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.