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The Sheffield Doc/Fest aka Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF) is an annual film event held in Sheffield. The Festival is one of the world's most prominent events in the documentary film arena.

Doc/Fest was the vision of Peter Symes of BBC TV Features Bristol.

He felt that it was incredible that there was no festival in the UK celebrating the work of documentary makers and no forum at which the makers could meet to argue and debate their craft, especially considering that Britain has a long tradition of making some of the very best documentaries in the world.