Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München

The Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München (International Documentary Film Festival Munich – short DOK.fest Munich) takes place annually in Munich since 1985. Since 2001, it has been organized by Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München e. V. (International Documentary Film Festival Munich Association) together with the Filmstadt München association. The focus of the festival is on the socially relevant and artistically valuable documentary films.

The DOK.fest also includes the industrial and up-and-coming film-maker platform DOK.forum, the children and youth program DOK.education and the festival in the Region DOK.tour. The management and artistic director is Daniel Sponsel.

2014 received a record attendance with just under 27,000 guests. Making the DOK.fest Germany's largest festival for the long documentary films.

History

The establishment of the DOK.fest Munich goes back to the initiative of the Bavarian section of the Documentary Film Association (AG DOK) Munich. AG DOK had the goal of making documentary films available to a wider audience. In cooperation with the Association Film Studio Munich, an association of local film initiatives, the first International Documentary Film Festival Munich was organized in 1985. The city of Munich supported the Festival. As director, Gudrun Geyer was appointed, who led the festival until 2001.[1]

Following the resignation of Gudrun Geyer in 2001, Hermann Barth took over the task on behalf of the newly founded International Documentary Film Festival Munich Association e.V., to profile the Festival in Munich, in Germany and worldwide.[2] Since 2002, the Festival operates under the brand name DOK.fest with an expanded program.

Hermann Barth resigned in 2009. Daniel Sponsel took over the management and was supported at the beginning by Christian Pfeil. Sponsel continued to set forth the successful concept and extended the program to include the German competition DOK.deutsch, the guest series DOK.guest, the retrospective and DOK.education, the child and youth program. He also created the platform DOK.forum in 2011.

Series and prices

The festival program of DOK.fest Munich is divided into "competitions", "theme series" and "specials". At the festival a selection of current international documentaries with a length of at least 52 minutes each are shown.

In the competitions, premieres are given special consideration. The ten prizes of the festival are endowed with prize money and material prizes in worth from €1,000 to €10,000. In the three main competition areas, the VIKTOR is awarded. The VIKTOR DOK.international is the main prize of the festival.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "30 years of DOK.fest Munich". DOK.fest. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Herman Barth". cinepur.de. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "Section and Awards 2014". DOK.fest. Retrieved 8 October 2015.

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