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Over 1000 documentaries register for DOCUSURThe first edition of the International Festival of Documentary Cinema of the South (DOCUSUR), which will take place from 22nd to 29th October at Guía de Isora, has closed its call for competing films with the record total in Spain of 1105 films registered from 83 countries on all five continents.
In this way, DOCUSUR is confirmed as the festival with the greatest number of participating documentaries and with the greatest international acceptance anywhere in Spain.
The organisation has defined this first call as the "most successful and international in the country, as never before has a documentary film festival had such international acceptance which is expressed both in the great number of documentaries registered and in the number of countries". It is a success as a result of the volume of proposals received and it is international thanks to their origins from locations on all five continents. Such Asiatic countries as Japan, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Korea and India, African ones like Madagascar, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Congo, South Africa and Chad, American ones such as the United States, Canada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico, as well as a representation from Oceania in the hands of work from Australia, and from Europe with the registration of work from practically all the countries on the continent.
According to the director of DOCUSUR, Juan Manuel Villar "this volume of documentaries registered will enable us to make a better selection although, on the other hand, the selection committee will not have an easy job, given the high quality of the work presented". A selection committee made up of outstanding professionals of documentary making will decide over the next few weeks which fifty documentaries will go through to the competition phase of the Festival and the Screenings of DOCUSUR MARKET, the first documentary market devoted to productions and shoots carried out in the countries of the South.
"The great international impact - adds the director of DOCUSUR - that the Festival has had is due, mainly, to the work we carried out beforehand building up over the course of the last two years an extensive database with over 7,000 international contacts. It was painstaking and tedious work but which has finally borne fruit. On the other hand, the documentary is becoming more and more important in the world and emerging film-makers are looking for ways, such as this very versatile system, to express their different points of view".
And the fact is that DOCUSUR aims to bring together in the final week of October the different views of the entire planet.
Sogecable group gives support to DocusurSogecable, first Spanish private TV network and third in Europe, leader company in the Spanish movie market with its film production group Sogecine, is now the main partner of DOCUSUR.
To make this partnership effective, Canal+ DOK will organize a Docusur retrospective section on the best contemporary documentary films ever transmitted by Canal+. Likewise, thematic channel Documanía will grant one of the special awards of Docusur Official Competition, consisting in the purchase of the emission rights of one of the selected documentaries.
Sogecable will also take part in this festival through the Doc Amateur competition, also organized by Documanía. Besides, Sogecable professionals will lead festival workshops and will be member of the different juries.
Call for the presentation of documentary projects for the pitching of Docusur MarketDOCUSUR MARKET is calling for the presentation of projects for the pitching sessions which will take place on 26th October at the International Documentary Film Festival of the South, at Guía de Isora, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
The main objective of the pitching is for the projects for documentary films that are at the development stage to get funding.
convocatoria para la presentación de proyectos a las sesiones de pitching que se llevarán a cabo el próximo 26 de Octubre en el marco del Festival Internacional de Documentales del Sur, en Guía de Isora, Tenerife, Islas Canarias-España.
For this purpose, the projects that are selected by the judges will be presented to a widely-based international panel of Commissioning Editors.
The projects must be at the development or script-writing stage and must be made in a country in Africa, Asia or Latin America, or must deal with a subject related with these regions or must be on north-south relations.
Unlike other markets, DOCUSUR MARKET does not require that projects should have a minimum of assured funding. Thus, DOCUSUR MARKET can be the first step for many producers.
For more information or to fill in the registration form, please visit our web page www.docusur.es
The deadline for the presentation of projects ends on 25th September.
