The goal of our 2020 bursary programme is to make the festival affordable and more accessible for individuals who might otherwise not be able to get involved due to financial disadvantage.
The Channel 4 First Cut Pitch is back! Once again C4 will be offering 5 new directors the chance to pitch in Sheffield. The winner will walk away with a commission from C4for their first 60’ film.
Sheffield Doc/Fest is delighted to announce that the Alternate Realities Commission, worth £20,000, has been awarded to artists Barnaby Francis (aka Bill Posters) and Daniel Howe for 'Spectre'.
Following an incident of disrespectful behaviour by one audience member to another at one of our events, we remind all future audiences that Doc/Fest aims to create a safe space for debate, and our code of conduct requests that we look out for each other.
The 26th edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest has closed with the Awards Ceremony where Jury and Audience awards and prizes, in Film and Alternate Realities categories, were announced.
Talks with Asif Kapadia, Werner Herzog, Jenn Nkiru, Louis Threoux, Sir David Attenborough, Michael Moore, Munroe Bergdorf, John Akomfrah, Stacey Dooley, Guy Martin, Mary Beard, Vicky McClure and more...
Director Paul Greengrass joined journalist, broadcaster and curator Danny Leigh to discuss his work and the need to make the film industry accessible to talent from working class backgrounds.
We did an interview with Karolina Kotowska, the illustrator of zine dedicated to Focus/Shapes That Move: Feminist Film Collectives in Britain from the 1970s To Now
This year we're proud to present The Lovers Table Parts 1 & 2 - conceived by artist Lotte Andersen and filmmaker Kazim Rashid. Work will be shared by Giles Duley, Ayo Akingbade, Sean Frank, Bafic, Ondine Viñao and Kayus Banks of Young Fathers
We’re very pleased to have an amazing Youth Jury this year and ahead of the festival, they have highlighted events that they’re looking forward to. Have a read to get some excellent recommendations!
Feel your documentary could benefit from a strategic approach to digital? Want your commissions to leap off viewers' social feeds? Want to unlock ways of engaging your audience through interactivity, and put it at the heart of your project?
Tell us a bit about your idea, and we will help you.
Digital Art exhibitions, Events, and Performance and Film programmes at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest includes works created by artist-filmmakers, photographers, cinematographers, and creative multi-disciplinaires.
Founded by Reggie Yates in 2017, Doc/Dinner is back for it's third edition at this year's Festival to connect emerging talent with top industry executives from broadcast and digital platforms in a relaxed, informal setting.
Here are a few select audio tasters for docs featured in this year’s programme. Slip on some comfortable headphones, and ‘fwap fwap fwap’ the volume up to maximum.
We’re pleased to announce the selection for the Rough/Ready 2019 programme at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Three new UK productions at rough or fine cut stage will be presenting to industry members at the 2019 festival seeking finance, sales, festivals and distribution. The event is open to all interested industry pass holders
We introduce Spotlight conversations to the film programme, presenting premiere screenings and deep conversations with contemporary masters of non-fiction cinema.
Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...
Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...
Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...
Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...
Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...
Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...
Sheffield Doc/Fest is thrilled to announce the Opening Night Film for the 26th edition is the UK premiere of the much anticipated Diego Maradona, from the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning team behind Amy and Senna.
Sheffield Doc/Fest is delighted to announce that the Alternate Realities Commission, has been awarded to artists Barnaby Francis (aka Bill Posters) and Daniel Howe for Spectre.
Looking for a cosy place to stay with lots of other Doc/Festers at a great price that includes a pass? Consider our Festival Passes + Accommodation offer.
Director Paul Greengrass joins journalist, broadcaster and curator Danny Leigh to discuss his work and the need to make the film industry accessible to talent from working class backgrounds.
Rough/Ready screens work in progress and fine cut films from filmmakers and/or producers based in the UK and Ireland, offering a space to engage with international and domestic festival programmers, sales agents, co-producers, distributors, and financiers.
Launching today, Sheffield Doc/Fest invites submissions for the Alternate Realities Commission, offering completion funding worth £20,000 for a new digital project focussed on non-fiction.
A new partnership between Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield Library and the European-wide AVA Library Project is bringing world-class documentary films to local library members for the first time, available completely free, and on-demand.
Everyday of the festival the Exchange hosts a range of in conversations, panel discussions and special screenings inspired by films and immersive and interactive projects from across the Doc/Fest programme.
DDD60 – a pan-European research project designed to develop and introduce cutting edge video compression and delivery technology to provide high-quality virtual reality content - today announces its final results.
The Sales & Distribution Summit focuses on how documentaries get sold and then seen by audiences worldwide. Come to clue-up at the panels and case studies and then connect with international industry representatives at the networking sessions in the a ernoon.
After its terrifically successful pilot last year, Doc/Dinner is back in 2018, connecting emerging talent with top industry executives from broadcast and digital platforms in a relaxed, informal setting.
Programme Manager Sarah Dawson and Film Programme Coordinator Hannah McHaffie share thoughts on shorts from our 2017 programme available to watch right now.
In this special focus, we bring into the foreground the collaborative power of those who have contributed to shaping new futures in Britain using the medium of film. Riding the wave of the politically radical sentiments that characterised the late sixties and seventies, new filmmaking formations bloomed, making possible the candid and creative documentation of life as it is experienced by female and non-binary people where it would not have been within traditional hierarchies of film and broadcasting. Over the past decades, cooperatives, workshops, political movements, common interests and brave broadcasting commissions have provided scaffolding to organise around the moving image, with a great variety of political objectives, aesthetic approaches and ways of embodying gender. With this presentation of films, we honour the work of those who have mobilised to bring about change with and in the moving image,
such that the act of filmmaking itself becomes an act of solidarity.
We are delighted to welcome 11 international delegation groups to the 26th edition of Doc/Fest. Filmmakers, producers, creatives and industry representatives from around the world come to Sheffield to network and meet with buyers and spark possible collaborations in documentary film, TV and immersive works.
We’re pleased to launch and present an international selection of films at this year’s festival. Films originate from a record 47 countries of production.
Once again C4 will be offering 5 new directors the chance to pitch at DocFest and the winner will walk away with a commission from C4 for their first 60’ film.
Luke Moody, our Director of Film Programming, talks about his motivation to discover emerging voices, greatest challenges of his job and advice he would like to give to filmmakers.
