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IN CINEMAS Vs. The Life and Films of Ken Loach 3 JUNE Notes on Blindness 1 JULY The Hard Stop 15 JULY The Lovers and the Despot 22 JULY
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01 Abbeydale Picture House 02 Beijing Screen on Howard Street 03 Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre 04 City Hall Ballroom Irwin Mitchell Oval Hall 05 Crucible Theatre Adelphi Studio 06 Curzon Cinema 07 Cutlers’ Hall Main Hall Old Banqueting Hall Hadfield Hall MarketPlayer Marketplace Café 08 ITV Town Hall Reception Room A Reception Room B 09 Millennium Gallery 10 Odeon 11 O2 Academy 12 Picture House Social 13 Plug 14 Sheffield Cathedral 15 Showroom Cinema Beijing Showroom 1 Vimeo Showroom 2 PBS America Showroom 3 ITN Source Showroom 4 The ITV Bar Showroom Café 16 Site Gallery 17 Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS 18 The Space 19 Tamper Sellers Wheel 20 Tudor Square Doc/Fest Exchange Guardian Screen 21 Winter Garden
Places to Eat & Drink 22 Crucible Delegate Lounge 23 Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square 24 Edo Sushi 25 Hop Hideout 26 The ITV Bar 27 Motore Café 28 Silversmiths 29 Street Food Chef 30 Tamper Westfield Terrace
Places to Stay 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
Hilton Sheffield Hotel Holiday Inn Express Jurys Inn Leopold Hotel Mercure St Paul’s Novotel The Sheffield Metropolitan Hotel
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Delegate Information
Delegate Information Information Desk
Visit the Information Desks in Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS, the Box Office on Tudor Square, the Showroom Cinema, Cutlers’ Hall Marketplace and the train station for help or advice about any aspect of Doc/Fest and Lost and Found.
Press
The Press Office and Press Registration are located in the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS.
Cloakroom
The Cloakroom is located in the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS and is open:
Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS Sheffield Hallam University 6 Paternoster Row, S1 2QQ
Thu 9 Jun: 18:00 – 21:00 Fri 10 Jun – Wed 15 Jun: 9:00 – 21:00 On arrival at the Festival, all Festival Pass Holders must register and collect their Festival Pass and bag from the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS. The Centre includes registration, ticket collection for films, a café, a cloakroom, an informal seating area, wireless internet and information desks with Doc/Fest staff on hand to assist Pass Holders. Please note that Delegate registration will close at 14:00 on Wednesday, however the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS and ticketing desk will remain open until 21:00.
Festival Pass Holder Information
Your Festival Pass (with photo ID) should be worn at all times and is required for access to all Films, Talks & Sessions, Marketplace and Parties & Socials. Please make sure your Pass is visible at all times.
Festival Pass Holder Tickets
Ticket collection from the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS is required for all films screenings. Tickets are on a first come first served basis. Admission with a ticket is guaranteed up to 5 minutes before the advertised start time and then you will be asked to join the standby queue. Talks & Sessions do not require tickets and are sometimes open to the public. Please be sure to arrive early for popular events to guarantee yourself a seat.
Fri 10 Jun – Wed 15 Jun: 9:00 – 21:00 There is a £2 charge per day for use of the Cloakroom. All items left in the Cloakroom after closing are done so at the owner’s risk. There will also be a Cloakroom in the Crucible which will be open immediately before, during and immediately after events taking place in the Crucible.
Wi-Fi
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square, Crucible Delegate Lounge, the Showroom, Cutlers’ Hall, Beijing Screen on Howard Street and Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS are Wi-Fi hotspots. You will be supplied with a unique W-iFi code for the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS and Beijing Screen on Howard Street on arrival. To access Wi-Fi at all other locations, please look for a signpost with the Wi-Fi name and password. Search for Sheffield on www.myhotspots.co.uk for a useful list of other Wi-Fi hotspots around city centre.
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square is open daily and houses various food and drink stalls, as well as opportunities to rest, watch films and join a series of talks presented by Wellcome Trust. Opening hours: Fri 10 Jun: 09:00 – 23:00 Sat 11 Jun: Tue 14 Jun: 9:00 – 23:00 Wed 15 Jun: 09.00 – 21:00
Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS Sheffield Hallam University 6 Paternoster Row, S1 2QQ
Thu 9 Jun: 18:00 – 21:00 Fri 10 Jun – Wed 15 Jun: 9:00 – 21:00 On arrival at the Festival, all Festival Pass Holders must register and collect their Festival Pass and bag from the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS. The Centre includes registration, ticket collection for films, a café, a cloakroom, an informal seating area, wireless internet and information desks with Doc/Fest staff on hand to assist Pass Holders. Please note that Delegate registration will close at 14:00 on Wednesday, however the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS and ticketing desk will remain open until 21:00.
Festival Pass Holder Information
Your Festival Pass (with photo ID) should be worn at all times and is required for access to all Films, Talks & Sessions, Marketplace and Parties & Socials. Please make sure your Pass is visible at all times.
Festival Pass Holder Tickets
Ticket collection from the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS is required for all films screenings. Tickets are on a first come first served basis. Admission with a ticket is guaranteed up to 5 minutes before the advertised start time and then you will be asked to join the standby queue. Talks & Sessions do not require tickets and are sometimes open to the public. Please be sure to arrive early for popular events to guarantee yourself a seat.
Information Desk
Visit the Information Desks in Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS, the Box Office on Tudor Square, the Showroom Cinema, Cutlers’ Hall Marketplace and the train station for help or advice about any aspect of Doc/Fest and Lost and Found.
Access
All venues are wheelchair accessible except for the Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre. For more information, including British Sign Language Interpreted talks, visit www.sheffdocfest.com/view/accessibility
Crèche
To ensure that everyone in the industry can participate equally, a crèche service is open to all Delegates attending the Festival with young children. For more information including pricing and directions, visit www.sheffdocfest.com Norfolk Park Daycare Nursery The Centre in the Park, Norfolk Heritage Park Guildford Avenue, S2 2PL Opening Hours: Mon – Fri: 08:00 – 15:00 Phone: +44 (0)114 286 0419
Baby Changing Facilities
All venues have baby changing facilities except for Tudor Square, Beijing Screen on Howard Street, Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS, O2 Academy and Plug.
Cash Points
The nearest cash points to the Sky Delegate Centre at the HUBS and Tudor Square are: Lloyds TSB 1 High Street S1 2GA Santander Telegraph House S1 2AN
The HUBS Sheffield Hallam University 6 Paternoster Row S1 2QQ
All information is correct at time of printing. Sheffield Doc/Fest and the organisers reserve the right to make changes and updates. Please visit www.sheffdocfest.com for current schedules and listings.
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Welcome from the Chair
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Welcome from the Festival Director
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Festival Team
5 Board of Directors, Advisory Committee, Film Previewers & Catalogue Writers 6
Sponsors, Funders & Partners
Schedule 7 8 10 12 14 16 17
Friday 10 June Saturday 11 June Sunday 12 June Monday 13 June Tuesday 14 June Wednesday 15 June Outdoor Programme
23 Films
24 Grand Jury Award & Environmental Award 25 Short Doc Award & Student Doc Award 26 Youth Jury Award & Audience Award 27 Creative Leadership Award, Tim Hetherington Award & Award for Unsung Hero in Factual Television 28 Awards & Competitions & Film Strands 29 Opening Night Film & Closing Night Film 30 Special Events 32 Grand Jury Award Films 38 Environmental Award Films 43 Youth Jury Award Films 45 Short Doc Award Films 48 Student Doc Award Films 52 Ken Loach Retrospective 53 Remembering Chantal Akerman 55 Close Up: Pennebaker 57 No Place Like Home 59 Get Up & Dance 61 Instigators & Agitators 64 Best of British 68 Women in Docs 71 Queer Screen 74 Behind the Beats 75 Outdoor Adventure 78 Food & Wine 80 Global Encounters 88 Euro/Doc 92 Short Doc Programme 97 Outdoor Screenings
107 Alternate Realities
108 Alternate Realities Summit 111 Alternate Realities Interactive Award & Alternate Realities VR Award 112 Alternate Realities: Interactive Exhibition 117 Alternate Realities: Virtual Reality Arcade
125 Talks & Sessions 126 129 134 140 145 146 148
Friday 10 June / Saturday 11 June Sessions Sunday 12 June Sessions Monday 13 June Sessions Tuesday 14 June Sessions Wednesday 15 June Sessions Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square Speaker Biographies A-Z
185 Marketplace 186 MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Market, On-Screen Factual Talent, Sales Sunday 187 International Delegations
193 Parties & Social
194 Parties & Social Events
Index
202 Thanks 204 Index by Film, Session & Event 206 Index by Director
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Introduction Welcome from the Chair
Thanks too to Sheffield City Council. With every passing year, Doc/Fest and Sheffield become more closely intertwined and we are proud to be part of this vibrant city. Thank you to the Arts Council whose support has allowed us to expand our world-leading Alternate Realities exhibitions and burgeoning Alternate Realities Market. And thank you to Bertha Foundation and Wellcome Trust for such productive collaborations, which grow with every passing year. Thank you to BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Sky for their continued support and a special welcome to our new broadcast partners Discovery and Channel 5. And thanks too to Documentary Campus who continue to support the delivery of the Doc/Fest Talks & Sessions Programme.
Welcome to the 23rd edition of Doc/Fest and the first of a new era, as our new Festival Director Liz McIntyre presents her first Festival.
And what a fantastic line-up she has assembled. What other festival features Tilda Swinton and Joanna Lumley; Michael Moore and Freddie Flintoff; Ronnie O’Sullivan and Ken Loach. But Doc/Fest is not just about star names. As always, we strive to bring the very best new talent to Sheffield and look to celebrate new voices, both local and global. Watch works from first time filmmakers Maya Goded (Plaza de la Soledad, p.71) from Mexico and Rita Coburn Whack (Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, p.70) from the USA as part of our Film Pogramme, and get to meet on-screen talent Stacey Dooley and Seyi Rhodes from here in the UK as part of our Talks & Sessions Programme. And to prove that age is only a number, we’ve also got a masterclass with the legendary D.A. Pennebaker, who is ninety years young, joined by his partner filmmaker Chris Hegedus. We have another exciting Film Programme featuring 29 world premieres, 14 international premieres and 20 European Premieres, all here in Sheffield. Of course none of this could happen without the help of our sponsors. Thank you to the BFI for their continued support. We’ve been proud to be part of the first five years of Film Forever and we look forward to playing our part during the next five years.
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As well as providing a chance to watch and discuss documentaries, in a world where money for documentaries is increasingly scarce, Doc/Fest plays a vital role in getting projects funded in the first place through our innovative Marketplace, including our flagship MeetMarket. This year we welcome 15 international delegations from across 17 countries, with thanks to British Council and various partners around the world. One sad note is that I have to mark the passing of Alan Fountain, Commissioning Editor for Independent Film and Video at Channel 4, who played a big part in getting Doc/Fest off the ground and was a passionate supporter and friend to many independent filmmakers. On a personal note, as Commissioning Editor for The Media Show, Alan was a real mentor to me in my early days as an independent producer. Finally, I have to pay tribute to my indefatigable Board of Trustees; our effervescent Advisory Board, as always buzzing with suggestions and ideas; and above all to Liz McIntyre and her brilliant Festival team without whom none of us would be here, watching documentaries, buying documentaries, selling documentaries and arguing about documentaries over the occasional alcoholic beverage. So enjoy the Festival and remember – watch responsibly! Alex Graham Chair
Introduction Welcome from the Festival Director
We’re living through extraordinary, tumultuous, but also exhilarating times. The biggest movement of people in recent history, religious extremism, Brexit – but also, Obama in Cuba, the possible discovery of a ninth planet, and in our industry, a proliferation of new platforms resulting in an explosion of creative thinking, experimental approaches and a crossfertilisation of ideas. Doc/Fest captures this zeitgeist across our Film, Alternate Realties and Talks & Sessions programmes. Fact can be more unbelievable than fiction; come and discover new gems.
Welcome to your Festival.
It’s my first as Festival Director and it feels like coming home: I’ve been part of the Doc/Family throughout its bracing November and slightly less bracing June days as documentary maker, mentor, panellist and shape thrower at the Guilty Pleasures Party. We’re excited to have created a dynamic and inspiring Festival for you, mixing firm favourites with new surprises. It’s wonderful to welcome so many back and to hear so many new voices; I hope this is just the beginning of your creative journey with Doc/Fest. The 2016 adventure starts here. Our Opening Night Film Where to Invade Next (P.29) is irreverent, disruptive and loudly laughs at how we create social mess – but also shows how we can make change. As we countdown to the US elections, Michael plants his stars and stripes flag across Sheffield; see him in his post-screening Q&A and for the Channel 4 interview.
Doc/Fest is here to inspire and connect people, linking new talent with established Decision Makers for life-long creative and business relationships; we are expecting 300 Decision Makers from over 25 countries. Visit our beautiful new Marketplace venue Cutlers’ Hall and head to our hub, Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square, for food and drink, networking and talks for the incurably curious. Get out your sparkly frocks for the Tuesday evening Awards ceremony hosted by KG Tha Comedian; we’re excited to have new awards and present our Grand Jury Award supported by Screen International and Broadcast. To close, we’re thrilled to welcome polymath Tilda Swinton to talk about The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (P.29), our Closing Night Film on Wednesday. This is your Festival, that the fantastic Doc/Fest team has created for you. Elizabeth McIntyre CEO & Festival Director
Doc/Fest will be bristling with activists, agitators and innovators: meet D.A. Pennebaker, Louis Theroux, Sheila Nevins, Ken Loach, Warp Films’ Mark Herbert, Reggie Yates, Professor Green, Adam Pearson, Stacey Dooley, Adam Buxton and vloggers Hannah Witton and Jonathan Saccone. We mark the avant-garde feminist filmmaking of Chantal Akerman as we continue to celebrate women directors.
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People Festival Team
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Amira Abdellahi (Hospitality Coordinator)
James Lowe (Publications Layout Designer)
Claire Aguilar (Director of Programming & Industry Engagement)
Gerry Maguire (Production Coordinator)
Samantha Armstrong (Assistant Accountant)
Hannah McHaffie (Administrative & Executive Assistant)
Mark Atkin (Curator, Alternate Realities)
Elizabeth McIntyre (CEO & Festival Director)
Andy Beecroft (Film Programme Manager)
Lena Moss (Marketing Assistant)
Jacqui Bellamy (Photographer)
Kate Nicholson (Hospitality Assistant)
Amy Benjamin (Assistant Accountant)
Erinma Ochu (Doc/Fest Exchange Curator)
Ben Carlin (Alternate Realities Venue Coordinator)
Fiona Outram (Finance Manager)
David Chang (Photographer)
Anna Parker (Marketplace Manager)
Kat Chirnside (Marketing Coordinator)
Charlotte Reekers (MarketPlayer Coordinator)
Ruidi Collins (Film Programme Assistant)
Ellie Robinson (Alternate Realities Producer)
Mark Cook (Volunteer Coordinator)
Caroline Rogers (Events Manager)
Joe Cutts (Film & Alternate Realities Programme Coordinator)
Lena Samoili (Press Assistant)
Alexandra Dorsica (Ticketing Coordinator)
Mat Steel (Head of Production)
Katie Duddy (Volunteer Assistant)
Maria Stoneman (Operations Manager)
Sarah El-Taki (Talks & Sessions Assistant)
Matt Sturdy (Video Coordinator & Editor)
River Ferris (Publications Coordinator)
Donna Taberer (Skills & Training Consultant)
Nigel Fischer (Talks & Sessions Programme Manager)
Jenni Tuovinen (Marketplace Sessions Coordinator)
Sarah Harvey (Head of Press)
Becky Webb (Marketplace Coordinator)
Paul Hayes (Showroom Production Coordinator)
Serena Williamson (Events Assistant)
Saul Holmes (Publications & Marketing Assistant)
Hayley Willis (Press Officer)
Andrea Horakh (Festival Consultant)
Sam Wilson (Registration Runner)
Melanie Iredale (Deputy Director)
Elaine Wong (Alternate Realities Market Coordinator)
Monika Klavins (Photography Coordinator)
Jasmine Wordsworth (Operations Assistant)
Karolina Lidin (Marketplace Executive Producer)
Sylvia Wroblewska (Business & Marketing Director)
People Contributors Board of Directors
Alex Graham, Chair Peter Armstrong (Harbottle & Lewis) Mark Atkin (Crossover Labs) Lizzie Francke (British Film Institute) Nick Fraser (BBC Storyville) Grant Keir (Faction North) Richard Klein Paula Le Dieu (Freelance) Ralph Lee (Channel4) Shirani Sabaratnam (Freelance) Celia Taylor (Sky UK) Helen Scott (Clear Focus Productions) Ian Wild (Sheffield Media & Exhibition Centre)
Advisory Committee
Roy Ackerman (Pulse Films) Taghi Amirani (Amirani Films) Ewan Angus (BBC Scotland) Sam Anthony (Sundog Pictures) Lucy Baxter (Mandrake Films) Jan Bednarz (Buzz Films) Christina Burnett (Wide Eye Pictures) Simon Chinn (Red Box Films) Cat Cooper (Elfin Productions) Nick Crossland (Rocket) Liesel Evans (Century Films) Jeanie Finlay (Glimmer Films) Dick Fontaine (National Film & Television School) Adam Gee (Channel 4) Andy Glynne (Documentary Filmmakers Group) Roger Graef (Films of Record) Oli Harbottle (Dogwoof) Patrick Holland (BBC) Derren Lawford (Woodcut Media) Catherine McCarthy (Medical Aid Films) Liz Mermin (Freelance) Carol Nahra (Freelance) Victoria Noble (Discovery Networks) Ben Noot (National Geographic) Charlie Phillips (Guardian) Ashok Prasad (Freelance) Lina Prestwood (Freelance) James Quinn (Sky) Emily Renshaw-Smith (Freelance) Martin Rosenbaum (Lone Star Productions) Jolyon Rubinstein (Freelance) André Singer (Spring Films) Sue Sudbury (Sequoia Films) Rajesh Thind (Open Circuit) Rachel Wexler (Bungalow Town Productions) Elizabeth Wood (DocHouse) Brian Woods (True Vision Productions)
Film Previewers
Isla Badenoch Anne Bogart Mark Bristow Sophie Brown Sarah Dawson Dr Sindi F. Gordon Niki Harman Amanda Hawley Leanne Hayman Kurt Kroboth Sharon La Cruise Charlotte Maconochie Katerina Marka Chris Metzler Jannet Nunez Josh O’Brien Helena Skinner Henry Worger Daniel Dylan Wray
Catalogue Writers
Claire Aguilar (Sheffield Doc/Fest) CA Sophie Brown (Freelance) SB Carol Nahra (Docs on Screens) CN Sunshine Wong (Freelance) SW
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Funders, Sponsors & Partners Principal Funders, Sponsors & Partners
Major Sponsors & Funders
Sponsors
Media Partners
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Friday 10 June Vimeo Showroom 2
PBS America Showroom 3
ITN Source Showroom 4
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square
Crucible Delegate Lounge
Millennium Gallery
Site Gallery & The Space
Other
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Schedule
Beijing Showroom 1
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15:15 P. 39 FOOTPRINT + Q&A
13:00 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME 1HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
15:45 P. 80 AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY
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14:00 P. 146
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DIGGING DEEPER... SNOW MONKEY
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16:30 P. 194 SITE GALLERY ALTERNATE REALITIES: VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE PREVIEW DRINKS
IN CONVERSATION... A DOC/FEST LUMINARY
19:30 P. 73 STRIKE A POSE + Q&A
16:00 P. 194 16:00 CURZON CINEMA BAR AND TERRACE 17:00 SHOOTING PEOPLE WELCOME DRINKS 18:00 18:30 P. 29 CITY HALL, IRWIN 19:00 MITCHELL OVAL HALL WHERE TO INVADE NEXT + Q&A WITH 20:00 DIRECTOR MICHAEL MOORE 21:00 P. 194 21:00 CUTLERS’ HALL, MAIN HALL OPENING 22:00 NIGHT PARTY PRESENTED BY MOLINARE 23:00
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Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Alternate Realities
15:45 P. 41 SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY + Q&A
P. 89
Talks & Sessions
15:00 P. 55 ONE DAY PINA ASKED...
12:45 KEDI
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12:00 P. 117 – 120 ALTERNATE REALITIES: VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE
Marketplace
13:00 P. 78 CITY OF GOLD
12:00 P. 115 – 116 ALTERNATE REALITIES: INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
Parties & Social
13:00 P. 53 I DON’T BELONG ANYWHERE THE CINEMA OF CHANTAL AKERMAN
12:00 CRUCIBLE DELEGATE LOUNGE
Films
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Saturday 11 June
Schedule
Beijing Showroom 1
Vimeo Showroom 2
PBS America Showroom 3
ITN Source Showroom 4
Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Curzon Cinema
Odeon
9:00 09:45 P. 39 10:00 DEATH BY DESIGN, WITH CONSUMED + Q&A
10:00 P. 40 KIVALINA, WITH THE LIVING FOREST + Q&A
09:45 SONITA
P. 44 10:15 P. 76 CRASH AND BURN + Q&A
09:45 P. 83 THE HAPPY FILM + Q&A
10:00 P. 88 WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
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12:00 12:30 P. 64 BURMA’S SECRET 13:00 JUNGLE WAR WITH JOE SIMPSON + Q&A
14:00 P. 33 CAMERAPERSON + Q&A
14:00 14:45 P. 89 15:00 MACHINE OF HUMAN DREAMS, WITH THE DOG + Q&A
15:00 P. 81 THE CAUSE OF PROGRESS + Q&A
Parties & Social
12:30 P. 40 FREIGHTENED - THE REAL PRICE OF SHIPPING
15:00 P. 88 A FAMILY AFFAIR + Q&A
16:45 P. 55 DON’T LOOK BACK + Q&A
17:00 17:45 18:00 ZUD
P. 42 18:15 P. 82 COMMAND AND CONTROL + Q&A 19:15 P. 56 MONTEREY POP + Q&A
18:30 P. 74 THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
18:00 P. 34 JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY + Q&A
20:00 20:30 P. 43 FLOTEL EUROPA, 21:00 WITH ELDERS + Q&A
21:00 P. 33 CITY 40, WITH BUNKERS + Q&A
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12:45 P. 30 STORYBOARD P, A STRANGER IN SWEDEN + Q&A & PERFORMANCE
15:30 P. 62 MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE + EXTENDED Q&A
16:00
19:00
Marketplace
12:30 P. 38 THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES + Q&A
12:00 P. 41 THERE WILL BE WATER + Q&A
21:30 P. 75 TWO TRAINS RUNNIN’ + Q&A
21:00 P. 64 WEINER + Q&A
21:00 P. 36 PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW + Q&A
12:00 P. 60 RESET + Q&A 12:45 P. 86 SOLITARY, WITH EYE FOR AN EYE + Q&A
15:00 P. 65 DESTINATION UNKNOWN + Q&A
17:30 P. 35 THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED + Q&A
20:15 P. 74 A TODO COLOR + Q&A
15:30 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME 2 ANIMAL NATION
18:15 P. 71 KIKI + Q&A
21:00 P. 91 WHITE RAGE, WITH SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT + Q&A
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Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Saturday 11 June
09:00
09:00
09:00
MARKETPLAYER
MARKETPLACE CAFÉ
P. 126
P. 126
HADFIELD HALL
ARTS COMMISSIONING FOR GALLERY AND ONLINE SPACES
BREAKING IN: A GUIDE FOR FILM INDUSTRY ENTRANTS
P. 127
CRUCIBLE THEATRE
12:15
P. 127
12:15
ADELPHI
P. 127
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10:00 P. 115–116 MILLENNIUM GALLERY
ALTERNATE REALITIES: INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
11:00 P. 117–120 11:00 SITE GALLERY & THE SPACE ALTERNATE REALITIES: VIRTUAL 12:00 REALITY ARCADE
HADFIELD HALL
BAFTA MASTERCLASS: WORKING WITH ARCHIVE
VLOGS VS DOCS: TALES OF OUR TIME
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THE BBC INTERVIEW: REGGIE YATES 14:30 P. 146 DIGGING DEEPER... ANTS ON A SHRIMP AND MISO HUNGRY
16:30 P. 146 IN CONVERSATION... DOC/FEST LUMINARY JULIE GOLDMAN
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14:00 P. 128
STUDIO SURVIVING DANGERZONE DOCS
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P. 128
CRUCIBLE THEATRE PROFESSOR GREEN: DOCUMENTARIES AND ME
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P. 129
STUDIO WHAT’S A TV CHANNEL GRANDDAD?: HOW WE’LL BE WATCHING DOCS IN THE FUTURE
14:45
P. 128
14:45
ADELPHI
VIVA LA REVOLUCION: VIDEO ACTIVISM AND CITIZEN JOURNALISM
17:00
P. 129
ADELPHI
IS DOCUMENTARY RELEVANT IN A WORLD WITH INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS?
P. 128
15:00
HADFIELD HALL
INNOVATION IN ARCHIVE 16:00 16:45
P. 186 17:00
OLD BANQUETING HALL
SKILLSET ARCHIVE ROUND TABLES 18:15 P. 194 MARKETPLACE CAFÉ MEET THE ARCHIVISTS DRINKS RECEPTION
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19:00
P. 194 19:00
WINTER GARDEN
SCOTTISH DELEGATION DRINKS
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21:00 P. 194 21:00 O2 ACADEMY VOGUE, STRIKE A POSE PARTY! 22:00
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Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Alternate Realities
P. 127
STUDIO WRITING WITH LIGHT. THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
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Cutlers’ Hall
Films
Cutlers’ Hall
DELEGATE LOUNGE
12:15 12:30 P. 146 CREATIVE EXCHANGE... IDEAS BEHIND SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY
Crucible
Parties & Social
Marketplace
10:00 P. 146 ABOUT LAST NIGHT... DAILY REVIEW INCL. LIFE, ANIMATED
Crucible
Parties & Social
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square
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Schedule
Sunday 12 June Beijing Showroom 1
Vimeo Showroom 2
PBS America Showroom 3
09:45 P. 52 10:00 THE FLICKERING FLAME
10:00 P. 39 FOOTPRINT + Q&A
09:45 P. 76 LOBANOVSKIY FOREVER + Q&A
Films
Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Curzon Cinema
Odeon
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square
Crucible
9:00
11:00
11:15 P. 52 CATHY COME HOME
10:30 P. 30 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HIGH-RISE
10:00 P. 78 ANTS ON A SHRIMP
10:15 P. 84 IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE +Q&A
10:00 P. 108 10:30 P. 147 ABOUT LAST NIGHT... DAILY REVIEW INCL. KIKI
12:00
13:00
Alternate Realities
ITN Source Showroom 4
STUDIO
ALTERNATE REALTIES SUMMIT: ANDROIDS, ROBOTS AND AVATARS LIVE 12:30 P. 131
13:15 P. 80 BEHEMOTH
12:30 P. 32 BROTHERS, WITH I’M NOT FROM HERE + Q&A
12:30 P. 86 RWANDA & JULIET + Q&A
13:00 P. 85 LIFE, ANIMATED
12:30 P. 75 BACK ON BOARD: GREG LOUGANIS
12:30 P. 58 ENOUGH, ALREADY, WITH CONTINENTAL DRIFT + Q&A
12:30 P. 147 12:45 P. 54 NO HOME MOVIE
C REATIVE EXCHANGE... IDEAS BEHIND THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES
14:00
15:00 15:30 P. 91 UKRAINIAN 16:00 SHERIFFS + Q&A
15:15 P. 70 MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE + Q&A
15:00 P. 44 SNOW MONKEY + Q&A
15:15 P. 37 SOUR GRAPES + Q&A
14:45 P. 29 WHERE TO INVADE NEXT
15:00 P. 58 AMBULANCE, WITH BURNOUT + Q&A
15:30 P. 34 THE CONFESSION + Q&A
14:30 P. 147 DIGGING DEEPER... NOTES ON BLINDNESS
THEATRE D.A. PENNEBAKER & CHRIS HEDGEDUS IN CONVERSATION
13:30 P. 108 – 110 STUDIO ALTERNATE REALTIES SUMMIT: VRFTERNOON
15:00 P. 133 THEATRE THE ABSOLUTELY ADVENTUROUS JOANNA LUMLEY IN CONVERSATION
Talks & Sessions
16:30 P. 147
18:00 18:00 P. 43 LYARI NOTES, WITH SILENT VOICES
18:15 P. 59 MR. GAGA + Q&A
Marketplace
19:00
Parties & Social
18:30 P. 71 PLAZA DE LA SOLEDAD + Q&A
18:00 P. 35 NOTES ON BLINDNESS + EXTENDED Q&A
17:45 P. 72 OUT RUN + Q&A
20:00 20:30 P. 73 STRIKE A 21:00 POSE + Q&A
22:00
10
IN CONVERSATION... DOC/FEST LUMINARY CHARLIE PHILLIPS
17:00
21:00 P. 65 CITY OF DREAMS: A MUSICAL + Q&A
21:00 P. 63 SOUTHWEST OF SALEM: THE STORY OF THE SAN ANTONIO FOUR
20:45 P. 56 UNLOCKING THE CAGE + EXTENDED Q&A
20:15 P. 73 UNCLE HOWARD + EXTENDED Q&A
17:30 P. 85 MONSTER IN THE MIND: THE CONVENIENT UN-TRUTH ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S + Q&A 20:00 P. 87 TYRUS, WITH FIRST CUT + Q&A
18:00 P. 134 18:15 P. 70 MISS SHARON JONES!
THEATRE
THE CHANNEL 4 INTERVIEW: MICHAEL MOORE
20:00 P. 110 20:45 P. 60 OUR LAST TANGO + Q&A
STUDIO A NIGHT OF SURVEILLANCE: THE SUPERNERDS EXPERIENCE
23:00
00:00
Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Sunday 12 June
09:00
09:00
CRUCIBLE DELEGATE LOUNGE
MARKETPLAYER
MARKETPLACE CAFÉ
10:00
P. 130
ADELPHI MINORITY REPORT: DIVERSITY IN DOCUMENTARY
12:15
P. 131
ADELPHI A REASONABLY ADJUSTED DEBATE: DISABILITY ON AND OFF SCREEN
10:00
P. 129
Other
Other
9:00
10:00 P. 130 THE HYPE ABOUT 4K
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: CREATING PUBLIC TV PROGRAMMES FOR A FORGOTTEN AUDIENCE
12:15
ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
10:00
11:00
P. 115 –116
SITE GALLERY AND THE SPACE
P. 131
12:15
HONEST TRUTHS: THE ETHICAL CHALLENGES OF FILMMAKING
P. 130
BEYOND YOUTUBE: WHAT CAN THE ‘OTHER’ DIGITAL PLATFORMS OFFER FILMMAKERS?
12:15 P. 131 THE POST PRODUCTION FACILITY: AN EVOLVING MODEL
ALTERNATE REALITIES: VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE
11:00
P. 117 11:00 –120
MILLENNIUM GALLERY
ALTERNATE REALITIES: INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
12:00
13:00
14:00 14:45
P. 132
ADELPHI DOCUMENTARY AND TRAUMA: A SURVIVOR’S GUIDE
16:30
P. 194
DELEGATE LOUNGE
ITV DRINKS RECEPTION 17:00 P. 133 ADELPHI 10X10: THE DOC-INPROGRESS WORKSHOP
14:45
14:45 P. 132 I DO IT MY WAY: DIRECTORS TALK ABOUT THEIR WORK
P. 186
SALES SUNDAY WHO’S WHO
15:45
P. 186
SALES SUNDAY FINISHED FILM SPOTLIGHT
16:00
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL ROUND TABLES AND TEN MINUTE MEETS: DISTRIBUTION AND SALES
16:00 P. 194 MARKETPLACE DRINKS SUPPORTED BY DOCUMENTARY CAMPUS
17:00 P. 133 THE VICE RULE BRITANNIA PITCH
14:45 P. 132 SUCCEED TO SCREEN: GETTING INDIE DOCS TO THE AUDIENCE
17:00 P. 133 ARCHIVES AND COPYRIGHT: A BEGINNERS GUIDE
15:00
16:00
P. 120
18:00
P. 195
TAMPER
BRITISH COUNCIL DRINKS RECEPTION
P. 195
WINTER GARDEN GRIERSON TRUST NEW TALENT RECEPTION
P. 195
20:00
DELEGATE LOUNGE
P. 120
SHOWROOM CAFÉ NOTES ON BLINDNESS: INTO DARKNESS VR SHOWING
THE VICE RULE BRITANNIA DRINKS RECEPTION
16:00
SHOWROOM CAFÉ NOTES ON BLINDNESS: INTO DARKNESS VR SHOWING
18:30
20:00
Schedule
09:00
ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
Films
Cutlers’ Hall Marketplace Café
17:00 18:00
P. 195
MILLENNIUM GALLERY ALTERNATE REALITIES RECEPTION SUPPORTED BY BBC R&D
19:00
18:00
Alternate Realities
Cutlers’ Hall
Talks & Sessions
Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
19:00
P. 31
ABBEYDALE PICTURE HOUSE WHERE YOU’RE MEANT TO BE WITH AIDAN MOFFAT + SPECIAL MUSICAL GUESTS
21:00
20:00
P. 195 21:00
CITY HALL BALLROOM
Marketplace
Crucible
23:00
00:00
Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Parties & Social
SOUL AND FUNK NIGHT 22:00
11
Monday 13 June
Schedule
Beijing Showroom 1
Vimeo Showroom 2
PBS America Showroom 3
10:00 P. 41 SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY + Q&A
10:00 P. 68 PAA JOE & THE LION, WITH GREY AREA + Q&A
Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions
Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
09:45 P. 87 TONY ROBBINS: I AM NOT YOUR GURU
09:45 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME 3FUNNY PICTURES
Curzon Cinema
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square
Crucible Theatre
Crucible Studio
9:00 09:45 P. 57 10:00 #MYESCAPE + Q&A
11:00
Marketplace
ITN Source Showroom 4
12:00
12:15 P. 66 EXODUS: BREAKING 13:00 INTO EUROPE (WORKING TITLE) +Q&A 14:00
12:45 P. 53 THE SPIRIT OF ‘45
12:30 P. 34 THE CONFESSION + Q&A
14:15 P. 90 MATTRESS MEN + Q&A
15:00 15:15 P. 80 AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY
16:00
15:00 P. 56 UNLOCKING THE CAGE
18:00 18:15
P. 33
17:45 P. 44 SONITA
CAMERAPERSON + Q&A
19:00 19:00 P. 83 FRAUD, WITH WHEN YOU AWAKE + 20:00 Q&A
21:15 P. 68 CARE + Q&A
14:30 P. 67 THE HARD STOP + Q&A
12:00 P. 36 THE SETTLERS + Q&A
15:00 P. 62 NATIONAL BIRD + Q&A
10:30 P. 147 ABOUT LAST NIGHT... DAILY REVIEW INCL. MR. GAGA 12:00 P. 40 FREIGHTENED - THE REAL PRICE OF SHIPPING, WITH TRANSIT ZONE
15:00 P. 43 FLOTEL EUROPA, WITH ELDERS + Q&A
12:30 P. 147 CREATIVE EXCHANGE... IDEAS BEHIND MISS SHARON JONES!
HOW TO GET YOUR THEATRICAL DOC FUNDED AND DISTRIBUTED
21:00 P. 37 TEMPESTAD + Q&A
20:15 P. 34 JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY + Q&A
17:30 P. 31 VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH + EXTENDED Q&A
20:45 P. 65 CITY OF DREAMS: A MUSICAL + Q&A
17:45 P. 32 BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS + Q&A
20:45 P. 38 BORN TO BE FREE + Q&A
17:30 P. 32 BROTHERS, WITH I’M NOT FROM HERE + Q&A
20:30 P. 91 WHITE RAGE, WITH SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT + Q&A
TRUST ME, I’M A TV PRODUCER: THE SECRETS OF GREAT ACCESS
12:00 P. 137
COMMISSIONING: SINGLES, SPECIALS AND SERIES
TARDIS DOCS: TELLING DECEPTIVELY BIG STORIES IN TINY ONLINE SPACES
14:30 P. 147 DIGGING DEEPER... DOC/FEST ALTERNATE REALITIES
IN CONVERSATION... DOC/FEST LUMINARY ANNA HIGGS AND INGRID KOPP
09:45 P. 134
12:00 P. 136
14:30 P. 138 COMMISSIONING: SPECIALIST FACTUAL
16:30 P. 147
16:45 P. 41 17:00 THERE WILL BE WATER + Q&A
21:00
12:15 P. 61 HOOLIGAN SPARROW + Q&A
10:00 P. 135
16:45 P. 139
17:45 P. 140
HOW TO PUT KIDS ON TV: A CHANNEL 4 MASTERCLASS
RONNIE O’SULLIVAN IN CONVERSATION
19:45 P. 140 FREDDIE FLINTOFF & ROBERT PENN TALK DOCS & CHIPS
Parties & Social
22:00
12
23:00
00:00
Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Monday 13 June ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
Other
Other
09:00
09:00
09:00
DELEGATE LOUNGE
MARKETPLAYER
MARKETPLACE CAFÉ BREAKFAST WITH BOUDICA
10:00
09:30
P. 135
ADELPHI CONTEXT HACKING: A PERFORMANCE LECTURE BY JOHANNES GRENZFURTHNER
11:30
P. 136
ADELPHI NINO KIRTADZE: THE FINE LINE BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION
13:15
P. 137
ADELPHI EVIDENCE BASED STORYTELLING WITH CHRISTIAN HUMBORG
14:45
P. 186
MAIN HALL MEETMARKET AND ALTERNATE REALITIES MARKET
10:00
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL ROUND TABLES: FUNDS AND FOUNDATIONS
12:00
09:45 MARKET SWITCHBOARD
10:00 MARKET SWITCHBOARD SURGERIES: LEGAL AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL ROUND TABLES: SHORT FORM
13:00 OLD BANQUETING HALL
MEET THE BRIEF
P. 138
13:30 MARKET SWITCHBOARD SURGERIES: VIRTUAL REALITY AND INTERACTIVE
ADELPHI DOCS ON COPS
15:30
09:45 P. 134 THE FRENCH CONNECTION: WORKING WITH FRANCE
09:45 P. 134 NORTHERN EXPOSURE: WORKING WITH NORDIC BROADCASTERS
12:00 P. 136 DOES IT MATTER WHO FUNDS MY FILM? MAKING BRANDED DOCUMENTARIES.
12:00 P. 136 GOOD INTENTIONS VS GOOD VIEWING: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DOC MAKERS JOIN NON PROFITS
14:15 P. 137 THE CHANNEL 4 FIRST CUT PITCH
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL
ROUND TABLES: SERIES AND FORMATS 17:00
P. 139
ADELPHI NEW GENDERATION: HAS FACTUAL KEPT UP WITH THE REVOLUTION IN GENDER AND SEXUALITY?
20:00
17:30
16:30 P. 139 THE GUARDIAN DOCUMENTARIES PITCH
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL
10 MINUTE MEETS: ISSUE DRIVEN AND HAVING AN IMPACT
18:00 P. 196 CELEBRATORY DRINKS WITH THE GUARDIAN
10:00
P. 135
HOW TO DOCUMENT THE WORLD’S BIGGEST NEWS STORIES: TELLING THE REFUGEE CRISIS
12:15
9:00
P. 195
09:00 MARKETPLACE CAFÉ
10:00
P. 115 –116 10:00
MILLENNIUM GALLERY
ALT. REALITIES: INTERACTIVE 11:00 EXHIBITION 11:00 P. 117 –120 SITE GALLERY AND THE SPACE ALT. REALITIES: VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE
P. 137
WAR OF THE WORLDS: HOW THE DADA-DATA WEBDOC VIRUS DEFENDS THE WORLD
12:00
13:00
14:00 14:30 P. 138 BETWEEN ACTIVISM AND EXTREMISM: STORYTELLING FOR CHANGE
16:45 P. 139 WHAT MAKES A FEATURE DOC? DIRECTORS DISCUSS
14:45
P. 138
FEMALE TRAILBLAZERS: NEW WAYS OF WORKING IN MEDIA
15:00
17:00
17:00
16:00
P. 140
INTO THE LAND OF VOD: HOW I TRIED TO CONTACT NETFLIX
17:30
P. 195
CURZON BAR AND TERRACE
ALTITUDE MUSIC WELCOME DRINKS
18:00
P. 195 18:00
TAMPER
BFI FILM FUND PITCH DRINKS RECEPTION 19:00
P. 196
20:00
DELEGATE LOUNGE
P. 196 20:00
WINTER GARDEN
JOURNEYMAN PICTURES PRESENTS: MEET THE FILMMAKERS DRINKS
Schedule
ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
Films
Cutlers’ Hall Hadfield Hall
21:00
P. 196
SHEFFIELD CATHEDRAL
IRISH DELEGATION DRINKS RECEPTION
21:00
Alternate Realities
Cutlers’ Hall MarketPlayer
Talks & Sessions
Cutlers’ Hall
Marketplace
Crucible
THE BBC PARTY
23:00
00:00
Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Parties & Social
22:00
13
Tuesday 14 June
Schedule
Beijing Showroom 1
Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions
PBS America Showroom 3
ITN Source Showroom 4
Bertha Curzon Cinema DocHouse Library Theatre
Crucible
Crucible Theatre
09:00
9:00
DELEGATE LOUNGE
09:30
P. 66 10:00 10:00 THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ALEX LEWIS + Q&A 11:00
10:15 P. 69 GOLDEN GIRL + Q&A
09:45 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME 4 WORKING LIVES
10:15 P. 79 MISO HUNGRY
09:45 P. 63 THE PEACEMAKER + Q&A
P. 140
STUDIO
WHY YOU SHOULD BE WORKING WITH CHANNEL 5 11:00
14:00
12:15 P. 61 GENERATION REVOLUTION + Q&A 13:15 P. 67 INSIDE THE GANG (WORKING TITLE) + Q&A
12:45 P. 38 BORN TO BE FREE + Q&A
12:15 WEINER
P. 64
12:30 P. 74 THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
P. 142
STUDIO COMMISSIONING: SHORTS FOR ALL PLATFORMS
13:00
Parties & Social
P. 143
IN CONVERSATION WITH HBO’S SHEILA NEVINS
14:15
P. 144
STUDIO
14:45 15:00 KIKI
P. 71
14:45 P. 35 NOTES ON BLINDNESS + Q&A 15:45 P. 82 DEAD SLOW AHEAD + Q&A
16:00
15:30 P. 36 PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW + Q&A
15:00 P. 72 MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES
15:00 P. 82 COMMAND AND CONTROL + Q&A
COMMISSIONING: FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
16:00
17:00
17:00 17:30 P. 62 MY 18:00 SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE + Q&A
18:15 P. 81 THE CHARRO OF TOLUQUILLA + Q&A
17:30 P. 32 BOBBY SANDS: 66 DAYS + Q&A
18:00 P. 59 LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS + Q&A
18:00 P. 57 AFTER SPRING + Q&A
20:00 20:30 P. 70 MAYA ANGELOU 21:00 AND STILL I RISE + Q&A
20:45 P. 71 PLAZA DE LA SOLEDAD + Q&A
20:30 P. 84 INDIA IN A DAY + Q&A
20:45 SERENA
P. 77
20:45 P. 88 A FAMILY AFFAIR + Q&A
17:30 P. 60 OUR LAST TANGO + Q&A
20:00 P. 79 NOMA: MY PERFECT STORM + Q&A
P. 196
DELEGATES LOUNGE
CHANNEL 4 PARTY
20:00 P. 197 AWARDS CEREMONY
23:00
00:00
Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
P. 145
OUR BBC, OUR CHANNEL 4: A FUTURE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TV?
22:00
14
P. 141
COMMISSIONING: ARTS DOCUMENTARY
P. 196
12:00
12:15 P. 40 KIVALINA, WITH THE LIVING 13:00 FOREST + Q&A
10:00
DELEGATE LOUNGE WHY YOU SHOULD BE WORKING WITH CHANNEL 5 BRUNCH
12:00
19:00
Marketplace
Vimeo Showroom 2
Parties & Social
Tuesday 14 June
P. 144
NEW US TRENDS AND PLATFORMS
15:45 P. 196 UKTI NETWORKING RECEPTION
Other
Other
09:00
09:00
MARKETPLAYER
HADFIELD HALL MINIMEETMARKET: MEET THE EXECS
MARKETPLACE CAFÉ
09:45 MARKET SWITCHBOARD
11:30 MARKET SWITCHBOARD SURGERIES: THE GUARDIAN
10:00
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL ROUND TABLES: FESTIVALS – WITH DOCUMENTARY CAMPUS
12:00
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL ROUND TABLES: FEATURE DOCS FOR CINEMA AND TV
09:30
P. 186
MAIN HALL MEETMARKET AND ALTERNATE REALITIES MARKET
11:45
P. 142
HADFIELD HALL THE WHICKER’S WORLD FOUNDATION PITCH
09:45 P. 141 NOTES ON BLINDNESS: INTO DARKNESS, A FILM AND VR AUTOPSY
12:00 P. 142 DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION GOES GREEN
13:00 MARKET SWITCHBOARD SURGERIES: THE BFI CERTIFICATION UNIT
OLD BANQUETING HALL MEET THE BBC PRODUCTION TALENT NETWORK
15:30
14:00
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL 10 MINUTE MEETS: ARTS AND CULTURE
17:00
09:30 10:00 P. 141 HOW TO PITCH YOUR CLIMATE CHANGE IDEA
12:15 P. 143 CO-PRODUCTION POSSIBILITIES AND FESTIVAL CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA
P. 143
HADFIELD HALL IBT CLIMATE CHANGE PITCH
14:30 P. 144 DOCS IN THE NEWSROOM
9:00
14:30 P. 144 A PLACE AT THE TABLE: WHY DOCUMENTARIES FOR KIDS MATTER
P. 196
MARKETPLACE CAFÉ DELEGATES BREAKFAST WITH DISCOVERY
10:30
P. 147
DOC/FEST EXCHANGE ABOUT LAST NIGHT... DAILY REVIEW INCL. THERE WILL BE WATER
12:30 P. 147 DOC/FEST EXCHANGE CREATIVE EXCHANGE... IDEAS BEHIND MACHINE OF HUMAN DREAMS
10:00
P. 115 –116 10:00
MILLENNIUM GALLERY ALT. REALITIES: INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
11:00
11:00
. 56 P.P117 –120
SITE GALLERY AND THE SPACE ALT. REALITIES: VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE
12:45
12:00
P. 120
13:00 SHOWROOM CAFÉ NOTES ON BLINDNESS: INTO DARKNESS VR SHOWING 14:00
14:30 P. 147 DOC/FEST EXCHANGE DIGGING DEEPER... NATIONAL BIRD
15:00
16:00
P. 186
OLD BANQUETING HALL 10 MINUTE MEETS: INTERACTIVE AND VIRTUAL REALITY
16:30 P. 147 DOC/FEST EXCHANGE IN CONVERSATION... DOC/FEST LUMINARY MARK HERBERT, WARP FILMS 18:30 P. 197
18:30
TAMPER
WINTER GARDEN
BFI FILM AUDIENCE NETWORK DRINKS RECEPTION
16:30
Schedule
ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
Films
ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
09:00
13:30
14:30
Cutlers’ Hall
Alternate Realities
12:15 P. 143 THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MUSLIMS
Cutlers’ Hall Old Banqueting Hall
P. 120
SHOWROOM CAFÉ 17:00 NOTES ON BLINDNESS: INTO DARKNESS VR SHOWING
18:00 P. 197
WHICKER’S WINTER GARDEN SUNDOWNER
19:00
20:00
21:00
22:00
Talks & Sessions
10:00 P. 141 ROADMAP TO FILM FUNDING SUCCESS: UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF GRANT PROPOSALS
Cutlers’ Hall, Marketplace Café
Marketplace
Crucible Adelphi
P. 197 22:00
GUILTY PLEASURES PARTY (TIL 2AM)
23:00
00:00
Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Parties & Social
PLUG
15
Wednesday 15 June
Schedule
Beijing Showroom 1
Films
11:00
Alternate Realities
PBS America Showroom 3
10:15 P. 43 LYARI NOTES, WITH SILENT VOICES
10:00 P. 85 MONSTER IN THE MIND THE CONVENIENT UN-TRUTH ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S + Q&A
Doc/Fest Cutlers’ Hall, Cutlers’ Hall Exchange on Old Banqueting Tudor Square Hall
10:00 P. 37 SOUR GRAPES + Q&A
12:15 P. 33 CITY 40, WITH BUNKERS + 13:00 Q&A
14:00
13:00 P. 54 JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 COMMERCE QUAY, 1080 BRUSSELS
15:00 15:00 P. 69 DADDY’S GIRL + Q&A
18:00
20:00 20:00 P. 90 MERCI PATRON ! (THANKS 21:00 BOSS)
12:30 P. 44 SNOW MONKEY + Q&A
17:15 P. 30 STORYBOARD P, A STRANGER IN SWEDEN
19:30 BEST OF THE FEST
09:00
09:00
MARKETPLAYER
MARKETPLACE CAFÉ
10:30 P. 147 ABOUT LAST NIGHT... DAILY REVIEW INCL. INDIA IN A DAY
10:30 P. 145 HADFIELD HALL THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD PRESENTS: HOW TO PITCH YOUR ACADEMIC IDEA
12:30 P. 147 CREATIVE EXCHANGE... IDEAS BEHIND UNLOCKING THE CAGE
Parties & Social
MILLENNIUM GALLERY
ALTERNATE REALITIES: INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
11:00 P. 117 –120 SITE GALLERY AND THE SPACE ALTERNATE
REALITIES: VIRTUAL REALITY ARCADE
13:00 P. 186 ON-SCREEN FACTUAL TALENT MARKET
16:30 P. 77 MAD DOGS, WITH HELL ON WHEELS
16:45 P. 147 IN CONVERSATION... A DOC/FEST LUMINARY
19:00 P. 29 THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER + EXTENDED Q&A
19:30 P. 145 CITY HALL BALLROOM ADAM BUXTON PRESENTS A BUG SPECIAL: DAVID BOWIE
21:15 P. 197 SHOWROOM BAR
CLOSING NIGHT FILM RECEPTION
22:00
16
Other
14:30 P. 147 DIGGING DEEPER... DOC/FEST ALTERNATE REALITIES: VIRTUAL
15:30 P. 36 THE SETTLERS
16:00
17:00 17:00 P. 37 TEMPESTAD + Q&A
12:45 P. 86 SOLITARY, WITH EYE FOR AN EYE + Q&A
Other
10:00 P. 115 –116
12:00
19:00
Marketplace
ITN Source Showroom 4
9:00
10:00 10:00 P. 35 THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED
Talks & Sessions
Vimeo Showroom 2
23:00
00:00
Films
Talks & Sessions
Marketplace
Alternate Realities
Parties & Social
Outdoor Screens
Beijing Screen on Howard Street Fri 10 Jun
Sat 11 Jun
Sun 12 Jun
Mon 13 Jun
Tue 14 Jun
Wed 15 Jun
20:00 AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: A HISTORY
15:00 MAVIS!
