BY+QC Doc CoPro – Training Initiative Bavaria-Quebec
Together with Forum RIDM, the industry platform of Montreal International Documentary Festival, DOK.forum München offers the successful international training programme BY+QC Doc CoPro.
Both regions send one emerging director/producer duo with a project in development and one experienced producer to the partner festival, where they have the opportunity to initiate new co-productions on both sides of the Atlantic and will be provided with a new network of collaborators, training, masterclasses and networking events. The teams also take part at their "home" festival's Forum editions.
The participants of the BY+QC Doc CoPro programme 2024/2025
We are pleased to announce the participants of this year's edition of the international Bavaria-Quebec Doc CoPro programme, DOK.forum and Forum RIDM’s successful collaboration to strengthen the exchange between our respective local industries.
QUEBEC PARTICIPANTS
DOK.fest will host two participants from Quebec in May, who will take part in all the activities of the DOK.forum Marketplace.
Loïc Darses is a Quebec filmmaker based in Montreal. His first short documentary, A Woman and Her Car (2015), was screened at Sundance and Rotterdam. He has also directed Where the Land Ends (2019), his first feature-length documentary, which screened at Ji.hlava IDFF. Fuckin' Coffin! is his first narrative short film and is still in post-production.
Loïc Darses will present his project OUR DARKENED HEARTS, a horror documentary essay that examines the impact of environmental, socioeconomic and geopolitical upheavals on the developing minds of children. A nightmarish journey through our contemporary societies, it combines live-action footage, virtual recreations and animation to shed light on the monsters that haunt our youth.
Arantza Maldonado, a producer with over fifteen years of experience, has worked on web series, such as Fréquences (finalist in Numix 2013), short films and the mobile game Modern Combat 4 (Gameloft). In 2020, he produced the documentary Havana, from the Heights (dir. Pedro Ruiz, 80 min.), which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography. He recently completed The Eighth Floor and is currently co-producing Death Has No Master (dir. Jorge Thielen Armand).
Loic Darses and Arantza Maldonado (Faits Divers)
BAVARIAN PARTICIPANTS
Last November, Christian Wittmoser and Moritz Bundschuh (Kick Film) presented their documentary project in development BANGKOK NOX at the DocLab in Montreal and took part in a closed circuit of workshops, masterclasses and discussions on documentary creation and production.
Project infos BANGKOK NOX:
Bangkok is sinking. In the course of a single, poetic night, Bangkok and its residents are confronted with the grim prognosis that the city on the Gulf of Thailand will be under water in a few decades. Is it possible to live a normal life when the destruction of your own city is inevitable?
Our Bavarian delegation was completed by the producer Emanuel Rotstein, Head of Documentaries at Icon Docs (Bavaria Fiction). He was one of the international industry representatives at Forum RIDM’s One-on-One pitches.
Emanuel Rotstein is a multiple award-winning author and producer who currently oversees all non-fiction output at Bavaria Fiction. Previously, he served as the Senior Director of Programming at A+E Networks Germany, overseeing channels like The History Channel and Crime + Investigation.
Objectives of BY+QC Doc CoPro
- Strengthen audiovisual creation and support documentary projects in development by emerging filmmakers from Bavaria and Québec while building important links between them
- Promote the co-production of documentaries between Bavaria and Québec and foster new collaborations between Bavaria-based and Québec-based emerging producers and directors
- Help develop projects that will continue to build commercial and creative bridges between Bavaria and Québec
- Allow experienced producers to connect with potential collaborators and financiers, bring projects to market, getting financed and find an audience
- Encourage cultural exchanges, best practices and format
Building on five years of collaboration between our two structures, we continue to support our local documentary film industries by providing opportunities for both seasoned and emerging producers and contribute to the professional development of the latter and the filmmakers they collaborate with.
Timeline
In one edition (2024-25), one director/producer duo with a documentary project in development and one experienced producer from Bavaria and Québec will be offered a comprehensive programme of training and networking activities. The programme units are held alternately between DOK.forum München and Forum RIDM in Montreal.
About Forum RIDM
Organised as part of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), and founded in collaboration with DOC Québec, Forum RIDM offers an intensive programme of professional workshops, lectures and roundtables that focus on training, discussion and sharing of knowledge among the various players in the industry. As a networking platform, Forum RIDM offers business meetings that encourage the development of partnerships, help get new projects off the ground and promote sales. Every year, the event, attended by the most influential decision-makers in the industry, draws over 400 professionals interested in innovative projects and the issues currently facing documentary makers.
Contact
DOK.forum Marketplace
Susana Fernandez
fernandez@dokfest-muenchen.de
Alina Götzlich
marktplatz@dokfest-muenchen.de
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