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.

Latest news
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BDC Workshop 2010 – first session down


July 13th, 2010

…one more to go.
The first session of the very first Balkan Documentary Center Workshop 2010 successfully closed last weak at /+/Sklada.

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Making Dox


July 12th, 2010

BDC made the Macedonian connection at last month’s MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival in Skopje.

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BDC goes East


July 12th, 2010

BDC director Martichka Bozhilova traveled east to lead a Documentary Filmmaking on the Balkans panel at the Istanbul forum Documentarist.

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Balkan Documentary Center at Sunny Side


July 12th, 2010

BDC once again was at Sunny Side of the Doc, this time under the East European Stand, together with 6 more companies from Bulgaria and Romania.

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Watch out : docs!


June 29th, 2010

Open screenings and master classes with the authors of 3 provocative European documentaries.
Buldoc and /+/Sklada invite you to a series of special screenings between July 1 and 5, within the framework of the Balkan Documentary Center Workshop.

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Balkan Documentary Center Workshop – Participants Selected


June 16th, 2010

After a difficult and exciting selection process we are happy to announce the selected projects for the 2010 workshop to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria with a follow-up session during this year’s Dokufest in Prizren, Kosovo.

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BDC Workshop deadline extended – June 7


May 31st, 2010

The deadline for applications for the Balkan Documentary Center Workshop is extended until 7 June 2010.
The 2010 BDC Workshop is aimed at Balkan documentary projects with an international potential and a cross-media angle. Through the workshop the projects will develop a strategy for alternative distribution and financing, and get exposed to potential financiers and partners.

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BDC at World Content Market


March 4th, 2010

On February 22-24, the Balkan Documentary Center set foot at the World Content Market.

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What’s happening in the Balkans?


January 12th, 2010

Discussion panel within Sheffield Doc/Fest 09.
Documentary-making in the Balkan states is a model of self-sufficiency and imaginative filmmaking and fundraising.