Pro Tools
•Register a festival or a film
Submit film to festivals Promote for free or with Promo Packages

FILMFESTIVALS | 24/7 world wide coverage

Welcome !

Enjoy the best of both worlds: Film & Festival News, exploring the best of the film festivals community.  

Launched in 1995, relentlessly connecting films to festivals, documenting and promoting festivals worldwide.

Working on an upgrade soon.

For collaboration, editorial contributions, or publicity, please send us an email here

User login

|FRENCH VERSION|

RSS Feeds 

Martin Scorsese Masterclass in Cannes

 

 

 

Documenta Madrid 2009

DOCUMENTA MADRID 2009
May 1 to May 10, 2009

Call for Entries
Deadline: December 31, 2008
Online entry form
    

Contact Info
Festival Director : Antonio Delgado
Festival Commercial contact : Information
Festival Press contact : Prensa

Press Department:
Sonia Uría. +34 686 639 650.
Lucía Blanco. + 34 628 75 06 96.
prensa@documentamadrid.com

Documenta Madrid
Gran Vía, 24 - 6a planta
28013 MADRID
Spain
Tel. +34 91 590 39 20
Fax. +34 91 561 14 34
www.documentamadrid.com

The blog on fest21.com
    

Documenta Madrid
May 1 to May 10, 2009

  • About the Festival

Documenta Madrid is an international film festival dedicated exclusively to documentary film. Its offices are located in the capital of Spain and it is organized by the City of Madrid. It is presently the city's most widely-attended festival.

The festival was born for the purpose of strengthening and disseminating the documentary genre, in so far as it understood to be a reflection of the social, cultural, economic, artistic, environmental, and other realities that exist in the world.

From the selection of films, which is done exclusively using qualitative criteria and respect for any and all critical viewpoints of our surroundings, Documenta seeks to provide an annual meeting place for professionals, creators, and the public to whom the work is aimed.

Documenta is a continuously evolving festival and aspires to improve year after year as a showcase for the best in international documentary film, one which brings us closer to both the classics as well as the latest offerings in the genre. For this reason, we dedicate our attention equally to three general blocks of activities: screenings (in both public and private screening rooms, and conserving the original language and formats), parallel activities (publications, exhibitions, presentations, gatherings, round tables, DVD releases, etc.), and training activities (conferences, instructional classes, workshops, etc.).

Our understanding of the documentary is based on a dual commitment. Firstly, a commitment to aesthetics, which shows how present day documentary filmmaking breaks new ground in its language and form, thus distancing itself for the most part from the standardized norms. Secondly, we are convinced that non-fiction work makes us all more aware of the need to change the world in order to improve it. Our most intimate calling, our dream, is that by opening some windows to the world in each screening, we make an audience member aware of an issue, and thereby make that person reflect on it, make the issue his/her own, and perhaps then... do something about it.

Along with this wish, two other priorities for the festival are to further enjoy making Documenta Madrid a reality and to make the guests and attendees feel at home among us.

  • DOCUMENTA MADRID 09’s main objective is to develop, strengthen and disseminate the documentary as part of the audiovisual sector, as we believe it to be one of the most suitable media for reflecting social, cultural, economic and artistic realities. The festival seeks to promote the audiovisual genre and at the same time provide an annual meeting place for professionals, artists and the public for whom this work is carried out. The abundance of films received and the high audience attendance rates at past festivals have made it one of the leading events in the genre on the national and international scenes.

 

  • Call For Entries

The call for entries has been opened to participate in the 6th International Documentary Festival of Madrid, organized by the Government’s Department of the Arts. Anyone interested can send in their work before the deadline of December 31, 2008. The competition will be held from May 1 to May 10, 2009 and will have prize-winnings of 73,000 Euros. As a new feature this year, the winner of the Audience Award for Original Full-length film will be distributed as part of the “Documentary of the Month” series.
Submit film online
Regulations and Rules PDF

  • DOCUMENTA MADRID 09 will feature four Competitive Sections:


- ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SECTION.

