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Sheffield Doc/Fest
File:Sheffield DocFest official logo.png
LocationSheffield, England
Founded1994
AwardsSheffield Doc/Fest Awards
Festival dateJune 5, 2015 (2015-06-05) to June 10, 2015 (2015-06-10)
Websitehttp://www.sheffdocfest.com

Sheffield Doc/Fest, short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF), is an international documentary and digital media festival held annually in Sheffield.

Since beginning in 1994,[1] Doc/Fest has become the UK's biggest documentary festival and the third largest in the world.[2][3] The BBC have called it "one of the leading showcases of documentary films".[4]

The festival includes screenings, an industry conference, a marketplace for the funding and distribution of films, and its own awards. It covers digital and interactive projects as well as film.

The festival has been voted one of the Top Five Coolest Documentary Film Festivals in the World.[5] Its director Heather Croall has said: "We want people that would not normally go to a documentary festival to think: 'That's for me, I want to go to that.'"[6]

About the festival

Doc/Fest is held at the Showroom Workstation and other venues across Sheffield and the surrounding area. Fun is a key element, and the festival holds many parties.[7] It is possibly the only film festival in the world which includes an annual themed roller disco.[8] The festival has grown steadily over recent years.[9]

Screenings help many films to achieve a wider audience by attracting distribution and screening opportunities for the films it shows.[10] Hussain Currimbhoy, the festival's director of programming, has been described as 'particularly creative'[11] and 'passionate',[12] saying "I'm never looking for 'Will this win an Oscar?' I'm looking for a great event, films with a strong message, films that will stay with me after the festival.”[13]

The marketplace, which is centred on an event called the MeetMarket, also helps films achieve funding and distribution.

It has the traditional film festival element in that it screens exciting new documentaries, but it’s also a place where buyers, film distributors and producers come to meet documentary makers and find the next big thing.

— Alex Graham, Festival Chairman, [8]

History

In 1990, Peter Symes of BBC TV Features Bristol had the idea of creating a forum for British documentary filmmakers to debate and discuss their craft. In 1993, he set up a festival board which included representatives from Channel 4, United Artists, Discovery Channel, Central Independent Television and Granada Television. They chose to hold the festival in Sheffield, an English industrial town which was just beginning to develop a media and cultural sector.[14]

The first Sheffield International Documentary Festival was held in 1994, formatted as an international film festival and conference for documentary professionals.[15] It included a film programme, one or two masterclasses, and a party.[16] It lasted two days and mainly attracted London-based filmmakers and producers, plus several international commissioners and distributors.

Over the next eight years, the festival continued with around 475-700 delegates attending, and total audiences reaching around 2000. The festival became an opportunity for London-based independent filmmakers to talk to commissioners at the BBC and Channel 4, who were otherwise difficult to reach. Success at the festival might mean landing a job for the coming year.[14]

In 2005 Doc/Fest was struggling to survive, with around 500 mostly-UK delegates and 2000 visitors. The chairman at the time, Steve Hewlett, visited the Australian International Documentary Conference where he met its director Heather Croall, who had a background in filmmaking and had founded the cross-platform storytelling event DigiDocs. He invited Croall to come and work for the festival, and two weeks later she moved to Sheffield, taking up her current position as Festival Director.

The festival was in a moribund state by the time I arrived, but I didn’t know that. I didn’t know there were murmurs that Sheffield had lost its mojo and was a little bit flat. Once I analyzed it and realized what a tragic situation we were facing, I thought, OK, we need to create something so new and different.

— Heather Croall, Festival Director

The recent rise in international co-productions meant that British producers could no longer rely solely on one big broadcaster for their entire budget, and instead had to look abroad to piece together financing for their films. To internationalise the festival and help filmmakers achieve this financing, Croall introduced the MeetMarket pitching forum, where filmmakers pitch their ideas to funders in one-to-one meetings. She also introduced the digital-focused Crossover International Summit and Crossover Market, which – like the MeetMarket – pairs buyers and commissioners with game designers, technologists, producers, digital agencies and filmmakers, all looking to tell stories in the interactive realm. Croall seeks to attract young filmmakers, uses bright lanyards to ensure delegates are recognisable, encourages people to dine in local restaurants, and makes good use of local venues.

