DOK.forum Marketplace 2020
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 co-productions and thus help them to become realised.
This year, the DOK.forum Marketplace will take place online from 07 to 12 May 2020. Detailed information on the adapted formats of the selected projects and Expert.innen will be available here shortly.
DOK.forum Marketplace – awards
With the British Pathé Archive Award for outstanding archive film projects, the German Composition Funding Award for Film Composition and the Pitch Award of Haus des Dokumentarfilms, DOK.forum Marketplace offers three endowed competitions.
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 14,000 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
All students at our partner universities have the opportunity to submit their current projects for the Pitch Award. The best pitch among the nine nominated students will receive 2,500 euros in project funding. Read more
DOK.forum Marketplace - formats
Master's Pitch – A Unique Format for Training and Collaboration
Selected projects with particularly strong international potential will be presented to the public along with keynotes and statements from top-class international experts. The aim of the Master's Pitch is to make the decision-making process of the industry transparent and to create a platform for exchange and cooperation. In collaboration with Documentary Campus Review 2019
Roundtables
In moderated 90-minute Roundtable Sessions, filmmakers discuss their latest projects in an exclusive and pleasant atmosphere with commissioning editors, producers, distributors, sales agents and funders.
Extended One-to-One
To complement the discussions in the roundtables and after the pitchings, the DOK.forum Marketplace offers carefully curated One-to-One Meetings of 15 minutes each. The meetings will be arranged in advance and during the marketplace upon request of the decision makers.
Marketplace Screenings
Up to 9 projects in rough cut will be presented in a closed screening buyers, distributors, sales agents and festival curators. Among them are 3 rough cuts from Germany, 3 from Switzerland and 3 from this year's guest country Canada. Supported by SWISS FILMS, the Québec Government Office, Telefilm Canada and the Bavarian State Chancellery.
International trainings and opportunities
DOK.forum Marketplace invites every year an international guest delegation to Munich - in 2020 we welcome filmmakers from Canada. In addition, teams from Québec and Bavaria develop and present their projects as part of the two-year QC+BY Doc CoPro training initiative.
Concept and review
Concept 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
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