SPORTS DOCUMENTARY MARKET EVENTS

Daily Festival Rendezvous

The first edition of the Marché du Documentaire Sportif (Sports Documentary Market) at the Deauville Sport Doc Festival 2024 saw the main protagonists on the French market host round tables and other events eagerly awaited by the entire profession. Exciting roundtables that deserve more time, and inspiring masterclasses.

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- FINANCING SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES. As the quality of documentaries has risen, so has their cost, as the genre has also whetted appetites (athletes, agents, TV rights-holders). To find out more

- THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN THE MEDIA AND DOCUMENTARY SECTOR. Parity doesn't exist in the television professions. And neither in documentary nor on TV sets. To find out more

-SHOULD SPORT SAVE THE WORLD? Is winning everything? Does sport have an impact on society? Or is it just a reflection of it? Find out more

- DOCUMENTARY IN THE SERVICE OF INCLUSION. From London 2012 to Paris 2024, handisport is emerging today as a demonstration of openness and progress. Find out more

- SPORTS DOCUMENTARY DECODED. How do we understand the sports documentary market in France? The French documentary production chain remains complex. Find out more

- DOCUMENTARIES IN THE SERVICE OF WOMEN'S SPORT. Women's sport seems to have the wind in its sails... But that's forgetting that women's sport only accounts for 4.5% of sports airtime on French TV screens. To find out more

- SERIES "IN PROGRESS". The doc series is a fast-growing genre. One that goes far beyond the Netflix phenomenon during COVID. At this particular time of year, an uninitiated audience was eagerly awaiting the next episode of "The Last Dance". But this groundswell had already been kick-started by "Drive to Survive". Read more

- HOW DO YOU CAPTURE THE SOUL OF AN ATHLETE? With more and more sports being covered by the media every day, and the notion of a "good image" becoming omnipresent in our society, top-level athletes are no exception to the now almost established rule of the sanitization of words and ideas. To find out more

- BRUNO SEVAISTRE DISCLOSES: Passionate and exciting, Bruno takes us into his world of content and encounters. Find out more

And let's not forget our speeddating sessions, during which professionals and documentary buyers listen to and advise project owners.

SEE YOU IN 2025 FOR TRENDS, FIGURES, USAGE MODELS AND MATCHMAKING...but in the meantime, relive 2024 here