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WHAT?

Doc'n Roll is a womxn-led film agency that platforms and champions marginal voices in the music industry; we are passionate about independent film and music of all genres. Our mission is to celebrate music subcultures by providing a unique platform to support creative, compelling and unforgettable documentaries that celebrate the performers, labels, scenes and stories.

Doc'n Roll began life in 2013, when we launched the UK's Music & Arts Documentary Film Festival as an arts discovery film fest, convinced it was time to show some love to outlier music, arts and subculture documentaries that were all too often ignored by risk-averse film programmers.

Ten years on, via our now UK-wide annual festival, one-off events and special screenings, we provide our audience with the opportunity to watch these killer documentaries in ace cinemas, as they were designed to be watched: LOUD.

In 2017, owing to strong demand from both filmmakers and audiences, Doc'n Roll expanded to include a boutique UK event cinema, distribution, and world sales service. We excel in finding theatrical, non-theatrical and direct-to-consumer routes to market for independent music documentaries across the UK and Europe.

In 2019, we launched another UK first, Doc'n Roll TV, our worldwide on-demand streaming platform that allows us to present a host of new and classic music documentaries to viewers at home.

WHO?

Vanessa Lobon-Garcia - Co-founder & CEO, Producer & Shorts Programmer - email
Colm Forde - Co-founder & Programmer; Acquisitions, Sales, Distribution - email 

Anne Marie McGregor - Festival Producer 
Elena Benedettini - Head of Photography
Fiona Johnston - Volunteer Coordinator
Karen Shook - Communications Lead
Mila Azimonti - Social Media Manager & Shorts Film Programmer 


WHEN/WHERE?

The 13th edition of Doc'n Roll Film Festival London, our headline festival, will run from 22 October to 8 November 2026 across many of the city's best-loved cinemas. 

In 2027 we'll be touring the UK, as well as taking Doc'n Roll Film Festival to Los Angeles in January, Amsterdam in March and New York in May. 

Doc'n Roll also programmes encore event screenings and special one-off premieres year-round, and we hold screenings in cities across the UK, in Dublin, San Francisco and Dubai.

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WHY DOC'N ROLL?

Arts and music documentaries are what we're all about. International festival directors and programmers, music film commissioning editors, VOD platform curators and music venue bookers are our BFFs.

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