The Balkan Documentary Center is many things. On the outside, it is an old three-storey pharmaceutical lab in the center of Sofia that is turning into a place for distilling documentaries. It’s a house with a garden, editing rooms, a screening room, a video library, a café and a lot of space for creative ideas. And we would love to hear from you about how to use all of this.
On the inside, it is a network of Balkan filmmakers, a place for inventing, training, development and collaboration. It’s a house with many doors that are open for Balkan filmmakers. Into the brave new world, of course.”
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BDC Discoveries 2012 – module Sofia
May 4th, 2012
Last week we successfully closed the first module of this year’s BDC Discoveries. It was a great experience for all! Moreover, we were lucky to have wonderful weather here in Sofia, which made each day even more pleasant and every open-air lunch a time for perfect restoration of energy and creative power!
BDC witnessed amazingly motivated [...]
Call for entries: Rough Cut Boutique 2012
April 25th, 2012
A promising platform for documentary makers from the region!
Documentary Competition program of Sarajevo Film Festival with its, each year more successful, DOCU CORNER started a unique workshop for the documentary makers from the region – a specialized ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE in collaboration with the Balkan Documentary Center (www.bdcwebsite.com).
After the very successful start in 2011, the [...]
Rough Cut Boutique’s project at 51.Semaine de la Critique – Cannes 2012
April 24th, 2012
Minority Issues and Human Rights as a Selling Point?
April 20th, 2012
Finnagora (Finnland) and Documentary in Europe (Italy) organize a 2-day seminar for filmmakers and producers with documentary projects on minority issues.
The seminar will take place from 11. – 12. May 2012 (9:00-18:00) at Kesztyűgyár Közösségi Ház, Hungary, Budapest, Mátyás tér 15.
Pitching of documentary proposals has become a must in Europe, specially for the young filmmakers [...]
Open events of BDC Discoveries 2012 – module Sofia
April 19th, 2012
Our excitement is getting stronger each day – next week in Sofia we start officially the first module of our training programme BDC Discoveries 2012, which will bring together many international and inspirational promising filmmakers and renowned documentary experts in a unique creative framework.
However, even the programme is made exclusively for documentary professionals, we have [...]


