Docbreakfast
Professional meetings
Following last year’s success of these professional meetings, doclisboa organizes a new round of informal conversations between Portuguese professionals and representatives from the international market: documentary distributors; television networks interested in Portuguese productions; and film distributors. These professional meetings will take place during breakfast hour in the debates forum.

Lisbon Docs
Workshop for producers
[21 till 25 October]
The Lisbon Docs Workshop for producers, taking place in the Festival’s last weekend and organized by Apordoc with EDN – European Documentary Network, is the most important event for documentary professionals in Portugal. Several representatives from various European television networks and distributors meet at Lisbon Docs with two dozens of Portuguese and foreign producers who seek international financing for their new projects.

Johnnie Walker debates forum
The Debates Forum continues this year in an informal way, with conversations taking place at coffee tables and with strong intervention from moderators.

São Jorge docparties
Associated to the musical programming of HEART BEAT, there will be three doclisboa parties:
- Brazil: Thursday 16 (with live music)
- Cuba: Saturday 18
- Mozambique: Thursday 23
An independent party will be organized on the 24th to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Homeoestética Movement (with a live concert by Ena Pá 2000), in a location to be announced soon.

docs 4 kids
This section of the festival is dedicated to practical work with children from specific excerpts from “The Red Race” documentary.

Masterclasses
Public lessons of film with reputed directors: Frederick Wiseman, Thomas Balmès and Eduardo Coutinho.

Workshop SONY
doclisboa will again organize one formation workshop supported by SONY.
Workshop Sony - New equipments and register supports, an analysis on production workflow regarding its financial costs, based on specific production cases. Organized by Fernando Antunes – Sony Portugal –, products official in the Digital Cinematography area.
A partnership between doclisboa, Sony and the Portuguese Image of Film and Television Association, with German cinematographer Birgit Gudjonsdottir AAC.
Image professor in Filmakademie Baden Württemberg in Ludwigsburg since 1998 and in Berlin’s dffb, she has worked as a cinematographer in several films, such as: "No Name City" by Florian Flicker (doc. 2006), "EI in Japan" by Connie Walther (doc. 2005), "Auf Verwehten Spuren - Durch Die Wildnis Alaskas" by Wolfram Giese/J. Schliessler (Doc. 2004), "Ein Tag mit folgen" by Katja Esson (Doc 2004), "Jargo" by Maria Sólrun Sigurdardóttir (fiction, 2003) and "Und tschüss Ihr Lieben" by Connie Walther (TV, 2002).
Birgit will talk about her work process in documentary and the use of digital equipment. In this workshop, two new digital camcorders recently launched in the market will be introduced: the PMW-EX3 and the HVR-Z5.

SONY videolibrary
Doclisboa spectators will be able to see a group of films in the festival’s video library (selected and non-selected films), equipped with several individual viewing posts. The video library is open to all, although some posts will be exclusively available to professionals.