Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 Report by Sylvia W

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 Festival Report

2014 Staff

Board of Directors

Kat Chirnside - Marketing Coordinator Heather Croall - Festival Director Hussain Currimbhoy - Director of Programming Suzana Jovanovska - Conference Manager Karolina Lidin - Marketplace Executive Producer Tom Millen - Crossover Assistant Julie Mitchell - Management Accountant Anna Parker - Marketplace Manager Charlie Phillips - Deputy Director Mat Steel - Production Manager Maria Stoneman - Office & Festival Administrator Ben Taylor - Industry Coordinator Elliott Thompson - Marketing & Executive PA Becky Webb - Marketplace Assistant Sylvia Wroblewska - Business & Marketing Director Sohil Zokari - Assistant Accountant

Temporary Staff Andy Beecroft - Film Programme Manager George Bent - Operations Runner Paul Brewster - Box Office Coordinator Valentin Cartillier - Artist Liaison Jack Casey - Videotheque Manager Matt Charlton - Operations Assistant Joe Cutts - Film Programme Coordinator Lucie Eaton - Marketing Runner Alex Fenton -Thomas - Events Coordinator Martin Grund - Publications Layout Designer Dave Holloway - Production Assistant Felicity Heiden - Publications Assistant Felicity Hoy - Publications Coordinator Melanie Iredale - Development Consultant Ben Jackson - Guest Runner Laura Kelly - Industry Coordinator Debbie Lo - Registrations Assistant Elva Lynch-Bathgate - Volunteers Coordinator Lucy Markey - Peak Events Coordinator Lynn Nwokerie - Industry Tickets Coordinator Fred Palmer - MeetMarket Assistant Ralph Palmer - Special Events Coordinator Hannah Rudman - Guest Services Coordinator Madelaine Russo - Marketplace Coordinator Andrew Savage - Motion Graphics Sarah Smizz - Illustrator Yvette Spedding - Guest Services Assistant Matt Sturdy - Film Crew Coordinator Krissy Taylor - Events Manager Eve Williamson - Sessions Assistant

Contractors Sarah Harvey - Press & PR Consultant Buzz Films - Video Production Jacqui Bellamy - Photography Nick Phillips - Designer Mark Atkin - Crossover Labs

Alex Graham - Chair Peter Armstrong Mark Atkin Lizzie Francke Nick Fraser Steve Hewlett Grant Keir Richard Klein Paula Le Dieu Ralph Lee Colin Pons Shirani Sebaratnam Celia Taylor Ian Wild

Advisory Board Roy Ackerman Taghi Amirani Ewan Angus Sam Anthony Maxine Baker Jane Balfour Adam Barker Lucy Baxter Jan Bednarz Louisa Bolch Christina Burnett Simon Chinn Dick Fontaine Andy Glynne Roger Graef Oli Harbottle Anna Higgs Brian Hill Lee Kern Kerry McLeod Liz Mermin Narinder Minhas Charlotte Moore Carol Nahra Carolyn Payne Ashok Prasad Lina Prestwood Emily Renshaw Smith Martin Rosenbaum Greg Sanderson Marc Sigsworth AndrĂŠ Singer Sue Sudbury Sarah Swingler Rajesh Thind Rachel Wexler Elizabeth Wood Brian Woods

Introduction The 2014 Sheffield Doc/Fest saw the Festival celebrating its 21st anniversary - with a new look, new dates and new venues - this year’s Festival was the most exciting to date! A record 3,263 delegates descended on Sheffield for six days of films, sessions, networking and parties, an increase of 4.3% year on year. Delegates were joined by a greater number of the public with 26,721 attendees watching films and sessions and taking part in activities geared to engage the public, up 13.7% on last year’s public numbers.

