As a co-organizer of the 2023 1st Maritime Silk Road International Documentary Festival, CNEX invites representatives from international documentary festivals, production companies, broadcastings，streaming platforms, and project directors or producers to participate in the “Closed-door Meeting” , “Asian Documentary Panel Discussion”, “WIP Pitching Forum” “Project Promotion” and other sessions.
The Maritime Silk Road International Documentary Film Festival (MSRDOC), guided by the spirit of “peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit”, utilizes documentary film as a medium to continuously boost the creation, exchange, and promotion of documentaries among countries and regions along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. It aims to build an open, equal, mutually beneficial, and win-win international platform for cultural exchanges and industry cooperation within global documentary industry.
In 2023, the 1st MSRDOC was successfully held in Quanzhou with more than 400 participants attended. They are representatives of production and broadcasting agencies, scholars, directors and producers from over 40 countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and Cambodia, During the festival, they shared their experiences and innovative achievements in the field of documentary films, and explored the possibility of talent development, cultural exchanges and industrial cooperation. Many festival directors joined the MSRDOC last year, such as Mathieu Béjot, the former Strategy and Development Director of Sunny Side of the Doc in France; Paul Lewis, the Executive Director of HOT DOCS International Documentary Festival in Canada; Yukihiko Amagi, the president of Tokyo Docs.
About 2023 MSRDOC sessions
Closed-door Meeting
MSRDOC will continue to promote exchanges and dialogue among different civilizations, discussing the executable way to promote the cooperation between Asian and Global countries. To achieve this goal, MSRDOC has set up a special “Artistic Committee” with Festival directors, broadcasting and streaming platform producers, experts and scholars as its member and issued an initiative in 1st MSRDOC.
WIP Pitching Forum
Unlike other pitching forums, projects coming to our WIP are all recommended by the festival directors. The projects we are looking for are those who are looking for co-production, broadcasting or funding opportunities with Chinese decision makers. Among the projects selected and pitched last year, two have been completed and one has been selected and screened by the Shanghai International Film Festival 2024.
Asian Documentary Forum
Starting from creative practices, the forum will bring together heads and chairpersons of Asian and Famous documentary festivals, representatives from production companies and broadcasting organizations, as well as filmmakers. This year we look forward to proposing more valuable issues from the changes in the world, thereby promoting the development of the Asian documentary industry.
Project Promotion
We hope the completed projects can find more distribution opportunities in this session. The Projects will promote to the participators who are distributions, producers, broadcasters, and streaming platform decision-makers from all over the world.