This will be made up of films demonstrating an original and innovative viewpoint both in formal as well as technical terms. This section has two categories: full-length films, with run-times over 45 minutes; and short films up to 45 minutes in length that are not part of a series.
- COMPETITION FOR DOCUMENTARY REPORT. This is meant for all documentary films made for film or television and that give priority to an informative viewpoint or current affairs. In the case of television documentaries belonging to a series, only one episode from the series may be sent in for admission.

- NATIONAL COMPETITION. Meant for films whose production is entirely or mostly of Spanish nationality. This section is divided into two categories: full-length films, with run-times over 45 minutes; and short films up to 45 minutes in length that are not part of a series.

- FILMOTECH.COM.
This section was a successful creation at last year's festival and is a virtual showcase for the films selected in the three sections mentioned above, whose copyright owners choose to upload them onto the Filmotech.com website for legal downloading, and thus compete for the award with the same name.
As a new feature for this year’s festival, the winner of the Audience Award for Best Original Full-length film will have the possibility of distribution as part of the “Documentary of the Month” series. This initiative is part of the CinemaNet Europe project, which releases 12 documentaries per year in more than 100 commercial cinemas Europe-wide. At the same time, AVID will give the Award for Best Editing in the National Short Film section.

One of the goals of the festival is to show the best in genre’s recently made cinema, the best of the year in international documentary film. For this reason, the films in competition must be produced after January 1, 2008 and must be previously unreleased in Spain; that is to say, they must not have been released in commercial cinemas in Spain, nor on television, nor at other competitions, nor on the Internet.

The complete rules and regulations and the online registration form are available at the festival website:Regulations and Rules PDF

Link in Filmfestivalspro.com Database

Links

The Bulletin Board

> The Bulletin Board Blog
> Partner festivals calling now
> Call for Entry Channel
> Film Showcase
>
 The Best for Fests

Meet our Fest Partners 

Following News

Interview with EFM (Berlin) Director

 

 

Interview with IFTA Chairman (AFM)

 

 

Interview with Cannes Marche du Film Director

 

 

 

Filmfestivals.com dailies live coverage from

> Live from India 
> Live from LA
Beyond Borders
> Locarno
> Toronto
> Venice
> San Sebastian

> AFM
> Tallinn Black Nights 
> Red Sea International Film Festival

> Palm Springs Film Festival
> Kustendorf
> Rotterdam
> Sundance
Santa Barbara Film Festival SBIFF
> Berlin / EFM 
> Fantasporto
Amdocs
Houston WorldFest 
> Julien Dubuque International Film Festival
Cannes / Marche du Film 

 

 

Useful links for the indies:

Big files transfer
> Celebrities / Headlines / News / Gossip
> Clients References
> Crowd Funding
> Deals

> Festivals Trailers Park
> Film Commissions 
> Film Schools
> Financing
> Independent Filmmaking
> Motion Picture Companies and Studios
> Movie Sites
> Movie Theatre Programs
> Music/Soundtracks 
> Posters and Collectibles
> Professional Resources
> Screenwriting
> Search Engines
> Self Distribution
> Search sites – Entertainment
> Short film
> Streaming Solutions
> Submit to festivals
> Videos, DVDs
> Web Magazines and TV

 

> Other resources

+ SUBSCRIBE to the weekly Newsletter
+ Connecting film to fest: Marketing & Promotion
Special offers and discounts
Festival Waiver service
 

User images

About Bulletin Board

Chatelin Bruno
(M21 Entertainment editor: filmfestivals.com 's editor)

Bulletin Board Service description

This service was created in 1997 and quite rapidly became a reputed stop for filmmakers in search of festivals best suited to their film and for festival directors to receive an increased number of film submissions from around the world.

Hundreds of festivals have used it, over hundred thousand filmmakers have used it.
Your turn now!

One month promo is charged 350€

The 6 months long promo package is charged 750€

Follow us on Twitter or facebook 


Paris

France



View my profile
Send me a message
gersbach.net