About the Documentary Edge Festival

Each year the Documentary Edge Festival aims to screen a selection of award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary films.

Documentary Edge Festival is a contemporary cutting edge festival that seeks to bring documentaries that:

• are thought provoking and challenge the audiences
• provide a valuable insight into the topics and issues that confront our society
• build bridges of understanding
• give a voice to people and communities that are rarely or not heard
• are cutting edge and innovative in their genre, style, narrative and delivery and welcome multi-media and experimental documentary films
• promote a cinematic experience while at the same time ensuring that the works of emerging, independent and low budget films continue to be celebrated

We are dedicated to putting words into action and being a festival of the people and for the people. We look to increasing access for communities that do not have ready access to watching films eg. the deaf and hearing impaired, the physically challenged, the disadvantaged youth, senior citizens, ethnic communities that are not familiar with documentary films.

Documentary Edge Festival embraces the latest trends in documentary film-making and seeks to expose New Zealand audiences to these developments.

Documentary Edge Festival Programme includes the following sections: NZ Competition, International Competition, Best of Fest, World Cinema, Heroes & Icons, Culture Vulture, Country Focus and a spotlight.

Outstanding contribution to the New Zealand documentary industry

The Documentary New Zealand Trust will introduce a new annual award at the Documentary Edge Awards 2010.

This award is to recognise either an individual or an organization for their contribution to New Zealand’s documentary industry. The presentation will take place at the Documentary Edge 2010 Awards, which will be held at on 3 March 2009 at the  Raye Freidman Theatre, Gilles Avenue, Epsom, Auckland (by invitation).

Individuals, organisations and companies from all levels and sectors may be nominated. The term "outstanding contribution" may describe a single action, activity or achievement, or an entire lifetime of commitment but such contribution has added to, enhanced or changed the course of New Zealand’s documentary industry.

We invite you to take part by completing the nomination form below.

The deadline for nominations is Friday January 29, 2010.

• Nomination Form
  docnz-2010-nomination-form.doc (Word, 44KB)