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Webinar with Julie Godon of Corus

February 9, 2022

DOC Québec en collaboration avec l’APFC vous invite à une rencontre exclusive avec Julie Godon, Directrice générale, Chaînes spécialisées francophones chez Corus.

Cet échange sera l’occasion pour Mme Godon de partager les axes et besoins généraux des chaînes Corus. Suivra ensuite une période question-réponse.


Rendez-vous virtuel le 23 février 2022 de 12h15 à 13h15.


Cette rencontre est gratuite pour les membres Doc Québec et de l’APFC et il y a un coût de 15$ pour les non-membres.


DOC Quebec in collaboration with APFC invites you to an exclusive discussion with Julie Godon, General Manager, French-Speaking Specialty Channels, Corus.

In this conversation, Julie will share the general themes and guidelines for documentaries on the TV5-UNIS channels. 

A question-answer period will follow the presentation. 

Save the date:  February 23rd, 2022, from 12:15 to 1:15pm EST.

This webinar is free for all DOC and APFC members and there is a fee of 15$ for non-members. To get your free pass as a member, write an email to coordo@docquebec.ca.

The session will be in French only.

DOC Québec en collaboration avec l’APFC vous invite à une rencontre exclusive avec Nathalie D’Souza, Cheffe de la production originale chez TV5-UNIS.

Cet échange sera l’occasion pour Mme D’Souza de partager les axes et besoins généraux des chaînes TV5-UNIS. Suivra ensuite une période question-réponse.


Rendez-vous virtuel le 16 février 2022 de 12h15 à 13h15.


Cette rencontre est gratuite pour les membres Doc Québec et de l’APFC et il y a un coût de 15$ pour les non-membres.


DOC Quebec in collaboration with APFC invites you to an exclusive discussion with Nathalie D’Souza, Head of Original Production.

In this conversation, Nathalie will share the general themes and guidelines for documentaries on the TV5-UNIS channels. 

A question-answer period will follow the presentation. 

Save the date:  February 16th, 2022, from 12:15 to 1:15pm EST.

This webinar is free for all DOC and APFC members and there is a fee of 15$ for non-members. To get your free pass as a member, write an email to coordo@docquebec.ca.

The session will be in French only.

DOC Québec en collaboration avec l’APFC vous invite à une rencontre exclusive avec Chantal Fortier, Directrice variété, style de vie et documentaire.

Cet échange sera l’occasion pour Mme Fortier de partager les axes et besoins généraux de la chaîne Bell Média. Suivra ensuite une période question-réponse.


Rendez-vous virtuel le 9 février 2022 de 12h15 à 13h15.


Cette rencontre est gratuite pour les membres Doc Québec et APFC et il y a un coût de 15$ pour les non-membres.


DOC Quebec in collaboration with APFC invites you to an exclusive discussion with Chantal Fortier, Variety, Lifestyle and Documentary Director.

In this conversation, Chantal will share the general themes and guidelines for documentaries on the Bell Media channel. 

A question-answer period will follow the presentation. 

Save the date:  February 9th, 2022, from 12:15 to 1:15pm EST.

This webinar is free for all DOC and APFC members and there is a fee of 15$ for non-members. To get your free pass as a member, write an email to coordo@docquebec.ca.

The session will be in French only.

DOC Québec en collaboration avec l’APFC vous invite à une rencontre exclusive avec Virginie Langlois, Directrice de contenus grand public chez Télé-Québec.

Cet échange sera l’occasion pour Mme Langlois de partager les axes et besoins généraux de la chaîne Télé-Québec. Suivra ensuite une période question-réponse.


Rendez-vous virtuel le 3 février 2022 de 12h15 à 13h15.


Cette rencontre est gratuite pour les membres Doc Québec et APFC et il y a un coût de 15$ pour les non-membres.


DOC Quebec in collaboration with APFC invites you to an exclusive discussion with Virginie Langlois, Consumer Content Director for Télé-Québec.

In this conversation, Virginie will share the general themes and guidelines for documentaries on the Télé-Québec channel. 

A question-answer period will follow the presentation. 

Save the date:  February 3rd, 2022, from 12:15 to 1:15pm EST.

This webinar is free for all DOC and APFC members and there is a fee of 15$ for non-members. To get your free pass as a member, write an email to coordo@docquebec.ca.

The session will be in French only.

