Festival Scope adds partnership with IDFA

Online platform Festival Scope has struck a new partnership with the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).

The partnership with Festival Scope will focus on the First Appearance Competition of IDFA, which is dedicated to first creative documentaries from around the world. Selected titles from the First Appearance Competition latest edition will be available for online viewing on Festival Scope to registered users. Those titles include Abuelos by Carla Valencia Dávila (Chile, Ecuador), Agnus Dei by Alejandra Sánchez (France, Mexico), An Encounter With Simone Weil by Julia Haslett (Italy, US, Sweden), Guilty Pleasures by Julie Moggan (UK), Imams Go To School by Kaouther Ben Hania (France, UAE), The Other Chelsea - A Story From Donetsk by Jakob Preuss (Germany).

IDFA has already been active with its own digital initiatives, launching an industry professional platform in 2008 for festival attendees to screen titles from the Docs For Sale Market. That site now has more than 500 titles online.

Laurien ten Houten, Docs for Sale Coordinator, said: “Through our collaboration, we hope to enthuse a large group of buyers and festival programmers with our treasure trove of independent documentaries. IDFA’s selection ranges from first appearances to the established masters as well as  from filmmakers in developing countries whose voices deserve to be heard.”

Alessandro Raja, Founder and CEO of Festival Scope, added: “This is just the beginning of a collaboration with a festival that has paved the way for online B2B solutions in the docs market. We both liked the idea of focusing on new filmmakers and creating, for their benefit, an additional visibility beyond the professionals who traditionally attend IDFA.”

Festival Scope’s other recently announced new partners also include other doc events such as FID Marseille, CPX:DOX, Cinema du Reel and the Thessaloniki documentary festival.