Sheffield International Documentary Festival
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| Location | Sheffield, England |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Awards | Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards |
| Festival date | 9 June 2017 to 14 June 2017 |
| 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.
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".
The festival includes film screenings, sessions, a marketplace for the funding and distribution of films, interactive and virtual reality exhibitions, and its own awards.
The festival has been voted one of the Top Five Coolest Documentary Film Festivals in the World.
The Festival is held at the Showroom Workstation and over 20 other venues across Sheffield and the surrounding area. 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.
The marketplace, which is centred on an event called the MeetMarket, also helps films achieve funding and distribution. Interactive documentary is also a central element of the festival with interactive exhibitions and commissioned works scattered across the city, with the Interactive Summit taking place throughout an entire day of the festival.
It has the traditional film festival element in that it screens exciting new documentaries, but it’s also a place where buyers, film distributors and producers come to meet documentary makers and find the next big thing.
Sheffield Doc/Fest is the perfect platform for anyone with an interest in interactive, virtual reality and factual content. Doc/Fest prides itself in supporting and nurturing new talent: in addition to the Festival days in June, Sheffield Doc/Fest presents year round workshops, screenings, labs and mentoring opportunities both in the UK and internationally.
In 1990, Peter Symes of BBC TV Features Bristol had the idea of creating a forum for British documentary filmmakers to debate and discuss their craft. In 1993, he set up a festival board which included representatives from Channel 4, United Artists, Discovery Channel, Central Independent Television and Granada Television. They chose to hold the festival in Sheffield, an English industrial town which was just beginning to develop a media and cultural sector.
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