Sheffield Doc/Fest Canadian delegation deadline
Hot Docs is coordinating the Canadian delegation to Sheffield Doc/Fest in UK, securing Canadian professionals value-for-money access. The registration deadline is July 20. Sheffield Doc/Fest is UK's premier documentary marketplace, festival and conference, taking place from November 3 to 7, 2010.
Sheffield Doc/Fest offers extensive marketplace opportunities for all delegates. In 2009, 139 decision makers attended Doc/Fest, and close to 100 are already confirmed for 2010. Doc/Fest is the perfect place to meet potential production investors and production partners. The relaxed atmosphere provides a perfect forum to hold informal and formal meetings in and around the Marketplace, the Showroom Bar, the Industry Delegate Centre or the many bars and cafes around the area.
Members of the Canadian delegation at Sheffield Doc/Fest will be offered a heavily-reduced rate pass of £150 (plus VAT), will be named in the festival catalogue and website, and be profiled on the website in a devoted section. There will be a special reduced hotel room rate of approximately £50 per night (subject to change). Marktplace and Industry Producer Charlie Phillips will offer one-to-one advice to all delegation members on how to develop and pitch your projects and which decision-makers to meet, as well as helping to facilitate one-to-one meetings.
Furthermore special advice of how to make the most of the event will be offered by Doc/Fest to the Canadian delegation members via a devoted "Road Map" guide to what market and conference events to go to, when and why, made most relevant to Canadian professionals.
MeetMarket is one of Europe’s top pitching forums offering a unique way to pitch new and groundbreaking documentary projects. The forum is for documentary projects in development with international appeal. Projects do not need to have any financing already secured and can be at any stage from early development to rough cut. Producers can be from anywhere in the world and projects can be in any genre or format of documentary/factual, from factual entertainment through to art/installation documentaries. MeetMarket especially welcome cross-platform projects. Deadline for submission of projects is 1 September 2010. For those not selected for MeetMarket, there will still be guidance and personal advice given as per the above information, and there are many other marketplace activities too.
Other pitching & marketplace events for all delegates: Videotheque, a fully-digitised library of all films in the festival plus a selection of the best new documentaries looking to be acquired, submitted to the programming team in advance of the festival; Round Table sessions, where all delegates can informally meet key international documentary decision-makers and discuss new ideas, connect with funders and gather information on documentary financing in an informal and relaxed way. The Round Tables are short, sharp sessions of for limited numbers to retain intimacy and allow for discussion; Cross Media Challenge, where socially-engaged cross-platform projects can pitch for a co-production deal; Who's Who - a lively session where all commissioners, buyers and other decision-makers present introduce themselves to delegates and outline their priorities for the year; Mini MeetMarket - a unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary filmmakers to meet industry mentors in an informal setting; Commissioning Panels - a chance to hear the up to date priorities for the UK's major factual commissioners in 4 dedicated panel discussions of Documentary, Factual Entertainment, Specialist Factual, and Digital Channels; Dedicated pitch panels for cross-platform and science documentaries.
How to participateTo express interest and for more information about the Canadian delegation to Sheffield Doc/Fest, please email Elizabeth Radshaw at eradshaw@hotdocs.ca no later than July 20.