The opening night set the bar high with an ambitious triple bill of events. The first, perhaps our most prestigious opening night film to date was PULP: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets (Dir: Florian Habicht, UK) at Sheffield’s City Hall. This was followed by Miners Shot Down (Dir: Rehad Desai, South Africa) at Showroom Cinema and Happiness (Dir: Thomas Balmes, France/Finland) screening in a Cave in the Peak District. The film programme was as packed and eclectic as ever with 13 World Premieres including a screening of the greatly anticipated A 50 Year Argument directed by Martin Scorsese, who answered questions after the screening on Skype. Grayson Perry and Sue Perkins were the highlights of the public facing session programme. Other sessions popular with the Sheffield public included Jon Snow In Conversation, Rebels of Oz featuring Germaine Greer, and Adam Buxton presents A Bug Special: David Bowie. Our partnership with Documentary Campus presented a great line up of sessions to industry delegates. Delegates looking to learn about the craft and business of documentary were well catered for with BAFTA’s masterclass with Olly Lambert, commissioning panels discussing the latest priorities of international factual broadcasters, and a session from this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Roger Graef, marking his 50 years in documentary. 2014 saw the return of Doc/Fest’s Live Music programme which included How We Used to Live with a live soundtrack performed by Saint Etienne, Beyond Clueless with Summer Camp playing live, and He Who Gets Slapped with a performance by Will Gregory from Goldfrapp, along with other live shows. For the 21st Festival, Docs/Fest awarded 21 inspiration awards to individuals that have shown a great contribution to documentary film and have inspired young filmmakers and audiences to love documentary the world over. The Festival awarded the major 2014 Inspiration Award to Laura Poitras. New venues for 2014 included the Millennium Gallery for Doc/Fest’s Interactive at Sheffield Exhibition - which was open to the public free of charge, and also the Festival Lounge in Tudor Square, an inflatable venue with cafes, bars and outdoor seating areas. This was a favourite venue for 2014!

Film Programme The 2014 film programme was an eclectic mix of shorts, features and cross-platform projects from around the world tackling a broad range of subject matters. 152 films were screened across the festival selected from 1912 submissions.

45 Premieres

! 13 World 13 European 4 International 15 UK

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A major focus this year was to increase public audience numbers. Outdoor screens have proved popular with Sheffield public audiences. Along with Howard Street Screen we introduced two new outdoor screens - Peace Gardens and South Street Amphitheatre, showing great films for free to a public audience. To celebrate the World Premiere of Doc/Fest’s latest archive film commission in association with BFI, BBC and Crossover, we held a special screening on the grounds of Chatsworth. Directed by Kim Longinotto, and with an original soundtrack from Richard Hawley, ’Love Is All: 100 Years of Love & Courtship’ screened to an audience of 2,000 in a stunning outdoor setting at Chatsworth. Doc/Fest has increasingly become a place for highly anticipated films. We had 13 World Premiere screenings, including A 50 Year Argument, Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress and Still The Enemy Within.

Award Winners 2014 Special Jury Award Winner Attacking The Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime Dir. Jacqui Morris & David Morris

Sheffield Innovation Award Winner A Short History of the Highrise Dir. Katerina Cizek

Sheffield Youth Jury Award Winner The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Dir. Brian Knappenberger In the Dark Audio Award Everything, Nothing, Harvey Keitel Dir. Pejk Malinovski

Sheffield Green Award Winner Unearthed Dir. Jolynn Minnaar

Student Doc Award Winner Our Curse Dir. Tomasz Sliwinski

Short Doc Award Winner Amanda F***ing Palmer on the Rocks Dir. Ondi Timoner

The Wintonick Award Winner Vessel Dir. Diana Whitten

The Tim Hetherington Award Winner Profession: Documentarist Dir. Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farhnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor and Nahid Rezaei Martin Scorsese speaks to the Doc/Fest audience at Showroom Cinema, following the World Premiere of his latest film, A 50 Year Argument.

Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award Winner Still the Enemy Within Dir. Owen Gower

Film Programme Filmmaker Country of Production

Rest of Europe 26%

UK 41%

Australia 4% Asia 9% USA 20%

Filmmaker Gender

Female 41%

Doc/Fest aims to be representative throughout its programming and is proud that over a third of the directors at the festival are female and its films come from across the world. The content of the films also aims to have a diverse range of subjects as seen in our film strands, which include:

Behind The Beats

Queer Screen

Best of British

Resistance

Cyber Cinema

Retrospectives

Euro/Doc

Stand Up: Miners on Strike

Films on Film

The Habit of Art

Global Encounters

Tour de Cinema

Hell on Wheels

Works in Progress

Male 59%

“As a filmmaker navigating this crazy landscape I am very grateful that you're are giving so much fresh energy and enthusiasm to the documentary world!” - Juliet Brown, dir. Ecocide “Sheffield is fantastic. I had a lovely, lovely time and could not be more pleased to have Vessel screen. The award was icing on the cake. I'm very honoured.” - Diana Whitten, dir. Vessel “I’m pretty sure that everything that happens to our film will happen because of Sheffield.” - David McGillivray, prod. Peter de Rome Grandfather of Gay Porn

Top 10 Films Rated by Audience Still the Enemy Within, dir. Owen Gower The Last Chance School, dir. Marc Williamson The Last Man on The Moon, dir. Mark Craig We Are Many, dir. Amir Amirani School of Babel, dir. Julie Bertuccelli The Overnighters, dir. Jesse Moss All This Mayhem, dir. Eddie Martin Return to Homs, dir. Talal Derki Sepideh, dir. Berit Madsen A Dangerous Game, dir. Anthony Baxter

Videotheque Doc/Fest hosts one of the world's few fully-digitised film festival libraries, allowing our film festival pass holders to view a selection of films from the programme. We also invite up to 155 specially selected films to participate in the Videotheque from this year's submissions, these are films we feel would benefit greatly from sales and acquisition opportunities in the Videotheque. These films are invited with sales, distribution, broadcast, and festival acquisitions in mind.

Since we started the Videotheque in 2006 it has become one of the best places in the world to get films seen and sold. Due to festival pass holder interest, we introduced an online version of the Videotheque in 2011 and Doc/Fest delegates credit it as one of the best and smoothest online viewing platforms around. The Videotheque offers unrivalled UK and international acquisition potential for films.

Sheffield Doc/Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Videotheque expanded this year, receiving a design and technical upgrade in order to make the user experience its best ever. The Videotheque was designed by Dias.

Films included in Videotheque have superior support and attention from our Videotheque Manager, Film team, Marketplace and dedicated social media channels. They are helped to spread the word in the run-up to the festival and offering filmmakers the ability to connect to key Decision Makers. This year saw 155 paid entries bringing in ÂŁ23,567 of income, a new record. In 2014 we introduced a stronger presence of the Videotheque within the Festival programme. To welcome filmmakers with films in the Videotheque and encourage networking with Decision Makers, we held a Videotheque drinks reception on the Sunday evening at the Novotel, which was a very popular event.

Marketplace Sheffield Doc/Fest offers extensive marketplace opportunities for all delegates. In 2014 a record 312 executives, distributors, commissioners, funders, advisors and buyers across documentary and digital media attended the festival from across the UK, the rest of Europe and the world. The MeetMarket, Sheffield’s primary pitching opportunity had 63 projects from 19 countries across 5 continents being pitched, selected from 605 submissions. These projects were part of 1500 meetings over two days. At present (August 2014) over £32.9 Million worth of deals have been reported to have been made at Doc/Fest this year. Alongside our primary pitching event, MeetMarket, we offered filmmakers alternative marketplace initiatives, including Round Tables, Pour Hours and the new ‘Meet…’ format, which included specialist sessions with Channel 4 First Cut, Radio 4, VICE, Getty Images, BBC Production Talent Network and more. In 2014 we hosted the second Crossover Market in Sheffield, running parallel to the MeetMarket. As well as being able to pitch ideas to cross-platform commissioners and experienced digital producers, selected projects were offered a chance to meet with digital agencies, brands, third sector representatives, and other potential supporters from outside of the traditional film and TV industries.

