The Broadcasting Media Communications Commission will support overseas investment attraction and expanded international co-production opportunities for South Korea's documentaries.

The commission said on Thursday it will hold an overseas investment pitching event for Korean documentaries linked to the 39th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which opened on Wednesday, together with the Korea Communications Agency (KCA).

IDFA is the world's largest documentary-focused film festival, held in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. South Korea is holding the pitching event linked to the festival for the fifth year this year.

A total of 7 works will take part, including 5 documentary proposals such as MBC's "Misuk's World" and 2 production-support works such as KBS's "Seoul Wild".

The 5 proposals are works that won the grand prize and the top excellence award at the "Korean Documentary (K-DOCS) Festival" in August, among 15 selected through a call for entries in June for a planning and development support programme for domestic documentaries' overseas expansion. The 2 production-support works were selected in April as targets for support for documentaries' overseas expansion under a broadcast programme production support project.

Participating companies will introduce their works to representatives of overseas broadcasters, investors and distributors from the Netherlands, Britain, France and Egypt, and seek opportunities for overseas investment, international co-production and distribution. They also plan to take part in major industry programmes such as the IDFA Forum to look at the latest trends in the global documentary market and investment and co-production strategies.

Kim Jong-chul (김종철), chairman of the commission, said, "We expect this pitching event will become an opportunity for our documentaries to secure overseas investment and co-production opportunities." He added, "We will continue to work to help South Korea's outstanding documentaries expand overseas and strengthen global competitiveness."