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| Location | Sheffield, England |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Awards | Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards |
| Festival date | 7 June 2018 to 12 June 2018 |
| Website | http://www.sheffdocfest.com |
Sheffield Doc/Fest, short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF), is an international documentary festival and Marketplace held annually in Sheffield.
The Festival includes film screenings, interactive and virtual reality exhibitions, talks & sessions, Marketplace & Talent for the funding and distribution of documentaries and development of filmmakers, unmissable live events, and its own awards.
Since beginning in 1994, Doc/Fest has become the UK's biggest documentary festival and the third largest in the world. The BBC have called it "one of the leading showcases of documentary films".
Sheffield Doc/Fest is now widely recognised as one of the top three documentary festivals in the world, and “the most significant documentary festival in Britain". The Festival has been voted one of the Top Five Coolest Documentary Film Festivals in the World by MovieMaker magazine.
The Festival is held at over 20 other venues across Sheffield and the surrounding area, including the Showroom Workstation, Light Cinema, Sheffield Town Hall, Sheffield City Hall, and the Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square developed with Wellcome. Fun is a key element, and the festival holds many parties. The festival has grown steadily over recent years. Doc/Fest screenings help many films to achieve a wider audience by attracting distribution and further screening opportunities for the films it shows.
Sheffield Doc/Fest's Marketplace & Talent is a major part of the Festival, which includes the MeetMarket for films and series to achieve funding and distribution, Alternate Realities Market for interactive and virtual reality projects, live pitches, and other training initiatives.
Interactive, immersive and virtual reality documentary is also a central element of the Festival with interactive exhibitions and commissioned works scattered across the city, and the Alternate Realities Summit taking place throughout an entire day of the Festival.
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