16:00 FIRST POSITION
18:00 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME 20:00 THE MINE WARS
17:00 KEDI, WITH CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC 18:30 BFI FILM ARCHIVE
20:20 ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
11:00 12:00
13:30 AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: A HISTORY 15:30 IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
13:00 BFI ARCHIVE
13:00 13:30 NOTES ON BLINDNESS 14:00
15:00 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME
15:00 IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
17:00 BLACK GOLD
17:30 !VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!
16:30 MAVIS!
15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00
19:20 VARICELLA 20:00 THE SPIRIT OF ‘45
20:00 A BALLERINA’S TALE
20:00 21:00 22:00
Guardian Screen on Tudor Square Fri 10 Jun
Sat 11 Jun
Sun 12 Jun
Mon 13 Jun
Tue 14 Jun
Wed 15 Jun 10:00
12:00 THE MINE WARS
10:45 AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: A HISTORY 13:00 A BALLERINA’S TALE
15:00 KEDI, WITH CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC
17:15 VARICELLA 18:00 FIRST POSITION
20:00 BERLIN 1936, THE FINAL ILLUSION
15:00 BFI FILM ARCHIVE
17:00 GUARDIAN SHORTS 18:00 !VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! 20:00 MAVIS!
11:00 BERLIN 1936, THE FINAL ILLUSION
11:00 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME
11:00 A TODO COLOR
11:00 11:00 KEDI, WITH CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC 12:00
13:00 GUARDIAN SHORTS 13:45 VARICELLA
13:00 NOTES ON BLINDNESS
13:00 A BALLERINA’S TALE
13:00 BLACK GOLD
15:00 A TODO COLOR
15:00 THE EPIC OF EVEREST
17:30 AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: A HISTORY 19:30 THE EPIC OF EVEREST
Films
15:00 VARICELLA
11:00 THE MINE WARS
13:00
Alternate Realities
18:00 A BALLERINA’S TALE
13:00 FIRST POSITION
11:00 NOTES ON BLINDNESS
Talks & Sessions
16:00 MAVIS!
13:00 BERLIN 1936, THE FINAL ILLUSION
11:00 THE MINE WARS
14:00
17:00 FIRST POSITION
19:00 BFI ARCHIVE 20:40 A TODO COLOR
15:00 BERLIN 1936, THE FINAL ILLUSION
15:00 THE SPIRIT OF ‘45
17:10 AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: A HISTORY
17:15 BFI ARCHIVE
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14:00 THE SPIRIT OF ‘45
11:00 SHORT DOC PROGRAMME
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19:10 IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
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21:00 GUARDIAN SHORTS
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12:00 ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
11:00 KEDI, WITH CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC
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Bertha Ad
We continue with much loved and longstanding film strands and themes: Instigators & Agitators, Women in Docs, Queer Screen and Behind the Beats. With 160 films shown in cinemas across Sheffield and on our Outdoor Screens: Beijing Screen on Howard Street and Guardian Screen on Tudor Square, it is our pleasure to bring you rich, emotional and entertaining cinematic experiences. Claire Aguilar – Director of Programming & Industry Engagement
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Schedule New thematic strands include the sport and adventure showcase Outdoor Adventure with the surfing film Mad Dogs (p.77) and International Premiere of Serena (p.77). No Place Like Home reflects the consequences – both uplifting and dispirited – of displacement, migration, diaspora and homelessness in The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (p.74), My Aleppo (p. 50) and Tempestad (p.37). We enter the world of dance and movement with Get Up & Dance, featuring Mr. Gaga (p.59) and Kiki (p.71).
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The rapid change, disruption and colossal upheaval in our world are mirrored in the programme. The films will introduce you to new worlds, visions and perspectives which may excite and provoke some, but will also cause reflection and laughter in others. We continue to support filmmakers who strive to make an impact on a personal, local and global scale using the power of storytelling.
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This year’s Film Programme brings you an abundance of the best documentary and non-fiction film and television with an eclectic mix of features, mid-length films and shorts from around the world, from big budget documentaries to independent and experimental works.
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Grand Jury Award
supported by Screen International & Broadcast Chosen from a selection of some of the best films in the programme, the Grand Jury Award supported by Screen International and Broadcast will honour one film that best displays excellence in style, substance and approach to documentary filmmaking.
Environmental Award
supported by Discovery Communications The Sheffield Environmental Award supported by Discovery is given to the documentary that best addresses or raises awareness of the environmental challenges faced by the world. The winning filmmaker will be awarded a £2,000 cash prize.
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The winning filmmaker will be awarded a £2,000 cash prize.
Jurors
Eric Hynes
MOMI / Indiewire / USA
Brothers p.32 Cameraperson p.33
The Confession p.34 Jim: The James Foley Story p.34
Sean McAllister Ten Foot Films / UK
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Ryan Harrington Discovery Channel, Animal Planet & Science / USA
Marie Nelson PBS / USA
Barbara Truyen VPRO / Netherlands
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Director/Cinematographer / Netherlands
Death by Design p.39
Freightened The Real Price of Shipping p.40 Kivalina p.40
Jerry Rothwell Director / UK
Presenting Princess Shaw p.36 The Settlers p.36
Born to Be Free p.38
Footprint p.39
The Land of the Enlightened p.35 Notes on Blindness p.35
Nominations The Age of Consequences p.38
City 40 p.33 Director / France
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Bobby Sands: 66 Days p.32
Nino Kirtadze Talks & Sessions
Nominations
SEED: The Untold Story p.41 There Will Be Water p.41 Zud p.42
Kate Townsend BBC Storyville / UK
Sour Grapes p.37 Tempestad p.37
Melanie Wallace NOVA WGBH TV / PBS / USA
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Sergi Doladé Medimed / Spain
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Brillo Box (3¢ off) p.45
Burnout p.48
Bunkers p.45
Continental Drift p.48
Extremis p.45
Jemma Desai British Council / UK
Gatekeeper p.46
Klara GrunningHarris
Swedish Film Institute / Sweden
Seetha Kumar Creative Skillset / UK
I’m Not From Here p.46 Johnny Physical Lives p.46 Recorded Absence p.47 Silent Voices p.47
New York Times / USA
When You Awake p.48
Sylvia Harvey
University of Leeds / UK
Joan p.49 Klavierkunst p.50 My Aleppo p.50
Benjamin Huguet Director / UK
Pulse p.50 Saving Sungei p.51
Matimba Kabalika BFI / UK
Al Morrow Met Film / UK
Eye for an Eye p.49 Grey Area p.49
Toucan Nation p.47
Kathleen Lingo
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Kyoko Miyake
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The best student films coming from schools and universities around the world are in consideration for the Student Doc Award.
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This award honours the short films in the Festival, made by new and established filmmakers from around the world. The winner of the Short Doc Award at Doc/Fest will go on to qualify for the 2017 Academy Awards.
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Student Doc Award
Tarikat p.51 Transit Zone p.51
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Short Doc Award
Shane Smith Hot Docs / Canada
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Director / UK
Michal Szczesniak Filmmaker / Poland
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Youth Jury Award
Audience Award
From the snowy streets of Stockholm to the urban sprawl of Afghanistan, this year’s selection contained an immense spectrum of diversity. We were witness to films depicting the unstoppable rise of a Middle Eastern teenage rap prodigy and the memories of a Bosnian refugee vessel alike, bound by their common theme of ‘youth’. Those involved in these films should be immensely proud of their achievements. That we as a jury were able to discuss their content and style at length is a testament to their efforts. We would like to thank Sheffield Doc/Fest, the three guest speakers at Directors UK, and the filmmakers themselves for these incredible pieces of cinema.
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Kristofer Thomas
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Flotel Europa p.43
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Hannah Binney London
Lyari Notes p.43 Snow Monkey p.44 Sonita p.44
Simone Dembitzer London
Ross McDonnell London
Maxine Sabinda Sheffield
Kristofer Thomas Stockport
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Storyboard P, a stranger in Sweden p.30
These awards give Sheffield’s public audience and industry delegates the chance to honour their favourite films and projects with the Dr Clifford Shaw Best Feature Doc Audience Award supported by Curzon Home Cinema, the Audience Award for Best Short Doc, the Audience Award for Best Alternate Realities Interactive Project and the Audience Award for Best Alternate Realities VR Project. Dr Clifford Shaw, who passed away in 2015, was a great cinephile and supporter of Doc/Fest and the Sheffield film community. The feature doc award is named in his honour. Past winners include 5 Broken Cameras by Emad Burmat, The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer, Still the Enemy Within by Owen Gower and most recently The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer for feature doc, Dear Araucaria by Matt Houghton for short doc and Disney Animated by Theodore Gray and Dave Bossert for Alternate Realities project. To vote, look out for volunteers with tear-slips at the film screenings, and look out for our volunteers at the Alternate Realities exhibitions for details.
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Sheila Nevins is an American television producer who has produced hundreds of documentary films for HBO and is one of the most influential people in documentary filmmaking. She is responsible for overseeing the development and production of all documentaries for HBO, HBO2 and Cinemax. As an executive producer she has received 31 Primetime Emmy Awards, 34 News and Documentary Emmys and 40 George Foster Peabody Awards. During her tenure, HBO’s critically acclaimed documentaries have gone on to win 26 Academy Awards, the most recently of which was A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness. We are proud to present the Creative Leadership Award to Sheila Nevins and to recognise her contributions and influence in the documentary world. She is a creative catalyst for documentaries and has brought innovative and passionate stories to millions of television and film viewers. At Doc/Fest we will screen the UK and international premieres of HBO Documentary films produced by Sheila and the HBO documentary team: Jim: The James Foley Story (p.34), Unlocking the Cage (p.56) and Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (p.72).
The winning filmmaker will be awarded a £1,000 cash prize. For more information on the Tim Hetherington Trust and the work it does, please visit www.timhetheringtontrust.org
Award for Unsung Hero and Factual Television supported by Channel 5
This new award honours a vital, under-the-radar contribution to British factual television. The 2016 Award for Unsung Hero in Factual Television will be presented to Jan Tomalin, Managing Director of Media Law Consultancy. Jan has helped and advised almost all of the UK’s top documentary makers, companies and broadcasters on the trickiest editorial matters imaginable – and won the day. Quite simply, many of the most challenging and important programmes of the last 20 years would never have got on air were it not for Jan’s creativity, tenacity, awesome legal knowledge – and nerve. The UK’s best producers simply love her and trust her. She’s a one-off.
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Dogwoof, Sheffield Doc/Fest and the Tim Hetherington Trust award a film and filmmaker which best reflects journalist Tim Hetherington’s legacy. Hetherington has said: “My main objective is to take audiences to a faraway place that they could never travel to without the help of an intrepid filmmaker. This is the challenge that still excites me.”
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The 2016 Sheffield Creative Leadership Award will be presented to Sheila Nevins, President of HBO Documentary Films.
supported by Dogwoof
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The Sheffield Doc/Fest Creative Leadership Award is given to an individual who has made an essential contribution to the international documentary industry, has created or produced creative and impactful documentary work and has provided inspiration and leadership to the field.
Tim Hetherington Award
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ARRI Short Film Challenge Award During the Festival, five filmmaking teams will make a short film on the theme of “Sheffield: The Green City”. The winner will be awarded £3,000 from ARRI, discounted passes to Doc/ Fest 2017 and a place on the ARRI Lighting Academy in London. ITN Source Short Film Competition Award This award, in association with Audio Network, allows filmmakers free access to the ITN Source archive footage library to create a one-minute film. From over 70 entries, the top three films will screen at Doc/Fest and the winner, voted for by you, will be awarded £1,000. Storytelling and Innovation Award This new award, supported by Wellcome Trust, celebrates compelling stories inspired by science, research and collaborations, told through innovative filmmaking. Whicker’s World Funding Award The Whicker’s World Foundation was created by Alan Whicker to encourage the making of quality documentaries. Each year £80,000 will be awarded to a new director with the most promising pitch for an authored documentary which fulfils the core criteria of the foundation. Whicker’s World Audio Award Alan Whicker worked in radio before TV, including BBC Radio 2 in the ‘90s, adding what Controller Jim Moir described as “great lustre to my network”. The Whicker’s World Foundation will award an annual £4,000 prize for the best audio project. Whicker’s World Vet Award ‘Retirement’ was not a word Alan knew – he was 83 when he wrote and presented Whicker’s War. To recognise a TV or audio professional who has come to air with an authored story for the first time, an annual prize of £4,000 will be awarded with an over 50 qualification age.
Film Strands Ken Loach Retrospective Notable UK director Ken Loach, known for his socialist realist style and champion of social issues on film, joins us in a rare conversation. Remembering Chantal Akerman Four films by and about the late Chantal Akerman, whose profound and unforgettable films transformed elements of everyday life into sublime cinematic reflections. Close Up: Pennebaker One of the pioneers of documentary filmmaking joins us with co-director Chris Hegedus with their latest film Unlocking the Cage. Also screening are classics Don’t Look Back and Monterey Pop. No Place Like Home These stories of migration, displacement, diaspora and homelessness define the 21st century world on the move. Get Up & Dance All that is dance – including sublime ballet films, contemporary choreography and voguing. Instigators & Agitators Listen to the stories of those who commit their lives to revolt, radicalism and protest to strive for social change. Best Of British Showcasing the best of documentary and factual, produced here in the UK. Women In Docs Stories of women on screen and behind the lens. Queer Screen Six LGBTQ-themed documentaries ranging from Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, about the iconoclast photographer, to Kiki, showcasing dancers in Brooklyn. Behind The Beats The best of music on film – from the birth of the blues to internet music composing. Outdoor Adventure Outdoor-themed films: diving, trekking, race car driving and surfing – from around the globe. Food & Wine Some of the most mouth-watering and thirst-inducing films you will see. Global Encounters We take you on a tour around the world with a compelling array of stories, people and places. Euro/Doc Connect with the continent with the best new documentaries from Europe. Short Doc Programme Dynamic and creative shorts from the world’s most original voices are presented in this unique programme. Outdoor Screen Some of the best feature and short documentaries from the programme screen day and night at Beijing Screen on Howard Street and Guardian Screen on Tudor Square. Free admission.
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Opening Night / Closing Night
Where to Invade Next
The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
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Wed 15 Jun / 19:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Directors: Bartek Dziadosz, Christopher Roth, Colin MacCabe, Tilda Swinton
In this unique documentary journey, revered British art critic John Berger’s close friends, including Colin MacCabe and Tilda Swinton, collaborate on four different film essays. Set in the Alpine village of Quincy, the films interweave ideas from Berger’s work and world. Conceived as “exercises in thinking in film,” they offer up an appropriately innovative portrait of an intellectual giant. ~ CN
Producers: Lily Ford, Colin MacCabe Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: www.seasonsinquincy.com Sales Contact: Zoe Kandyla, The Derek Jarman Lab Email: sales@jarmanlab.org
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Associated Talk: The Channel 4 Interview: Michael Moore (p.134)
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Sales Contact: Alex Walton, Bloom Media Email: AWalton@bloom-media.com
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Michael Moore is known by most as an iconoclast film director, brilliant polemicist and one of the most infamous political activists. He presents his latest film, conducting a bold experiment that takes the American trend of ‘invasion’ outside of war, conflict and economics – and transforms it into his version of a more kind, gentle and humorous appropriation of social and moral values. ~ CA
Producer: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Michael Moore Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 110 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Sicko (2007), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), Bowling for Columbine (2002) Website: www.wheretoinvadenext.co.uk
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Director: Michael Moore
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Fri 10 Jun / 18:30 / City Hall & Sun 12 Jun / 14:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
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Sun 12 Jun / 10:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Directors: Various Producers: Various Country: UK Duration: 83 mins Format: Digi Betacam Premiere: UK
From the lowlife to the highlife and back again – a selection of films charting the evolution of the high-rise from the slums of 1930s Kensington to Sheffield’s ‘utopian’ Park Hill Estate.
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Sales Contact: Peter Fydler, BFI Tel: +44 (0)207 957 8927 Email: peter.fydler@bfi.org.uk
Storyboard P, a stranger in Sweden
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Sat 11 Jun / 12:45 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Wed 15 Jun / 17:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Matthew D’Arcy Producer: Erik Pauser Country: Sweden Year: 2016 Duration: 52 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Website: www.strangerinsweden.com
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The Rise and Fall of the High-rise
Brooklyn dancer Storyboard P’s relentless quest to express himself takes him to unexpected places and pushes him and those around him to their limits. ~ CA Join Storyboard P for a special performance following the screening on Saturday 11 June.
Sales Contact: Matthew D’Arcy, AMP Film Email: matt@ampfilm.se
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
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Mon 13 Jun / 17:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Louise Osmond
Where You’re Meant To Be
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Sun 12 Jun / 19:00 / Abbeydale Picturehouse
Director/Producer: Paul Fegan Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 75 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Pouters (2012) Website: www.whereyouremeanttobe.com Paul Fegan’s debut feature documentary is a warm-hearted journey through Scottish landscape, culture and music. Featuring Scottish cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat (formerly of Arab Strap), the film takes a road trip through time and space with 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart, who believes Scotland’s oldest songs should be performed in their pure form. Moffat takes an invigorating trip around Scotland surrounding himself with Scottish folk tales, folk songs and folk singers.
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Associated Talk: What Makes a Feature Doc? Directors Discuss (p.139)
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Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach is a funny, provocative and revealing account of the life and career of one of Britain’s foremost filmmakers, Ken Loach, as he turns eighty and looks back at over fifty years of filmmaking. Join us for an in-depth Q&A with Ken Loach and director Louise Osmond following the screening. ~ CA
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Producer: Rebecca O’Brien Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 96 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Dark Horse (2015), The Beckoning Silence (2007), Deep Water (2006) Website: www.versusfilm.com
Sales Contact: Paul Fegan, Better Days Email: paulfegan@betterdays.co.uk
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Grand Jury Award
Mon 13 Jun / 17:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Tue 14 Jun / 17:30 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Brendan J. Byrne
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Bobby Sands: 66 Days
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The relentless cycle of violence in Northern Ireland took a dramatic turn in 1981 when Bobby Sands and nine other IRA prisoners went on hunger strike. Their insistence that they be recognised as political prisoners soon garnered the world’s attention. Brendan J. Byrne uses a treasure trove of archive, testimonials and Sands’ personal diaries to tell the turbulent story of 66 transformative days. ~ CN
Producers: Trevor Birney, Brendan J. Byrne Country: UK, USA, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden Year: 2016 Duration: 105 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director’s Filmography: Being James Galway (2015), Bomb Squad Men: The Long Walk (2013), Breaking the Silence (2010), Breakout (2008) Website: www.66daysthemovie.com Sales Contact: Brendan Byrne, 66 Days Films Email: bbyrne@finepointfilms.com
Brothers
Sun 12 Jun / 12:30 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Mon 13 Jun / 17:30 / Curzon Cinema
Director/Producer: Wojciech Staron
After almost 80 years in exile, brothers Mieczysław and Alfons Kułakowskike return to their native Poland from Siberia and Kazakhstan. They slowly rebuild a simple co-existence despite their different temperaments. Over a number of years, director Wojciech Staron pays the nonagenarians regular visits to quietly observe their endurance and, most of all, to celebrate their deep affection for one another. ~ SW
Country: Poland Year: 2015 Duration: 70 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Argentinean Lesson (2011), For a While (2005), El Misionero (2000), A time to live (1999), Siberian Lesson (1998) Screening with: I’m Not From Here (p.46) Sales Contact: Pierre Boivin, Capricci Films Email: pierre.boivin@capricci.fr
Grand Jury Award
Cameraperson
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Sat 11 Jun / 14:00 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Mon 13 Jun / 18:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Kirsten Johnson
City 40
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Sat 11 Jun / 21:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Wed 15 Jun / 12:15 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director/Producer: Samira Goetschel Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 75 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: Our Own Private Bin Laden (2006)
Welcome to ‘City 40’, whose residents have a higher than average standard of living than other Russian citizens – before dying prematurely of radiation poisoning. Director Samira Goetchel uses secret filming to take us inside the city, which was closed to the outside world for decades. We follow some of the braver inhabitants battling for their voices to be heard, in a chilling manifestation of the nuclear arms race. ~ CN
Screening with: Bunkers (p.45) Sales Contact: Ela Elbaz, Cinephil Email: ela@cinephil.co.il Associated Talk: Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media (p.138)
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Associated Talk: Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media, p.138; Writing with Light: The Art of Cinematography, p.127
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Sales Contact: Catherine Le Clef, CAT&Docs Email: cat@catndocs.com
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For 25 years American cinematographer Kirsten Johnson has roamed the globe for some of the biggest documentary directors, including Michael Moore and Laura Poitras. In this thoroughly engrossing film she refashions some of her footage into a kaleidoscope musing on her profession. Cameraperson proves a masterclass in empathetic filmmaking, a must see for anyone forging a career on filming the lives of others. ~ CN
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Producer: Marilyn Ness Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 102 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
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Sun 12 Jun / 15:30 / Odeon & Mon 13 Jun / 12:30 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Ashish Ghadiali Producer: James Rogan Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World
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The Confession
From supporting the Bosnian Mujahideen to being imprisoned in Bagram and Guantanamo, from the rebel training camps in Syria to the prison cells of Belmarsh in Britain, Moazzam Begg has experienced a generation of conflict. This is his first-hand account, a chronicle of the rise of modern jihad, its descent into terror and the disastrous reaction of the West.
Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: oli@dogwoof.com Associated Talk: How to Document the World’s Biggest News Stories: Telling the Refugee Crisis (p.135)
Jim: The James Foley Story
Sat 11 Jun / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Mon 13 Jun / 20:15 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Brian Oakes
In 2014 American journalist James Foley’s video beheading at the hands of the newly emerged ISIS shocked the world. In this poignant documentary made by his childhood friend, Brian Oakes, Foley’s friends, family and colleagues eschew his violent death in order to recall his short but impactful life, and how, having survived being kidnapped in Libya, Foley soon insisted on traveling to Syria, with devastating consequences. ~ CN
Producer: Teddy Kunhardt, George Kunhardt, Eva Lipman Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 112 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Living with Lincoln (2015) Website: www.dogwoofglobal.com/ jim-the-james-foley-story Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
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Grand Jury Award
The Land of the Enlightened
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Sat 11 Jun / 17:30 / Curzon Cinema & Wed 15 Jun / 10:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Pieter-Jan De Pue
Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Mon 13 Jun / 13:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Tue 14 Jun / 14:45 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Wed 15 Jun / 13:30 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Directors: James Spinney, Peter Middleton Producers: Alex Usborne, Steve Jamison, Jo-Jo Ellison, Mike Brett, James Spinney, Peter Middleton Country: UK, France Year: 2016 Duration: 86 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Website: www.notesonblindness.co.uk When John Hull’s sight finally vanished completely after decades of deterioration, the writer and academic decided to document his new world on audio cassettes. In this innovative hybrid feature, following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, co-directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney use actors to lip sync the diaries, telling the story of Hull’s complex and articulate engagement with his condition. To step into Hull’s world, try the Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness virtual reality project in Site Gallery and the Showroom Café. ~ CN
The screening on Tuesday 14 June will be presented with enhanced sound design, for blind, partially sighted and sighted audiences.
Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil Email: philippa@cinephil.com Associated Talks: Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy (p.141), A Reasonably Adjusted Debate: Disability On and Off Screen (p.131), Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience (p.132) Supported by Documentary Campus Masterschool
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Notes on Blindness
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Sales Contact: Louis Boldini, StudioCanal Email: louis.boldini@studiocanal.co.uk
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In this seamless blend of fictional and documentary form, we experience a stunning cinematic journey into the beauty of wartormented Afghanistan. Shot over seven years on evocative 16mm footage, first-time director Pieter-Jan De Pue paints a whimsical yet haunting look at the condition of Afghanistan left for the next generation.
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Producer: Bart Van Langendonck Country: Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany Year: 2015 Duration: 87 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
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Director: Ido Haar Producer: Liran Atzmor Country: Israel Year: 2015 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: Enlistment Days (2012), 9 Star Hotels (2007), Melting Siberia (2004)
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Talented but isolated, New Orleans care worker Samantha spends her spare time uploading acapella videos of her original songs to YouTube, to a smattering of viewers. Unknown to her, in a far away kibbutz, Israeli mash up artist Kutiman is composing his next viral sensation – with Samantha as the star. Following them both, director Ido Haar brings us a gratifyingly heartwarming digital fairy tale. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Hadar Taylor Shechter, Go2Films Email: hadar@go2films.com
The Settlers
Mon 13 Jun / 12:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Wed 15 Jun / 15:30 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Shimon Dotan Producers: Paul Cadieux, Jonathan Aroch, Estelle Fialon, Shimon Dotan Country: France, Germany, Israel Year: 2016 Duration: 110 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: Hot House (2006)
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Sat 11 Jun / 21:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Tue 14 Jun / 15:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4
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Presenting Princess Shaw
Hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers today live in the middle of the Palestinian population in the West Bank. In an archive rich, thought provoking film, Shimon Dotan traces their history, painting a picture of an often haphazard movement in which a small number of extremists has succeeded in controlling the narrative – helping ensure that peace in the region remains elusive. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil Email: philippa@cinephil.com
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Grand Jury Award
Associated Talk: Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience (p.132)
Tempestad
Mon 13 Jun / 21:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Wed 15 Jun / 17:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Tatiana Huezo
Miriam, a working mother who never appears on camera, makes her way across Mexico after being released from a cartel-run prison town. Counterposing her harrowing account is that of Adela’s, the spirited matriarch of a circus family whose daughter has been missing for years. Documentarian Tatiana Huezo poetically explores the haunting significance of homecoming for the two women. ~ SW
Producers: Sebastián Celis, Nicolás Celis Country: Mexico Year: 2016 Duration: 105 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: See, Listen and Be Silent (2015), Absences (2015), The Tiniest Place (2011), Family Portrait (2005), The Core of the Earth (2001) Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil Email: philippa@cinephil.co.il
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Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
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In the noughties heyday of the financial boom, the rich turned to collecting vintage wines as a display of wealth. A young, charismatic connoisseur named Rudy Kurniawan appears on the scene, selling some of the finest burgundies. Yet his sources – and his story – were mysteriously unclear. Acclaimed co-directors Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas intersect the very different arts of wine and fraud. ~SW
Producers: Al Morrow, Catherine Simeon Country: UK, France Year: 2016 Duration: 85 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: How To Change The World (2015), Town Of Runners (2013), Donor Unknown (2011) Website: www.dogwoofglobal.com/ sourgrapes
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Directors: Jerry Rothwell, Reuben Atlas
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Sun 12 Jun / 15:15 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Wed 15 Jun / 10:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
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Environmental Award
Sat 11 Jun / 12:30 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Jared P. Scott
“How does climate change interact with other pre-existing problems?” According to the high level US military and security experts consulted here, droughts and floods are “threat multipliers” to the conflicts of the world. Skilfully turning the environmental question into one of international security, director Jared P. Scott shows how natural disasters driven by global warming will be the linchpin to 21st century politics. ~ SW
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Producers: Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 78 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director Filmography: Requiem for the American Dream (2015), Disruption (2014), Do the Math (2013), The Artificial Leaf (2013), Split (2012) Website: www.theageofconsequences.com Sales Contact: Jared P. Scott, PF Pictures Email: jared@pfpictures.com
Born to Be Free
Mon 13 Jun / 20:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Tue 14 Jun / 12:45 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Gayane Petrosyan Producer: Mike Lerner Country: UK, Russia Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Website: www.borntobefreethemovie.com
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
The Age of Consequences
Born to Be Free is a revelatory investigation by three intrepid free-diving journalists, Gaya, Tanya and Julia, into the global trade in wild sea mammals. Their journey takes us to the most remote corners of Russia and witnesses, for the very first time, the shocking treatment that whales, dolphins and walruses are subjected to and discovers the corruption at the heart of this cruel international business.
Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
Films
Environmental Award
Sales Contact: Sue Williams, Ambrica Productions Email: info@ambrica.com
Footprint
Fri 10 Jun / 15.15 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Sun 12 Jun / 10:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director/Producer: Valentina Canavesio Country: USA, France Year: 2016 Duration: 82 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Sales Contact: Valentina Canavesio, Felicity Productions Email: vcanavesio@gmail.com
Footprint takes a dizzying spin around the globe witnessing population explosions, overconsumption, limited resources, and expert testimony as to what a world straining at its limits can sustain. We spend time with indigenous health workers, activists and the ordinary people who all challenge the idea that our world can continue to support the weight of humanity’s footprint on it.
Films Alternate Realities
Screening with: Consumed (p.92)
Talks & Sessions
Just what is the cost of our digital dependency? Director Sue Williams debunks the notion that electronics is a ‘clean’ industry by investigating a number of environmental and health catastrophes wrought by production of our gadgets. From early poisonous practises in Silicon Valley to China’s ongoing dumping of chemicals, this is a story that isn’t being told – but can no longer be ignored. ~ CN
Producers: Hilary Klotz Steinman, Sue Williams Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 73 mins Format: DCP Premiere: Eurpoean Director Filmography: Frontline: Young & Restless in China (2008), American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005), Frontline: China in the Red (2003), American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt (2000) Website: www.deathbydesignfilm.com
Marketplace
Director: Sue Williams
Parties & Social
Sat 11 Jun / 09:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Schedule
Death by Design
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Films
Environmental Award
Sat 11 Jun / 12:30 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Mon 13 Jun / 12:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Denis Delestrac
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Freightened - The Real Price of Shipping
“Sea blindness” refers to the shroud of secrecy that allows hugely lucrative shipping companies to shirk labour, ecological and ethical responsibilities. As trade globalises, so too do goods and services – at an alarming cost. Director Denis Delestrac exposes the devastating effects of freight shipping and suggests workable solutions that prioritise consumer awareness as well as commercial accountability. ~ SW
Producers: Carles Brugueras, Marieke van den Bersselaar, Laurent Mini, Karim Samaï Country: France, Spain Year: 2016 Duration: 84 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: Banking Nature (2014), Sand Wars (2013), Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space (2010) Screening with: Transit Zone (p.51) Sales Contact: Marion Duclos, About Premium Content Email: marion.duclos@aboutpremiumcontent.com
Kivalina
Sat 11 Jun / 10:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Tue 14 Jun / 12:15 / Beijing Showroom 1
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Director: GIna Abatemarco
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Producer: GIna Abatemarco Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 64 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: www.kivalinathefilm.com
“The angry waves, like a roaring beast waiting to gobble us up,” the woman notes as she regards the dark sea just beyond her Alaskan village of Kivalina. With the land of the Iñupiats exploited for oil and their way of life damaged by toxic pollutants, the residents are desperate to be relocated. Kivalina articulates the environmental and cultural cost of global warming. ~ SW
Screening with: The Living Forest (p.94) Sales Contact: Gina Abatemarco, Savor Terra FIlms Email: gabatemarco@gmail.com
Films
Environmental Award
Sales Contact: Jon Betz, Collective Eye Email: jon@collectiveeye.org
Talks & Sessions
For life-long environmental activist Vandana Shiva, farmers are now living in an age of “seed slavery”. With large agri-tech companies like Monsanto dominating, limiting and contaminating what we eat, multiple counter-efforts have emerged globally in response. Directors Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz present an eloquent and urgent case for saving seed, for protecting life’s very foundation. ~ SW
Producers: Phil Fairclough, Marc Turtletaub, Marisa Tomei Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 93 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director Filmography: Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? (2010), The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005), The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman (2001) Website: ww.seedthemovie.com
Films
Directors: Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel
Alternate Realities
Fri 10 Jun / 15:45 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Mon 13 Jun / 10:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Schedule
SEED: The Untold Story
There Will Be Water
Sat 11 Jun / 12:00 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Mon 13 Jun / 16:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
With the world rapidly running out of water, British engineer Bill Watts has a big idea: turning salt water into an energy source, and using the desert to produce energy, food and clean water. Aided by a team of Norwegians and funded by Qatar, he sets out to “green the desert”. But turning his lightbulb moment into a viable commercial prospect proves a difficult nut to crack. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Kim Christiansen, DR Sales Email: kimc@dr.dk
Parties & Social
Producer: Ulrik Gutkin Country: Denmark Year: 2016 Duration: 58 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Website: www.therewillbewater.com
Marketplace
Director: Per Liebeck
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Films
Environmental Award
Sat 11 Jun / 17:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Marta Minorowicz Producers: Ann Caroline Renninger, Anna Wydra Country: Germany, Poland Year: 2016 Duration: 84 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: www.kivalinathefilm.com
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Zud
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In Polish director Marta Minorowicz’s beautifully lensed docudrama, Mongolian herdsmen play people much like themselves to tell the story of 11-year-old Sukhbat. When a harsh winter kills off his nomadic family’s livestock, Sukhbat is recalled from school to help out. Under his father’s guidance Sukhbat tames and races a wild horse, but nature continues to be unforgiving in this harshest of terrains. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Manuela Buono, Slingshot Films Email: festivals@slingshotfilms.it
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Youth Jury Award
Flotel Europa
15
Sales Contact: Vladimir Tomic Email: vladimirtomic80@gmail.com
Lyari Notes
PG
Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 / Beijing Showroom 1 & Wed 15 Jun / 10:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Directors: Miriam Chandy Menacherry, Maheen Zia
In Pakistan’s Karachi, rebellion against religious fundamentalism is taking shape in different ways. Rock guitarist Hamza Jafri and his wife Nida Butt co-run the Music, Art and Drama School, a haven for children in a city where the arts are seen as sinful. Filmmakers Maheen Zia and Miriam Chandy Menacherry follow a close-knit group of girls as they cope with their violent everyday through friendship and music. ~ SW
Producers: Miriam Chandy Menacherry, Maheen Zia Country: UK, Canada, Finland, India, Netherlands, Pakistan Year: 2015 Duration: 70 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: The Rat Race (2011) Website: www.lyarinotes.com Screening with: Silent Voices (p.47) Sales Contact: Miriam Chandy, Menacherry Filament Pictures Tel: +91 989 2644163 Email: miriamchandy@yahoo.com
Alternate Realities
Screening with: Elders (p.92)
Talks & Sessions
Director Vladimir Tomic boarded the Flotel Europa in Copenhagen as a teenager in the early 1990s, along with his older brother, mother and 1,000 other refugees from the former Yugoslavia. Through video messages, they recounted their lives in limbo to loved ones back home. Via the refugees’ own home movies, Tomic reflects back in this timely and unusual coming of age film. ~ CN
Producers: Selma Jusufbegovic, Srdjan Keca Country: Denmark, Serbia Year: 2015 Duration: 71 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: Unfinished Journeys (2012), My Lost Generation (2009), The Valley of Shadows (2006), Echo (2005), The Trilogy (2004)
Marketplace
Director: Vladimir Tomic
Films
Schedule
Sat 11 Jun / 20:30 / Beijing Showroom 1 & Mon 13 Jun / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema
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Films
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Youth Jury Award
Snow Monkey Schedule
Sun 12 Jun / 15:00 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Wed 15 Jun / 12:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: George Gittoes
In Taliban-controlled Jalalabad, three gangs of children restlessly roam the streets. Artist, activist and filmmaker George Gittoes encourages them to put down their weapons and pick up a camera instead, working with the children to make films about their abundantly dramatic lives. By giving voice to some of war’s most neglected victims, Snow Monkey takes us into an Afghanistan we have not seen before. ~ CN
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Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil Tel: +44 (0)207 727 1528 Email: philippa@cinephil.com
Sonita
PG
Sat 11 Jun / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Mon 13 Jun / 17:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami Producer: Lars Hansen Country: Germany, Iran, Switzerland Year: 2015 Duration: 91 mins Format: DCP
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Producers: Lizzette Atkins, George Gittoes Country: Australia, Norway Year: 2015 Duration: 148 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
Sales Contact: Catherine Le Clef, CAT&Docs Email: cat@catndocs.com A talented rapper at 15, Sonita’s dream of living abroad is about to come true just as her family intend to marry her off. As an undocumented Afghan refugee living in Tehran, she must now overcome numerous hurdles. In this film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami is confronted with a dilemma: should she interfere to help her? ~ SW
Other titles in the Youth Jury Award strand: Storyboard P, a stranger in Sweden (p.30)
Films
Short Doc Award
Brillo Box (3¢ off)
Schedule
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director/Producer: Lisanne Skyler
Alternate Realities
Bunkers
Sat 11 Jun / 21:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Wed 15 Jun / 12:15 / Showroom 1
Director: Anne-Claire Adet Producer: Yasmine Abd El Aziz Country: Switzerland Year: 2016 Duration: 12 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International A Sudanese journalist lives in cramped dorms with dozens of other people, three floors underground. Cockroaches crawl the yellow walls and oxygen is sparse. The Swiss government is putting refugees in bunkers. ~ SB
Screening With: City 40 (p.33) Director’s Filmography: Walking Sluts (2014) Sales Contact: Yasmine Abd El Aziz, Nouvelle Tribu Email: yasmine@nouvelletribu.ch
Marketplace
Extremis
Tue 14 Jun / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director/Producer: Dan Krauss
Doctors in an intensive care unit debate ethics with one another, and with the families of critically ill patients who have a diminished capacity for decision-making. Faith, hope and quality of life collide. ~ SB
Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 23 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: The Kill Team (2013), The Death of Kevin Carter (2005)
Films
Sales Contact: Jennifer Bowen, HBO Email: jennifer.bowen@hbo.com
Talks & Sessions
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 3
Director’s Filmography: Capture the Flag (2010), Dreamland (2000), Getting to Know You (1999), No Loans Today (1995), Oldtimers (1993)
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 4 Sales Contact: Dan Krauss, f/8 Filmworks Email: dan.k.krauss@gmail.com
Parties & Social
When Skyler was a baby, a Warhol Brillo Box was the family coffee table, until her art-collecting father exchanged it. Skyler explores the journey of this Brillo Box as she reflects on her family’s narrative. ~ SB
Producers: Judith Black Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 40 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Website: www.brilloboxmovie.com
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Short Doc Award
Gatekeeper
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Tue 14 Jun / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
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Director: Yung Chang
The craggy cliffs of Tojinbo, Japan are known for their tragic history. With dozens of people visiting each year with suicidal intentions, a retired policeman has become a watchman and caring counsellor. ~ SB
Producers: Eriko Miyagawa, Bob Moore, Yung Chang Country: USA, Canada Year: 2016 Duration: 39 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 4
Director’s Filmography: China Heavyweight (2012), The Fruit Hunters (2012), Up the Yangtze (2007) Sales Contact: Bob Moore, Eyesteel Film Email: bob@eyesteelfilm.com
I’m Not From Here
Sun 12 Jun / 12:30 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Mon 13 Jun / 17:30 / Curzon Cinema
Directors: Maite Alberdi, Giedre Žickyte
A Basque Country native among Chileans, Josebe struggles to share her memories and mother tongue with disinterested, somnolent men. As an 88-year-old with a fading short-term memory, time dissolves. ~ SB
Producers: Maite Alberdi, Patricio Gajardo Country: Chile, Denmark, Lithuania Year: 2015 Duration: 26 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Screening With: Brothers (p.32)
Director’s Filmography: Master and Tatyana (2015), Tea Time (2014), How We Played the Revolution (2012), The Lifeguard (2011) Sales Contact: Patricio Gajardo, Micromundo Producciones Email: pato.r.gajardo@gmail.com
Johnny Physical Lives
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director: Joshua Neuman
Archive footage and animation tells a story of brotherly love and rock’n’roll legend. Johnny Physical evolved from myth and fantasy. When the real Johnny became ill, his persona lived on. ~ SB
Producer: Pete Lee Country: USA, Canada, Italy Year: 2015 Duration: 22 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Website: www.johnnyphysicallives.com
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 3 Sales Contact: Joshua Neuman Email: joshuajneuman@gmail.com
Films
Short Doc Award
Recorded Absence
Schedule
Fri 10 Jun / 13:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director/Producer: Gillian Callan
Silent Voices
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Sun 12 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 / Beijing Showroom 1 & Mon 13 Jun / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Wed 15 Jun / 10:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Pritha Chakraborty
The dreams and talents of two generations of women are abandoned for the patriarchal traditions of arranged marriage. A filmmaker in Kolkata explores her role in familial compromises. ~ SB
Producer: Films Division India Country: India Year: 2014 Duration: 26 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European
Sales Contact: Anil Kumar, Films Division India Email: publicity@filmsdivision.org
Screening With: Lyari Notes (p.43)
Sat 11 Jun / 15:30 / Odeon
Director: Paula Heredia
A horrific attack on a toucan triggered a wave of animal welfare action in Costa Rica. The animal sanctuary nursing the bird strives to find a solution. ~ SB
Producers: Larry Garvin, Helen Núñez Country: USA, Costa Rica Year: 2016 Duration: 40 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: Alborada (2015), Slavery and The Law (2011), Africa Rising (2009), Pinta the Bird (2004),
Films Marketplace
Toucan Nation
Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Gillian Callan, Erica Starling Productions Email: gillian@ericastarling.com
Talks & Sessions
A house in rural Ireland has lain untouched since its inhabitant died suddenly. The voice of a former co-worker reflects on his solitary existence in this haunting reflection on loneliness and time. ~ SB
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 1
Ralph Gibson Photographer (2002) Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 2 Sales Contact: Faith Briggs, Discovery Communications Email: faith_briggs@discovery.com
Parties & Social
Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 9 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International
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Short Doc Award / Student Doc Award
When You Awake
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Mon 13 Jun / 19:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
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Director/Producer: Jay Rosenblatt
Found footage of hypnosis experimentation springboards into the depths of the unconscious. A dreamy, sensuous collage of rich archive material projects desires, fears and urges with the warm textures of analogue film. ~ SB
Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 11 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/ when_you_awake.php
Sales Contact: Jay Rosenblatt Email: jayr@jayrosenblattfilms.com
Screening With: Fraud (p.83)
Burnout (Student Doc Award) Sun 12 Jun / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Miguel López Valdivia Producer: Irving A. Riojas Rodríguez Country: Mexico Year: 2015 Duration: 9 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Hurtling through the streets of Mexico with the panicking injured; descending on chaos at the scene of an emergency. One paramedic articulates his addiction to adrenaline and the horrors he will never shake. ~ SB
Sales Contact: Miguel Lopez Valdivia, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México Email: miguellopezvaldivia@gmail.com
Screening With: Ambulance (p.58)
Continental Drift
Sun 12 Jun / 12:30 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Pietro Novello Producers: Alexander Simpson, Pietro Novello Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 15 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Battered boats on Italian coasts are haunting, familiar images. An Italian immigrant worker discusses the intimidation and corruption faced by refugees as they make desperate bids for survival. ~ SB
Screening With: Enough, Already (p.58)
Sales Contact: Pietro Novello, The London Camera Company Email: info@pietronovello.com
Films
Student Doc Award
Eye for an Eye
Sat 11 Jun / 12:45 / Odeon & Wed 15 Jun / 12:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
Films
Screening With: Solitary (p.86)
Alternate Realities
Grey Area
Mon 13 Jun / 10:00 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Jon Barton Producer: Louise O’Gallagher Country: Ireland Year: 2015 Duration: 11 mins Format: DCP Eamonn has always taken the proximity of death in his stride. With a deep sense of responsibility for his work, he shares his passion for embalming and the trust he inspires in his community. ~ SB
Sales Contact: Louise O’Gallagher, Email: ogallagherlouise@gmail.com
Screening With: Paa Joe & The Lion (p.68)
Marketplace
Joan
Fri 10 Jun / 13:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Živile Miciulyte
Aspiring actor Joan lives between two worlds after exchanging treading the boards for the Ukrainian battlefield. She struggles to integrate with society after returning from war. ~ SB
Producers: Dagne Puodžiunaite, Giedr Žickyte Country: Lithuania Year: 2015 Duration: 22 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 1
Talks & Sessions
A convicted murderer tells his story. With chilling fluidity, beautiful animation expresses how a person can slip from a tough childhood into petty crime and find themselves on death row. ~ SB
Sales Contact: David M. Lorenz, aug&ohr medien Email: david@augohr.de
Director’s Filmography: Project Fuga (2015), Masha (2013), Waterway (2012), There Was Nothing/Just That What Will Be Left (2011) Sales Contact: Živile Miciulyte, LMTA Email: zivilemic@gmail.com
Parties & Social
Producer: Markus Kaatsch Country: Germany Year: 2016 Duration: 5 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
Schedule
Directors: Louise Peter, Mahyar Goudarzi, Steve Bache
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Student Doc Award
Klavierkunst
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Tue 14 Jun / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
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Director: Jack Peagam
Davide Martello began composing to express his romantic love. Cycling across cities with the piano trailing behind, he connects and consoles with the language of music. ~ SB
Producers: Siona Davis, Ellicia Lotherington Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 9 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 4 Sales Contact: Jack Peagam Email: jackpeagam@hotmail.com
My Aleppo
U
Fri 10 Jun / 13:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Sun 12 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Mon 13 / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Director/Producer: Melissa Langer
Ibrahim and Lama fled Syria to protect their children. Via Skype, they watch in horror as their city is decimated and loved ones turn to unfathomable violence. ~ SB
Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 18 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Treasure Island (2014), Terms of Intimacy (2014)
Screening With: Fraud (p.83), Short Doc Programme 1 Sales Contact: Melissa Langer Email: melissa.a.langer@gmail.com
Pulse
Sat 11 Jun / 15:30 / Odeon
Director: Robin Petré
Electric power lines tower above the deer as they roam the countryside, heartbeats fluctuating in synchronicity with the seasons. Herded and transported, hunted and captured; pulses rise under human watch. ~ SB
Producers: Doc Nomads, Robin Petré Country: Hungary Year: 2015 Duration: 26 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: www.robinpetre.com/pulse
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 2 Sales Contact: Robin Petré, Doc Nomads Email: robinpetre@gmail.com
Films
Student Doc Award
Saving Sungei
Schedule
Fri 10 Jun / 13:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Shintaro Tay
Alternate Realities
Tarikat
Fri 10 Jun / 13:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Jasmijn Schrofer
Derya falls deep into the enveloping, rhythmical power of Islamic Sufi traditional song. Time dissolves as she sways, submerged in the collective connection, entranced by the cloak of sound. ~ SB
Producer: Rianne Ebeling Country: Netherlands, Turkey Year: 2015 Duration: 17 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: www.tarikatthefilm.com
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 1 Sales Contact: Denise McArthur, VPRO Email: d.mcarthur@vpro.nl
Marketplace
Transit Zone
Mon 13 Jun / 12:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director/Producer: Frederik Subei Country: UK, France Year: 2015 Duration: 32 mins Format: DCP Website: www.transitzone.blogspot.co.uk The Calais camps are not fit for humans. Refugees pile up and risk their lives seeking to escape. After six months, the lack of human rights weighs heavy on Sudan-born Teefa. ~ SB
Screening With: Freightened - The Real Price of Shipping (p.40)
Films
Sales Contact: Craig McTurk , Ngee Ann Polytechnic Email: mcb@np.edu.sg
Talks & Sessions
One person’s junk is another person’s treasure. In Singapore, Mr Koh campaigns against the imminent closure of Sungei ‘Thieves’ Market, which will leave its elderly vendors destitute. ~ SB
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 1
Director’s Filmography: Windfall Island (2014) Sales Contact: Frederik Subei Email: frederik.subei@yahoo.com
Parties & Social
Producer: Shalyn Chin Country: Singapore Year: 2015 Duration: 14 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World
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Ken Loach Retrospective
Director: Ken Loach
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions
Ken Loach’s 1966 groundbreaking drama documentary set his stake firmly as a political filmmaker. Using location-based filming and documentary techniques, it tells the story of a young woman losing her home and family – a victim of Britain’s callous welfare state. Its broadcast mobilised a groundswell of anger against the government and support for the new housing charity Shelter.