Since 2006 Croall is credited with turning the fortunes of the festival around. It is now widely recognised as one of the top three documentary festivals in the world, and “the most significant documentary festival in Britain" .[17] Delegate numbers have risen fivefold since 2006.[9]

In 2007, Hussain Currimbhoy joined as programmer.[18] In 2011 the festival moved from November to June, to better fit into the industry calendar and ensure better weather and lighter evenings for visitors.

Doc/Fest was an early advocate of crowdfunding as a source of finance for documentary filmmakers, and in 2010 staged its first festival-based crowdfunding pitching event, which was also an industry first.[19][20]

In October 2012 Doc/Fest went on to launch its own crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $25k for the festival, to help stage special events.[21] They exceeded their target.[22]

From 2012, selected highlights from the festival have played at the BFI Southbank in London.[23] The festival began producing its own film projects, including From the Sea to the Land Beyond in 2012 and The Big Melt in 2013.

From 2014, the festival became recognised by the Academy Awards as an Oscar-qualifying festival in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category.[24]

In 2014 Doc/Fest presented films including Beyond Clueless and Love Is All at Latitude Festival.[25] It also launched a training initiative for aspiring feature documentary producers, called Future Producer School.[26]

The effect of the festival on Sheffield's economy is worth millions of pounds. Outside of the annual festival, there is now also a year-round programme providing training, educational and cultural activities across the UK.

Some associate documentary festivals with All-Bran – it’s good for you but you don’t really enjoy it – but I think we have succeeded in not just making Doc/Fest more exciting but blowing people’s minds.

— Heather Croall, Festival Director, [27]

2011

The festival's director of programming, Hussain Currimbhoy, spotted the film Searching for Sugar Man and ran it as the opening night feature with a surprise performance from the film's star, Sixto Rodriguez. It became the first music documentary to win an Oscar since 1991.[13]

2012

2,657 delegates from 67 countries attended the festival, and general admissions were 20,079.

Notable screenings and events included:

Speakers included Gareth Malone and Tim Pool.[7]

2013

2013 saw a record number of films and delegates.[29] Delegate numbers rose by 18% to 3,129.[30] There were a record 18 international delegations including representatives from Armenia, Canada, Jordan, Morocco, the Netherlands, the State of Palestine, Russia, South Africa, and South Sudan, attending the festival with a special focus on factual filmmaking in their regions.[31]

250 buyers and decision-makers from over 20 countries attended.[15]

Film submissions topped 2000 for the first time.[13] 120 films were shown, of which there were 77 feature length documentaries,[32] 33 shorts, 10 interactive projects and one art installation.[18] There were 18 world premieres,[17] 12 UK premieres, and 5 European premieres. A record 14 films screening at Doc/Fest were developed and funded through MeetMarket,[33] including Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing which went on to win the Audience Award.[9]

World premieres included Basically, Johnny Moped, Emptying The Skies, Everybody’s Child, A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power & Jayson Blair at the New York Times, Here Was Cuba, Mirage Men, Notes from the Inside with James Rhodes, Particle Fever, Plot for Peace, Project Wild Thing, Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, The Big Melt, Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, The Man Whose Mind Exploded, The Road to Fame, The Secret Life of Uri Geller – Psychic Spy?, Thin Ice, and To Let The World In.

European premieres included After Tiller, Dirty Wars, and Pandora's Promise.

UK premieres included The Act of Killing and The Crash Reel.[34] The Act of Killing went on to win a Bafta and was named best film of 2013 by The Guardian.[35]

Film strands included Behind the Beats, Best of British, Cross-Platform, Euro/Doc, First Cut, Global Encounters, New York Times Op-Docs, Queer Screen, Resistance, Shorts, The Habit of Art, and This Sporting Life.

