Documentary film festival seeks entries

Filmmakers from around the world can participate in this festival.

The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, a member and co-founder of the Doc Alliance, will be held Oct. 27 to Nov. 1, in Jihlava, Czech Republic. The event will feature competitive and noncompetitive exhibits, experimental film screenings, workshops and debates, seminars, panels, concerts and professional training activities.

The festival program awards prizes for entries in six categories: the best international documentaries, the best Central and Eastern European documentaries, the best Czech documentaries, the best experimental documentaries, the best documentary debuts films, and the best short documentary films.

There will be two cash prizes in the best Central and Eastern European documentaries and the best Czech documentaries categories – EUR7,500 (US$8,133) and EUR5,500 (US$5,964), respectively.

Competitive films must have been produced after Sept. 1, 2014. Submissions in languages other than English, German, French and Russian should include a translation in one of these languages.

The deadline to submit films made in 2014 is April 30. The deadline to submit films made in 2015 is June 30.

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(sursa: International Journalists’ Network)