We invite filmmakers who have projects of documentary films at the final stage of production to show their work to an expert group and receive professional feedback within the RAW DOC showcase. The application deadline is 5 May. Meanwhile, we are introducing the international film professionals whom we have invited to participate in our programme.

Please welcome the first experts — representatives of film funds, European public broadcasters, sales agents, directors, producers, and consultants — in our Industry Platform (the list of the film professionals who will join the event will continue to be updated):

Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Deputy Director and Executive Director IDFA Bertha Fund (Netherlands);

Brigid O’Shea, tutor and founder of the DAE association (Germany);

Wouter Jansen, founder of the sales company Square Eyes, Square Eyes Film (Netherlands);

Fabrice Puchot, Head of Society and Culture at ARTE France (France);

Christine Camdessus, Artistic Director of the Fipadoc International Documentary Film Festival, producer, and founder of the production company ALEGRIA (France);

Viktoriia Leshchenko, cultural manager and documentary film curator, programmer of the International Documentary Programme at the DOK Leipzig festival (Germany);

Marc Bauder, film director and producer (Germany);

Aïda Aziz, International Sales Assistant at Mediawan (France);

Danilo Petrovich, Programmer at the FIDOCS International Documentary Festival (Chile);

Michael Opstrup, specialist in international project development, consultant on trailers, co-production, workshop planning, and teaching (Denmark);

Thomas Postulka, Head of Programme at the One World International Human Rights Film Festival (Czech Republic);

Luke Brawley, founder of non-fiction festival agencyIndox (United Kingdom);

Stephanie Fuchs, CEO in sales company Autlook (Austria).

RAW DOC is a programme created for filmmakers who are working on the final stage of editing (rough cuts) of their films and want to have a test screening for experts in the international industry and to receive professional feedback. The event will be held in the format of a screening and an hour-long discussion.

Details and terms of application are available at the link: https://docudays.ua/eng/raw-doc/. Access to the screening day will be closed and available exclusively to the participants of the selected projects and international experts.

Photo: Stas Kartashov