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Webinar with Nadège Pouyez

January 11, 2022

DOC Québec vous invite à une rencontre exclusive avec Nadège Pouyez, Directrice générale fiction et documentaire Québécor contenu TVA.

Cet échange sera l’occasion pour Mme Pouyez de partager les axes et besoins généraux de la plateforme VRAI ainsi que des autres chaînes de Québécor qui proposent des documentaires. Suivra ensuite une période question-réponse.


Rendez-vous virtuel le 19 janvier 2022 de 12h15 à 13h15.


Cette rencontre est gratuite pour les membres Doc Québec et il y a un coût de 15$ pour les non-membres.


DOC Quebec invites you to an exclusive discussion with Nadège Pouyez, Director of Strategy, Original Content and Convergent Content at Quebecor.

In this conversation, Nadège will share the general themes and guidelines for documentaries on the VRAI platform as well as those of other Québécor Channels. 

A question-answer period will follow the presentation. 

Save the date:  January 19th, 2022, from 12:15 to 1:15pm EST.

This webinar is free for all DOC members and there is a fee of 15$ for non-members. To get your free pass as a member, write an email to coordo@docquebec.ca.

The session will be in French only.

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Start-Up Meeting

November 18, 2021

We would like to invite you to our third meeting just for new DOC members who joined as Start-Up members or under the 2-year free membership for creators who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour. This meeting is not only a way to get to know you better, but to also collectively discuss ways in which we can provide you with the resources you need to make and distribute your films. We’d love to hear your thoughts and share experiences. This will also be a fun way to hang out and get to know one another in our current virtual circumstances!

The meeting is going to be held Thursday, December 9th at 12PM EST.

Registration is not required.

Webinar link here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86133633267#success

**Visit DOC’s Member Benefits page for the zoom passcode**

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Coffee with… Stage & Screen

November 8, 2021

Did you know that Stage & Screen can help DOC members manage their production shoot flights and accommodations at discounted rates?

Join us for an informative session on how to make use of this partnership and learn more about these services!

Date: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021

Time: 12PM ET

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V5J0Zhe5QXCkoxEpQ0sn0g

Read about the details of our partnership here: https://docorg.ca/about/partners/stage-and-screen-partnership/

Le français suit l’anglais.

Call for submission to all DOC members!

Are you sitting on a hidden gem that had a festival life before the era of streaming sites and virtual film festivals?DOC, in collaboration with the documentary streaming service Tënk and the Canada Council for the Arts presents DOCS FROM THE VAULT : a series of ten documentaries that have never seen the light of digital platforms.

These films CAN have been presented at festivals, in cinemas, on television, and to communities around the world – if the documentary has never been streamed, it’s eligible to submit. Send us your fantastic docs from the 1980s, or your recent work that never found digital distribution! In the spirit of connecting DOC members across the country, we will subtitle the selected documentaries into another language so our community can discover work that has been previously hidden behind linguistic barriers. This curated film series celebrates our wonderful history of groundbreaking, inspiring and creative documentary films. Submissions must come from DOC members and the filmmaker must either be a DOC member, or have been a DOC member at the time, living or deceased.

Films must be at least 40 minutes in length. Submissions must be made by DVD or online link.

Deadline is October 22nd! DVD Submissions can be mailed on October 22nd.

Submit now!

About Tënk:

Tënk is a documentary streaming platform. Sorted into categories that are sometimes formal, sometimes thematic, Tënk’s line-up is curated by professionals of the documentary industry. Filmmakers, critics, scholars, but above all, cinephiles. Curators hold their roles for a whole year, sharing their highlights from festivals, their memories and passion through their selection of outstanding documentary films.


Appel à soumission pour tous les membres de DOC !

Possédez-vous un trésor caché qui a connu une vie dans les festivals avant l’ère des sites de diffusion en ligne et des festivals virtuels de films ? DOC, en collaboration avec la plateforme de diffusion en ligne de cinéma documentaire Tënk et le Conseil des arts du Canada, vous présente DOCS FROM THE VAULT, une série de dix documentaires qui n’ont jamais été montrés sur des plateformes numériques.

