Sheffield DocFest opens applications for MeetMarket
Date Posted: February 3, 2023
Sheffield DocFest’s MeetMarket is one of the world’s largest documentary and factual markets and pitching forums. Selected projects will have the opportunity to meet with international industry representatives among 200+ international funders, broadcasters, distributors, festival programmers and exhibitors. The MeetMarket offers a unique way to pitch your project through carefully curated meetings between pitchers and industry representatives, for creative and financial discussions. It is open to all documentary makers, local and international, and we welcome applications from established, emerging as well as first-time filmmakers. Projects can be in any form ranging from long-form to series and formats. Pitching projects can be either in development, production, post-production or rough cut. The MeetMarket is not for completed projects which have already premiered or short films under 40 minutes in length.
The markets give you the chance to meet with the likes of A+E, ARTE, BBC, Bertha Foundation, Catapult Film Fund, Channel 4, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Curzon, Cinereach, Doc Society, Dogwoof, Field of Vision, The Guardian, Google, National Geographic, NETFLIX, The New York Times, PBS, Pulse Films, SKY, Submarine Entertainment, Sundance Institute, SXSW, Universal, VICE, and many more companies and organisations who are looking to support and invest in new works of documentary storytelling.
Projects to come through the MeetMarket while in development/production include All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Searching for Sugarman (Malik Bendjelloul), A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia), One Child Nation (Nanfu Wang), The Edge of Democracy (Petra Costa), The Silence of Others (Almudena Carracedo), Stray (Elizabeth Lo), Mayor (David Osit), Nothing Compares (Kathryn Ferguson), Shooting the Mafia (Kim Longinotto), The Square (Jehane Noujaim), God Loves Uganda (Roger Ross Williams), 5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi), A Family Affair (Tom Fassaert), The Act of Killing / The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer), Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson Jr.), Unrest (Jennifer Brea), Bobbi Jene (Elvira Lind), The Story of Film (Mark Cousins), plus many others that have found their funding partners in the market and audiences via connections with theatrical distributors, festival programmers, broadcast and SVOD executives.
The deadline to submit is Friday 17th February.
