18-02-2015

Winner of East Doc Platform to Get 7,500 EUR

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    PRAGUE: The novelty of the fourth edition of East Doc Platform (2-8 March 2015) is the financial support of 7,500 EUR for the best project in development.

    Other awards are: the HBO Production Award, the Czech TV Post-production Award and the Golden Funnel – Pitch Award. The 4th edition of East Doc Platform (EDP) is the largest Central and East European documentary event organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in association with the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. It is a meeting point for 120 East European filmmakers and producers who seek creative, financial and distributional support, and more than 70 key international festival programmers, commissioning editors, buyers, distributors, sales agents, film fund and organization representatives, who will be able to choose from some of the most promising films and projects in Central and Eastern Europe.

    EDP will feature staple events such as: the 15th East European Forum (up to 10 East European projects in development and production); the 2nd Doc Tank (seven East European socially and politically engaged documentary projects with cross-media and campaign potential); the 6th Project Market (up to 35 Central and East European projects in all stages of completion, international commissioning editors, distributors, sales representatives, funders and festival programmers); East Silver Videolibrary (300 completed films from Central and Eastern Europe).