Documentary is here! How do we get up to such a presumptuous slogan? ..Most of all it is certainly the desire of enabling an encounter between films and spectators who want documentary to be an autonomous art form with numerous ways of expression. A kind of film that remains independant from formats, topical trends and stylistic restrictions.

Documentary means more than being successful in cinema or corresponding to television standards.

Our aim is to give a platform to the fascinating periphery of exceptional, unconventional, sometimes irritating films - films of authors who love the genre and want to enlarge it.

We also want to create space for discussions about what makes a certain documentary so special, about the possibilities of documentary. In doing so we hope to increase the dialogue about form instead of narrowing films down to their topics. The joy in telling stories, in experiments, in observing, in open forms and most of all in watching and reflecting on our own is what counts.

This kind of documentary has to be brought to an interested international audience and to be accessible beyond a few public tv stations and beyond the specialised festival business. This is why the filmmakers Jörg Adolph, Gereon Wetzel and the producer Ingo Fliess have come together in spring 2008. Starting with our own works, DocCollection will grow: more authors, more spectators, more good films.

On DocCollection you can order entertaining, award-winning feature length documentaries on DVD. Every year we publish up to four films in a consecutively numbered edition. These are films with a distinct point of view and strong originality.

Of course you can order single DVDs, but the best way to become a customer of the DocCollection is certainly becoming a subscriber. You receive every new film right away, you save money and last not least help cultivate ambitious documentaries.

Online distribution via torrents for donation.

DocHouse was formed to support and promote documentary in the UK.

DocHouse aims to:
- increase participation and develop new audiences for documentaries in the cinema, on television and emerging media
- create easier access to UK and international documentary
- promote the use of documentary through education at all levels
- nurture and encourage new talent for the future.

DocHouse is based in the UK, with strong international links, for example in 2005 DocHouse Brussels was established. We run documentary screenings in cinemas across London and educational programmes in collaboration with major institutions.

DocHouse is working to:
- promote public screenings, masterclasses, events, and festivals in collaboration with existing cinemas
- enable audiences wider access to important historic and contemporary international documentary
- facilitate education, research and training
- lobby for the interests of independent documentary with broadcasters, the industry and government bodies.

DocHouse is a non-profit organisation.
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DOC Channel calls itself the home where the independent documentary filmmaker is always welcome. The online channnel airs docs of international scope that have rarely been seen.

The MEDIA funded Spanish mobile TV channel is operated by Kiwi Media. It works as a mobile VoD portal and is available in an international English version. The channel offers a selection of short movies from the international festival stage.

The Film Sales Support (FSS) is the EFP’s support scheme for the promotion of European films at international non-European film festivals. The FSS is funded by MEDIA and offers grants to European sales agents or producers who actively market their films at selected international film festivals. The scheme feeds into EFP’s existing promotional activities to increase the visibility of European film and talent around the world and to advance cultural diversity. FSS grants cover up to 50% of the costs incurred by the sales agent or producer for promotional and marketing activities of their participating films.

CreateSpace is an on-demand distribution platform, enabling filmmakers to make their products available to potentially millions of customers on Amazon.com and other channels without requiring an upfront investment.

MediaRights maximizes the impact of social-issue documentaries and shorts. By engaging with the MediaRights community, filmmakers reach audiences, educators and librarians bring films into their classroom, and nonprofits and activists integrate media into their campaigns.

Broadcasting goes online! VBS is an online broadcast network. It streams original content, free of charge and 24 hours a day. VBS carries a mix of domestic and international news, pop and underground culture coverage, as well as music. It's a eclectic, smart, funny, shocking, and revolutionary network, a new trend.

Current.com is the place to find and share stories and videos that are interesting to you. It connects to Current TV, a global cable and satellite TV network.

Legal distribution platform for the low-cost distribution and marketing of German and European films via the internet in Europe and the whole world.

Worldwide network for filmmakers to distribute their work; democratizes the tools of distribution; for filmmakers, film festivals, film buyers, film lovers; provides marketing + financial opportunities.