Partners, sponsors and Friends
Partners are crucial for a festival like IDFA. As the largest documentary film festival in the world, IDFA cannot exist without the support of Friends, Special Friends, and other donors. IDFA thanks all partners and Friends and looks back on a year with great partner events and a successful crowdfunding campaign for the new IDFA cinema in Vondelpark.
IDFA Hit: Bobi Wine The Peoples President in Carré made possible by VriendenLoterij. (Nina Schollaardt)
As we look back on another successful year of IDFA, we would like to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to all our partners and friends. IDFA uses a mix of financing sources to generate 75% of its own income, to create a solid financial foundation to minimize risks. In addition, IDFA is guided by a code of ethics and focuses on partnerships that are aligned with IDFA's priorities and core values. The support of partners and private donations were essential in making the 2022 edition of the festival a great success. We are proud to have had the opportunity to work with such outstanding partners who share our passion for promoting and celebrating the art of documentary filmmaking. Their dedication, creativity, and hard work have made it possible for us to deliver a diverse and compelling program to our audiences and industry professionals, and we could not have done it without them. Moreover, the generous support helped us to provide a platform for filmmakers from all over the world to showcase their work, connect with audiences, and engage in meaningful dialogue about the issues that matter most. We look forward to continuing our work together to promote and celebrate the art of documentary filmmaking for many years to come.
Friend of IDFA Peter Korzelius“I support IDFA in highlighting the makers of unique documentary films. Without IDFA, these documentaries would either not be made or not become known to the general public.”
Film screening Apolonia, Apolonia at WePresent Night in Eye Amsterdam. (Jurre Rompa)
The 2022 edition of IDFA was a great success, and much of that success was due to the excellent partner events that were held throughout the festival. Here is an overview of some of the highlights:
- The festive presentation of the NPO IDFA Audience Award and winning film at the Awards Ceremony: Blue ID
- The must-sees of IDFA 2022 selected by the editors of our media partners VPRO, de Volkskrant, De Groene Amsterdammer, NTR, and CJP
- The IDFA hits in Carré made possible by the VriendenLoterij
- Oxfam Novib Specials
- Screenings and talks hosted by Mama Cash, OneWorld, European Cultural Foundation, and Vevam
- The winner of the Beeld & Geluid IDFA ReFrame Award: Private Footage
- Special curated nights with WePresent and VICE
- Industry events with Buma Music in Motion, Arte France, The Lutfia Rabbani Foundation, and LaScam
- IDFA Meets x Nieuw West
- The Club IDFA Dinner
- Four Saeco Coffee screenings
- Exclusive events with Deloitte, VriendenLoterij, our new partner Pinsent Masons, and a tailor-made program for InsingerGilissen
European Cultural Foundation“By supporting and partnering with IDFA, we invite audiences and ourselves to envisage Europe in all its facets and in all its complexity; the history of Europe is made up of many stories told by many people with varying perspectives. These stories are essential for developing sentiments, a sense of belonging, but also for challenging where the status quo is not enough.”
Deloitte: Free Money in Tuschinski. Introduction by Marry de Gaay Fortman (Supervisory Board IDFA), Femke van der Laan (Supervisory Board IDFA) and Hans Honig (CEO Deloitte). (Pier van den Elsen)
Special Friend+ of IDFA Ferdinand ter Heide“I think it is very important that we spread knowledge about the things that are amiss in the world. This forces people to think and enables change. In 2018, I increased my contribution to Special Friend+ in the field of education, because I specifically wanted to support IDFA's educational activities. They help teach young people that there is also a world outside social media and introduces them to socially critical stories.”
Bring a Friend at Carré. (Jakob van Vliet)
Bor Beekman (De Volkskrant)“IDFA has always been, and continues to be, the main festival for documentary films that show us what's going on in the world—and pushes the barriers of innovative and artistic cinema. Our partnership with the festival has felt logical from the start: topic-wise, this is exactly what we write about in our newspaper, both in the news and arts section. But it's more than that: IDFA is also a community, a social gathering that our readers from all over the country very much feel part of.”
IDFA at the Vondelpark crowdfunding campaign (Coen Dijkstra)
We would like to thank our structural subsidizers for making IDFA 2022 possible: the Municipality of Amsterdam and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; premium partners VriendenLoterij and Deloitte; main partners: VPRO, Fonds 21, de Volkskrant, Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds, WePresent by WeTransfer, Ammodo, NPO, Oxfam Novib; the partners: Saeco, Beeld & Geluid, De Groene Amsterdammer, InsingerGilissen, Mama Cash, VICE, OneWorld, NTR, Pinsent Masons; the funds: Creative Europe Media, Netherlands Film Fund, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, VSBfonds, Dioraphte, European Cultural Foundation, Vevam, vfonds, ClickNL, NPO-fonds; all Club IDFA members, donors, suppliers, Friends, Special Friends(+) and Patrons who made the festival possible. This support has been essential for the 35th edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. Moreover, we would also like to thank everyone that contributed to the crowdfunding campaign for the new IDFA cinema in the Vondelpark. With special thanks to Fonds 21 EXTRA, the Brook Foundation, BPD Cultuurfonds, Municipality of Amsterdam, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Premium Partners of IDFA are VriendenLoterij and Deloitte.
Main Partners of IDFA are VPRO, Fonds 21, de Volkskrant, Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds, WePresent by WeTransfer, Ammodo, NPO, and Oxfam Novib.
IDFA thanks all partners, subsidisers and funds, Club IDFA members and donators.
