For the fourth year in a row, Diana El Jeiroudi returns as a mentor of the Storytelling Lab at Docs By the Sea 2025.

Docs By the Sea (DBTS) is an annual international documentary lab and forum based in Indonesia, dedicated to cultivating creative documentary projects from Asia towards international collaboration and distribution opportunities.

During DBTS 2025, Diana and her fellow mentors work closely with the filmmakers through a series of online and onsite workshops and labs to refine and shape their projects in both group sessions and intensive 1-on-1 sessions. The cohort from all labs will pitch their film projects during the pitching forum in September to representatives from the international Documentary film sector visiting Bali.

No Nation Films awarded Fellowships in the previous years of DBTS pitching forum in Bali, to two filmmaking teams; Downhill Kargil, and The Whisper of Sunlight, which you can read more about on our Fellowship page.

For more information about DBTS 2025, please visit their website.