26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
Reminder for submission
26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
November 10 to 15, 2009
Deadline for entries: July 20, 2009
Entry form and rules of participation at www.filmladen.de/dokfest
Please use the comfortable online entry form, if possible.
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The 26th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (November 10 to 15, 2009) invites all artists, filmmakers, producers, distributors, gallery owners, universities and institutions to submit latest works and projects to the different sections of the festival program.
On six days the festival presents about 230 international documentary films as well as experimental and artistic works. The media art exhibition MONITORING, the DokfestLounge with audiovisual performances and the interfiction symposium ( www.interfiction.org <http://www.interfiction.org/> ) complete the festival program. Having this profile the Kassel Dokfest annually attracts both a regional audience as well as professionals of the film and media industry from Germany, Europe and the rest of the world.
Awards
/ “Golden Key” for the best up-and-coming documentary of a young director (5,000 Euro, supported by the City of Kassel)
/ “Golden Hercules” for an outstanding production from the region of Northern Hesse (2,500 Euro, sponsored by the corporate communications company Machbar GmbH)
/ “Golden Cube” for the best installation of the MONITORING exhibition (2,500 Euro, sponsored by the software company Micromata GmbH)
/ “A38 Production Grant” awarded in cooperation with Werkleitz – Centre for Media Art and supported by the LPR Hessen and the Medienanstalt Sachsen-Anhalt (an amount up to 4,000 Euro is available for living and travelling expenses, additional up to 4,000 Euro for allowance in kind)
We are looking forward to your entries and to an outstanding 26th edition of the Dokfest in Kassel.
Best regards,
the Dokfest-team
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26th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival
November 10 – 15, 2009
Kati Michalk / Gerhard Wissner
phone: +49.561.707 64 21
fax: +49.561.707 64 41
mail:
c/o Filmladen Kassel e.V.
Goethestrasse 31
34119 Kassel
Germany