Section: DOC Alliance About this section

The New Deal for Feature Documentaries
Doc Alliance is a partnership which emerged as a result of the co-operative effort of six key European documentary film festivals: CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL, FID Marseille and Visions du Reel Nyon. The aim of the Doc Alliance initiative is to support the diversity of feature documentaries and to convince audiences of the fascinating, moving and instructive aspects of the cinéma du reel where reality surpasses fiction and becomes spectacular.
Doc Alliance was created with the awareness that new initiatives are needed to promote remarkable films to a general market that is less permeable to their circulation and commercialization and to approach various audiences in every conceivable manner, ranging from cinema, television, DVD to VOD, and other networks. Its objective is to create an inventive and dynamic distribution platform for filmmakers and producers by offering attractive alternatives, debates, choices and perspectives.
Doc Alliance activities:
DOC ALLIANCE SELECTION Three high quality films selected from six titles (each nominated by one of the Doc Alliance partners). The films tour at the six Festivals starting at VISIONS DU REEL Nyon. At the end of the year an international jury decides about the “Doc Alliance Award”. In 2012, the Award will be handed over during the IDFF Jihlava. The five national markets support the films at their festivals and in their theatrical, TV and DVD distribution.
WWW.DOCALLIANCEFILMS.COM is the new online portal of Doc Alliance for Video on Demand (VOD) offering permanent access to hundreds outstanding documentaries selected by the six partner festivals. Twenty new films are added monthly and these can be acquired through streaming or download.