Producer: Tony Garnett Country: UK Year: 1966 Duration: 75 mins Format: Blu-ray Director Filmography: The Angels’ Share (2012), Looking for Eric (2009), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Sweet Sixteen (2002), Kes (1969) Sales Contact: Rebecca O’Brien, Sixteen Films Email: rebecca@sixteenfilms.co.uk Associated Event: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach p.31
The Flickering Flame
Sun 12 Jun / 09:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Ken Loach
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PG
Sun 12 Jun / 11:15 / Beijing Showroom 1
Films
Schedule
Cathy Come Home
In this 1996 BBC2 Modern Times broadcast, Ken Loach gives voice to striking Liverpool dockers, embroiled in what was to become one of the longest industrial disputes in British history. Subtitled “a story of contemporary morality,” it questions the relationship between moral and legal definitions of right and wrong, and, like much of Loach’s work, serves as a powerful homage to ordinary workers.
Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Xavier Carniaux Country: UK Year: 1996 Duration: 50 mins Format: Digi Betacam Director Filmography: The Angels’ Share (2012), Looking for Eric (2009), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Sweet Sixteen (2002), Kes (1969) Sales Contact: Rebecca O’Brien, Sixteen Films Email: rebecca@sixteeflms.co.uk Associated Event: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach p.31
Ken Loach Retrospective / Remembering Chantal Akerman
The Spirit of ’45
Sales Contact: Rebecca O’Brien, Sixteen Films Email: rebecca@sixteenfilms.co.uk Associated Event: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach p.31
Other titles in the Ken Loach Retrospective strand: Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (p.31)
I Don’t Belong Anywhere - The Cinema of Chantal Akerman Fri 10 Jun / 13:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Marianne Lambert Producers: Artemis Productions, Cinémathèque de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Country: Belgium Year: 2015 Duration: 67 mins Format: DCP
An experimental filmmaker and nomad, Chantal Akerman shares her cinematic trajectory, one that never ceased to interrogate the meaning of her existence. With her editor and collaborator, Claire Atherton, she examines the origins of her film language and aesthetic stance, exploring some of the Belgian filmmaker’s 40 plus films. The film includes excerpts from many films made throughout Akerman’s career.
Sales Contact: Thierry Detaille, CBA Tel: +32 477 61 71 70
Films Alternate Realities
The Labour government of 1945 established a welfare state that put public services in place for all of Britain’s citizens. Veteran filmmaker Ken Loach’s latest masterpiece reconstructs the socialist dreams of yore through moving interviews and beautiful archival footage. ~ SW
Producers: Rebecca O’Brien, Kate Ogborn, Lisa Marie Russo Country: UK Year: 2012 Duration: 94 mins Format: DCP Director Filmography: The Angels’ Share (2012), Looking for Eric (2009), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Sweet Sixteen (2002), Kes (1969) Website: www.thespiritof45.com
Talks & Sessions
Director: Ken Loach
Marketplace
Fri 10 Jun / 14:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Mon 13 Jun / 12:45 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Mon 13 Jun / 20:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Wed 15 Jun / 15:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
Schedule
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Parties & Social
Films
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Remembering Chantal Akerman
Wed 15 Jun / 13:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Chantal Akerman
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s film meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow – whose chores include making beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. A fictional film with astonishing documentary precision.
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Producers: Paul Vecchiali, Evelyne Paul, Corinne Jénart, Liliane de Kermadec, Alain Dahan, Guy Cavagnac Country: Belgium, France Year: 1975 Duration: 201 mins Format: DCP Director Filmography: No Home Movie (2015), The Captive (2000), News from Home (1978), The Meetings of Anna (1978) Sales Contact: Clémentine De Blieck, CINEMATEK Tel: +32 25 51 19 03 Email: access@cinematek.be
No Home Movie Sun 12 Jun / 12:45 / Odeon
Director: Chantal Akerman
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels
Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and Auschwitz survivor. Focusing on conversations between Akerman and her mother, and using a home movie format to document small family moments, the film ends a few months before her mother’s death and before Akerman took her own life in October 2015.
Producers: Patrick Quinet, Serge Zeitoun, Chantal Akerman Country: Belgium, France Year: 2015 Duration: 115 mins Format: DCP Director Filmography: The Captive (2000), The Meetings of Anna (1978), News from Home (1977), Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975) Sales Contact: Hannah Horner, Doc & Film International Email: h.horner@docandfilm.com
Films
Remembering Chantal Akerman / Close Up: Pennebaker
Don’t Look Back
Sat 11 Jun / 16:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
When Don’t Look Back came out in 1967, it set the standard for music documentaries in the years to come. Following a precocious 23-year-old Bob Dylan on his UK tour, D.A. Pennebaker’s groundbreaking film is an assemblage of backstage gossip, eavesdropped conversations and up-close concert footage. With its audio painstakingly restored, some of its most memorable scenes now take on completely new meaning. ~ SW
Producers: John Court, Albert Grossman Country: USA Year: 1967 Duration: 96 mins Format: Digi Betacam Director Filmography: Kings of Pastry (2010), War Room (1993), Town Bloody Hall (1976), Company: Original Cast Album (1970), Primary (1960) Sales Contact: Frazer Pennebaker, Pennebaker Hegedus Films Email: Frazer@PHFilms.com Associated Talk: D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock (p.131)
Films Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Elsa Lonne-Smith, Ina – Institut National de l’Audiovisuel Tel: +33 1 49 83 36 55 Email: elonnesmith@ina.fr
Talks & Sessions
An encounter between two remarkable women artists of the 20th century: choreographer Pina Bausch and Chantal Akerman. Capturing the company’s rehearsals and performances over a European tour, Akerman takes us inside their process. “This film is more than a documentary on Pina Bausch,” says the narrator, “it is a journey through her world, through her unwavering quest for love.”
Producer: Institut National de l’Audiovisuel Country: Belgium Year: 1983 Duration: 57 mins Format: Digi Betacam Director Filmography: No Home Movie (2015), The Captive (2000), The Meetings of Anna (1978), News from Home (1977), Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
Marketplace
Director: Chantal Akerman
Parties & Social
Fri 10 Jun / 15:00 / Showroom 1
Schedule
One Day Pina Asked…
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Close Up: Pennebaker PG
Sat 11 Jun / 19:15 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: D.A. Pennebaker Producers: John Phillips, Lou Adler Country: USA Year: 1969 Duration: 78 mins Format: Digi Betacam Director Filmography: Kings of Pastry (2010), War Room (1993), Town Bloody Hall (1976), Company: Original Cast Album (1970), Primary (1960)
Pre-dating Woodstock by two years but with just as stellar of a line-up, Monterey Pop (shot by Don’t Look Back’s D.A. Pennebaker) documents the three-day music festival in 1967 San Francisco. Featuring Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and a legendary performance by Ravi Shankar, the film captures lightning in a bottle at the apex of 1960s rock music. ~ SW
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Sales Contact: Frazer Pennebaker, Pennebaker Hegedus Films Email: Frazer@PHFilms.com Associated Talk: D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock (p.131)
Unlocking the Cage
Sun 12 Jun / 20:45 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Mon 13 Jun / 15:00 / PBS America Showroom 3
Directors: D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Monterey Pop
In this legal thriller from vérité legends D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, we follow Harvard professor Steven Wise, who is arguing to a series of sceptical judges that New York’s chimpanzees should be persons in the eyes of the law. Wise is convinced he can make legal history – if only he can keep his primate plaintiffs alive long enough to represent them in court. ~ CN The screening on Monday 13 June will be closed captioned.
Producers: Rosadel Varela, Frazer Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 91 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: Kings of Pastry (2010), War Room (1993), Town Bloody Hall (1976), Company: Original Cast Album (1970), Primary (1960) Sales Contact: Jane Balfour, Jane Balfour Services Tel: +44 (0)207 727 1528 Email: janebalfour@btconnect.com Associated Talk: D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock (p.131)
Films
No Place Like Home
After Spring
Tue 14 Jun / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Directors/ Producers: Steph Ching, Ellen Martinez Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 92 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Website: www.afterspringfilm.com
Following two refugee families and aid workers fighting to keep the camp running, viewers experience what it is like to live in Zaatari, the largest camp for Syrian refugees. With no end in sight for the conflict, everyone must decide if they can rebuild their lives in a place that was never meant to be permanent.
Sales Contact: Ellen Martinez Email: afterspringfilm@gmail.com
Films Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Anne Olzmann, Albatross World Sales GmbH Email: anne@albatrossworldsales.com
Talks & Sessions
#MyEscape shows the journeys taken by refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea, as the circumstances in their home countries became increasingly unliveable – by using footage which has been shot by the refugees themselves. These insights are interwoven with reflective in-depth interviews with the protagonists, connecting the outer journey that they went on to the one that took place within.
Producer: Stefan Pannen Country: Afghanistan, Eritrea, Germany, Syria Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: HD Cam Premiere: UK Director Filmography: Worldwide Berlin (2014), Mein Leben: Ruth Dayan (2010)
Marketplace
Director: Elke Sasse
Parties & Social
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Schedule
#MyEscape
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No Place Like Home
Sun 12 Jun / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Mohamed Jabaly Producer: John Arvid Berger Country: Norway, Palestine Year: 2016 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Permiere: World
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Ambulance
Screening with: Burnout (p.48) From the very first day of the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2014, filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly has been there with his camera. He follows a team of paramedics in an ambulance, eventually becoming a core member who bears witness to their perilous and heartbreaking rescue work. Ambulance tracks the harrowing chaos amidst a state-run military operation on civilians. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Gitte Hansen, First Hand Films Email: gitte.hansen@firsthandfilms.com
Enough, Already
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Sun 12 Jun / 12:30 / Curzon Cinema
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Directors: Juan Antonio Moreno, Silvia Venegas
As welfare is systemically dismantled in the west, it is truly ironic to find such a powerful example of public health provision in the Sahara desert, in a cluster of refugee settlements. The Saharawi people, displaced but empowered through an excellent social care network, have survived 40 years of political and environmental hardships. Enough, Already is a testament to them, to their defiance under oppression. ~ SW
Producers: Juan Antonio Moreno, Silvia Venegas Country: Spain Year: 2015 Duration: 72 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Director Filmography: Boxing for Freedom (2015), The Children of Mama Wata (2010) Screening with: Continental Drift (p.48) Sales Contact: Miriam Garcia, Making DOC Producciones S.L. Email: sales@makingdoc.com
Other titles in the No Place Like Home strand: Brothers (p.32), Continental Drift (p.48), Daddy’s Girl (p.69), Flotel Europa (p.43), Home : Aamir (p.118), Invisible (p.119), The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (p.74), No Home Movie (p.54), A Polish Journey (p.112), Two Billion Miles (p.115), We Wait (p.120)
Films
Get Up & Dance
The unabashed sexual confidence that this group of legendary burlesque elders exuded back in the early ‘60s was seen less as empowerment than as sleaze. But thanks to the recent feminist reclamation of the art of the tease, the chutzpah of these women is finally being acknowledged. Acclaimed director Rama Rau tells their amazing stories and follows them to their big Las Vegas comeback. ~ SW
Producer: Ed Barreveld Country: Canada Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director Filmography: No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story (2015), The Market (2011) Website: www.exotiquedancers.com Sales Contact: Ed Barreveld, Storyline Entertainment Email: shasha@storylineentertainment.com
Mr. Gaga
Films
Director: Rama Rau
Alternate Realities
Tue 14 Jun / 18:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Schedule
League of Exotique Dancers
Sales Contact: Barak Heymann, Heymann Brothers Films Email: info@heymannfilms.com
Marketplace
Immerse yourself in the world of modern dance through the vision of Ohad Naharin, artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company. Via extensive archive and beautifully filmed dance sequences, Doc/Fest returnee Tomer Heymann focusses on the fascinating stories underpinning Naharin’s creative process, and how an untrained veteran spurned the tutelage of the dance world’s maestros to become one of the most celebrated choreographers working today. ~ CN
Producer: Barak Heymann Country: Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Sweden Year: 2015 Duration: 100 mins Format: DCP Director Filmography: The Queen Has No Crown (2011), I Shot My Love (2010), Bridge over the Wadi (2006), Paper Dolls (2006), It Kinda Scares Me (2001) Website: www.mrgagathefilm.com
Parties & Social
Director: Tomer Heymann
Talks & Sessions
Sun 12 Jun / 18:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
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Get Up & Dance
Director/Producer: German Kral Country: Argentina, Germany Year: 2015 Duration: 85 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: The Last Applause (2009), Musica Cubana (2004), Images of the Absence (1999)
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions
The first couple of tango, Juan and Maria Nieves, have experienced their share of pain and passion in their six decades as dancing partners. Combining behind-the-scene discussions and breathtaking choreographic re-enactments directed by Maria herself, Our Last Tango (by Wim Wenders’s erstwhile protégé German Kral) is a wonderfully imaginative tribute to the Argentinian dance form. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Dounia Georgeon, Wide House Email: festivals@widehouse.org Associated Talk: I Do it My Way: Directors Talk About Their Work, p.132 Supported by Documentary Campus Masterschool
Reset
Sat 11 Jun / 12:00 / Curzon Cinema
Directors: Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière Producer: Alban Teurlai Country: France Year: 2015 Duration: 110 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Couple(s) (2014), Les Troufions (2012)
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Sun 12 Jun / 20:45 / Odeon & Tue 14 Jun / 17:30 / Curzon Cinema
Films
Schedule
Our Last Tango
Stunningly gorgeous and delicate in both subject and treatment, Reset depicts renowned choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied (best known for choreographing the dance sequences in Black Swan) as he attempts to rejuvenate the Paris Opera Ballet in his new position as Director. With appearances by composer Nico Muhly, Opera alumna Aurélie Dupont and designer Iris van Herpen, Reset is a delightfully aesthetic affair.
Sales Contact: Séverine Garusso, Upside Email: severine.garusso@upsidetelevision.com
Other titles in the Get Up & Dance strand: Kiki (p.71), Strike a Pose (p.73)
Films
Instigators & Agitators
Directors/ Producers: Usayd Younis, Cassie Quarless Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 80 mins Format: HD Cam Premiere: World Sales Contact: Usayd Younis Email: usayd@genrevfilm.com
Mon 13 Jun / 12:15 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director/Producer: Nanfu Wang Country: USA, China Year: 2016 Duration: 84 mins Format: DCP Sales Contact: Nanfu Wang, Little Horse Crossing the River Email: wangnanfu1216@gmail.com “Principal, get a room with me! Leave the kids alone!” Longtime sex work activist Ye Haiyan – or “hooligan sparrow” – became an internet sensation by daring to expose the endemic sexual exploitation of young girls in local Chinese politics. Facing state threats of her own, first-time filmmaker Nanfu Wang bears witness to Ye and her irrepressible, all-woman team of human rights fighters. ~ SW
Associated Talk: Honest Truths: The Ethical Challenges of Filmmaking, p.131
Marketplace
Hooligan Sparrow
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Associated Talk: Viva la Revolucion: Video Activism and Citizen Journalism (p.128)
Parties & Social
Introducing the powerful stories of London’s new generation of black and brown activists, Generation Revolution explores the successes and unexpected challenges these inspiring young people face. Motivated by the desire for a more equal future, they embark on the rewarding but difficult path that must be trodden in their struggle for liberation.
Films
Tue 14 Jun / 12:15 / PBS America Showroom 3
Schedule
Generation Revolution
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Instigators & Agitators
Sat 11 Jun / 15:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Tue 14 Jun / 17:30 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: John Dower Producer: Simon Chinn Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 99 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Bradley Wiggins - A Year in Yellow (2012), Thriller in Manila (2009) Following a long fascination with the Church of Scientology, the beguilingly unassuming Louis Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church’s headquarters is turned down. Aided by ex-members of the organisation, Theroux employs actors to recreate claimed experiences. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis.
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Sales Contact: Kate Hide, HanWay Films Email: kh@hanwayfilms.com Associated Talk: What Makes a Feature Doc? Directors Discuss (p.139)
National Bird
Mon 13 Jun / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director: Sonia Kennebeck Producer: Ines Hofmann Kanna Country: USA, Afghanistan Year: 2016 Duration: 92 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Sex: Made in Germany (2013) Website: www.nationalbirdfilm.com
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
My Scientology Movie
Lisa Ling regrets the 121,000 lives she spied on electronically in a two-year period for the US Air Force. She’s now trying to make amends by visiting bombing victims in Afghanistan. National Bird follows Ling and two other whistleblower veterans wracked with guilt about the secret US drone war, and the many civilian casualties that continue to be denied by the powers that be. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Cristine Dewey, Ro*co Films International Email: cristine@rocofilms.com
Films
Instigators & Agitators
Director: Deborah S. Esquenazi Producer: Sam Tabet Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 89 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Website: www.southwestofsalem.com
Tues 14 Jun / 09:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director/Producer: James Demo Country: UK, USA, Iraq, Nigeria, South Africa Year: 2016 Duration: 85 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European
In international political conflict, deals are not brokered by national leaders but by “backroom players” who are hidden from the spotlight. Enter Padraig O’Malley, recovering alcoholic and negotiator of peace. An excellent mediator, the only person whose trauma he cannot alleviate is his own. Filmmaker James Demo expertly merges the public and private personas of an extraordinary man. ~ SW
Sales Contact: James Demo, Central Square Films Email: jdemo@csqfilms.com
Marketplace
The Peacemaker
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Sam Tabet Email: stabet921@gmail.com
Parties & Social
Open lesbians in a homophobic Texas, the “San Antonio Four” were found guilty of gang raping two little girls in an era of satanic ritual abuse accusations and bunk science. Deborah S. Esquenazi’s extraordinarily intimate film follows them as they continue to fight for justice; movingly the four women never allow the shocking treatment they have endured to sour their friendships or faith. ~ CN
Films
Sun 12 Jun / 21:00 / PBS America Showroom 3
Schedule
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
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Instigators & Agitators / Best of British
Sat 11 Jun / 21:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Tue 14 Jun / 12:15 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Directors/ Producers:
Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 96 mins Format: DCP Website: www.dogwoofglobal.com/weiner
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Weiner
Two years after resigning from Congress for tweeting a picture of his bulging Y-Front, Anthony Weiner is running for Mayor of New York. His loyal wife Huma is at his side, and the tenacious politician has even invited a documentary crew along for the ride. The trouble is, he’s neglected to curb his digital dalliances, giving us jaw-dropping access to a campaign that is soon in total meltdown. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
Other titles in the Instigators & Agitators strand: Bobby Sands: 66 Days (p.32), City 40 (p.33), The Hard Stop (p.67), Where to Invade Next (p.29)
Burma’s Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson Sat 11 Jun / 12:30 / Beijing Showroom 1
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Director: Alexis Girardet
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Producer: Nick Metcalfe Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 60 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Kate Humble - Living with Nomads (2015) Joe Simpson, the climber who famously cheated death in the Andes (a story told in Touching the Void) retraces the jungle trek of his father, a ‘Chindit’ who fought behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1944. Accompanied by explorer Ed Stafford, Joe connects with his father’s experience, and also comes face-to-face with a war in modern-day Myanmar.
Sales Contact: Myriam Osterley, FremantleMedia Group Email: Myriam.Osterley@fremantlemedia.com Associated Talk: Surviving Danger Zone Docs (p.128)
Films
Best of British
Brian Hill, Sam Benstead Producer: Liesel Evans Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 77 mins Format: HD Cam Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: The Confessions Of Thomas Quick (2015) Sales Contact: Jane Nicholson, Century Films Email: jane.nicholson@centuryfilmsltd.com
Talks & Sessions
City of Dreams: A Musical is a dizzying and unique musical extravaganza. Set in a school in Dharavi, Mumbai, the biggest slum in Asia, it combines observational footage with songs reflecting the children’s hopes and dreams. This is the very first Bollywood-style documentary musical. This is not a depressing examination of extreme poverty, but an uplifting celebration of human spirit and endeavour.
Films
Directors:
Alternate Realities
Sun 12 Jun / 21:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Mon 13 Jun / 20:45 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Schedule
City Of Dreams: A Musical
Destination Unknown Sat 11 Jun / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema
They endured the death camps. They hid in remote farms. They fought as partisans in Polish forests. But when the war ended, the struggles of the Holocaust survivors were only just beginning. Destination Unknown paints a uniquely intimate portrait of survival, revealing pain that has never faded, but which has not crushed the human spirit.
Sales Contact: Christopher Hird, Dartmouth Films Email: christo@dartmouthfilms.com
Parties & Social
Producers: Christopher Hird, Llion Roberts Country: UK, USA Year: 2016 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World
Marketplace
Director: Claire Ferguson
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Best of British
Mon 13 Jun / 12:15 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: James Bluemel Producer: Jane Merkin Country: Various Year: 2016 Duration: 60 mins Format: HD Cam Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: Ballad of AJ Weberman (2006) Twelve months ago, KEO films gave out camera phones to 75 people attempting to break into Europe. They filmed where regular crews could not: on dinghies from Turkey to Greece; in lorries entering Eurostar; or trucks crossing the Sahara. The result is a terrifyingly intimate yet uniquely epic portrait of what has become the biggest story of the decade.
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Sales Contact: Katie McInnes, KEO Films Email: katie.mcinnes@keofilms.com Associated Talks: How to Document the World’s Biggest News Stories: Telling the Refugee Crisis, p.135; Documentary and Trauma: a Survivor’s Guide, p.132
The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis Tue 14 Jun / 10:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Leonardo Machado Producers: Tanya Winston, Leonardo Machado Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 60 mins Format: DCP
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Exodus: Breaking into Europe (Working Title)
The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis charts a man’s fight to rebuild his relationships with his partner and son after a devastating infection took his limbs, parts of his face and his independence. This intimate film follows Alex’s extraordinary story as he, his partner and his three-year-old son come to terms with their new lives.
Sales Contact: Anthony Appell, Twofour Email: anthony.appell@twofour.co.uk
Films
Best of British
Sales Contact: Damian Spandley, Metrodome Distribution Tel: +44 (0)207 517 7543 Email: DSpandley@metrodomegroup.com
Inside the Gang (Working Title) Tue 14 Jun / 13:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Directors/ Producers: Paul Blake, Victor Chimara Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 45 mins Format: HD Cam Premiere: World
With unprecedented access to London’s street gang culture, for the first time this series tells their stories in their words. How they operate, how they manage drug dealing on an almost industrial level, and more chillingly how they defend themselves from the police and from each other. This extraordinary film opens the lid on a secret and terrifying culture, addicted to violence, knives and firearms.
Sales Contact: Paul Blake, Maroon Productions Email: paul@maroonproductions.com
Films Alternate Realities
In August 2011, 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot and killed whilst being arrested by armed police in Tottenham, London during an aggressive pullover tactic known as a ‘Hard Stop’. The incident ignited a riot that escalated into a week of the worst civil unrest across the country in recent British history.
Talks & Sessions
Producer: Dionne Walker Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 85 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Diaspora Calling (2011), The Fighting Spirit (2007)
Marketplace
Director: George Amponsah
Parties & Social
Mon 13 Jun / 14:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Schedule
The Hard Stop
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Best of British / Women in Docs
Mon 13 Jun / 10:00 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Benjamin Wigley Producer: Anna Griffin Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 71 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: One and All (2016), P.S. Your Mystery Sender (2011) The world’s greatest living fantasy coffin maker is celebrated the globe over, but back home in Ghana he struggles to survive. Can a once in a lifetime opportunity to produce an artwork in the UK save his business and preserve his legacy, or will his name disappear like thousands of his coffins that lay deep below the African soil?
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Screening with: Grey Area (p.49) Sales Contact: Anna Griffin, artdocs Email: anna@artdocs.org Supported by Documentary Campus Masterschool
Other titles in the Best of British strand: Cathy Come Home (p.52), The Confession (p.34), The Flickering Flame (p.52), Generation Revolution (p.61), My Scientology Movie (p.62), The Rise and Fall of the High-rise (p.30), The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (p.29), The Spirit of ’45 (p.53)
Care
Mon 13 Jun / 21:15 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Deirdre Fishel
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Paa Joe & The Lion
With an intimate and empathetic eye, Care follows three American home care workers and their elderly clients, revealing the beauty and complexity of hands-on care and the profound connections it engenders. The film also exposes the failures of the US eldercare system, which has care workers earning poverty wages and elderly clients struggling to pay for the care they need.
Producer: Tony Heriza Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 60 mins Format: HD Cam Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: The Boy Game (2012), Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65 (2004), Risk (1994) Website: www.caredocumentary.com Sales Contact: Deirdre Fishel, Mind’s Eye Productions Email: deirdref@mindspring.com
Films
Women in Docs
Director: Melisa Üneri Producer: Mika Ronkainen Country: Finland Year: 2015 Duration: 52 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
Alternate Realities Director: Susanna Edwards Producers:
Mimmi Spång, Rebecka Lafrenz
Frida Wallberg was the best female boxer alive. WBC World Champion and career undefeated, she was one of the most feared fighters in the world. Yet during her final fight, she suffered a life changing blow. Rushed to hospital after a dangerous brain hemorrhage, Frida’s world changed in an instant. Her struggle to recover is to be her toughest fight yet.
Country: Sweden Year: 2016 Duration: 97 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director’s Filmography: Dance My Heart Out (2011), Brother and Sister (2007), Keiller’s Park (2005), Risk (2000), Respect! (2000) Sales Contact: Lucy Matthias, Journeyman Pictures Email: films@journeyman.tv
Talks & Sessions
Tue 14 Jun / 10:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Marketplace
Golden Girl
Parties & Social
Daddy’s Girl is a tragicomic breaking-up story between a Turkish father living in Finland and his 26-year-old half-Finnish daughter. Their symbiotic relationship begins to deteriorate when the daughter moves to Turkey to start a life of her own. This is a story about rebellion, growing up and letting go.
Sales Contact: Diana Karklin, Rise And Shine World Sales Email: diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de
Films
Wed 15 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
Schedule
Daddy’s Girl
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Women in Docs
Sun 12 Jun / 15:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Tue 14 Jun / 20:30 / Beijing Showroom 1
Directors: Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
An icon of American politics and culture, Maya Angelou was an inspiring, didactic writer whose life spanned some of the most pivotal moments in the 20th century. This filmic biography by Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack faithfully follows her life’s dizzying trajectory and features personal anecdotes from the Clintons, Lou Gossett Jr. and Oprah Winfrey. ~ SW
Producers: Jay Alix, Una Jackman, Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 114 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance (2012), Bill T. Jones: A Good Man (2010), Senator Obama Goes to Africa (2007), Forgiving Dr. Mengele (2006) Website: www.mayaangeloufilm.com Sales Contact: Tom Koch, PBS Distribution Email: jtkoch@pbs.org
Miss Sharon Jones! Sun 12 Jun / 18:15 / Odeon
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Director: Barbara Kopple
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Producers: David Cassidy, Barbara Kopple Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 94 mins Format: DCP
Just as she hits her career-defining peak, “the female James Brown” funk and soul frontwoman Sharon Jones is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She resolves to get better, taking refuge away from New York and her concerned bandmates. Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple documents the singer’s rocky recovery process, touching on how she found success in later life. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Barbara Kopple, Cabin Creek Films Tel: +1 212 343 2545 Email: cabincreekfilms@aol.com Associated Event: Soul and Funk Night p.195
Films
Women in Docs / Queer Screen
Plaza de la Soledad
A group of ageing prostitutes chat energetically in a square called “solitude” (soledad). Observing and narrating their relationships over the course of two decades, acclaimed photographer-turned-filmmaker Maya Goded is a trusted confidante to many of these women. The film unpicks the recent lives of five prostitutes who have been in the game for years, but nonetheless remain resolutely hopeful. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Diana Holtzberg, East Village Entertainment Tel: +1 212 614 2808 Email: diana@filmtransit.com Associated Talk: Writing with Light: The Art of Cinematography, p.127
Other titles in the Women in Docs strand: Across the Line (p.117), Avatar Secrets (p.113), Cameraperson (p.33), Hooligan Sparrow (p.61), I Don’t Belong Anywhere - The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (p.53), Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (p.54), One Day Pina Asked… (p.55), Silent Voices (p.47), Tempestad (p.37)
Kiki
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Sat 11 Jun / 18:15 / Odeon & Tue 14 Jun / 14:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Alternate Realities
Producers: Martha Sosa, Eamon O’Farrill, Mónica Lozano Country: Mexico Year: 2016 Duration: 84 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: wwww.plazadelasoledad.com
Talks & Sessions
Director: Maya Goded
Films
Schedule
Sun 12 Jun / 18:30 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Tue 14 Jun / 20:45 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Directors:
For New York’s LBGT people of colour, Kiki dance clubs provide a safe haven. Part of New York’s voguing ballroom scene, it offers family and friendship to those who have often have neither. This vibrant film, which won the Teddy Award at Berlinale, journeys beyond the glitz and the glamour into difficulties that Kiki devotees face – and are determined to overcome. ~ CN
Join co-writer Twiggy Pucci Garcon for a post-screening Q&A on Saturday 11 June and the Vogue, Strike a Pose Party! that evening at 21:00 (p.194).
Sales Contact: Josephine Settmacher, Films Boutique Email: josephine@filmsboutique.com Associated Events: New Genderation: Has Factual Kept Up with the Revolution in Gender and Sexuality? (p.139) Vogue, Strike a Pose Party!, p.194
Parties & Social
Producers: Lori Cheatle, Annika Rogell Country: USA, Sweden Year: 2016 Duration: 94 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
Marketplace
Sara Jordenö
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Films
Queer Screen
Schedule
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato Producers:
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
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Groundbreaking, taboo flaunting, uber talented and tirelessly ambitious, Robert Mapplethorpe remains hugely influential in the world of photography. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato deliver a rich portrait of the artist with the help of his family, ex-lovers and audio interviews of Mapplethorpe himself. Ahead of his time, Mapplethorpe elevated photography to an art form, whilst his explicit photos of sent shock waves through America. ~ CN
Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 108 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Becoming Chaz (2011), The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (2011), Inside Deep Throat (2005) Website: www.mapplethorpefilm.com Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
Out Run
Sun 12 Jun / 17:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Directors/ Producers: Johnny Symons, S. Leo Chiang
Despite their visibility, the Filipino transgender community faces prejudice in the Catholic and conservative country. But change is in the air. Out Run follows three charismatic transgender women in their grassroots efforts to win seats for Ladlad candidates – the world’s first LGBT political party. Can they convince the voters that they can have a role in society outside of hairstylists, entertainers and sex workers? ~ CN
Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 75 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: Mr Cao Goes to Washington (2012), A Village Called Versailles (2009), Ask Not (2008), Beyond Conception (2006), Daddy & Papa (2002) Website: www.outrunmovie.org Sales Contact: Johnny Symons, Persistent Visions Email: johnnysymons@gmail.com
Films
Queer Screen
Uncle Howard
Sun Jun 12 / 20:15 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director: Aaron Brookner Producer: Paula Vaccaro Country: UK, USA Year: 2016 Duration: 96 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: The Silver Goat (2011) Premiere: UK Website: www.unclehowardfilm.com Known for his documentary about the Beat poet William S. Burroughs, Howard Brookner was an emerging director who died of AIDS in 1989. When Brookner’s nephew Aaron uncovers a vast archive of his work, he elicits the help of his uncle’s colleague Jim Jarmusch to recount the story of a young man immersed in the gritty glamour of New York City. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Peter Van Steemburg, ICM Partners Email: PVS@icmpartners.com Associated Talk: BAFTA Masterclass: Working with Archive (p.127)
Other titles in the Queer Screen strand: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (p.63)
Films Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil Email: philippa@cinephil.com
Talks & Sessions
Madonna’s “Blond Ambition” tour was accompanied by the controversial documentary Truth or Dare. Perhaps to the majesty’s chagrin, the breakout stars were her seven backup dancers, six of whom were gay. After having lived through the LGBT sea change of the 1990s, where are they now? Strike a Pose brings the legendary crew back together for the first time in over 20 years. ~ SW
Producers: Rosan Boersma, Denis Wigman, Sander Verdonk, Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan Country: Belgium, Netherlands Year: 2016 Duration: 83 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: A Strange Love Affair With Ego (2015), Shout (2010) Premiere: UK Website: www.strikeaposefilm.com
Marketplace
Directors: Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan
Parties & Social
Fri 10 Jun / 19:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Sun 12 Jun / 20:30 / Beijing Showroom 1
Schedule
Strike a Pose
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Films
Behind the Beats
Director: Randy Valdes Producers: Elvis Suarez, Patricia Hechavarria Country: USA, Cuba Year: 2015 Duration: 86 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions
Cuba, 1990s. Amidst economic, political and social strife, young people turned to music as a source of salvation. In this rousing music documentary with some fabulous concert scenes, some of Cuba’s leading artists look back at their formative years. As the government banned the export of art, many were forced to flee to pursue their vision; others stayed behind to fight the system from within. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Randy Valdes, GlassWorks MultiMedia Email: randy@glassworksmultimedia.com
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble Sat 11 Jun / 18:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Tue 14 Jun / 12:30 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Morgan Neville
Marketplace Parties & Social 74
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Sat 11 Jun / 20:15 / Curzon Cinema & Sun 12 Jun / 15:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Mon 13 Jun / 20:40 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
Films
Schedule
A Todo Color
What is the social role of music? Putting aside the classical repertoire that propelled his fame, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma has spent the last two decades assembling musicians for his Silk Road Ensemble. Drawing from the personal biographies of four international musicians, Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) chronicles a musical experiment that also unveils the difficult realities of exile and migration. ~ SW
Producers: Meghan Wurtz, Caitrin Rogers, Morgan Neville Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 96 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Best of Enemies (2015), 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) Premiere: UK Sales Contact: Meghan Wurtz, The Orchard Email: mwurtz@theorchard.com
On the eve of the civil rights movement, two separate groups of bright-eyed, white college kids set off to the segregated South in hopes of finding their blues idols Son House and Skip James. Intersecting their stories is a parallel one about the harsh realities of 1960s America. Acclaimed director Sam Pollard examines the violence of racism through the legacy of black country blues. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Benjamin Hedin, Avalon Films Email: benjamin.hedin@gmail.com
Other titles in the Behind the Beats strand: City of Dreams: A Musical (p.65), Don’t Look Back (p.55), John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes (p.114), Lyari Notes (p.43), Miss Sharon Jones! (p.70), Monterey Pop (p.56), Presenting Princess Shaw (p.36), Sonita (p.44), Where You’re Meant To Be (p.31)
Back on Board: Greg Louganis Sun 12 Jun / 12:30 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director: Cheryl Furjanic
Greg Louganis’ stunning career climaxed with a double gold at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, won despite having hit his head on a board. But Louganis had a difficult secret: he was HIV positive in a world fearful of the new AIDS epidemic. Decades later, with his beloved home now under threat, a much humbled Louganis uncertainly returns to diving to mentor the 2012 Olympic team. ~ CN
Producers: Will Sweeney, Cheryl Furjanic Country: USA, UK Year: 2015 Duration: 87 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Sync or Swim (2008) Premiere: European Website: www.louganisdoc.com Sales Contact: Diana Holtzberg, East Village Entertainment Tel: +1 212 614 2808 Email: diana@filmstransit.com
Films
Producers: Dava Whisenant, Benjamin Hedin Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director’s Filmography: August Wilson: The Ground On Which I Stand (2015), Slavery By Another Name (2012), Eyes On the Prize II (2008), Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On (2008) Website: www.twotrainsrunnin.com
Alternate Realities
Director: Sam Pollard
Talks & Sessions
Sat 11 Jun / 21:30 / PBS America Showroom 3
Marketplace
Two Trains Runnin’
Schedule
Behind The Beats / Outdoor Adventure
Parties & Social
Films
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Outdoor Adventure
Crash and Burn
Sat 11 Jun / 10:15 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Sean O’Cualain Producer: David Burke Country: UK, Ireland Year: 2016 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: Ras Tailteann - Rothai an tSaoli (2012), Men At Lunch (2012)
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Films
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For a fleeting moment in the early ‘80s Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali all rolled into one. Eddie Jordan, the former team owner who worked with both Senna and Schumacher, will tell you: “Tommy Byrne was the best of them all.” His rise was meteoric and his fall spectacular.
Sales Contact: David Burke, Dot Television Email: david@dottelevision.org
Lobanovskiy Forever
Sun 12 Jun / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Anton Azarov Producer: Dmitrii Simonov Country:USA Year: 2016 Duration: 92 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Slava (2015), Attraction (2008) Premiere: World In 1975 Dynamo Kiev became the first Soviet team to win a major European trophy. The team’s rapid rise was remarkable and attributed to one man: Valeri Vasilievich Lobanovskiy. His technique as a manager is now the stuff of folklore – not least for his imposing a fitness regime so brutal that his players looked upon the matches themselves as relaxing. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Alexandra Bratyshchenko, Das Boot Production Email: alexandra.bratyshchenko@gmail.com
Films
Outdoor Adventure
Director: Roberto Studart
Tue 14 Jun / 20:45 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Ryan White Producer: Peter Berg Country: USA, UK Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director’s Filmography: The Case Against 8 (2014), Good Ol’ Freda (2013), Pelada (2010) Shot verité-style, Serena focusses on the external pressures and vulnerabilities Williams faces in her quest to achieve four Grand Slams in a row (a “Serena Slam”), and her losses at the 2015 US Open and 2016 Australian Open. The film also looks at Williams’ life off the court with her family and inner circle of coaches, trainers and friends.
Sales Contact: Jamie Lynn, Fremantle Media International Email: Jamie.lynn@fremantlemedia.com
Other titles in the Outdoor Adventure strand: Burma’s Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson (p.64)
Talks & Sessions
Serena
Marketplace
Sales Contact: Eduardo Sampaio, Primitivo Films’n Content Email: eduardo@primitivo.art.br
Alternate Realities
Screening with: Hell on Wheels (p.94)
Parties & Social
For years, Brazilian surfers Yuri, Marcio and Danilo aka the “mad dogs” have been braving Jaws, a spot in Maui known for some of the world’s biggest waves. Not only is their sacred sanctuary now under commercial threat, but the surfers themselves are being snubbed by competition politics. Director Roberto Studart combines exquisite footage with personal interviews to recount their pioneering achievements. ~ SW
Producers: Eduardo Sampaio, Roberto Studart Country: USA, Brazil Year: 2015 Duration: 75 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: Curves and Hills (2014), Beyond the World (2013) Premiere: European
Films
Wed 15 Jun / 16:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Schedule
Mad Dogs
77
Films
Food & Wine
Sun 12 Jun / 10:00 / Odeon
Director: Maurice Dekkers Producer: Dan Blazer, Nelsje Musch-Elzinga Country: Netherlands Year: 2015 Duration: 88 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
Three floors below ground at Tokyo’s Mandarin Oriental, the R&D team of acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant NOMA have been working 20-hour days to develop a special 14-course taster menu for a Japanese audience. With the arrival of head chef René Redzepi, the crew are shocked into self-reflection. Director Maurice Dekkers documents how two different food cultures clash and inspire one another. ~ SW
Parties & Social 78
Sales Contact: Nicole Mackey, Fortissimo Films Email: nicole@fortissimo-uk.com
City of Gold
15
Fri 10 Jun / 13:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Laura Gabbert Producer: Holly Becker Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 96 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: No Impact Man: The Documentary (2009), Sunset Story (2007), The Healers of 400 Parnassus (1997)
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Ants on a Shrimp
City of Gold chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold’s deep and complex relationship with the food and culture of Los Angeles. Gold was one of the first critics to review small family owned restaurants in far-flung ethnic enclaves, with the stroke of his pen changing the lives of countless recent immigrants cooking the food of their homeland.
Sales Contact: Louis Boldini, StudioCanal Email: louis.boldini@studiocanal.co.uk
Films
Food & Wine
Noma: My Perfect Storm Tue 14 Jun / 20:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Pierre Deschamps Producer: Etta Thompson Deschamps Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 95 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
With automatic access to genius, René Redzepi plays with wilderness and interprets a forgotten edible world into a language we all understand. A modern ugly duckling, bullied by his peers, Redzepi found his home in the no man’s land and transformed into swan. Noma: My Perfect Storm is a creative journey into the mind of René Redzepi. Other titles in the Food & Wine strand: Sour Grapes (p.37)
Sales Contact: Louis Boldini, StudioCanal Email: louis.boldini@studiocanal.co.uk
Films Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Mark Stucke, Journeyman Pictures Email: mark@journeyman.tv
Talks & Sessions
Nearing forty, and weighing double what he should, comedian Craig Anderson knows that something has to change. At the encouragement of director Tim Delmastro, he forgoes his McDonald’s laden diet and opts instead for a Japanese one. We follow the amiable Australian to Japan where he navigates everything from mastering chopsticks to the mysteries of a green tea ceremony – and lots and lots of tofu. ~ CN
Country: Australia, Japan Year: 2015 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: Freedom From Choice (2014), End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless (2012) Website: www.misohungry.tv
Marketplace
Director/Producer: Tim Delmastro
Parties & Social
Tue 14 Jun / 10:15 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Schedule
Miso Hungry
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Films
Global Encounters
Fri 10 Jun / 15:45 / ITN Source Showroom 4 & Mon 13 Jun / 15:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Jeff Feuerzeig
In the late 1990s, teenager JT LeRoy shot to fame with tales woven from his troubled life. Courtney Love and other A-listers were quick to claim friendship as he wrote successive blockbusters. But in 2005 the scales fell away to reveal one Laura Albert, a talented fantasist. Jeff Feuerzeig’s telling of her story is as energetic and creative as Barton herself in this spellbinding documentary. ~ CN
Parties & Social 80
Producers: Henry S. Rosenthal, Brett Ratner, Molly Thompson, Danny Gabai, Jim Czarnecki Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 110 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005), Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King (1993) Website: www.dogwoofglobal.com/ author-the-jt-leroy-story Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
Behemoth
Sun 12 Jun / 13:15 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Zhao Liang Producer: Sylvie Blum Country: China, France Year: 2015 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
A powerful visual journey to Mongolia, where beautiful grasslands are being overrun by mountains destroyed by coal mining, blackening the surrounding landscape and its people. Mesmerizing and dreamlike in its stark bird’s eye observations of the industrial processes at work, this is a nearly silent trip into Dante’s circle of hell from Zhao Liang, one of China’s most talented filmmakers. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Severine Garusso, Upside Distribution Email: severine.garusso@upsidetelevision.com
Films
Global Encounters
The Charro of Toluquilla Tue 14 Jun / 18:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: José Villalobos Producer: Sergio Morkin Country: Mexico Year: 2016 Duration: 86 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European
Irreverent and flirtatious, Jaime Dominguez enjoys life on his horse and onstage as the popular mariachi dancer “Charro de Toluquilla”. But Jaime has some very grown up problems – not least that he is HIV positive, and his devout girlfriend wants to get married to legitimise their daughter. A portrait of Mexico through a complex protagonist, Jose Villalobos’ film shimmers with humanity. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Sofía Marquez, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía Email: sales@imcine.gob.mx
Films Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Matt Hird, Dartmouth Films Email: matt@dartmouthfilms.com
Talks & Sessions
An intimate and unique portrait of three people caught up in the chaotic and often violent development that is shaping modern-day Cambodia. Shot over six years, the film charts the growing wave of land-rights protests that led to the ‘Cambodian Spring’ and the tragic events that followed. This film is about the complexities – both political and personal – of fighting for what you believe in.
Producer: Christopher Hird Country: UK, Cambodia Year: 2016 Duration: 130 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: Freedom From Choice (2014), End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless (2012)
Marketplace
Director: Chris Kelly
Parties & Social
Sat 11 Jun / 15:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Schedule
The Cause of Progress
81
Films
Global Encounters
Sat 11 Jun / 18:15 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Robert Kenner
Hidden in the backwaters of Arkansas, the monster nuclear warhead Titan II exemplified the bloated US aggression of the Cold War. A “human error” during maintenance one evening snowballs into a panic that would have lead to certain catastrophe, had it not been for a large dose of luck and bravery. Food Inc. director Robert Kenner reunites with writer Eric Schlosser in this real-life thriller. ~ SW
Parties & Social 82
Producers: Melissa Robledo, Eric Schlosser, Mark Samels, Robert Kenner Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Director Filmography: Merchants of Doubt (2014), Food Inc. (2008) Premiere: European Sales Contact: Tom Koch, PBS International Email: jtkoch@pbs.org
Dead Slow Ahead
Tue 14 Jun / 15:45 / Vimeo Showroom 2
Director: Mauro Herce Producers: Jasmina Sijercic, Ventura Durral, Jose Alayon Country: France, Spain Year: 2015 Duration: 74 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
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Schedule
Command and Control
A giant freighter called Fair Lady steers slowly through barren waters. It is gargantuan and merciless. Against the starkly beautiful impressionistic images of machinery and landscapes, the isolated workers blur, indistinguishable from each other; tiny cogs feeding the beast. Spanish cinematographer Mauro Herce’s striking multi-award-winning directorial debut weaves a mesmerizing post-apocalyptic cinematic experience. ~ CN
Sales Contact: Jasmina Sijercic, Bocalupo Films Email: bocalupofilms1@gmail.com
Films
Global Encounters
Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp
Sales Contact: Riel Roch-Decter, Memory Email: rrd@memory.is
Sat 11 Jun / 09:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Directors: Ben Nabors, Stefan Sagmeister, Hillman Curtis
Designer Stefan Sagmeister lives in the city of his dreams, creating work for the Rolling Stones and Jay Z. Yet, he suspects there must be more to life. Turning himself into a design project, he attempts to change his personality to become a better person. Things don’t go as planned.
Producer: Ben Nabors Country: UK, USA, Austria, Hong Kong, Indonesia Year: 2016 Duration: 97 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: William and the Windmill (2013) Website: www.thehappyfilm.org Sales Contact: Ben Nabors, Group Theory Email: ben@grouptheory.com
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
The Happy Film
Alternate Realities
Screeing with: When You Awake (p.48)
Parties & Social
Between 2008-2015, a man filmed his life obsessively and uploaded it to YouTube. The hundreds of hours of raw footage revealed a very personal and intimate look into an American family’s life and their struggle to survive. Fraud is a film created by piecing this colossal trove of home video into a narrative.
