This year’s slate of MeetMarket and Alternate Realities Market projects have been selected from over 550 submissions to have match-made 1:1 pitch meetings with industry Decision Makers during the Festival on the 11th and 12th June 2018.
The MeetMarket is one of the world's largest documentary and factual markets and the flagship pitching opportunity at Doc/Fest with the opportunity to meet with over 300 international funders, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents and exhibitors. Doc/Fest offers a unique way to pitch your projects through individual match made meetings between pitchers and the Decision Makers, so they can get straight into creative and financial discussions. Projects range from long form films to short form films, series and formats
The Alternate Realities Market runs parallel to the MeetMarket. Twenty-five online, interactive and virtual reality projects will be selected from submissions to hold one-to-one meetings with funders and advisors, including commissioners, broadcasters, arts organisations, online platforms, NGOs and other experts from across the world. This is not a one-size-fits-all market; meetings are carefully matchmade taking into account desires from both sides of the table.
MeetMarket Projects 2018
130 Children
Chile, Costa Rica / Mimbre Producciones / Director: Ainara Aparici ; Producer: Daniela Camino
20 Years in Afghanistan
United Kingdom / Seventh Art Productions / Directors: Shoaib Sharifi & Phil Grabsky; Producer: Phil Grabsky
A Voz de Deus - The Voice of God
Brazil / Corisco Filmes / Director: Miguel Antunes Ramos; Producer: Nicholas Bernstein & Paulo Serpa
All The Numbers
Ireland / True Films / Director: Ross Whitaker; Producer: Aideen O’Sullivan; Exec Producer: Alan Maher & Johan Wallace
Angels of Sinjar. Yazidis - 21st Century Genocide
Poland, Germany / Saxonia Entertainment GmbH / Director: Hanna Polak; Producer: Simone Baumann
Between Brothers
Netherlands, Belgium / Een van de jongens / Director: Tom Fassaert; Producer: Hasse van Nunen
Brazil – The Rise and Fall of Lula da Silva
Germany, Brazil / gebrueder beetz filmproduktion / Director Cesar Charlone; Producer: Christian Beetz
Burden of Proof
United States / Markay Media / Director: Cynthia Hill / Producer: Christine Delp
Dark Corner
United Kingdom / Sunshine / Director: Sophie Robinson; Producer: Dewi Gregory
Deepali
United Kingdom, India, Denmark / Little Mountain Films / Director: Anne Svejgård Lund; Producer: Mike Lerner
Digital Dictatorship China (WT)
Germany, Italy, France / Filmtank GmbH / Director: Andreas Pichler; Producer: Michael Grotenhoff, Thomas Tielsch
Enemies Of The State
United States / Codebreaker Films LLC / Director: Sonia Kennebeck; Producer: Ines Hofmann Kanna
Exemplary Behaviour
Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovenia / ERA Film UAB / Director: Audrius Mickevicius; Producer: Rasa Miskinyte; Co-producer: Martichka Bozhilova
Garage People
Germany / Tamtam Film GmbH / Director: Natalija Yefimkina; Producers: Andrea Schütte & Dirk Decker
Genesis
Sweden / Momento Film / Director: David Herdies & Georg Götmark; Producer: Michal Krotkiewski
Going Back (The Mysterious Tale of Brian MacKinnon)
United Kingdom / Hopscotch Films / Director: Jonothan McLeod; Producers: John Archer & Olivia Lichtenstein
How to Steal a Country
South Africa, Great Britain / Curveball Productions Pty Ltd / Director: Mark Kaplan; Producer: Rehad Desai, Zivia Desai Keiper & Anita Khanna
I Am Spartakiade
United Kingdom / Two Step Films / Director: Fran Robertson & Hana Vojackova ; Producer: Fran Robertson ; Exec Producers: Kevin Macdonald
Instant Badass, from Street to Cage
Thailand / JSL Global Media & Wishtrend Thailand / Director: Andy Funnell; Producer: Stephane Lambert & Jitinat Asdamongkol
Liberace – The King of Bling
Germany / Kinescope Film / Director: Jeremy Fekete; Producer: Matthias Greving
New Project
Project info available to participating Decision Makers only.
The Netherlands / ifproductions / Director & Producer: Ilse & Femke van Velzen
Madidi (WT)
United States / Wanderlust Productions, LLC / Director: Elizabeth Unger; Co-producer: Kate Brooks
New Project
Project info available to participating Decision Makers only.
