ACAMPADOC International Documentary Film Festival

Dear Filmmaker,

It’s our great pleasure to invite worldwide documentaries films to submit to our 13th ACAMPADOC International Documentary Film Festival held in La Villa de Los Santos (central region of Panama).

ACAMPADOC 2024 will be held from August 16th to 24th, with the aim of promoting intercultural discussion around an annual documentary topic. However, the film competition is open to all kind of topics.

We revel in discovering new talent. Documentary shorts, features, animation-DOCS all are welcomed submissions. We mostly prefer documentaries that share a strong conection with young audiences, not shown around Central America before. The best prize in ACAMPADOC is to be accepted from hundreds of entries as one of approximately 20 shorts and 8 features that will be showcased at our Festival. Warm Regards,

ACAMPADOC Film Festival Team

OPEN CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSIONS

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Feel free to ask any question via festival@acampadoc.com

+ ABOUT OUR FILM FESTIVAL

ACAMPADOC IDFF is proud of being Panama’s first film festival specialized in documentaries.

It links training, creation and promotion of the documentary genre about heritage rescue, to benefit communities lacking cinema screens.

Each year ACAMPADOC creates an active and supportive environment that involves the local and international community around contemporary documentary: a perfect place to start connections, develop documentary projects, promote entertainment and collective reflection.

The festival’s educational program includes a Residence for Ibero-American feature film projects and a Short Film Camp for proposals by new filmmakers. Winners are eligible for being included at #CINEALRESCATE a non-profit network for distribution, promotion and exhibition that works all year round building audiences for Panamanian and international documentaries.

The festival has made documentary films fashionable in Panama, bringing popular interest with an official selection of documentary premieres in LatinAmerica. The support received from key national institutions (Ministry of Commerce and Industries, The Panamanian Film Commission / DICINE, National Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT), Municipal Cultural Departments of La Villa de Los Santos and Colón Province, confirms its path.

The festival cooperates with several non-governmental organizations and local Festivals. In 2015, ACAMPADOC has been included on the national report presented to UNESCO’s CONVENTION FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE in Namibia as the “Most Important Cultural Event in Panama that builds and promotes Intangible Cultural Heritage through documentaries”.

The organization in charge of ACAMPADOC is INDICRI Foundation accredited by UNESCO as a non-governmental organization that facilitates the safeguarding of the ICH through documentaries as a sustainable factor that replicates itself in the host town and anywhere its graduated students arrive.

La Villa de Los Santos is ACAMPADOC‘s base camp for 13th year in a row, with an intensive program of filmmaking and educational activities: 15 FILM WORKSHOPS + 10 DOCUMENTARY SHOOTINGS AND EDITING TEAMS.

Visit acampadoc.com to find out details about ACAMPADOC schedule and organizations attached to this initiative. Give us a Like in Facebook!