DOC LAB POLAND & CEDOC MARKET representatives at IDFA

DOC LAB POLAND & CEDOC MARKET representatives will attend industry meetings at IDFA in the coming days! Schedule a meeting with us – if you have any questions!

CEDOC Market (Central European Documentary Co-production Market), which is part of KFF Industry during the Krakow Film Festival, is the only co-production platform in Poland aimed at documentary film producers looking for Polish and foreign partners. Organized since 2015, the event focuses primarily on building creative cooperation between producers and creators from all over Europe. The market is part of the DOC LAB POLAND program.

DOC LAB POLAND is the biggest in Poland program for supporting and presenting the most interesting, carefully selected Polish documentary projects. Ca. 12 projects in development (looking for international co-production) are presented at Docs To Start pitching while ca. 10 films in editing phase are presented at Docs To Go! to sales agents, distributors and festival’s selectors. Almost all successful Polish documentaries of the past seven years attended our pitchings.

A specific feature of CEDOC Market is its dual-track approach to the meetings. On the one hand, producers have the chance to meet other potential co-producers and present their projects to one another – with each producer playing a dual role. Previous editions of the event have been attended by leading European production companies, including Artline Films (France), Kundschafter Filmproduktion (Germany), Inselfilm (Germany), Momento Films (Sweden), Tondovsky Films (Germany), House of Real (Denmark), Tuffi Films (Finland), Vernes (Czech Republic), Virc Studio (Slovenia), Lukimedia (Spain), Speak Easy Project (Hungary), Elemag Pictures (Germany), Arena (Kosovo), Marx Film (Estonia), Kijora Film (Poland), Aurora Film (Norway), Haka Films (Poland), Centrala (Poland) and Einbahnstrasse Productions (Germany). On the other hand, during CEDOC Market, producers can meet not only with other producers, but also with representatives of film funds, training programs, sales agents and TV broadcasters. Previous editions have seen over 60 decision makers from all around the world gather at the event. Last year, some of the decision makers who met with the representatives of the qualifying projects included Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen (head of the IDFA Forum), Tereza Šimíková (head of CPH:FORUM at the CPH:DOX festival), Yoko Imai (NHK), Erkko Lyytinen (YLE), Mehdi Bekkar from Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Hanka Kastelicová, vice-president and executive producer of documentaries for HBO Europe, Joanna Szymańska, consultant on documentary projects at HBO Poland, Lisa Kleiner Chanoff (Catapult Film), Jhava Chikli and Melanie Rozencwajg (Archive Valley) and Biljana Tutorov (Circle Women Doc Accelerator). The project representatives also had the opportunity to take part in additional roundtable discussions on selected topics corresponding to the specifics of the films they were working on.

Previous editions of CEDOC Market have seen the presentation of Polish productions such as Trains by Maciej Drygas, Newborn by Lidia Duda, Wika! by Agnieszka Zwiefka, Diagnosis by Ewa Podgórska, Pollywood by Paweł Ferdek, Village of Swimming Cows by Katarzyna Trzaska, An Ordinary Country by Tomasz Wolski, Opera About Poland by Piotr Stasik and The Last Expedition by Eliza Kubarska.

CEDOC Market is one of the initiatives of the Władysław Ślesicki Film Foundation, whose main tasks involve supporting and promoting Polish documentary films, supporting young debuting filmmakers and organising workshops, conferences, competitions and film production. The Foundation’s activities include programs such as DOC LAB POLAND, the largest Polish initiative for professional documentary filmmakers that combines substantive consultations on film projects with presentations for potential partners: producers, distributors, sales agents (CEDOC Market is also part of DOC LAB POLAND); DOC DEVELOPMENT, a program to assist with the intensive development of documentary projects at an early stage, IMPAKT – a program for producers developing fictional and documentary projects and others.

Where & when:
IDFA  – 21-24.11
Katarzyna Ślesicka – Head of CEDOC MARKET – katarzyna.slesicka@fundfilm.pl