- Overview
- MeetMarket
- Decision Makers List 2012
- MeetMarket Projects
- Pitch Competitions
- Mini-MeetMarket
- Round Table Sessions
- The Power Hour
- Channel 4 First Cut Pitch
- The Wellcome Trust Broadcast Development Awards Pitch
- The WorldView/Community Channel Sheffield Live Pitch
- The 94 Elements Live Pitch
- The UKTV Innovation Pitch
- Specialist Factual New Talent Pitch
- Videotheque
- Commissioning Panels
- Binger Lab Maker To Maker
- UKTV Shorts
- Training and Workshops
Pitch Competitions
Win money and win opportunities in our pitch competitions
In 2012, we'll once again be be offering £175k of funding and in-kind support for development, production and placements in our pitch competitions at Doc/Fest!
These Pitch competitions will be organised at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2012. Most pitches are now open - click the links below for full information:
Channel 4 First Cut Pitch - Win a 10-12 week placement to direct a half-hour film with a £50,000 budget, or a £5k development fund for a runner-up. For UK filmmakers - THIS PITCH IS NOW CLOSED FOR ENTRIES
Wellcome Trust Pitch - Awards of up to £10,000 that engage the audience with contemporary or historical biomedical science, in an innovative and accessible way. - THIS PITCH IS NOW CLOSED FOR ENTRIES
The 94 Elements Live Pitch - Win a crowdfunded £5000 short doc commission for a new cross-media project - THIS PITCH IS OPEN UNTIL MAY 29TH
UKTV Innovation Pitch - Win £10k to make a taster tape for an entertaining 22 minute film for one of UKTV's channels - aimed at emerging talent and up-and-coming creatives THIS PITCH IS OPEN UNTIL MAY 21ST
UKTV Shorts - Do you have a completed short film that you would like to see broadcast on UKTV channels and online platforms? Read on...THIS OPPORTUNITY IS OPEN UNTIL JUNE 18TH
The WorldView Pitch - Win up to £10,000 to make a development-oriented doc on the theme "Women Mean Business" - aimed at emerging talent. THIS PITCH IS NOW CLOSED
Mini MeetMarket - a unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary filmmakers to meet executive producers in an informal setting, to get a response on how you pitched it as well as pointers on how it needs developing, where to go next, and how to improve your chances of getting funding - THIS PITCH IS NOW OPEN UNTIL MAY 18TH
10x10 - 10x10 is the free project development workshop, and it returns to Doc/Fest this year. Three filmmakers will be selected to screen up to 10 minutes of their non-fiction works-in-progress and receive 10 minutes of directed feedback from the audience. THIS PITCH IS OPEN UNTIL MAY 23RD
Binger Doc Lab Clinic Maker2Maker Session - For filmmakers with projects in development, a two-hour session during which documentary filmmakers meet two established colleagues (in two separate meetings) with whom they discuss their projects, covering the aspects that work and the aspects that still need work. THIS OPPORTUNITY IS NOW CLOSED FOR ENTRIES
Aspiring presenters from a variety of academic disciplines can enter the Specialist Factual Presenting Pitch - NOW OPEN UNTIL MAY 30TH.
You might also be interested in The Shed Internship - win a 9 month PAID internship at Shed Media, at Watershed TV, the factual entertainment division of Shed. This takes place after Doc/Fest, later in the year.
If you have any general queries about our pitch competitions, please email charlie@sidf.co.uk