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WORKS-IN-PROGRESS 2025

12TH EDITION, 26–27 MARCH

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Call for entry will be open from 19 November, 2024 to 13 January, 2025

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ParisDOC Works-in-Progress actively support the distribution, promotion and placement of feature documentaries by linking, at a key stage of the production process, project holders (filmmakers and producers) to industry professionals.

The films in progress are selected according to their stage of production, their needs and potential in terms of diffusion, and their concordance with the editorial line of Cinéma du réel.

The selected films in progress have the opportunity to be screened, once, in their entirety, on 27 or 28 March in Paris.

The professional audience is made up of carefully selected French and international experts, playing an active and strategic role in the distribution and placement of new films in the industry: festival programmers, sales agents, TV programmers, theatrical distributors, web platforms and exhibitors.

Each screening is followed by a discussion time, which can take the form of an informal meeting. With a tailor-made offer, ParisDOC Works-in-Progress is a unique opportunity for project holders to reflect and build the path of their film in a favorable environment, and for professionals to have exclusive access to new promising projects.

The 2025 regulations will be published shortly.

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AWARD – POST-PRODUCTION SUPPORT

In order to best support the selected projects, Studio Orlando is a partner of ParisDOC Works-in-Progress. As such, one of the selected projects benefits from post-production support (sound mix or color grading) from Studio Orlando.

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PARTNERSHIP WITH THE QUINZAINE DES CINÉASTES

Projects selected for ParisDOC Works-in-Progress 2025 will receive free registration for the Quinzaine des cinéastes to be considered by the selection committee.

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EXPERTS

Cinéma du réel invites several experts to exchange with the project holders. As peers, they share analyses and recommendations.

Confirmed:
Richard Copans – Producer, director and cinematographer
Antonio Pezzuto – Festival Programmer

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PARTICIPATING PROFESSIONALS

You are a professional engaged in an activity related to film distribution and broadcast: festival and TV programmers, sales agents, theatrical and digital distributors?

> Contact us to participate in ParisDOC Works-In-Progress 2025:
cinereel-parisdoc@bpi.fr

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2024 SELECTION

In 2024, more than 200 films between the editing and post-production stages responded to the ParisDOC Works-in-Progress call for projects. Six of them were selected and screened at the Centre Pompidou on 27 and 28 March 2024, in front of an audience of professionals.

  • You can consult the pages for these six projects on our website here
  • Consult the previous selections of ParisDOC Works-in-Progress here