This month, we were delighted to award up-and-coming talents at documentary events in Guadalajara, Calcutta, and Prague! Winners of our Most Promising Project Award receive a flight to Amsterdam, hotel stay during IDFA, invitations to IDFAcademy or IDFA Forum, a meeting with a script consultant or sales agent, and the opportunity to meet other film professionals at IDFA.
After an intensive selection round, the IDFA Bertha Fund (IBF) is delighted to announce the results of the IBF Classic grant program. The Fund has awarded a total of € 110,000 to nine documentary projects: two in the project development category, and seven in the production and post-production category. 220 applications from 70 different countries were submitted.
Are you an emerging Dutch-speaking filmmaker who has made at least one (short) documentary? Are you working on your next 25-minute documentary, 50- or 55-minute documentary, or web documentary? Apply to the IDFAcademy & NPO Fund Workshop and work out your film plan together with experienced filmmakers.
During the Berlinale, IDFA co-organized a panel at the EFM's DocSalon focusing on issues of diversity and inclusion within festival programming. Five leading festival organizers from all over the world sat in for a lively conversation hosted by IDFA's Orwa Nyrabia.
For the twelfth year in a row, SXSW has invited IDFA DocLab to guest curate a session for the SXSW Experiential Storytelling track. The showcase, titled IDFA DocLab: Algorithmic Intimacy, will take place March 9 from 9:30 am - 10:30 am in Ballroom F of the Austin Convention Centre.
