Open_City_Documentary_Festival
Open City Documentary Festival
Documentary film festival in the UK
The Open City Documentary Festival is a London-based documentary film festival run in early September. Its mission is to create an open space to support the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers.[1] The festival offers awards in three categories: Open City Award, given by the Open City jury; Emerging International Filmmaker Award, for first or second-time feature filmmaker; and UK Short Award, for engaging short-forms of a documentary.[2]
The London-based film festival was founded by anthropologist Michael Stewart in 2010.[3] In February 2019, the Open City Documentary Festival launched a development lab for creative documentary makers called Assembly.[4] In September of the same year, Miko Revereza was named the first winner of the initiative.[5] Chilean director Gabriela Pena was awarded in 2020 for her feature Here, The Silence is Heard.[6]