Apordoc is pleased to announce Marcia Mansur as the new director of Doc’s Kingdom – International Documentary Film Seminar. A producer with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Campinas, Marcia Mansur has worked in several institutions such as UnionDocs and the British Council, and is a founding partner of Estúdio Crua. Over two decades, she has built a relevant experience in the areas of documentary and media arts production, engaging and working with different audiences and communities in Brazil, United States and Portugal, as well as a researcher in different contexts. Amongst other associations, Marcia Mansur is a member of Apordoc and MUTIM – Women Workers of the Moving Image. We believe that this direction will bring a renewed breath to Doc’s Kingdom, finding in her the professional and human qualities that will guarantee the continuity of the Seminar as a fundamental moment for the community of Portuguese and international filmmakers, artists, and audiences.

It is also with great joy that Apordoc announces that this year’s Doc’s Kingdom Seminar will take place from November 30 to December 5 in the municipality of Odemira. After long and fruitful cycles in Serpa and Arcos de Valdevez, with an edition also in the Azores, we embrace this new home for Doc’s Kingdom as an opportunity to continue inventing ways of connecting the experience of cinema and the experience of the community in which the Seminar is held. We thank the Municipality of Odemira for their enthusiasm, and we look forward to meeting the Doc’s Kingdom community – present and future – there.

Finally, we announce that on July 18, the international call for proposals for the 2023 programming project will be opened.

Apordoc’s board would like to thank all those who accompanied us in this period of reflection and construction of a new cycle for Doc’s Kingdom, which demonstrated the vitality of the Seminar in its various forms of existing for each of those who participate in it.