DOKLeipzig 2014 Statistics
Press release from the festival in Leipzig, says a lot about volume of documentaries world wide, plus animation films on top of that!: 2,350 film productions from 119 countries have tossed their hat in the ring for this year’s International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. The submissions came from all five continents. In addition to major film-producing countries like France, the US and Poland, the selection committee also received productions from Trinidad and Tobago, Benin and the Central African Republic. For the first time a film was submitted from the tiny Caribbean island nation of Dominica.
The submissions consist of 1,931 documentaries, 339 animations and 80 animated documentaries. The selection committee has also screened nearly 500 other films at festivals around the world.
Some 80 films will be selected from all these productions to compete for Golden Doves in five competition sections. For the first time, the winner of the Golden Dove in the International Short Documentary Competition will qualify
for consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
In addition to the competition sections, DOK Leipzig will be showcasing other outstanding films in the International Programme. The festival will be rounded out by a retrospective and numerous Special Programmes, so that a total of about 350 films will be shown in the Leipzig festival week from 27 October to 2 November 2014. One of the special programmes has a focus on films from countries of Ex-Yugoslavia.
DOK Leipzig is the largest documentary film festival in Germany and the oldest in the world. Last year’s festival saw a record 41,500 attendees
Photo: The selection committee with (white shirt in the middle) Claas Danielsen for his last year as festival director. It is understandable that a couple of the selectors wear sun glasses after the many hours in the dark.
