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Six new teams are announced to compete for prize funding for innovative new audio projects June 15 at Sheffield DocFest 2024. A grand first prize of £5,000 will be awarded, with £2,000 going to the runner up. The award is designed to celebrate the global trend towards solo and episodic listening to factual audio. Sheffield DocFest runs June 12-17.

The True Film by Christina Zimmermann wins the DOK.digital – Award for New Narrative Formats, while the DOK.archive award goes to Our Sister Angela – Black Power in the GDR by Katharina Warda and Jascha Hannover. The DOK.talent Award is given to the project Politik ist persönlich by Indira Geisel (HFF München). All awards…

Fifteen awards were handed out during the March 3 closing ceremony, of which 9 were won by women. The Best International Feature Documentary Award was given to Farming the Revolution by Nishta Jain, while Best Canadian Feature Documentary was named as The Soldier’s Lagoon by Pablo Álvarez-Mesa. The Special Jury Prize (International Feature Doc) was awarded to Death of a Saint by Patricia Bbaale Bandak. All awards…

The 31st edition of Sheffield DocFest will open 12 June with the World Premiere of Kevin Macdonald’s Klitschko: More Than a Fight. Academy Award®-winning Roger Ross Williams is unveiled as Guest of Honour for 2024. The festival also announces that award-winning filmmaker Anna Hall will be joining the speakers line-up as the subject of the 2024 Channel 4 Interview.

Eight feature-length and 8 short films are chosen by the programmers of 8 leading documentary film festivals, seven of which are united under the Doc Alliance umbrella and “representing different European regions and perspectives on the art of documentary filmmaking.” The winners will be presented at the award ceremony of this year’s guest festival Docudays UA in Kyiv (31 May - 9 June 2024).

Over CAD 47,000 (approx. €32,000) in First Look prizes were handed out May 1 as doors closed on Hot Docs Forum 2024. The first prize of CAD 20,000 (€13,600) went to Arrest the Midwife (WT) by Elaine Epstein (US). The second prize of CAD 10,000 (€6,800) went to Autumn of the Patriarch by Anna Bogoliubova (Norway). The third prize of CAD 5,000 (€3,400) went to Under the Flags, the Sun by Juanjo Pereira (Paraguay). The 2024 CMF-Hot Docs Forum Canadian Pitch Prize was won by This Land of Ours by Ngardy Conteh George.

Thirty-one members have put themselves forward for election to the board of the new Documentary Film Council. Voting will open May 13 and close on Friday 31 May, with results to be announced June 3. The UK-based sector-wide body was launched at Sheffield DocFest 2023 with a remit “to represent the UK’s independent documentary community, facilitate transparent communication within the sector and take effective, coordinated action to address the key issues facing the sector.”

The National Competition of the 64th Krakow Film Festival promises a showcase of 40 “outstanding and incredibly diverse” Polish films, twelve of which are feature docs and eight of which are documentary shorts. Furthermore, three Polish docs will compete across the festival’s two International Competitions. The 64th Krakow Film Festival will be held in cinemas 26 May to 2 June and online across Poland from 31 May to 16 June 2024.

Drawn from 533 submissions, the 50 projects in the 2024 selection encompass 44 countries of production and co-production. New works will be presented from experienced producers such as Ina Fichman, Estelle Robin You, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan and Michèle Stevenson, working alongside first time and second time filmmakers. Five Rough Cut titles which will be screened to industry representatives and receive tailored feedback.

Brigid O’Shea has been appointed the sole director of Documentary Association of Europe while Marion Schmidt (former co-director) will remain in her seat on the executive board and join the team of senior consultants. DAE was founded in February 2020, and has since grown to a community of more than 700 members from 36 countries.