The DOK Archive Market at DOK Leipzig Returns for Second Successful Year
/The second annual DOK Archive Market at DOK Leipzig took place on October 12 as part of the 66th edition DOK Leipzig, Germany’s premier documentary and animated film festival. The Archive Market was held at Museum der bildenden Künste, and included exhibitions from 24 international footage and photo archives, as well as accompanying panel programs “offering insights into the nuts and bolts of archival research, production and rights clearances,” and “one-on-one speed consultations with archive researchers and archive producers,” providing attendees with “concrete advice on researching and licensing footage for documentary projects.”
Exhibiting Footage and Photo Archives
In all, 24 international footage and photo archives were on hand to meet with DOK Leipzig attendees, including: akg-images; Alamy; AP Archive; Axel Springer Syndication & ullstein bild; BFI National Archive; Bridgeman Images; British Pathé; Bundesarchiv; dpa picture alliance; Filmkontor; Footage Farm; IMAGO; INA; Imperial War Museums; Kinolibrary; Landesfilmsammlung Baden-Württemberg; MIRA; PROGRESS; Rai; Shutterstock; SONUMA; SPIEGEL TV; SVT; and zeitstreifen.
Panel Discussions
The DOK Archive Market included two panel discussion. The first, entitled Archive Producers: International Collaborations and Networking, featured the Archive Producers from the UK, France and Germany discussing “the status quo of archival research in their respective countries detailing how the different financing- and production systems impact archive research.”
The second, entitled Reimagining Archives, featured panelists from two institutional archives: Landesfilmsammlung, the central archive for the Baden-Württemberg’s film heritage, and the film archive of the Bundesarchiv, the German Federal Archives. The discussion focused on how institutional archives can open their collections and “facilitate easier and wider access to their enormous film libraries.”
German Researchers & Archive Producer e.V.
Both panel discussions were organized by GRAP (German Researchers & Archive Producers e.V.), a newly formed professional association. Launched at last years DOK Archive Market, GRAP seeks to “safeguard, maintain and promote the professional and economic interests of all researchers and archive producers working in Germany.”
GRAP founding members include: Thorben Bockelmann, Solveig Hansen, Tatjana Bonnet, Vanessa Christoffers-Trinks, Céline Deligny, Eva Diet, Mona El-Bira, Karin Fritzsche, Janne Gärtner, Thembi Linn Hahn, Monika Preischl, Michael Konstabel, Stephen Maier, Julian Nindl, Lutz Pinkert, Linn Sackarnd and Marco Siebler.
To find out more about GRAP, please email inquiries to: kontakt@germanarchiveproducers.de.