Overview
Sheffield Doc/Fest offers extensive marketplace opportunities for all delegates. Hundreds of executives, distributors, commissioners, funders, advisors and buyers from documentary and cross-platform attend the festival. To see who attended Doc/Fest 2011, see the 2011 list of decision makers here.
Doc/Fest is the perfect place to meet potential production investors and production partners. In 2011, over 1300 meetings were pre-scheduled between MeetMarket participants by the Doc/Fest team, with hundreds more arranged spontaneously at the festival. In 2012, Sheffield Doc/Fest is expanding its Marketplace and Industry activities even further.
"Absolutely fantastic. The best documentary market in Europe, without a doubt."
Doc/Fest currently offers the following pitching & marketplace events:
MeetMarket is the UK's largest documentary marketplace offering a unique way to pitch new and groundbreaking documentary projects. Submissions for MeetMarket are now open until March 29th . MeetMarket is an invitation-only space for participants selected from open applications. If you are not selected for MeetMarket, Doc/Fest features many other market opportunities for delegates. If you have any queries about your MeetMarket application please email us.
For MeetMarket 2011 we received 486 applications from 56 countries, 2011 selected projects are listed here.
Videotheque, a fully-digitised library of all films in the festival plus a selection of the best new documentaries looking to be acquired. The Videotheque is open all day from Wednesday to Sunday during the festival and slots can be booked in 2-hour windows the day before, or the day of, a desired viewing date. Please note - priority will be given to Decision Makers for the at-festival Videotheque, but the Videotheque will be online for festival delegates to view for 3 months after the festival
Pitch Competitions, with £100k of funding and opportunities up for grabs, including the only crowd-funding pitch at a doc festival in the world
Round-Table Sessions and Matchmaking Sessions, where all delegates can informally meet around 15 key international documentary decision-makers in a group discussion and information-sharing format (Round Tables) or 18 decision makers in short sharp meetings (Matchmaking).
Who's Who, a lively session where key commissioners, buyers and other decision-makers present introduce themselves to delegates
Mini MeetMarket, a unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary filmmakers to meet industry mentors in an informal setting
Commissioning Panels, a chance to hear the up to date priorities for the world's major factual commissioners in dedicated panel discussions
Training and Workshops; throughout the year Doc/Fest organises training and workshops focussing on project development, pitching, funding, new media and distribution. Look out too for internship opportunities like the Shed Internship