Buyers said meetings met their expectations said there were many opportunities to meet filmmakers outside of MM rated MM as either good or excellent

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MeetMarket Projects

1500

MeetMarket Meetings

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Worth of deals done at MeetMarket in 2014

£32.9M

Worth of deals done across Doc/Fest in 2014

Pitchers

98%

97%

felt that MM gave them access to buyers they wouldn't normally meet

96%

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said meetings met their expectations

94%

were happy with the number and range of buyers present

96%

Buyers

Pitch Opportunities Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014 featured a wide range of pitch opportunities, offering tens of thousands of pounds in funding and in-kind support for development, production and placements.

BFI Film Fund Pitch

BBC Fresh Pitch & Talent Search

An opportunity for filmmakers to access major documentary film funding from the BFI Film Fund, returning for a second year. PITCH WINNERS: Iain Cunningham, Sophie Fiennes, Robert Canaan & Ross Adam

For the first time BBC Three Fresh Online offered commissions at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Six new filmmakers were offered the opportunity to pitch for £3,000 in funding for a 3-10 minute documentary. PITCH WINNERS: Chloe White, Ed Hancox, Ibrahim Ahmed

Channel 4 First Cut Pitch

Fast Track to Features Pitch

An opportunity for UK filmmakers to get a First Cut commission offer, plus mentorship and training. PITCH WINNER: Carla Wright

The New York Times OpDocs Pitch The opportunity to make an online short for the New York Times' Op-Docs series with a budget of $5,000. PITCH WINNER: Victoria Fioravante

The Ramillas Sheffield Interactive Fund All projects selected for the Crossover Market were considered for the first Ramillas Sheffield Interactive Fund, with the winning project awarded €3000. PITCH WINNER: Matt Golding

The Soundology Breakthrough Pitch £1,000 plus mentoring was on offer for new talent making a documentary on a subject close to the heart. PITCH WINNER: Luke Eldridge

The Zero Budget Pitch For Documentary-makers working on a shoestring.

A pitch featuring six carefully-selected projects, participating in our 7-month long, UK-wide feature documentary training programme. PITCH WINNER: Rebecca Brand

The Vice Rule Britannia Pitch The opportunity to get a fully funded commission on VICE's flagship observational documentary strand, for a documentary set in the UK that runs between 20 and 45 minutes on VICE, and a chance for work to be seen by VICE's huge global audience. PITCH WINNER: San San F Young

Wellcome Trust Pitch With awards of up to £10,000 for films that engage the audience with contemporary or historical biomedical science in an innovative and accessible way. PITCH WINNERS: Dan Boaden & Anson Hartford

University of Sheffield Presents How To Pitch Your Academic Idea The opportunity to pitch academic research as a documentary to a panel of producers and commissioners working for UK and international broadcasters.

Conference Programmes The 2014 Doc/Fest Conference Programme was a hot bed of discussion and debate encompassing a wide range of issues faced in the documentary industry. This was the fourth year that Doc/Fest had partnered with Documentary Campus to co-produce the industry sessions.

103 332 22 Sessions

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Countries Represented

332 panellists took part in 103 sessions over the 6 days. Countries represented included UK, USA, Australia, Kenya, Canada, South Africa, France, Sweden plus many others and from many different diverse backgrounds. In 2014 we expanded the format for our Commissioning Panels by featuring new session producers and a broader range of factual programming areas and territories, including: Alternative Platforms, Arts, Documentary, Factual Entertainment and Specialist Factual.

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Speakers Similarly to the film programme an emphasis was placed on engaging the public in the sessions programme. This was achieved by attracting high profile public figures and hosting their session in the Crucible, a venue with a built in public audience and marketing reach. The sessions and masterclasses below were open to public booking and advertised across local and regional publications. This along with the live event sessions at the Crucible and Chatsworth contributed to the major increase in box office income.

