International Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film – DocWest

General information

DocWest is the Documentary Film Centre at the University of Westminster. Established in 2010, it brings together an interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and students to foster creative conversations around documentary practice.

Our activities involve teaching, film production, and academic research. We pay particular attention to the study areas of Visual Anthropology and Human Rights, Arts Documentary and the Documentary Archive, whilst extending the range of production and research into other fields of documentary study, such as the interactive documentary and the web-based documentary. We have developed a thriving Ph.D. culture, with both theoretical and practice-based doctoral degrees focusing on a variety of contexts and referencing many different documentary traditions.

We aim to provide a platform for initiating, funding and distributing creative documentary projects conceived at the intersection between academia and the industry. We focus on international collaboration and we welcome proposals from, and partnerships with, other documentary centres throughout the world. We actively search to promote documentary work that goes beyond Western European and North American traditions.

Most events will take place in our premises in Central London: The Old Cinema, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

If you feel inspired by the above, we want to hear from you.