Ces films PEUVENT avoir été présentés dans des festivals, au cinéma, à la télévision et dans des projections ici ou à l’international . Si votre documentaire n’a jamais été diffusé en ligne, vous êtes admissibles ! Envoyez-nous votre formidable documentaire des années 80 ou votre plus récent film qui n’a pas encore trouvé de distributeur numérique ! En souhaitant rapprocher les membres de DOC de l’ensemble du pays, nous ferons les sous-titres des documentaires dans l’autre langue officielle pour favoriser la découverte et la circulation des œuvres au-delà des barrières linguistiques. Cette série de films sélectionnés met en lumière la merveilleuse histoire de nos films documentaires novateurs, inspirants et créatifs. Les soumissions doivent provenir de membres de DOC et la réalisatrice ou le réalisateur, vivant.e.s ou décédé.e.s, doivent être ou avoir été membre de DOC à l’époque de la production du film.

Les films doivent avoir une durée minimale de 40 minutes. Les soumissions doivent être faites en DVD ou via un lien Internet.

La date limite pour participer à cette sélection et poster votre DVD est le 22 octobre !

envoyez-nous vos soumissions!

Qui est Tënk:

Tënk c’est une équipe de programmation. Divisée en catégories, parfois formelles, parfois thématiques, notre programmation est concoctée par des gens du milieu documentaire. Qu’ils soient cinéastes, critiques ou universitaires, ils sont surtout cinéphiles. Invités à occuper leur plage de programmation pour un an, ils parcourent les festivals ou leurs souvenirs, et nous font (re)découvrir des oeuvres d’exception.

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DOC Meetup at TIFF

September 3, 2021

All DOC members are invited to join us for a virtual meetup on Thursday September 16 at 6pm EST! Chat with the DOC community and celebrate our members with films at TIFF. Come show your support to Breakthrough alums Shasha Nakhai and Kenya-Jade Pinto, who are premiering their narrative feature, Scarborough!

Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Catherine Hernandez, Scarborough is an unflinching portrait of three low-income families struggling to endure within a system that’s set them up for failure. It shows the love and perseverance communities can foster, lifting up families to overcome the obstacles placed in their way.

Learn more about Scarborough and get tickets here.

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Meet the Funder: TVO

September 3, 2021

Meet the Funder is a professional development series that brings funders & non-fiction content creators together to share information.

Join DOC Institute on Wednesday, September 29 for the first event of the season, a Meet the Funder with TVO! Jane Jankovic, executive producer at TVO, will join moderator Jeannette Loakman, instructor at Centennial College, for a behind-the-scenes discussion. Tune in to gain insider knowledge on how to pitch to TVO this year. Tickets are free for DOC members, and $10 for non-members. 

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About the panelists

JANE JANKOVIC, Executive Producer, TVO

TVO commissions 40-50 hours of original content per year, both one-off documentaries and factual series, that focus on contemporary social issues of direct relevance to Canadians, especially in Ontario. Before commissioning long-form docs, Jane produced a live daily current-affairs program for 12 years and before that worked on feature docs and television programming with independent production companies in Toronto. Jane has been commissioning docs and series for TVO since 2007.

JEANNETTE LOAKMAN, moderator, producer and instructor/program coordinator at Centennial College

Loakman runs a post-graduate certificate program in the Film and TV Business and instruct in a post-secondary Broadcasting program at Centennial College, taming a cohort of College students destined for jobs in the production industry. In her broadcast past I moved to television and the documentary industry after a successful decade as a computer applications consultant in Montreal, Brussels, London and Tokyo. 

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Member Meet-up!

July 7, 2021

Are you a new DOC member? Please join DOC Ontario for a casual meet-up on July 14th at 1pm EST. Because we don’t have the opportunity to meet you in person, we want to make sure that you know what is available to you and give you the chance to let us know what you want out of your membership.

The session will be hosted by filmmakers Tiffany Hsiung (Sing Me A Lullaby, The Apology), and Yasmine Mathurin (One of Ours).

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIufumppz8uEtW0E0C7V3f8XMo3YNhEsQ1G

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Documentary Bootcamp

July 7, 2021

Summer Bootcamp is back! If you’re looking to brush up on your producing skills, please join us for a 4-part series that takes a deep dive into the essentials of documentary filmmaking. These 3-hour workshops include participant case studies, special guests, resources for future projects, and an opportunity to connect with other filmmakers.

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/essentials-bootcamp-2021-tickets-161013009245

This workshop is ideal for filmmakers who have taken our Intro to Documentary series, and for people who have an understanding of the documentary filmmaking process.

WEEK 1: Wed Jul 28

Getting Started! Intro to Production, your Crew, and the Stakeholders

Dig into the production process, find the crew for you, and learn more about the key industry players. 