Great Britain / Beehive Films Ltd / Director: Daisy May Hudson; Producers: Alice Hughes & Claire O’Neill
Maya
United Kingdom, Iran / Banyak Films / Directors: Jamshid Mojaddadi & Anson Hartford; Producer: Hugh Hartford
Mayor
United States / Rosewater Pictures / Director: David Osit; Producer: Mohanad Yaqubi
Misha's Story
United Kingdom / Met Film Production Ltd / Director: Sam Hobkinson; Producers: Al Morrow, Poppy Dixon & Matt Wells
Miss Holocaust Survivor
Turkey, Germany, Denmark, Israel / Kamara / Director: Eytan Ipeker; Producer: Yoel Meranda; Co-producers: Katrin Pors, Eitan Mansuri & Ingmar Trost
Nascondino (Hide and Seek)
United Kingdom, Italy / My Accomplice / Director: Victoria Fiore; Producers: Jennifer Corcoran & Aleksandra Bilic
Neither Confirm Nor Deny
United Kingdom / New Sparta Films / Director: Philip Carter; Producer: Sheryl Crown
Nobody Knows Jack
United Kingdom / Below the Radar / Director: Michael Fanning; Producer: Mairéad Ní Thréinir
Nothing Succeeds Like Success: The Trident Story
United Kingdom / Vault Films / Director: Dylan Harvey; Producers: Alex Hurle, Katie Hodgkin & Simon Halfron
On Drumduan Hill
United Kingdom / The Derek Jarman Lab / Director: Tilda Swinton; Co-producer: Colin McCabe; DOP: Bartek Dziadosz
Original Machines
Ireland, Belize, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States / Dot TV & Films / Director: Sean O'Cualain & David Burke; Producer: David Burke
Piano Dreams (WT)
Ireland / Gambit Pictures / Director: Gary Lennon / Producer: Raymond McCormack
Represent
United States, Denmark, Great Britain / Backbone Films; Kartemquin Films / Director: Hilary Bachelder; Producer: Anne Sobel; Co-producers: Rosie Garthwaite & Kristine Barfod
Resort
Denmark / Tambo Film / Bullitt Film / Director: Mette Carla Toft Albrechtsen; Producer: Rikke Tambo Andersen
Sanctuary
United States / 3Paw Pictures / Director: Annie Kaempfer / Director: Annie Kaempfer; Producer: William Stefan Smith
Shanghai Blues
United Kingdom, Brazil / Director: Gemma Thorpe / Producers: Daniel Gordon & João Inada
Silent Rose
United States / Listen Productions / Director: Mitch Dickman; Producers: Shane Boris & Britta Erickson
Society Must Be Defended: Michel Foucault predicts the future
France, United States, Luxembourg / Director: Antonino D'Ambrosio ; Producer: Francois Le Gall
Stray
United States, Turkey / Director: Elizabeth Lo; Producer: Shane Boris; Co-producers: Ceylan Carhoglu & Zeynep Koprulu
Sumo Supremes
United Kingdom / Bungalow Town Productions / Director: Matt Kay; Producer: Rachel Wexler & Jez Lewis; Exec producer: Emily James
Symphony of the Ursus Factory Poland / Wajda Studios / Director: Jasmina Wojcik ; Producer: Zuzana Krol
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
United Kingdom / Director: David Lale; Producer: Laura Wagner
The Good Father
Ireland / Soilsiú Films / Director: Neasa NíChianáin; Producer: David Rane
The Great Green Wall
United Kingdom / Make Productions / Director Jarred Scott; Producer: Sarah Macdonald; Co-producers: Fernando Meirelles & Alexander Asen
The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
United Kingdom / Met Film Production / Director: Angus McQueen; Producers: Al Morrow & Rachel Heywood
The Million Dollar Pigeon Race
Ireland / Venom / Director: Gavin Fitzgerald; Producer: Ken Wardrop
The Mystery of DB Cooper
United Kingdom / Minnow Films / Director: John Dower; Producer: Morgan Matthews
The Nova Story
United Kingdom / Time Inc / Directors: Kes Glozier & Nate Camponi; Producer: Jason Bick; Co-producer: Anna Silver
The Protector
United Kingdom, France / Rogan Productions / Director & Producer: James Rogan
The Rise and Fall of Bhutto
United Kingdom, Norway / Crescent Films / Director: Ziad Zafar; Producer: Faris Kermani
The Rise Of The Synths
Spain, United States / 9am Media Lab / Director: Iván Castell; Producers: Ana Castañosa & Javier Moreno
The Rossellinis
Italy, Latvia / B&B Films / Directors: Alessandro Rossellini & Angelica Grizi; Producer: Raffaele Brunetti
The Shadow of Gold
France, Canada / Films à Cinq / Director: Denis Delestrac; Producer: Sally Blake; Co-producer: Robert Lang
The Sheriff
United Kingdom / Below the Radar / Director: Grace Sweeney; Exec producer: Michael Fanning
The Sherwood Case
United Kingdom / Director & Producer: Isabel Tang ; Executive Producer: John Battsek
