We are excited to share our DOK Preview project selection of this year’s edition with you and kickstart the project's successful global circulation. 

DOK Preview highlights 14 outstanding works-in-progress projects, offering a small glimpse of excellent new creative documentaries looking for festival premieres, gap financing and distribution partners. 

We'd like to thank our partner German Films with whom DOK Preview Germany is realised and all the amazing training initiatives and markets we collaborate with for DOK Preview Training. Furthermore, we are very happy to welcome back on stage our friends from D-Facto motion, who will award one project the D-Facto Motion Works-in-Progress Prize to one German Documentary valued at 10.000 EUR.

DOK Preview Germany and DOK Preview Training will take place on 25 and 27 October 2021 as part of the hybrid edition of DOK Industry Programme. 

With their strong artistic visions and personal stories, we are looking forward to highlighting 35 new projects at the 17th DOK Co-Pro Market! From 25 to 29 October they will meet potential co-production, financing and distribution partners.

The DOK Co-Pro Market 2021 is planned as a hybrid event with individual meetings and networking opportunities taking place in Leipzig as well as online.

Check out more here! Happy browsing and congratulations to the teams.

Producers interested in making meetings with the selected projects can still register their interest until September 27. 

We are excited to share a first glimpse into the Co-Pro Market selection 2021. Here are the six projects that received the DOK Leipzig Accelerator Prize and also the first projects to be invited to the DOK Co-Pro Market in October.

DOK Leipzig is partnering with training initiatives and markets that are each year showcasing tremendous talent from their region. At these events we scout for original creative documentaries that are being produced for an international audience.

The following teams are invited to present their project at the Co-Pro Market to international producers, financiers and distributors:

Ashes and Strawberries by Gabriella Nikolic, produced by Gabriella Nikolic (G358 PRODUCTION, Serbia)
selected at BDC Discoveries

Girls’ Stories by Agnieszka Borzym, produced by Agnieszka Rostropowicz-Rutkowska & Marta Dużbabel (Pinot Films, Poland)
selected at Doc Lab Poland

I am Walking by Sze-Wei Chan, produced by Tiger Tiger Pictures, Singapore
selected at Docs by the Sea

I’m Not Everything I Want To Be by Klára Tasovská, produced by Lukáš Kokeš (Somatic Films, Czech Republic), Jakub Viktorin (nutprodukcia, Slovakia) & Ralph Wieser (Mischief Films, Austria)
selected at East Doc Platform

The Souls by Laura Basombrío, produced by Anahí Farfán & Guido Deniro (ARDE CINE, Argentina)
selected at MAFF

The Woman Who Poked the Leopard by Patience Nitumwesiga, produced by Rosie Motene (Shagika Tales, Uganda)
selected at Durban FilmMart

We will announce the complete project selection of the DOK Co-Pro Market on 15 September 2021. 

If you are a producer looking for international, high-quality projects for your slates, you are invited to register your interest with us to participate in the Co-Pro Market without a project. The deadline to apply is 27 September. You can find information about the call here.

We invite producers who are actively looking for new audio-visual works to co-produce and to expand their networks internationally to apply as a Producer without a Project for participation in the DOK Co-Pro Market. The deadline is 27 September.

The Co-Pro Market features a selection of 35 outstanding international projects with a strong artistic vision and a unique author’s point of view, developed for a global market. The selected projects in development or early production are seeking creative as well as financing partners, with expertise in documentary or animated documentary production. The projects selected for this year’s market will be announced in mid-September.

Producers should have relevant co-production experience in recent years and aim to find new high-quality, international projects to co-produce. Capacities are limited, and the decision will be depending on the composition of the final project selection of the Co-Pro Market.

The Co-Pro Market individual meetings between producers and the selected projects take place on 25, 26 and 28 October 2021 in a hybrid meeting format. Participation as Producer without a Project is possible onsite in Leipzig or entirely online.

You can find information about the offer, participation fee and how to apply as a Producer without a Project here.