AmDocs: American Documentary Film Festival

The American Documentary Film Festival was founded by Teddy Grouya to create a forum to celebrate and promote documentary film, and the independent filmmakers around the world who bring knowledge and awareness through their stories about real people and issues. Started in 2011, AmDocs has a proven track record of viewing audiences that support independent film.

AmDocs is recognized as an important venue for filmmakers, named one of the Top 5 Coolest Documentary Film Festivals in the World, and one of the Top 25 Film Festivals in the World Worth The Entry Fee by MovieMaker Magazine. Nearly 2,000 films were reviewed for screening consideration in the past year, when AmDocs was named one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Film Festivals in the World by FilmFreeway.com.

Several years ago, AmDocs initiated a new and unique Film Festival Alliance — the North-South Doc Network — in which several important international Film Festivals provide access to films within each of the participating Festivals’ programs, creating a formal international circuit of festivals in which select films will screen. They are proud to partner with DocsMX (Mexico) and DokuFest (Kosovo).

In support of their commitment to further documentary film awareness and education, AmDocs carries out a variety of outreach activities, including the AmDocs Film Fund Pitch Competition. American documentary filmmakers are eligible to participate in the Pitch Competition and submit proposals to compete for financing of new projects, as well as works currently in progress. Film Funds such as this are rare in the U.S., and AmDocs is proud to be able to provide this support. Past recipients included films that went on to be shortlisted for the Oscars, picked up by major distributors such as HBO, as well as win television’s Emmy.