IDF Pitching is a support programme of the West Lake International Documentary Festival dedicated to documentary filmmakers. It aims to provide incubation and collaboration opportunities for outstanding documentary projects with international potential and to encourage filmmakers to create high-quality artistic works. The programme is open to feature-length documentary projects from around the world that focus on Chinese communities or are created by Chinese filmmakers. Eligible projects must be at the production or post-production stage and have an intended running time of 60 minutes or more.
A pre-selection jury will review and vote on the submissions, selecting the most promising projects of the year as finalists for IDF Pitching. The filmmakers of the selected projects will be invited to participate in the IDF Pitching Session, with each project given 20 minutes for presentation and Q&A. IDF will invite leading figures from the documentary field in China and abroad to form the IDF Pitching Jury. Through a voting process, the jury will select one IDF Most Potential Development Plan and four IDF Outstanding Proposals, each of which will receive support for its further development and production. IDF will continue to follow and support the selected projects throughout their development. Upon completion, the documentaries will be given priority for selection in the IDF Glory of Documentary Screening Section.





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