Pitch 2023
Doc Edge Pitch is a documentary pitching forum for shorts, features and TV series. It is NZ’s only event dedicated to pitching documentary and factual projects before a panel of local and international decision-makers.
Finalists receive support through workshops on pitching presentations, and individually, coaching from mentors who will provide project-specific feedback and advice leading up to the final pitch date.
Winners
It brings us great joy to announce the first awards of this year’s pitch.
- CNEX’s CCDF14 Participation
- Memory & Longing by Kim Webby
- DOK Leipzig’s Accelerator Award
- The Sound of Wind by Zhiying Deng and Nanhsi Yuen
- Killing Brigitte Nielsen by Kylie Cushman
2023 Finalists
NEW ZEALAND PROJECTS
- Memory and Longing | Kim Webby, Director/Producer
- Killing Brigitte Nielsen | Kylie Cushman, Creator
- Isabella: A Woman Above | Evelyn Ebrey, Director/Producer | Julia Parnell, Director/Producer
- Start Down | Mayank Malik, Producer
- Mary Jane | Susan Leonard, Writer/Director | Carmen Leonard, Producer/Executive Producer/ | Deb Cope, Executive producer
- On The Road to Reincarnation | Kim Hegan, Producer/Writer
- Taliban 2.0: A New Dawn | Peter Day, Executive Producer
- ‘Dieman’ or ‘The Boy Who Lived’ | Jeremiah Taumiti, Director/Producer | Enjalas Jenkinson, Director/Cast | Vea Mafile’o, Lead Producer
- Slashed | Hunter Weeks, Director | Sarah Hall, Producer
- Billy and the Kid | Tony Sutorius, Director
INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
- Fair-Home Fairy-Tales | Sourav Sarangi, Director/Producer/Writer/Editor | Humaira Bilkis, Co-Producer [India]
- Love Crimes | Elise Coker, Director | Michael Saul Garber, Producer [Taiwan]
- In Search of the Morning Star | Pinky Choudhury, Director [India]
- The Sound of Wind | Nanhsi Yuan, Director | Zhiying Deng, Producer [China]
- Matriarch: In A Woman’s World | Izzy Chan, Director/Producer |Noémie Hakim-Serfaty, Co-director/Editor [USA]
- Untying the Knot | Chona Mangalindan, Director/Producer [Philippines]
- Until the Buzzing Stops | Abd al Kader Habak, Director | Janay Boulos, Producer [UK]
- Re-Inkarnation | Bobo Khuraijam, Director/Producer [India]
- Wind and View | Sheng Hung Hsieh, Director | Yin-Yu Huang, Producer [Taiwan]
- Harvest Moon | Rama Ayasra, Director | Asmahan Bkerat, Producer [Jordan]
- Trona | Emanuele Mengotti, Director | Kristian Van der Heyden, Producer [USA]
Pitch Key Dates
Submission Deadline
COMPLETED
Finalists Confirmation
COMPLETED
Workshops
COMPLETED
Doc Edge Pitch 2023
COMPLETED
“The opportunity to put myself in front of a panel of local decision makers at Doc Edge game me an opportunity ... and ultimately lead to helping secure NZ On Air funding to get the series made"
Magnolia Lowe