Ondi Timoner

Sue Perkins

Penny Woolcock

Grayson Perry

Martin Scorsese

Jarvis Cocker

Germaine Greer

Kim Longinotto

Peter Bazelgette

Roger Graef

John Pilger

Russell Brand

Jon Snow

Adam Buxton

Ollie Huddleston

Interactive at Sheffield Interactive content has long been part of Sheffield Doc/Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remit but 2014 saw greater emphasis placed on the growing field of interactivity with the ambition of both furthering the form with sessions and presentations for industry delegates and delivering an exhibition for the public to help develop broader audiences for interactive work.

Doc/Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Interactive at Sheffield Exhibition housed over 20 projects spanning desktop computers, tablets, smart phones, projections and virtual reality headsets. With tablets and games consoles increasing in proliferation as mediums of content delivery, audiences are demanding greater interactivity within their media, so using Xbox controllers and iPads as host devices for many of the projects gave attendees familiar devices with which to explore the projects.

Top Rated Sessions & Projects Door Into The Dark - Anagram - 96% Assent on Oculus Rift - Oscar Raby & Katy Morrison- 92% Tom Phillips - Going Viral, Twitter Storms & Doing It Wrong- 91% Unspeak - Submarine - 85% Rosemarie Lerner - Quipu Project Presentation- 83% Type:Rider - Cosmografik- 83% Robert Tercek - From Observer to Activist - 83% Jennifer Wilson - Telling Richer Stories Through Digital- 83% Noah Rosenberg - Sinners Vs. Saints- 82% The Liszt Sonata - Touchpress- 80%

Special Events ! As we continue to build our public audience, Doc/Fest programmes unique films and music events in magical venues across Sheffield and the surrounding areas.

LIVE SHOWS AT THE CRUCIBLE THEATRE

SCREENING IN A CAVE - THE DEVIL’S ARSE

At Sheffield’s famous Crucible Theatre we screened films accompanied by a live score performed by bands including Saint Etienne, Summer Camp, and British Sea Power.

For the second year Doc/Fest hosted films at The Devil’s Arse in Castleton. The programme included the European Premiere of ‘Happiness’ on the Festival’s Opening Night.

LOVE IS ALL: 100 YEARS OF LOVE & COURTSHIP

OUTDOOR SCREENINGS IN SHEFFIELD

One of the most special screenings in Doc/ Fest’s history was the World Premiere of ‘Love Is All’ in the stunning grounds of Chatsworth, The event included a Q&A with director Kim Longinotto, editor Ollie Huddleston and composer Richard Hawley.

In 2014 we expanded our programme of outdoor screenings across Sheffield. For a third year we programmed films at the popular Howard Street Screen, and added screens at two other locations - Peace Gardens and South Street Amphitheatre.

Networking Events ! Doc/Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special events proved incredibly popular with delegates as an opportunity to network with other delegates and meet with key organisations.

Opening Night Party at Millenium Gallery

British Council Reception at Tamper

Doc/Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Evel Knievel Roller Disco

IDFA Drinks Reception

All This Mayhem VICE Party

Videotheque Drinks Reception

Interactive at Sheffield Drinks

Wellcome Trust Drinks

Meet The Polish Delegation

Hidden Treasures Brunch

Creative Scotland Reception

Sky Vision Dinner

Indiegogo Brucnh

The Channel 4 Party

Dogwoof & Doc/Fest present Guilty Pleasures

Delegates Survey The 2014 Delegate Survey was sent out after the festival and was completed by 537 Doc/Fest attendees. The results were very positive and offer an insight in to how to develop Doc/Fest for 2015.

Do you feel the Festival is good value for money?

96%

Answered Yes

Did you find Doc/Fest a good place to do business?

91% Answered Yes

Will you return to Doc/Fest in 2015?

What was your highlight at Doc/ Fest 2014?

Why did you attend Doc/Fest?

! Networking Opportunities

63%

Interest in Film Festivals

52%

To promote a personal project

28%

Interest in other Programme Content

27%

Looking for new ideas / talent

26%

Where did you come to Doc/Fest from?

MeetMarket

! ! Guilty Pleasures Party ! Cinema in a Cave ! Love Is All screening at Chatsworth ! Door Into The Dark ! Last Man on the Moon ! We Are Many ! An Evening with Grayson Perry !

