London International Documentary Festival - call for entries
PocketVisions is calling for film submissions for the expanded London International Documentary Festival (LIDF) - A Conversation in Film, 2008. The festival is presented in association with the London Review of Books, and with the support of the British Museum, Curzon Cinemas, Barbican and the UK Office of the European Parliament. 2008 sees a continued association with The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival (New York). The LIDF will run for 6 days between Monday 31st March, and Saturday, April 5th, 2008.
The call for submissions goes out to an international field of applicants. All successful applicants will be invited to be present at the LIDF. LIDF are looking to support new and innovative filmmaking talent, and to ask filmmakers to participate in a series of intertwining 'conversations' to be run alongside the screenings. These 'conversations' will involve academics, journalists, policy-makers, NGOs, and other cultural commentators.
The LIDF is calling for documentary films produced between January 1st 2006 and December 6th 2007, and is particularly, although not exclusively, interested in films that fall within the following categories:
Environment; Human Rights; Memory/history; Ethnography/anthropology; Politics/Philosophy/Economics; Heritage and the Arts; Social and Development issues.
Submission Procedure: Film-makers can enter their films, pay entry fees and find out how to submit their DVD or VHS preview copy at http://www.lidf.co.uk/
Deadline for Submissions: 6th December 2007
The call for submissions goes out to an international field of applicants. All successful applicants will be invited to be present at the LIDF. LIDF are looking to support new and innovative filmmaking talent, and to ask filmmakers to participate in a series of intertwining 'conversations' to be run alongside the screenings. These 'conversations' will involve academics, journalists, policy-makers, NGOs, and other cultural commentators.
The LIDF is calling for documentary films produced between January 1st 2006 and December 6th 2007, and is particularly, although not exclusively, interested in films that fall within the following categories:
Environment; Human Rights; Memory/history; Ethnography/anthropology; Politics/Philosophy/Economics; Heritage and the Arts; Social and Development issues.
Submission Procedure: Film-makers can enter their films, pay entry fees and find out how to submit their DVD or VHS preview copy at http://www.lidf.co.uk/
Deadline for Submissions: 6th December 2007