{"id":63213,"date":"2025-10-30T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=63213"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:36:05","slug":"sheffield-docfest-meetmarket-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/opportunities\/sheffield-docfest-meetmarket-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield DocFest MeetMarket 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sheffield DocFest<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Closing: 28th January ’26<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of the world’s largest documentary markets for feature-length documentaries and series in development, production, post-production, or rough cut stage. Open to all documentary makers globally – established, emerging, and first-time filmmakers. Selected projects receive thirty-minute curated meetings with 150+ international funders, broadcasters, festival programmers, and sales agents (including A+E, Al Jazeera, ARTE, BBC Storyville, Channel 4, Netflix, National Geographic, PBS, Sundance Institute) over two days (11-12 June 2026). Not for completed premiered projects or short films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two categories available: MeetMarket Development and Production (curated meetings only), and MeetMarket Rough Cut Presentations (curated meetings plus presentation to industry with 15-minute preview). The market welcomes diverse documentary styles: observational, experimental\/hybrid, poetic, and expository. Podcast-originated projects especially encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applicants must read application guidelines before applying (available in accessible formats). Selected participants must be available 11-12 June 2026 for one-to-one meetings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheffield DocFest MeetMarket connects documentary filmmakers with 150+ international funders, broadcasters, and sales agents. Features and series at any production stage welcome. Curated thirty-minute meetings, 11-12 June 2026. Podcast-originated projects encouraged. Deadline: 28 January 2026, 6pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-opportunity","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}