There’s only two weeks left to apply for a place in the Sheffield DocFest 2022 marketplaces. The deadline for both MeetMarket and Alternate Realities Talent Market entries is 4 March.
The 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 300+ international funders, broadcasters, distributors, festival programmers and exhibitors.
Last week, MeetMarket alumni Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s debut feature Writing With Fire earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary feature. The film shines a light on a unique, women-only news collective in small-town northern India.
Oh My God!!!! Writing With Fire just got nominated for @TheAcademy Award. Oh My God!!!!!!!! #OscarNoms #WritingWithFire pic.twitter.com/X9TlcCF2Xd
— Rintu Thomas (@RintuThomas11) February 8, 2022
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 Alternate Realities Talent Market is for creatives producing non-fiction work in non-linear and new-media formats. It’s for discussing new projects and is open to all artistic practices of digital non-fiction narratives, ranging from video, audio and sound art, interactive documentary, immersive virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality, AI, immersive sound technology, games, 360° video, motion comic to performance, expanded cinema, artists' moving image, and multi-channel installations.
