Call for projects for Docu Rough Cut Boutique 2013

Call for projects
for the 3rd edition of Docu Rough Cut Boutique
@ Sarajevo Film Festival, 19th-24th August 2013
Deadline for submission – 21st June 2013
Balkan Documentary Center (BDC) in collaboration with the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) opens a call for the 3rd edition of Documentary Rough Cut Boutique workshop – a unique workshop for Balkan documentary filmmakers [...]

Selection for BDC Discoveries 2013 announced!

We are very happy to announce the short list of selected documentary projects for the upcoming edition of BDC Discoveries, our training program that successfully established itself in the last years. We are proud to have as partners this year DokuFest Prizren and DOK Leipzig.
BDC was really pleased to receive many high-quality projects from [...]

Call for Action for the Rights of Documentary Cinema

Our friends from One World Romania are organizing a big petition to all relevant institutions regarding support for documentary cinema, which, as we all know, is fundamental for the health and the well-being of society.
Please, have a look, sign the petition and keep your fingers crossed for this little revolution! Good luck, One [...]

BDC Discoveries alumna awarded at East Doc Platform

The Bulgarian-Swiss documentary project “Para I Vyara – Steam and Faith” by director Albena Mihaylova was awarded with the traditional Golden Funnel last week in Prague during the East Doc Platform 2013! The Bulgarian producer Albena Kovacheva is former BDC Discoveries participant. Congratulations and good luck with this promising project!
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Docu Rough Cut Boutique project NAKED selected for the Doc Outlook-International of Visions du Réel, Nyon

Docu Rough Cut Boutique project NAKED selected  for the Doc Outlook-International of the prestigious  festival Visions du  Réel, Nyon . We congratulate Tiha K. Gudac and her producer Factum, Zagreb.
Croatian project NAKED  that took part in our Rough Cut Boutique at SFF 2012 is selected as one of  six long feature documentaries from all [...]

BDC Discoveries 2013 – call for entries

The call for applications for BDC Discoveries 2013 training program is now open.
Please, download the application forms below.
Deadline for submitting your project: 23 March 2013
FOR PARTICIPANTS

Please, download here the application form for participants.
The target group of the BDC Discoveries 2013 is promising audio-visual professionals, who come from the Balkans or work on a [...]

BDC Discoveries 2012 participants at DOK Leipzig/Co-Pro Meetings

You may remember these happy faces above – the photographs were taken in mid July in Prizren, Kosovo, where the third closing module of the annual training programme BDC Discoveries took place. Our participants – young and promising filmmakers from the Balkan region – presented their projects in front of a panel of decision-makers. Of [...]

International Factual Co-Production: 2012 and Beyond – Are you ready?

Balkan Documentary Center kindly presents a very promising industry event, hosted by our friends and partners Documentary Campus, in a cooperation with DocuMentor from Romania. Please, see below more information from the organizers.

Documentary Campus gladly presents its upcoming Industry Session:International Factual Co-Production: 2012 and Beyond – Are youready? taking place on [...]

Sofia’s Last Ambulance multi-awarded!

We are very glad to announce that Sofia’s Last Ambulance by director Ilian Metev won Best Documentary Award at the 147th edition of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Best Balkan Documentary Award at the 11th edition of DokuFest Prizren.
Ilian Metev is a former participant of Docu Rough Cut Boutique, the special training program [...]

Special Mention for Alexander Nanau at SFF

We are glad to announce that Docu Rough Cut Boutique participant Alexander Nanau received a Special Mention by CineLink Jury for his project “Totonel” at the official awards ceremony of Sarajevo Film Festival.
Nanau was selected to be presented at Work in Progress, the industry program of SFF where the most promising regional projects currently in [...]