On June 12-13 the final DocCelerator in the Spring 2025 season is taking place. Five project teams, representing six different countries, have been selected to take part. 

DocCelerator is an online project-based workshop format, helping filmmakers define and develop key structural narrative elements of their documentary story.

The five projects selected for this edition of DocCelerator spans filmmakers from six different countries and has a large variety in terms of topics and filmic approach. These are the five documentary teams selected to take part:

The Carp: Confessions of a Filmmaker in Grief (Spain, USA) Director: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle. Producers: Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, Giovanna Ribes

Acquitted (Hungary) Director Lilian Tánczos. Producer Eszter Knopp.

There's No Place (USA, Ukraine) Director/Producer/Editor Bohdana Smyrnova. Producer Harry Mavromichalis.

MYOPIA (Italy) Director Matteo Di Giandomenico. Composer Giovanni Di Giandomenico.

The Big Seagull Film (Norway) Director & Producer Sigurd Vaagland.

This is the 39th edition of DocCelerator, which is the series of stand-alone documentary workshops launched by Paradiddle Pictures in May 2020. Each workshop is two days and can accommodate 4-6 selected project teams. Now more than 350 documentary makers have taken part in DocCelerator. Here you can read more about the workshop series.