Producers: Riel Roch-Decter, Sebastian Pardo Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 55 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2014), Catherine (2013)
Films
Mon 13 Jun / 19:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
Schedule
Fraud
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Films
Global Encounters
Director: Patrick Shen
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions
In this contemplative cinematic experience, director Patrick Shen explores our relationship with the increasingly elusive sound of silence. The film interweaves sequences of stillness with an exploration of how we have approached silence through the centuries. Above all, In Pursuit of Silence challenges audiences to step away from the cacophony of our urban lives, slow down and see the world anew. ~ CN
Producers: Brandon Vedder, Andrew Brumme, Patrick Shen Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 82 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Hypaethral (2015), La Source (2012), The Philosopher Kings (2009), Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2005) Website: www.pursuitofsilence.com Sales Contact: Andrew Brumme, Transcendental Media Email: silence@transcendfilms.com
India in a Day
Tue 14 Jun / 20:30 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Richie Mehta
Marketplace Parties & Social 84
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Sun 12 Jun / 10:15 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Mon 13 Jun / 15:30 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Tue 14 Jun / 19:10 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Wed 15 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street
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Schedule
In Pursuit of Silence
India in a Day is India’s largest crowdsourced documentary, the story of a single day: 10 October 2015. The film is a unique document, capturing a remarkable range of characters and personal reflections into what it means to be alive in India today, submitted by individuals from across the country.
Producers: Cassandra Sigsgaard, Jack Arbuthnott Country: UK, India Year: 2016 Duration: 100 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: Siddharth (2013), I’ll Follow You Down (2013), Amal (2007) Sales Contact: Donna Chang, Scott Free Films Email: donna@scottfree.co.uk
Global Encounters
Life, Animated
Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
MONSTER IN THE MIND The Convenient UN-truth about Alzheimer’s Sun 12 Jun / 17:30 / Curzon Cinema & Wed 15 Jun / 10:00 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Jean Carper
With humour and intelligence, Jean Carper, using herself as a guinea pig for high-tech testing (she carries the number one gene for Alzheimer’s) and top experts as advisers, examines the irrational fear, drug failures, dangerous misconceptions and hidden facts about Alzheimer’s disease leading to an inspiring happy ending that reveals how to save yourself and the world from dementia.
Producers: Michelle Ngo, Lee Koromvokis Country: UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Netherlands Year: 2015 Duration: 87 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Website: www.monsterinthemindmovie.com Sales Contact: Jean Carper Email: jecarper@aol.com
Films Alternate Realities
After years of silence as a child, Owen Suskind amazed his family by beginning to communicate through his biggest passion: Disney films. Now leaving home, Owen is learning that not every step in life has a Disney guru. Director Roger Ross Williams (God Loves Uganda) returns to Doc/Fest with a masterful film about how one close-knit family navigates life with autism. ~ CN
Producers: Carolyn Hepburn, Christopher Clements, Julie Goldman, Roger Ross Williams Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 91 mins Format: DCP Director’s Filmography: God Loves Uganda (2013) Website: www.dogwoofglobal.com/ life-animated
Talks & Sessions
Director: Roger Ross Williams
Marketplace
Sun 12 Jun / 13:00 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Schedule
U
Parties & Social
Films
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Films
Global Encounters
Sun 12 Jun / 12:30 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Ben Proudfoot
Retired American professor Andrew Garrod has arrived in Kigali to stage a production of Romeo and Juliet, hoping to further reconciliation 20 years after the devastating genocide. Ben Proudfoot’s film shows Rwanda in beautiful technicolour, whilst the back stories of the millennial cast reflect how near the surface the trauma remains. Without everyone in agreement about Garrod’s approach, tensions mount as opening night nears. ~ CN
Parties & Social 86
Producers: Andrea Batista, Ben Proudfoot Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 87 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director’s Filmography: Fibre & Wood (2015), Ladybug (2015), Mother Earth (2015), Rust (2015) Website: www.rwandaandjuliet.com Sales Contact: Emily Bon, Breakwater Studios Email: emily@breakwaterstudios.com
Solitary
Sat 11 Jun / 12:45 / Odeon & Wed 15 Jun / 12:45 / PBS America Showroom 3
Director: Kristi Jacobson
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Rwanda & Juliet
Prisoners in solitary confinement are relegated there for disruptive or violent behaviour while serving time within the normal prison population. Given unprecedented access to a supermax facility in Virginia, director Kristi Jacobson builds close, trusting relationships with a handful of inmates. The result is a sympathetic observation of their repetitive day-to-day and achingly eloquent accounts of isolation presented in their own words. ~ SW
Producers: Julie Goldman, Katie Mitchell, Kristi Jacobson Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: A Place at the Table (2013), Toots (2006), American Standoff (2002) Website: www.solitarydoc.com Screening with: Eye for an Eye (p.49) Sales Contact: Kristi Jacobson, Catalyst Films Email: kristi@catalyst-films.com
Films
Global Encounters
Tyrus
Sun 12 Jun / 20:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Pamela Tom
A keen anecdotalist, the 105-year-old artist Tyrus Wong relays the cheeky details about his first date with his late wife, Ruth. Wong is a painter, but also had a brief stint at Disney, where he created the iconic impressionistic look for Bambi. Tyrus is as much a story about the survivalist mentality of 20th century Chinese Americans as it is about the man himself. ~ SW
Producers: Gwen Wynne, Tamara Khalaf, Pamela Tom Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 78 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director’s Filmography: Wild About Harry (2009), The Story of Mothers & Daughters (1997), Two Lies (1990) Website: www.tyrusthemovie.com Screeining with: First Cut (p.93) Sales Contact: Pamela Tom, New Moon Pictures Email: ptomfilm@yahoo.com
Films Alternate Realities
Sales Contact: Sam Broadwin, RadicalMedia Email: broadwin@radicalmedia.com
Talks & Sessions
Joe Berlinger’s Tony Robbins: I’m Not Your Guru, captures renowned life and business strategist and best-selling author Tony Robbins in a revelatory cinéma vérité film that goes behind the scenes of his mega once-a-year seminar “Date With Destiny” to give an insider look at how one man can affect millions.
Producers: Lisa Gray, Kevin Huffman, Joe Berlinger Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 115 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director's Filmography: Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014), Crude (2009), Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011), Under African Skies (2012), Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Marketplace
Director: Joe Berlinger
Parties & Social
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Schedule
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
87
Films
Global Encounters / Euro/Doc
Sat 11 Jun / 10:00 / Odeon
Directors: Heidi Brandenburg, Matthew Orzel Producers: Taira Akbar Country: USA, Perua Year: 2016 Duration: 100 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
When Two Worlds Collide
President Alan Garcia intends to make the most of Peru’s rich natural resources. Yet his grand, money-making scheme is coming up against Alberto Pizango, the formidable force behind the indigenous peoples’ resistance. “The accumulation of money and wealth: we call that savage,” he remarks. This Best First Feature winner at Sundance examines the battle against the ongoing plundering of native territories. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Lucas Verga, The Film Sales Company Email: lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com
Other titles in the Global Encounters strand: After Spring (p.57), The Age of Consequences (p.38), Ambulance (p.58), Back on Board: Greg Louganis (p.75), Born to Be Free (p.38), Care (p.68), City of Gold (p.78), Death by Design (p.39), Enough, Already (p.58), Footprint (p.39), Golden Girl (p.69), Jim: The James Foley Story (p.34), Kivalina (p.40), The Land of the Enlightened (p.35), League of Exotique Dancers (p.59), Mad Dogs (p.77), Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (p.72), Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (p.70), Mr. Gaga (p.59), National Bird (p.62), Our Last Tango (p.60), Out Run (p.72), The Peacemaker (p.63), Plaza de la Soledad (p.71), SEED: The Untold Story (p.41), Serena (p.77), The Settlers (p.36), Snow Monkey (p.44), There Will Be Water (p.41), Two Trains Runnin’ (p.75), Uncle Howard (p.73), Weiner (p.64)
A Family Affair
Sat 11 Jun / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Tue 14 Jun / 20:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Director: Tom Fassaert
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“I am the son of a mother with a mask,” says a tired looking Rob, father of the Dutch filmmaker Tom Fassaert. The younger is on a quest to unpack the secrets of his mysterious grandmother, who abandoned her family to start a new life in South Africa. A haunting exposé of familial love gone awry, Fassaert’s curiosity yields far more than he bargained for. ~ SW
Producer: Wout Conijn Country: Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands Year: 2015 Duration: 116 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Marinus Boezem (2013), An Angel in Doel (2011), L’Homme et la Forêt (2008) , Cockerill est á nous (2004) Website: www.afamilyaffair-film.com Sales Contact: Wout Conijn, Conijn Film Email: wout@conijnfilm.com
Euro/Doc
Kedi
An unlikely witness to the rise and fall of the Ottoman empire is the beloved cat, who has roamed the streets of Istanbul for centuries. They reside in urban nooks and crannies, carving a co-existence with the city’s humans. Taking a feline perspective of life in the capital, filmmaker Ceyda Torun observes how cats are an integral part of many people’s lives. ~ SW
Sales Contact: Ceyda Torun, Termite Films Email: ceyda@termitefilms.com
Machine of Human Dreams Sat 11 Jun / 14:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Roy Cohen Producer: Mike Lerner Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 90 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Website: www.dogwoofglobal.com/ machine-of-human-dreams Ben Goertzel is widely acknowledged to be one of the smartest artificial intelligence experts in the world. With a ragtag team in Hong Kong, he’s trying to build a robot with a global brain. But as embittered ex-colleagues testify, Ben has some big failures behind him, and with Chinese funders breathing down his neck, the path to fame and glory is not at all smooth. ~ CN
Screeining with: The Dog (p.92) Sales Contact: Vesna Cudic, Dogwoof Email: vesna@dogwoof.com
Films Alternate Realities
Producers: Charlie Wuppermann, Ceyda Torun Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Website: www.kedifilm.com
Talks & Sessions
Director: Ceyda Torun
Marketplace
Fri 10 Jun / 12:45 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Fri 10 Jun / 15:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Sat 11 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Sun 12 Jun / 17:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Wed 15 Jun / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
Schedule
U
Parties & Social
Films
89
Films
Euro/Doc
Mon 13 Jun / 14:15 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Colm Quinn
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Mattress Men
90
Coolock business partners Paul Kelly and Michael Flynn, aka Mattress Mick, are on the verge of falling out over the filming of their latest YouTube video. Struggling against the Irish recession, they are doing everything to keep the mattress shop afloat. Through the intertwining lives of the two men, Mattress Men is a more intimate take on the failure of modern economic policies. ~ SW
Producers: Ciaran Deeney, David Clarke, Colm Quinn Country: Ireland Year: 2016 Duration: 80 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: Baring Arms (2016), Joy (2011), Needle Exchange (2010) Sales Contact: Ciaran Deeney, El Zorrero Films Email: ciaran@elzorrerofilms.ie
Merci Patron ! (Thanks Boss!)
Sat 11 Jun / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre & Tue 14 Jun / 20:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library & Wed 15 Jun / 20:00 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: François Ruffin Producer: Edouard Mauriac Country: France Year: 2016 Duration: 83 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
For the Klurs, nothing is going right: their factory that had made suits for Kenzo (LVMH) was relocated abroad. Now unemployed and in debt, the couple stands to lose their home. That’s when François Ruffin knocks on their door. Can they manage to pull one over on Bernard Arnault, CEO of the world’s leading luxury group and France’s richest man?
Sales Contact: Samuel Blanc, Jour2fête Email: sales@jour2fete.com
Films
Euro/Doc
Ukrainian Sheriffs
Sat 11 Jun / 21:00 / Odeon & Mon 13 Jun / 20:30 / Curzon Cinema
Director/Producer: Arto Halonen
Lauri never fit in as a child. Bullied at school, he became an angry outsider – the type we always hear about in the aftermath of school shootings. In this inventive hybrid by veteran Finnish director and Doc/Fest returnee Arto Halonen, we understand how the formative years of Lauri’s life – and others like him – can transform victims into violent aggressors. ~ CN
Country: Finland Year: 2016 Duration: 73 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: A Patriotic Man (2013), When Heroes Lie (2012), Princess (2010), Shadow of the Holy Book (2007), Pavlov’s Dogs (2006) Website: www.whiterage.fi
Films Alternate Realities
White Rage
Talks & Sessions
Sales Contact: Tijana Djukic, Taskovski Films Email: sales@taskovskifilms.com
Screeining with: Speaking is Difficult (p.95) Sales Contact: Esther Van Messel, First Hand Films Email: esther.van.messel@firsthandfilms.com
Other titles in the Euro/Doc strand: Ants on a Shrimp (p.78), Freightened - The Real Price of Shipping (p.40), Noma: My Perfect Storm (p.79), Reset (p.60)
Parties & Social
In the village of Stara Zburyevka, deputised sheriffs Viktor and Volodya are just trying to keep the peace. Against the backdrop of mounting tensions with neighbouring Russia, the eclectic villagers go about their lives, helped by the often bemused sheriffs. Winner of an IDFA Special Jury prize, this is a tragicomic immersive journey to a corner of the world seemingly frozen in time. ~ CN
Producers: Dar’ya Averchenko, Uldis Cekulis Country: Germany, Latvia, Ukraine Year: 2015 Duration: 85 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Director’s Filmography: Dixieland (2015), Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014)
Marketplace
Director: Roman Bondarchuk
Schedule
Sun 12 Jun / 15:30 / Beijing Showroom 1
91
Films
Short Doc Programme
Consumed
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Sat 11 Jun / 09:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Director: Richard Seymour Producers: Liam Young, Kate Davies Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 19 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Chen Li Ming works in a factory in China and lives in factory dorms. The rhythmical thud of machines resembles a sacrificial ritual in this post-apocalyptic landscape dominated by Western consumerism. ~ SB
Sales Contact: Richard Seymour Email: richardjohnseymour @gmail.com
Screening With: Death by Design (p.39)
The Dog
Sat 11 Jun / 14:45 / Beijing Showroom 1
Directors: Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari
Do robot dogs dream of electric sticks? A room of adults attend the funeral of their Aibos in Japan – a Sony-produced robotic pet. With the repair centres closed, time is ticking for the surviving few. ~ SB
Producers: Emma Cott, Taeko Itabashi, Richard Atrero de Guzman Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 8 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International
Director’s Filmography: T-Rex (2015), California is a Place - Short Documentaries (2009) Screening With: Machine of Human Dreams (p.89) Sales Contact: Drea Cooper, ZCDC Email: drea@dreacooper.com
Elders
U
Sat 11 Jun / 20:30 / Beijing Showroom 1 & Sun 12 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Mon 13 Jun / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Mon 13 Jun / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Parties & Social
Director/Producer: Glen Milner
92
Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 7 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Eight children, 26 grandchildren, 28 greatgrandchildren…. after 88 years of marriage, Karim and Kartari still make each other laugh. The couple have the longest known marriage in the world. ~ SB
Screening With: Flotel Europa (p.43)
Sales Contact: Glen Milner, Factual Film Email: milnerglen@gmail.com
Films
Short Doc Programme
Figure
Schedule
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director: Katarzyna Gondek Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 3
Films
Sales Contact: Ben Vandendaele, RADIATOR IP Sales Email: ben@radiatorsales.eu
Sun 12 Jun / 20:00 / Curzon Cinema
Director: Gareth C. Scales Producer: Fraser Robinson Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 10 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK Big chops, close cuts, fine lines and precision; a montage of what it means to cut. Snippets of interviews explore the diverse trades that require a blade. ~ SB
Sales Contact: Fraser Robinson, First Cut Films Email: fraserrobinson@yahoo.ca
Screening With: Tyrus (p.87)
The Happy Warriors
U
Sun 12 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Mon 13 Jun / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
First Cut
Marketplace
A giant head glides through a snowy night on the back of a truck. Carved at a gnome and dinosaur factory, the icon floats into a Polish park to preach for eternity. ~ SB
Producers: Ben Vandandaele, Katarzyna Gondek Country: Belgium, Poland Year: 2015 Duration: 8 mins Format: DCP Premiere: UK
In the spectacular Cairngorm mountains, the snowy land merges with the clouds. The sublime can swiftly become treacherous. A dedicated team of experienced volunteers standby to rescue the lost. ~ SB
Producer: Rebecca Dale-Everett Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 12 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Director’s Filmography: Below the Row (2013)
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 4 Sales Contact: Glen Travis, Rock of Eye Email: rglntrvs@gmail.com
Parties & Social
Director: Glen Travis
93
Films
Short Doc Programme
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Hell on Wheels
U
Sun 12 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Mon 13 June / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Wed 15 Jun / 16:30 / ITN Source Showroom 4
Director: Emma Miranda Moore
Busting out at full speed, the London Rockin’ Rollers share the adrenaline-fuelled, body-positive, awesome world of Roller Derby. A spectator sport with attitude, this is one hell of a girl gang. ~ SB
Producers: Katharine Richardson Country: UK Year: 2016 Duration: 8 mins Format: DCP Premiere: World Screening With: Mad Dogs (p.77)
Director’s Filmography: Dressing Room 7 (2015), PERF (2014), Optimism (2014) Sales Contact: Emma Miranda Moore Email: emmamiranda@me.com
Just a Dog
Sat 11 Jun / 15:30 / Odeon
Director: Andrea B. Scott
The inexplicable police shooting of Glen’s family dog in Hartford, Connecticut traumatised his daughter. Upon challenging the law, he began to grasp the extent of institutional incompetence, corruption and racism. ~ SB
Producer: Adella Ladjevardi Country: USA Year: 2016 Duration: 15 mins Format: DCP Premiere: International Director’s Filmography: Florence, Arizona (2014)
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 2 Sales Contact: Adella Ladjevardi Email: adella.ladjevardi@gmail.com
The Living Forest
U
Sat 11 Jun / 10:00 / Vimeo Showroom 2 & Sat 11 Jun / 17:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Sun 12 Jun / 13:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 12:15 / Beijing Showroom 1 & Tue 14 Jun / 21:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
Parties & Social
Director: Marc Silver
94
Producer: Charlie Phillips Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 9 mins Format: DCP The Sarayakuans of Ecuador battle against the invasion and exploitation of their Amazon forest homeland. Oil companies encroach, offering meaningless sums of money in return for environmental destruction. ~ SB
Screening With: Kivalina (p.40)
Sales Contact: Charlie Phillips, Guardian Email: charlie.phillips@ theguardian.com
Short Doc Programme
Pickle
U
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 2
Director’s Filmography: Zipper: Coney Island’s last Wild Ride (2012), Muskrat Lovely (2005), Beauty School (2002) Sales Contact: Amy Nicholson, Myrtle & Olive Email: amybnicholson@mac.com
Sheepo
U
Sun 12 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Mon 13 Jun / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 09:45 / PBS America Showroom 3 & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Director: Ian Robertson Producers: Steven Donnelly, Ian Robertson Country: UK Year: 2015 Duration: 4 mins Format: DCP Speed, precision, endurance. Plunged into the moment, shearer Archie Paterson shares the intensity of the challenge and his searing competitive streak. ~ SB
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 4 Sales Contact: Ian Robertson Email: iandrob@gmail.com
Marketplace
Speaking is Difficult
Sat 11 Jun / 21:00 / Odeon & Mon 13 Jun / 20:30 / Curzon Cinema
Director: AJ Schnack
Tranquil visions of everyday life in America are flooded with violent echoes. Recordings of emergency phone calls express the terror that tore through cafés, schools, churches, cinemas… nowhere is safe. ~ SB
Alternate Realities
After rescuing a caged hen that had tumbled from a truck, Debbie and Tom began to nurture a menagerie. Predators, animation and opera weave through colourful tales. ~ SB
Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 15 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Website: www.picklethefish.com
Talks & Sessions
Director/Producer: Amy Nicholson
Films
Schedule
Sat 11 Jun / 15:30 / Odeon & Sun 12 Jun / 11:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street & Mon 13 Jun / 11:00 / Guardian Screen on Tudor Square & Tue 14 Jun / 15:00 / Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Producer: Will Lennon Country: USA Year: 2015 Duration: 15 mins Format: DCP
Director’s Filmography: We Always Lie to Strangers (2013), Caucus (2013), Kurt Cobain About a Son (2006), Gigantic (2002)
Screening With: White Rage (p.91)
Sales Contact: Bryce Renniger, Field of Vision Email: Editorial_FieldofVision@ firstlook.org
Parties & Social
Films
95
Films
Short Doc Programme
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / Bertha DocHouse Library Theatre
Director: Lamin Oo
Films
Schedule
The Special One
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
At San Pya fish market, one man fuses work with pleasure. Crazy about Chelsea football team, he has enforced a uniform and takes managerial inspiration from Mourinho. ~ SB
96
Producer: Sai Kong Kham Country: Myanmar Year: 2015 Duration: 7 mins Format: DCP Premiere: European Director’s Filmography: Homework (2014)
Screening As Part Of: Short Doc Programme 3 Sales Contact: Lamin Oo, Tagu Films Email: oo.lamin@gmail.com
Meet the people behind the lens at Journeyman Pictures Presents: Meet the Filmmakers Drinks at Crucible Delegate Lounge, Mon 13 Jun, 20:00 – 21:30
Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
The Labour government of 1945 established a welfare state that put public services in place for all of Britain’s citizens. Veteran filmmaker Ken Loach reconstructs the socialist dreams of yore.
16:00
Mavis!
Spanning six decades, Mavis Staples’ extraordinary career has paralleled the musical and political landscapes of the times. Featuring Bob Dylan, Sharon Jones and more.
18:00
A Ballerina’s Tale
Traces the prodigious rise and potentially careerending injury of Misty Copeland, the first African American ballerina in a major company.
20:00 American Ballet Theater: A History Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns delves into the rich history of one of the world’s pre-eminent ballet companies.
The Mine Wars
15:00
Cat Listening to Music
15:03
Kedi
17:15
Varicella
18:00
First Position
At the dawn of the 20th century, coal powered America, The Mine Wars is the biggest civil insurrection in US history. Guillaume-en-Egypte, music-loving cat, is listening to Pajaro Triste by Federico Mompou. Believed to absorb the “negative energy” of humans, cats are allowed to live and roam freely in the streets of Istanbul.
Talks & Sessions
14:00 The Spirit of ‘45
12:00
The tender and trusting relationship between two sisters with a common dream: becoming a soloist ballet dancer. The award-winning documentary follows six dancers as they prepare to perform for one of the most prestigious ballet competitions.
20:00 Berlin 1936, The Final Illusion
The story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, transformed by Nazi propaganda into a grandiose spectacle dedicated to the glory of the Reich.
Marketplace
Encounters at the End of the World
In this Oscar-nominated film, Werner Herzog takes his roving camera to Antarctica to film those living in the most treacherous conditions for scientific research.
Parties & Social
12:00
Alternate Realities
Films
Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Friday 10 June
Schedule
Outdoor Screens
97
Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Saturday 11 June
Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Outdoor Screens
11:00
Cat Listening to Music
11:03
Kedi
Guillaume-en-Egypte, music-loving cat, is listening to Pajaro Triste by Federico Mompou. Believed to absorb the “negative energy” of humans, cats are allowed to live and roam freely in the streets of Istanbul.
13:00
Berlin 1936, The Final Illusion
The story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, transformed by Nazi propaganda into a grandiose spectacle dedicated to the glory of the Reich.
15:00
Varicella
Marketplace
The tender and trusting relationship between two sisters with a common dream: becoming a soloist ballet dancer.
16:00
First Position
The award-winning documentary follows six dancers as they prepare to perform for one of the most prestigious ballet competitions.
18:00
Short Doc Programme
Parties & Social
Check out some exceptional new works by emerging and established documentary filmmakers.
98
20:00 The Mine Wars
At the dawn of the 20th century, coal powered America, The Mine Wars is the biggest civil insurrection in US history.
10:45
American Ballet Theater: A History
13:00
A Ballerina’s Tale
15:00
BFI Archive
17:00
Guardian Shorts
18:00
¡Vivan las Antípodas!
Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns delves into the rich history of one of the world’s pre-eminent ballet companies. Traces the prodigious rise and potentially careerending injury of Misty Copeland, the first African American ballerina in a major company.
Continuing this great Doc/Fest tradition, we are proud to screen this collection of footage from the BFI Archive. The Guardian’s documentary programme features contemporary global real stories that will surprise and intrigue. These three films take you from the Amazon to the Bronx for the best short stories from around the world right now. It’s a question every school child has wondered: where would you end up if you dug from one side of the world to the other?
20:00 Mavis!
Spanning six decades, Mavis Staples’ extraordinary career has paralleled the musical and political landscapes of the times. Featuring Bob Dylan, Sharon Jones and more.
Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
First Position
The award-winning documentary follows six dancers as they prepare to perform for one of the most prestigious ballet competitions.
15:00
Mavis!
Spanning six decades, Mavis Staples’ extraordinary career has paralleled the musical and political landscapes of the times. Featuring Bob Dylan, Sharon Jones and more.
17:00
Cat Listening to Music
Guillaume-en-Egypte, music-loving cat, is listening to Pajaro Triste by Federico Mompou.
17:03
Kedi
18:30
BFI Archive
Believed to absorb the “negative energy” of humans, cats are allowed to live and roam freely in the streets of Istanbul. Continuing this great Doc/Fest tradition, we are proud to screen this collection of footage from the BFI Archive.
20:20 Encounters at the End of the World
In this Oscar-nominated film, Werner Herzog takes his roving camera to Antarctica to film those living in the most treacherous conditions for scientific research.
Berlin 1936, The Final Illusion
13:00
Guardian Shorts
13:45
Varicella
15:00
A Todo Color
17:30
American Ballet Theater: A History
19:30
The Epic of Everest
The story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, transformed by Nazi propaganda into a grandiose spectacle dedicated to the glory of the Reich. The Guardian’s documentary programme features contemporary global real stories that will surprise and intrigue. These three films take you from the Amazon to the Bronx for the best short stories from around the world right now. The tender and trusting relationship between two sisters with a common dream: becoming a soloist ballet dancer. Cuba, 1990s. Amidst economic, political and social strife, young people turned to music as a source of salvation. A rousing music documentary with some fabulous concert scenes.
Talks & Sessions
13:00
11:00
Marketplace
Short Doc Programme
Check out some exceptional new works by emerging and established documentary filmmakers.
Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns delves into the rich history of one of the world’s pre-eminent ballet companies.
A remarkable film record of the legendary 1924 attempt to conquer the highest mountain in the world, newly restored by the BFI National Archive.
Parties & Social
11:00
Alternate Realities
Films
Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Sunday 12 June
Schedule
Outdoor Screens
99
Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Monday 13 June
Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Outdoor Screens
100
11:00
The Mine Wars
13:30
American Ballet Theater: A History
15:30
In Pursuit of Silence
17:30
¡Vivan las Antípodas!
At the dawn of the 20th century, coal powered America, The Mine Wars is the biggest civil insurrection in US history. Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns delves into the rich history of one of the world’s pre-eminent ballet companies.
This contemplative cinematic experience explores the elusive sound of silence, challenging audiences to step away from the cacophony of our urban lives. It’s a question every school child has wondered: where would you end up if you dug from one side of the world to the other?
20:00 The Spirit of ‘45
The Labour government of 1945 established a welfare state that put public services in place for all of Britain’s citizens. Veteran filmmaker Ken Loach reconstructs the socialist dreams of yore.
11:00
Short Doc Programme
13:00
Notes on Blindness
15:00
The Epic of Everest
17:00
First Position
19:00
BFI Archive
Check out some exceptional new works by emerging and established documentary filmmakers. When John Hull lost his sight he began documenting his new world on audio cassettes. This hybrid documentary tells his story. A remarkable film record of the legendary 1924 attempt to conquer the highest mountain in the world, newly restored by the BFI National Archive. The award-winning documentary follows six dancers as they prepare to perform for one of the most prestigious ballet competitions. Continuing this great Doc/Fest tradition, we are proud to screen this collection of footage from the BFI Archive.
20:40 A Todo Color
Cuba, 1990s. Amidst economic, political and social strife, young people turned to music as a source of salvation. A rousing music documentary with some fabulous concert scenes.
Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
A Todo Color
13:00
BFI Archive
13:00
A Ballerina’s Tale
15:00
Berlin 1936, The Final Illusion
17:10
American Ballet Theater: A History
Varicella
19:10
In Pursuit of Silence
20:00 A Ballerina’s Tale
21:00
Guardian Shorts
Continuing this great Doc/Fest tradition, we are proud to screen this collection of footage from the BFI Archive.
15:00
Short Doc Programme
Check out some exceptional new works by emerging and established documentary filmmakers.
17:00
Black Gold
Tadesse Meskela struggles to keep his 74,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers from Western exploitation. Black Gold exposes the truth behind each cappuccino and demands we wake up and smell the coffee.
19:20
The tender and trusting relationship between two sisters with a common dream: becoming a soloist ballet dancer. Traces the prodigious rise and potentially careerending injury of Misty Copeland, the first African American ballerina in a major company.
Cuba, 1990s. Amidst economic, political and social strife, young people turned to music as a source of salvation. A rousing music documentary with some fabulous concert scenes. Traces the prodigious rise and potentially careerending injury of Misty Copeland, the first African American ballerina in a major company. The story of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, transformed by Nazi propaganda into a grandiose spectacle dedicated to the glory of the Reich. Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns delves into the rich history of one of the world’s pre-eminent ballet companies.
This contemplative cinematic experience explores the elusive sound of silence, challenging audiences to step away from the cacophony of our urban lives. The Guardian’s documentary programme features contemporary global real stories that will surprise and intrigue. These three films take you from the Amazon to the Bronx for the best short stories from around the world right now.
Talks & Sessions
11:00
Marketplace
Notes on Blindness
When John Hull lost his sight he began documenting his new world on audio cassettes. This hybrid documentary tells his story.
Parties & Social
11:00
Alternate Realities
Films
Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Tuesday 14 June
Schedule
Outdoor Screens
101
Beijing Screen on Howard Street
Wednesday 15 June
Guardian Screen on Tudor Square
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
Schedule
Outdoor Screens
102
11:00
The Mine Wars
13:30
Notes on Blindness
15:00
In Pursuit of Silence
16:30
Mavis!
At the dawn of the 20th century, coal powered America, The Mine Wars is the biggest civil insurrection in US history. When John Hull lost his sight he began documenting his new world on audio cassettes. This hybrid documentary tells his story. This contemplative cinematic experience explores the elusive sound of silence, challenging audiences to step away from the cacophony of our urban lives. Spanning six decades, Mavis Staples’ extraordinary career has paralleled the musical and political landscapes of the times. Featuring Bob Dylan, Sharon Jones and more.
11:00
Cat Listening to Music
11:03
Kedi
13:00
Black Gold
15:00
The Spirit of ‘45
17:15
BFI Archive
Guillaume-en-Egypte, music-loving cat, is listening to Pajaro Triste by Federico Mompou. Believed to absorb the “negative energy” of humans, cats are allowed to live and roam freely in the streets of Istanbul. Tadesse Meskela struggles to keep his 74,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers from Western exploitation. Black Gold exposes the truth behind each cappuccino and demands we wake up and smell the coffee. The Labour government of 1945 established a welfare state that put public services in place for all of Britain’s citizens. Veteran filmmaker Ken Loach reconstructs the socialist dreams of yore. Continuing this great Doc/Fest tradition, we are proud to screen this collection of footage from the BFI Archive.
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We have programmed 14 immersive media experiences in Millennium Gallery and beyond, and 12 Virtual Reality documentaries in Site Gallery and The Space, allowing a depth of experience far beyond the limitations of the flat screen. Put on a virtual reality headset to explore momentous historical events as though you were there – at Dublin’s General Post Office during the Easter Rising or in 1950s rural Australia when British atomic bomb tests changed lives of the indigenous Martu people forever. In the Alternate Realities Summit, we present a range of engaging talks and demonstrations. Artificial intelligence is one of our key themes: we will talk to an android about love and war and discover how USC Shoah Foundation – the Institute for Visual History and Education is pioneering the use of natural language processing software to enable virtual conversations with 3D images of Holocaust survivors so conversations can continue far into the future. The Summit afternoon concentrates on the VR industry’s hot topics: Does VR really work in eliciting empathy? What can VR makers learn from immersive theatre? How can VR enhance journalistic documentary? Catch extra Alternate Realities sessions throughout the rest of the programme.
Schedule Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions
Virtually visit the International Space Station. Better understand what it might be like aboard a migrants’ boat in Aardman Animation’s first foray into virtual reality. How does it feel to experience the onset of epilepsy, or navigate the world without sight?
Marketplace
Welcome to Alternate Realities, our world-leading programme of interactive media and virtual reality exhibitions and talks. We invite you to get hands-on and dive headfirst into documentary stories where you become a participant.
Parties & Social
Alternate Realities
Mark Atkin – Curator, Alternate Realities 107
Love, War & Robots: (Wo)man and Machine, in Conversation
Sun 12 Jun / 10:05 / Crucible Studio The concept of intelligent machines is no longer science fiction, it is a reality – but whose values and lifestyles are influencing the design of this new species? Join Ramona Pringle, Director of the Love, War + Robots project, in conversation with our first android keynote speaker, Bina48, as they discuss love, war and identity. Followed by Q&A with Bruce Duncan, Director of the Terasem Movement Foundation.
Morning / Afternoon Science Fiction Prototyping: Artificial Intelligence and Storytelling Sun 12 Jun / 10:55 / Crucible Studio
Sheffield Robotics demonstrate the importance of intelligent machines in the future of storytelling. Covering telepresence, embodiment and the increasing social and economic influence of artificial intelligence, we will discover how human content creators will be working with sentient machines to take documentary to the next level. Featuring live demonstrations from their robot friends.
Films
Schedule
Alternate Realities Summit
Speakers
Ramona Pringle
Speakers
Bina48
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace
Sun 12 Jun / 11:45 / Crucible Studio Dr Stephen Smith’s keynote talk will showcase New Dimensions in Testimony (p.114); ground-breaking natural language software that allows audiences to have a “virtual encounter” with the recorded image of Holocaust survivor, Pinchas Gutter, who responds in real time, powered by complex algorithms providing realistic conversation. Dr Smith shows how he and his team compile the complex audio and visual data for this project, which will transform storytelling and archives of the future. Speakers
Dr Stephen Smith (USC Shoah Foundation)
Parties & Social
Pinchas Gutter
108
NAO
Bruce Duncan (Terasem Movement Foundation)
New Dimensions in Testimony
Lunch Break 12:30 – 13:30
Michael Szollosy (University of Sheffield)
The Future of Virtual Reality
Sun 12 June / 13:30 / Crucible Studio Jessica Brillhart, Principal Filmmaker for VR at Google, kicks off our VRfternoon of talks. Jessica is at the forefront of developing in our understanding of the potential of virtual reality. Her blogs are used as a manual by emerging VR producers. As a film enthusiast with a passion for technology, she will share her insights from the frontline of VR production.
Speaker
Jessica Brillhart (Google)
360° Sound for a 360° Experience: Dynamic Binaural Audio in VR
Sun 12 Jun / 14:00 / Crucible Studio
VR & Journalism: Opportunities and Challenges
Sun 12 Jun / 14:35 / Crucible Studio Virtual reality transports you to other places, allows you to witness the conditions people live in and see the world through their eyes. But how authentic is it when 360° filming requires shots to be carefully staged? What is VR journalism good for? How will it change our newsrooms? A range of journalists from press and broadcast discuss the ethics, audience and business of VR journalism.
Hugo Ward (The Economist)
Chair
Siobhan Sinnerton (Channel 4)
Speakers
Dan Edge (PBS Frontline) Francesca Panetta (The Guardian) Zillah Watson (BBC)
United Nations VR Film Launch
Sun 12 Jun / 15:20 / Crucible Studio The UN has pioneered the use of virtual reality to raise awareness of global issues. Join a mass viewing of their latest VR film, about gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo where factions fight over the country’s mineral resources. After the viewing, director Gabo Arora will be interviewed by Francine Stock of BBC Radio 4’s The Film Programme. In partnership with Brink Institute.
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VR: The Machine to Make Us More Human?
Sun 12 Jun / 15:55 / Crucible Studio Bringing together research in neuroscience and academia, and using data collected from The Empathy Station (p.113), our speakers interrogate the idea of VR as the ‘ultimate empathy machine’. How can we define the differences between empathy and immersion? Is VR an opportunity for ‘embodied’ relating across cultural, social and political difference? Can the effects of ‘generated’ empathy be measured and mobilised to create meaningful real world change? In partnership with British Council Film.
Celia Black (Brink Institute)
Session Producers / Jemma Desai (British Council) Chair Clint Beharry (Harmony Institute)
Francine Stock (BBC Radio 4)
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Gabo Arora (United Nations)
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Trevor Cox (University of Salford)
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Tom Parnell (BBC)
Maria Panagiotidi (Arctic Shores) Celia Black (Brink Institute) Nico Daswani (World Economic Forum)
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Audio engineers demonstrate how cutting-edge spatial audio is being used to create richer and more immersive VR experiences. From the challenges of recording in the wild to the complexities of marrying 360° sound with 360° visuals, learn from the experts about the role of sound in VR storytelling and how to start designing dynamic binaural audio for your next project.
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Sun 12 Jun / 16:45 / Crucible Studio When you don a VR headset, you are in the middle of the action. No longer a passive spectator, you’re onstage with the actors. You can look around, move around, even interact. Creating VR is more like staging theatre than shooting film. Four VR producers with a background in theatre discuss what we can learn from producing drama when making VR.
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Toby Coffey (National Theatre) Tom Burton (BBC) Catherine Allen (BBC)
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May Abdalla (Anagram)
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A Night of Surveillance: The Supernerds Experience
Sun 12 Jun / 20:00 / Crucible Studio A thrilling experience for a live audience, designed to make you think twice about your online footprint. Producer Georg Tschurtschenthaler gives insights into the original production of the interactive parttheatre, part-TV show Supernerds, before providing us with a playful demonstration of just how easy it is to hack phones and tap into private data. Based on the transmedia project Supernerds produced for gebrueder beetz filmproduktion.
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Hannah Kappes (gebrueder beetz filmproduktion)
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Georg Tschurtschenthaler (gebrueder beetz filmproduktion)
Afternoon / Evening Interactive Theatre, Technology & Empathy & In My Shoes: Waking in Slough Sun 12 Jun / 17:30 / Crucible Studio
Jane Gauntlett talks about the In My Shoes project (p.119) and her mission to describe the indescribable and empathise with the inexplicable. Jane’s work recreates true stories as theatrical experiences that straddle the intersection of empathy, performance, multisensory immersion, documentary and technology. This talk will include a performance of the first In My Shoes piece that she made: Waking in Slough.
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Jane Gauntlett (Sublime & Ridiculous) Andrew Somerville (differencEngine)
Awards
Sheffield Doc/Fest is extremely pleased to announce the first Virtual Reality Award for the 2016 Festival. To celebrate the ever-growing number of highquality VR documentaries in what has now become a new creative genre, we have introduced a new Alternate Realities VR award, with this year’s projects being considered by an all-female jury. All virtual reality projects are up for the Alternate Realities VR Award.
May Abdalla Anagram / UK
John MacFarlane
Annika Gustafson
Francesca Panetta
Ingrid Kopp
The Guardian / UK
Tribeca Film Institute / South Africa
Shanida Scotland
Siobhan Sinnerton
Caspar Sonnen
Francine Stock
POV Digital / USA
BBC / UK
IDFA / Netherlands
BoostHgb / Sweden
Channel 4 / UK
Broadcaster / Critic / Writer / UK
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World Economic Forum / Switzerland
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Nico Daswani
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An international jury of film and interactive media industry experts award this prize to the project that exhibits originality in its approach to form, storytelling and delivery. Sheffield Doc/Fest is dedicated to recognising new platforms for interactive storytelling.
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#Hacked: Syria’s Electronic Armies
Mobile phone app #Hacked: Syria’s Electronic Armies invites users to investigate a deadly cyber war. You become a journalist and gather evidence against the clock while dodging hacks.
A Polish Journey
Creator: Juliana Ruhfus
Producers: Nataly Rios Goico, Robert Pratten, Juliana Ruhfus Country: UK Year: 2016 Format: Game Premiere: World Website: www.aljazeera.com/SyHacked Contact: Juliana Ruhfus, Al Jazeera Email: juliana.ruhfus@aljazeera.net
Creator/Producer: Julian Konczak
Country: UK, Germany, Poland Year: 2015 Format: Interactive Documentary Premiere: World Website: www.apolishjourney.com An interactive web documentary that explores migration through a journey of discovery by the creator to uncover truths behind his father’s arrival to Britain from Nazi Germany.
Antariksha Sanchar – Transmissions in Space
An Indian point-and-click cultural adventure game set in the early 1920s in a temple town in South India. Its protagonists are inspired by mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and by Indian classical dancer Jayalakshmi Eshwar.
Contact: Julian Konczak, zerok.tv Email: juliankonczak@hotmail.com
Creators: Abhinav Mishra, Romit Raj, Avinash Kumar Producers: Avinash Kumar, Gaurav Malaker, Babitha George Country: India Year: 2016 Format: Game Premiere: International Website: www.antariksha.in Contact: Avinash Kumar, Quicksand Design Studio Email: avinash@quickand.co.in
Alternate Realities: Interactive Exhibition Avatar Secrets
Creator/Producer: Ramona Pringle
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Millennium Gallery / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 17:00 / Sat 11 Jun 10:00 – 17:00 / Sun 12 Jun 11:00 – 16:00 / Mon 13 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 10:00 – 17:00
Explore the complexities of human connection in the networked world, following Ramona Pringle’s journey across borders and bandwidths in search of love and meaning in the 21st century.
Contact: Ramona Pringle, Ramona Pringle Productions Email: ramona@ramonapringle.com
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Country: Canada Year: 2014 Format: Interactive Documentary Premiere: European Website: www.avatarsecrets.com
Combining neuroscience and virtual reality, The Empathy Station uncovers unconscious biases and collects data on whether VR really is ‘the machine to make us more human.’ In association with British Council Film. Associated Talk: VR: The Machine to Make Us More Human? (p.109)
The Enemy
The Enemy breaks away from traditional media depictions of war. By giving a voice to those living in violence, it challenges personal views, and ultimately humanises the combatants. Prototype version.
Creator: Karim Ben Khelifa
Producers: Caméra Lucida, France Télévisions, The National Film Board of Canada, Dpt., Émissive Country: France, Canada Year: 2016 Format: Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality Premiere: World Website: www.theenemyishere.org Contact: Louis-Richard Tremblay, The National Film Board of Canada Email: L.R.Tremblay@nfb.ca
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Producer: Jemma Desai Country: UK Year: 2016 Format: Installation Premiere: World
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Creators: Jemma Desai, Maria Panagiotidi
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Associated Talk: Love, War & Robots: (Wo)man and Machine in Conversation (p.108)
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Millennium Gallery / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 17:00 / Sat 11 Jun 10:00 – 17:00 / Sun 12 Jun 11:00 – 16:00 / Mon 13 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 10:00 – 17:00
iSynx
A personal artificial intelligence operating system that revolutionises your life by enhancing your body and mind, boosting your brain power and making choices for you based on metadata and algorithms.
John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes
Producers: Jonathan Borge Lie, Lars Løge Country: Norway Year: 2016 Format: Transmedia Premiere: World Website: www.isynx.tech Contact: Lars Løge, Flimmer Film Email: lars@flimmerfilm.no
Creators: Michael Epstein, Mark Thompson Producer: Andrew Banks Country: USA Year: 2013 Format: Interactive Documentary Premiere: UK Website: www.lennonbermudatapes.com
An immersive journey into John Lennon’s trip to Bermuda in the summer of 1980, where he found the inspiration for the album Double Fantasy.
New Dimensions in Testimony
Contact: Mark Thompson Email: mark@skylab5.com
Creator: Heather Maio
Producer: Stephen Smith Country: USA Year: 2016 Format: Installation Premiere: World Website: sfi.usc.edu/research/ initiatives/new-dimensions This collection of testimonies from USC Shoah Foundation permits audiences far into the future to have a ‘virtual conversation’ with a Holocaust survivor about their life experiences. Associated Talks: New Dimensions in Testimony (p.108), Innovation in Archive (p.128)
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Creator: Tonje Hessen Schei
Contact: Stephen Smith, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education Email: smithsd@dornsife.usc.edu
Alternate Realities: Interactive Exhibition This War of Mine: The Little Ones
Creators: Michal Drozdowski, Przemyslaw Marszal
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Millennium Gallery / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 17:00 / Sat 11 Jun 10:00 – 17:00 / Sun 12 Jun 11:00 – 16:00 / Mon 13 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 10:00 – 17:00
An interactive media and artefact shrine based on an investigative arts project. Trick or Treat : Bhai-O-Scope celebrates the pluralities and complexities of Indian healthcare. Supported by Wellcome Trust.
Two Billion Miles
Contact: Gaurav Malaker, BLOT! Email: gaurav@blot.in
Creators/Producers: Harry Horton, Kieron Bryan, Felix Renicks, Mike Smith Country: UK Year: 2015 Format: Interactive Documentary Premiere: Festival Website: www.theenemyishere.org
A playable video story documenting the extraordinary journeys behind the migration crisis. This immersive experience offers hundreds of potential routes, shown through original news footage spanning 21 countries.
Contact: Felix Renicks, Channel 4 News/ITN Email: felix.renicks@itn.co.uk
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Producer: Wellcome Trust Country: India Year: 2016 Format: Installation Premiere: International Website: www.trickortreat.guru
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Creators: Neha Singh, Gaurav Malaker, Avinash Kumar
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Trick or Treat : Bhai-O-Scope
Contact: Pawel Miechowski, 11 bit studios Email: pawel.miechowski@11bitstudios.com
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Explore the hardships of wartime survival as seen from an entirely new perspective – through the eyes of children.
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Producer: Marek Ziemak Country: Poland Year: 2016 Format: Game Premiere: World
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Millennium Gallery / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 17:00 / Sat 11 Jun 10:00 – 17:00 / Sun 12 Jun 11:00 – 16:00 / Mon 13 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 10:00 – 17:00
Undoing Time
Creator/Producer: Sharon Daniel
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Country: USA Year: 2016 Format: Installation Premiere: UK Website: www.undoingtime.us
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A multi-media installation of prison industry products linked to an interactive archive of interviews in which incarcerated men and women reflect on what it means to ‘do time’.
Walden, a Game
Contact: Sharon Daniel Email: sdaniel@ucsc.edu
Creator/Producer: Tracy Fullerton
Country: USA Year: 2016 Format: Game Premiere: UK Website: www.waldengame.com
A first-person game simulation of the life of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau during his experiment in self-reliant living at Walden Pond.
Contact: Tracy Fullerton, USC Game Innovation Lab Email: tfullerton@cinema.usc.edu
Try out the exhibits and meet the makers at our Virtual Reality Arcade Preview Drinks at Site Gallery, Fri 10 Jun, 16:30 – 20:00 and Alternate Realities Reception supported by BBC R&D at Millennium Gallery, Sun 12 Jun, 18:00 – 19:30
Alternate Realities: Virtual Reality Arcade 6x9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement
Creators: Francesca Panetta, Lindsay Poulton
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Site Gallery & The Space / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 20:00 / Sat 11 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 11:00 – 18:00
Right now, more than 80,000 people in the US are locked in solitary confinement for 22 – 24 hours a day with little to no human contact. We invite you into their world.
Contact: Francesca Panetta, Guardian Email: francesca.panetta@guardian.co.uk
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Producer: Jarrad Vladich Country: UK Year: 2016 Premiere: UK Website: www.theguardian.com/solitary-vr
Collisions
Contact: Maddy Power, Custom Reality Services Email: maddy@crsvrlab.com
Creator: Lynette Wallworth
Producer: Nicole Newnham Country: USA, Australia Year: 2015 Premiere: UK Website: www.collisionsvr.com A journey to the land of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the Western Australian desert, that explores the collision between science and spirit.
Contact: Nicole Newnham, Coco Films Email: nicole@cocofilms.com
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Producers: Julie Young, Morgan Johnson, James Pallot, Michael Licht, Caren Spruch, Dawn Laguens, Molly Eagan Country: USA Year: 2015 Premiere: Eurpoean Website: www.acrossthelinevr.com
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While anti-abortion extremists try to intimidate patients who seek sexual and reproductive health care, watch through the eyes of a patient or bystander, as part of this immersive experience.
Creators: Nonny de la Peña, Jeff Fitzsimmons, Brad Lichtenstein
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Across the Line
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Site Gallery & The Space / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 20:00 / Sat 11 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 11:00 – 18:00
Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel
Creator: Oscar Raby
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Producers: Katy Morrison, Catherine Allen Country: UK, Australia Year: 2016 Premiere: World Step into one man’s memories, into a moment that changed Irish history forever – the 1916 Easter Rising. Created by VRTOV for BBC.
Contact: Dan Tucker, BBC Email: dan.tucker@bbc.co.uk
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Associated Talk: All the World’s a Stage (p.110), Innovation in Archive (p.128)
Home – An Immersive Spacewalk Experience
Creators: Tom Burton, Kate Bartlett Production Agency: Rewind Producer: Tom Burton Country: UK Year: 2016 Premiere: World
Throw yourself into the void 250 miles above Earth in this virtual reality spacewalk. Inspired by NASA’s training programme and the astonishing experiences of its astronauts. Created by Rewind & BBC.
