6th and 7th ASIAN SIDE OF THE DOC (2015 / 2016) – 5 days of Documentary Market and Co-production Forum in Asia: the project is the direct continuation of the previous editions of Asian Side of the Doc that have been held in Honk Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Chengdu. It started as an international coproduction forum mainly focused on European-Asian exchanges (but not exclusively), and added an exhibition and sales activity from 2013. The 6th and 7th editions will definitely pursue in this lane, and our will is now to settle Asian Side in Wuhan, China. It has been an undeniable necessity to have Asian Side travelling throughout Asia at first, in order to come and meet the different factual communities on their own ground, and get them inside the dynamic we were building, the emergence of a factual exchanges market (pre-buys, sales, copros) IN Asia, with the Europeans in priority, and with the rest of the world. This phase is now done and the market is mature. We could have continued to hold Asian Side in different Asian countries (eg Singapore, Vietnam…), but since the last edition in China the evidence rose: the Chinese market is the central one around which the other Asian markets will gravitate. And the time is now. The spectrum of opportunities on the Chinese market is extremely wide, and the European talents and “savoir-faire” are highly sought-after. The last editions of Asian Side were booming, and the Asian professionals, after 3 years of an observational attitude, are getting active on buys, pre-buys and co-productions with foreign partners on a much extended basis.We will keep the format we have developed and experienced, and make it grow in numbers; in two years’ time we expect to gather nearly 800 to 900 attendees on more that 2000m² exhibition area; and in 5 years’ time, we think the market will reach over 1000 participants on 3000m² exhibition area.