Fifty-five projects have been selected for presentation to industry partners at the 16th edition of Sheffield DocFest’s flagship pitching forum, the MeetMarket (9-11 June).
The projects “encompass a wide range of topics, themes, forms, stages of production (development through to rough cut) and are helmed by a mix of emerging and highly experienced and acclaimed filmmakers,” says the festival.
The MeetMarket slate comprises 31 countries of production/co-production including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Côte d’Ivoire, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, Lebanon, Martinique, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Pitching among many emerging talents are numerous acclaimed filmmakers and producers including Andre Singer (Meeting Gorbachev, Night Will Fall, Into the Inferno), Andreas Voit (Leipzig in The Fall, Time Will Tell), Diane Quon (Minding the Gap), Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape, Concerning Violence), Kellen Quinn (Time, Midnight Family), Riel Roch-Decter (All Light, Everywhere, Shakedown, Rat Film), Sean Mcallister (A Northern Soul, A Syrian Love Story), and Sierra Pettengill (The Reagan Show, Cutie and the Boxer).
Comments Patrick Hurley, Industry Director, Sheffield Doc/Fest: “These are outstanding new projects, well on their way, that are set to inspire, excite and resonate deeply with audiences worldwide when they come to fruition. As always, our marketplace is a space for discovery. We are delighted to invite teams presenting their work to international partners for the very first time to pitch alongside many of the most experienced and accomplished filmmakers in our community.”
“During these times of restricted travel, it’s vital that spaces for meaningful connections remain open. We received extremely positive feedback from participants in our virtual market last year and are looking forward to facilitating a round of connections for these terrific new projects in June. Industry representatives from all territories with the capacity to support new work are welcome!” he adds.
22 ARTS TALENT MARKET TEAMS ANNOUNCED
Running in parallel to the MeetMarket, the Arts Talent Market (9-11 June) will connect 22 creatives and teams with industry representatives. The format of the work is an almost equal split between immersive VR/AR, and video art or installation pieces – the unifying factor being an artist-led, experimental approach. Participants include institutions such as the Tate, MoMA, ARTE, HTC Vive, SXSW, IFFR, MUTEK, and Venice Film Festival.
MEETMARKET PROJECTS 2021
A Distant Call
Indonesia, United Kingdom
Director: Andrea Suwito | Producer: Finbar Somers | Co-Producer: Mandy Marahimin
A Game of Secrets
Denmark
Director: Niels Borchert Holm | Producer: Peter Engel
A Good Bad Guy (W/T)
United States
Director: Alex Morelli | Producer: Daniel Garber | EP: Sierra Pettengill
A Night of Knowing Nothing
France, India
Director: Payal Kapadia | Producer: Thomas Hakim
Brotherhood (W/T)
Switzerland, Poland
Director: Hanka Maciag | Producer: Esther van Messel
Call Nina!
Sweden, United Kingdom
Director: Lamin Daniel Jadama | Producers: Lamin Daniel Jadama, Daniela J – Alvarez | Co-Producer: SVT (Theresa Traoré Dahlberg, Emelie Persson)
Celtic Utopia
Sweden
Directors: Lars Lovén, Dennis Harvey |Producer: Elin Lilleman Eriksson
Colors of White Rock
Mongolia, France
Director: Khoroldorj Choijoovanchig | Producer: Tessa Louise Salomé
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano
Germany, Lebanon, France
Director: Cyril Aris | Producer: Katharina Weser | Co-Producer: Myriam Sassine
Eternity One
United States
Director: Marnie Ellen Hertzler | Producers: Riel Roch-Decter, Emma Hannaway
Fedora
Portugal, Mexico, United States
Director: Leland Palmer | Producer: Eduardo Ruiz Vasconcelos | EP: Maja Moguel, Diana Ibargüen
Go Come Stay – New Nomads in Europe (W/T)
Germany
Director: Andreas Voigt | Producer: Barbara Etz
Happiness
Russia, Estonia
Directors: Dmitry Kubasov, Anastasia Murashkina | Producers: Max Tuula, Maria Gavrilova
Here, the Silence is Heard
Chile
Director: Gabriela Pena | Producer: Picho García
In Your Shadow
Netherlands, South Africa
Directors: Thabi Mooi, Tom Fassaert | Producers: Renko Douze, Hasse van Nunen
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United Kingdom, Norway
Director: Håvard Bustnes | Producer: Carsten Aanonsen
Is There Anybody Out There?