Contact: Tom Burton, BBC Email: tom.burton01@bbc.co.uk
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Associated Talk: All the World’s a Stage (p.110)
Home : Aamir
Producers: James Hedley, Johanna Nicholls, Richard Nockles Country: UK, France Year: 2016 Premiere: World The first of a series of 360° films exploring the meaning of home through the stories of refugees in the Calais Jungle. This first film follows Aamir, a 22-year-old man escaping the threat of murder in Sudan. Associated Talk: All the World’s a Stage (p.110)
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Creator: Toby Coffey, Erfan Saadati, Rufus Norris
Contact: Johanna Nicholls, National Theatre Email: jnicholls@nationaltheatre.org.uk
Alternate Realities: Virtual Reality Arcade In My Shoes: Dancing with Myself
Creators: Jane Gauntlett, Andrew Somerville
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Site Gallery & The Space / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 20:00 / Sat 11 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 11:00 – 18:00
The true story of Jane, friends, strangers and epilepsy – told in virtual reality. Part of the In My Shoes first-person documentary project, it fuses film, theatre, technology and empathy.
Contact: Jane Gauntlett, differencEngine Email: jane.gauntlett@gmail.com
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Producer: Jane Gauntlett Country: UK Year: 2015 Premiere: Festival Website: www.inmyshoesproject.org
Guided by the powerful voices of survivors, Invisible takes the audience on an immersive journey into the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s immigration detention system. A Sheffield Doc/Fest & Site Gallery commission, supported by Arts Council England.
Mars 2030
Contact: Darren Emerson, East City Films Email: darren@eastcityfilms.com
Creator: Julian Reyes
Producers: Alejandro Reyes, Julian Reyes, NASA, Nvidia, MIT’s Space Systems Laboratory, FusionVR Country: USA Year: 2016 Premiere: World A virtual reality journey to Mars, putting viewers in the place of explorers, living millions of miles from Earth.
Contact: Julian Reyes, Fusion Media Network Email: julian.reyes@fusion.net
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Producers: Jem Talbot, Darren Emerson Country: UK Year: 2016 Premiere: World
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Creator: Darren Emerson
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Invisible (Festival Commission)
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Associated Talks: Interactive Theatre, Technology & Empathy In My Shoes: Waking in Slough (p.110)
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Site Gallery & The Space / Fri 10 Jun 12:00 – 20:00 / Sat 11 Jun – Wed 15 Jun 11:00 – 18:00
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Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness
After losing his sight in 1983 John Hull began keeping an audio diary. John’s recordings form a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, documenting his extraordinary journey into ‘a world beyond sight’. Associated Events: Notes on Blindness (p.35), Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy (p.141), Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness at the Showroom Café (p.11, 15)
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Creators: Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney Producers: Arnaud Colinart, David Coujard, Mike Brett Country: UK, France Year: 2016 Premiere: European Website: www.arte.tv/notes-on-blindness Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil Email: philippa@cinephil.com
Creators: William A. Kirkley, Adam Amaral, Glenn Snyder Producer: Debra Maniscalco Country: USA Year: 2016 Premiere: European
Take a trip into the early days of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, the world’s largest suppliers of LSD and hash.
We Wait
Contact: William Kirkley, Orange Sunshine Email: wkirkley@gmail.com
Creator: Daniel Efergan, Darren Dubicki
Producers: Becky Gregory-Clarke, Ben Curtis Country: UK Year: 2016 Premiere: World We Wait transports you into the heart of the refugee crisis. In this unforgettable journey, you travel alongside a terrified Syrian family crossing the sea, sharing their hopes and fears. Created by Aardman Animations for BBC. Associated Talk: VR & Journalism: Opportunities and Challenges (p.109)
Contact: Daniel Efergan, Aardman Animations Email: dan.efergan@aardman.com
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Elsewhere in the programme, we have fascinating panels that include theatrical documentaries, working with non-profits, branded content, documenting the refugee crisis, working in danger zones, female trailblazers and zero-carbon filmmaking. We will also debate the issues facing the industry, including the future of public service broadcasting, both in the UK and across Europe and the implications of leaving the EU for both the UK and European film and TV industries. The Talks & Sessions programme comprises over 60 sessions including masterclasses, panels and pitches and is designed to complement both the Film and Alternate Realities Programmes and Marketplace activity at the Festival. This agenda-setting programme will shine a spotlight on all long and short form documentary for all platforms, with insights from over 200 leading directors, producers, commissioners and distributors. Donata von Perfall – Documentary Campus Director Manuela Winkler – Documentary Campus Event Manager for Masterschool & Industry Events Nigel Fischer – Sheffield Doc/Fest Talks & Sessions Programme Manager
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We’re excited to offer stand-out speakers to reflect the brave new worlds of commissioning, marketing and distribution – from traditional broadcasters to the increasingly important digital platforms offering new funding pots and greater audiences, as well as the disrupting and empowering world of self-publishing.
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We welcome the world’s star filmmakers and documentary innovators, to hear about their work and find out what inspires them.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest and Documentary Campus are delighted to bring you a fantastic line-up of talent-talks and panel discussions to reflect the Film and Alternate Realities Programmes and key industry topics of the day.
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Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square Fri 10 Jun
Friday 10 June / Saturday 11 June Arts Commissioning for Galleries and Online Spaces
Sat 11 Jun / 10:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
Join a series of events discussing and showcasing the extraordinary talent, films and projects across the Doc/Fest universe, presented by Wellcome Trust. 14:00 Digging Deeper... Snow Monkey 16:30 In Conversation... a Doc/Fest luminary
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How do artists get work commissioned? What do commissioners want and how do they operate? What support should artists expect from commissioners? Our expert panel will explore different models of commissioning and diverse funding opportunities for works on screen, online and in gallery spaces.
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Iain Pate
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Hannah Redler (Science Museum)
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Fiona Morris (The Space) Pegah Farahmand (Random Acts, Channel 4)
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Elisabetta Fabrizi (Tyneside Cinema) Michelle van Beusekom (National Film Board of Canada)
Breaking In: A Guide for Film Industry Entrants
Sat 11 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Studio The film industry is notoriously difficult to break into, but we’ve lined up a panel of emerging filmmakers and professionals who each have a story to tell as to how they did just this. A must-attend session for young filmmakers which gives insight into the lifecycle of a film from development to distribution, and advice on how first time filmmakers get noticed and get their films seen.
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Sat 11 Jun
Join a series of events discussing and showcasing the extraordinary talent, films and projects across the Doc/Fest universe, presented by Wellcome Trust. 10:00 About Last Night… daily review including Life, Animated 12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind SEED: The Untold Story 14:30 Digging Deeper... Ants on a Shrimp and Miso Hungry
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Liz Scott
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Charlie Lyne (The Guardian)
16:30 In Conversation... Doc/Fest luminary Julie Goldman
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Daisy-May Hudson (VICE)
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Brian Woods (True Vision)
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Nick Read (Red Zed Films)
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Ben Taylor (Glasgow Film Festival)
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Katy McGahan (BFI)
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Paul Bell Aaron Brookner (dir. Uncle Howard, p.73)
Petra Graf
Simon Young (National Geographic)
Maya Goded (dir. Plaza de la Soledad, p.71) Kirsten Johnson (dir. Cameraperson, p.33)
Sat 11 Jun / 12:15 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall What is vlogging and why should documentary makers care about it? From mega-celebrities to teen agony aunts advising on everything from sex to mental health, right through to families documenting each waking moment, vloggers are attracting millions of followers – numbers traditional broadcasters could only dream of. In a world where YouTube dominates, what can documentary makers learn from this new way of documenting experience and can the two forms ever really cross over? Session Producer
Marta Jelec (True Vision)
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Jolyon Rubinstein
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Dan Jones (Little Dot Studio) Hannah Whitton Jonathan Saccone Samantha Montgomery aka Princess Shaw (protagonist Presenting Princess Shaw, p.36) Johnny Benjamin
The BBC Interview: Reggie Yates
Sat 11 Jun / 13:00 / Crucible Theatre Broadcaster, actor, writer and director, Reggie is one of TVs most exciting talents. His recent documentaries for BBC3, perceptive, thoughtful explorations of important issues, take in some of the world’s most divided societies. Reggie will discuss his career so far and share insights into future projects and ambitions.
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Archive is an essential tool in the documentarians’ toolbox. In this masterclass we hear from filmmakers from both film and television who have creatively used archive footage to tell their stories. We will discuss how archive can be used in storytelling, how to make archive footage resonate with an audience and explore the relationship between director and archive producer.
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The harmony of photography and story has been the goal of professional cinematographers throughout cinema history. But how is the perfect marriage of image and narrative achieved and what choices do the director and cinematographer make to best visually express the story? A panel of distinguished documentary filmmakers will discuss the creative and practical process and offer valuable insights into the dramatic choices directors and cinematographers make.
Sat 11 Jun / 12:15 / Crucible Adelphi
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Sat 11 Jun / 12:15 / Crucible Studio
BAFTA Masterclass: Working with Archive
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Writing with Light: The Art of Cinematography
Saturday 11 June
Image Credit: Phil Taylor
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Talks and Sessions Sat 11 Jun / 14:45 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall Immerse yourself in the opportunities and creative potential of archives and meet curators, commissioners and producers working at the cutting edge of documentary arts. The panel will explore ways that filmmakers and artists are combining archive and new technologies to engage audiences across TV, cinema screens, VR, galleries and exhibition spaces, and what the future holds for film heritage. Session Producer
Annabel Grundy
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Rebecca Polding (BAFTA)
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Catherine Allen (BBC/prod. Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel, p.118)
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Saturday 11 June Surviving Danger Zone Docs
Sat 11 Jun / 14:45 / Crucible Studio From detention in Indonesian prison to Mexican meth labs, militia-controlled Tripoli and disastrous mountain climbs, our panellists have experienced some of the most testing physical, political and psychological terrains. Chaired by Siobhan Sinnerton (Rory Peck Trust board), we hear from investigative reporters Stacey Dooley and Seyi Rhodes, Joe Simpson – subject of BAFTA-winning Touching the Void – and filmmaker Rebecca Prosser, on dealing with danger and risk-taking for the stories you’re passionate to tell. Session Producer
Alice Allen (True Vision)
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Siobhan Sinnerton (Channel 4)
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Seyi Rhodes (Channel 4)
Stephen Smith (USC Shoah Foundation/prod. New Dimensions in Testimony, p.114)
Rebecca Prosser Joe Simpson (BBC/protagonist Burma’s Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson, p.64)
Lindsey Hanlon (BBC Arts Scotland/LUX)
Viva la Revolucion: Video Activism and Citizen Journalism
Sat 11 Jun / 14:45 / Crucible Adelphi How do filmmakers capture the political struggles of our divided world? What challenges do filmmakers face in making politically-committed documentaries? How can radical films connect with audiences? This session explores different approaches to political filmmaking taking place in the UK, Egypt and Greece, from video-activism and feature documentary to interactive formats and fiction/documentary hybrids.
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Steve Presence (UWE Bristol)
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Shaun Dey (Reel News)
Stacey Dooley (BBC)
Professor Green: Documentaries and Me Sat 11 Jun / 15:30 / Crucible Theatre
Professor Green, Stephen Manderson to his friends, comes to Doc/Fest to talk about his future film work for BBC3 – intensely personal portraits of difficult subjects like male suicide and homelessness.
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Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex)
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Emma Cooper (Rocket)
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Dr Freddie Gaffney (Ravensbourne)
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Nick Crossland (Rocket)
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Andy Whittaker (The Grierson Trust/Dogwoof)
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Jolyon Rubinstein Dr Farida Vis (University of Sheffield)
Marie James (Channel 4) Ulrike Kubatta
Simone Dembitzer (Sheffield Doc/Fest Youth Jury)
Tom Long (Speechless Films)
Helen O’Donnell (BBC Worldwide)
Ian Russell (ITN)
Alternate Realities Summit (Morning Session): Androids, Robots and Avatars Live Sun 12 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Studio
A morning of playful presentations from the creators and technologists shaping interactive factual storytelling and virtual reality. Bringing together experts from the worlds of engineering and psychology, we’ll explore the impact of artificial intelligence with our humanoid keynote speaker, demonstrate groundbreaking natural language processing software and more. For full details see p.108
The Kids Are Alright: Creating Public TV Programmes for a Forgotten Audience
Sun 12 Jun / 10:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall A recent survey among young Americans has revealed that more than half of them have never watched traditional cable TV. How are TV producers, filmmakers and public broadcasters dealing with this shift? This panel presents innovative formats and initiatives that have successfully connected with Generation Y. And what does this all mean for us producers and broadcasters? Are we gaining a new audience? Is new programming on the horizon? Session Producer/ Chair
Eva Rink (Kobalt Documentary)
Speakers
Georg Tschurtschenthaler (gebrueder beetz filmproduktion) Margaux Missika (UPIAN) Søren Schumann (RBB)
Schedule Films
Allegedly, audiences are flocking from long-form broadcast to short-form on-demand – vloggers are getting bigger audiences than broadcasters – and yet digital brands are launching linear channels. The media-consumption revolution is revolving so fast it feels like nobody really knows what is happening. We’ll explore how younger audiences are ACTUALLY finding and consuming media, and what this means for channels, commissioners and documentary producers.
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“Riding a tide of billions of instantly accessible digital images and clips, is rapidly becoming so free and recycling so reflexive that it is hard to imagine it being slowed,” Randy Kennedy wrote in the New York Times. In an age when an entire generation gets its news from social media, what is the role of traditional documentary? An eminent panel of filmmakers and producers discuss if it is time to redefine what documentary is, can be and should be.
Sat 11 Jun / 17:00 / Crucible Studio
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Sat 11 Jun / 17:00 / Crucible Adelphi
What’s a TV Channel Granddad? How We’ll Be Watching Docs in the Future
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Is Documentary Relevant in a World with Information Available at Your Fingertips?
Saturday 11 June / Sunday 12 June
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Sun 12 Jun / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A 4K, UHD, HDR and WCG are this year’s buzziest acronyms. They promise an all-new viewing experience with more detail, more colour and more contrast. But is this brave new visual world for real or is it just another fad like 3D? The panel will talk about the pitfalls and promises of 4K production and discover what you need to make your documentaries future-proof. And how to make them without going bankrupt.
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Documentary is all about diversity – diverse stories about diverse people told in diverse ways. So why do we need to talk about diversity? A panel of filmmakers and broadcasters presents the Minority Report, a no holds barred investigation into who’s telling stories about whom with some words of advice on how to get diversity into your next production from KG Tha Comedian.
Session Producer/ Chair
Ruth Berry
Speakers
Bertrand Loyer (Saint Thomas)
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KG Tha Comedian (Channel 4)
Marjolein Duermeijer (TERN)
Dawn Porter
Bernhard Popovic (Bernhard Popovic Film & Videoproduction)
Mok Choy Lin (Channel News Asia)
Tom Rogers (Molinare TV & Film)
Joseph Maxwell
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square Sun 12 Jun
Join a series of events discussing and showcasing the extraordinary talent, films and projects across the Doc/Fest universe, presented by Wellcome Trust. 12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind The Age of Consequences
Parties & Social
Sun 12 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Adelphi
Rodney Sewell (Sewell Filmproduction)
10:30 About Last Night… daily review including Kiki
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Minority Report: Diversity in Documentary
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Alternate Realities
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The Hype About 4K
Sunday 12 June
14:30 Digging Deeper... Notes on Blindness 16:30 In Conversation... Doc/Fest luminary Charlie Phillips
Beyond YouTube: What Can the ‘Other’ Digital Platforms Offer Filmmakers? Sun 12 Jun / 12:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
In a growing digital landscape, what are the clear opportunities for filmmakers to reach more audiences and earn some actual money working with new digital partners? Taking into consideration the view of experienced producers experimenting with online propositions, digital native production companies and the platforms themselves, discover how you can collaborate with these new partners for your own career and commercial gain.
For more information, see p.147 Session Producer/ Chair
Sarah Mosses (Together Film)
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Stephanie Walton (We Are Colony) John Farrar (NERD) Jono Stevens (Just So) Buzzfeed
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Karen Hoy
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Alex Usbourne (104 Films / prod. Notes on Blindness, p.35)
Session Producer/ Chair
Will Garbutt (Halo)
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Richard Addis (Halo) James Cregeen (Halo)
Ade Rawcliffe (Channel 4)
Will Garbutt (Halo)
Amanda Ariss (Cultural Diversity Network) Adam Pearson (BBC)
Honest Truths: The Ethical Challenges of Filmmaking Sun 12 June / 12:15 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
Any filmmaker who sets out to make a documentary faces multiple challenges, not the least of which is a set of ethical issues inherent in the process. To film or not to film? How close to a subject is too close? How far is too far? Sometimes lines are crossed and sometimes boundaries are set beforehand. These documentarians share their experience on recent projects and how they handled a variety of ethical issues that occurred. Session Producer/ Chair
Christoph Jörg
Speakers
Nanfu Wang (dir. Hooligan Sparrow, p.61) Angus McQueen
D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock Sun 12 Jun / 12:30 / Crucible Theatre
Talking to BBC Radio 4 Film Programme presenter Francine Stock, renowned filmmakers and Academy Award-winners D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will discuss their latest film Unlocking the Cage, as well as look back over a body of work spanning 40 years. This will be a chance to hear from two filmmakers widely regarded as luminaries of cinema vérité.
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Francine Stock (BBC)
Speakers
D.A. Pennebaker
Schedule Films
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With huge advances in cloud-based software and remote editing, is there still a place for a traditional post house in modern filmmaking? Culture and demand is changing, and post facilities need to adapt to meet the requirements for UHD, HDR, VR content and its asset management. The panel explore the advances in these changing markets and discuss how the post industry must continue to evolve to meet these new challenges.
Alternate Realities
We know that people with disabilities are vastly underrepresented in the world of factual TV and documentaries. In theory – and in law – a “reasonable adjustment” to working conditions should allow them to compete. But do we always understand what constitutes a disability, let alone a “reasonable adjustment”? With an inspired and inspiring expert panel, we’ll engage directly with some solutions to disability underemployment.
Sun 12 Jun / 12:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
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Sun 12 Jun / 12:15 / Crucible Adelphi
The Post Production Facility: An Evolving Model
Marketplace
A Reasonably Adjusted Debate: Disability On and Off Screen
Sunday 12 June
Chris Hegedus See more from Pennebaker and Hegedus with Unlocking the Cage, p.56; Monterey Pop, p.56; Don’t Look Back, p.55
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Talks and Sessions Alternate Realities Summit (Afternoon Session): VRfternoon
Sun 12 Jun / 13:30 / Crucible Studio An afternoon of intriguing panels and playful presentations from the leading voices in interactive factual storytelling and virtual reality. Featuring experts from documentary film and broadcast, theatre, journalism and neuroscience, we will discuss advances in virtual reality journalism and cutting-edge binatural sound techniques, plus demonstrate how VR can evoke empathy and more.
Sunday 12 June I Do It My Way: Directors Talk About Their Work Sun 12 Jun / 14:45 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
A panel about the art of direction through conversations with three award-winning directors from the US, Latin America and the UK. “Be persistent, be fair, and be brave. You are the only one waiting for your film, everyone else’s attention you have to earn” – Dawn Porter, Director and Founder Trilogy Films
For full details see p.108 – 110 Session Producer/ Chair
Ruth Berry (Factual Studios)
Speakers
Dawn Porter (Trilogy Films)
Marketplace
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Ian Duncan (Windfall Films) German Kral (Kral Filmproduction)
Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience
Sun 12 Jun / 14:45 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B A panel of successful indie producers discuss the ways and means by which their films were conceived, financed and brought to their audience. How did they market and distribute their films and what were their experiences? What did they learn and how would they do things differently on the next one? Session Producer
Maureen Murray (Foxtrot Films)
Chair
Margy Kinmonth (Foxtrot Films)
Speakers
Elhum Shakerifar (Postcode Films)
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Maureen Maury (Foxtrot Films)
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Al Morrow (Met Film/prod. Sour Grapes, p.37) Paula Vaccaro (Pinball/prod. Uncle Howard, p.73)
Documentary and Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide
Sun 12 Jun / 14:45 / Crucible Adelphi The pressure on documentary filmmakers to deliver stories that demonstrate in-depth access about difficult and traumatic issues is greater than ever before. But are we properly equipped to do the best job? A panel of expert filmmakers and trauma experts discuss the different approaches now being used. How do we cope, how do we protect vulnerable contributors and how do we depict the issues we witness in the best way? Session Producer
Sacha Mirzoeff
Chair
Brian Woods (True Vision)
Speakers
Shelagh Beckett Olly Lambert Gillian Moreton (Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma)
co-presented by
Session Producer
Clive Tulloh (Burning Bright Productions)
Chair
Alastair Stewart (ITN)
Speaker
Joanna Lumley
Archives and Copyright: A Beginners Guide Sun 12 Jun / 17:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
Archives offer a wealth of material for documentary and fiction filmmakers alike, but where do you begin? Let an expert panel guide you through the fascinating and sometimes bewildering world of archives and copyright. How do archives themselves acquire content? What are the challenges filmmakers face when clearing films? The panel of archivists, filmmakers and legal experts will discuss their own experience and offer top tips.
Session Producer
Kerry McLeod
Chair
Lisa Salem
The VICE Rule Britannia Pitch
Sun 12 Jun / 17:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A VICE is back with The Rule Britannia Pitch, offering filmmakers a chance to win a £25,000 commission. Finalists will pitch ideas live to VICE’s award-winning commissioners and producers, with the winner seeing their idea come to life in VICE’s flagship UK observational documentary strand Rule Britannia.
Session Producer/ Chair
Annabel Grundy (Unlocking Film Rights)
Session Producer
Maddie Brook (VICE)
Chair
George Pank (Pank)
Speakers
Simon McCallum (BFI)
Selection Panel
Wendie Ottewill (VICE)
Tony Morris (Marriott Harrison) Paul Bell Amanda Huntley (Huntley Film Archive)
Schedule Films
This event will be British Sign Language interpreted.
10x10 returns for its ninth Doc/Fest. The premise is simple: filmmakers screen 10 minutes of their work-in-progress and receive 10 minutes of directed feedback from the most qualified people in the room – the audience. Work screened ranges from first shorts to Sundance-winning features. 10x10 is not a pitching forum or financing workshop. It’s a chance to focus on the filmmaking whilst building a more empowered indie documentary community.
Alternate Realities
We welcome a true legend to this year’s Festival: Joanna Lumley OBE. Her documentary work has included epic journeys to discover diverse cultures and continents and intimate portraits of pop icons. Joanna will discuss her experiences on these films and her future work.
Sun 12 Jun / 17:00 / Crucible Adelphi
William Fairman (VICE) Rhys James (VICE)
Talks & Sessions
Sun 12 Jun / 15:00 / Crucible Theatre
10 X 10: The Doc-in-Progress Workshop
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The Absolutely Adventurous Joanna Lumley in Conversation
Sunday 12 June
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Talks and Sessions Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 / Crucible Theatre
Sheffield Doc/Fest and Channel 4 are excited to welcome Oscar-winning director Michael Moore back to Sheffield, 18 years after his first visit. Voted one of “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” by Time Magazine, he is widely regarded as one of the most important filmmakers working in documentary. Michael will talk in detail about his new film, as well as look back over his hugely successful career. This event will be British Sign Language interpreted.
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Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A The Nordic countries – Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland – are, to some, a documentary utopia. This panel brings together Decision Makers from Nordic broadcasters to talk about the opportunities for filmmakers from beyond the region, for acquisition and co-productions. What’s the best way in? How do broadcasters work with national film institutes? Is it really a utopia for filmmakers from outside? Come and hear all from these Northern lights.
Anja Popp (ITN)
Chair
Ralph Lee (Channel 4)
Session Producer
Krishan Arora (SBS Australia)
Speaker
Michael Moore (dir. Where to Invade Next?, p.29)
Speakers
Mette Hoffman Meyer (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Jenny Westergaard (YLE Finland) Axel Arnö (SVT)
Trust Me, I’m a TV Producer: The Secrets of Great Access
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / Crucible Studio Excellent storytelling often requires negotiating difficult access to individuals or institutions. But how best to obtain that access? The makers of several of Sky’s access-driven series share their knowledge, experiences and tips for obtaining great access. Plus, Sky will share a special announcement of a new series on Sky 1 with unprecedented access to a well-known institution, who have hitherto kept their doors firmly closed. Session Producer
Bill Hobbins (Sky)
Chair
Mark Dolan
Speakers
Siobhan Mulholland (Sky) Emma Read (Emporium Productions)
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Northern Exposure: Working with Nordic Broadcasters
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The Channel 4 Interview: Michael Moore
Sunday 12 June / Monday 13 June
Michael Walderman
The French Connection: Working with France
Mon 13 Jun / 09:45 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall France has one of the best supporting systems for documentaries in the world with most of the output still controlled editorially by traditional broadcasters. We examine the role of French broadcasters in the “global documentary community” and discuss coproduction opportunities with France in a complex and constantly changing international market.
Session Producer/ Chair
Christoph Jurg (Pumpernickel Films)
Speakers
Fabrice Puchault (France Télévisions) Diego Bunuel Catherine Alvaresse (ARTE France)
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Andy King (Rogan Productions)
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Carol Nahra (Docs on Screen)
Chair
Roger Graef (Zinc Media)
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Claire Aguilar (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
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James Bluemel (KEO Films/dir. Exodus: Breaking into Europe (Working Title), p.66)
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Kate Townsend (BBC Storyville) Oli Harbottle (Dogwoof) John Hoffman (Discovery)
James Rogan (Rogan Productions/ prod. The Confession, p.34)
Elizabeth Wood (Bertha Dochouse) Simon Chinn (Lightbox)
Siobhan Sinnerton (Channel 4) Ahmad al-Rashid
Context Hacking: A Performance Lecture by Johannes Grenzfurthner Mon 13 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Adelphi
“Context hacking” breaks down conventional communication with unconventional interventions. It’s a political action spurred on by the paradoxes and absurdities of power. Johannes Grenzfurthner will present projects by monochrom, a collective dealing with technology, art and philosophy – an interesting mix of pop attitude, subcultural science and political activism.
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square Mon 13 Jun
Join a series of events discussing and showcasing the extraordinary talent, films and projects across the Doc/Fest universe, presented by Wellcome Trust.
Schedule Films
It’s a golden age for theatrical documentaries with new forms of distribution and exhibition easing the way while audience appetites for watching documentaries on the big screen have never been stronger. This session will focus on different avenues for getting your theatrical documentary funded and distributed. This expert panel will discuss how to avoid pitfalls in what remains a difficult path to navigate.
Alternate Realities
Last year 1 million plus people fled across the Mediterranean to Europe. Over 3,770 died. Filming the story of these refugees – human trafficking, nightmarish sea crossings, treks through hostile borders, asylum-seeking in Northern Europe – is an urgent and challenging task. This panel of filmmakers, producers and commissioners discuss their experiences of making documentaries on the subject, fraught with technical, legal, moral and editorial obstacles.
Mon 13 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Theatre
Talks & Sessions
Mon 13 Jun / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
How to Get Your Theatrical Doc Funded and Distributed
10:30 About Last Night… daily review including Mr. Gaga 12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind Miss Sharon Jones! 14:00 Digging Deeper... Doc/Fest Alternate Realities: Interactive
Session Producer
Manuela Winkler (Documentary Campus)
16:30 In Conversation... Doc/Fest luminaries Anna Higgs and Ingrid Kopp
Speaker
Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom)
For more information, see p.147
Marketplace
How to Document the World’s Biggest News Stories: Telling the Refugee Crisis
Monday 13 June
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Nino Kirtadze: The Fine Line Between Fact and Fiction Mon 13 Jun / 11:30 / Crucible Adelphi
Born in Tbilisi, Nino ‘Georgia’ Kirtadze has established a distinguished career as both an actor and a documentary filmmaker. She has directed five films, all of which centre on the relationship between Russia and Georgia. Nino will talk about her filmmaking techniques, her cinematic influences and the fine line between drama and documentary.
Session Producer/ Chair
Christoph Jörg (Pumpernickel Films)
Speaker
Nino Kirtadze
Monday 13 June Commissioning: Singles, Specials and Series
Mon 13 Jun / 12:00 / Crucible Theatre With Netflix and Amazon making bold moves into the documentary space, what does this mean for an already cluttered international market? Is exclusive access and strong storytelling still enough, or do new documentary commissions need to offer something more? Is there a risk that in doing so, the authenticity of the genre takes second place to marketing and publicity demands? Or is it just the natural evolution of the genre? Session Producer
Tom Gorham (Discovery)
Chair
Emma Read (Emporium Productions)
Speakers
Nick Mirsky (Channel 4) Patrick Holland (BBC)
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Jo Clinton-Davies (ITV) Guy Davies (Channel 5)
Does it Matter Who Funds My Film? Making Branded Docs Mon 13 Jun / 12:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
The line between branded content and documentary is becoming increasingly fine, with some films clearly functioning as both. This panel session will explore the ethical implications of being funded by a brand, and the possible creative freedom that additional cash allows. As more films are being viewed online, content is becoming more prevalent and subversive. This discussion will appeal to anyone looking for a different way to fund their film.
Good Intentions Vs Good Viewing: What Happens when Doc Makers Join Non Profits Mon 13 Jun / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
If you want to send a message use Western Union.” – Attributed to various Hollywood luminaries, it captures the tension between creativity, communication, art and propaganda. Today NGOs are becoming more sophisticated about how they get their messages across. Filmmakers who have worked with NGOs offer an honest account of the pleasures, perils and opportunities of work with NGOs. Session Producer
Cormac O’Brien (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Session Producer
Kate Hindley (Rogan Productions)
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James Rogan (Rogan Productions/ prod. The Confession, p.34)
Liz Mermin (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
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Joe Alexander (Boiler Room TV) Orlando Von Einsiedel (Grain Media) Claire Finn (Firecracker Films) Jeremy Groman (Firecracker Films) Neil Boorman (Mother London)
Rob Elliott (Breakthrough Media) Jezza Neumann (True Vision) Fabio Basone (Médecins Sans Frontières) Marc Silver (dir. The Living Forest, p.94) Jess Crombie (Save the Children)
co-presented by
Nick Crossland (Rocket)
Chair
Emma Cooper (Rocket)
Speakers
Dan Tucker (BBC iWonder/commissioning editor Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel, p.118)
Session Producer / Chair
Sebastian Sorg (DOK.forum)
Speakers
Sven Walti (SRG SSR)
Martin Belam (The Guardian) Christos Savvides (Channel 4)
Mon 13 Jun / 13:15 / Crucible Adelphi Oscar-winner Spotlight showed the power of investigative journalism. Correctiv.org is using the same techniques to expose the criminal networks behind refugee smuggling in the Mediterranean, finding out who really downed MH17 in Ukraine, and uncovering the structure of a Neo-Nazi terror cell in Germany. Find out what the ingredients of investigative journalism are, how to make people talk, and how to captivate your audience with a story. Session Producer
Manuela Winkler (Documentary Campus)
Speaker
Christian Humborg (CORRECT!V)
Schedule
Bruno Choiniere (Akufen Studio)
Annabel McCleod (Love Productions)
Evidence Based Storytelling with Christian Humborg
Films
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Interactive web documentary DADA Data was supposed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dadaism. Instead, it discovered and collected a whole lot of data about audiences, the world we are living in and the future of media. How can we apply this knowledge to public television so that it can continue justifying the way it produces and finances itself?
Alternate Realities
Some interactive documentaries are huge, sprawling epic productions. At the other end of the scale are complex stories told in a single tweet or clickable activity no bigger than a smartphone screen. How do they squeeze so much inside something which looks so small?
Mon 13 Jun / 12:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
The Channel 4 First Cut Pitch
Mon 13 Jun / 14:15 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall Five shortlisted directors will vie to prove that they are ready to take on the challenge of an hour-long, post watershed documentary for Channel 4 by presenting a three-minute documentary film that answers an editorial brief set by Channel 4. Each director will introduce, show and discuss their films in front of the audience and a panel of executive producers, established directors and Rita Daniels, Commissioning Editor for First Cut. Session Producer
Jamie Merrins (Channel 4)
Chair
Neill Crombie (Swan Films)
Speakers
Alisa Pomeroy (Channel 4) Rita Daniels (Channel 4) Helen Littleboy
Talks & Sessions
Mon 13 Jun / 12:00 / Crucible Studio
War of the Worlds: How DADA-Data Webdoc Virus Defends the World
Marketplace
Tardis Docs: Telling Deceptively Big Stories in Tiny Online Spaces
Monday 13 June
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Between Activism and Extremism: Storytelling for Change
Mon 13 Jun / 14:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A You want to tell strong stories to change the world? Become active and use different documentary forms in order to understand and bridge the gap between the extreme positions of your characters? New innovative ways of development, production and outreach strategies are needed to increase the impact of your story, to make it powerful. Four case studies will look for answers. Session Producer
Monday 13 June Commissioning: Specialist Factual
Mon 13 Jun / 14:30 / Crucible Studio How is specialist factual programming delivering innovative, accessible and revolutionary content to a broad audience? In a bid to survive in a crowded market, has the genre lost the landmark place it has traditionally held in the TV schedules – and is it even specialist anymore?
Heide Gronauer (ZeLIG School for Documentary, Television and New Media)
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Victoria Noble (Discovery)
Chair
Ruth Pitt
Chair
Sabine Bubeck-Paaz (ZDF/ARTE)
Speakers
Martin Davidson (BBC)
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Yoav Gross (B’Tselem)
Ed Sayer (Discovery Networks International)
Julia Dahr (Differ Media)
Rachael Job (A+E Networks UK)
Arash T. Riahi (Golden Girls Filmproduktion)
John Hay (Channel 4) Lucy Willis (Channel 5)
Tonje Hessen Schei (Ground Productions)
Docs on Cops
Mon 13 Jun / 14:45 / Crucible Adelphi Audiences love true crime. As the popularity of boxset style crime drama increases, we hear from those behind some of TV’s biggest and ground-breaking police documentaries; what effect is crime drama having on how we cover real life investigations? How do you deal with the legality of covering current cases? And what responsibility do documentary makers have to the police, the public and those affected by the crimes they cover?
Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media
Mon 13 Jun / 14:45 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B There is a new vanguard in our media culture. A growing pool of talented and experienced women, tired of waiting for the film and TV industry to reach the 21st century, are driving it forward themselves. The voices of working mothers, and female perspectives in general, are being lost in the current industry climate. The women on this panel are forging ahead with new business models and new ways of working that suit their lives, their choices and their careers.
Session Producer
Amy Richardson (True Vision)
Session Producer
Amber Parson (Mandrake Films)
Chair
Anne Morrison (BAFTA)
Chair
Dr Saleyha Ahsan
Speakers
Anna Hall (True Vision Aire)
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Sophie Mayer (Raising Films)
Neil Grant (Films of Record)
Rachel Wexler (Bungalow Town)
Aysha Rafaele (BBC)
Lucy Baxter (Mandrake Films)
Pete Beard
Kirsten Johnson (dir. Cameraperson, p.33)
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David Alamouti (Inovi)
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Naomi Rose (Channel 4)
Chair
Charlie Phillips (The Guardian)
Chair
Sara Ramsden (Channel 4)
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Liz Cook (Kickstarter)
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Heather Jackson (Channel 4) Teresa Watkins (RDF)
Philip Ilson (London Short Film Festival)
Kev and Alfie Cook (The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds)
Lina Prestwood José F Rodriguez (Tribeca Film Institute)
What Makes a Feature Doc? Directors Discuss
Mon 13 June / 16:45 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A What elevates your documentary to a film that people will go out and pay to see? How do subject matter, contributors, budget and access affect whether you make your film for TV, the cinema or an online network? In this session, established and awardwinning directors with films in the programme talk about making succesful feature documentaries in the current landscape.
New Genderation: Has Factual Kept up with the Revolution in Gender and Sexuality? Mon 13 Jun / 17:00 / Crucible Adelphi
Documentaries about the LGBT community have broken into the mainstream recently. Films like My Transexual Summer, Gay and Under Attack and Girls to Men have told a diverse range of stories. While some of these were celebrated, others were accused of being voyeuristic and exploitative. So what is the attitude of broadcasters, programme-makers and the film industry towards gender identity and sexuality, and is there any diversity behind the camera? Session Producers
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Abigail Berry (Directors UK)
Chair
Morgan Matthews (Minnow Films)
Speakers
Anthony Wonke (Partizan)
Chair
John Dower (Pulse Films/.dir My Scientology Movie, p.62)
Theresa Heath-Ellul (Wotever Film Festival)
Speakers
Fox Fisher
Lucy Baxter (Mandrake Films) Zoe Davies (Calibrate Films)
Louise Osmond (dir. Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach, p.31)
Zoe Davis (Calibrate Films)
James Spinney (co-dir./prod. Notes on Blindness, p.35/creator Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, p.120)
Twiggy Pucci Garcon (co-writer/protagonist. Kiki, p.71)
Jes Wilkins
Schedule Films
It’s an ethical, legal and logistical minefield! How do you gain a 4-year-old’s consent? Is parental consent sufficient? Do you and the parents have a different agenda for the child? Does a child need to be licenced? What about getting them psyched? The teams at the forefront of putting young children on TV discuss this and more. Plus, 5-year-old Alfie tells us what it was like to spend two weeks in an RDF rig.
Alternate Realities
The Guardian is back for a second year of pitching at Doc/Fest, offering filmmakers selected from open submissions the chance to pitch ideas for short documentaries and receive £5,000 towards their film and an online premiere on The Guardian website, visited by 140 million monthly browsers. Short documentaries for The Guardian are story-led, contemporary, global facing and surprising. Who will get the commission?
Mon 13 Jun / 16:45 / Crucible Studio
Talks & Sessions
Mon 13 Jun / 16:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
How to Put Kids on TV: A Channel 4 Masterclass
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The Guardian Documentaries Pitch
Monday 13 June
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Talks and Sessions Into the Land of VOD: How I Tried to Contact Netflix Mon 13 Jun / 17:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
A filmmaker wants to pitch to VOD platforms like Netflix and Amazon Studios. But where to begin? She needs to find out what they’re looking for, who to talk to, how to pitch and how much they pay. In this hypothetical journey we navigate the dangerous subterranean caverns of the VOD world guided by those who have lived to tell the tale. Session Producer/ Chair
Ruth Berry (Documentary Campus)
Speakers
Emma Hardie (Deloitte)
Monday 13 June / Tuesday 14 June Ronnie O’Sullivan in Conversation
Mon 13 Jun / 17:45 / Crucible Theatre The maverick and phenomenally gifted snooker player Ronnie the Rocket, who has won five World Championship titles at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre, will talk with Guardian journalist Simon Hattenstone about the documentaries that have inspired him throughout his life and snooker career. This event will be British Sign Language interpreted.
Tim Mulligan (MIDiA Research)
Freddie Flintoff & Robert Penn Talk Docs & Chips
Mon 13 Jun / 19:45 / Crucible Theatre Cricketing legend Flintoff and journalist Robert Penn talk to comedian Mark Dolan about their Sky 1 series. They discuss the making of Flintoff: Lord of the Fries and Freddie Fries Again, plus share moments from their recent trip to Australia to film Freddie Down Under.
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Mat Levy (Passion River)
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Bill Hobbins (Sky)
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Mark Dolan
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Freddie Flintoff Robert Penn
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Simon Hattenstone (The Guardian)
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Ronnie O’Sullivan
Why You Should Be Working with Channel 5 Tue 14 Jun / 09:30 / Crucible Studio
Channel 5 has come of age, with exciting factual achieving acclaim and ratings. But how do you work with them? And why should you go there first? How does Channel 5 make the creative process stimulating and exciting? With no question out of bounds, Director of Programming Ben Frow and key suppliers of the channel’s hits reveal how Channel 5 has transformed into television’s most varied and nimble commissioner. Session Producer
Liz Scott
Chair
Krishnendu Majumdar (BAFTA, Me and You Productions)
Speakers
Ben Frow (Channel 5) Paul Blake (Maroon Productions) Jonathan Stadlen (Knickerbocker Glory TV) Cat Lewis (Nine Lives Media) Paul Stead (Daisybeck Studios)
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Session Producer
Ellie Robinson (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Chair
Ingrid Kopp (Tribeca Film Institute)
Speakers
Peter Middleton (co-dir./prod. Notes on Blindness, p.35/creator Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, p.120) Mike Brett (Archer’s Mark) Arnaud Colinart (Agat Films Et CIE/ creator/prod. Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness (p.120) Lizzie Francke (BFI) Philippa Kowarsky (Cinephil) Lili Blumers (ARTE)
How to Pitch Your Climate Change Idea Tue 14 Jun / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time, but engaging mainstream audiences is a huge creative challenge. We talk to the heads of development from three leading independent producers to find out from them what works and what doesn’t. And we’ll hear from a leading broadcaster about his own experience of commissioning climate change ideas.
Session Producer
Adam Jacobs (Discovery)
Chair
Liese Spencer (The Guardian)
Speakers
John Hay (Channel 4) Mandy Chang (ABC) Celia Taylor (Sky) Mark Bell (BBC)
Roadmap to Film Funding: Unlocking the Mysteries of Grant Proposals Tue 14 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Adelphi
Daunted by the thought of proposal writing? Does grant funding seem unattainable? This session will feature case studies of successful grant applications. If you’re looking to apply to US funders like Sundance, Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult Fund, among others, this workshop is for you. Leading this conversation is Tracie Holder, filmmaker/consultant who has raised $2 million for her own film projects.
Session Producer
Mark Galloway (IBT)
Session Producer
Polly Perkins (Big Buddha Films)
Chair
Tom Heap (BBC)
Speaker
Speakers
Richard Bowron (Love Productions)
Tracey Holder (Tracey Holder Consulting)
Schedule
With multiple TV platforms and channels now available, what does the future of arts programming look like for consumers with so much choice at their fingertips? How can we ensure that it provides scope for a wide audience with the ability to cut through without diluting the content for a core audience? What will be the next topics, styles and genres to breakthrough and what can the next generation of on-screen talent bring to the table?
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Following the UK Premiere, the Notes on Blindness (p.35, p.120) team share insights on creating and distributing film and virtual reality together for the first time. From early talks at Doc/Fest’s MeetMarket to touring the project across the UK, its creators, funders and distributors discuss challenges in building a successful model for funding and touring cinema and virtual reality together.
Tue 14 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Theatre
Alternate Realities
Tue 14 Jun / 09:45 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
Commissioning: Arts Documentary
Talks & Sessions
Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy
Tuesday 14 June
Marketplace
Talks and Sessions
Aidan Hansell Tony Dillamore (Boundless)
Parties & Social
Tom McDonald (BBC)
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Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square Tue 14 Jun
Join a series of events discussing and showcasing the extraordinary talent, films and projects across the Doc/Fest universe, presented by Wellcome Trust. 10:30 About Last Night… daily review including There Will Be Water
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12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind Machine of Human Dreams 16:30 In Conversation... Doc/Fest luminary Mark Herbert, Warp Films
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace Parties & Social
The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch Tue 14 Jun / 11:45 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
Who will win the coveted £80,000 documentary prize? Five finalists, five judges and the spirit of one legendary broadcaster but only one winner. Come and support the nominees and bear witness to a little bit of documentary history in the making as, for the very first time, the legacy of Alan Whicker brings one brilliant documentary idea to life.
14:30 Digging Deeper... National Bird
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Session Producer
Jane Ray (Whicker’s World Foundation)
Chair
Paul Pauwels (European Documentary Network)
Selection Panel
Valerie Kleeman (Whicker’s World Foundation) Elizabeth McIntyre (Sheffield Doc/Fest) Roger Graef (Zinc Media) Mak CK
Commissioning: Shorts for All Platforms Tue 14 Jun / 12:00 / Crucible Studio
Short films have undergone a renaissance online. Platforms like Vimeo and YouTube host an infinite array of content and have become completely integrated into our lives. Yet they have limited uptake in cinema and television. How can short filmmakers successfully distribute and monetise their content? Should there be a place for shorts on TV, or should shorts be regarded as a new medium for new media platforms and audiences?
Documentary Film Production Goes Green Tue 14 Jun / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A
Did you know that the film industry generates two per cent of all carbon emissions worldwide? Our filmmaking is impacting global warming and we urgently need to find a way to make it greener. In this panel, experts introduce tools for sustainable film production. They will approach problems with practical solutions in a workshop environment with active audience participation.
Session Producer
Jamie Hayward (Discovery)
Session Producer
Anahita Nazemi (Kobalt Documentary)
Chair
Ingrid Kopp (Tribeca Film Institute)
Chair
Speakers
Charlie Phillips (The Guardian)
Birgit Heidsiek (European Documentary Network)
Speakers
Carl A. Fechner (fechnerMEDIA)
Max Godarty (BBC3) Adam Gee (Channel 4) Jordan McGarry (Vimeo) Anna Higgs (Nowness)
Paul Bradshaw (BBC) Christiane Dopp (Film Commission Hamburg/ Schleswig Holstein)
co-presented by
Bettina Walter
Chair
José F Rodriguez (Tribeca)
Speakers
Diana Bustamente (Cartagera International Film Festival, FICCI)
Session Producer
Nasfim Haque (Channel 4)
Speakers
Fozia Khan (Channel 4) Jamie Roberts (Channel 4) Asim Chaudhry
Inti Cordera (International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City, DocsDF)
Tue 14 Jun / 13:00 / Crucible Theatre
A powerhouse in the documentary world, Sheila Nevins has shepherded scores of the genre’s best films over many years and, as President of HBO Documentaries, is one of the US’s most powerful documentary executives. Sheila, winner of the Creative Leadership Award supported by Coaching for Leaders (p.27) talks with Nick Fraser about some of the many hits in a career that has garnered nearly thirty Emmy awards.
Schedule
Tamanna Rahman
Gabriela Sandoval (Santiago International Film Festival, SANFIC)
In Conversation with HBO’s Sheila Nevins
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Not a week goes by where there isn’t a story in the news about British Muslims or Islam and mainstream broadcasters are getting in on the act. There’s Something About Muslims brings together filmmakers and talent to explore the challenges and experiences of telling stories about a growing minority in the UK.
IBT Climate Change Pitch
Tue 14 Jun / 14:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall Climate change is one of the most important issues of our time. It’s been given renewed impetus by last December’s UN talks in Paris. A global consensus has now been reached about the need for urgent action. But engaging mainstream audiences is a huge challenge. Broadcasters are keen to give it more air time, but they want a fresh approach. IBT is inviting filmmakers to come up with their own suggestions.
Chair
Nick Fraser (BBC)
Session Producer
David Alamouth (Inovi)
Speaker
Sheila Nevins (HBO)
Chair
Tom Heap (BBC)
Speakers
Tom Edwards (BBC) John Hay (Channel 4) Helen Hawkin (Discovery)
Alternate Realities
Co-producing documentaries with Latin America is happening more often and is of ever more interest for European producers. Latin America has a long cinematic tradition, numerous film festivals and increasing co-financing possibilities. With key players from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia, the panel will discuss the co-production possibilities and introduce to you an inspiring festival landscape.
Tue 14 June / 12:15 / Crucible Adelphi
Talks & Sessions
Tue 14 Jun / 12:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
There’s Something About Muslims
Marketplace
Co-Production Possibilities and Festival Culture in Latin America
Tuesday 14 June
Parties & Social
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Tue 14 Jun / 14:15 / Crucible Studio
Factual entertainment programming is in the throes of a critical and commercial renaissance. Lines between genres are being further blurred with specialist factual, factual and factual entertainment all crossing borders. UK producers and broadcasters are leading the world when it comes to factual entertainment formats, but in which direction will the genre next move? What are the broadcasters looking for and how can they stand out in a competitive field?
Talks & Sessions Marketplace Parties & Social
Tue 14 Jun / 14:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B
This BAFTA-sponsored session will look at how to make a winning documentary that keeps kids watching and wanting more. In a media world with so much choice what will bring children to your story? Come and find out.