A new strand, Films on Film, screened a notable film with a documentary about it, for example The Exorcist (Director's Cut) with The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist, and John Waters’ Female Trouble with I Am Divine.[23] This strand aimed to attract a wider mix of people, and was supported by Lottery funding through the BFI’s Film Festival Fund which provides extra resources to help grow film festival audiences.[36]

The Doc/Fest Retrospective strand celebrated the work of Japanese filmmaker Shohei Imamura.[34]

More than 75 directors were present and took part in Q&A sessions.[37]

Notable screenings and events included:

There were 80 conference sessions and masterclasses,[33] and 300 speakers.[15] Notable speakers included Adam Buxton, Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Franzen, Uri Geller, Ira Glass, Alex Graham, Janice Hadlow, Jay Hunt, Ross Kemp, Mark Kermode, Sir Trevor McDonald, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Walter Murch, Miranda Sawyer interviewing Michael Palin, Sue Perkins, Captain Sensible, and Alan Yentob.[17][48][49][50][51][52][53][54]

2014

The festival expanded from five days to six and for the first time began on a Saturday. Screenings took place across a wider range of more unusual venues in Sheffield and the Peak District.[55] 130 films were shown, of which 21 were world premieres, 24 UK premieres, and 12 European premieres.[24][56][57]

World premieres included Martin Scorsese's documentary about The New York Review of Books, The 50 Year Argument; Alex Holmes' Stop At Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story; The Last Man On The Moon, about former astronaut Eugene Cernan who also attended the festival; One Rogue Reporter, written and directed by former 'Daily Star' reporter Rich Peppiatt;[4] and Brilliant Creatures: Rebels of Oz.[58]

Notable screenings and events included:

Speakers included Peter Bazalgette, Jeremy Deller, Brian Eno, Sue Perkins, Grayson Perry, John Pilger, Jon Snow, and Ondi Timoner.[4][24][56][59]

There were 82 conference sessions and masterclasses,[24] and a record number of pitch opportunities for filmmakers worth £200,000.[26]

Screenings

The festival screens films to delegates and the public in a range of venues across Sheffield and the surrounding area. There is also a Videotheque which enables delegates to watch films from the programme at any time during the festival, and online afterwards.

Conference

Conference sessions and masterclasses are co-presented by Documentary Campus.[33] Many masterclasses and interviews from the conference are available as podcasts.[65]

Marketplace and industry

Doc/Fest gives filmmakers the chance to pitch to representatives from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, YouTube and more.[7] Pitching opportunities include:

  • MeetMarket: selected film projects pitch to funders in one-on-one meetings
  • Mini-MeetMarket: novice filmmakers and fledgling projects pitch publicly to funders
  • Crossover Market: selected digital and cross-disciplinary projects pitch to funders in one-on-one meetings
  • The BFI Film Fund Pitch for feature documentaries
  • The Channel 4 First Cut Pitch for first time directors
  • The Wellcome Trust Pitch for projects on biomedical science
  • The Specialist Factual New Talent Factual Pitch for aspiring on-screen talent
  • The New York Times Op-Docs Pitch for short documentaries
  • The Your WorldView Pitch for projects focussed on developing countries

The festival also organises regional pitch workshops and training throughout the year across the UK.

MeetMarket

Meetmarket

MeetMarket is a documentary pitching event held at Sheffield Doc/Fest, where filmmakers pitch their project ideas one-on-one to UK and international broadcasters, funders and distributors.

Festival director Heather Croall introduced MeetMarket to Doc/Fest in 2006. She developed it as an alternative to public pitching (where filmmakers pitch to a large audience).[27] Each meeting is match-made and scheduled. Each year there are over 1000 one-on-one meetings for 65+ projects across two days.[66] Each project team attends 15-20 meetings, which are all match-made with relevant decision-makers. In 2012 the event was attended by 250 decision-makers.[67]

Since its introduction, a total of 5900 meetings have taken place, raising £27million for 369 documentary and digital projects.[17]

All meetings held at MeetMarket have been requested by both parties, meaning it's more likely for a deal to be made. While the focus is on achieving funding and distribution, participants also benefit from advice on production, distribution, exhibition, marketing and outreach. Filmmaker Guy Davidi said “Pitching in intimate round-table sessions was a big comfort. It reduces tension and competitiveness and makes the whole thing much more relaxed and fun. We have created important connections and in one case it led directly to an investment.”[68]

In 2013 MeetMarket attracted over 600 applications. Over 60 projects from 18 countries were chosen to participate. Filmmakers included Franny Armstrong, Marshall Curry, Jeanie Finlay, Alex Gibney, Phil Grabsky, Brian Hill, Victor Kossakovsky and Joshua Oppenheimer.[14] The selection also included six cross-platform projects.