United Kingdom, Scotland, United States
Director: Ella Glendining | Producer: Janine Marmot
Israel and Palestine on Swedish TV 1959-1989
Sweden
Director: Göran Hugo Olsson | Producers: Tobias Janson, Dennis Harvey (Assistant Producer)
It Didn’t Start With You
United Kingdom
Director: Chloe Abrahams | Producer: Emma Norton | Consulting Producer: Diane Quon
Lost Futures
Ireland
Director: Niall McCann | Producer: Matthew Boyd | EP: Tadhg O’Sullivan
Love Alone Can’t Make a Child
Germany, Norway
Director: Judith Beuth | Producers: Andrew Grant, Stefan Kloos
Madame Négritude
United States, France, Martinique
Director: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | Producer: Christine Sanders
Malcolm
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Usayd Younis | Producer: Cassie Quarless
Marai
Brazil
Director: Lara Carmo | Producer: Fernanda Guimaraes Abreu
Matabeleland
Kenya
Director: Nyasha Kadandara | Producer: Sam Soko
Motherboard
United Kingdom
Director: Victoria Mapplebeck | Producer: Carol Nahra | EPs: Debbie Manners , Adam Gee
Mrs Robinson
Ireland
Director: Aoife Kelleher | Producer: Trisha Canning | EP: Cormac Hargaden
Omitama (W/T)
United Kingdom, Côte d’Ivoire
Director: Matthew Davies | Producers: Joshua Llewellyn, Joël Akafou | Co-Producer: Martina Bassenger
Q
Lebanon, United States
Director: Jude Chehab | Producer: Jude Chehab
Red Herring
United Kingdom
Director: Kit Vincent | Producer: Ed Owles | Co-Producer: Dea Gjinovci | EPs: Rachel Wexler & Jez Lewis
Second Generation
Greece, Spain
Directors: Elpida Nikou, Rodrigo Hernandez | Producers: Elpida Nikou, Rodrigo Hernandez | Co-Producer: Kellen Quinn
Sugar Island
Dominican Republic, Spain
Director: Johanné Gómez Terrero | Producer: David Baute
Sunday in Japan
United Kingdom, Portugal
Directors: Leo Nelki, Sunday Bamweyana | Producers: Antonio Ribeiro, Golriz Kolahi
The Female Gaze
France
Director: Iris Brey | Producer: Bérénice Vincent
The Last Great Event
Sweden, United Kingdom
Director: Phillip Carter | Producer: Dylan Williams
The Last Tour of Yemen
United Kingdom
Director: Sean Mcallister | Producers: Sean Mcallister, Erin Bottari
The Plague
Poland
Director: Monika Kotecka | Producer: Paweł Kosuń
The Shadow Scholars
United Kingdom
Director: Eloise King | Producers: Eloise King, Riel Roch-Decter | EP: Patricia Kingori
The Time of Pomegranates
United Kingdom
Director: Simon Hipkins | Producer: Simon Hipkins | EP: Charly Feldman
The Tuba Thieves
United States
Director: Alison O’Daniel | Producer: Rachel Nederveld
The White Doctor
Ireland, Kenya
Director: Zippy Kimundu | Producer: Ciaran Cassidy
TISH
United Kingdom
Director: Paul Sng | Producer: Jen Corcoran | Co-Producer: John Archer
Untitled Digital Privacy Project
United Kingdom
Director: Kate Stonehill | Producer: Steven Lake | Co-Producer: Sorcha Bacon
Untitled Hydebank Film
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
Director: Ross McClean | Producer: Bronte Stahl
Untitled Marjolaine Grappe Film
France
Director: Marjolaine Grappe | Producers: Dana Nachman, Thierry Marro, Chelsea Matter