Session Producer
Kez Margrie (BBC)
Chair
Neil Smith (betty)
Chair
Bridget Banton (Ayo Banton Digital)
Speakers
Bill Hobbins (Sky)
Speakers
Kat Lewis (Nine Lives Media)
Donna Clark (BBC)
Rachel Drummond Hay (Drummer TV)
Lucy Leveugle (Channel 4)
Stefania Bounajuti (Drummer TV)
Ninder Billing (Channel 5)
Docs in the Newsroom
Tue 14 Jun / 14:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A Whether at The Guardian, Al Jazeera, or the New York Times, the embrace of documentary forms by journalism has been a remarkable recent development. This panel will explore this turn, teasing out what short documentaries, interactive formats and now virtual reality offer the digital newsroom. It will look at the collaborations central to these developments and ask what commissioning opportunities arise for documentary makers in these contexts.
New US Trends and Platforms
Tue 14 Jun / 14:30 / Crucible Adelphi
The US is the major export territory for UK content producers – so what is the current state of play? Recent years have seen seismic changes in commissioning sources and distribution platforms, matched by multi-million dollar M&A activity and consumer ‘cordcutting’. This panel will explore the impacts of digital and highlight future trends, providing valuable insight into the world’s biggest marketplace.
Session Producer/ Chair
Mandy Rose (i-Docs)
Session Producer / Chair
Mark Leaver (UKTI)
Speakers
Charlie Phillips (The Guardian)
Speakers
Alexander Lewin (Maker Studios)
Juliana Ruhfus (Al Jazeera)
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A Place at the Table: Why Documentaries for Kids Matter
Rob Holloway (Discovery)
Session Producer
Alternate Realities
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Commissioning: Factual Entertainment
Tuesday 14 June
Kathleen Lingo (NY Times) Sarah Wolozin (MIT OpenDoc Lab)
Diana Holtzberg (Films Transit International)
co-presented by
Sylvia Harvey (University of Leeds) Des Freedman (Goldsmiths, University of London) Natasha Cox
Chair
Steve Hewlett
Speakers
Lord David Puttnam Patrick Holland (BBC) Jane Martinson (The Guardian) Hugh Harris (DCMS) Ralph Lee (Channel 4)
The University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea Wed 15 Jun / 10:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
In this session, producers and broadcasters offer guidance to academics from the University of Sheffield on how to present effectively to documentary producers and commissioners. In a roundtable set up, and in front of an audience, five shortlisted academics showcase their fields of expertise.
Session Producers
Adam Jacobs (Discovery)
Chair
Dan Korn (STV)
Speakers
Denman Rooke (October Films) Rachel Job (A+E Networks UK) Jago Lee (NERD) Charlotte Engels (Rock Yenta Productions)
Schedule
10:30 About Last Night… daily review including India in a Day 12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind Unlocking the Cage 14:30 Digging Deeper... Doc/Fest Alternate Realities: Virtual Reality 16:45 In Conversation... a Doc/Fest luminary
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Session Producers
Join a series of events discussing and showcasing the extraordinary talent, films and projects across the Doc/Fest universe, presented by Wellcome Trust.
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Alternate Realities
As the BBC Charter Renewal moves into final stages, with a White Paper due in the summer and the possible privatisation of Channel 4 on the government’s agenda, the future of these cultural institutions is currently in doubt. This will be an opportunity to voice your opinion and hear a distinguished panel debate the issues facing public service television.
Wed 15 Jun
Adam Buxton Presents a BUG Special: David Bowie Wed 15 Jun / 19:30 / City Hall Ballroom
Ground control to Major Tom: the BFI’s sell-out music video show returns to Doc/Fest for a Bowie extravaganza. Hosted by comedian Adam Buxton, this is his love letter to the Thin White Duke, originally created to coincide with the V&A’s ‘David Bowie is Making a Scene’ and Buxton’s own BBC6 music documentary on the pop icon. BUG promises to bring you out of your seats and up to the starman waiting in the sky.
Talks & Sessions
Tue 14 Jun / 16:00 / Crucible Theatre
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square
Marketplace
Our BBC, Our Channel 4: A Future for Public Service TV?
Tuesday 14 June / Wednesday 15 June
Parties & Social
Talks and Sessions
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Scheduale
Fri 10 Jun
14:00 Digging Deeper… Snow Monkey
Science presenter Aarathi Prasad and child psychologist Sam Wass (The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds) enter the child universe of George Gittoes’ Snow Monkey (p.44). 16:30 In Conversation… a Doc/Fest luminary A Doc/Fest luminary will discuss the future of
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documentary film.
Sat 11 Jun
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
10:00 A bout Last Night… daily review including Life, Animated
Conversations and creative exchanges inspired by extraordinary talent, groundbreaking films and interactive and virtual reality storytelling.
We proudly introduce Doc/Fest Exchange, a place where luminaries from across the Festival exchange ideas about groundbreaking films, collaborations and interactive and virtual reality projects.
Drop by for scheduled events and a few surprises, with creative minds from across the Doc/Fest universe. The Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square is free and open to all and includes food and drink stalls.
About Last night…
Listen to filmmakers and creatives as they discuss the previous day’s highlights.
Digging Deeper…
Parties & Social
Explore further the art, craft and themes of some of the best Festival films.
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Creative Exchange…
Tune in to the power of documentary to spark big ideas and get under the skin of life.
In Conversation…
Glimpse the future of documentary with luminaries from the Doc/Fest universe.
Comedian Chella Quint and autism specialist Megan Freeth illuminate fresh perspectives on living with autism through the lens of Life, Animated (p.85). 12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind SEED: The Untold Story (p.41) Conservation specialist Helen Anne Curry and
directors Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel discuss global efforts to protect seed varieties and why it matters to the future of food.
14:30 Digging Deeper… Ants on a Shrimp and Miso Hungry Food Anthropologist Kaori O’Connor and Science
Communicator Erinma Ochu journey into the Japanese culinary experiments that gave birth to Ants on a Shrimp (p.78) and Miso Hungry (p.79).
16:30 In Conversation… Doc/Fest luminary Julie Goldman
Award-winning producer Julie Goldman from Motto films glimpses into the future of documentary.
co-presented by
10:30 About Last Night… daily review including Kiki
10:30 About Last Night… daily review including There Will Be Water (p.41)
12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind The Age of Consequences (p.38)
12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind Machine of Human Dreams (p.89)
Mike Brett, producer of Notes on Blindness (p.35) talks with comedian Chella Quint to delve deeper into the development and making of this groundbreaking film.
16:30 In Conversation… Doc/Fest luminary Charlie Phillips
Charlie Phillips, Head of Documentary at The Guardian, looks into the future of documentary film.
Mon 13 Jun
10:30 About Last Night… daily review including Mr. Gaga
Dance filmmaker Alex Reuben and Science Communicator Erinma Ochu explore a life in dance through the lens of Mr. Gaga (p.59)
12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind Miss Sharon Jones! (p.70)
Broadcaster Karen Gabay and Victoria Williamson, a specialist on the psychology of music, exchange ideas around the healing power of music.
14:30 Digging Deeper… the Doc/Fest Alternative Realities: Interactive Exhbition
Emma Cooper from Rocket examines the making of some of the ground-breaking interactive projects from Doc/Fest’s Alternate Realities: Interactive Exhibition.
16:30 In Conversation… Doc/Fest luminaries Anna Higgs and Ingrid Kopp
Anna Higgs, Creative Director at NOWNESS, and Ingrid Kopp, Senior Digital Consultant at Tribeca Film Institute discuss innovation in distribution platforms for documentaries.
14:30 Digging Deeper… National Bird (p.62)
Carol Nahra, director Sonia Kennebeck and future media expert Andy Miah explore the power of drones to change the way we experience the world.
16:30 In Conversation… Doc/Fest luminary Mark Herbert, Warp Films
Mark Herbert, CEO of Sheffield-based Warp Films discusses the future factual plans for this awardwinning and acclaimed independent film company.
Wed 15 Jun
10:30 About Last Night… daily review including India in a Day (p.84)
Director Richie Metha talks about this groundbreaking, crowd sourced film, executive produced by Ridley Scott.
12:30 Creative Exchange… ideas behind Unlocking the Cage
Bob McKay, an expert on the human-animal relations in literature, delves into the ideas behind Unlocking the Cage (p.56) with Journalist Camila Ruz.
14:30 Digging Deeper… the Doc/Fest Alternative Realities: Virtual Reality Arcade
Emma Cooper of Rocket looks into the making of the ground-breaking virtual reality project In My Shoes with creator Jane Gauntlett.
16:45 In Conversation… a Doc/Fest luminary
Join a Doc/Fest luminary for a glimpse into the future of documentary film.
Alternate Realities
14:30 Digging Deeper… Notes on Blindness
Director Roy Cohen in conversation with future media expert Andy Miah about the dream life of machines.
Talks & Sessions
Director Jared P. Scott, in conversation with creative chemist Tony Ryan and Sam Illingworth, climate expert and poet, explore ways to modify how we talk about climate change.
Director Per Liebeck and Engineer Bill Watts explore big ideas to tackle environmental challenges as featured in their film.
Marketplace
Join Charlie Phillips of The Guardian in conversation with Twiggy Pucci Garcon, co-writer and protagonist of Kiki (p.71)
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Tue 14 June
Parties & Social
Sun 12 Jun
Scheduale
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May Abdalla
Co-Director / Anagram
Richard Addis
May is a documentary filmmaker and journalist who has been commissioned by the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera English to make films and reports all around the world. In addition to her film work, May developed Alternative Reality Games at BBC Current Affairs and consulted for BBC World Service on a series of interactive projects.
Richard is an MSc graduate of the University of Salford in Professional Sound and Video Technology, and has worked at Halo for the past five years. He is responsible for their Audio Operations department, as well as new audio technology research and development, specifically relating to VR and spatial audio mixing.
Audio Operations / Halo
Session:
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.110
Claire Aguilar
Saleyha Ahsan
Alongside film programming, Claire participates in industry training and mentoring. Prior to Sheffield, she served as funder and co-producer for independent filmmakers and public media at the Independent Television Service (ITVS). She serves on the boards of Women Make Movies, European Documentary Network and Firelight Media.
Saleyha is a presenter for BBC Science (Trust Me I’m A Doctor, One Show, Horizon) and a filmmaker/journalist (The Guardian, Newsnight, ITV). She is a practising emergency medicine doctor and completed her LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Saleyha was previously an army officer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, serving in Bosnia.
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Director of Programming & Industry Engagement / Sheffield Doc/Fest
Session:
How to get Your Theatrical Doc Funded and Distributed, p.135
Head of Film / Boiler Room TV
Catherine Allen
Joe has worked extensively across the film industry, directing commercials and music videos for clients including Kanye West, Nike and Topshop. He is responsible for commissioning and producing all film output beyond the live broadcasts, from brand films to editorial documentary to more forwardthinking and creative visual treatments of music.
Catherine is a BBC digital producer, responsible for one of their first VR documentaries. She specialises in non-fiction digital products bridging creativity and technology. Catherine founded Ember Television and worked at Touchpress, producing the criticallyacclaimed Elmer the Patchwork Elephant kids’ app and working on BAFTA-winning Disney Animated.
Parties & Social
Session:
Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media, p.138
Digital Producer / BBC
Session:
Does it Matter Who Funds My Film? Making Branded Documentaries, p.136
Gema Juarez Allen
Sessions:
Innovation in Archive, p.128 Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.110
Ahmad al-Rashid
Producer
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The Post Production Facility: An Evolving Model, p.131
Presenter, Filmmaker & Journalist
Joe Alexander
Gema has been a film producer since 2005. She has a particular interest in arthouse films and documentaries with international potential. Gema has produced for new and established directors; among her credits are: Oscuro Animal (Felipe Guerrero), Camino a la Paz (Francisco Varone), 327 Cuadernos (Andrés Di Tella), ¡Vivan las Antipodas! (Victor Kossakovsky, p.98, 100).
Session:
Session:
Co-Production Possibilites and Festival Culture in Latin America, p.143
Born in Aleppo, Syria, Ahmad is a Kurd forced to flee his home in 2011. After working with refugees in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, in May 2015 he again had to find a place of safety. Risking his life crossing Europe, Ahmad has now been granted asylum in the UK.
Session:
How to Document the World’s Biggest News Stories: Telling the Refugee Crisis, p.135
Speakers
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Catherine Alvaresse
Amanda Ariss OBE
Prior to ARTE France, Catherine served as Deputy Managing Director at Europe Images International, Director of International Co-productions at Boréales, and Director of Acquisitions and International Coproductions at Télé Images International.
Amanda, described by Broadcast magazine as an “equality heavyweight”, is Executive Director of the Creative Diversity Network. The CDN is host to television’s new Diamond diversity monitoring system. As former Chief Executive of the Equality and Diversity Forum, Amanda was also instrumental in the 2010 Equality Act.
Executive Director / Creative Diversity Network
Session:
The French Connection: Working with France, p.134
Gabo Arora
Bridget Banton
Alongside the UN, Gabo is Founder & CEO of LightShed, a VR and social impact start-up and an award-winning filmmaker represented by Vrse.works. He has screened at Sundance and other major film festivals. He is a World Economic Forum 2016 Arts and Cultural leader at Davos and a term-member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bridget is a creative disruptor who has commissioned television, video and audio content for the BBC, Penguin Random House and Channel 4, amongst others. An experienced producer, she has an acute understanding of the children’s, teen and youth markets, plus a passion for storytelling across all platforms. She’s currently Managing Director and a consultant at Ayo Banton Digital.
A Reasonably Adjusted Debate: Disability On and Off Screen, p.131
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Victoria Barrell
Fabio Basone
Victoria is Producer and COO at Noah Media Group, formed off the back of feature documentary Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Man (2015). Noah Media brings together a team of awardwinners in film and television with hugely successful original thinkers from the online and new technology sectors.
Fabio is a former producer/director working predominantly in access driven, contributor-led documentaries and factual entertainment. He now works as Video & Multimedia Manager for MSF UK producing/directing in-house content as well as partnering with external broadcasters and platforms to produce films about MSF.
Chief Operating Officer & Producer / Noah Media Group
Session:
A Place at the Table: Why Documentaries for Kids Matter, p.144
Video and Multimedia Manager / MSF
Session:
Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience, p.132
Lucy Baxter
Managing Director / Mandrake Films
Peter Beard
Lucy is Managing Director of Mandrake Films and a freelance producer. She has worked on documentaries, current affairs and dramas and produced digital projects and industry events. Her work has won BAFTA and RTS awards and been nominated for others. Her book Running a Creative Company in the Digital Age will be published in 2016.
Peter Beard is a producer/director who has gained national praise for his stylish camera work and approach to storytelling. His recent credits include Camera for The Murder Detectives; Producer/Director for 24 Hours in Custody; and most recently Director of the critically acclaimed My Son the Jihadi for Channel 4.
Session:
Good Intentions Vs Good Viewing: What Happens when Doc Makers Join Non Profit, p.136
Talks & Sessions
Session:
Alternate Realities
Managing Director / Ayo Banton
Marketplace
Creative Director & Senior Advisor / United Nations
Session:
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Deputy Director Knowledge, Documentaries and Specialist Factual / ARTE France
Schedule
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Sessions: Female Trailblazers: New Ways of..., p.138 New Genderation: Has Factual Kept Up With..., p.139
Session:
Docs on Cops, p.138
Parties & Social
Director & Producer
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Speakers
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Shelagh Beckett
Independent Child Care Consultant
Clint Beharry
Shelagh was a social work practitioner and manager before specialising further. She now has an independent consultancy, works as an expert witness (primarily assessing attachments of abused children), and provides consultancy to organisations including ITV, Channel 4, the BBC and indies on programmes featuring vulnerable children and adults.
Clint is the senior creative technologist at the Harmony Institute. Working with social and data scientists, his role is to blend theory and technology to explore the interplay between narrative media and social impact. Currently he is designing StoryPilot, a web app that reveals connections between a film’s content and audience reactions.
Director of Design and Technology / The Harmony Institute
Session:
Documentary and Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide, p.132
Martin Belam
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace
Head of Commissioning, Arts / BBC
Session:
Tardis Docs: Telling Deceptively Big Stories in Tiny Online Spaces, p.137
Paul Bell
Session:
Archives & Copyright: A Beginners Guide, p.133
Parties & Social
Commissioning: Arts Documentaries, p.141. BAFTA Masterclass: Working with Archive, p.127
Jonny began vlogging after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. He has since made 90 videos about his journey through mental illness. In 2014 he launched a campaign to search for the stranger who talked him out of taking his own life, which was documented in the film Stranger on the Bridge.
Session:
Vlogs Vs Docs: Tales of Our Time, p.127
Ninder Billing
Producer & Director
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Sessions:
Mental Health Campaigner & Film Producer
Ruth Berry
Ruth is a writer, producer and director. She is passionate about science, natural history and old horror movies. Her productions include the awardwinning Terrible Lizards of Oz, Tropic Gothic, Hypsi the Forest Gardener and The Neanderthals’ Dark Secret. She is currently developing Skeleton in the Closet, with ARTE France.
Mark is Commissioning Editor, Arts for Vision and is also Arts Coordinator for the BBC. A member of the BBC Knowledge Commissioning team, Mark commissions arts programmes for television and multiplatform content, with a role to coordinate and maximise the BBC’s arts output across television, radio and online.
Jonny Benjamin
Producer
After studying acting, screenwriting and art history, Paul earned a degree in Visual Theory in the mid ‘90s. Bell focuses his efforts on archive documentary filmmaking, and produced two of the most successful UK documentaries of recent years: Senna and Amy.
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Mark Bell
Social & New Formats Editor / The Guardian Martin is Social & New Formats Editor for The Guardian in London. He helped set up UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d for the Daily Mirror, and has worked at Sony and the BBC.
Session:
Commissioning Editor, Factual / Channel 5
Sessions:
I Do it My Way: Directors Talk..., p.132. Minority Report: Diversity in Documentary, p.130
Since joining Channel 5 last year, Ninder has commissioned popular factual and factual entertainment series and one offs. She also oversees The Wright Stuff, The Saturday Show and the news. Before Channel 5, Ninder was Executive Producer at the BBC, overseeing documentaries and series for BBC1, BBC3, CBBC and BBC2.
Session:
Commissioning: Factual Entertainment, p.144
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Bina48
Robot Personality
Celia Black
Bina48 is one of the world’s most advanced social robots, commissioned by Dr Martine Rothblatt and created by Hanson Robotics Inc. based on information about Bina Aspen. Bina48 was created using video interviews, transcripts, laser scanning, life mask technology, facial recognition, artificial intelligence, voice recognition and text to speech software.
Celia has studied singularity theory for almost 20 years. Working with inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil as Vice President of Business Development for Kurzweil Technologies, Celia has been instrumental in communicating Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns through New York Times bestselling books, awardwinning films, media appearances and international speaking engagements.
Alternate Realities Summit: Androids, Robots and Avatars Live, p.108
James Bluemel
Lili Blumers
James is an award-winning director. Starting out as a video journalist, he has gone on to make a wide range of documentaries from high-profile documentary series including Skint (C4), The Romanians are Coming (C4) and Exodus (BBC2), to independent feature documentaries such as Tangled Up in Dylan and 66 Months.
Lili is a commissioning editor in ARTE France’s web department. She is in charge of interactive programmes (fiction, documentaries and games). She has worked for ARTE since 2005, where she was previously in charge of programming within the Programme Direction. Prior to ARTE, she led international development and programming for Multithématiques/ Canal+.
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
How to Document the World’s Biggest News Stories: Telling the Refugee Crisis, p.135
Neil Boorman
Stephania Bounajuti
Starting as a writer, Neil worked as a columnist for The Guardian and wrote comedy scripts for Channel 4. When the creative and strategic opportunities were too good to miss, he jumped to branded content via VCCP, founded a content division at Grey and is now doing the same at Mother.
Stefania is an independent TV director specialising in hard access, hostile environments and expedition films. As an ecology and human rights activist she chooses and develops projects based on their socio-political value. With The Boy on the Bicycle (CBBC) up for numerous awards, Stephania is now working on a documentary feature film about the last guardians of the Amazon.
Content Director / Mother
Session:
Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy, p.141
Producer / Drummer TV
Session:
Does it Matter Who Funds my Film? Making Branded Documentaries, p.136
Richard Bowron
Head of Development / Love Productions
Paul Bradshaw
Richard joined Love as Head of Development in 2009. Previously at Shine, he was Head of Entertainment Development. Richard is an experienced programme maker, having worked at the BBC as a series producer and Head of Development, as well as for several production companies including RDF and Darlow Smithson.
As a series producer, Paul has made 10 series for the BBC, from history to science and natural history (wildlife). In his recent productions Wonders of the Monsoon and Earth’s Greatest Spectacles his ambition was both to tell a great story and to bring home the wonder and fragile interconnectedness of our planet.
Session:
A Place at the Table: Why Documentaries for Kids Matter, p.144
Talks & Sessions
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Alternate Realities
Commissioning Editor / ARTE France
Marketplace
Series Director / KEO Films
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Schedule
Founder / BRINK Institute
Session:
How to Pitch your Climate Change Idea, p.141
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Documentary Film Production Goes Green, P.142
Parties & Social
Series Producer / BBC
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Mike Brett
Co-founder & Producer / Archer’s Mark
Aaron Brookner
Mike co-founded award-winning production company Archer’s Mark. His film Next Goal Wins won the Moët BIFA for Best Documentary, earning him recognition as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and Screen International Future Leader. Mike produced Notes on Blindness (p.141) and its VR sister project (p.120), which have their UK Premieres at Doc/Fest.
Aaron’s credits include: Uncle Howard (2016, p.73); The Silver Goat (2012), the first feature film created exclusively for iPad; and The Black Cowboys (2004), Audience Award-winner at Rochester International Film Festival. He has also remastered his uncle Howard Brookner’s 1983 feature documentary on William S. Burroughs, Burroughs: The Movie (2014).
Director & Screenwriter / Pinball London
Session:
Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy, p.141
Sabine Bubeck-Paaz
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace
Director of Documentaries and Factual Entertainment / Canal+
Session:
Between Activism and Extremism: Storytelling for Change, p.138
Parties & Social
Diego is a French filmmaker and the Host and Director of the National Geographic Channel series Don’t Tell My Mother. He is also the host of a television news show in France called Les Nouveaux Explorateurs, broadcast on Canal+. In 2014 he was appointed Director of Documentaries and Factual Entertainment at Canal+.
Tom Burton
Mandy Chang
Tom currently works as Interactive & Technology Lead for the BBC Digital Storytelling team. He is currently working on a BBC CGI VR experience. He is the trustee and co-founder of Raucous theatrical collective, a godfather of the Almanac of the Future and has sat on technology research boards.
Mandy oversees a broad slate of TV arts programming and the ABC iview Arts Channel. She has overseen many coproductions with BBC Arts, Storyville and international broadcasters. Prior to ABC, she was an award-winning producer/ director of a range of documentaries for international broadcasters.
Interactive & Tech Lead / BBC Digital Storytelling
Session:
The French Connection: Working with France, p.134
Head of ABC TV Arts and ABC iview Arts Channel / ABC
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Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.110
Aris Chatzistefanou
Simon Chinn
Aris is a journalist, photographer and director. He has contributed articles and documentaries to The Guardian and has worked for the BBC World Service and several newspapers and radio stations in Greece and Cyprus. He is the author of three books on current affairs.
Simon is an Academy Award-winning producer, responsible for some of the most successful recent documentaries, including Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man and The Green Prince, which opened Sundance 2014 and won the Audience Award. He recently launched Lightbox, a multiplatform media company focused on the small screen.
Director / Infowar Productions
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BAFTA Masterclass: Working with Archive, p.127
Diego Buñuel
Commissioning Editor / ZDF/Arte Sabine is a commissioning editor at ZDF for various documentary slots on ARTE. Recently, she has been involved in The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, Drone, netwars, Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah, and I Am Ingrid Bergman. Since 2015, Sabine has been Head of Studies of ESoDoc European Social Documentary.
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Commissioning: Arts Documentaries, p.141
Producer / Red Box Films & Lightbox
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Viva La Revolution: Video Activism and Citizen Journalism, p.128
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How to Get Your Theatrical Doc Funded and Distributed, p.135
Speakers
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Mak CK
Donna Clark
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The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch, p.142
Jo Clinton-Davis
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Commissioning: Factual Entertainment, p.144
Toby Coffey
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Commissioning: Singles, Specials and Series, p.136
Toby is Head of Digital Development for the National Theatre. His team is responsible for the creative and technical development of the digital interfaces between the NT and its audiences. He focusses on developing forms of digital engagement and interaction around the National Theatre and its repertoire of productions.
Arnaud Colinart
Alfie Cook
Arnaud is particularly interested in applying new technologies and interactive mechanisms in the conception of narrative works, whether documentary or fiction. He is a producer for Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness (p.120).
6-year-old Alfie took part in The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds in 2015. He lives with his mum, dad and two-year-old sister Daisy. Alfie is very knowledgeable about the solar system and his favourite planet is Saturn. Alfie has worn hearing aids since 2014 when it was discovered he is deaf. This does not hold him back!
Session:
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.110
Protagonist / The Secret Life of 5 Year Old
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Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy, p.141
Kev Cook
Liz Cook
Kev is married to Zoë and dad to Alfie and Daisy. He was born in Somerset and brought up on a farm. Kev plays guitar and banjo with regular gigs across the South West. He holds a BA Honours in Creative Music Technology from Bath Spa University and has composed music for short films. He is a media lecturer at the local college.
Liz is a documentary film outreach lead at Kickstarter. She has worked with hundreds of filmmakers, helping them successfully raise funds and awareness around their projects. There has been over $100 million raised for documentary films on Kickstarter.
Dad / The Secret Life of 5 Year Olds
Session:
How to Put Kids on TV: A Channel 4 Masterclass, p.139
Marketplace
Producer / AGAT Films & Cie/EX NIHILO
Alternate Realities
Head of Digital Development / National Theatre
Talks & Sessions
Controller of Popular Factual / ITV As Controller of Factual at ITV, Jo’s commissions include: BAFTA awardwinning Long Lost Family; Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs; Inside Death Row/ The Mafia with Trevor McDonald; HMP Aylesbury; Our Queen; 56 Up; Billy Connolly’s Route 66; Joanna Lumley’s Nile; and the arts strand Perspectives.
Credits include the BBC3 series Fat Men Can’t Hunt and My Childhood, Drinking with the Girls (BBC3), Night Cops (Sky One), The WI Ladies Guide to Brothels (Channel 4) and Don’t Tell The Bride (BBC3). While Director of Factual at Lion, credits include 15 Kids and Counting (Channel 4).
Documentary Film Outreach Lead / Kickstarter
Session:
How to Put Kids on TV: A Channel 4 Masterclass, p.139
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The Guardian Documentaries Pitch, p.139
Parties & Social
Mak is the panelist with the most recent experience of being on the other side of the pitching fence. His second documentary Little People Big Dreams, set in a dubious Chinese theme park, showed at Doc/Fest last year to great acclaim.
Head of Commissioning Features and Formats / BBC
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Emma Cooper
Inti Cordera
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Business Development Manager / Rocket Emma has been working on creative, vivid interactive experiences for over 15 years. Her career highlights so far happen to coincide with two BAFTAnominated projects she’s worked on. Emma is passionate about playfulness in digital spaces, skilled in finding a balance between client needs and the time, ability and attention span of the user.
Executive Director / International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City
Sessions:
What’s a TV Channel Granddad?..., p.129 Tardis Docs:..., p.137 Doc/Fest Exchange, p.147
Trevor Cox
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace
Session:
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Parties & Social
James has worked in operational roles in post-production for over 10 years and recently joined Halo as Head of Operations. Specialising in end-to-end bespoke workflows from pre-production through to delivery, James has a strong focus on training and education in order to meet the ever changing requirements of the industry.
Sessions:
The Post Production Facility: An Evolving Model, p.131
Neil Crombie
Deputy Director, Creative / Save the Children
Creative Director / Swan Films
Session:
Good Intentions Vs Good Viewing: What Happens When Doc-Makers Join Non Profits, p.136
Neil recently directed the BAFTA, RTS and Grierson-winning series Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, for which he was also nominated for Best Factual Director at the BAFTA Craft Awards. It was the follow-up to his previous series with Grayson, the BAFTA and Griersonwinning All in the Best Possible Taste.
Nick Crossland
Julia Dahar
With a background in interactive design and development, Nick has been creating things for the web since 1997. He manages web and mobile projects for clients of all sizes across sectors including TV multiplatform, culture and heritage and industry. Recent digital work include the BAFTA-winning Live From Space website; Embarrassing Bodies My MindChecker; and Richard III: The Reburial.
Julia is an award-winning director from Differ Media, dedicated to telling stories on human rights, sustainable development issues and challenge stereotypes. Her films have been used by more than 30 NGOs and screened at the UN Climate conference. Currently Julia is working on the feature documentary Before the Flood.
Creative Director / Rocket
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Co-production Possibilities and Festival Culture in Latin America, p.143
Head of Operations / Halo
Jess Crombie
Jess is Deputy Director of Creative at Save the Children, leading a creative team that shoots, crafts and creates powerful, effective and award-winning communications materials. Previously, Jess has led content creation at WaterAid, headed up the creative unit at Magnum Photos and spent almost 10 years in advertising as a shoot producer.
Session:
James Cregeen
Professor of Acoustic Engineering / University of Salford Trevor is Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford and also a science presenter and author. His current major research projects include investigating future technologies for spatial audio in the home, as well as the developing of algorithms to allow big audio data to be interpreted by computers.
Inti is a documentary producer/director from Mexico City. He began his directorial career in 1992 with the documentary Neruda in Isla Negra. He later created La Maroma, a media company focusing on the development of documentary projects. In 2006, he founded the International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City (DocsDF).
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Channel 4 First Cut Pitch, p.137
Director & Producer / Differ Media
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What’s a TV Channel Granddad?..., p.129 Tardis Docs:..., P.137
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Between Activism and Extremism – Storytelling for Change, p.138
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Rita Daniels
Nico Daswani
Executive Producer / Channel 4
Channel 4 First Cut Pitch, p.137
Martin Davidson
Guy Davies
Martin is Commissioning Editor, History and Business at the BBC. Before that, he was an award-winning director, producer and executive producer. He is the author of six books and has worked in academia, publishing and advertising before starting his broadcasting career in 1988 with the BBC.
Guy is currently Commissioning Editor of Factual at Channel 5, commissioning factual programming across the Channel. Among the awards he has received have been the BAFTA for Best Factual Series and The Grierson Award for The Trust (Channel 4, 2003). At Channel 5, he has commissioned a wide range of factual programming.
Commissioning Editor, History & Business / BBC
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Director / Calibrate Films
Simone Dembitzer
Before founding Calibrate Films, Zoe was an award-winning editor of documentaries, commercials and branded content. Highlights include being involved in the 2006 launch of the Al Jazeera English channel in Qatar, winning First Place at the National Headliner Awards for Secrets in the Ice, and being invited to join BAFTA Crew.
Since graduating last year, Simone has interned for a number of international production companies including Fox Searchlight and MTV. In 2014 she coproduced her first short documentary Saam in Limpopo, South Africa. She is currently on the Youth Jury at Sheffield Doc/Fest and is working on her second film to be completed next year.
Sessions:
Commissioning: Singles..., p.136 Why You Should Be Working with Channel 5, p.140
Youth Jury
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New Genderation: Has Factual Kept up with the Revolution in Gender and Sexuality?, p.139
Jemma Desai
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What’s a TV Channel Granddad? How We’ll Be Watching Docs in the Future, p.129
Shaun Dey
Film Programme Manager / British Council
Talks & Sessions
Commissioning: Specialist Factual, p.138
Marketplace
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Alternate Realities
Commissioning Editor, Factual / Channel 5
Zoe Davis
Jemma is Film Programme Manager at the British Council, leading on Shorts and Global Exhibition and is a freelance programmer for BFI London Film Festival. Most recently she was Film Programmer at the Independent Cinema Office (ICO), providing advice to independent cinemas on their film programme and contributing to distribution and training activity.
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Nico heads the arts and culture programming and initiatives of the World Economic Forum. He connects artists with Decision Makers to challenge assumptions, bring new perspectives and build bridges on global issues. Nico has coordinated, directed and produced festivals, tours and residencies, encouraging collaborations across cultures.
Video Activist / Reel News
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Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Shaun is a founding member of the video-activist collective Reel News. Formerly a shop steward for UNISON in local government from the late eighties to the mid-nineties, he became a video-activist in the anti-capitalist movement in the early 2000s, working with Indymedia amongst others before starting Reel News in 2006.
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Viva la Revolution: Video Activism and Citizen Journalism, p.128
Parties & Social
Rita is an executive producer in Channel 4’s Documentaries Department. She is across a variety of returning series including 24 Hours in A&E, One Born Every Minute and First Dates, as well as the first time director’s strand, First Cut.
Programme Lead, Arts & Culture / World Economic Forum
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Tony Dillamore
Stacey Dooley
Tony is Development Executive at Boundless, overseeing the Factual Entertainment and Specialist Factual slate. His primary focus is developing returnable factual formats with the development team. Tony’s production roles include Series Director on Channel 4’s Mr Drew’s School for Boys and Producer/Director on shows such as The Apprentice and Channel 5’s The Bachelor.
Stacey Dooley is one of Britain’s most loved documentary presenters. Her investigative journalism for BBC3 has taken her around the world, covering topics from sex trafficking and the global war on drugs to the fate of child refugees. Stacey was shortlisted for the Grierson Award for Best Presenter.
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Development Executive / Boundless
Presenter / BBC 3
Session:
How to Pitch Your Climate Change Idea, p.141
Christiane Dopp
John Dower
Christiane has worked for Film Commission Hamburg since 2001. Previously, she was a unit and production manager for TV and cinema. In 2011 she became Managing Director of Green Shooting Card, providing consulting, workshops and co-operations with regional partners. Christiane is invested in making the film industry green.
John’s career began in the late ‘90s with a series of low-budget, cult documentaries for Channel 4 before directing his first feature Live Forever. He is also known for the Griersonwinning Thriller in Manila and Bradley Wiggins – A Year in Yellow. His most recent, My Scientology Movie (p.62) was released at London Film Festival 2015.
Marketplace
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Alternate Realities
Film Commissioner / Film Commission Hamburg/Schleswig Holstein
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Documentary Film Production Goes Green, p.142
Executive Producer / Drummer TV
David Dufresne
Rachel is an executive producer who runs Bristol-based indie Drummer TV with Tamsin Summers. She makes factual and children’s programmes for the major UK broadcasters. CBBC shows include three My Life documentaries (Born Lucky, RTS award-winner, Boy on the Bicycle, award-nominated) and two series of Ice Stars (RTS award-winner).
David is an award-winning independent writer and filmmaker. He has joined MIT as a fellow at the Open DocLab in Comparative Media Studies/Writing. His projects include DADA-DATA (2016, SSR-SRG/Arte), Fort McMoney (2013, ONF/Arte and Toxa) and Prison Valley (2010, Upian/Arte) which won the World Press Photo Multimedia Contest for non-linear in 2011.
Parties & Social
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What Makes a Feature Doc? Directors Discuss, p.139
Writer & Filmmaker
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A Place at the Table: Why Documentaries for Kids Matter, p.144
Bruce Duncan
Ian Duncan
Managing Director / Terasem Movement Foundation
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Surviving Danger Zone Docs, p.128
Director
Rachel Drummond-Hay
Alongside Terasem Movement Foundation, Bruce is Project Leader and Principle Investigator for the LifeNaut Project, created by Dr Martine Rothblatt, inventor of SIRIUS Satellite Radio, author and Biotech CEO. He is responsible for the development of Bina48, the world’s first advanced humanoid robot based on a real person.
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Director / Windfall Films
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Alternate Realities Summit: Androids, Robots and Avatars Live, p.108
Ian is widely recognised as being one of the most visually gifted, original and imaginative film directors of his generation. He has devised striking and highly evocative ways of bringing the past to life in science and historical documentaries. Many of his films are considered classics of the genre.
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I Do It My Way: Directors Talk About Their Work, p.132
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Dan Edge
Tom Edwards
A multi-award-winning filmmaker, Dan has produced and directed documentaries in more than 20 countries, from the Japanese nuclear disaster to the rise of the Pakistani Taliban. He recently travelled to West Africa to make Outbreak, an in-depth look at the Ebola virus, which was accompanied by a pioneering VR project.
Tom is a commissioning executive producer for BBC1 and 2 Factual Features and Formats. His development and production slate ranges from primetime staples such as BBC1’s BAFTA-nominated DIY SOS: The Big Build, new formats like BBC2’s Alex Polizzi: The Fixer, and cookery talent including Nigel Slater and Rachel Khoo.
Commissioning Editor, Factual Features and Formats / BBC
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Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Robert Elliott
Charlotte Engel
Robert climbed the TV production ladder at some of the world’s largest super-indies researching, developing, producing and directing content. Founding Breakthrough in 2008 as a drama and documentaries production company, it has since expanded into communications, delivering content-led, research-driven campaigns to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organisations.
Based in Toronto, Engel has worked for over 25 years in film and television. She was a production executive for CHUM, CTV & Bell for 10 years. After departing Bell, Charlotte set up Rock Yenta Productions. In April 2015, she joined CBC to look after the documentary strand Firsthand.
The IBT Climate Change Pitch, p.143
Good Intentions Vs. Good Viewing: What Happens When Doc-Makers Join Non-Profits, p.136
William Fairman
Elisabetta Fabrizi
William is a showrunner and director at VICE. He has produced and directed some of their most acclaimed documentaries and previously oversaw all of their UK online video content, leading the multi-award winning Rule Britannia strand.
Elisabetta is a contemporary art curator based in London and Newcastle. She has extensive experience of curating moving image exhibitions including as Head of Exhibitions at the British Film Institute and as Curator at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Currently she is Curator of Artist Film at the Tyneside Cinema.
Showrunner & Director / VICE
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The University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea, p.145
Curator / Tyneside Cinema
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The VICE Rule Britannia Pitch, p.133
Pegah Farahmand
John Farrar
Pegah works at Channel 4 as Editor of its short form arts strand, Random Acts. Previously, she worked for VICE Media where she spent 10 years producing and directing documentaries with talent such as Spike Jonze, Jonathan Glazer and Sally Potter, as well overseeing the content from VICE’s many brand partnerships.
John’s recent successes include: My Selfie Life, Find My First Love, The 12 Year Old Lifer and Grierson-nominated Inside The Gangsters’ Code. Prior to NERD, John was an accomplished director and development head at many leading indies including Talkback Thames, Tiger Aspect and Raw Television, where he developed the multi-award-winning documentary The Imposter.
Arts Commissioning for Gallery and Online Spaces, p.126
Creative Director & Co-Founder / NERD TV
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Arts Commissioning for Gallery and Online Spaces, p.126
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Beyond YouTube: What can the ‘Other’ Digital Platforms Offer Filmmakers, p.130
Parties & Social
Editor / Channel 4
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Talks & Sessions
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Alternate Realities
Managing Director / Rock Yenta Productions
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Director
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Documentary Filmmaker and Commissioning Editor / PBS Frontline
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Carl Fechner
Claire Finn
For 27 years Carl’s company has been promoting examples of sustainable living and has won numerous international awards for its documentary films, PR campaigns and crossmedia projects – among them his first cinema documentary The 4th Revolution – Energy Autonomy (2010), which was followed in March 2016 by Power to Change – The Energy Rebellion.
Claire joined Firecracker after 15 years working in some of the world’s top creative advertising agencies. One of her most exciting projects the is first of its kind Nike TV reality/observational documentary show, Nike Rise.
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Producer & Director / fechnerMEDIA
Head of Content / Firecracker Films
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Documentary Film Production Goes Green, p.142
Fox Fisher
Freddie Flintoff
After coming out on C4’s My Transsexual Summer, Fox set up My Genderation, documenting the lives of gender variant people. Now with 50+ shorts, they broadcast on the BBC and My Trans Story on C4. Fox co-founded Trans Pride Brighton, and is an author, script advisor and director of Lucky Tooth Films.
Freddie Flintoff is a presenter, broadcaster and cricketing legend. Freddie and co-presenter Robert Penn were reunited in 2014, taking to the highways of Great Britain for a new series, Flintoff: Lord of the Fries airing on Sky 1 in February 2015. The show followed the boys serving up fish and chips to the general public in their ecofriendly chip van.
Parties & Social
Marketplace
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Alternate Realities
Director / Lucky Tooth Film
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Does it Matter Who Funds My Film? Making Branded Documentaries, p.136
Presenter & Cricketer
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New Genderation: has Factual Kept up with the Revolution in Gender and Sexuality?, p.139
Lizzie Francke
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Freddie Flintoff & Robert Penn Talk Chips & Docs, p.140
Nick Fraser
Senior Production and Development Executive / BFI Film Fund Lizzie is a senior production and development executive at the BFI’s Film Fund. She was formerly a development producer for the UK Film Council’s First Feature Programme. She started her career as a film critic in the early 1990s and in 1997 was appointed Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Editor / BBC Storyville
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Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy, p.141
Nick has been Editor of Storyville since it started in 1997. After graduating from Oxford he worked as a reporter, television producer and editor. Storyville films have won more than 200 awards, including four Oscars, a Sundance Grand Jury Prize and several Griersons, Emmys and Peabodys.
Ben Frow
Director of Programmes / Channel 5
Dr Freddie Gaffney
Ben has responsibility across all content for the UK’s third largest commercial TV channel and channels 5STAR, Spike and 5USA. Since joining in 2013, the Channel 5 portfolio has been the only PSB family to grow share and has increased its young and upmarket audience share more than any other terrestrial family.
Freddie has published extensively on screenwriting and film and British cinema, and has been a contributor to the BFI’s landmark website ScreenOnline. He is currently commencing the research stage for a biography of the “father of documentary”, John Grierson.
Session:
In Conversation with HBO’s Sheila Nevins, p.143
Subject Leader, Digital Film Production / Ravensbourne
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Why You Should Be Working with Channel 5, p.140
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Is Documentary Relevant in a World with Information at your Fingertips, p.129
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Will Garbutt
Jane Gauntlett
With nearly 20 years’ experience in post facilities, Will is currently the Managing Director at Halo Post Production. Halo has been awarded several prestigious awards for its creative work, including the Broadcast Awards Best Post Facility 2016, it’s second in three years.
Jane is an artist, producer and founder of the In My Shoes Project (p.119); an internationally recognised empathy project. In My Shoes is an ever expanding library of interactive experiences which use story, theatre, audio-visual technology, virtual reality and first person documentary to recreate real-life experiences.
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The Post Production Facility: An Evolving Model, p.131
Adam Gee
Maya Goded
As one of the most experienced commissioners in UK broadcasting of multiplatform TV, Adam has won over 80 awards, including four BAFTAs. He served on BAFTA’s Television and Interactive Entertainment committees and is a voting member of the European Film Academy.
Through her photographs and debut film Plaza de la Soledad (p.71), Maya explores the subjects of female sexuality, prostitution and gender violence in a society in which the role of women is narrowly defined. Maya has published several books and coauthored others, including Plaza de la Soledad, Good Girls and Tierra Negra.
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.110
Commissioning: Shorts for all Platforms, p.142
Max Gogarty
Roger Graef OBE
Max is Content Editor at BBC3, the first linear broadcaster in the world to make the move to a digital-first content proposition. He runs the new in house content team and short form programming. Max is also a filmmaker, having made the critically-acclaimed Chemsex at VICE last year.
Roger is one of the world’s leading documentary makers, renowned for his pioneering work focusing on criminality and social issues and empowering emerging talent. He is the only documentary maker to be given a BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Fellowship.
Editor / BBC 3
Session:
Writing with Light: The Art of Cinematography, p.127
Documentary Maker / Zinc Media
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Commissioning: Shorts for all Platforms, p.142
Neil Grant
Managing director / Films of Record
Johannes Grenzfurthner
An award-winning executive producer, Neil’s been in TV since 1989. Credits include: Your Child in Their Hands; The Murder Detectives; Brett: A Life with No Arms; Three Days that Shook Paris; Don’t Cap My Benefits; Greggs: More than Meats the Pie; Fish Town; Hotel (Adelphi); Fighting the War; The Oklahoma Bomber; and The Boys That Killed Stephen Lawrence.
Johannes is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, writer and researcher. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of art and theory group monochrom. He directed the sci-fi comedy Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl and the documentary Traceroute. Among other projects, he is head of Ars Elektronika in San Francisco and Roboexotica in Vienna.
Sessions:
The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch, p.142 How to Document the World’s Biggest News..., p.135
Talks & Sessions
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Alternate Realities
Director & Photographer
Marketplace
Commissioning Editor, Multiplatform & Online Video (Factual) / Channel 4
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Schedule
Artist & Producer
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Managing Director / Halo
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Docs on Cops, p.138
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Context Hacking: A Performance Lecture by Johannes Grenzfurthner, p.135
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Artist & Filmmaker / monochrom
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Jel Groman
Yoav Gross
Jel is Co-founder and Executive Creative Director at Firecracker Films and has led the company’s Branded Entertainment output since day one. Jel has built relationships with leading global agencies and has led Firecracker to become a company at the forefront of the content revolution.
Yoav is a documentary filmmaker and human rights activist. He has directed various unique media projects aimed to document and expose human rights violations, among them the awardwinning B’Tselem Camera Project. His documentary work has been screened at film festivals worldwide including Berlinale, Hot Docs, IDFA and more.
Executive Creative Director / Firecracker Films
Documentary Filmmaker and Human Rights Activist / B’Tselem
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Does it Matter Who Funds My Film? Making Branded Documentaries, p.136
Annabel Grundy
Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace
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Archives & Copyright: A Beginner’s Guide, p.133
Director & Producer / True Vision Aire
Lindsey Hanlon
Anna is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and has directed numerous documentaries for national television. She has worked for C4, BBC1, 2 and 3 and ITV1. Her most recent ‘Cop’ credits include: Behind Closed Doors (BBC1, 2016); Forced Marriage Cops (C4, 2015); and The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs (C4, 2013).
Lindsey has led on a number of pioneering artists’ projects commissioned by BBC Scotland Arts including: Art Screen, an arts documentary film festival; Artists and Archive, an artist residency and commission based in the BBC archives; and last year launched the first ever BBC Scotland Poet in Residence.
Parties & Social
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Alternate Realities Summit: Androids, Robots and Avatars Live, p.108
Project Lead / BBC Scotland Arts
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Docs on Cops, p.138
Oli Harbottle
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Innovation in Archive, p.128
Emma Hardie
Head of Distribution / Dogwoof
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Born in Lodz, Poland in 1932, Pinchas was seven when his family was forced to flee their home and relocate to Warsaw. In the years that followed, he managed to survive in six different concentration camps. He now travels frequently giving lectures about his incredible life story.
Anna Hall
Oli has been at Dogwoof since 2006 and was part of the original team who made the decision to specialise in documentaries. As Head of Distribution, he is responsible for acquisitions and overseeing all film releases.
Between Activism and Extremism: Storytelling for Change, p.138
Pinchas Gutter
Producer & Programmer
A seasoned film festival producer, programmer, production manager in both Australia and the UK, Annabel delivers industry engagement programmes across the UK creative economy and was recently appointed producer of the Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, an inaugural celebration of digital technology and live arts taking place in Edinburgh in August 2016.
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Senior Strategy Consultant / Monitor Deloitte
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How to get Your Theatrical Doc Funded and Distributed, p.135
Emma is a Senior Strategy Consultant at Monitor Deloitte, working with international broadcasters, pay-TV providers and distributors, to define and develop their content and commercial strategies. Prior to this, Emma worked across development, production and postproduction on major film and TV titles with some of the UK’s leading indies.
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Into the Land of VOD: How I Tried to Contact Netflix, p.140
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Hugh Harris
Simon Hattenstone
Our BBC, Our Channel 4: A Future for Public Service Television?, p.145
Helen Hawken
John Hay
Helen is Vice President of Production and Development, Factual, for Discovery Networks International (DNI), a division of Discovery Communications, the premier pay-TV programmer in the world. Hawken develops and commissions both natural history and factual productions for Discovery Networks.
John’s arts slate includes Our Gay Wedding: The Musical, Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, The Vote and the recently expanded Random Acts short film strand, but he also commissions more broadly across Specialist Factual with projects including Channel 4’s coverage of Richard III’s discovery and reburial, Walking the Nile, and D-Day: As It Happens.
Ronnie O’Sullivan in Conversation, p.140
IBT Climate Change Pitch, p.143
Tom Heap
Rural Affairs Correspondent / BBC
Theresa Heath
Tom presents the investigations on Countryfile – Britain’s most popular factual TV programme. He is also the principal voice of Costing the Earth on BBC Radio 4. He was the presenter of the long running BBC1 daytime series Animal 24:7 which remains popular with regular repeats.
