The first session of ESoDoc 2012 started yesterday in Brentonico (Italy). We will be streaming some of the lectures held during this session. To join the streaming, please register an account on www.esodoc.eu and follow the instructions. Read on for the full programme of the streaming.

DOK.Incubator workshop gives you individual support in the phase of finishing your film. International tutors will guide you to find fresh ways of thinking about editing, international film release, distribution, sophisticated marketing and active work with audience for producers, directors and editors coming with a promising project.

The Call for Entries for the 2012 PUMA.Creative Impact Award is now open. Submissions close on May 11, 2012. Anyone can put a film forward from any country—filmmakers, distributors, film festivals, partner organisations including NGOs and Foundations, film critics and journalists. Films can be put forward any time up to three years after release.

The lineup for Good Pitch Europe 2012, which returns to the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London on Monday 25th June, has been announced.

WorldView and Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program offer a new Documentary Award for Research & Development for films about the developing world.

The deadline to apply for ESoDoc - European Social Documentary 2012 has been extended. The new deadline is March 16, 2012.

For the 6th year Scottish Documentary Institute is organising the Edinburgh Pitch, Scotland's only international pitching forum (18-20 June 2012), and the call for projects has just been opened.

The deadline for the 9th edition of ESoDoc - European Social Documentary is approaching fast: March 2, 2012! This year we simplified the application process, and all documents can be submitted directly via email.

Part of the ESoDoc Team will be present at the 62nd edition of Berlinale. If you have any question - or simply want to meet us in person during the festival, you can contact us through the following:

ESoDoc International is taking place in Nairobi, at the Amref Child in Need Centre in the Dagoretti Slum.

The PUMA.Creative Catalyst Award is an international documentary development fund with three applications rounds annually offering up to 5,000 euros per recipient. The Awards are designed to support the development of your documentary film idea and give you resources to shoot and edit your trailer.

The Good Pitch Europe will be held on June 25th and the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation is calling out to European filmmakers working on social and environmental justice film projects to apply.

The One World Media Awards recognise the most outstanding media coverage of the developing world and the unique role of journalists and filmmakers in bridging the divide between different societies and raising awareness of vital development issues.

The Doc Outlook­ International Market announces it's 2012's call for creative feature-length documentaries. Deadline to apply for the Pitching du Réel: January 20, 2012.

In March 2012 in Prague, the Institute of Documentary Film introduces the inaugural East Doc Platform - an umbrella industry event dedicated to supporting East European documentary films in all stages of completion.