Check out what past participants are saying about the Doc Challenge:

Contrary to what one may expect, working within strict limitations allows creativity to flourish!

An extraordinarily useful experience for anyone thinking of pursuing a career in the documentary field. The whole experience brought our team together and helped everyone of us learn about all the issues and work that surrounds the making of a documentary film.

While intense, exhausting, confusing, and frustrating, this was the most inspiring, creative, and rewarding experience we've had working on a film!

This experience has taught me more about production in five days than years of filmmaking school!

The Doc Challenge is always an exciting, exhausting and exhilarating five days - and an annual opportunity to flex our filmmaking muscles and finish a product we're proud of!

The best thing about the Doc Challenge is getting your butt on the street and being obliged to create something in a few days... no synopsis to write, no meeting with producers, no commissioning editor, just you and the art you love!

The "Challenge" forces you to start and finish a new project and through the process many invaluable lessons are learned about filmmaking. It allows our team to unapologetically put all other things aside and focus on what we love to do!