Call for Entries: all inclusive Documentary Film Award 2025

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Take part!

Send us your film by 3 February 2025!

For the first time, we are giving the award for inclusive documentary film productions.

We are DOK.fest München and the Werksviertel-Mitte Foundation.

The award will be given at the 40th DOK.fest München in May 2025.

The call in difficult language

 

The award for inclusive documentary film productions

The award honours documentary film productions.

What makes it special?

The film makers have a disability.

 

You can win 5,000 euros.

 

What does disability mean?

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities defines what a disability is:

A disability can be:

  • physical

  • mental

  • emotional

The disability can be visible or invisible.

The disability is long-term.

The disability restricts people's participation in society.

Conditions of participation

These are the conditions for participation:

  • The film team must include at least one person with disabilities.
    The film maker has one of the following leading tasks:
    Production, direction, script, camera, sound or editing.

  • The subject of the film is arbitrary.
    The filmdoes not have to be about disability.

  • Film makers from all over the world can submit a film.

  • The film must be at least 52 minutes long.

  • The film must have been completed after 1 January 2024.

  • The film can be shown in cinemas earlier.

  • The film must not have been screened at a DOK.fest Munich.

  • The film can be shown at the festival in any section.

  • It can be a university film or a graduation film.

  • 2 public screenings at the DOK.fest München are obligatory.

Submission

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Please select under "Registration for" this call.

The call for entries has the title:

all inclusive Documentary Film Award

 

Nun können Sie den Film einreichen.

Die genauen Schritte stehen unter Punkt 8.

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How to submit your film

 

Please also send an e-mail to Kathi Seemann.

The e-mail address is:

seemann@dokfest-muenchen.de

 

Please send the following documents:

  • Cover letter with your address and telephone number

  • synopsis of the film
    (maximum 1,500 characters)

  • short biography of the film makers
    (maximum 700 characters per person)

  • short text on the following questions
    (maximum 2,000 characters):
    What new perspectives has the disability
    of the film makers brought to the production of the film?

    What positive effects did the film maker's disability
    on the work in the team?

  • We appreciate if you specify the degree of disability of the film makers.

 

Please note:

Send us all the requested documents.

We will not pass on your documents to other persons.

Participation in the competition is independent of participation in DOK.fest München.

Send us your film by 3 February 2025.

 

You can find more information here:

Contact us

Do you have any questions?

We will be happy to help you with the submission of your documents.

Please contact:

Kathi Seemann
seemann@dokfest-muenchen.de
Tel.: +49 (0)89 51 39 97 88

DOK.fest München
Dachauer Straße 116
80636 München

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