WEEK 2: Wed, Aug 4

What Are the Rules? Rights, Ethics and C19 Protocols 

Understanding ownership, considering ethics, and creating protocols for the health and safety of your team. 

WEEK 3: Wed, Aug 11

Finding the Money: Funding and Financing Essentials

A comprehensive overview of the funding available for Canadians, and how to create a financing structure for your project. 

WEEK 4: Wed, Aug 18

Line by Line! Budgeting for your Story

An intro to budgeting and a walk-through of the infamous Telefilm template, and how to make it work for you.

In response to DOC member questions about how to constructively discuss systemic racism in our industry and daily lives, DOC has asked Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Oppression Educator Rania El Mugammar to create a free session available to all DOC members!

The goal of this keynote session on May 20th is to allow members to examine decolonizing, intersectionality, privilege, and oppression in Canadian cultural, political, and historical contexts.

Registration details for this member-only event can be found in the May 5th DOC National newsletter.

DOC would like to thank the following veteran producers for their allyship in supporting this event: 90th Parallel Productions, Bunbury Films, Catbird Productions, Eyesteel Films, Lantern Films, Mercury Films, Intuitive Pictures, Parabola Films, Periphéria, Primitive Entertainment, Screen Siren Pictures, Vonnie Von Helmolt Productions.


Conférence de Rania El Mugammar, éducatrice pour l’anti-oppression

** Cet événement est uniquement en anglais** 

En réponse aux questions de plusieurs membres de DOC sur la manière d’amorcer une réflexion constructive sur le racisme systémique dans notre industrie et dans notre vie de tous les jours, DOC a mandaté l’éducatrice pour l’équité, l’inclusion et l’anti-oppression Rania El Mugammar pour la création d’une session de formation gratuite pour l’ensemble des membres de DOC !

Le but de cette conférence du 20 mai prochain est de permettre aux membres d’étudier les processus de décolonisation, l’intersectionnalité, les questions de privilèges et d’oppression, dans les contextes culturels, politiques et historiques canadiens.

Les détails de l’inscription à cet événement réservé aux membres se trouvent dans le bulletin d’information national de DOC du 5 mai.

C’est en se positionnant comme alliés solidaires que certains de nos producteurs et productrices les plus chevronnés commanditent l’événement: 90th Parallel Productions, Bunbury Films, Catbird Productions, Eyesteel Films, Lantern Films, Mercury Films, Intuitive Pictures, Parabola Films, Periphéria, Primitive Entertainment, Screen Siren Pictures, Vonnie Von Helmolt Productions. Merci ! 

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MEET THE FUNDER: CBC

May 4, 2021

Meet the Funder is a professional development series that brings funders & non-fiction content creators together to share information.

You asked, we answered! On Monday, May 17, our popular Meet the Funder series will stream online virtually. Tickets are free.

Join DOC for an exclusive presentation from CBC decision makers, including Jennifer Dettman (Executive Director, Unscripted Content), Michelle McCree (Executive in Charge of Production, CBC Docs) and Sandra Kleinfeld (Senior Director, Documentary), as they provide a detailed overview of new changes to the CBC’s documentary commissioning operations. This event is not linked below as it is open to DOC members only; please check the DOC Institute May Newsletter from May 6 for the link.

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About the panelists

JENNIFER DETTMAN, Executive Director, Unscripted Content

Jennifer Dettman is an award-winning television executive with 15+ years of experience leading innovative television and digital content creation. She is one of the top female executives in the country and an internationally respected voice in the industry. Jennifer has had a leading role in a digital transformation to define new paths forward to fit the changing media landscape and she is dedicated to creating best-in-class Canadian content that competes globally on all platforms. At the CBC, Jennifer is the head of the Unscripted department.

SANDRA KLEINFELD, Senior Director, Documentary

Sandra has been Senior Director of Documentary for CBC Television for the past 5 years, overseeing the network’s documentary strands and the subscription based documentary Channel.

MICHELLE McCREE, Executive in Charge of Production, CBC Docs

She is also part of the team leading CBC’s equity and representation strategy for the Unscripted Content department. Prior to joining the documentary team, Michelle was a senior leader on the Factual Entertainment team, overseeing a broad range of titles, most recently the docuseries Anyone’s Game and the award winning series Still Standing. Prior to joining CBC, Michelle worked across genres as a director, writer and producer for a number of broadcasters including Discovery, Blue Ant Media and Independent Film Channel.