UK film policy is almost entirely geared towards fiction, while the unique challenges facing the documentary sector are overlooked. It’s high-time the UK had a bespoke policy framework to support its documentary makers. What kinds of interventions are needed? How should they be developed? This session invites panelists and audience members alike to collectively brainstorm demands to better meet the needs of theatrical docs. The session is part of ‘UK Feature Docs’, an AHRC-funded study of the UK’s feature-length film industry.

In this panel discussion as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest's Virtual Session Series, filmmakers and researchers from the UK Feature Docs project invite us to imagine what a radically different industry could look like and how we might get there.

This session is an opportunity to discuss policy recommendations and policy change with your peers in small groups, as well as communicate and collaborate with the feature doc industry at large.

To mark the close of the project, a major conference will take place in April 2021 at BFI Southbank.  The conference will bring together an international community of academics and industry professionals...