MakeCoProDox Forum is a forum whose main goal is to develop a strategy plan to increase documentary film co-production between the Balkan countries. The Forum welcomes representatives from 12 regional film agencies and 10 projects in different stages of production.

In anticipation of an economic crisis, culture and the film industry are often most affected by budget cuts. Only by acting in solidarity by increasing regional co-productions can the Balkan countries increase the number of funded projects during the reduced funds.

Due to the uncertainty of the government’s measures of the COVID-19 situation, the third edition of the MakeCoProDox Forum will be held online.

The Forum is organized & supported by: MakeDox, North Macedonia Film Agency, Goethe Institute Skopje & Youth Cultural Centre Skopje.

Dates: August 16, August 23-25

Moderators:

Helle Hansen (Former Film Commissioner Documentary- Norwegian Film Institute, Norway)

Brigid O’Shea (Documentary Association of Europe)

Zeynep Guzel (Documentary Association of Europe)

Objective: We will welcome the key personalities of the documentary film industry from all over the world and will introduce the possible ways of collaborations and try to make the funds in the region to collaborate on a longer time scale. Our objective with this project is to establish a new alliance sector in the Balkan region for the first time, as the only way to amortize the consequences of the crisis. Within the online sessions we will present the problems that regional countries are facing largely due to the crisis, and try to find possible ways of overcoming them, while emphasizing their not specific regulations dedicated to supporting the development and production of documentary films.

The Forum will invite:

• 12 Film Agency representatives from the Balkan countries (N. Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Romania and Turkey)
• Documentary Association of Europe
• TV broadcasters representatives
• Representatives (film programers) from Doc Around Europe Network
• Film distributors
• Local producers in order to facilitate the search for local productions
• Representatives of Documentary Associations

The mentoring part consists of:
1. Pitching workshop with Brigid O’Shea & Zeynep Guzel (16 August)

2. Pitching sessions and one-on-one meetings with the project participants (25 August)

Who can apply: Documentary film producers/authors with audiovisual projects in production or post-production stage from N. Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Romania and Turkey.

*Please note that we do not require that the film story is set in the region

It is possible to apply with a film project with the following main requirements:

– feature documentary;

– production or post-production stage;

– to be shot or produced in the region.

Deadline for Applications: 05.08.2020

Apply at forum@makedox.mk with a trailer, if there is one, or selected scenes if it is in a more developed stage (max 20 min). Please type Application to MakeCoProDox Forum 2021 in the subject.

The selection of the submitted projects will be carried out by an Evaluation Committee taking into account the eligibility requirements; the evaluation results will be announced by email and on the website no later than August 10th.