DOK.forum MARKETPLACE
As a platform for ideas and coproduction, the DOK.forum Marketplace invites around 45 selected documentary film projects in development stage to Munich every year. Here they meet experts such as commissioning editors, producers, funding representatives, distributors and sales agents.
The aim is to offer relevant film ideas a suitable forum through targeted matchmaking, to provide valuable feedback, to enable new partnerships and thus help the projects to get realised.
The next DOK.forum Marketplace will take place from 5th to 11th May 2021.
We very much appreciate the exchange with our participants on site and would like to invite you to the HFF Munich again next year, if possible. As the further development of measures to contain COVID-19 is not yet foreseeable, we are currently planning a hybrid version of the DOK.forum Marketplace.

DOK.forum Marketplace 2021
Filmmakers are now invited to submit their current projects for the DOK.forum Marketplace 2021. With endowed competitions for the British Pathé Archive Award, the German Composition Prize and, for the first time, the DOK.series Award.
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Pitch Award 2021
We are also looking forward to receiving projects from students at our partner universities for the 2021 Pitch Award.
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DOK.forum Marketplace – awards
With the new series prize from TELLUX and megaherz for strong serial storytelling, the British Pathé Archive Award for outstanding archive film projects, the German Composition Funding Award for composition ideas, donated by Sonoton Music and the Pitch Award from Haus des Dokumentarfilms for students, DOK.forum Marketplace offers four competitions with prize money totalling 10,000 euros as well as further mentoring and festival awards.
British Pathé Archive Award
The funding award honours projects with a large proportion of archive material and thus strengthens a documentary genre rich in tradition. The winning project will receive British Pathé archive material worth 15,000 euros or, alternatively, 2,500 euros in cash. Read more
German Composition Funding Award –
sponsored by Sonoton Music
In order to strengthen the artistic collaboration between filmmakers and composers, the best musical concept for a documentary film will be endowed with 2,500 euros. Read more
Pitch Award of Haus des Dokumentarfilms
The pitch competition offers students from our partner universities the opportunity to further develop their current projects in exchange with editors, producers and distributors and to win new financing partners. Read more
DOK.series Award
This year, DOK.fest Munich is offering a new and Germayn-wide unique award that promotes serial documentary storytelling regardless of format. DOK.series is donated by TELLUX Film and megaherz and is endowed with 2,500 euros. Read more
DOK.forum Marketplace - formats
Master's Pitch
Up to 10 projects with a particularly strong international potential will be pitched on stage and receive feedback from top-class international experts, who themselves will present their insights on current industry topics. A unique format for training and collaboration in partnership with Documentary Campus. Read more
Roundtables
One table, 4 project teams, 5 experts: In moderated 90-minute roundtable sessions, filmmakers discuss their latest material in a targeted manner and in an exclusive setting with experts from editorial, production, promotion and sales departments.
One-to-One Meetings
To complement the discussions at the roundtables and in the pitching events, we offer carefully curated one-to-one meetings of 15 minutes each. The meetings are arranged in advance at the request of the decision makers.
Screenings
Selected projects in the rough cut stage are presented to distributors, sales agents and festival programmers in a closed screening.
Training Program Bavaria-Quebec
The BY+QC Doc CoPro training initiative is being relaunched: Three up-and-coming producers from Bavaria and three from Quebec can now apply for a two-year training programme focusing on international co-production, workshops, individual mentoring and networking opportunities at DOK.forum Munich and Forum RIDM. Read more
Profile and retrospect
Profile DOK.forum Marketplace
The co-production platform for the German-speaking industry. Find here the self-image and goals of DOK.forum Marketplace. Read more
Who is Who 2020
The Who's Who of experts of the digital DOK.forum Marketplace 2020 can be found here.
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