On Monday, 2 March 2015, the fourth edition of East Doc Platform, the biggest documentary event of its kind in the Central and Eastern Europe, begins in Prague. This event is traditionally organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, supporting documentary film in the CEE region in all stages of development, in association with One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.

A documentary about coping with pedophilia called Daniel's World by Veronika Lišková will, after a successful premiere at Jihlava IDFF, where it got the Audience Award, appear in the competition section Panorama at the prestigious Berlinale festival that begins this week.

East Doc Platform, the most important industry event dedicated to documentary films from East and Central Europe, organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, will take place in Prague from 2 to 8 March 2015.

Camp 4SCIENCE is the first international training and co-financing event focused on the development and funding of science documentary films in Central and Eastern Europe. For its 3rd edition, applications can be filed until 20 February 2015.

At the upcoming East Doc Platform, the following 18 projects in various stages of production will be presented by their producers to East European professionals and important decision makers from all over the world within the prearranged one-on-one meetings at Project Market. They will be joined by the 7 projects selected for Doc Tank as well.

IDF is using its platform to garner financial support for ailing Georgian filmmaker Temo Tsava.

IDF recounts its successes at IDFA.

The nominations for the best films in IDFA’s competition programs have just been announced.

Applications for East Doc Platform close on 1 December 2014.

The specific format of a unique rough-cut workshop brings surprising results: half of the DOK.Incubator films premiere at the big autumn festivals.

Selected films from the Silver Eye market are available for online viewing.

CEE documentary filmmakers screen their films at Leipzig's DOK.Incubator before their releases.

DOK.Incubator 2014’s six month workshop will wrap in DOK Leipzig which takes place 27 October-2 November 2014

EAVE and IDF have teamed up to offer a new scholarship for one producer participating in Ex Oriente Film 2014 to attend the EAVE 2015 Producers Workshop. The scholarship will be granted during the second session of Ex Oriente Film workshop 22-28 October 2014 in Jihlava.

A total of 15 documentaries that will be presented within the official programme of the 57th DOK.Leipzig, the biggest documentary and animation event in Germany, were developed under or otherwise supported by IDF’s activities (Ex Oriente Film, Doc Launch, East Silver or Project Market) and five of them will compete for the prizes in four categories.

The documentary development workshop Ex Oriente is gearing up for its next session taking place 22-28 October 2014 in Jihlava.