In 2014, 64 projects were chosen to participate in MeetMarket,[56] including new films from Franny Armstrong, William Karel, and Stanley Nelson Jr.. 290 investors, commissioners and production partners took part including commissioners from Netflix, Dazed, Vice, Vimeo and Nowness and distributors Oscilloscope Laboratories, Dogwoof and PBS.[24]

MeetMarket projects have gone on to win awards at Sundance, Tribeca, IDFA, Hot Docs and Doc/Fest.[68]

Notable films to achieve funding through MeetMarket include Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing[9] and The Look of Silence (due for release in summer 2014),[69] Searching for Sugarman, Jeanie Finlay's The Great Hip Hop Hoax,[70] Ping Pong, 5 Broken Cameras, and God Loves Uganda.[71]

Digital and interactive

Sheffield Doc/Fest runs a programme focussed on new media development in partnership with Crossover Labs, which is an organisation dedicated to training people to develop new digital content and services.

This digital and interactive programme includes:

  • The Crossover Interactive Summit, which is a full day of sessions exploring the digital revolution in broadcasting.[17] Delegates can network with representatives from the film and TV industry, which have included keynote speakers such as BBC North’s Richard Deverell, Frank Rose, Steven Johnson and Katerina Cizek from Highrise. The day includes breakout sessions and round table discussions. The 2013 summit focussed on ‘Transformers’, people who want to change the world and have moved from one platform to another to do so. It was aimed at filmmakers creating apps, documentary producers moving to social platforms, app designers making hardware, and video game developers making physical objects.[23][40]
  • The Crossover Market, which is a pitching event for interactive and digital projects[33] run in a similar way to the festival's MeetMarket. It took place for the first time in 2013, when 27 project teams pitched to 85 cross-platform decision makers.[72]
  • A strand of Crossover panels during the main festival conference programme, which includes sessions, commissioning editor panels, workshops, project showcasing, and cross-platform pitching competitions.
  • The Crossover Lounge, which shows and hosts digital projects including those commissioned especially for the festival. This is also a space where delegates can meet and network.[34]

Year-round, the festival together with Crossover Labs also runs training and pitching events including the Devise to Deliver (D2D) mentoring and training programme.

2014's festival included a new Crossover Docs strand in the main film programme, and an Interactive pass for delegates focussing on the digital elements of the festival.

The definition of documentary is now really broad and not only includes TV and film, but also digital, internet, radio, interactive, even museum exhibits. Crossover is now a major part of our program all year.

— Heather Croall, Festival Director, [14]

Awards

The Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards honour the best documentaries from the Doc/Fest programme, and are judged by industry professionals.

Current categories

  • Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award voted for by audiences.
  • Special Jury Prize for excellence in style, substance and approach. The jury is made up of UK and international documentary specialists.
  • Sheffield Innovation Award for originality in approach to form and radical manifestations in the delivery of its story. The jury is made up of peers from the industry.
  • Sheffield Green Award for the film that best addresses major environmental challenges.
  • Sheffield Shorts Award, introduced in 2013[54] and automatically qualifies the winner for consideration for the Academy Awards.
  • Sheffield Youth Jury Award for the film that is most engaging for young audiences. The winner is chosen by a jury of five young people aged 16–21, who take part in a series of workshops and screenings with industry professionals ahead of the festival.[73]
  • Student Doc Award for films made as part of tertiary course work at UK and international universities, judged by a panel of industry experts.
  • Tim Hetherington Award presented by Dogwoof. This was introduced in 2013 to honour war photographer Tim Hetherington. It includes a cash prize and is decided by a jury including Tim’s mother, Judith Hetherington.
  • EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Film presented by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.
  • Inspiration Award, introduced in 2009, which celebrates a figure in the industry who has championed documentary and helped get great work into the public eye.[33]
  • The In The Dark Sheffield International Audio Award introduced in 2014 to highlight the best in audio documentaries.[74]
  • The Peter Wintonick Award introduced in 2014 to celebrate activist filmmaking in honour of the late Canadian filmmaker.

