The Sun Shines For 'Doc Fest'

By Rachel Nash


Sheffield’s popular film festival ‘Doc Fest’ will move to June this summer to coincide with the good weather.

The annual festival which screens documentaries from around the globe typically takes part in November but beginning this year the event will run in the summer to allow other partnerships with Europe.

The Volunteer’s Co-ordinator Josh O’Brien said: “The festival is moving to June to become more in line with the international calendar and more competitive so hopefully it will be bigger and better once again!

Hopefully we will be able to keep on expanding and perhaps the weather will be a little bit dryer.”

The popular event which attracts volunteers from Scotland to Serbia and celebrities from Michael Palin to Joan Rivers, has been running since 1994.

O’Brien who has worked with ‘Doc Fest’ for four years said the move means the festival will ‘be able to attract more delegates’ and not have typical clashes of their films being programmed in other documentary festivals.

‘Doc Fest’ will run from the 8-12^th June and will be held in The Odeon, The Workstation and The Showroom amongst other venues. Visit the website here.