DOK.forum Marketplace

As the market for co-creation and co-production of DOK.fest München, the DOK.forum Marketplace invites around 45 selected, strong documentary film projects in the development stage to Munich every year. At pitching events, Roundtable Sessions and One-to-One Meetings the project teams meet around 250 experts such as commissioning editors, producers, funding representatives, distributors and sales agents.

The aim is to provide a forum for relevant ideas through targeted matchmaking, to provide valuable feedback, to enable and new partnerships, and thus help the projects to get realised.

The next edition of DOK.forum Marktplatz will take place from 1 to 7 May 2024.

Call for Entries: Training initiative Bavaria-Quebec

DOK.forum München is very happy to announce a new edition of the international Bavaria-Quebec Doc CoPro programme, in collaboration with Forum RIDM, the industry platform of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM).

For this 2023-2024 edition, DOK.forum München invites a Bavaria-based producer/director duo with a documentary film project in development and an experienced Bavaria-based producer interested in co-producing with the Quebec region, to participate in this year's @Forum RIDM from 17-22 November 2023, as well as DOK.forum Marketplace from 1-7 May 2024.

For more information and how to submit your project have a look here.

DOK.forum Marketplace 2023 – Projects, Experts and Award Winners

Projects

You can find the projects of DOK.forum Marketplace 2023 here.

DOK.forum Experts

You can find the Who's Who of experts of DOK.forum Marketplace 2023 here.

Award Winners DOK.forum 2023

It's a wrap! Read the project descriptions and jury statements on this year's award winners.

DOK.forum Marketplace – Formats

The DOK.forum Marketplace 2023 offers numerous specialised formats. Every approved project has the chance to qualify for the selection. A committee of industry experts and the DOK.forum team decides on all nominations, curates the individual projects and assigns them to the respective formats of the DOK.forum Marketplace. The aim of the selection is to ensure the best possible matchmaking for both the Marketplace participants and the Marketplace experts.

Master's Pitch

Up to nine 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, four project teams, five 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. To the Marketplace Projects 2023

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.

DOK.forum Marketplace – Awards

With the DOK.archive Award from British Pathé for outstanding archive film projects, the DOK.composition Award for composition ideas, donated by Sonoton Music, and the DOK.talent Award by Haus des Dokumentarfilms for students, the DOK.forum Marketplace offers three endowed competitions with prize money totalling 7,500 euros as well as further mentoring and festival awards.

DOK.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. British Pathé is the prize sponsor. Read more

DOK.composition Award

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. Sponsored by Sonoton Music. Read more

DOK.talent Award

The pitch competition, donated by Haus des Dokumentarfilms, 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

DAE Talent Award

The award offers tailored mentoring sessions with an industry professional. The aim is to promote talent development. The award will be conferred among all participating marketplace projects. Read more

Doc Around Europe Award

The new Doc Around Europe Focus network is launching a mentoring programme between Biarritz, Barcelona, Munich and Skopje: three marketplace projects will be selected to visit the partner markets. Read more

Visioni dal Mondo Award

A top-notch documentary project – whether already in its final stages or still in development – will be given the opportunity to participate in the Visioni Incontra Marketplace at Milan's Visioni dal Mondo documentary festival in autumn. Read more

Nebulae Project Selection Award

The prize is awarded by Nebulae, the networking space of Doclisboa – International Film Festival Portugal. The director and producer of a German-language project will have the opportunity to be selected and pitch the project during Doclisboa 2023. Read more

Retrospect & Success Stories

Project Archive

Find here the Marketplace projects of the past editions. Read more

Marketplace Success Stories

An overview of the success stories of the DOK.forum Marketplace projects since 2013. Read more