CEDOC Market 2025 – call for projects
Find partners for your film! Expand your professional network! Discover and join fresh documentary projects! The 2025 call for documentary projects in development and early production stage is now open!
The CENTRAL EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY COPRODUCTION MARKET is held every year during the Krakow Film Festival in Poland. Building on its Central European location, CEDOC nurtures a cooperation between East and West, North and South with a special focus on Central European projects and talents. For many projects CEDOC is the first platform to enter the international market. We know how to recognize the potential even in projects at early stages of development and are not afraid to take risks. We discover talents. The event, organized since 2015, is part of the DOC LAB POLAND and KFF INDUSTRY program, which consists of workshops, consultations and pitchings of Polish documentary projects (DOCS TO START and DOCS TO GO).
WHEN: MAY 28 – 30, 2025
WHERE: KRAKOW, POLAND – KRAKOW FF / KFF INDUSTRY
FOR WHOM: DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCERS
DEADLINE: MARCH 31ST
APPLICATION FORM
You can benefit from attending CEDOC MARKET by:
1. Taking part in one-on-one meetings between selected producers. Producers are encouraged to pitch their projects to each other in order to stimulate bilateral collaborations.
Structure: pre-booked one-on-one meetings. Selected projects will be invited to participate in roundtables focused on chosen subjects.
2. Taking part in one-on-one meetings with decision makers or experts. Find new partners for your project: producers, sales agents, broadcasters, funds, leading European pitching and training programs, consult your strategies with top class experts.
Structure: pre-booked one-on-one meetings.
3. Watching live presentations of the best Polish documentary projects in development (curated by DOC LAB POLAND mentors and tutors), and booking one-on-one meetings with the project teams. Become a decision maker: give feedback and discuss your possible interest in the projects. Be the first to find new talents and titles from the region!
Structure: public pitching and pre-booked one-on-one meetings.
Last but not least, to relax from hard work and plenty of official meetings, CEDOC together with Krakow Film Festival invites you to view the most interesting documentaries selected for the festival. You may also enjoy great concerts, market and festival parties and events, such as “Night at Kazimierz” (party in the old Jewish district of Krakow), the “Vistula Cruise Party”, or the Industry Party inviting you to dance till the morning.
PROGRAMME OF THE CEDOC MARKET 2025:
MAY 28, WEDNESDAY – OPENING
Official opening of the CEDOC Market, welcome drink, networking.
MAY 29, THURSDAY – PART I – PITCHING SESSION: DOCS TO START PROJECTS
Pitching sessions with the best 12th Polish documentaries in development
MAY 30, FIRDAY – PART II – CEDOC MARKET: ROUND TABLE MEETINGS
Selected projects will be invited to participate in roundtables focused on chosen subjects.
MAY 30, FRIDAY – PART III – CEDOC MARKET: ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS
One-on-one meetings with producers, sales agents, broadcasters, funds, leading European pitching and training programs, consult your strategies with top class experts.
HOW TO APPLY?
There are two ways of applying for CEDOC Market:
1. If you apply with a project, we want to learn more about the relevance and artistic value of your concept, its international potential and your track record as a producer. We accept documentary projects that are at least 50-minutes in length.
2. If you don’t have a project to share, but you are looking for one, let us help you with booking one-on-one meetings with CEDOC MARKET and DOCS TO START project teams.
*In both cases, producers will be able to take part in the whole CEDOC Market – meet industry professionals and book one-on-one meetings with DOCS TO START project teams.
You have to provide:
– logline (max. 250 characters with spaces)
– synopsis (max. 1500 characters with spaces)
– short bio and filmography of director (max. 500 characters with spaces)
– short bio and filmography of the producer (max. 500 characters with spaces)
– brief info about the production company (max. 500 characters with spaces)
– brief info about the status of the project (partners, financing plan, financing gap, etc.)
– additional visual materials, stills (min. resolution 1800×1200 px; tiff, jpeg, png),
– trailer/teaser (audiovisual materials will not be published – we only need them for more effective selection process, up to 2 minutes).
If you wish to attend the market without a project, please contact us: [email protected]
Conditions: applying for CEDOC Market is free, but the participation cost is 120 EUR. Projects submitted before the early bird deadline, 10th March 2025, will have their fee reduced by 50% (60 EUR). Participants organize and cover the expenses of their travel and accommodation.
The event is organized by DOC LAB POLAND & KFF Industry during 65th Krakow Film Festival. We offer all participating producers a KFF Industry accreditation (entitling the holder to access all Industry events and Official Krakow Film Festival Screening programme) and possibility to attend all the networking events.
EXPERTS PARTICIPATING IN PREVIOUS EDITIONS 2025 – 2024:
In addition to participating producers, leading representatives of the global documentary industry participate in CEDOC Market as experts. In previous years we had a pleasure to cooperate with:
Debra Zimmermann, WOMEN MAKE MOVIES
Catherine Le Goff, ARTE G.E.I.E
Errko Lytinen, YLE
Lisa Kleiner Chanoff, KATAPULT FUND
Lise Lense Moller, EAVE
Wendy Ettinger, CHICKEN AND EGG
Alex Tondovsky, TONDOVSKY FILMS
Jonathan Taylor, NETFLIX
Aleksandra Derewienko, CAT & DOCS
Martina Droandi, AUTLOOK FILMS
Hanne Biermann, DECKERT DISTRIBUTION
Barbara Bouillon, ARTE G.E.I.E
Adriek van Nieuwenhuijzen, IDFA FORUM
Madelaine Russo, HOT DOCS FORUM
Nadja Tennstedt, DOK LEIPZIG INDUSTRY
Tereza Simikova, CPH DOX FORUM
Marion Czarny, FIPADOC
Jarmila Outratova, EMERGING PRODUCERS
Katarzyna Kostecka, CANAL+
Andrea Prenghyova, DOK INCUBATOR
Wim Vanacker, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
Anna Trzebiatowska, SUNDANCE FF
Beata Calińska, SUNDANCE INDUSTRY
Stephanie Owens, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Heather Haynes, HOT DOCS
Tereza Koldová, DOK Incubator
Sergio Fant, BERLINALE FF
Amir George, TRUE/FALSE FF
Betsy LeBlanc, PBS INTERNATIONAL
Mehdi Bekkar, AL JAZEERA DOCUMENATRY
Hanka Kastelicova, HBO EUROPE
Outi Rousu, Pystymetsa
Christian Popp, Tag Film
Robert Y. Chang, Young POV
Natalia Imaz, Parabellum film GmbH
Yoko Imai, NHK
and many more
PARTICIPANTS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS 2015-2024
For any questions please contact us at [email protected]
The event is organized by DOC LAB POLAND & KFF Industry during 64th Krakow Film Festival. We offer all participating producers a KFF INDUSTRY accreditation (entitling the holder to access all Industry events and Official Krakow Film Festival Screening programme) and possibility to attend all the networking events.