A fantastic lineup of notable documentary filmmakers will take part in our distinctive talk series. Brief:- A dynamic, intimate, direct cinema trip with multiple award-winning Indian directors whose dynamic, personal, direct cinema works focus on women, labour, the working class, and globalisation.

A series of intense seminars with filmmakers that provide hands-on learning opportunities. At the same time, the audience is informed on what is going on in other parts of the world.

Get the most up-to- date information about what's going on in the documentary world from industry heavyweights and talk about new opportunities for filmmakers.

A selected selection of the year's most renowned documentary films. Throughout the season, we deliver both films and creators to BroughtForward members

Our inaugural hybrid Brought Forward Documentary Digital Screening Series is now available!
Exclusively for BroughtForward members in New Delhi and throughout the world, the 2022 edition will take place both in person and online. Join Brought Forward at any moment to gain access to the screenings!
The greatest moment to join our worldwide documentary community is now, with revised membership tiers and a redesigned site with new advantages.

Documentary Film Conference: Getting Real

Unlike any other documentary event, Getting Real is a one-of-a-kind gathering of filmmakers and industry insiders.
It provides a much-needed forum for the sector to have constructive discussions, form long- term relationships, and address the ethical, sustainability, creative, production, and distribution issues that our rapidly developing community faces.
Since 2021, the biennial conference has featured inspiring keynotes, practical workshops, interest group convenings, dynamic presentations, roundtables, case studies, structured networking, and receptions, all hosted by the Brought Forward (BF).

The BF Documentary Awards have honoured a wide spectrum of new and renowned filmmakers, as well as artistic direction, audio documentaries, documentary journalism, and music documentaries, as well as individual awards including the Courage Under Fire Award and Career Achievement Award.

The BF Documentary Awards accept submissions from late spring through early summer each year. We want to represent documentary greatness from around the world, from both young and experienced filmmakers.

BF Members get access to an online judging site where they may watch all of the Best Feature and Best Short nominees from anywhere in the world and vote for their favourites.

If you haven't already done so, become a member of the BF family today

The call for Entries for the Annual BF Documentary Awards will be announced soon.
The Brought Forward Documentary Awards are a distinguished event dedicated to the documentary genre that honours and celebrates the year's best nonfiction films and programmes.
It aspires to reflect documentary greatness from around the world, from both young and experienced filmmakers.

The submission window has been condensed. Don’t delay submitting your project for consideration before each deadline. Join or renew as an BF Member (individual level and p, corporate, institutional or organizational) to get the best pricing, including a Members-Only Early deadline discount, and the exclusive opportunity to screen and vote on the Best Feature and Best Short categories.

• We added the requirement in all categories for submitters to provide an artistic or impact statement.
• Submissions to the Best Writing category are asked to provide a statement illuminating the credited writer(s) distinct creative contribution to the submitted work.
• The Other craft creative recognition categories—Best Original Score, Best Cinematography and Best Editing—are also encouraged, but not required, to provide artistic statements.
• Submissions to the Best Original Score category are asked to provide a music cue sheet.

You can find the detailed deadline and fee schedule in the Rules and Regulations section below

Eligibility

1. Between April 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, any film, series, or audio documentary completed or slated to premiere is eligible. The awards year in which the majority of their episodes were broadcast or uploaded is the year in which the series is eligible.
2. Projects may submit in any year they are eligible, whether it is the calendar year in which they were completed or the year in which they were televised or premiered at a theatre or cinema festival.
   Before the shortlist is announced, submissions can be withdrawn from the competition at any time. Before the official shortlists are announced, the submitter must contact broughtforward22@gmail.com to withdraw their concept from the competition.
   We do not offer refunds on submission fees; however, you may roll over your entries and registration fees to the following year's competition once.
3. BF assesses the submission's final admissibility, including any required interpretation of specific rules or submission criteria.
4. Entries are accepted from April 7, 2022, through July 12, 2022. Late submission requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis, no later than July 21, 2022, by completing this form.
   For questions and updates about late submission requests, contact awards@broughtforward.com.
5. Screeners must be active until the shortlist is announced in mid-October, and they must be submitted through a password-protected portal. Your entry may be declared ineligible for consideration if judges are unable to access your connection because the link or password has expired.
6. Only the submitted version of the project will be reviewed by the judging committees. Revised versions will not be accepted or considered.
7. All submissions must be made through the brought forward submissions site (broughtforward.com/awards/submit) (link will be active on October 5). By emailing awards@broughtforward.com with the subject "Accessibility Seek" by July 19, you can request accommodations to finish your entry.
8. All language entries must be subtitled in English.
9. When possible, all English entries should include files or links with captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. When possible, audio documentaries should provide a transcript or a link to a captioned video file. For member voting, nominated features and shorts must be able to supply a captioned video file.
10. At the time of submission, payment can be done via check. You can also pay by (international) wire transfer for your entry. If you want to pay by ACH or wire transfer, please contact - broughtforward22@gmail.com as soon as possible after submitting your order to acquire BF's banking information.

