Festival deadlines coming up in December 

DocsBarcelona, Barcelona, Spain – Deadline: December 4

Festival dates are February 2 - 7, 2010

DocsBarcelona is screening documentary films in a number of sections. The precise details for the 2010 edition have not been announced yet, but among the sections in the 2009 edition were:

Panorama is the contemporary section of the festival

Historia will present films that examine historical events in the distant past together, while others that correspond to films that impact our current reality;

Doc! Doc! Doc! is dedicated to young filmmakers

12-16 gives teenagers a chance to discover first-hand what life is like for youngsters from many different parts of the world.

Read more about DocsBarcelona.

Tempo, Stockholm, Sweden – Deadline: December 7

Festival dates are March 10 – 14, 2010

Swedish’s leading documentary festival Tempo is combining documentary film, photography and radio. Alongside the festival is a number of industry events focusing on development and international funding of documentaries.

Read more about Tempo - http://www.tempofestival.se

Tribeca Film Festival, New York, USA – Deadline: December 14

Festival dates are April 21 - May 2, 2010.

The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as a response to the attacks on the World Trade Center. The festival is programming documentaries in the sections World Documentary Feature Competition and in Shorts in Competition: Documentary.  Entry fee for Short films is US$40 and for Features is US$65.

Read more about Tribeca - www.tribecafilmfestival.org

Dox Box, Damascus, Tartous and Homs, Syria – Deadline: December 20

Festival dates are March 3 – 11, 2010.

DOX BOX is an event dedicated to creative documentary cinema. The festival is screening films from around the world and in addition offering a number of seminars and Master classes with some of the world's leading documentary film professionals. Only documentaries with cinematic qualities, artistic commitment and strong presence of the filmmaker's point of view both in form and content will be considered. DOX BOX is a non-competitive documentary festival with only one award, the Audience Award, based on audience's votes for films in the Official Selection.

Read more about DOX BOX - www.dox-box.org

The San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, USA – Deadline for documentary features: December 21

Festival dates are April 22 - May 6, 2010.

The 15-day festival presents 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 82,000 film lovers, filmmakers, industry representatives and journalists and awards $95,000 in cash prizes to filmmakers, with $75,000 given to makers of feature-length documentary and narrative works.

The Golden Gate Award for Best Investigative Documentary Feature bestows a juried cash prize of $25,000. This award and the $20,000 purse for Best Documentary Feature and $15,000 purse for Best Bay Area Documentary Feature enable the Festival to showcase the world's finest nonfiction works.

Read more about San Francisco International Film Festival - sffs.org

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