Find out more about the UK's major documentary pitching opportunity in Sheffield
MeetMarket is the international pitching opportunity at Doc/Fest, designed to match the most innovative documentary and cross-platform projects with potential financiers and mentors.
In a structured and highly-productive setting, independent producers and filmmakers take pre- scheduled meetings with commissioning editors, distributors, sales agents, funders, advisors and executive producers from the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. Representatives come from TV, Cinema, Online, 3rd Sector, Crowd Funding, Hybrid Distribution, Outreach Strategising, and everything in between. This year over 200 Decision Makers will be participating in MeetMarket from 26 countries.
Project proposals were submitted online, after which an international panel of assessors chose 65 projects from 486 submissions. The attending commissioners and other financiers viewed these selected projects online and requested meetings with them in the MeetMarket. Producers and filmmakers could also indicate their meeting preferences and were 'match-made' with the most relevant decision-makers, leading to an average
of 16 one-to-one meetings across two days.
MeetMarket is a totally unique way of pitching new documentary and cross-platform projects. We accept projects in any genre, any length, both single and series, on any platform, and from any country. Projects can
be at any stage of development and do not necessarily need to have any financing attached. MeetMarket provides a supportive and friendly context for having in-depth creative conversations about the very best new international documentary projects.
MeetMarket is now recognised as one of the key markets in the world for documentary and factual media. The total worth of deals done or sparked by negotiation at MeetMarket 2010 and the Doc/Fest Marketplace amounted to £20m.
Filmed by Sheffield Hallam University students and edited by Dave Holloway.
