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Emerging Producer Program 2024 Launches With a New Name

For up-and-coming factual filmmakers, digital producers, or anyone ready to take their career to the next level and bring their science, history, or natural history work to audiences around the world, the GLOBAL CAREER ACCELERATOR program is now open! The newly renamed program will build on the success of the Emerging Producer Program, and is open to all fields of expertise including factual, digital, social media, gaming, and multimedia. 

Apply now to the Global Career Accelerator to be eligible to receive:

• Exclusive mentorship from a Congress veteran, match-made to help boost your career in the international market
• Free registration to WCSFP 2024 in Marrakech including travel & 4 nights accommodation
• Guaranteed 1-on-1 meeting with decision makers to pitch your projects, gain tips and tricks about different facets of the industry, and to network on an intimate and equal level
• Welcome session with leading producers to help facilitate the most effective WCSFP experience including tailored assistance and advice to maximise your personal approach to the Congress
• Discounted accreditation to Congress ‘25 and ‘26

Applications are open worldwide until 1 September 2024.

Celebrating excellence in factual storytelling, the Buzzies are back for WCSFP 2024! Submissions are welcome from all English-language (or subtitled) short-form, long-form, or multiplatform science, history, and natural history projects, as well as awards celebrating individual accomplishments.

All 15 categories will be honoured at the 2024 Congress in Marrakech, Morocco and winners will receive a free pass to Congress 2025 and the prestigious crystal Buzzies statue.

New this year is Best Documentary – Cinematography, honouring a long-format factual production with outstanding camerawork, engaging audiences through creative visuals. 

Submissions are open worldwide until 12 September 2024.

Announcing New Partnership: Documentary Campus and World Congress of Science & Factual Producers

The World Congress of Science & Factual Producers (WCSFP) and Documentary Campus are pleased to announce their partnership on WCSFP's annual international Congress.  Held in a different city each year, the Congress brings together producers, decision-makers, distributors, digital creators, science communicators and scientists from around the world. 

Paul Lewis, Conference Director of the WCSFP, comments: “We’re very fortunate to be teaming up with an experienced, dynamic organization equally dedicated to documentary making, training and developing new talent, inspiring networking opportunities within the production community and science and history storytelling.  Our values are perfectly matched and we look forward to making this year’s Congress the best ever”.

Documentary Campus, a German non-profit organization, is the leading training initiative for media professionals, offering tailored workshops and events to help them succeed in the international non-fiction industry as well as promoting science communication through the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival and SILBERSALZ Institute. It connects emerging and established filmmakers with co-producers and commissioners and is known for having one of the largest networks of media professionals globally.

Documentary Campus Managing Director Donata von Perfall says: “We are thrilled to organize the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers, expanding our ever-evolving program of conferences, training, networking and festivals in the documentary and science communication industry.  We are proud to support WCSFP, and to contribute new ideas and connections to the Congress”.

The upcoming 32nd edition will be hosted by the Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication of the Kingdom of Morocco and will take place in Marrakesh from December 9th to 12th, marking the first time the Congress will be held on the African continent.

Details on the event and registration will follow later this summer.

For more on Documentary Campus: https://www.documentary-campus.com/

Congress '24 in Marrakesh

Join us in Marrakesh, Morocco from December 9 to 12 for Congress '24! The event is generously supported by host sponsor Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication of the Kingdom of Morocco.

As the home of smart content, Congress is more than just a market. We are a dynamic community. We have sessions that surprise, speakers who make you think, and fresh insights into future trends and technology.

The event offers opportunities to reconnect with colleagues, meet new business partners, celebrate at memorable social events, and learn from the best and brightest producers, storytellers and decision makers in the world. So if you’re working in science and factual media—be it television, digital, SVOD, gaming, theatrical or the next big thing—Congress is the place for you!

Registration will open in late summer. Stay tuned for details.