Untitled: Miss Africa South
South Africa
Directors: Aliki Saragas-Georgiou, Jacqui-Lee Katz | Producers: Bridget Pickering, Aliki Saragas-Georgiou, Jacqui-Lee Katz | Co-Producer: Darren Kerr
Untitled Vinay Shukla Project
India
Director: Vinay Shukla | Producers: Vinay Shukla, Khushboo Ranka | Co-Producer: Luke W Moody
Vestibule
United States
Director: Riley Hooper | Producer: Caitlin Mae Burke
Volver a Volver (Return Again)
Czech Republic, Venezuela
Directors: Valerio Mendoza, Jorge Sánchez Calderón | Producer: Katerina Cerna
We Are Here to Stay
India
Director: Sunanda Bhat | Producer: Anirban Dutta
We are Volcanoes
Hong Kong SAR China
Directors: Sharon Yeung, Natalie A. Chao | Producers: Peter Yam, Sharon Yeung
Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer
Germany, United Kingdom
Director: Thomas von Steinaecker | Producer: Bernhard von Hülsen | Co-Producer: André Singer
Whores Like Us
Argentina
Director: Agustina Comedi | Producer: GUIDO DENIRO, Anahí Farfán
Women Against The Bomb
France
Director: Sonia Gonzalez | Producer: Anne Labro
Yoyogi
Estonia, Japan
Director: Max Golomidov | Producer: Volia Chajkouskaya, Ivo Felt
ARTS TALENT MARKET PROJECTS 2021
15 Iranian Years
United Kingdom
Dir: Adonia Bouchehri
A Journey To Stillness
United Kingdom
Dir: Anita Safowaa
As The Floor Shifts
United Kingdom
Dir: Nikki Watson
Darkening
Czech Republic
Dir: Ondřej Moravec, Prod: Hana Blaha Šilarová
Isn’t It A Beautiful World
United Kingdom
Dir: Joseph Wilson, Prod: Emma Kroeger
Kvöldvaka
United States, Denmark, Iceland, Hungary
Dir: Dane Christensen, Carol Dalrymple, Prod: Barna Szász
Life and Death at Palcacocha Lake
Belgium, Germany, Peru
Dir: Alexander Luna, Prod: Hervé Verloes
Life Is About Losing Everything
Germany
Dir: Benjamin Ramirez Perez, Stefan Ramírez Pérez, Prod: Miriam Gossing, Lina Sieckmann
mosaic/فسيفساء
United Kingdom
Dir: Layla Madanat, Eleanor Nawal, Prod: Sarah Hamed
Music for Solo Performer
Ireland
Dir: Jenny Brady, Prod:
MYRIAD. Where we connect.
Germany, Canada, Zambia, China, South Africa
Dir: Lena Thiele, Sebastian Baurmann, Dirk Hoffmann, Prod: Saskia Kress, Michael Grotenhoff
Paint to Pixel VR
United Kingdom
Dir: Paul Long
Saltwater Heart
United States, France, Haiti
Dir: Shirley Bruno
Seaweed
United Kingdom
Dir: Julia Parks , Prod: Jameela Khan
Songbird Sessions
United Kingdom
Dir: Shehani Fernando
SWARM
Poland, Hungary
Dir: Ula Sowa, Prod: Viktoria Szabo
Swing and Sway (Working Title)
Brazil, United States
Dir: Fernanda Pessoa, Adriana Barbosa, Prod: Jessica Luz
The Call of the Sea
Mozambique, Brazil
Dir: Lara Sousa, Ana Teixeira, Prod: Ana Teixeira, Lara Sousa
The Pathogen of War
United Kingdom
Dir: Yasmin Fedda, Prod: Daniel Davies
Traces
Australia
Dir: Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Prod: Alice Jamieson-Dowd
Idir Eatha (Working Title)
United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland
Dir: Holly Márie Parnell
Yoruba Drums (Working Title)
Brazil, United Kingdom
Dir: Pedro Lacerda