You will be asked to upload your screener via our submission platform, brought forward.
File Uploads must be in any of the following formats:

• HLS using a MPEG-2 TS container to house H.264 video and AAC or MP3 audio
• Smooth Streaming using an fmp4 container to house H.264 video and AAC audio
• MP4 container with H.264 video and AAC or MP3 audio
• WebM container with VP8 video
• MP3 container with MP3 audio
• MP4 container with AAC audio

You can also submit a link that our screeners and judges will be able to access. Screeners submitted via a password-protected link must be active for the duration of the judging and voting process.

Your entry may be declared ineligible for consideration if judges are unable to access your connection because the link or password has expired. Because many of our judges are located outside of the United States, please ensure that links are not geo-blocked. There will be no physical DVD screeners accepted.

You will be asked to upload your screener via our submission platform, brought forward.
File Uploads must be in any of the following formats:

1. Required Artistic and Impact Statement - All Categories: Applicants in all major categories must submit a 500-word creative or impact statement.
   Aesthetics, form, practice, technical approach, creative process, artistic or curatorial vision, and how they connect to the submitted work may be addressed in the statement. It may also cover your and your team's inspiration, relationship, or connection to the content or community represented in your work; your practices or approach to working with or collaborating with the people, places, or communities featured in your work; and, where applicable, the work's impact on those communities.
   The purpose of the statement is to put the submitted work in perspective for the judges. Writing fluency and talent will not be considered while judging entries.
2. Required Statement for Best Writing Creative Recognition Category: The acknowledged writer(s) must articulate, elucidate, or otherwise explain their particular creative contribution to the submitted work in a concise statement (up to 500 words) for the Best Writing category. The following are some possible areas to investigate:
   • The writer's relationship or connection to the content, people, places, or communities featured in the submitted work and how it informed or inspired their practise or approach;
   • The collaborative process with co-writers or directors and how they addressed specific challenges or obstacles inherent in the work; (if they are not the director).
3. Required Music Cue Sheet for Best Original Score Category: A music cue sheet will be required for entries in the Best Original Score category, which will be delivered to the Best Original Score Committee. You may see a sample cue sheet and template here.
4. Optional but Encouraged Creative Recognition Category Statements Entries in the following categories have the potential to assist committees in better understanding the relevance of submitted work in relation to the specific craft and its relationship to narrative material. Statements are not essential, but they are strongly recommended.
   • Best Cinematography: Provide a brief (up to 250 words) statement from the project's director and/or credited cinematographer or Director of Photography(DP) that frames the cinematography's contribution to the work being submitted.
     You may opt to discuss the cinematographer or DP's connection and relationship to, or methods and approach to working with, the people, locations, or communities portrayed in the submitted work, as well as their contribution to the project's artistry and storytelling.

Each year, we assemble a diverse group of category-specific committee chairs and members from the filmmaking, journalism, podcasting, and documentary industries to watch and judge all applications.
All qualified entries are screened and all nominees are chosen by committees.
Brought Forward Members vote on the nominees in the Feature and Short categories.
Except as Members of Brought Forward with the same individual voting capabilities as other Brought Forward Members, BF Staff will not participate in the selection of the Brought Forward Documentary Awards winners.
The judging committees benefit from administrative and operational help from Brought Forward Staff.
Staff from Brought Forward are in charge of inviting and orienting committee chairmen, advising on committee formation, assigning work to reviewers, interpreting rules and regulations, and ensuring that committees follow the program's principles.
Staff members will function as pre-screeners in some situations, evaluating submissions, particularly late submissions received after the extended deadline, before passing qualifying competitive entries to category committees for final assessment.
Best features & Best short: - Nomination and member voting
Nominees for Best Feature and Best Short agree to supply

1. a closed-captioned copy of their film to be uploaded to Brought Forward's secure screening platform for Brought Forward Members to vote for Best Feature and Best Short winners, and
2. materials to produce a nomination clip reel.

Brought Forward will generate a clip from each nominated effort for inclusion in the nomination clip reel that will be shown during the awards event.
If your nomination is accepted, you agree to supply the following information:

The rules and regulations for the BF Documentary Awards are listed here, and your digital entry form constitutes full acceptance of them.
The person listed as the submitter in the submission form warrants that they are the owners of, or authorized representatives of, the submitted production, including the copyright therein, and that they have the right to grant BF the use of the submitted production in each and every right herein granted; and that they have or will obtain all required authorizations, consents, and releases from others, including but not limited to those who appear to recognize. All questions not specifically handled here are left to the discretion of BF.
Any disputes arising out of the BF Documentary Awards will be resolved in accordance with the laws of the State of Delhi.
If these guidelines are not followed, the entry will be disqualified.
There will be no refunds for entry payments.