2018 Sheffield DocFest Industry Catalogue by Sheffield DocFest

25th Edition Festival Catalogue sheffdocfest.com @sheffdocfest | #sheffdocfest

Contents

Welcome from the Chair

Welcome from the Festival Director

111

Talks & Sessions

Festival Info

114

Craft Summit presented by Documentary Campus

Access at the Festival

116

Sales & Distribution Summit

117

Talks & Sessions

Live Cinema Summit

Special Events Opening Night Film

131

Marketplace & Talent

Special Events

134

Initiatives

Exchange: Head Space

135

International Delegations

137

MeetMarket Projects

159

Alternate Realities Market Projects

168

Future Producer School

170

Decision Makers

Films

Art Doc Award & Illuminate Award

Environmental Award & Short Doc Award

New Talent Award, Youth Jury Award & Prizes

Doc Audience Award

Strand Titles

Doc/Adventure

Doc/Expose

Doc/Love

Doc/Rhythm

Doc/Think

Doc/Visions

New/Lebanon

New/UK

85 88

93 94

Grand Jury Award & Tim Hetherington Award

132

Pitches

249 Parties & Social

252

Festival Team

255

Contributors

256

Thanks

257

Funders, Sponsors & Partners

261

Index by Event

Retro/Electric Avenues

263

Films & Alternate Realities Index by Director/Creator

Free Screen

265

MeetMarket Projects by Producer

266

Alternate Realities Market Projects by Producer

267

Decision Makers Index

Contents

112

Alternate Realities Alternate Realities Summit

96 Virtual Reality Award, Interactive Award & Alternate Realities Audience Award

The World Unknown to You

103

Better Known Truths

Welcome

Alex Graham Chair

Liz McIntyre CEO & Festival Director

This last year saw Yorkshire take a leading role in Britain's cultural life. Hull led the way as the UK City of Culture. And as I write, three Yorkshire cities, including Sheffield, are bidding to host at least some of the relocated Channel 4. While Hull had a magnificent 12 months, Sheffield Doc/Fest has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly!) preparing to celebrate the Festival's 25th Edition. We're proud to have done our bit to shift the spotlight away from the south east. This year we welcome significant northern talents to Sheffield, including Grimsby's daredevil adventurer Guy Martin and acclaimed actor Vicky McClure, who has worked closely with Sheffield's own Warp Films. We're proud of our roots, but we're also outward looking. Once again, we welcome thousands of Festival Pass holders and 200 films from around the world. Films such as Italian director Marco Proserpio's film The Man Who Stole Banksy (p.40), which follows a controversial mural stolen from the West Bank barrier and put up for sale at a Beverly Hills auction house. Global politics, economics and culture wrapped up in one fascinating story. We have Mark Cousins' new film — The Eyes of Orson Welles (p.52) — giving us a different observation on a key figure of world cinema. Mark will also be talking about how we use our eyes to look at film, in his lecture 30 Images in the Dark. Our Alternate Realities exhibition has a fantastic new venue — the iconic Trafalgar Warehouse. Don't miss Gabo Arora and Saschka Unseld's The Day the World Changed (p.98), supported by the Nobel Peace Prize, which gives a new perspective on the devastating nuclear attack on Hiroshima. Our burgeoning Alternate Realities strand is a product of our growing relationship with Arts Council England. This year Doc/Fest has for the first time become one of the Arts Council's National Portfolio Organisations. This four-year partnership will allow us to develop this strand in new ways and also to tour them to different parts of the country. Once more, thanks to the British Council, our Alternate Realities exhibits will again be touring internationally.

This year, Wellcome has furthered its support of Doc/Fest, allowing us to be even more ambitious, with a whole new programme of Exchange Films, Talks, and Events on Tudor Square with a focus on mental health, and including supporting Doc/Fest’s commission DOUBLETHINK (p. 21), a brand new immersive video installation by artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Furthermore, the BFI, on top of their continued core support for the Festival, have awarded us additional funds to help us to further build audiences around the UK. Sheffield City Council continue to support us in a multitude of ways — financial and practical — and we look forward to cementing our relationship with them in the coming year. A special welcome to a raft of new sponsors including Netflix, Canon and Yorkshire Building Society. Thank you to all of our sponsors. We couldn't do it without you. But above all, thanks to you. Whether you've been coming here for a quarter of a century or whether you've lived here all your life and are discovering Doc/Fest for the first time, you are all welcome. This Festival belongs to you and it is you who make it what it is. Enjoy. Alex Graham Chair