Theresa is a PhD candidate at King’s College, London, researching queer and women’s cinema and film festivals. She is producer and founder of the Wotever DIY Film Festival, which has been running since 2012 and showcases no- and low-budget film from the LGBTQIA community.
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Commissioning: Arts Documentaries, p.141 Commissioning: Shorts for All Platforms, p.142
PhD Candidate / Kings College, London
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How to Pitch your Climate Change Idea, p.141 The IBT Climate Change Pitch, p.143
Chris Hegedus Filmmaker
Birgit Heidsiek
Chris has directed, shot, and edited films for four decades. In 2002 she was awarded the prestigious DGA Award for Startup.com. With D.A. Pennebaker she directed the 1992 Oscar-nominated The War Room, Emmy Award-winning Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Town Bloody Hall, Moon Over Broadway, Depeche Mode, Kings of Pastry, and Unlocking the Cage (p.56).
Birgit, a graduate in political science and journalism, has 25 years of experience covering the film and media industry for national and international media. She is the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Green Film Shooting, an independent magazine for sustainable film and media production that presents new approaches to green production methods.
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New Genderation: Documentary and Revolution in Gender and Sexuality, p.139
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Commissioning Editor, Arts / Channel 4
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Simon is a journalist with The Guardian. He has interviewed numerous stars from Banksy to Pele, Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Serena Williams and Henry Kissinger. His story last year about the death of young Conservative activist Elliott Johnson led to the resignation of cabinet minister Grant Shapps.
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief / Green Film Shooting
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D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock, p.131
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Documentary Film Production Goes Green, p.142
Parties & Social
Hugh previously worked for the HM Treasury, the No 10 Policy Unit, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, NM Rothschild & Sons, the Confederation of British Industry and the Economist. He earned an MPA at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar and a BA Hons in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Journalist / The Guardian
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Director of Media, International, Gambling & Creative Industries / Department for Culture, Media & Sport
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Mark Herbert
Anna Higgs
Mark is joint CEO of Sheffield-based Warp Films. Now in its 11th year, Warp is known for its multi-award-winning films and television and is hailed as one of the UK’s most critically acclaimed independent film production companies.
In 2016 Anna was appointed Creative Director of NOWNESS, the innovative online platform programming across art, design, fashion, beauty, music, food and travel. Prior to this, Anna was Head of Film4.0, the ground-breaking innovation banner for Film4.
Films
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Producer & CEO / Warp Films
Creative Director / NOWNESS
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Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square p.147
John Hoffman
Tracie Holder
Through Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel, John oversees all development activities for documentaries and specials, produces original documentary programming from development through production, commissions and acquires films and specials and is responsible for developing cross-platform programming.
An award-winning filmmaker, fundraiser and engagement specialist, Tracie has raised nearly $2 million from numerous funding bodies and is considered an expert in funding proposals. She is a consultant to many prestigious organisations including Women Make Movies, Active Voice, EDN, Scottish Documentary Institute and the Made in NY Media Center.
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Executive Vice President, Documentaries and Specials / Discovery Channel
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How to Get Your Theatrical Doc Funded and Distributed, p.135
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Roadmap to Film Funding Success: Unlocking the Mysteries of Grant Proposals, p.141
Development Producer & Writer / Gilded Lily
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Commissioning: Singles, Specials and Series, p.136
Daisy-May Hudson
Karen writes the blog reasonably adjustedtv.com. She has been a Creative Diversity Network senior mentee, and is a graduate of Doc/Fest’s Fast Track to Features scheme. Her credits include The Leopard Son (Discovery), Water, the Drop of Life (UNESCO) and Dallas DNA (Investigation Discovery). Karen has the disabling condition ME.
Anita Hugi
Producer & Director / VICE
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Karen Hoy
Head of Documentaries / BBC
Daisy filmed her family’s experiences of living in a homeless hostel throughout 2013 and successfully raised £10,000 on Indiegogo, which she used to turn 250 hours of raw footage into the feature length documentary Half Way. She has written for publications including The Times, Independent, The Debrief and VICE, and is currently writing a feature length screenplay.
Commissioning: Shorts for all Platforms, p.142 Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square, p.147
Filmmaker
Patrick Holland
Patrick leads one of the biggest commissioning teams at the BBC, overseeing a huge range of output, from Bake Off to observational series The Detectives (BBC2) and The Met (BBC1). The documentaries team commissions across all four BBC channels, from Storyville (BBC4) to the BAFTA awardwinning Life and Death Row (BBC3).
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Producer & Author / Swiss Radio and Television Channel SRF
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Breaking In: A Guide for Film Industry Entrants, p.126
Anita is a producer and author at the Swiss radio and television channel SRF, heading a weekly programme of arts and culture documentaries. Since 2016, she mainly works as an independent author and co-signs the interactive project DADA-DATA.
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A Reasonably Adjusted Debate: Disability On and Off Screen, p.131
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Christian Humborg
Amanda Huntley
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Evidence Based Storytelling, p.137
Huntley Film Archives bills itself as a social history archive, films of the lives of ordinary people around the world, doing ordinary things: working, at leisure and with the family. Amanda brings her historian’s mind to the subject, working with film as a historic primary source. The archive offer a full commercial service to all media producers.
Philip Ilson
Marie James
Philip co-founded London Short Film Festival in 2004. He is also the short film programmer for the BFI London Film Festival, and has worked as a freelance programmer, including at the East End Film Festival (London), Cork Film Festival (Ireland), Latitude music festival, and at Curzon Soho Cinema.
With a background in broadcast television production and extensive digital content experience, Marie focusses on using digital tools to directly engage audiences. Focusing largely on factual programming (history, science and current affairs), Marie commissions online experiences designed to enhance audience understanding of programme topics.
The Guardian Documentaries Pitch, p.139
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Beyond YouTube: What Can the ‘Other’ Digital Platforms Offer Filmmakers, p.130
Rachel Job
Senior Producer & Director / Vice
Director of Programming, History & H2 / A+E Networks UK
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The VICE Rule Britannia, p.133
Rachel is Director of Programming, History & H2, for A+E Networks UK and is responsible for acquired and commissioned content for both channels across the UK, Scandinavia, Benelux, Central and Eastern Europe, SubSaharan Africa and the Middle East.
Kirsten Johnson Filmmaker
Dan Jones
Kirsten’s Cameraperson (p.33) premiered at Sundance in 2016. Her work as a cinematographer appears in Oscar-winning Citizen Four, Academy Award-nominated The Invisible War, Tribeca Best Documentary Featurewinner Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Fahrenheit 9/11, Academy Awardnominated Asylum, This Film is Not Yet Rated and Derrida.
Dan has produced more than 100 hours of original YouTube content, generating more than 100 million views, alongside being an executive producer on shows ranging from BBC3’s Rise of the Superstar Vloggers to Channel 4’s interactive format Embarrassing Bodies. Productions overseen by Dan have generated four BAFTAs, two Emmys and seven RTS awards.
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Commissioning: Specialist Factual, p.138 The University of Sheffield Presents:, p.145
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Alternate Realities
Producer / Channel 4
Rhys James
Rhys is a supervising producer and director at VICE UK. Starting his career as a journalist and photographer, Rhys moved into documentary and film in 2009, working on VICE’s fledgling online channel VBS.TV, which later became the flagship VICE.com website.
Archives & Copyright: A Beginners Guide p.133
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Artistic Director / London Short Film Festival
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Director of Content / Little Dot Studio
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Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media, p.138 Writing With Light..., p.127
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Vlogs Vs Docs: Tale of Our Time, p.127
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Christian is Executive Director of the non-profit investigative newsroom Correctiv.org. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Whistleblower Network and the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International Germany.
Archive Film Consultant / Huntley Film Archive
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Executive Director / Correct!v
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Christoph Jörg
KG Tha Comedian
Christoph has been producing and commissioning documentaries for over 20 years. He worked as Commissioning Editor for ZDF in Germany and ARTE France in Paris. He founded Pumpernickel Films in 2009.
KG Tha Comedian is an experienced entertainer, presenter and TV personality. He’s an infectious viral YouTuber, a Channel 4 short’s maker, a BBC Radio 1Xtra comedy club stand-up comedian, a canine mind reader, a roller skating rapper who killed Harry Potter and a science journalist? He is diversity on crack.
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Producer / Pumpernickel Films
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Comedian & Filmmaker
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Nino Kirtadze: The Fine Line Between Fact..., p.136 The French Connection: ..., p.134
Margy Kinmonth
Producer & Director / Foxtrot Films
Nino Kirtadze
A BAFTA and RTS Award-winning producer/director, Margy’s most recent credits include the cinema documentaries Hermitage Revealed, Royal Paintbox and War Art with Eddie Redmayne. Her new cinema documentary Revolution, about the artists of the 1917 Russian revolution will be in cinemas worldwide in Autumn 2016.
An Academy Award-winning director, Nino was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her films deal with controversial subjects, placing the accent on the underlying human drama. Her films have won international acclaim and numerous prestigious prizes at festivals worldwide. She also works with different national and international organisations as a consultant, jury, lecturer and tutor.
Minority Report: Diversity in Documentary, p.130
Director
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Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience, p.132
Valerie Kleeman
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Nino Kirtadze: The Fine Line Between Fact and Fiction, p.136
Ingrid Kopp
Founder / Whicker’s World Foundation Valerie was Alan Whicker’s partner in life and work for over 40 years. Valerie was always in Whicker’s World, they travelled everywhere together. She was his photographer and sounding board and got the clearest idea of the maverick mind beneath his gentlemanly disguise.
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Senior Consultant, Interactive / Tribeca Film Institute
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The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch, p.142
Ingrid is a Senior Consultant in the Interactive Department at the Tribeca Film Institute. She also curates Storyscapes at the Tribeca Film Festival. She is based in Cape Town where she is working on a virtual reality project for African creators and audiences.
Dan Korn
Creative Director / STV Productions
Philippa Kowarsky
Dan joined STV last August from Discovery, where, for ten years, he was Head of Programming and Production for UK and Western Europe. Since joining STV, he has been running a major AFP factual entertainment series for Channel 5, developing a number of projects with Group M Entertainment and pitching a number of factual projects to US Networks.
In 1997 Philippa established Cinephil, an international sales and consultancy firm with a well-established reputation for securing distribution deals and financing for documentaries from around the world on behalf of film producers and directors. With a reputation for selling unique, award-winning films, Cinephil also acts as a strategic advisor, co-producer and executive producer.
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Commissioning: Shorts..., p.142 Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy, p.141
Managing Director / Cinephil
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The University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea, p.145
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Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy, p.141
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German Kral
Ulrike Kubatta
German was born in 1968 in Buenos Aires and moved to Germany in 1991 to study film at the Munich Film School. His documentary features include Images of the Absence (1999), Bernd Eichinger — When Life Becomes Film (2000), That’s Life (2002), Música Cubana (2004) and The Last Applause (2009). Our Last Tango (p.60, 2015) is his latest film.
Ulrike is a London-based awardwinning producer/director and is currently in advanced pre-production of her second feature documentary Every Boy Wants a Toy Gun. The film is coproduced by Andre Singer (Spring Films) and Joram Ten Brink (DocWest), whose most recent credits include The Act of Killing and Night Will Fall.
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I Do It My Way: Directors Talk About Their Work, p.132
Olly Lambert Producer & Director
Jago Lee
Olly has made over 30 films for Channel 4 and the BBC, most recently Abused: The Untold Story about the events and aftermath of the Savile revelations. Other credits include Mum and Dad are Splitting Up and Syria: Across The Lines, which won 10 awards including a BAFTA and an Emmy.
Jago is an award-winning executive producer of factual series and formats and the Managing Director of NERD TV, which he co-founded in 2010 and is now part of global super-indie group Red Arrow. Has has also held senior creative roles at several Top 10 UK indies including Tiger Aspect and Optomen.
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Is Documentary Relevant in a World with Information at your Fingertips?, p.129
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Ralph Lee
Deputy Chief Creative Officer / Channel 4
Lucy Leveugle
Ralph is Deputy Chief Creative Officer at Channel 4, and has been a Factual Commissioning Head since 2008. He commissions documentaries and specialist factual programmes including Gogglebox, 24 Hours in A&E and Guy Martin’s Speed. Ralph leads on short form commissioning for digital platforms and oversees the Creative Diversity and Nations and Regions teams.
Lucy has worked as Commissioning Editor in the Factual Entertainment department at Channel 4 since 2012, commissioning series such as Child Genius, Kitchen Impossible with Michel Roux Jr. and the award-winning The Undateables. She also commissions pop singles such as Inside the Ku Klux Klan, The Billion Pound Hotel and the forthcoming event Stripped (working title).
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The University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea, p.145
Commissioning Editor / Channel 4
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The Channel 4 Interview: Michael Moore, p.134 Our BBC, Our Channel 4:..., p.145.
Mat Levy
Cat Lewis
Mat has been acquiring and selling documentaries for Passion River Films since 2004, specialising in educational, major VOD and physical home video distribution. Mat attends most major markets and film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, Tribeca, AFM, IDFA, CPH:DOX and Hot Docs; as well as retail and library trade shows.
Cat is an executive producer who runs her own independent production company, Nine Lives Media, specialising in factual programme making. She is passionate about producing factual shows for children and has made eight films for the CBBC My Life strand including I Am Leo, which recently won the BAFTA for Best Children’s Factual.
Commissioning: Factual Entertainment, p.144
CEO & Executive Producer / Nine Lives Media
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Into the Land of VOD: How I Tried to Contact Netflix, p.140
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A Place At The Table: Why Documentaries for Kids Matter, p.144
Parties & Social
Senior Director Sales & Acquisitions / Passion River Films
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Documentary and Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide, p.132
Marketplace
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Managing Director / NERD TV
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Kathleen Lingo
Helen Littleboy
Kathleen is the executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning New York Times Op-Doc series. Since joining Op-Docs in 2013, she has worked on over 100 short films by directors such as Errol Morris, Laura Poitras and Roger Ross Williams.
Helen is a Grierson-nominated director, award-winning producer and executive producer. Helen was Executive Producer for Channel 4’s popular fixed rig comedy documentary series The Hotel. She has supported new talent as Executive Producer on ten films for First Cut and overseen acclaimed single documentaries for Channel 4’s flagship Cutting Edge strand.
Executive Producer
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Executive Producer / The New York Times
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Docs in the Newsroom, p.144
Bertrand Loyer
Joanna Lumley
Bertrand has directed more than 20 science and wildlife films and produced more than 75 other. Among them are three episodes of the Life on Fire series and the 4K documentary Giant Sea Serpent, Meet the Myth, which allows for the first time the scientific study of the world’s largest bony fish.
Joanna is probably best known on television for her hugely popular role of Patsy in award-winning BBC series Absolutely Fabulous. Since then she has appeared in many other documentaries, most recently travelling on the TransSiberian Railway and another on Elvis Presley. She has written five books, has an extensive theatre career and was awarded an OBE in the 1995 New Year Honours.
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Channel 4 First Cut Pitch, p.137
Actor & Presenter
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The Hype About 4K, p.130
Charlie Lyne Filmmaker
Kez Margrie
Charlie is a filmmaker and film critic living in London. His first film Beyond Clueless premiered at SXSW 2014 and was released the following year. His second, Fear Itself, debuted on the BBC iPlayer in 2015. This year, his ten-hour protest film Paint Drying received worldwide attention. As a critic, Lyne writes a weekly column for The Guardian and festival coverage for Sight & Sound.
Kez looks after a portfolio of factual entertainment formats made by independent companies for CBBC (the BBC’s multiplatform content for 6-12-year-olds). These include the BAFTA award-winning My Life and Operation Ouch! series as well as Our School and RTS award-winning Ice Stars.
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The Absolutely Adventurous Joanna Lumley in Conversation, p.133
Commissioning Executive Producer, Independents / BBC
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Breaking In: A Guide for Film Industry Entrants, p.126
Jane Martinson
Head of Media / The Guardian
Morgan Matthews
Jane is the Head of Media of The Guardian and former women’s editor. She read English at Cambridge and attended City University’s journalism school before starting her career at the South Wales Echo in Cardiff. She worked at the Financial Times before joining The Guardian in May 1999 as a Wall Street correspondent.
A BAFTA-winning director, Morgan has established a distinctive style as a documentary director and as a director of drama after his feature film debut X+Y. Morgan founded Minnow Films in 2006 and directed The Fallen, described by the BBC as the most ambitious single documentary they had ever commissioned.
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A Place at the Table: Why Documentaries for Kids Matter, p.144
Producer & Director / Minnow Films
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Our BBC, our Channel 4. A Future for Public Service Television?, p.145
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What Makes a Feature Doc? Directors Discuss, p.139
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Joseph Maxwell
Commissioning Editor / SBS
Sophie Mayer
Prior to SBS, Joseph developed, directed and produced high-end prime time documentaries for most major UK broadcasters. In Australia, credits include, Dirty Business: How Mining Made Australia and Who Do You Think You Are. He also has a series of new international co-productions in both science and history.
Sophie is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015) and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (Wallflower, 2009). She is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, The F-Word and Literal, and works with queer feminist film curators Club des Femmes and industry campaigners Raising Films.
Minority Report: Diversity in Documentary, p.130
Simon McCallum
Curator / BFI Mediatheques
Annabel McCleod
Since joining the BFI in 2005, Simon has worked closely on the launch and programming of BFI Mediatheques around the UK and developed the BFI’s first YouTube channel. He is currently lead curator for several projects within the BFI’s major new digitisation scheme, and helps develop the BFI National Archive’s presence across the organisation’s digital platforms.
Annabel has developed interactive campaigns for many primetime UK channels. She’s worked on diverse programming ranging from MDMA to dating, youth unemployment and baking. Annabel focusses on closing the gap between linear programming and digital platforms. Recent credits include BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated Don’t Stop the Music.
Tardis Docs: Telling Deceptively Big Stories in Tiny Online Spaces, p.137
Katy McGahan Curator / BFI
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The University of Sheffield Presents:How to Pitch Your Climate Change Idea, p.145
Katy is BFI’s Curator, specialising in documentary film. Her main specialism is the history of the British documentary from the 1920s to the present. Other areas of specialism include the history of official films, in particular the work of the Central Office of Information.
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BAFTA Masterclass: Working with Archive, p.127
Elizabeth McIntyre
Jordan McGarry
Alternate Realities
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Archives & Copyright: A Beginners Guide, p.133
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Head of Commissioning, Natural History and Specialist Factual / BBC
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Commissioning: Shorts for All Platforms, p.142
Prior to becoming CEO of Doc/Fest, Elizabeth was Head of Production and Development at Factual Discovery UK, and Factual Commissioner for Discovery Networks International. An awardwinning documentarian and Head of Documentary Campus Masterschool, she sits on the Board of Women in Film & Television and the BAFTA TV Committee.
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The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch, p.142
Parties & Social
CEO & Festival Director / Sheffield Doc/Fest
Director, Curation / Vimeo Jordan is Vimeo’s Director of Curation, heading the team that programmes the site’s illustrious Staff Picks channel, the Vimeo On Demand homepage and its new Curated Categories, ensuring that the site’s 170 million monthly visitors can always find something to entertain their eyeballs.
Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media, p.138
Executive Producer / Love Productions
Tom McDonald
Tom is Head of Commissioning for Natural History and Specialist Factual Formats. Tom’s previous commissioning credits include Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, An Hour to Save Your Life, Scrappers and the new BBC1 science strand The Truth About…
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Author & Co-founder / Raising Films
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Liz Mermin
Peter Middleton
Director of Visual / Thomson Reuters Foundation Liz has been directing documentaries for almost twenty years, specialising in character-driven features about global society and culture, human and otherwise. As Director of Visual at the Thomson Reuters Foundation she works with a team of producers and journalists to make online shorts about underreported humanitarian stories worldwide.
Director
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Good Intentions Vs Good Viewing: What Happens When Doc-Makers Join Non-Profits, p.136
Nick Mirsky
Margaux Missika
Nick joined Channel 4 in 2012 from the BBC as Deputy Head of Factual and in 2013 was promoted to Head of Documentaries. In addition to working across the whole documentary output with the team, he has commissioned new singles and series including First Dates, Educating the East End, Benefits Street and Cyberbully.
After her studies in economy, English and business, Margaux gained experience in IT at Brainsonic. In 2010 she joined UPIAN, where she produces online audiovisual productions, such as Happy World, Manipulations, Prison Valley, Alma, A Tale of Violence and Génération quoi? She is currently launching the European version Generation What?
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Head of Documentaries / Channel 4
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Commissioning: Singles, Specials and Series, p.136
Choy Lin Mok
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Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, a Film & VR..., p.141 What Makes a Feature Doc?..., p.139
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The Kids Are Alright: Creating Public TV Programmes for a Forgotten Audience, p.129
Michael Moore
VP Network Programming and Promotions / Channel NewsAsia Choy Lin has over 20 years of experience in the broadcast industry in Asia. She has worked with the top filmmakers in Asia and has extensive knowledge of co-production partners throughout the region. As Vice President of International Production for Channel NewsAsia, she spearheads regional programming at the channel.
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Minority Report: Diversity in Documentary, p.130
Michael was born in Flint, Michigan and worked as a journalist before turning to documentary filmmaking. His film Fahrenheit 9/11 won the Palme d’Or and FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Michael returns to Sheffield with what may be his most provocative and hilarious film yet, Where to Invade Next (p.29).
Gillian Moreton
Fiona Morris
Gill is a therapist at the Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress in Edinburgh and has worked alongside people affected by trauma for 20 years. She is in the board of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and the Dart Centre Europe which provides training and support for journalists and filmmakers dealing with trauma.
Fiona is Chief Executive and Creative Director at The Space, a commissioning and development organisation founded by BBC and Arts Council England. She develops and commissions art, digitally supporting artists to utilise technology by increasing the reach of existing work, opening up art to new audiences and exploring artistic experiences using new technology.
Therapist / Rivers Centre for Traumatic Stress
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With collaborator James Spinney, Peter has co-directed a range of creative documentary projects. Their Emmyaward winning short Notes on Blindness (2014) preceded the feature film (p.35) and VR experience (p.120) of the same name. Both projects have their UK Premiere at Doc/Fest 2016.
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The Channel 4 Interview: Michael Moore, p.134
Chief Executive and Creative Director / The Space
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Documentary and Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide, p.132
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Arts Commissioning for Gallery and Online Spaces, p.126
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Tony Morris
Anne Morrison
Archives and Copyright: A Beginners Guide, p.133
Al Morrow
Sarah Mosses
Al is an award-winning producer at Met Film Production who has produced or executive produced over a dozen feature documentaries. Her latest film is Sour Grapes (Netflix, Arte, VPRO) directed by Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas which will have its UK Premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest this year (p.37).
Sarah works with documentary filmmakers to improve their impact objectives upon distribution. She encourages filmmakers to expand their distribution options and source new types of funding.
Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience, p.132
Maureen Murray
Tim provides analysis and insight for all companies involved in the online video space, from TV broadcasters through to production companies, technology vendors and online video services. His research encompasses the entire online video economy including streaming services, short form strategy, cord cutting, video subscriptions and ad supported models.
An award-winning producer, Maureen is a founding member of Women in Film & Television and specialises in international co-production. She executive produced Foxtrot Films’ recent feature documentary Hermitage Revealed, which has been screened in over 32 countries worldwide to date.
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Beyond YouTube: What Can the ‘Other’ Digital Platforms Offer Filmmakers, p.130
Producer / Foxtrot Films
Senior Analyst / MIDiA Research
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Into the Land of VOD: How I Tried to Contact Netflix, p.140
Jezza Neumann
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Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience, p.132
Sheila Nevins
Producer & Director / True Vision Productions
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Alternate Realities
CEO / Together Films
Tim Mulligan
Jezza worked as a production manager before directing his first film, China’s Stolen Children in 2006, winning three British Academy Awards. This success has been followed by a number of award-winning films including BAFTAwinning Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children.
Docs on Cops, p.138
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Producer / Met Film
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Anne is Chair of BAFTA, a Governor of University of the Arts London, Board Member of London & Partners and Trustee of the Charleston Trust. Previously she was the director of the BBC Academy, the BBC’s centre for training, and Controller, Documentaries and Contemporary Factual at the BBC.
President / HBO Documentary Films
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Surviving Danger Zone Docs, p.128. Good Intentions Vs Good Viewing:..., p.136
Sheila is an American television producer and the President of HBO Documentary Films. She has produced over 1,000 documentary films for HBO. She has worked on productions that have been recognised with 59 Emmy Awards, 31 Peabody Awards and 21 Academy Awards. Nevins has won 29 individual Primetime Emmy Awards, more than any other person.
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In Conversation with HBO’s Sheila Nevins, p.143
Parties & Social
Tony heads the Media Law Group at Marriott Harrison. He is retained by film and television producers, film sales agents, satellite and online broadcasters, record companies and music publishers, musicians and bands, talent agents and managers, as well as individual creatives.
Chair / BAFTA
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Head of Media and IP Law / Marriot Harrison
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Erinma Ochu
Helen O’Donnell
Erinma is Creative Director of Squirrel Nation and a lecturer in transmedia and science communication. Squirrel Nation develop and produce interactive projects ranging from games to artistic installations and live events. Trained originally as a neuroscientist, she made the transition to working in broadcast and interactive with support from NESTA and Wellcome Trust.
Helen serves as Marketing Manager for the UK Consumer products division of BBC Worldwide, overseeing comedy, entertainment and factual brands, including British well-loved favourites like BBC Earth and Top Gear.
Films
Schedule
Creative Director / Squirrel Nation
Marketing Manager / BBC
Session:
Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square, p.146–147
Claire O’Neill
Ronnie O’Sullivan OBE
Claire is one of three producers for Half Way, a documentary about hidden homelessness in the UK. Half Way is the first feature length documentary by Beehive Films, of which she is a founding director. Alongside documentary producing, Claire produces theatre. Claire is Business Affairs Manager at Audible UK, where she acquires content.
Ronnie O’Sullivan – the some might say maverick, all would say phenomenally gifted player – has won five World Championship titles at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre. Ronnie the Rocket has always been both an incredible player to watch and a fascinating public figure to follow in the modern world of sport.
Parties & Social
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Producer / Beehive Films
170
Session:
What’s a TV Channel Granddad? How We’ll Be Watching Docs in the Future, p.129
Snooker Player
Session:
Breaking In: A Guide for Film Industry Entrants, p.126
Louise Osmond Director
Wendie Ottewill
Her recent work includes Dark Horse, winner of the International Documentary Audience Award at Sundance 2015 and BIFA for Best Documentary. Other work includes the BAFTA-nominated, RTSwinning Richard III – The King in the Car Park, Deep Water, The Beckoning Silence, winner of an International Emmy and Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (p.31)
Wendie oversees video content for the youth media brand across VICE’s digital channels including VICE.COM, MUNCHIES, Noisey, Motherboard, Broadly and VICE Sports. Previously, Wendie was a multiaward-winning programme maker with 10 years’ series producing and 15 years’ directing experience for broadcasters including the BBC and Channel 4.
Session:
Ronnie O’Sullivan in Conversation, p.140
Executive Producer, Digital Programming / VICE UK
Session:
What Makes a Feature Doc? Directors Discuss, p.139
George Pank
Producer & Founder / PANK
Maria Panagiotidi
George is an award-winning producer and founder of UK/Australian production company PANK. His most recent work is Oscar-winning Amy, directed by Asif Kapadia, which he co-produced alongside long-time producing partner James Gay-Rees. George’s previous film, All This Mayhem, directed by Eddie Martin, won Best Independent Film of 2014 on iTunes UK.
At Arctic Shores, a Manchester-based start-up designing science-driven games to measure personality traits, Maria translates findings from applied psychology, behavioural economics and cognitive neuroscience to mobile games. She completed a PhD in Psychology at the University of Sheffield. Research interests include cognitive psychology/neuroscience, gamification, big data and creativity.
Session:
The VICE Rule Britannia Pitch, p.133
Research Psychologist / Arctic Shores
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The VICE Rule Britannia Pitch, p.133
Session:
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
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Francesca Panetta
Tom Parnell
A virtual reality pioneer, awardwinning sound artist and journalist, Francesca has recently produced 6x9: An Immersive Experience of Solitary Confinement (p.117), a VR project addressing the need for prison reform showing at Doc/Fest this year. She’s become an international lead on digital storytelling and innovation in audio.
Tom is a sound engineer with 15 years of experience broadcasting music, drama and speech on the BBC’s radio networks. He works on documentaries for BBC Radio 4, outside broadcasts like BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking, and his orchestral and chamber music balances take him to concert halls across the UK.
Session:
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Paul Pauwels
Robert Penn
EDN Director Paul has produced international documentaries and was a commissioning editor for Flemish Public Television. As a member of the selection committee for documentaries for the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, he has tutored workshops and pitching sessions in over 30 countries.
Robert is a writer, photographer and broadcaster. He is a frequent columnist in UK national newspapers and has written widely on such subjects as cycling, travel and the British woodlands. In 2014 he travelled around Britain in a fish and chip van with Freddie Flintoff, making a six-part series for Sky 1.
Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch, p.142
D.A. Pennebaker Filmmaker
Magali Pettier
A cinéma vérité pioneer and recipient of an Academy Honorary Award, D.A. collaborated with Drew Associates on the revolutionary Living Camera series, including Primary. He developed one of the first portable 16mm synchronized camera/sound rigs. His classics Don’t Look Back (p.55) and Monterey Pop (p.56) defined the rock film genre.
Magali is the Founder and Director of Provenance Films. Her debut indie feature length documentary, Addicted to Sheep, about a tenant hill farming family who live 1,300 feet above sea level in the North Pennines, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2015 and has since toured nationally and internationally.
Session:
Freddie Flintoff & Robert Penn Talk Docs & Chips, p.140
Founder and Director / Provenance Films
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D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock, p.131
Charlie Phillips
Ruth Pitt
Charlie is Head of Documentaries at The Guardian, commissioning and acquiring new short documentaries from all around the world. Charlie was previously Deputy Director at Sheffield Doc/Fest for seven years before joining The Guardian in 2014. Prior to that, he was Editor of FourDocs for Channel 4.
Ruth is an executive producer, journalist and writer. Previous posts include Head of Factual Programmes at Tiger Aspect Productions, Creative Director of Documentaries for BBC Religion and Ethics, and Executive Director of the funding body Screen England. She is BAFTA-nominated and awards include Royal Television Society, Broadcast Production and an International Emmy.
Breaking In: A Guide for Film Industry Entrants, p.126
Executive Producer
Sessions:
Commissioning: Shorts..., p.142 Docs in the Newsroom, p.144 The Guardian Docs Pitch, p.139
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Commissioning: Specialist Factual, p.138
Parties & Social
Head of Documentaries / The Guardian
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Talks & Sessions
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Alternate Realities
Writer & Presenter
Marketplace
Director / European Documentary Network
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Schedule
Research Studio Manager / BBC
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Special Projects Editor / The Guardian
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Rebekah Polding
Alisa Pomeroy
Rebekah recently joined BAFTA as the inaugural Director of Archive, Heritage and Exhibitions. Previously, she established London’s Screen Archives as a thriving virtual regional film archive, with successes including a cinema release of a compilation of archive films of London and the creation of an archive screening ‘KinoVan’.
Alisa is a BAFTA-nominated documentary filmmaker who now commissions Channel 4’s flagship documentary strand, Cutting Edge, as well as the 10pm documentary series. She has made documentaries for all four BBC channels, including two films for the Wonderland documentary strand.
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Schedule
Director, Archive, Heritage & Exhibitions
Commissioning Editor / Channel 4
Session:
Innovation in Archive, p.128
Dawn Porter
Steve Presence
Dawn is a documentary filmmaker whose first feature, Gideon’s Army, won the Sundance Film Festival Editing Award in 2013 and later broadcast on HBO. Dawn’s other films have appeared on PBS’s Independent Lens, OWN and the Discovery Channel. Her latest project, Trapped, explores the impact of laws regulating abortion clinics in the South.
Steve is a researcher at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. His work focusses on political film culture, documentary and the UK film and television industries. He is a founder member of the Bristol Radical Film Festival and convener of the Radical Film Network.
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Director
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Minority Report: Diversity in Documentary, p.130 I Do It My Way: Directors Talk...,p.132
Ramona Pringle
Lina has worked with VICE as Executive Producer and with Channel 4 as a commissioning editor of documentaries. She was one of the UK’s youngest commissioning editors as Director of Content at Current TV, where she commissioned and exceed 150 plus documentaries and factual entertainment series.
Ramona’s work examines the evolving relationship between people and technology. A faculty member at Ryerson University, she is also the Creative Director of the Transmedia Zone, an incubator for the future of media. Ramona is the writer and director of Avatar Secrets (P.108) and was previously interactive producer of PBS Frontline’s Digital Nation.
Producer
Parties & Social
Session:
Viva la Revolucion: Video Activism and Citizen Journalism, p.128
Digital Content Creator
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The Guardian Documentaries Pitch, p.139
Mark Procter
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Alternate Realities Summit: Androids, Robots and Avatars Live, p.108
Rebecca Prosser
Acting Head of Production and Development, Factual Entertainment / Discovery Networks International
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Channel 4 First Cut Pitch, p.137
Researcher / University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol
Lina Prestwood
Mark develops and produces factual entertainment content for Discovery Networks International’s female flagship channels, including TLC, which reaches more than 393 million subscribers in 191 markets around the globe.
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Director & Journalist
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Commissioning: Factual Entertainment, p.144
Rebecca has produced and directed documentaries focused on organised crime including the international drugs trade, illegal arms smuggling, sex work and maritime piracy. In 2015 she was arrested while filming an investigation in Indonesia and spent several months in prison.
Session:
Surviving Danger Zone Docs, p.128
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Fabrice Puchault
Lord Puttnam
The French Connection: Working with France, p.134
Cassie Quarless
Aysha Rafaele
Cassie is a first-time feature producer/ director and co-director of Generation Revolution (p.61). He studied Digital Anthropology at UCL and has a strong interest in the imagining of, and potential for, radical futures.
As the BBC’s Head of Documentary Production, Aysha has been Executive Producer on some of the BBC’s biggest brands including: The Met: Policing London; Life and Death Row; The Call Centre; factual dramas Don’t Take My Baby and Murdered by My Father; as well as executive producing for Louis Theroux.
Our BBC, Our Channel 4: A Future for Public Service Television?, p.145
Viva la Revolucion: Video Activism and Citizen Journalism, p.128
Sara Ramsden
Ade Rawcliffe
Sara is Commissioning Editor for Specialist Factual at Channel 4, with responsibility for science programmes. Sara’s recent transmissions include The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds, Drugs Live: Cannabis on Trial, and Our Guy in India. She is currently looking after shows being made by Jamie Oliver, Rupert Everett and Guy Martin.
Ade has produced across the BBC and independent sector. Channel 4 credits include: Big Brother; Right to Reply; and The Big Breakfast. As Creative Diversity Manager at Channel 4, Ade implements much of the 360 Degree Diversity Charter, encouraging diversity in production teams and onscreen. In addition to the Rio Paralympics, 2016 is Channel 4’s Year of Disability.
Commissioning Editor, Specialist Factual / Channel 4
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Docs on Cops, p.138
Diversity and Talent Manager / Channel 4
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How to Put Kids on TV: A Channel 4 Masterclass, p.139
Jane Ray
Emma Read
Jane is an award-winning former BBC reporter, documentary producer, trainer, editor and director with credits from BBC Radio 4 to Chinese State Television. She worked with Alan Whicker in the 1990s and got the call last year to set up a new documentary foundation funded by his generous legacy.
An award-winning executive producer and former commissioner, Emma has recently set up Emporium with top independent company Hat Trick. Emma’s recent output includes Harrow: A Very British School (Sky1), Young Vets (BBC2), Climbing Great Buildings (BBC2) and Mud Men (History Channel).
Artistic Director / Whicker’s World Foundation
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A Reasonably Adjusted Debate: Disability On and Off Screen, p.131
Talks & Sessions
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Alternate Realities
Head of Documentary Production / BBC
Marketplace
Producer & Director
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Lord Puttnam is currently chairing ‘A Future for Public Service Television Inquiry’. He is an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire and Midnight Express. He was Deputy Chairman of Channel 4 Television and in 2006 he was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship.
Managing Director / Emporium Productions
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The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch, p.142
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Commissioning: Singles, Specials and Series, p.136 Trust Me, I'm a TV Producer..., p.134
Parties & Social
Fabrice joined France Télévisions in 2005 as Commissioning Editor, then Deputy Director of the Documentary Unit of France 2, the main French broadcaster. He was appointed Secretary General for Programming in 2008. He became Head of the Documentary Department in 2011. He is also a lecturer at Paris I PantheonSorbonne University.
Producer / Labour Peer
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Head of Documentary Department, France 2 / France Télévisions
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Hannah Redler
Seyi Rhodes
Associate Curator in Residence / Open Data Institute Hannah is an independent curator working with international artists and organisations on projects combining art, science, technology and photography. She is also Associate Curator in Residence at the Open Data Institute. Previously, she was Head of Arts Programme at the Science Museum.
Reporter / Channel 4
Session:
Arts Commissioning for Gallery and Online Spaces, p.126
Arash T. Riahi
Eva Rink
Arash, born in Iran, now lives in Austria. He has won more that 60 awards, with work comprised of experimental films (Mississippi), documentaries (Exile Family Movie) and the cross-media project Everyday Rebellion. His feature For a Moment Freedom received 30 international awards and was Austria’s candidate for the 2010 Academy Awards.
As a lead producer for international co-productions at major German documentary film production companies, such as filmtank hamburg, gebrueder beetz filmproduction, ma.ja. de, filmquadrat.dok and now Kobalt Documentary, she has produced a multitude of documentaries for the international market – both for TV and cinema.
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Producer and Dramatic Advisor / Golden Girls Filmproduktion
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Between Activism and Extremism: Storytelling for Change, p.138
Jose F. Rodriguez
Parties & Social
Surviving Danger Zone Docs, p.128
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The Kids Are Alright: Creating Public TV Programmes for a Forgotten Audience, p.129
James Rogan
Director of Documentary Programs / Tribeca Film Institute Jose is the Director of Documentary Programs at the Tribeca Film Institute, where he oversees the growth and funding for the documentary funds and has led the TFI Latin America Fund’s Filmmaker Workshop series. After interning as an assistant to producer Amy Hobby, he became a script/book reader for Overture Films.
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Producer / Kobalt Documentary
Director & Producer / Rogan Productions
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Co-production Possibilities and Festival Culture in Latin America, p.143
An award-winning writer, director and producer, James’ work includes the acclaimed feature documentary Monty Python: The Meaning of Live, BBC2’s Life in the Freezer Cabinet about Iceland Foods and three international feature documentaries for BBC Storyville: Amnesty! When They Are All Free; The Trouble with Pirates; and Blog Wars.
Denman Rooke
Mandy Rose
Denman joined October Films in 1995 as a director, producing specialist factual programmes, observational documentaries and current affairs programmes. In 2004 he became the company’s Managing Director and in 2014, following a period of significant growth, was appointed Executive Chairman.
Mandy is Co-director of i-Docs and Director of the University of the West of England’s Digital Cultures Research Centre. An award-winning TV and interactive producer, during 20 years at the BBC, Mandy oversaw projects including Video Nation and Capture Wales.
Executive Chairman / October Films
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Seyi is a reporter for Channel 4’s critically-acclaimed Unreported World and Dispatches series. Originally from South London, Seyi has reported from danger zones all over the world, from favelas in Brazil and Guatemala to war zones in Ivory Coast and Libya, and undercover in Zimbabwe and Burma.
Sessions:
How to Document the World’s Biggest News..., p.135 Does it Matter Who Funds My Film?..., p.136
Director / i-Docs
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The University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea, p.145
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Docs in the Newsroom, p.144
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Jolyon Rubinstein
Juliana Ruhfus
Jolyon is a filmmaker and performer best known for the BAFTA awardwinning satirical comedy The Revolution Will Be Televised. Jolyon also works as a lead creative at digital agency Don’t Panic London whose online platforms launched his and comedy partner in crime Heydon Prowse’s career.
Juliana is the Senior Presenter on Al Jazeera’s People & Power current affairs and investigative strand. At Doc/Fest 2016, she will showcase her Pirate Fishing - Interactive Investigation and represent Al Jazeera’s growing number of online and transmedia productions.
Sessions:
What’s a TV Channel Granddad? How we’ll ..., p.129 Vlogs Vs Docs: Tales of Our Time, p.127
Jonathan Saccone
Christos Savvides
Jonathan, Anna, toddler Emilia, little Eduardo and their Maltese dogs are a vlogging family from Cork, Ireland. They upload videos every single day, giving an intimate insight into their daily lives to their immense following of almost 1.5 million people.
Christos is a multi-award-winning digital producer, currently overseeing Channel 4’s digital marketing strategy and 4creative.
Docs in the Newsroom, p.144
Vlogs Vs Docs: Tales of Our Time, p.127
Tardis Docs: Telling Deceptively Big Stories in Tiny Online Spaces, p.137
Ed Sayer
Tonje Hessen Schei
At Discovery Networks International, Ed oversees commissions and creates factual content, including series and specials in the male-skewing genres for the company’s London production hub to be broadcast in more than 220 countries including the UK.
Tonje is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has worked with independent documentary since 1996. Tonje is the director of Drone, a film on the secret CIA drone warfare. Drone has won several international awards, and has a successful international release with television broadcasts, theatrical runs and educational screenings globally.
Vice President Production and Development, Factual / Discovery Networks International
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Director & Producer / Ground Productions
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Commissioning: Specialist Factual, p.138 The IBT Climate Change Pitch, p.143
Søren Schumann
Rodney Sewell
After his studies in political sciences and philosophy in Berlin, Søren worked first as an editor and executive producer and then as an author and director for documentaries for several German broadcasters. Since the ‘90s he has been working as a commissioning editor for the RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg). Since 2008 he has been Head of the ARTE Department at the RBB.
Rodney is a freelance documentary film editor. Trained at ABC Australia, he works for European broadcasters and production companies and specialises in long form history, science and natural history productions. He owns and operates a boutique editing facility in Munich, Germany.
Between Activism and Extremism: Storytelling for Change, p.138
Film Editor
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The Kids Are Alright: Creating Public TV Programmes for a Forgotten Audience, p.129
Session:
The Hype About 4K, p.130
Parties & Social
Commissioning Editor / RBB, Germany
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Talks & Sessions
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Alternate Realities
Senior Digital Producer / Channel 4
Marketplace
Vlogger
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Senior Presenter / Al Jazeera
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Filmmaker
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Elhum Shakerifar
Marc Silver
Elhum is an advisor for London Film Festival and a BAFTA-nominated producer working on the intersection between personal and political. She managed the UK theatrical distribution of her recent production A Syrian Love Story, directed by Sean McAllister, which won Doc/Fest’s 2015 Grand Jury Award and was the first BBC Storyville on BBC1.
An award-winning filmmaker, Marc’s first feature length film Who is Dayani Cristal? premiered at Sundance 2013 with his second film 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets following at Sundance 2015. Marc’s rich portfolio includes documentaries, concert visuals, art installations and branding. He is Creative Director of The Filmmaker Fund.
Marketplace
Talks & Sessions
Alternate Realities
Films
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Producer / Postcode Films
Director
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Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience, p.132
Joe Simpson Author
Siobhan Sinnerton
Joe is an author, mountaineer and corporate motivational speaker, renowned for his best-selling book Touching the Void, which told the story of his remarkable fight for survival in the Peruvian Andes 30 years ago. The drama documentary film of Touching the Void won a BAFTA in 2004. He is the protagonist of Burma’s Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson (p.64).
Siobhan commissions Channel 4’s critically-acclaimed foreign affairs series Unreported World, films within the Dispatches strand and one-off documentaries. Recent commissions include Escape from ISIS, Kids in Crisis and Nigeria’s Hidden War. She is Producer/Director of award-winning Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline.
Session:
Surviving Danger Zone Docs, p.128
Parties & Social
Sessions:
Surviving Danger Zone Docs, p.128 How to Document..., p.135. Alternate Realities Summit, p.109
Dr Stephen Smith
Joint Managing Director / betty
Executive Director / USC Shoah Foundation
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Commissioning: Factual Entertainment, p.144
A theologian by training, Dr Smith founded the UK Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England and co-founded the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide. He was also the inaugural Chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, which runs the National Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom.
Liese Spencer
Alastair Stewart OBE
Liese began her journalism career writing about film for publications including Sight and Sound and The Independent. She was Deputy Editor on The Scotsman magazine before joining Weekend as Features Editor in 2006. She has been The Guardian’s Arts Editor since 2013.
Alastair presents a range of news and current affairs programmes on the ITV network including The ITV Evening News and The ITV Lunchtime News. In 2006, he was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his work in broadcasting and for charity.
Arts Editor / The Guardian
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Good Intentions Vs Good Viewing: What Happens When Doc-Makers Join Non-Profits, p.136
Commissioning Editor in News and Current Affairs / Channel 4
Neil Smith
Neil is the joint managing director at betty, where he oversees production and development. betty makes high quality, primetime programmes across all popular factual genres including The Undateables, Bear Grylls: Mission Survive, Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners, Heston’s Great British Food and The Autistic Gardener.
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Alternate Realities Summit: Androids, Robots and Avatars Live, p.108 Innovation in Archive, p.128
Journalist & Newscaster
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Commissioning: Arts Documentaries, p.141
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The Absolutely Adventurous Joanna Lumley in Conversation, p.133
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Francine Stock
Dr Michael Szollosy
Francine is a broadcaster, critic and writer, fronting a range of arts and current affairs programmes for BBC including Newsnight, Front Row and The Film Programme, which she’s presented since 2004. Her published work includes novels, short stories, film criticism and her latest book, In Glorious Technicolor: A Century of Film and How It Has Shaped Us.
Michael is a research fellow in the psychology department at the University of Sheffield. He has a background teaching cultural and literary studies, and regularly writes on the social and cultural impact of robots, artificial intelligence and VR.
Sessions:
D.A, Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock, p.131 Alternate Realities Summit, p.109
Celia Taylor
Kate Townsend
Celia is Head of Non-Scripted Commissioning at Sky Entertainment. Since joining in 2009 she has commissioned Pineapple Dance Studios, Ross Kemp Extreme World, won a BAFTA for Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough and delivered Sky’s highest ever rated series An Idiot Abroad, plus many more.
Kate is Executive Producer for BBC’s international documentary strand, Storyville. She develops and delivers commissions for Storyville, both from the UK and throughout the world. Kate has directed and produced a wide range of factual programmes, including Paddington Green, Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekend and films in the This World and Cutting Edge strands.
Commissioning: Arts Documentaries, p.141
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How to Get Your Theatrical Doc Funded and Distributed, p.135
Dan Tucker
Senior Producer, Film and Cross-media / gebrueder beetz filmproduktion
Editor / iWonder
Sessions:
The Kids Are Alright:..., p.129 A Night of Surveillance:..., p.110
Dan is a digital creative who has been making factual content for television and digital for the last 15 years. He worked on the first BBC VR documentary, Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel (p.118), putting users in the shoes of an eye witness to the aforementioned insurrection.
Alex Usborne
Paula Vaccaro
Alex runs 104 Films, world leaders in disability cinema. The company has produced seven feature films including Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and Notes on Blindness (p.35). They have made over 65 short films with disabled film talent and run a raft of training and development programmes for disabled film talent.
Paula is the Founder and Producer of Pinball London, a production company specialising in content with an auteur zeal. The company has worked with prestigious filmmakers including Sally Potter, Emir Kusturica, Guillermo Arriaga, Jim Jarmusch, Lucia Puenzo, Mira Nair and Aaron Brookner (Uncle Howard, p.73). Paula is also an impact producer and a professor at Kingston University.
Tardis Docs: Telling Deceptively Big Stories in Tiny Online Spaces, p.137
Founder & Producer / Pinball London
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A Reasonably Adjusted Debate: Disability On and Off Screen, p.131
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Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience, p.132
Parties & Social
Producer / 104 Films
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Talks & Sessions
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Alternate Realities
Executive Producer / BBC Storyville
Georg Tschurtschenthaler
Georg oversees the editorial department of gebrueder beetz filmproduktion. As well as feature-length and TV documentaries and series, he launched cross-media TV events including Supernerds (an interactive TV show, Suddenlife Gaming, theatre and book) and Farewell Comrades (a TV series, book and web documentary).
