Opportunities for Producers and Documentary Filmmakers

New Zealand producers are invited to apply for this year’s International Financing Forum (IFF) - a feature film co-financing event at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The event brings together selected international and Canadian producers developing English language projects to do business by means of brokered meetings and networking opportunities with other international producers, as well as international sales agents, distributors, funders, agents, and executive producers.

IFF 2009 brought producers together with representatives from Film4 (UK), Pathe (France/UK), Fortissimo Films (The Netherlands/Hong Kong), Aramid Capital (UK), Backup Films (France), Quickfire Films (UK), BBC (UK), Europa Corp (France), Overture Films (US), Filmax (Spain), Cinetic Media (US), IFC Films (US), Kinowelt (Germany), Match Factory (Germany), Festival Darlings (Denmark), Echo Lake Productions (US), Participant Films (US), Magnolia Films (US), International Creative Management – ICM (US), United Talent Agency- UTA (US), K5 International (Germany), Voltage Pictures (France), William Morris Endeavor – WME (US), E1 (Canada), Memento (France), Apparition (US) and Big Beach Films (US).

Eligible applicants must have at a minimum, one full producer credit (not executive producer credit) on a theatrically released feature by a recognisable distributor, and a market orientated project in development that requires international co-production and/or financing partners.

The NZ Film Commission is able to offer Producer’s Market assistance for up to two participants to attend IFF in 2010. Producers must apply directly to IFF, approaching the NZFC for financial assistance only once an acceptance letter has been received. Requests for NZFC financial assistance from successful applicants should be made care of Paul Swadel paul@nzfilm.co.nz.

KEY DATES:
Application deadline for international producers: July 23rd 2010

IFF Main Program: September 11th - 13th 2010
For further information and to apply please see the call for applications

Opportunity for Documentary Filmmakers

2010 MeetMarket at Sheffield Doc/Fest

The call for applications for the 2010 MeetMarket at Sheffield Doc/Fest is now open online - http://www.sheffdocfest.com/meetmarket

MeetMarket* is Doc/Fest's pitching initiative designed to match documentary, factual and cross-platform makers' most innovative project ideas with UK and international buyers.

Projects can be at any stage from early development to post-production, and don’t need to have financing secured. Producers can be from anywhere in the world and Doc/Fest welcomes international submissions.

Participation has been confirmed from over 70 funders and decision-makers including BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Five, Arte France, ARTE ZDF Irish Film Board, RTE, VPRO, TRT, Gucci Tribeca Film Fund, PBS, Sundance Institute, ETV, DR TV, YLE, TG4, ICA Films, Dogwoof, Soda Pictures, and AVRO

The NZFC will consider applications for assistance to attend MeetMarket but only from filmmakers with projects that have genuine theatrical release potential. Please refer to NZFC Feature and Documentary Development Financing guidelines for more information on the criteria we use in relation to documentaries.

Online Application Deadline: Wednesday 1st September