dok.incubator is open to teams of three - editor, director and producer - to participate in a seven-month long program which is organized partly as a residential event and partly online. Every year, international tutors select four Czech and four Slovak projects which get an opportunity to gain a new perspective on their film and to maximize its international potential.
Where do the films go?
The results and festival journeys of films which took part in Czech and Slovak workshops show that this approach works. The Czech documentary Kapr Code by Lucie Králová won the main documentary award at Ji.hlava IDFF 2022, the award for the best music documentary at Krakow Film Festival and was also selected for Munich International Documentary Film Festival and MakeDox. Another film from the Czech program Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits by Petr Záruba and Jan Šimánek premiered at Visions du Réel and continued to Trento Film Festival, DocFest Sheffield and many more festivals.
Among the successful Slovak projects there is The Cathedral by Denis Dobrovoda which was awarded the best documentary film at Krakow Film Festival and was qualified for the Academy Awards. In 2021 Fragile Memory by Igor Ivanko was selected for the workshop, the film premiered a year later at Krakow Film Festival. After that the documentary was screened at IDFA, Docfest Sheffield or Sarajevo Film Festival.
Timeline of 2023 Czech and Slovak edition:
- Deadline for dok.incubator SK: February 13, 2023 – apply here
- Deadline for dok.incubator CZ: February 13, 2023 – apply here
1st session: April, Banská Štiavnica, SK – after screening discussions, DNA sessions (deep analysis of your film), editing and production consultations, final wrap ups
Individual consultations with editing tutors between 1st and 2nd session
2nd session: June, Budapest, HU – after screening discussions, editing and production consultations, final wrap ups, one-on-one meetings with decision makers, open program (panel discussions, sessions with sales and festival selectors)
Individual consultations with editing tutors between 2nd and 3rd session
3rd session: October – online sessions with the selected projects including after screening discussions and one-on-one meetings with decision makers – festivals, distributors, and sales, editing, dramaturgical and production consultations, final wrap ups
All workshops are held in English.
For more information about the CZ and SK edition of dok.incubator, please contact its coordinator Miriam Ryndová (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or find more on dok.incubator website.
