Sheffield Doc/Fest

0, 0); width: 400px; height: 100px; overflow: auto;">Doc/Fest is the UK's premier documentary festival and the best place to launch a new doc to an audience of international decision makers, film professionals and public. About 85% of the film programme is made up of submitted documentaries. Filmmakers from around the world are invited to enter feature length and short documentaries produced in 2010/2011 for this year’s festival. The deadline for entries is 27 January 2011. Entry is online at www.sheffdocfest.com

Films can also be entered for the Videotheque - used by the festival industry delegates, television programme buyers, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers. Doc/Fest has one of the only fully digitised videotheques in the UK. It has been designed to speed up and simplify selection and viewing for decision-makers to maximise chances of world cinema and TV sales. If a title is selected for the main programme it will automatically be included in the Videotheque at no extra cost.
Non-festival films may be also be included in the Videotheque for an entry fee of approximately £80 + VAT is payable.

Contact the Film Programmer: Hussain Currimbhoy hussain@sidf.co.uk

0, 0); width: 400px; height: 100px; overflow: auto;">MeetMarket 2011 Submissions open 4 January for documentary projects in development with international appeal in any format or genre (including cross-platform) and in any stage of development. Projects do not need to have any financing already secured. For more information contact the Marketplace Director at Doc/Fest: Charlie Philips charlie@sidf.co.uk Pitch Competitions Details are announced at www.sheffdocfest.com . Over £75, 000 of prize money can be won.

MeetMarket at Sheffield Doc/Fest is a pitching initiative which uses online systems to match-make documentary makers’ most innovate project ideas with UK and international buyers for one-to-one meetings in a fully supportive environment.

The MeetMarket has grown by over 60% since its first year in 2006. In 2010, MeetMarket attracted 659 filmmakersand over 1000 meetings were scheduled. 65 projects were pitched to 296 commissioning editors, distributors, funders and other executives from the UK, Europe and the world. Together these generated more than £4.5 million of secured financing and £9.75 million worth of deals in negotiations.

The application process is fully online and you must have a trailer or clip to apply. Selected projects have project information and trailer available on our (password protected) website for the commissioners and other executives to review before the MeetMarket. The meeting schedule is made according to preferences indicated by both the executives and the pitch teams online.

0, 0); width: 400px; height: 100px; overflow: auto;">Doc/Fest has always been a festival owned by the documentary community and industry with dozens of people offering their time and knowledge to put the sessions together. This year the sessions programme at Sheffield Doc/Fest is being produced in partnership with Documentary Campus. We are delighted to team up with Documentary Campus to deliver the Industry Conference strand within Sheffield alongside our film screeningsprogramme and the marketplace activity. You are invited to submit your own session idea using our online system. The ideas will be discussed and selected by the Documentary Campus & Doc/Fest teams and advisory committee. See more details on the website.

Contact the Festival Director at Doc/Fest: Heather Croall heather@sidf.co.uk Or the General Manager Layla Croll layla@sidf.co.uk

0, 0); width: 400px; height: 100px; overflow: auto;">For the 5 days in June, the Festival takes over Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter, as well as other venues in the city centre. The Showroom is a unique venue in the UK offering cinemas, cafes, bar, conference rooms and the Delegate Centre all under one roof. For 5 days during Doc/Fest, the Showroom is buzzing with thousands of general public and over 2200 industry delegates from around the world.
The HUBS is situated opposite The Showroom as are most of the other festival venues.

The venues are directly across the road from the Sheffield train station. All public areas of the Showroom are fully wheelchair accessible.

0, 0); width: 400px; height: 100px; overflow: auto;">Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, is located 160 miles north of London at the edge of the Peak District.

By Train From London St. Pancras: Journey time approx. 2 hrs 30 mins Discounted return train tickets from London and other destinations are available from our website. Download the PDF at www.sheffdocfest.com

By Air Doncaster/Sheffield Airport: 30 miles* from Sheffield. (Taxi ride is 40 minutes and approx £50)

Manchester Airport: 40 Miles* from Sheffield, Manchester Airport is the UK's third largest airport. There is a direct train connection from Manchester Airport to Sheffield Train Station. (1 hour 20 minutes travel time. Tickets available on the train

Leeds/Bradford Airport: 40 miles* from Sheffield.

