Documentary Edge Forum 2010
Documentary Edge Forum is an industry event, held during the Documentary Edge Festival. It brings together local and overseas filmmakers/industry to share, network and learn from each other. It also aims to bring a business side to proceedings by facilitating local filmmakers to present their ideas to potential local and international funders, buyers, broadcasters and festival programmers.
Forum Passes
3-day - Corporate, Individual, Guild member, Student
1-day - Individual, Student
Registration to Documentary Edge Forum includes:
- Forum Pass based on registration option including
- Morning/afternoon teas and lunch for each day of the Forum
- Forum Programme and Welcome Bag
- Entry to all Documentary Edge social functions during the Forum
- 2 complimentary tickets to Documentary Edge Festival (27 Feb – 14 March, conditions apply)
- Entry to Documentary Edge Awards Night (3 March 2010)
- 3 months Subscription to Screen Hub
Preliminary Programme
Auckland, AUT, 1–3 March 2010 | updated 3 Dec 2009
Sessions
- The Future of Documentary
- Crossing Over
- 360 degree content creation and delivery
- Report on DOCNZ Lab 2010 and introduction of selected projects
- Documentary filmmaking in China and co-productions
- s.92A Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act and creative freedom
- Meet the Industry
In light of newly introduced NZFC documentary funding and prevailing NZ On Air and Creative NZ policies, we examine:
- What is a cinematic documentary?
- What is NZ Content?
Workshops
- Writing for documentaries
- Recreations and docu-dramas
- Documentary Series
- The ABC’s of sales and distribution
- Should you be doing it yourself?
- Proposal Writing and Budgeting
- Pitching Your Way to Success
Industry Meets
- The Pitching Forum
- Date a Doco
- Networking Functions
AUT, Auckland
The Documentary NZ Trust
PO Box 90943
AMSC
Auckland 1142
++ 64 9 36 00 329
Member Profile
The Documentary New Zealand TrustThe Documentary New Zealand Trust
Is a non-for-profit charitable organization that advocates and promotes the importance of documentary films and filmmaking in New Zealand to our creative, business and wider communities. The Trust organizes the Documentary Edge Festival and Documentary Edge Forum and Pitching Forum.
Documentary Edge Festival is Australasia's only international competitive documentary film festival held annually in New Zealand and showcases the very best documentary film from New Zealand and around the World. The festival runs from late February and includes an Awards Night, Q&A sessions with filmmakers, social functions and more.
Documentary Edge Forum is a 3-day industry event runs at the same time of Documentary Edge Festival. It includes master-classes, seminars and panels. A key event of the Forum is a Pitching Forum attended by overseas commissioners, buyers and sales agents where selected projects are pitched with an opportunity to earn a commission or co-production funding. Documentary Edge also examine the innovations and challenges facing the documentary filmmaking industry so as to better equip our filmmakers. The Forum is place to learn and network with local and international professionals from the industry.
The Trust is also developing the establishment of Documentary Edge Campus, a Resouce Centre for documentaries in Auckland.
