For filmmakers it is a meeting place with an enthusiastic audience and with colleagues from all over the world. As a festival for the artistic documentary and animated film it offers discoveries from individuel scripts, artistic visions, adventures to outstanding cinematic mastery.
DOK Leipzig, the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, starts its 49th edition with numerous reforms from 30 October to 6 November 2006. You are invited to submit your latest documentary or animated films for the official festival programme and the DOK Market until 11 August 2006.
Founded in 1955, the DOK Leipzig International Festival is the biggest German and one of the leading international festivals for documentary films. For filmmakers it is a meeting place with an enthusiastic audience and with colleagues from all over the world. As a festival for the artistic documentary and animated film it offers discoveries from individuel scripts, artistic visions, adventures to outstanding cinematic mastery.
- 3 competitive sections with awards amounting to more than 50,000 ?
- 190 documentaries and 190 animated films from 50 countries selected from 2,400 entries (in 2005)
- German Competition and Byers Screening of the best German documentaries
- Special programmes 2006: Docs from the Arab-speaking World, Truth and Fake in Documentary, Baltic Documentaries and Animated Films since Independence 1991 plus Retrospective of German Avant-garde and Experimental Docs organised by the Federal German Film Archive.
- Introduction of HD on the big screen planned for 2006
- 10 cinemas and a professional infrastructure in walking distance
- Based in one of Germany's most vibrant and fascinating cities
- 25,000 visitors, packed cinemas and an enthusiastic audience
NEW OFFERS FOR THE INDUSTRY
DOK Market Digital
- DOK Leipzig prepares the digitalisation of the DOK Market for 2006
- One click to 400 new international docs categorised by genres
- Special focus on German speaking territories, Central & Eastern Europe and Asia
- Detailed DOK Market catalogue with extensive sales information
- One cinema reserved for market screenings
- HD-Market Screenings planned for 2006
International DOK Leipzig Co-production Meeting
Country Focus 2006: Canada, Germany and China with introduction into the markets, case studies and one-to-one producer meetings. In partnership with Hot Docs! and GZ DOC.
Pitching of the Discovery Campus Masterschool 2006
40 international key decision-makers from broadcasters such as ARD, ARTE, AVRO, BBC, Channel 4, Channel One Russia, Discovery Networks EU & Int'l, France 3 & 5, HBO, HOS, NatGeo, TV Ontario, TVP, VRT, YLE or ZDF and selected distributors come to Leipzig to discover fresh and well developed documentary projects and exciting co-production opportunities. Organised by Discovery Campus e.V.
DOK Summits
Controversial panel discussions with international experts focusing on current trends and developments in the field of documentary. Organised in collaboration with MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and MEDIA Antenna Berlin-Brandenburg
ENTRY AND INFORMATION
Please find our guidelines, online entry forms and further information on our website www.dok-leipzig.de
