fiction films, which guarantees maximum exposure at international level. The company is essentially based on a directory distributorůfilm, TV, DVD publishers and provozovatelých video on demand worldwide.

www.DAFilms.com is a Video on Demand platform focused on documentary and experimental films. The selective catalogue consists of over 700 films, with an emphasis on European cinema, available worldwide for a small fee for stream or download. Every month DAFilms.com expands its catalogue with the addition of up to 20 new titles chosen by the 7 pa rtner festivals involved in the Doc Alliance - CPH:DOX Copenhagen, Doclisboa, DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, MFDF Jihlava, Planete Doc Film Festival a Visions du réel Nyon. The films are selected on the basis of strict dramaturgic criteria, with an accent on their social and aesthetic value and signature style. Directors, producers, distributors and students are invited to register their films, thus offering them the possibility to make use of this unique legal distribution channel.

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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.

Docurama Films is dedicated to making critically acclaimed and cutting-edge documentaries available digitally and on DVD. The collection unites both classic and contemporary docs from award-winning filmmakers whose work continues to astound and enlighten. Since being launched by parent company New Video in 1999, Docurama Films has released over 250 award-winning and highly acclaimed titles. This year we celebrate our 10th anniversary of great docs. Among our releases for 2009: Academy Award®-winning director James Moll's hauntingly profound film Inheritance; a moving portrait of Estonia's fight for freedom in The Singing Revolution and Stacy Peralta's gripping Crips and Bloods: Made in America.

Dogwoof is a leading UK film distributor of social issue films and documentaries. We have released around a hundred of award winning films such as Black Gold, Food Inc, Burma VJ, Restrepo, and most recently The Interrupters and Bobby Fisher Against The World. We release films in the UK and Ireland, through theatrical, TV, DVD, Mobile and Online platforms, backing the releases with major marketing campaigns. We have just launched Dogwoof Global Sales, a service designed to help filmmakers promote and sell their films internationally. We let the filmmakers keep the rights, and welcome their involvement every step of the way. We give priority to documentaries that have potential in the UK market. We are looking for compelling documentaries with theatrical potential, strong narrative-driven stories, stories about exceptional people, and specialist subject documentaries with a clear niche.

DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) is Denmark’s oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. The corporation was founded in 1925 as a public service organisation. DR is an independent, licence financed public institution. DR TV comprises two channels, DR1 and DR2. DR1 was founded in 1951 and DR2 in 1996. Both channels are, from April 2006, broadcasted with full national coverage as free-to-air signals via the new digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform. Broadcast continues on the analogue terrestrial network (with some limitations for DR2) until analogue shut off by end of October 2009. Both channels are must carry on cable, and satellite operators offer both channels in their packages. In addition most of the channels content is freely available on demand as streaming and podcast on the Internet (and to a smaller degree to mobile phones).