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Storyville Vancouver, in partnership with BC public broadcaster Knowledge Network, is scheduled for presentation during the Film & TV Forum on Tuesday, September 28. Its aim is to stimulate the co-financing and co-production of the creative, feature length documentary. The Forum and Knowledge is delighted to have attracted some of the world’s leading broadcasters to Vancouver to help filmmakers from the Pacific Northwest develop long-term strategic relationships and enhance project development. This initiative is inspired in part by the Amsterdam Forum organized by IDFA and with a nod to Nick Fraser’s BBC strand. Storyville Vancouver will be complimented by a series of panels and networking opportunities.
Pre-selected creative, feature length (minimum TV hour) documentary projects from the Pacific Northwest, at various levels of development, will be publicly pitched to international commissioning editors with accredited Forum observers in attendance. Commissioning editors confirmed to date include: Tom Koch (PBS), Gregory Sanderson (BBC Storyville), Randy Brinson (KCTS 9), Hans Robert Eisenhauer (ZDF/Arte) and Murray Battle (Knowledge Network Corporation). Please check back regularly for further guest confirmations from the US, Canada, Japan and Sweden.
Our CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOW OPEN. Please click here for entry form and regulations. Deadline for receipt of submissions is August 20th, 2010. If you need further information please email
We’re looking forward to receiving your projects!
Definition of the Creative Documentary The creative documentary is the crown jewel of the non-fiction world – passionate, cutting edge, filmmaker-driven, in-depth, up close and personal… These are projects that take the writer’s/director’s point of view on a real-life subject in a ‘creative’ manner and require significant writing and research before filming begins. The format for a creative documentary is therefore relatively free form and open to the creative team’s interpretation of the subject at hand. The style and approach used in the cinematography, editing and final composition of the film makes a statement in and of itself and reflects the filmmakers underlying POV on the topic or person being considered. The film should be complete and contained and thoroughly explore a tangible subject or person. A creative documentary is not: open ended, investigative, educational, “DIY” in style nor like a news report, a docusoap or a reality show. A creative documentary can examine a historical event or person but, once again, it must be done in a unique and creative fashion and not simply recount the past
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