Age eligibility: No age limit
Summary: Established to promote documentaries and its talents in and around South East Asia, starting with Thailand. The awarded documentaries will be given the opportunity to show their documentaries to a dedicated audience online and offline during a public screening to be held in Bangkok at the prestigious Friese Green Club in December. ALL FILMS MUST BE IN ENGLISH OR HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES. We do not accept: extremist or propaganda content from religious or political organizations, or documentaries with poor production standard (bad sound, lack of subtitles for non-English documentaries, videos with resolution less than 720p)
Prizes Available: - Best Documentary of the Year
- Best First Time Director
- Best First Time Producer
- Best First Time Editor
- Best Short Documentary
- Best THAI Documentary
- Best Feature Documentary
- Best Documentary Series
- Best Musical Documentary
- Best Sport Documentary
- Best Archive based Documentary
- Best Docu Drama
- Best Woman Director
- Best LGBT Documentary
- Best VR Documentary
Awarded projects will be entitled to receive the Prestigious BKK DOC "Stephff Award", in the form of a framed original drawing by renowned Bangkok based news cartoonist Stephff.
Dates of deadlines for entries: Super early - May 31 2020
Early - June 28 2020
Regular -August 30 2020
Late - September 27 2020
Last chance - October 18 2020
Submission fee: Ranges from 495 baht for the Super early deadline to 1,485 baht for the Last chance deadline. (These are the student fees which are a smaller sum than the adults')