Today, DOX BOX festival co-founder and co-director, Orwa Nyrabia, sends word that the 3rd iteration of the Damascus, Syria-based event is ON. There is a new website and the call for submissions is open. The festival will take place in Damascus from 3 - 11 March with select films, including the Audience Award-winner, traveling to the nearby cities of Homs and Tartous.
DOX BOX is organized by Proaction Film, the only independent documentary production company in Syria, in collaboration with international cultural partners. The festival is under the patronage of the National Film Organization of Syria with local partners, The Tartous Cine-Club and The Homs Cine-Club. Arab partners are ArteEast, Cinémathèque de Tanger in Morocco, Metropolis Cinema in Beirut and the NAAS Network. International partners include the European Documentary Network in Denmark and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in the Netherlands.
DOX BOX is looking for creative documentaries that have a "unique and organic point of view from filmmakers about their lives, families and societies." Click here for rules and regs and to download the entry form. The deadline for entries is the 20th of December 2009. If you're a North American filmmaker, contact me for a personal recommendation. Read my coverage from last year's festival here and here and here and here.
This is a festival in need of endowment and support; they are working miracles with very small budgets and very little in the way of resources. I'm sure they would welcome any financial help they can get from the international film community.
The DOX BOX organizers also offer a small Documentary Campus from the 3rd to the 8th and they are calling for applications--six days, ten international tutors, twenty-five participants. The deadline is 5 January and regulations and application forms can be downloaded here. For more info, you can send an email query to [email protected].
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