Docs in Thessaloniki Submission Deadline

Docs in Thessaloniki is an international pitching forum and workshop organized by the European Documentary Network in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Images of the 21st Century. Docs in Thessaloniki runs March 17 - 21 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The submission deadline is January 22. The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival runs from March 12 to 21. Docs in Thessaloniki consist of a five-day programme, where 21 selected documentary projects will be developed, re-written and pitched. The first three days of the event is a pitching workshop. The participating project teams are working on their projects' structure, style and focus of the content as well as the presentation and pitching techniques. Docs in Thessaloniki concludes with a two-day pitching session. During the pitching session all participants pitch their projects to a panel of 12 - 15 international financiers from leading broadcasters. The pitching session is followed by scheduled individual meetings between the pitching teams and the financiers. The meetings are for in-depth discussions about further development and possible future collaboration. Attendees can also take part in the session as an observer, without a project to be pitched but registration is required. Registered articipants can then take part in all sessions of the workshop on equal terms of the pitching teams, but without having a project developed and pitched. The price for participating in Docs in Thessaloniki is: - 300 Euro for the first person connected to a project - 200 Euro for second or third person connected to a project - 200 Euro for observers - European Documentary Network members receive a 20% discount. Besides the whole five-day pitching session programme this includes all lunches and coffee breaks, dinner on the first evening and a festival pass for the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival which runs from March 12 to 21. For details visit www.edn.dk/activities/edn-activity-texts/docs-in-thessaloniki-2010/