Open City Documentary Festival creates an open space in London to nurture and champion the art of non-fiction cinema. We deliver training programmes, an annual film festival, the bi-annual publication Non-Fiction and screening projects throughout the year that aim to challenge and expand the idea of documentary in all its forms.  The 15th edition of the festival will take place in London in May 2025.

We are based at the UCL Centre for Public Anthropology, home to the MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Film Practice, MFA in Creative Documentary and MA in Immersive Factual Storytelling.

As part of London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. The value we place on equality, diversity and inclusion underpins and informs all aspects of our work.

Our Faculty’s Ten Year Vision and Strategy sets out that by 2029 we will have a significantly more diverse and equal workforce at all levels and in all roles, across all departments. We will strive to transform structural inequalities and resist systemic bias within the Faculty, ensuring that staff from different backgrounds and with differing identities feel included and accepted as individuals and are able to thrive at work as fully equal members of the Faculty. To help deliver on these promises, a new Faculty Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategic Board was set up.