Winners

2009

Award Winner
Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award Junior
Special Jury Prize Videocracy
Sheffield Innovation Award LoopLoop

Special mention: The Big Issue

Sheffield Green Award Blood of the Rose
Sheffield Youth Jury Award Sons of Cuba
Student Doc Award Arsey Versey
Inspiration Award Adam Curtis

2010

Award Winner
Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award Joint winners: Father, Son and the Holy War and Scenes from a Teenage Killing
Special Jury Prize Pink Saris

Special mention: Nostalgia for the Light

Sheffield Innovation Award The Arbor

Special mention: Prison Valley

Sheffield Green Award Rainmakers

Special mention: Into Eternity

Sheffield Youth Jury Award The Battle for Barking

Special mention: Marathon Boy

Student Doc Award No Easy Time
Inspiration Award Kim Longinotto

2011

Award Winner
Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award Give Up Tomorrow
Special Jury Prize The Interrupters
Sheffield Innovation Award sponsored by BT Vision Welcome to Pine Point
Sheffield Green Award You've Been Trumped
Sheffield Youth Jury Award We Are Poets
Student Doc Award Eighty Eight
Inspiration Award Nick Broomfield

A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Albert Maysles.

2012

The awards were held on 17 June 2012.

Award Winner
Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award 5 Broken Cameras
Special Jury Prize Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present
Sheffield Innovation Award sponsored by BT Vision Bear 71
Sheffield Green Award Law of the Jungle
Sheffield Shorts Award The Globe Collector
Sheffield Youth Jury Award Photographic Memory
Student Doc Award The Betrayal – Nerakhoon
EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Film Going Up The Stairs
Inspiration Award Penny Woolcock

2013

The awards were held on 16 June 2013, and presented by Jeremy Hardy.

Award Winner
Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award Joint winners: The Act of Killing and Particle Fever
Special Jury Prize The Act of Killing

Special mention: Mothers

Sheffield Innovation Award sponsored by BT Vision Alma, a Tale of Violence
Sheffield Green Award Pandora's Promise
Sheffield Shorts Award Slomo
Sheffield Youth Jury Award God Loves Uganda
Student Doc Award Boys
Tim Hetherington Award The Square
EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Film Rafea Solar Mama
Inspiration Award Nick Fraser, editor of the BBC's Storyville

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists also presented a Special EDA Award to Sheffield Doc/Fest's Festival Director, Heather Croall, naming her 2013's Ambassador of Women's Films.[75][76]

2014

The awards were held on 12 June 2014. For the first time, the award-winning documentary short automatically qualifies for consideration for the Academy Awards.[24]

Award Winner
Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award Still The Enemy Within
Special Jury Prize Attacking The Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime

Special mention: Night Will Fall

Sheffield Innovation Award sponsored by BT Vision Highrise (documentary)
Sheffield Green Award Unearthed
Sheffield Shorts Award Amanda F***ing Palmer on the Rocks
The Wintonick Award Vessel
Sheffield Youth Jury Award The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Student Doc Award Our Curse
Tim Hetherington Award Profession: Documentarist
Inspiration Award Laura Poitras

A Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Roger Graef.[77]

Year round programme

Doc/Fest activities outside of the five-day festival include:

  • Screenings, for example the BFI Doc/Fest tour which takes a selection of the festival's film programme around the UK, and screenings at Latitude Festival 2013.[78]
  • An ongoing mentoring programme for filmmakers.
  • Training, workshops and networking events for filmmakers.[7]
  • A structured internship and volunteer programme for young people.

Future

Croall is insistent that she intends to retain the intimate, “boutique" vibe by keeping the festival within the city’s walking precinct and plateauing attendance at around 3,500 industry delegates and 30,000 to 40,000 members of the public.

We want to make sure that we always offer a very egalitarian experience for everybody. We’re not into anything to do with VIPs being siphoned off away from everyone else. It’s important that filmmakers feel there is access to people that they don’t normally get access to. Growth is exhausting, to be honest. We can’t just keep growing and growing. What we want to do is consolidate and make the festival experience a concentrated injection of fun, business and new technology awareness.

— Heather Croall, Festival Director, [14]

Festival directors

  • Midge MacKenzie, 1994[16]
  • Paula Shirley, 1995
  • Kathy Loizou, 1996–2001[79]
  • Brent Woods, 2002–2005[80]
  • Heather Croall, 2006–present[2]

Festival chairpersons

  • Peter Symes, 1994–1995
  • Marian Bowan, 1996
  • Roger James, 1997–2000[81]
  • Christo Hird, 2000–2004[82]
  • Steve Hewlett, 2005–2011[83]
  • Alex Graham, 2011–present[8]

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