Documentary Experts Meeting and Pitching Session(s)

The 2023 Winter sequel of the EBU Documentary Experts meeting/pitching session will take place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 11 and 12 November 2023, during the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA).

We will be meeting in a new venue called The Playing Circle - Atelier de Vijzel.

AGENDA OVERVIEW (available for download) and list of projects to be pitched:

SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER: 13:00 - 18:00 (Follow up on EDDS projects + Pitching sessions incl. EDDS and Regular)

EDDS updates (development)

• ABBA - Against the Odds (SVT)
• Why Freedom? (SVT)
• Making a Monarch - Behind the Scenes of the Royal Courts (SVT)
• The Dawn of the Post Plantation (VPRO)

EDDS - Production pitches

• The New FIFA (DR)
• Gigolo for Jesus (ARD/BR)
• The Whale Mystery (DR)

EDDS - New Projects pitches

• Immigration Union (VPRO)
• Untitled project - Confidential (ZDF/ARTE)
• The Climate Crimes (DR)

REGULAR PROJECTS - EDDS vs Regular followed by group discussion.

• This is Not Eurovision (BBC)
• Ocean Drive (SBS)
• Issa's House (BBC)

SUNDAY 12 NOVEMBER: 9:00 - 17:00 (REGULAR projects pitches)

• Home Front (DR)
• 82 Days in Hell (VRT & BNNVARA)
• The Eukrainian (ARTE GEIE)
• Ukraine - The Cost of War (FRANCE TV)
• Cuba and Alaska (VRT)
• This is a Quiet Love (TG4)
• Spoilt Little Girls (RTVE)
• Billion Dollar Babies (ARTE FRANCE)
• Eddy Merckx (RTBF & VRT)
• I am Martin Parr (FRANCE TV)
• The Go-Betweens (Trespassers will be prosecuted) (BBC)
• Lost Cells (RTS)
• Free at Last - The Secrets of Apartheid (VPRO)
• Achille Lauro - The Terror Cruise (ARD/WDR)
• Syria: Bashar returns to the International stage (FRANCE TV)
• Mummar Kadhafi: Inside the Dictator’s Mind (FRANCE TV)
• Berlin Chic (ZDF)
• Guilt (KAN)