The Singh Case
The Netherlands / Submarine / Director: Hans Pool; Producer: Femke Wolting
The World According to Amazon
France, Canada / Little Big Story / Director: Adrien Pinon; Producer: Valérie Montmartin
Untitled Princess Nokia Project
United States, United Kingdom / Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini & Orian Barki; Producer: Tabs Breese
Uproar
United Kingdom / Villager Films / Director: Moe Najati; Producer: Matthew Cooper & Georgia Woolley; Exec producers: Nigel Sinclair & Robert Rosenberg
Valentin, son of Europe
Italy, Belgium / Fuoricampo / Director: Antonio Martino; Producer: Valeria Correale
What we Believe
United Kingdom / Gramafilm / Director: Nick Algridge; Producer: Kat Mansoor & James Morton-Haworth
Ayouni
United Kingdom, Qatar / Banyak Films, Hakawati / Director: Yasmin Fedda; Producer: Hugh Hartford & Elhum Shakerifar
Where The Peach Is In Bloom
China / CNEX / Director: Chunhua Jiang; Producer: Ruby Chen
Alternate Realities Market Projects 2018:
A Symphony Of Noise VR
United Kingdom, Germany / Up Creatives, Kloos & Co / Producers and creators: Jamie Balliu & Michaela Pnacekova, VR Director: Anrick Bregmann
"A Video Ghost" (A Shigeko Kubota VR Documentary)
United States / Drakeford Studios / Director: Jason Drakeford; Producer: Trevor Shimizu
After the Fire
United Kingdom / Jayisha Patel Films / Director & producer: Jayisha Patel
Blood Speaks: A Ritual of Exile
India, Nepal, United States, United Kingdom / Creator/Director: Poulomi Basu / Producer: CJ Clarke / Immersive Video Lead: Kevin Tsukii / Executive Producer: Nonny de la Pena
Camp Century
United Kingdom, United States, Denmark / UNIT9 / Director: Anrick Bregman & Nicola Paglia
Cis Penance: Transgender Lives in Wait
United Kingdom / Creator: Zoyander Street; Advisor: Jennifer Booth
Climate Changers
United Kingdom / Surround Vision / Director: Mary Matheson; Producer: Richard Nockles
Electric Malady - AR. 'Invisible Fields'
United Kingdom, Belgium / Aconite Productions / Creative Producer: Jamie Balliu (Up Creatives); Director: Marie Lidén; Producers: Aimara Reques & Lorna Jane Ferguson
Empire Soldiers - A South Asian Story
United Kingdom / Metro Boulot Dodo / Director: Paul Long
Forgotten War
Czech Republic / Director: Zdeněk Chaloupka; Producer: Jakub Pinkava; Creative producer: Zuzana Tichá
I am (not) a Monster
United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Belgium, The Netherlands / Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios / Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun ; Producer: Christopher Hird
Inside Tumucumaque
Germany / Filmtank GmbH, Interactive Media Foundation gGmbH / Director: Ina Krüger; Producers: Michael Grotenhoff & Diana Schniedermeier
Internet vs Humanity
Denmark, Canada / House of Real / Director: David Borenstein; Producer: Jesper Jack
Invisible Heroes
Brazil / ARVORE Immersive Experiences / Director/Creator: Ricardo Laganaro; Screenwriter: Leopoldo Joe Nakata
Khan Sheikhoun
United Kingdom / RedThread.Media / Director: Waad Al Kataeb; Producer: Alex Pearson
No Visible Trauma
Canada, United States / Lost Time Media / Creator: Marc Serpa Francoeur; Co-producers: Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal & Geoff Morrison
#OpenLetterInteractive
Brazil / Tva2 / Director/Creator: Eliza Capai ; Producer: Mariana Genescá
Playing God
United Kingdom / Cats Are Not Peas / Director: Ben Fredericks; Producer: Alexandra Ruhl
Primal Screams: The Fun of Fear
Australia / StudioBento / Director: Lester Francois ; Producers: Lester Francois & Anna Brady
stories in maps and data
The Netherlands / Killing Architects / Director: Alison Killing; Producers: Alison Killing & Josie Gardiner
TrueLove
United Kingdom / Artist & Producer: Jane Gauntlett; Creative producer: Tessa Ratuszynska
uSiSTA 360
Tanzania, Kenya / RADiO FiLM Ltd / VR content director: Tulanana Bohela; 2D content director: Zippy Kimundu; Producer: Andy Jones
Waterlilies
France, Germany / Camera Lucida / Director: Nicolas Thépot; Producer: Chloé Jarry
We Sing In Fire And Blood
United Kingdom / Director: Hazel Grian; VR producers: All Seeing Eye
Where There's Smoke
United States, United Kingdom / Weiler Productions / Director: Lance Weiler
If you have any queries about the MeetMarket and the Alternate Realities Market, please email the Marketplace team.
