Documentary Co-production Forum (DCF)
“Matching projects and broadcasters”
Encounters the South African International Documentary Festival and the Sithengi Southern African International Film & Television Market are proud to announce a joint initiative aimed at improving the documentary co-production opportunities for Southern African filmmakers.
Encounters and Sithengi have designed a programme of events leading up to the DCF. These are to assist African filmmakers develop their projects and create opportunities to pitch for a co-production deal to an international panel of broadcasters, producers and distributors.
Submission Deadline for Preliminaries:
Sithengi and Encounters will register all proposals for any documentary over 24 minutes received by the entry deadline. Dependent on the volume of submissions there may be a selection process for the Preliminaries.
These Preliminaries, in which filmmakers have 5 minutes each to pitch their proposal to a Selection Panel, will be held in Cape Town and Johannesburg during the
5th
Encounters South African International Documentary Festival 2003
Cape Town 20 29 July: Johannesburg 1 7 August.
The Selection Panel consisting of a broadcaster, distributor and producer, will make recommendations, and put forward between 10-20 projects for further development.Cape Town 20 29 July: Johannesburg 1 7 August.
Filmmakers selected at the Preliminaries may avail themselves of the Consultations and the Pitching Workshop. They will then be required to submit a Treatment and a Budget.
These proposals will be considered by South African broadcasters, who may make an offer on, or write a letter of intent for, a project for co-production.
In the last week of September filmmakers will be invited for Consultations with the Selection Panel.
In November there will be a two-day Pitching Workshop prior to the
8th Sithengi Southern African International Film & Television Market
Cape Town 13 16 November.
At the Pitching Workshop an expert will advise filmmakers on their presentations and on the international commissioning editors and broadcasters who will be attending the DCF.Cape Town 13 16 November.
A finite number of proposals will be slated for the DCF. Those that are selected from the Preliminaries and which have been through the Consultation and the Pitching Workshop will be in line for an opportunity to pitch at the DCF.
All African filmmakers who have proposals (which must consist of a Treatment, Budget, CVs), but who have not been through the Preliminaries, Consultations and Pitching Workshop, are not excluded from the DCF. However, to be considered for the DCF these proposals must have secured a minimum of 20% of the submitted budget, and the attachment of their local broadcaster is beneficial.
In Brief:
7 July
21 July 9 Aug
1 September
22 September
22 27 September
11 12 November
13 16 November
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TO APPLY FOR THE DOCUMENTARY CO-PRODUCTION FORUM, VISIT WWW.SITHENGI.CO.ZA
For further information contact:
SITHENGI
Tel: + 27 21 430 8160
Fax: + 27 21 430 8186
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www.sithengi.co.za
ENCOUNTERS
Tel: + 27 21 448 0608
Fax: + 27 21 448 1065
AFTER 17 JUNE 2003
Tel: + 27 21 426 0405
Fax: + 27 21 426 0577
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www.encounters.co.za
Product Co-ordinator
Sithengi Film and Television Market
C/O SABC
209 Beach Road
Sea Point
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+27 21 430 8427
+27 21 430 8240
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