Assert your vision. Enter the Co-Production Challenge.

"Winning this award filled me with pride and encouragement, an endorsement that I was on the right path. Whenever I mentioned it was a MIPDoc…Co-Production Challenge award-winning project I got permissions and support at a drop of a hat. Some of the finest teams agreed to put their name besides mine."

Soniya Kirpalani,
Sprocket Science

Enter the MIPDoc Co-Production Challenge

The 6th Annual MIPDoc Co-Production Challenge is the year’s most anticipated international pitching competition for adventurous and inspiring creators of documentary and factual programmes. Nick Fraser, Commissioning Editor, « Storyville », BBC, will preside over the 2010 Co-Production Challenge Jury.

The 2010 Finalists

  • Listopad - submitted by Jefe Brown at U.F.O. Pictures, Czech Republic. Dir: Barbara Kopple
  • Sudan in Fragments - submitted by Julian Phelan, Lobodocs/Aegis Trust, UK, Dir: Richard Wolf
  • From Texas to Tehran - submitted by Partner Pictures, NY, Dir: Till Schauder
  • Free Angela - submitted by de films en aiguille, France, Dir: Shola Lynch
  • Rat Race - submitted by Filament Pictures, Mumbai, Dir: Miriam Chandy Menacherry
  • Burning Needs - submitted by Adam Wakeling, Notion Pictures, UK Dir: Adam Wakeling

The 2010 Jury

Nick Fraser

President:
Nick Fraser, Commissioning Editor, “Storyville”, BBC

Jury members:

  • Claire Aguilar, Vice President of Programming, ITVS
  • Julie Bristow, Executive Director, Factual, CBC
  • Lorenzo Hendel, Director, Rai-Radiotelevisione Italiana
  • Michael Katz, Vice President, Programming and Production, AETN International

About the Challenge

In partnership with Realscreen Magazine, The Co-Production Challenge seeks original projects in the factual genre with the hottest potential for development across TV, the Internet and all other media.

Semi-finalists will be selected from submissions worldwide and given the opportunity to present their final pitches LIVE at MIPDoc to an A-list jury of broadcasters and commissioners, and before an audience of accredited buyers, producers and distributors.

The 2009 winner

Nisan Katz

Nisan Katz, Topia Communications, The Locker Room, Israel
“The Locker Room…became a successful film. The project won the first place in the 2009 Co-Production Challenge, […and d]uring 2009 the film was shot in Africa, Nepal, Israel and UK. The first broadcasters of the film are Channel 8 –Israel and ERT-Greece. The film was also supported by "Cinema Project", Rabinovich Foundation – Israel.”



In partnership with:
RealScreen

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