Additional support for circulation, networking and further financing opportunities comes via partnerships with key organizations, broadcasters, festivals and markets. These awards and partnerships connect the professionals attending the East Silver with Western audiences and professionals.
Silver Eye Award
East Silver international juriy (composed of international buyers, sales agents and festival selectors) award the best documentary film from East Silver Market with the Silver Eye Award in category feature-length documentary. The aim of the award is to support directors with innovative approach, authors of films that create social impact, filmmakers, who has the courage to open discussion on serious topics, and creators offering unique point of view. In addition, a Silver Eye Award is also presented in the short documentary category, where the winning title is selected from the projects pitched within the Short Pitch program.
The winner in each category receives a trophy award and a year-long festival distribution service at East Silver Caravan.
East Doc Market Award
In cooperation with the Krakow Film Festival (KFF), we award the East Doc Market prize to one of the Polish projects presented at the KFF Industry Docs to Go. The award ensures the selection of this film for the East Doc Market and accreditation.
East Doc Caravan Award
Throughout the year, in collaboration with partner festivals and film markets (Beldocs, Doc Ireland, AJB Doc ext), we award East Doc Caravan prizes to projects with high festival potential. The awarded title will receive one year of festival support - we will collaborate on the festival strategy, recommend the film to the festival selectors around the world and do all the festival submissions for free.
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