Marketplace
AIDC 2011 Marketplace is growing and set to offer an even greater range of opportunities for delegates. All will be revealed in the coming weeks. In the meantime, here's a snapshot of the range of opportunities and facilities made available to 2010 delegates:
MeetMarket, Trailer Park, Videotheque, Editor's Hour, Trailer Park Pitch Session, Discovery Ignite Pitch Session
MeetMarket
Presented in association with Screen Australia
MeetMarket is designed to match selected documentary makers’ most innovative project ideas with over 50 national and international executive producers, broadcasters and distributors attending AIDC 2010.
MeetMarket provides the opportunity for creative and original ideas to be fast-tracked within a supportive and structured setting. Projects entered may be at any stage of development, production or post-production.
Executive producers, broadcasters and distributors view online two-minute pitch teasers of up to 25 selected documentary projects in advance of attending AIDC. After viewing, these executives choose which projects they wish to discuss further in one-on-one meetings with the documentary producers scheduled during the AIDC within a specially designated room at the conference.
MeetMarket 2011 submissions open on Monday 30 August 2010.
For further information click here.
Trailer Park and Videotheque
Submissions are open all year round.
National and international executive producers, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers can view projects from an extensive library of completed documentaries and trailers within the Screening Room at the conference, or through the Screening Room online.
Discussions between these executives and the documentary producers can take place online at any time before, during or after the Conference through DocExchange.
Executive producers, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers can also arrange face-to-face meetings with the producers whose projects they are interested in, during the Conference.
Projects submitted to Trailer Park may be at any stage of development, production or post-production.
Films submitted to Videotheque must be completed documentaries or projects at advanced rough cut stage.
For further information and how to apply click here.
The Editors’ Hour
The Editors’ Hour comprises a series of small scale sessions where broadcasting commissioning editors and funding representatives from various regions and networks offer useful insight into their programming slots and content requirements. During these sessions delegates can learn about the criteria the various representatives apply when selecting projects to invest in or to acquire. Delegates are also given the opportunity to ask specific questions.
AIDC 2010 Editors' Hours lineup:
Sales Agents - US & Europe
Sales Agents - Australia & NZ
North American Public Broadcasters
China/Korea
Al-Jazeera
BBC
Discovery
European Broadcasters
National Geographic
Trailer Park Pitch Session
Pitch Master Pat Ferns hosted the new Trailer Park Pitch Session during AIDC 2010.
As the ‘Father of the Public Pitch’, Pat pioneered this financing and marketing tool 25 years ago at the BANFF Television Festival. Since then, Pat has improved the format over the years and exported the public pitch to many other market events around the world.
AIDC 2010 introduced the Trailer Park Pitch as an extension to our online market - Trailer Park. For more information click here.
Discovery Ignite Pitch Session
Discovery Ignite gives independent filmmakers in Australia and New Zealand the opportunity to pitch documentaries for local co-production.
Producers were invited to submit original, ‘distinctly Australian and/or New Zealand’ programming proposals.
Shortlisted producers were then invited pitch to the Discovery Ignite team at AIDC. To visit the Discovery Ignite website, click here.