Open City Documentary Festival
| Location | London |
|---|---|
| Established | 2010 |
| Founded by | Michael Stewart |
| Directors | María Palacios Cruz |
| Producers | Lucy Wardley |
| Selector | Oliver Wright |
| Website | opencitylondon |
The Open City Documentary Festival is a London-based documentary film festival currently held in early May. Its mission is to create an open space to support the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers. The festival offers awards in three categories: Open City Award, given by the Open City jury; Emerging International Filmmaker Award, for first or second-time feature filmmaker; and UK Short Award, for engaging short-forms of a documentary.
The London-based film festival was founded by anthropologist Michael Stewart in 2010. In February 2019, the Open City Documentary Festival launched a development lab for creative documentary makers called Assembly. In September of the same year, Miko Revereza was named the first winner of the initiative. Chilean director Gabriela Pena was awarded in 2020 for her feature Here, The Silence is Heard.