Hot Docs, one of the world’s top documentary feature film festivals, has selected 36 projects from 18 countries to take part in Hot Docs Deal Maker, a curated one-on-one pitch meeting program for producers seeking financing from the international marketplace.
Since the program’s launch in 2013, the number of decision makers taking part has more than doubled and will reach almost 100 this year. In total, 433 projects and 516 filmmakers have pitched in 4,000 Deal Maker meetings, with millions of dollars raised.
Notable projects that have pitched at Hot Docs Deal Maker in previous years include the 2020 Hot Docs Festival opening night film “Softie,” 2020’s “Downstream to Kinshasa,” 2019’s “Smog Town and The Forum,” 2018’s “Love, Gilda,” and 2017’s “My Enemy, My Brother,” directed by Ann Shin, whose film “A.rtificial I.mmortality” will open this year’s festival.
Featuring a diverse selection of projects showcasing varied perspectives, stories and styles from established and...
Since the program’s launch in 2013, the number of decision makers taking part has more than doubled and will reach almost 100 this year. In total, 433 projects and 516 filmmakers have pitched in 4,000 Deal Maker meetings, with millions of dollars raised.
Notable projects that have pitched at Hot Docs Deal Maker in previous years include the 2020 Hot Docs Festival opening night film “Softie,” 2020’s “Downstream to Kinshasa,” 2019’s “Smog Town and The Forum,” 2018’s “Love, Gilda,” and 2017’s “My Enemy, My Brother,” directed by Ann Shin, whose film “A.rtificial I.mmortality” will open this year’s festival.
Featuring a diverse selection of projects showcasing varied perspectives, stories and styles from established and...
- 4/14/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Closer collaboration is being promoted by two German public film funds and opposite numbers in Norway and Denmark.
This week will see Hanover-based nordmedia and the East Norwegian fund Film3 joining forces with the Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 10-14) in Lower Saxony to stage the festival’s first ever co-production meeting entitled ‘Linking The North’ on Sept 13.
The event will bring producers from Northern Germany and Norway together to discuss the co-production potential of ten fiction feature and documentary projects.
The line-up of projects seeking partners includes:
Christian Lo’s 1910-set detective story The Charlatan, to be produced by Lillehammer-based Filmbin;
Peter Dodd and Kristian Kamp’s 3D family fantasy animation $17.5m film Troll: The Tale Of A Tail, which already has Norway’s Sagatoon, Canada’s Blue Bug Entertainment, and the UK’s Timeless Films already onboard as co-producers, looking for top financing and German distribution;
Leading Norwegian documentary production house As Video Maker’s three-part...
This week will see Hanover-based nordmedia and the East Norwegian fund Film3 joining forces with the Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 10-14) in Lower Saxony to stage the festival’s first ever co-production meeting entitled ‘Linking The North’ on Sept 13.
The event will bring producers from Northern Germany and Norway together to discuss the co-production potential of ten fiction feature and documentary projects.
The line-up of projects seeking partners includes:
Christian Lo’s 1910-set detective story The Charlatan, to be produced by Lillehammer-based Filmbin;
Peter Dodd and Kristian Kamp’s 3D family fantasy animation $17.5m film Troll: The Tale Of A Tail, which already has Norway’s Sagatoon, Canada’s Blue Bug Entertainment, and the UK’s Timeless Films already onboard as co-producers, looking for top financing and German distribution;
Leading Norwegian documentary production house As Video Maker’s three-part...
- 9/9/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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