The Screen Edge Forum
The Screen Edge Forum (previously known as DOCNZ Summit and Documentary Edge Forum) is an annual pan-screen industry event covering documentary, transmedia and other screen industry topics.
Held since 2006, the Forum seeks to engage the screen industry in innovative ways to create and fund all kinds of screen production. It includes seminars, panels, master-classes, and a pitching forum. The Forum is a place to update your tool-box with cutting-edge ideas and network with local and international professionals and experts.
It brings together local and overseas filmmakers/industry to share, network and learn from each other. It also aims to bring a business side to proceedings by facilitating local filmmakers to present their ideas to potential local and international funders, buyers, broadcasters and festival programmers.
The Screen Edge Forum runs a DOC Pitch which brings together international and local funders and production companies to listen to filmmakers pitch documentary projects so as to seek production and funding opportunities and collaborations.
Many Pitch Projects have been developed as a result including:
- The Relocated Mountain, Julia Parnell
- The Topp Twins, Arani Cuthbert
- Lost in Wonderland, Zoe McIntosh
- There Once was an Island: Te Henua E Noho, Briar March
- Brother Number One, Annie Goldson
- Pictures of Susan, Dan Salmon
- Strawberries with the Führer, Amy O'Connor
- Batons & Baquettes, Campbell Cooley
- Stumbling into the Wall, Tony Foster
- 4:20 New Zealand, Arik Reiss
- Te Hono Ki Aotearoa - The Waka for Europe, Jan Bieringa
- Running for his Life, Anna Cottrell
- Varayame's Feet, Sarah Graham Read
- Wrestling Spectacular - A Kiwi Century on the Mat, Adam Simpson
Read more about this topic: Documentary New Zealand Trust
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