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Pitching du Réel, Docs in Progress and Rough Cut Lab submissions are now open for the next edition which will take place from 24 April to 2 May 2020. Deadline no. 1: 15 November 2019 Deadline no. 2: 15 December 2019 The first deadline will lead to the selection of the first group of projects.

B2B Doc has arranged the two-day workshop One Man - One Camera for the students of the Film and TV University in St. Petersburg. The tutor Jørgen Chemnitz from Greenland is teaching the future doc makers how to make high quality documentaries with limited technical resources.

Dear all, goEast is looking forward to your submissions! The call for entries for our competition is now open for feature length docs.

During the industry days of Moldox Festival B2B DOC has arranged today a master-class for Moldovan filmmakers on how to bring their documentary film stories to the international film market. All of them were… More young and inexperienced but very creative and eager to make films for the international audience. Hjalmar Palmgren talked about how important it is to work on the development of film stories and what to expect from the decision-makers when you come to the serious pitching sessions or co-production markets in Europe. Dragos Turea told about his personal experience of developing the documentary project Grădina Sovietică / The Soviet Garden. Its international premiere took place at Sarajevo film festival last August. Dragos told about all the difficulties he had to face on his way while making this film. We watched his trailers in different stages and could witness the process of the project development. We encourage more Moldovan filmmakers to join B2B Doc and get their film stories developed with us.

If you are attending Moldox Festival in Cahul,Moldova, come this Saturday to the master-class that B2B Doc is arranging during the festivals industry program. Hjalmar Palmgren, Dragos Turea and I will talk about reaching the international documentary film market with your film projects.

Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network - B2B DOC - is the network of the documentary filmmakers living or working between the Baltic sea in the North to the Balck sea in the South. B2B DOC is an open forum for… More those who want to bring their documentary stories to the wide international audience in co-production with colleagues from other B2B DOC countries. B2B DOC is the place where the doc filmmakers meet each other and plot the common film ideas. B2B DOC will regularly support the best projects at the very early stage - when the future film is only the idea. Cash for the development, trailer production, trips to different pitching sessions in Europe. B2B DOC will provide the best projects with the experienced tutors, able to lead the co-producers through the jungles of the film financing market and secure financing, promotion and distribution for the film. B2B DOC will arrange workshops, seminars and pitching trainings, focused on practical issues of documentary film production.

Happy birthday, Phil Jandaly ;)

Happy birthday, Guntis Trekteris ;)

Dear documentary friends of B2B Doc! I recommend you to take a look at this very interesting italian project about guerrilla gardening, directed by Angelo Camba. Perhaps somebody is interested in cooperating, supporting or coproducing?

The Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries in Riga, one of the most prestigious and effective film financing/co-production events for Eastern-European documentaries, is over. Out of 25 selected projects this year,… More 8 were from the B2B Doc family. Two of them got awards from the three Forums partners. Our project participants did their best at the forum. All projects have been very well received by the decision-makers and one-on-one meetings were full of discussions and questions from them. Many thanks to Zane Balcus and her wonderful team for their great job, perfect organization of the event and warm, friendly atmosphere in Riga! Photos: Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries / Agnese Zeltiņa.

A very special day for Ukrainian cinema. Oleg Sentsov is back home and to crown it all in beauty, Valentyn Vasyanovych, our dear co-producer of Home Games - Домашні ігри (Alisa Kovalenko) and "My father is my… More mothers brother", by Vadym Ilkov (& Darya Bassel) has won the best film award in the Orizzonti category at the Venice International Film Festival.

Oleg Sentsov is free and back to Kyiv! Photo: Stephane Siohan

B2B Doc Yerevan workshop participant Jana Shostak on the cover of "Wysokie Obcasy" (High Heels) - weekend supplement to "Gazeta Wyborcza", one of the leading Polish daily newspapers. Congrats and keep going, guys!