Alternate Realities Summit: Androids, Robots and Avatars Live, p.108
Marketplace
Head of Non-Scripted Commissioning / Sky Entertainment
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Research Fellow / University of Sheffield
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Broadcaster / BBC Radio 4
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Farida Vis
Director / Visual Social Media Lab
Orlando von Einsiedel
Farida is Director of the Visual Social Media Lab, which brings together a group of interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry interested in analysing social media images. She is a faculty research fellow in the Information School at the University of Sheffield, where her research focusses on online visual cultures.
Orlando’s multi-award-winning films span Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Arctic, covering all manner of stories from a skateboard school in Afghanistan through to pirates in West Africa. Most recently, he is the director of Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning film Virunga. He co-runs the production company Grain Media.
Director / Grain Media
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What’s a TV Channel Granddad? How We’ll Be Watching Docs in the Future, p.129
Sven Wälthi
Head of Co-productions / SRG SSR
Stephanie Walton
Sven coordinates the “Pacte de l’audiovisuel”, film co-production arrangements between the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) and the independent film industry. He is a member of the Swiss Film Commission (EFiK) and the Board of Trustees of Swiss Cinema. He sits on the board of Locarno Film Festival, Cinébulletin, FOCAL and the Prix Europa.
Stephanie’s experience ranges from online communities to film festivals and international film sales. As the community and partnerships manager for We Are Colony, Stephanie helps to launch films to global audiences, focusing on bringing fans closer to the films they love through behind-thescenes extras.
Parties & Social
Does it Matter Who Funds My Film? Making Branded Documentaries, p.136
Community and Partnerships Manager / We Are Colony
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War of the Worlds: How the DADA-DATA Webdoc Virus Defends the World, p.137
Hugo Ward
Teresa Watkins
Over the past 12 months Hugo’s been at the forefront of newly created Economist Films, directing a range of documentaries and VR films including Passport 360, which was filmed in Japan. He’s made documentaries in more than 15 countries, primarily for Channel 4’s foreign affairs strand, Unreported World and investigations series Dispatches.
Teresa is a senior creative with a track record for developing and executive producing successful TV shows across all factual genres. Executive Producer credits include Michael Jackson’s Face, and more recently, The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies, Terry Wogan’s Ireland, and BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 series The Secret Life of 4, 5 and 6 Year Olds.
Series Producer & Director / Economist Films
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Beyond YouTube: What Can ‘Other’ Digital Platforms Offer Filmmakers, p.130
Creative Director / RDF Television
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Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
Zillah Watson
Rachel Wexler
A former current affairs producer and multi-award-winner, Zillah works as Editorial Lead on Future Content and Storytelling projects for BBC Research & Development. Current projects include developing VR and immersive journalism for news and current affairs. She was Head of Editorial Standards for BBC Radio 4 for five years.
Bungalow Town was set up by Rachel and partner Jez Lewis in 2004. They specialise in producing documentaries for a worldwide audience. Rachel has produced many acclaimed films which have been screened at dozens of film festivals including Sundance, Doc/Fest and London Film Festival and won many awards including a Grierson, an Emmy and two Peabodys.
Research & Development Editor / BBC
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How to Put Kids on TV: A Channel Masterclass, p.139
Producer / Bungalow Town Productions
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Alternate Realities Summit: VRfternoon, p.109
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Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media, p.138
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Andy Whittaker
Jes Wilkins
Before starting Dogwoof, Andy was an e-commerce specialist in several blue chip companies. Andy led the expansion with a digital focused business model and is responsible for funding, strategy, partnerships and business development. Awards include: Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 list; Most Influential Londoners 2015; and The Guardian Film Power 100 list.
Over the last 10 years Jes has been behind some of the most talked about and highest rating documentaries both in Britain and around the world. He joined Firecracker in 2008 and is the Senior Creative Head in the London office, working across both development and production.
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Hannah Witton
Sarah Wolozin
Whilst studying for a degree specialising in sexual history, Hannah vlogged about the subject that interested her the most – sex. Her film, The History of Homosexuality in 60 Seconds was a finalist in the Guardian/Oxford University Press’ Short Film Competition in 2013, while her vlogs have amassed over 13 million views.
As director of the OpenDocLab, Sarah develops and oversees activities related to the lab including projects, events and collaborations that support the emerging field of digital storytelling. Before coming to MIT, she produced documentaries and interactive web projects for a wide variety of media outlets, various websites and educational platforms.
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Anthony Wonke
Elizabeth Wood
Anthony is an Emmy and triple BAFTA award-winning director. He has also won a Prix Italia, Peabody, Grierson and RTS, amongst others. His films are characterised by intelligent observation, intimate access, visual flair and emotional understanding. He is best known for his feature documentaries, TV series and award-winning commercials.
Elizabeth is the Founder and Director of DocHouse. She is a producer/director who was CEO of her own production company, Woodfilm Productions, from 1980. She is currently a member of the Sheffield Doc/Fest Advisory Board and has written many articles including for Dox Magazine, Filmwaves and Vertigo Magazine. Elizabeth developed, designed and now curates the Bertha DocHouse cinema.
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Phillip’s first feature length film, Chasing Dad, was recently shown by the BBC. This intimate documentary, edited by Ollie Huddleston, depicts his dad’s long-term struggle with addiction and the filmmaker’s attempt to put years of acrimony and estrangement behind them as they battle through a revealing past which unfolds before us.
Brian started True Vision with wife Deborah Shipley. Their first production, The Dying Rooms, was nominated for two BAFTAs and won many other awards. He has produced and directed numerous international documentaries tackling human rights issues; shown in over 80 countries, they have garnered awards including seven Emmies, three Peabodies and seven BAFTAs.
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Broadcaster & Director Reggie has an impressive body of documentary work, from Comic Relief in Kibera to Autistic Superstars and most recently his award-winning series Reggie Yates: Extreme Russia, which succeeded Extreme Africa and Extreme UK. Reggie is currently working on documentaries with Sundog Pictures and Keo Films which air this year.
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Usayd Younis
Adam Pearson
Usayd is a radical filmmaker and digital journalist. He is a first-time feature producer/director and co-director of Generation Revolution (p.61). His short documentary The Two Worlds addresses the topic of inequality in post-apartheid South Africa. Usayd has facilitated workshops on Arts & Activism and has a passion for social justice.
Adam, an award-winning actor, presenter and campaigner, was a strand presenter on Beauty And The Beast: The Ugly Face of Prejudice (Channel 4) before fronting the critically acclaimed The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime (BBC3). He appears as a reporter in Tricks of the Restaurant Trade (Channel 4), and most recently presented Adam Pearson: Freak Show (BBC3).
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Jessica Brillhart
NAO, pronounced ‘now’, is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot who lives at the Sheffield Robotics Lab at the University of Sheffield. NAO has always dreamed of being a speaker at festivals and secretly hopes to eventually become a robot presenter full-time.
Jessica joined Google’s Creative Lab in 2009, spearheading numerous awardwinning shorts and documentaries before joining the VR team in 2015. Since directing WORLD TOUR – the first VR film made with the Jump ecosystem – she has continued traveling the world, filming and experimenting, all in an effort to better understand and help inform others about this emergent medium.
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Professor Green (aka Stephen Manderson) Firmly established as one of the crossover superstars of British music, rapper Professor Green has released two albums and had nine consecutive top 40 singles. His acclaimed documentary for BBC3, Suicide and Me, announced him as factual talent to watch. He has number of documentaries scheduled for release on BBC3 in 2016 including Hidden & Homeless and Dangerous Dogs.
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Simon is one of National Geographic’s main points of contact for global production. Previously, he oversaw the production of Channel 4’s headlinegrabbing documentaries about the discovery of Richard III, including The King in the Car Park, the highest-rated specialist factual programme in the channel’s history.
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Other opportunities include Marketplace sessions about formats, commissioning, international funds and foundations, TV features and much more. Round Tables operate a standby queue and Sales Sunday is open to all, whereas 10 Minute Meets and Meet The Briefs are pre-booked. Our slate of six pitches see filmmakers pitch and receive feedback from an industry panel. We also welcome 15 International Delegations, creating opportunities to meet international partners and co-producers. Visit the Marketplace Switchboard where industry mentors offer festival guidance, project specific advice and tips on connecting with Decision Makers. Karolina Lidin – Marketplace Executive Producer Anna Parker – Marketplace Manager
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Schedule MeetMarket gives a special pitching platform to selected filmmakers through matchmade one-to-one meetings with key Decision Makers. Our remit has expanded to include more series, formats and shorts alongside documentary single film ideas pitched to international Decision Makers across all platforms. The Alternate Realities Market provides market opportunities for interactive and virtual reality projects. We’re excited to welcome 18 new faces for the On-Screen Factual Talent Market, as part of a new initiative.
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We welcome over 300 Decision Makers from over 20 countries, including commissioning editors, distributors, sales agents, funders, mentors and executive producers from theatrical, traditional broadcast and new digital platforms.
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Welcome to Marketplace, a leading funding, sales and distribution platform designed to unlock UK and international market opportunities and facilitate creative collaborations. Marketplace comprises a range of business activity and is proudly open to all, from first-time filmmakers to established talent.
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MeetMarket is one of the world’s largest documentary and factual markets and pitching forums, with the opportunity to meet with over 300 international funders, broadcasters, distributors and exhibitors. Doc/Fest offers a unique way to pitch your projects through matchmade meetings between pitchers and Decision Makers for creative and financial discussions. Projects range from long to short form films, series and formats. Each year 65 projects are selected from over 500 submissions.
Sales Sunday helps you connect with sales and distribution agents and strategise the release of your projects. It is designed specifically for filmmakers to learn about taking their project to an audience through sales and distribution. If you have a film or TV project in a late or finished stage you want to sell and distribute, this day could be perfect for you. The event includes a host of sessions and networking and is open to all Festival Pass holders.
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Alternate Realities Market is the key place to make partnerships and secure international funding for interactive, immersive and virtual reality projects within the documentary, factual or hybrid genre. The Market is a forum for exploring the creation, funding, distribution, exhibition or marketing of stories told through new technologies. Meetings are matchmade and one-to-one and run in parallel to the MeetMarket. Each year 25 projects are selected from open submissions.
International sales agents and distributors will gather for a quick and casual rundown of what they are looking for and what new projects they are excited about. The Who’s Who aims to give a good sense of the international distribution landscape within the space of just one hour.
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On-Screen Factual Talent Market is the place to connect potential new on-screen talent with producers, commissioners and other Decision Makers looking for fresh faces for their programmes. 18 fresh new faces were selected through open submissions and will come to the Market having been pitched trained by The Academic Ideas Lab.
Our assembled group of sales agents and distributors will brainstorm distribution and sales possibilities for a number of case studies films selected from the Festival film programme.
Mon 13 Jun / 9:30 – 19:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Main Hall Tue 14 Jun / 9:30 – 19:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Main Hall
Mon 13 Jun / 9:30 – 19:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Main Hall Tue 14 Jun / 9:30 – 13:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Main Hall
Wed 15 Jun / 13:00 – 14:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Old Banqueting Hall
Sun 12 Jun / 14:45 – 18:00 / Cutlers’ Hall
Sun 12 Jun / 14:45 – 15:45 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
Sun 12 Jun / 15:45 – 16:15 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
Sales Sunday Networking, Round Tables and 10 Minute Meets Sun 12 Jun / 16:00 – 17:30 / Cutlers’ Hall
A chance to meet distributors and sales agents in the Marketplace Café or through pre-booked sessions. Round Tables operate a standby queue. 10 Minute Meets are pre-booked through sign ups from May 2016. Join us to celebrate the start of the Market at the Marketplace Drinks supported by Documentary Campus on Sunday 12 June at 16:30 in Cutlers’ Hall, Marketplace Café.
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Jordanian Delegation
Chilean Delegation
Three established filmmakers and industry players have come to Doc/Fest to establish new connections in the British and European film industry through co-productions and sales. Supported by ChileDoc, an organization created in 2010 with the objective of improving the distribution and promotion of Chilean documentaries throughout the world, to give Chilean documentaries international exposure and promote their commercial development.
Emerging filmmakers, selected from a filmmaking workshop at the Royal Film Commission (RFC) Jordan in collaboration with the British Council Jordan, attend Doc/Fest with additional mentoring through the Doc/Fest Marketplace. The delegation is supported by the RFC Jordan, encouraging Jordanians to tell their stories in an international market. British Council Drinks Reception Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Tamper
Irish Delegation
With support from the IFB, the Irish Delegation come to Sheffield to connect with international audiences, co-producers and financiers. Bord Scannán na hÉireann/ Irish Film Board is the national development agency for Irish filmmaking. Don’t miss Bobby Sands: 66 Days, Crash & Burn, Mattress Men and The Land of the Enlightened in the 2016 film programme. Irish Delegation Drinks Mon 13 Jun / 19:00 – 20:30 / Winter Garden
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Beijing Documentary Development Association (BDDA) is the first private enterprise sponsoring documentary filmmaking in China, with permission from the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and Television, all kept on record in the Civil Administration Bureau of Beijing. They lead a delegation of over 30 established and emerging filmmakers at Doc/ Fest, to create European connections through sales, distribution and co-productions.
The team behind Tarikat (p.51), nominated for the Student Doc Award, join Doc/Fest this year with support from VPRO, one of the public broadcasters in the Netherlands. The VPRO aims to surprise, inspire, enrage and inform, as well as touch people, make them think, laugh and put things into perspective.
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Five filmmakers attend Doc/Fest to connect with international Decision Makers through match making and mentoring with support of Image Nation, one of the leading media and entertainment companies in the Arabic-speaking world. The company aims to build a sustainable film and television industry in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates.
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Four emerging Cuban filmmakers, with support from the British Council, attend Doc/Fest to meet filmmakers and Decision Makers in the international market. The delegation comprises graduates from the Cuban International Film School (EICTV) and participants in the Sundance Documentary Film Program/The Guardian development workshop for short films.
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Doc/Fest is delighted to welcome 15 International Delegations in 2016. You can meet some of them at sponsored events and other networking receptions – look out for them and make international connections happen. We’re proud to maintain a relationship each year with our International partners to help support new, emerging and established talent at the Festival by providing them with support through one-to-one mentoring and help with access to market and networking opportunities.
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Nordic Delegation
Our annual delegation of filmmakers from across the Nordic countries returns to Doc/Fest, with support from Nordisk Panorama. Year on year, Nordisk Panorama brings together the Nordic filmmaking community for a 6-day festival with films, seminars, workshops, parties and industry events including Nordisk Panorama Market and Forum.
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Creative Skillset’s Media Archive Traineeship is a professional development programme for emerging archivists across the UK. This delegation is part of a wider Doc/Fest programme of sessions, screenings and events which focus on working with archive documentary creatively and technically.
Nordic Vodka Hour at Guilty Pleasures Party Tue 14 Jun / 22:00 – 23:00 / Plug
Meet the Archivists Drinks Reception Sat 11 Jun / 18:15 – 19:30 / Marketplace Café, Cutlers’ Hall
Palestinian Delegation
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The Palestinian Delegation includes three filmmakers, one producer and staff from FilmLab: Palestine. The main goal of the organisation is to establish international links, introduce emerging Palestinian talents and to strengthen their filmmaking capacities. Filmlab: Palestine, in partnership with the British Council, is honoured to present the Palestinian Delegation at Sheffield Doc/Fest. British Council Drinks Reception Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Tamper
Scottish Delegation
Scottish talent come to Doc/Fest, supported by Creative Scotland, the public body supporting arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland. Creative Scotland’s film funding supports emerging and established film and TV talent producing distinctive and engaging work promoting Scotland’s creativity. Additional support provided by the Scottish Documentary Institute, specialising in documentary training, production and distribution.
Comprising film mentors and emerging documentary filmmakers participating in the premiere DocWorks UA/UK – a Sheffield Doc/Fest, DocuDays and UA/ British Council training and mentoring programme. Producer/director teams from the UK and Ukraine will participate in sessions in Sheffield and Kiev, with guidance from international industry professionals. The teams will pitch to potential funders in March 2017. British Council Drinks Reception Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Tamper
USA Delegation
The Chicken & Egg Pictures Accelerator Lab brings together 10 non-fiction projects helmed by female filmmakers, providing the necessary tools and environment for talented filmmakers to tell their stories. Financial assistance, creative guidance and peer support are provided through workshops and industry connections. Participants receive up to $35,000 for their film, which they develop throughout the programme.
Scottish Delegation Drinks Sat 11 Jun / 19:00 – 20:30 / Winter Garden
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South Korean filmmakers gather in Sheffield, supported by Broadcasting Content Promotion Foundation (BCPF) and Korea Communications Agency (KCA), celebrating powerful Korean documentaries that have entered international markets with good results. BCPF and KCA will hold a Korea Pitching Day event at Doc/Fest 2016; they invite you to meet promising Korean filmmakers and have a great time.
Wider European Delegation
Filmmakers from Wider Europe (including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia) will attend Doc/Fest this year to establish international links, introduce emerging talent and develop new collaborations. The British Council with generous support from the GREAT Challenge Fund is excited to support this delegation of leading documentary film professionals. British Council Drinks Reception Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Tamper
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On Tuesday, join Whicker’s World Foundation for drinks and nibbles at the Whicker’s Winter Garden Sundowner and party with Channel 4 in Crucible Delegate Lounge before grabbing a glass of bubbly as you head to the Awards Ceremony. Celebrate the best of the Festival programme as Sheffield Doc/Fest’s prestigious competition prizes will be announced alongside our Audience Awards, decided by you. Party to the very end where the Closing Night Reception offers the chance to reflect on an exhilarating six days. See you on the dance floor!
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Schedule Strike a pose at our notorious parties, ranging from old favourites to exciting new events. As the sun goes down in Sheffield, Doc/Fest’s legendary parties & socials rev up. Celebrate this year’s documentaries at the BBC Party in the stunning surroundings of Sheffield’s Cathedral; let your body move to the music at Vogue, Strike a Pose Party!; and glam yourself up in glitter at Guilty Pleasures Party with Festival favourite DJ Sean Rowley. Packed with bedazzling dancers, live bands and cabaret performers galore, you’ll be dancing until the sunrise.
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Strike a deal over a pint of Doc/Fest ale at networking events with major industry influencers, beginning with Welcome Drinks from Shooting People at the Curzon Bar and Terrace. Share drinks, ideas and dreams with filmmakers, archivists and international delegations at receptions taking place across Sheffield’s diverse range of beautiful venues.
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With live events, a whole host of themed networking and opportunities along with nightly major parties, Doc/Fest’s Parties & Socials are the documentary world’s best places to work, play and dance.
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Shooting People Welcome Drinks Reception
Alternate Realities: Virtual Reality Arcade Preview Drinks
Kick off the Festival with Shooting People at our annual Doc/Fest shindig at the new Curzon Bar and Terrace. Connect with local filmmakers, industry guests and fellow documentary lovers at the first drinks of the Festival.
The Alternate Realities: Virtual Reality Arcade invites you into worlds you might otherwise never experience. Extraordinary and at times uncomfortable, projects allow you to step inside a prison cell, or travel across space and time without leaving the gallery. Join us for these plus the launch of our Festival Commission Invisible (p.119).
Opening Night Party presented by Molinare
Meet the Archivists Drinks Reception
Fri 10 Jun / 21:00 – 01:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Main Hall
Sat 11 Jun / 18:15 – 19:30/ Cutlers’ Hall, Marketplace Café
Following the UK premiere of Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next (p.29), join us at the Opening Night Party presented by Molinare to kick start your Doc/Fest experience. Enjoy the opportunity to relax, unwind and meet friends old and new within the stunning and historical venue of Cutlers’ Hall.
A reception for those working with archive, as part of a celebration of screen heritage across the programme. This is a chance to meet Creative Skillset’s Media Archive Trainee delegation, as well as welcoming our archive partners and all documentary makers interested in and working with archive.
Scottish Delegation Drinks
Vogue, Strike a Pose Party!
In celebration of Paul Fegan’s Where You’re Meant To Be (p.31) and Scottish talent, meet the Scottish Delegation and Creative Scotland executives to hear about their films and Scotland as a first-class place for documentary filmmaking and co-production. Creative Scotland is the national film funder in Scotland.
Following the UK Premiere of Kiki (p.71), Doc/Fest is excited to bring voguing to Sheffield. Come and join us at our colourful and flamboyant Saturday night party and be inspired to embrace and celebrate the freedom of dance. Undoubtedly an evening to remember – let your body move to the music!
Marketplace Drinks supported by Documentary Campus
ITV Drinks Reception
Fri 10 Jun / 16:00 – 17:30 / Curzon Bar and Terrace
Sat 11 Jun / 19:00 – 20:30 / Winter Garden
Sun 12 Jun / 16:00 – 18:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Marketplace Café
Rounding off Sales Sunday and kicking off a new week of Marketplace activity, Marketplace Drinks offer an opportunity to get to know Decision Makers better. The event welcomes everyone involved in Sales Sunday, the MarketPlayer, MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Market and other Marketplace initiatives.
Fri 10 Jun / 16:30 – 20:00 / Site Gallery
Sat 11 Jun / 21:00 – 01:00 / O2 Academy
Sun 12 Jun / 16:30 – 17:30 / Crucible Delegate Lounge
ITV’s Factual Team will host a drinks event directly after the ITV session The Absolutely Adventurous Joanna Lumley in Conversation (p.133) in the Crucible Delegate Lounge. Come along to network with other Delegates and find out about working with ITV in the coming year.
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Sun 12 Jun / 18:30 – 20:00 / Winter Garden
Come and join the members of The Grierson Trust board for a convivial get together and the opportunity to meet the talented young filmmakers who are part of the 2016 Grierson DocLab and Mentoring Scheme.
Soul and Funk Night
Sun 12 Jun / 21:00 – 01:00 / City Hall Ballroom
Inspired by the sensationally gifted American soul and funk singer Sharon Jones and the equally engaging documentary Miss Sharon Jones! (p.70), join us and the fantastic live funk and soul band The Natural Highs to relax and indulge in an eclectic range of soulful sounds.
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Sun 12 Jun / 20:00 – 21:30 / Crucible Delegate Lounge
Following the live pitch (p.133), VICE will host a drinks reception in the Crucible Delegate Lounge to announce the winner of the VICE Rule Britannia Pitch.
Breakfast with Boudica
Mon 13 Jun / 09:00 – 10:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Marketplace Café
Women in Film and Television have teamed up with eminent post-production house Schedule 2 to launch Boudica’s new film funding initiative. Named after the legendary warrior queen, Boudica aims to prioritise female talent in all areas of the film industry, including documentary features.
Altitude Music Welcome Drinks
BFI Film Fund Pitch Drinks Reception
Altitude Music is a full-service music agency specialising in bespoke composition, production music, sound design and supervision. Celebrating their first time at the Festival, they invite you to join them for a drink (or three) and talk all things music with the team.
Come and join the BFI for drinks to celebrate their documentary offerings showcased in this year’s Doc/Fest, including The Rise and Fall of the Highrise (p.30) in the lovely surroundings of Tamper Sellers Wheel.
Mon 13 Jun / 17:30 – 19:00 / Curzon Bar and Terrace
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The BBC is showcasing its latest virtual reality experiments with a variety of different demos, from 360 video right through to fully immersive VR and binaural sound experiences. Meet the creators behind these immersive projects and discuss how this new medium has potential to serve audiences in a wide range of genres.
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Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Millennium Gallery
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Come and meet British Council Film and the leading international documentary film professionals attending this year’s Doc/Fest. We are delighted to present delegations from Jordan, Palestine, Cuba and Wider Europe (including Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia) as well individual Delegates from all across the globe.
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Sun 12 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Tamper Sellers Wheel
Alternate Realities Reception supported by BBC R&D
Mon 13 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Tamper Sellers Wheel
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Celebratory Drinks with The Guardian Mon 13 Jun / 18:00 – 19:30 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall
International documentary distributor Journeyman Pictures welcomes you to share a drink with the talented directors and producers behind this year’s Doc/Fest programme. Come along to meet potential collaborators from across the industry.
Irish Delegation Drinks Reception
The BBC Party
Bord Scannan na hÉireann (the Irish Film Board) is delighted to invite you to meet the Irish delegation of filmmakers at Sheffield Doc/Fest and celebrate the screenings of Bobby Sands: 66 Days (p.32), Crash and Burn (p.76), Mattress Men (p.90) and The Land of the Enlightened (p. 35).
The BBC will host drinks on Monday 13 June at Sheffield Cathedral from 21:00. Come and celebrate this year’s documentaries with the BBC team.
Delegates Breakfast with Discovery Tue 14 Jun / 09:30 – 11:00/ Cutlers Hall, Marketplace Café
Why You Should Be Working with Channel 5 Brunch
As a purpose-driven company in 220 plus countries and territories, Discovery Communications has a unique opportunity to bring storytellers’ work to a global audience. Join production and programming executives from the company’s documentaries unit and Discovery Networks International as they informally lay out their vision for their networks.
Channel 5 has come of age, with exciting and challenging factual content achieving critical acclaim and high ratings. With many strong new series in the pipeline, Channel 5 is where popular and purposeful factual television thrives. Meet Ben Frow, Director of Programmes and his factual commissioning team immediately after the Channel 5 session (p.140).
UKTI Networking Reception
Channel 4 Party
Last year UKTI helped well over 300 UK creative industries companies win almost £620 million worth of export business in 55 export markets. Join the UKTI team to meet other filmmakers and international guests, and learn how UKTI can help your business expand and succeed globally.
The Channel 4 commissioning team invites Delegates to join them in raising a glass to another great year for documentaries on the channel. Let us publically service you with commerciallyfunded drinks and canapés at the Crucible Delegate Lounge.
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Tue 14 Jun / 15:45 – 16:45 / Crucible Adelphi
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Mon 13 Jun / 20:00 – 21:30 / Crucible Delegate Lounge
The Guardian loves documentaries! Following The Guardian Pitch (p.139), join the team for celebratory drinks and to hear the pitch winner announcement. Open to all Festival goers, you’ll hear about The Guardian’s documentary commissioning and partnerships for 2016, celebrate the achievements of the teams that pitched, and hang out with fellow Delegates.
Mon 13 Jun / 20:00 – 21:30 / Winter Garden
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Mon 13 Jun / 21:00 – 01:00 / Sheffield Cathedral
Tue 14 Jun / 11:00 – 12:30 / Crucible Delegate Lounge
Tue 14 Jun / 17:00 – 20:00 / Crucible Delegate Lounge
Parties & Social Whicker’s Winter Garden Sundowner
BFI Film Audience Network Reception
Tense with anticipation before the Awards Ceremony? Need a little calm before learning who gets Alan Whicker’s inaugural £80,000 documentary prize? Join the Whicker’s World Foundation amid the elegant palm fronds for free drinks and nibbles ahead of their premier award.
The BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) is a UK-wide network dedicated to encouraging people to build a lifelong relationship with film and with more people enjoying film more often. FAN invites you to join them for a drink and meet their delegation of members including cinema exhibitors, programmers and festival organisers.
Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards Ceremony
Guilty Pleasures Party
The winners of Sheffield Doc/Fest’s prestigious competition prizes will be announced alongside our Audience Awards, decided by you. Collect your glass of bubbly at the door and join presenter KG Tha Comedian as we celebrate the best of the Festival programme and recognise the success of the best filmmakers in the industry.
Guilty Pleasures is back – the perfect night for you to indulge in your favourite pop and rock secrets. DJ Sean Rowley and a select team of Guilty Pleasures hedonists are guaranteed to raise the bar for a fantastic six days of documentary, discussions and films by dancing up at storm at the legendary party. Plus, join the Nordic Delegation for everyone’s favourite Nordic Vodka Hour from 22:00 – 23:00. See you on the dance floor!
Closing Night Film Reception
Sheffield ‘Media City’ Walking Tours
Following our Closing Night Film, The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger (p.29), join us at the Reception to raise a glass and celebrate the conclusion of the Festival. A time to reflect upon and share your personal highlights of the exciting and diverse range of screenings, talks and sessions held over the past six days.
Fri 10, Sat 11, Tue 14 Jun / 10:00 & 16:00 / Tudor Square
Join local tour guide Marcus Newton as he gives an exciting, interactive and entertaining 90-minute tour of Sheffield. Created especially for the Sheffield Doc/Fest audience, the route will give you a fascinating insight into Sheffield as a ‘Media City’ with a focus on local arts, films and music. Finishing at the Showroom Bar, walkers will be able to reflect upon newly discovered knowledge that adds to the wonder of Sheffield. Please note that for Delegates, the cost of the walking tour is not included in the Festival Pass; visit www.sheffdocfest.com for details.
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Wed 15 Jun / 21:15 – 23:00 / The ITV Bar
Tue 14 Jun / 22:00 – 02:00 / Plug
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Tue 14 Jun / 18:30 – 20:00 / Tamper Sellers Wheel
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Sarah-Jane Meredith British Film Institute Catherine Mitchell Arts Council England Agnieszka Moody Creative Europe Jane Mote Wicker Foundation
John Mothersole Sheffield City Council Jessica O’Brien
Gregory M Oldfield University of Sheffield Charlie Phillips The Guardian Daniel Pynnonen SVT James Quinn Sky UK
Jane Ray Wicker Foundation Adam Roberts
Ben Roberts British Film Institute Charles Rubinstein
Ed Sayer Discovery Networks International Laura Sillars Site Gallery
Nicola Strafford University of Sheffield Tony Tabatznik Bertha Foundation
Professor Vanessa Toulmin University of Sheffield Kate Townsend BBC Storyville
Esther Van Messel First Hand Films Lucy Vernall Academic Ideas Lab
Donata von Perfall Documentary Campus
Rachel Wexler Bungalow Town Productions Andy Whittaker Dogwoof
Ian Wild & the team at Showroom Cinema Manuela Winkler Documentary Campus Sohil Zokari
Krzysztof Zylawy & the team at X8
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#Hacked: Syria’s Electronic Armies 112 #MyEscape 57 10 X 10: The Doc-in-Progress Workshop 133 360° Sound for a 360° Experience: Dynamic Binaural Audio in VR 109 6x9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement 117 A Family Affair 88 A Ballerina’s Tale 97, 98, 101 A Night of Surveillance: The Supernerds Experience 110 A Place at the Table: Why Documentaries for Kids Matter 144 A Polish Journey 112 A Reasonably Adjusted Debate: Disability On and Off Screen 131 A Todo Color 74 The Absolutely Adventurous Joanna Lumley in Conversation 133 Across the Line 117 Adam Buxton Presents a BUG Special: David Bowie Live 145 After Spring 57 The Age of Consequences 38 All the World’s a Stage 110 Alternate Realities Market 186 Alternate Realities Reception supported by BBC R&D 195 Alternate Realities Summit (Afternoon Session): VRfternoon 132 Alternate Realities Summit (Morning Session): Androids, Robots and Avatars Live 129 Alternate Realities: Virtual Reality Arcade Preview Drinks 194 Altitude Music Welcome Drinks 195 Ambulance 58 American Ballet Theater 97, 98, 99, 100, 101 Antariksha Sanchar - Transmissions in Space 112 Ants on a Shrimp 78 Archives and Copyright: A Beginners Guide 133 Arts Commissioning for Galleries and Online Spaces 126 Author: The JT LeRoy Story 80 Avatar Secrets 113 Back on Board: Greg Louganis 75 BAFTA Masterclass: Working with Archive 127 The BBC Interview: Reggie Yates 127 The BBC Party 196 Behemoth 80 Berlin 1936: The Final Illusion 97, 98, 99, 101 Between Activism and Extremism: Storytelling for Change 138 Beyond YouTube: What Can the ‘Other’ Digital Platforms Offer Filmmakers? 130 BFI Archive 98, 99, 100, 101, 102 BFI Film Audience Network Reception 197 BFI Film Fund Pitch Drinks Reception 195 Black Gold 101, 102 Bobby Sands: 66 Days 32 Born to Be Free 38 Breakfast with Boudica 195 Breaking In: A Guide for Film Industry Entrants 126 Brillo Box (3¢ off) 45 British Council Drinks Reception 195 Brothers 32 Bunkers 45 Burma’s Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson 64 Burnout 48 Cameraperson 33 Care 68 Cat Listening to Music 97, 98, 99, 102 Cathy Come Home 52 The Cause of Progress 81 Celebratory Drinks with The Guardian 196 The Channel 4 First Cut Pitch 137 The Channel 4 Interview: Michael Moore 134 Channel 4 Party 196 The Charro of Toluquilla 81 City 40 33 City Of Dreams: A Musical 65
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City of Gold 78 Closing Night Film Reception 197 Collisions 117 Command and Control 82 Commissioning: Arts Documentary 141 Commissioning: Factual Entertainment 144 Commissioning: Shorts for All Platforms 142 Commissioning: Singles, Specials and Series 136 Commissioning: Specialist Factual 138 The Confession 34 Consumed 92 Context Hacking: A Performance Lecture by Johannes Grenzfurthner 135 Continental Drift 48 Co-Production Possibilities and Festival Culture in Latin America 143 Crash and Burn 76 D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus in Conversation with Francine Stock 131 Daddy’s Girl 69 Dead Slow Ahead 82 Death by Design 39 Delegates Breakfast with Discovery 196 Destination Unknown 65 Doc/Fest Exchange on Tudor Square 146-147 Docs in the Newsroom 144 Docs on Cops 138 Documentary and Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide 132 Documentary Film Production Goes Green 142 Does it Matter Who Funds My Film? Making Branded Docs 135 The Dog 92 Don’t Look Back 55 Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel 118 Elders 92 The Empathy Station 113 Encounters at the End of the World 97, 99 The Enemy 113 Enough, Already 58 The Epic of Everest 99, 100 Evidence Based Storytelling with Christian Humborg 137 Exodus: Breaking into Europe (Working Title) 66 The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis 66 Extremis 45 Eye for an Eye 49 Female Trailblazers: New Ways of Working in Media 138 Figure 93 First Cut 93 First Position 97, 98, 99, 100 The Flickering Flame 52 Flotel Europa 43 Footprint 39 Fraud 83 Freddie Flintoff & Robert Penn Talk Chips & Docs 140 Freightened - The Real Price of Shipping 40 The French Connection: Working with France 134 The Future of Virtual Reality 108 Gatekeeper 46 Generation Revolution 61 Golden Girl 69 Good Intentions Vs Good Viewing: What Happens when Doc Makers Join Non Profits 136 Grey Area 49 Grierson Trust New Talent Reception 195 The Guardian Documentaries Pitch 139 Guardian Shorts 98, 99, 101 Guilty Pleasures Party 197 The Happy Film 83 The Happy Warriors 93 The Hard Stop 67 Hell on Wheels 94
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Home - A VR Spacewalk Experience 118 Home : Aamir 118 Honest Truths: The Ethical Challenges of Filmmaking 131 Hooligan Sparrow 61 How to Document the World’s Biggest News Stories: Telling the Refugee Crisis 135 How to Get Your Theatrical Doc Funded and Distributed 135 How to Pitch Your Climate Change Idea 141 How to Put Kids on TV: A Channel 4 Masterclass 139 The Hype About 4K 130 I Do It My Way: Directors Talk About Their Work 132 I Don’t Belong Anywhere - The Cinema of Chantal Akerman 53 IBT Climate Change Pitch 143 I’m Not From Here 46 In Conversation with HBO’s Sheila Nevins 143 In My Shoes: Dancing with Myself 119 In Pursuit of Silence 84 India in a Day 84 Innovation in Archive 128 Inside the Gang (Working Title) 67 Interactive Theatre, Technology & Empathy & In My Shoes: Waking in Slough 110 Into the Land of VOD: How I Tried to Contact Netflix 140 Invisible 119 Irish Delegation Drinks Reception 196 Is Documentary Relevant in a World with Information Available at Your Fingertips? 129 iSynx 114 ITV Drinks Reception 194 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels 54 Jim: The James Foley Story 34 Joan 49 John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes 114 Johnny Physical Lives 46 Journeyman Pictures Presents: Meet the Filmmakers Drinks 194 Just a Dog 94 Kedi 89 The Kids Are Alright: Creating Public TV Programmes for a Forgotten Audience 129 Kiki 71 Kivalina 40 Klavierkunst 50 The Land of the Enlightened 35 League of Exotique Dancers 59 Life, Animated 85 The Living Forest 94 Lobanovskiy Forever 76 Love, War & Robots: (Wo)man and Machine, in Conversation 108 Lyari Notes 43 Machine of Human Dreams 89 Mad Dogs 77 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures 72 Marketplace Drinks supported by Documentary Campus 194 Mars 2030 119 Mattress Men 90 Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise 70 Mavis! 97, 98, 99, 101 Meet the Archivists Drinks Reception 194 MeetMarket 186 Merci Patron ! (Thanks Boss!) 90 The Mine Wars 97, 98, 100, 102 Minority Report: Diversity in Documentary 130 Miso Hungry 79 Miss Sharon Jones! 70 MONSTER IN THE MIND The Convenient UN-truth about Alzheimer’s 85 Monterey Pop 56 Mr. Gaga 59 The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble 74 My Aleppo 50 My Scientology Movie 62
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National Bird 62 New Dimensions in Testimony (Alternate Realities: Interactive Exhibition) 114 New Dimensions in Testimony (Alternate Realities Summit) 108 New Genderation: Has Factual Kept up with the Revolution in Gender and Sexuality? 139 New US Trends and Platforms 144 Nino Kirtadze: The Fine Line Between Fact and Fiction 136 No Home Movie 54 Noma: My Perfect Storm 79 Northern Exposure: Working with Nordic Broadcasters 134 Notes on Blindness 35 Notes on Blindness: A Film and VR Autopsy 141 Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness 120 On-Screen Factual Talent Market 186 One Day Pina Asked… 55 Opening Night Party presented by Molinare 194 Origins 120 Our BBC, Our Channel 4: A Future for Public Service TV? 145 Our Last Tango 60 Out Run 72 Paa Joe & The Lion 68 The Peacemaker 63 Pickle 95 Plaza de la Soledad 71 The Post Production Facility: An Evolving Model 131 Presenting Princess Shaw 36 Professor Green: Documentaries and Me 128 Pulse 50 Recorded Absence 47 Reset 60 The Rise and Fall of the High-rise 30 Roadmap to Film Funding: Unlocking the Mysteries of Grant Proposals 141 Ronnie O’Sullivan in Conversation 140 Rwanda & Juliet 86 Sales Sunday 186 Saving Sungei 51 Science Fiction Prototyping: Artificial Intelligence and Storytelling 108 Scottish Delegation Drinks 194 The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger 29 SEED: The Untold Story 41 Serena 77 The Settlers 36 Sheepo 95 Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards Ceremony 197 Sheffield ‘Media City’ Walking Tours 197 Shooting People Welcome Drinks 194 Short Doc Programme 98, 99, 100, 101 Silent Voices 47 Snow Monkey 44 Solitary 86 Sonita 44 Soul and Funk Night 195 Sour Grapes 37 Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four 63 Speaking is Difficult 95 The Special One 96 The Spirit of ‘45 53 Storyboard P, a stranger in Sweden 30 Strike a Pose 73 Succeed to Screen: Getting Indie Docs to the Audience 132 Surviving Danger Zone Docs 128 Tardis Docs: Telling Deceptively Big Stories in Tiny Online Spaces 137 Tarikat 51 Tempestad 37 There Will Be Water 41 There’s Something About Muslims 143 This War of Mine: The Little Ones 115
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Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru 87 Toucan Nation 47 Transit Zone 51 Trick or Treat : Bhai-O-Scope 115 Trust Me, I’m a TV Producer: The Secrets of Great Access 134 Two Billion Miles 115 Two Trains Runnin’ 75 Tyrus 87 Ukrainian Sheriffs 91 UKTI Networking Reception 196 Uncle Howard 73 Undoing Time 116 United Nations VR Film Launch 109 The University of Sheffield Presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea 145 Unlocking the Cage 56 Varicella 97, 98, 99, 101 Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach 31 The VICE Rule Britannia Pitch 133 The VICE Rule Britannia Pitch Drinks Reception 195 Viva la Revolucion: Video Activism and Citizen Journalism 128 ¡Vivan Los Antipados! 98, 100 Vlogs Vs Docs: Tales of Our Time 127 Vogue, Strike a Pose Party! 194 VR: The Machine to Make Us More Human? 109 VR & Journalism: Opportunities and Challenges 109 Walden, a Game 116 War of the Worlds: How DADA-Data Webdoc Virus Defends the World 137 We Wait 120 Weiner 64 What Makes a Feature Doc? Directors Discuss 139 What’s a TV Channel Granddad? How We’ll Be Watching Docs in the Future 129 When Two Worlds Collide 88 When You Awake 48 Where to Invade Next 29 Where You’re Meant To Be 31 Whicker’s Winter Garden Sundowner 194 The Whicker’s World Foundation Pitch 142 White Rage 91 Why You Should Be Working with Channel 5 140 Why You Should Be Working with Channel 5 Brunch 196 Writing with Light: The Art of Cinematography 127 Zud 42
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Gina Abatemarco Anne-Claire Adet Chantal Akerman
Kivalina Bunkers Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels No Home Movie One Day Pina Asked… I'm Not From Here
40 45 54
The Hard Stop Lobanovskiy Forever Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
67 76 72
Grey Area Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru SEED: The Untold Story Inside the Gang (Working Title)
49 87 41 67
Exodus: Breaking into Europe (Working Title) Ukrainian Sheriffs Uncle Howard When Two Worlds Collide
66
Home - An Immersive Spacewalk Experience Bobby Sands: 66 Days Recorded Absence Footprint MONSTER IN THE MIND The Convenient UN-truth about Alzheimer’s Silent Voices Gatekeeper After Spring
118
Home : Aamir
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Machine of Human Dreams Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness
89 120
Chantal Akerman Chantal Akerman Maite Alberdi, Giedr Žickyt George Amponsah Anton Azarov Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato Jon Barton Joe Berlinger Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel Paul Blake, Victor Chimara James Bluemel Roman Bondarchuk Aaron Brookner Heidi Brandenburg, Matthew Orzel Tom Burton, Kate Bartlett Brendan J. Byrne Gillian Callan Valentina Canavesio Jean Carper Pritha Chakraborty Yung Chang Steph Ching, Ellen Martinez Toby Coffey, Erfan Saadati, Rufus Norris Roy Cohen Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari Matthew D'Arcy Maurice Dekkers Denis Delestrac Tim Delmastro James Demo Jemma Desai, Maria Panagiotidi Pierre Deschamps Shimon Dotan John Dower Bartek Dziadosz, Christopher Roth, Colin MacCabe, Tilda Swinton Susanna Edwards Daniel Efergan, Darren Dubicki Darren Emerson Michael Epstein, Mark Thompson Deborah S. Esquenazi
The Dog
54 55 46
91 73 88
32 47 39 85 47 46 57
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Storyboard P, a stranger in Sweden Ants on a Shrimp Freightened - The Real Price of Shipping Miso Hungry The Peacemaker The Empathy Station
30 78 40 79 63 113
Noma: My Perfect Storm The Settlers My Scientology Movie The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
79 36 62 29
Golden Girl We Wait
69 120
Invisible John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes
119 114
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Tom Fassaert A Family Affair Paul Fegan Where You're Meant To Be Claire Ferguson Destination Unknown Jeff Feuerzeig Author: The JT LeRoy Story Deirdre Fishel Care Dean Fleischer-Camp Fraud Cheryl Furjanic Back on Board: Greg Louganis Laura Gabbert City of Gold Jane Gauntlett, Andrew In My Shoes: Dancing with Myself Somerville
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Ashish Ghadiali Alexis Girardet
The Confession Burma's Secret Jungle War with Joe Simpson Snow Monkey Plaza de la Soledad City 40 Figure Strike a Pose
George Gittoes Maya Goded Samira Goetschel Katarzyna Gondek Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan Ido Haar Arto Halonen Mauro Herce Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack Paula Heredia Tomer Heymann Brian Hill, Sam Benstead Tatiana Huezo Mohamed Jabaly Kristi Jacobson Kirsten Johnson Sara Jordenö Chris Kelly Sonia Kennebeck Robert Kenner Karim Ben Khelifa William A. Kirkley, Adam Amaral, Glenn Snyder Julian Konczak Barbara Kopple German Kral Dan Krauss Zhao Liang Marianne Lambert Melissa Langer Per Liebeck Ken Loach Ken Loach Ken Loach Leonardo Machado Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami Heather Maio Richie Mehta Miriam Chandy Menacherry, Maheen Zia Živil Mieiulyten Glen Milner Marta Minorowicz Abhinav Mishra, Romit Raj, Avinash Kumar Emma Miranda Moore Michael Moore Juan Antonio Moreno, Silvia Venegas Ben Nabors, Stefan Sagmeister, Hillman Curtis Joshua Neuman Morgan Neville Amy Nicholson Pietro Novello Brian Oakes Sean O'Cualain Lamin Oo Louise Osmond Francesca Panetta, Lindsay Poulton Jack Peagam
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Presenting Princess Shaw White Rage Dead Slow Ahead Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
36 91 82 70
Toucan Nation Mr. Gaga City Of Dreams: A Musical
47 59 65
Tempestad Ambulance Solitary Cameraperson Kiki The Cause of Progress National Bird Command and Control The Enemy Origins
37 58 86 33 71 81 62 82 113 120
A Polish Journey Miss Sharon Jones! Our Last Tango Extremis Behemoth I Don't Belong Anywhere - The Cinema of Chantal Akerman My Aleppo There Will Be Water Cathy Come Home The Flickering Flame The Spirit of '45 The Extraordinary Case of Alex Lewis Sonita
112 70 60 45 80 53
New Dimensions in Testimony India in a Day Lyari Notes
114 84 43
Joan Elders Zud Antariksha Sanchar - Transmissions in Space Hell on Wheels Where to Invade Next Enough, Already
49 92 42 112
50 41 52 52 53 66 44
94 29 58
The Happy Film
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Johnny Physical Lives The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble Pickle Continental Drift Jim: The James Foley Story Crash and Burn The Special One Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach 6x9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement Klavierkunst
46 74 95 48 34 76 96 31 117
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Nonny de la Peña, Jeff Fitzsimmons, Brad Lichtenstein D.A. Pennebaker D.A. Pennebaker D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus Louise Peter, Mahyar Goudarzi, Steve Bache Robin Petré Gayane Petrosyan Sam Pollard Ramona Pringle Ben Proudfoot Pieter-Jan De Pue Colm Quinn Oscar Raby & BBC Rama Rau Ian Robertson Jay Rosenblatt Jerry Rothwell, Reuben Atlas Julian Reyes François Ruffin Juliana Ruhfus Elke Sasse Marc Silver Gareth C. Scales Tonje Hessen Schei AJ Schnack Jasmijn Schrofer Andrea B. Scott Jared P. Scott Richard Seymour Patrick Shen Lisanne Skyler James Spinney, Peter Middleton Wojciech Staron Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman Roberto Studart Frederik Subei Johnny Symons, S. Leo Chiang Shintaro Tay Alban Teurlai, Thierry Demaizière Pamela Tom Vladimir Tomic Ceyda Torun Glen Travis Melisa Üneri Randy Valdes Miguel López Valdivia Various José Villalobos Lynette Wallworth Nanfu Wang Ryan White Benjamin Wigley Roger Ross Williams Sue Williams Usayd Younis, Cassie Quarless
Across the Line
117
Don't Look Back Monterey Pop Unlocking the Cage
55 56 56
Eye for an Eye
49
Pulse Born to Be Free Two Trains Runnin' Avatar Secrets Rwanda & Juliet The Land of the Enlightened Mattress Men Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel League of Exotique Dancers Sheepo When You Awake Sour Grapes
50 38 75 113 86 35 90 118 59 95 48 37
Mars 2030 Merci Patron ! (Thanks Boss!) #Hacked: Syria's Electronic Armies #MyEscape The Living Forest First Cut iSynx Speaking is Difficult Tarikat Just a Dog The Age of Consequences Consumed In Pursuit of Silence Brillo Box (3¢ off) Notes on Blindness
119 90 112 57 94 93 114 95 51 94 38 92 84 45 35
Brothers Weiner
32 64
Mad Dogs Transit Zone Out Run
77 51 72
Saving Sungei Reset
51 60
Tyrus Flotel Europa Kedi The Happy Warriors Daddy's Girl A Todo Color Burnout The Rise and Fall of the High-rise The Charro of Toluquilla Collisions Hooligan Sparrow Serena Paa Joe & The Lion Life, Animated Death by Design Generation Revolution
87 43 89 93 69 74 48 30 81 117 61 77 68 85 39 61
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