LOCAL 9%

PULP: A Film About Life Death & Supermarkets

Interactive at Sheffield: Crossover Summit

INTERNATIONAL 33% NATIONAL 58%

Public Survey We surveyed the Sheffield public who were attending the festival to get an idea of who from Sheffield and the wider area is visiting the festival.

We asked for survey participants to describe their general experience of Sheffield Doc/Fest: “Wonderful and Inspiring” “Very friendly, great films, well organised”

96%

Percentage of the public audience that rated the Festival as Good or Excellent

“Interesting, fun and a nice atmosphere” “Varied programme and amazing guests!” “Fascinating and very enjoyable” “Gets better every year!” “Intellectually stimulating” “Great films, great people, great atmosphere at events” “Excellent community spirit”

Where did you come to Doc/Fest from?

Overseas 3% Sheffield 37% Rest of UK 50% Rest of Yorkshire 11%

How did you hear about Doc/Fest? Advert / Banner 9% Showroom Marketing 5% Doc/Fest Poster 16% Social Media 13%

Word of mouth 57%

What age are you?

5-19 40-55 2% 18% OVER 56 12%

20-29 69%

Attendance Festival pass holder attendance increased once again this year up to 3,263, a 4.3% increase year on year. Public audience also increased to 26,721 over the 6-day Festival, an increase of 13.7%. From the Delegate Survey the 2014 Festival was 46% of delegatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first Festival but 17% had been to the festival 5 or more times before. 38% of delegates work in independent production, the largest job sector in attendance so it is imperative that we continue serving their needs.

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Venues To accommodate the growth of the Festival, we worked with some new venues in Sheffield City Centre to house more film screenings, sessions and events.

We held outdoor screenings in Peace Gardens and South Street Amphitheatre, as well as Howard Street, to encourage more general public to take part in the Festival.

For a second year we held screenings in a Cave at the Devils Arse, Castleton. In 2014 the Cave served as a screening venue for four nights of the Festival.

For the first time we created a new venue in Tudor Square - The Festival Lounge - an inflatable structure open day and night with bars and cafes run by local businesses from Sheffield.

For the World Premiere of Doc/Festâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest film commission Love Is All, we couldn't think of a more perfect place for this special screening than the stunning grounds of Chatsworth House.

In 2014 Doc/Fest returned to Millennium Gallery to house the Interactive at Sheffield Exhibition and some of the Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evening social events.

Sheffield City Hall was the perfect venue for our Opening Night Film, PULP: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets. Other events included An Evening With Grayson Perry. Both events attracted an audience of over 2,000.

Press & PR

Leading up to and during Doc/Fest key news stories appeared widely across industry media including Real Screen, Indiewire, Broadcast, Televisual, Screen International (Daily) and Hollywood Reporter. National Coverage of the Festival was seen in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Times, The Sunday Times and Sight and Sound. There was excellent local press coverage before, during and after the festival from Yorkshire Post, Sheffield Telegraph, Sheffield Star, and BBC Radio Sheffield. Coverage of the festival online was also extensive, with Doc/Fest making appearances on The Guardian, BBC, Grolsch Film Works, Hollywood Reporter, Huffington Post, i-D, IndieWire, NME, Realscreen, Screen International, Televisual and The Times.

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CINEMA: DOCFEST FILM AT CHATSWORTH

The three Opening Night events of PULP: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets, Happiness screening in a Cave and Miners Shot Down at the Showroom Cinema were all widely and positively reported.