East Midlands Airport: 47 miles* from Sheffield.

By Car Sheffield City Centre is five miles* from the M1, Junction 33 exit.

* 1 mile is approx. 1.6 kilometres.

0, 0); width: 400px; height: 100px; overflow: auto;">Each year the hotel rooms in Sheffield are completely sold out during the festival week. There are new hotels being built in Sheffield but with the big increase in delegates attending Doc/Fest in the past two years, and such attendanc expected again in 2011, the situation will remain the same. Doc/Fest delegates begin booking their rooms in March, so BE QUICK to make sure you get a room – don’t delay your booking.
Yorkshire South Tourism has the best hotel rates – access the online booking form via our website: www.sheffdocfest.com. Here you will also find the form to book discount train tickets at the same time. The discount, only available for people booking a hotel on the same form, is a substantial saving. Fax the completed form to Clare Maude (Fax: +44 (0) 114 281 4042) at Yorkshire South Tourism. visitor@yorkshiresouth.com (Tel: +44 (0) 114 281 4048)

Most hotels are within walking distance of the festival venue.

Claire Aguilar John Battsek Nick Broomfield Joan Churchill Stuart Cosgrove Peter Dale Mollie Dineen Sandi DuBowski Hans Robert Eisenhauer Alastair Fothergill Nick Fraser Thierry Garrel Daisy Goodwin Alex GrahamRolf Harris Brian Hill Nobuo Isobe Roly Keating Lee Kern Jonathan Kingsbury Richard Klein Ricky Leacock Paula LeDieu Jorgen Leth Mark Lewis Richard Life Matt Locke Kim Longinotto Andrea Meditch Mette Hoffman Meyer Michael Moore Errol Morris Michael Palin DA Pennebaker Norma Percy Nicolas Philibert Jan RofekampJoan RiversRolf Harris John Smithson Paul Sowerbutts Morgan Spurlock Louis Theroux Robert Thirkell Mark Thompson Jane Treays Barbara Truyen Paul Watson Anthony Wall John Willis Alan Yentob Debra Zimmerman

Steve Hewlett - Chair Helen Scott - Deputy Chair Mark AtkinMargaret BennettSimon Dickson Simon FordNick Fraser Alex Graham Professor Sylvia Harvey Grant Keir Richard KleinPaula Le Dieu Julie Muscroft Colin Pons Emma Read Ian Wild

Dawn Airey Jim Allen James Baker Joan Bakewell CBE Clive Betts MP David Blunkett MP Melvyn Bragg Richard Caborn MP Dinah Caine Nick Clegg MP Stuart Cosgrove Greg Dyke Clare Frisby Tim Gardam Harry Gration Richard Gregory Lorraine Heggessey Armando Ianucci Helen Jackson MP Michael Jackson Dom Joly Roly Keating David Liddiment Grant Mansfield Linda McAvan, MEP John McVay Meg Munn MP Dianne Nelmes Michael Palin Steve Perkins Alan Powell Stuart Prebble Lord Puttnam Cllr Michael Pye Jon Ronson Peter Salmon Simon Shaps Chris Shaw Dan Snow Sir Hugh Sykes DL Mark Thompson Charles Tremayne John Whiston Alan Yentob

Roy Ackerman John Akomfrah Lynn Alleway Ewan Angus Krishan Arora Maxine Baker Jane Balfour Adam Barker Lucy Baxter Jan Bednarz Sam Bickley Frank BoydChristine Burnett Simon Chinn Alex Cooke Liesel Evans Dick Fontaine Andy Glynne Phil Grabsky Roger Graef Alan Hayling Brian Hill Emma Hindley Patrick Holland Marc Isaacs Roger James Lee Kern Jason Massot Kerry McLeod Liz Mermin Charlotte Moore James Mullighan Carol Nahra Carolyn Payne David Pearson Ashok Prasad Aysha Rafaele Emily Renshaw Smith Martin RosenbaumGreg Sanderson André Singer Sue Sudbury Sarah Swingler Jo Taylor Rajesh Thind Kate Vogel Julian Ware Paul Watson Georgie Weedon Brian Winston Peter Wintonick Elizabeth Wood Wai Mun Yoon