Overview
Sheffield Doc/Fest is the UK's premiere documentary film event. With an audience of international decision makers, film professionals and general public it is renown as one of world's best launch pads for new documentary works.
2009 saw the biggest Sheffield Doc/Fest ever with our highest number of UK and International delegates, press and public attendance. The best creative documentaries with a unique voice, with an edge and a message can be found in the Doc/Fest programme. This year’s programme showcased over 120 feature and short documentaries from master filmmakers like D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hedgedus, Marc Isaacs, Nick Broomfield, Michael Moore and Michel Negroponte as well as films by student and debut filmmakers like Jawed Taiman and Andrew Lang. Special retrospectives of must-see documentary classics from around the world curated by Mark Cousins are also presented each year.
Highlights of the film programme are honored with new awards. Award categories, include the Sheffield Special Jury, Innovation, Green, Youth Jury, Inspiration, Wallflower Press International Student Doc and Audience Awards.
The Doc/Fest programme is made up of premiere and non-premiere films from the cinema, television and online arenas. Filmmakers and distributors from around the world are invited to submit feature, medium length and short documentaries produced in mid-2009 for 2010’s festival. Click to Submit a film for Doc/Fest 2010. Deadline for submissions is 16 June 2010.
As part of the Doc/Fest market, we also host a fully digitised viewing library called Videotheque. The Videotheque screens all official Doc/Fest selections as well as a curated collection of films selected from the submissions pool. Our Videotheque is open to viewing for industry delegates only. Delegates include UK and international television and festival programmers, producers, filmmakers, distributors, sales and acquisition agents. Invitations to Videotheque are announced in the autumn and strictly made from the year’s submissions.
For further information about the submissions process or the film programme please feel free to contact the programmer, Hussain Currimbhoy.