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Love Is All: 100 Years of Love and Courtship takes viewers on a journey through the 20th century. From the very first kisses ever caught on film, through the disruption of war to the birth of youth culture, gay liberation and free love, it follows courting couples flirting at tea dances, kissing in the back of the movies, shacking up and fighting for the right to love. Sheffield singer songwriter Hawley has written new material and contributed other tracks to form the soundtrack. The film, commissioned by BBC North, BBC Storyville and the BFI, produced by Crossover and Lone Star, gets its premiere as a highlight of Sheffield DocFest on a giant outdoor screen in the beautiful grounds of Chatsworth,

next Wednesday, June 11. Love Is All director Kim Longinotto said: “It was extraordinary to watch archive film coming to life with Richard Hawley’s intimate and emotional songs and often see a new meaning emerge. “I love the way that Richard’s music creates a new kind of reality and suddenly the people looking out at you Source: The Guardian {The Guide} from theEdition: past seem so contemporary and vivid.” UK Country: ■ Read her full Q&A, watch Date: Saturday 7, June 2014 our video report and win tickets atPage: thestar.co.uk 3 ■ Tickets £15 each, or £25 Area: 292 sq. cm with coach transfer from Circulation: ABC 186931 Daily Plug, Sheﬃeld. Picnic hampage rate £11,400.00, scc rate £42.00 pers, £15Ad perdata: person, also 020 3353 2000 available.Phone: Full details www. the-plug.com Keyword: Sheffield Doc/Fest

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Impact on Local Business Each year Doc/Fest encourages local organisations to open doors to the many

Does your business benefit from Doc/Fest being in Sheffield?

visitors attending the Festival in June, and to

Following the 2014 Festival, we surveyed local

97%

businesses in Sheffield to review the impact

Answered Yes

take advantage of the business they bring.

Doc/Fest brings to organisations in the City.

What was the impact on your business during Doc/Fest? “Nothing but positive things to say about the festival.” - Tamper

“Had a £15,000 uplift of income.” - Piccolinos

“Doc/Fest accounted for 30% of trade that week. Huge numbers.”Browns

“Really positive, trade doubled for that week.” — Roast

“The festival was bigger and better, we benefitted from having stall in The Cube.” - Marmadukes

Mamadukes in the Festival Lounge on Tudor Square

“Our first proper year of Doc/Fest - really positive feedback.” - Pizza Express

“25% increase on year before. think being a week earlier helped.” - Cafe Rouge

“DocFest is great for Sheffield - It brings creative people from all over the world to the City” - Ashoka

British Council Reception at Tamper

PLUG crew in the Festival Lounge on Tudor Square

Feedback ! “It has genuinely opened up an area that I had no idea I could work in, and feels (not to be too dramatic) life-changing!“ - Jacqueline Wright, Crossover Market Participant

“Congratulations on a storming festival, it was really fantastic.”- David Brindley, Channel 4

“The festival and markets were fantastic. Thanks for allowing me to participate.” Janet Pierson, SXSW

“We had great meetings in Crossover and outside of it as well, with a confirmed prebuy and several interested in pre-buys or acquisitions.” - Ann Shin, Crossover Market Participant

“Thank you for organising a great Meet Market. Its an amazing opportunity to sit across a table with so many people that can help get my film made.” - Piers Sanderson, MeetMarket Participant

“I can't thank you enough for giving us the opportunity to put the project in front of so many people, we are in a radically better position post MeetMarket than we were when we arrived in Sheffield.” - Laura Shacham, MeetMarket Participant

“I had excellent meetings at both Crossover and MeetMarket, made fantastic connections at the supporters dinner, and learned a lot.” - Lisa Lazareck, Wellcome Trust

“I thoroughly enjoyed the entire event and really appreciated how well organized it was and how much care you and your team put into organizing it.” - Sharon La Cruise, Ford Foundation

“Thank you so much for having me at this year’s Sheffield Doc Fest. I find it a genuinely useful experience and will be following up with several producers and a couple of broadcasters and funders following the fest.” - Calum Gray, Independent Films Sales

“The Crossover Market was a fantastic experience. We had some very positive meetings, which have buoyed the project, and will hopefully lead to something more concrete in the coming weeks and months.” - Tristan Goligher, Crossover Market Participant

“Wanted to say a huge thank you for all the support and good vibes this year. We all had a wonderful time at Doc/Fest.” - Al Brown, VICE

“We had an absolute blast and I think it was your best year by far.” - Sarah Mosses, Together Films

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