IDFA Introduction
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is the largest documentary festival in the world. Over the course of ten days, more than 250 international documentaries are screened for a huge number of film lovers and professionals. For filmmakers, IDFA is the perfect place to screen their films to enthusiastic audiences in sold out cinemas. The festival is also an exciting meeting place for directors, producers, buyers, financiers and audiences alike. IDFA is unique for its largely international film programme, the variety of genres showing there, its politically committed programme and the many European and world premieres featured each year. Add to that the presence of many filmmakers, sizeable audiences, all the discussions and debates, workshops, master classes and the experienced staff, and it’s no wonder IDFA is the pre-eminent festival for creative documentaries.

DOK Leipzig Introduction
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film - DOK Leipzig – is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films. It was founded in 1955 by the club of film-makers of the German Democratic Republic under the title "All-German Leipzig Week for Cultural and Documentary Film", as the first independent film festival of the GDR. During the Cold War, the festival was a unique place of encounter and exchange for film-makers from East and West. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Leipzig Festival has developed into one of the most dynamic festivals for documentary and animated film, providing a high-quality programme and - since 2004 - additional industry offers. 

Documentary Edge Festival Introduction
The Documentary NZ (DOCNZ) Trust is a non-profit organization, set up in 2004, running the annual documentary film festival, an industry summit/conference, a pitching forum, workshops and master-classes as well as industry advocacy. In 2010, DOCNZ Trust rebranded as Documentary Edge, running activities under three brands: Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Edge Forum and Documentary Edge Campus. It’s the only international competitive documentary festival in Australasia. Documentary Edge help to promotes NZ films and documentary filmmakers to international festivals, programmers, distributors, production houses and funders, particularly to create international co-production funding strategies for NZ films.

Fujioka Asako
Director of Tokyo Office, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF)

Born in 1966, spent childhood years in New York and Dusseldorf, Germany. She works with YIDFF since 1993, after working in film distribution. Asako coordinated New Asian Currents program, a collection of films and videos by emerging documentarists from around Asia, 1995 -2003. She’s been Selection Committee member for Pusan International Film Festival’s Asian Network of Documentary (AND) Fund since 2006. Active in introducing Japanese films overseas. Asako also freelances as interpreter and translator for international film affairs, bridging film cultures and audiences.

YIDFF Introduction：
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is held biennially in Yamagata city in northeastern Japan. It was first held in October 1989, and over the years come to be an important showcase from the world’s front lines of documentary filmmaking, as well as playing an important role in promoting and popularizing documentary in Japan and Asia. Its international competition films and New Asian Currents films with Japanese subtitles are archived in the Yamagata Documentary Film Library and rent out for non-theatrical distribution after the festival, allowing the films to be shown widely. The 2009 edition attracted an audience of around 20,000 and many filmmakers and film festival organizers from around the world.

GZ DOC Introduction
Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (GZ DOC) started as Guangzhou International Documentary Conference in 2003. GZ DOC endeavors to "bring China to the world and have the world know China" and has been developing itself towards an international, professional and market-oriented festival. GZ DOC holds documentary screening, competition, market, forum as well as workshops and builds a platform for Chinese documentary industry to communicate with their international colleagues. GZ DOC wishes to help attract international attention to Chinese documentary market and become a member of Chinese documentary industry as well as international documentary market.

Ying Qiming
President of MIDA

Graduated from Shanghai Normal University in 1982, Ying taught in Shanghai Foreign Language School from 1982 to 1986. Ying has worked in Shanghai Television Station as a choreographer and director from 1986 to 2001, then for a second time from 2003. His works have won several national awards, including "Mao Zedong in Shanxi", "The Long March" and "The Financial Talk", etc. Ying has joined the jury of several major momentary festivals and has successfully brought Documentary Channel, SMG to a new level.

MIDA Introduction：
MIDA is the leading International Documentary Award in Asia. Based on the STVF platform, organized by STVF and Documentary Channel, it is one of the largest, most long standing and most influential documentary film events in Asia region. Its predecessor is the Magnolia International Documentary Awards. MIDA 2010 will be held in Shanghai, China between 7 and 10 June, 2010. The Event will include MIDA Awards, MIDA Panorama, EAA Forum and MIDA Filmmaker Plan.  MIDA is a festival dedicated to documentary cinema. The substance of this event is about "contemporary history", to reflect and present the profound changes of human history and the most imminent social topics.