When Doc/Fest was born, the world was changing forever, the '90s ushering in a remarkable, dynamic era of new power and influence. Inventor Tim Berners-Lee made the world wide web freely available. Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa. The Cold War had ended, and the Channel Tunnel was opened connecting Britain with the rest of Europe. Doc/Fest was at the forefront of telling those stories of opportunity, as well as those of unrest. A quarter of a century on, Doc/Fest 2018 is chronicling new remarkable power dynamics — both forces for good and the disturbing — ranging from the political and professional, to the personal and social. The Festival is alive with compelling documentary stories, talks and live events that reveal the unexpected consequences of past events, cyclical patterns and a new wave of ideas, filmmakers and forms of expression responding to the times. The World Premieres of Alisa Kovalenko's Home Games (p.54) and Maceo Frost's Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight (p.42), both led by inspiring female protagonists, brilliantly challenge social norms through the field of sport. Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight follows an athlete in her fight to overcome the gender exclusive rules of Cuban boxing and reach the Olympics. In Home Games, Ukrainian Alina balances parental responsibilities with her burgeoning career in football, in an effort to take her family out of poverty. The World Premieres of Inka Achte's Boys Who Like Girls (p.64) and Joost van den Burg's Bruce Lee & the Outlaw (p.37) show the vital role individuals play to bravely disrupt the status quo.

New works in our Alternate Realities programme compel us to abandon defining fellow human beings as 'the other' and find points of connection: in Trafalgar Warehouse, we're privileged to show our Arts Council England supported commission, Face to Face (p.98) by Michaela Holland and Michelle Gabel. Experience, and find ways to relate to, the story of American mother Michelle, whose life was forever changed by a gun accident.

Welcome

Doc/Fest is an essential place for Decision Makers, broadcasters and other funders to come and find the very best new and diverse talent and ideas for their own platforms: connect with our international delegations of filmmakers. Hear outstanding project ideas in MeetMarket, and at our range of Pitches including the returning BBC Northern Docs Pitch. Doc/Dinner returns with this year's host Mim Shaikh — coming to Sheffield also to talk about his first documentary — for conversation between new filmmakers and Decision Makers. 2018 is ushering in a period of reflection about the power we each hold or lack, broadening perceptions and ways to tell stories. We're thrilled to open the Festival with Sean McAllister's World Premiere A Northern Soul (p.14), where underdog Steve — a factory worker by day and hip hop performer by night — battles adversity to follow his dreams. The Doc/Fest team and I can't wait to see you at Sheffield's fine City Hall for Opening Night. Liz McIntyre CEO & Festival Director

Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman's Tranny Fag (p.62) provokes us to redefine ourselves in a non-binary way, protagonist Linn da Quebrada boldly presenting a fluid definition of 'woman'. Munroe Bergdorf analyses trans representation in Women, Gender & Activism (p.123).

Festival Pass Holder Information

Your Festival Pass gives you access to the full Film Programme, Alternate Realities Programme, Talks & Sessions, Marketplace activity, Social Events and Doc/Player. Your Festival Pass (with photo ID) should be worn at all times and is required to access the Festival.

Entry to Films & Special Events

With a Festival Pass, you can select eTickets for film screenings from the comfort of your own laptop or phone. To select, log into your My Doc/Fest account on www.sheffdocfest.com, find the film screening you want to attend (those with availability can be selected on the day or the day before) and add an eTicket to your basket. Your eTicket will automatically be uploaded to your Festival Pass. Paper tickets will not be issued. If a screening is sold out you may still be able to gain access by joining the standby queue at the venue. You can check which eTickets you have selected by logging into your My Doc/Fest account. You can also return any eTickets for screenings that you no longer want to attend by logging into your My Doc/Fest account. If you have forgotten your login details for your My Doc/Fest account, please visit the Doc/Fest website, and click “forgotten your password”. Please be in your seat five minutes before the advertised start time for your E-Ticket to be valid. If you are not in your seat five minutes before the advertised start time, your e-ticket may be re-allocated and you may be asked to join the standby queue.

For further information or assistance, please visit either: The Sky Delegate Centre at Novotel 50 Arundel Gate, Sheffield S1 2PR Wed 6 June, 6pm – 9pm Thu 7 – Tue 12 June, 9am – 9pm

Festival Box Office at Tudor Square Tudor Square, Sheffield S1 2LA Thu 7 – Tue 12 June, 9am – 9:30pm

Festival Info

Entry to Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions do not require pre-booking or eTickets – please be sure to arrive early for these events to guarantee yourself a seat.

Entry to Parties & Social Events

Parties & Social Events do not require pre-booking or eTickets – though please note we may operate on a one-out, one-in basis, should capacity be reached.

Entry to Exhibitions & Installations

The Alternate Realities Exhibition is free and open to all, however some projects require booking to reserve a slot. To see a virtual or augmented reality project as part of The World Unknown to You, please go to the booking station downstairs at Trafalgar Warehouse. To watch a curated 360º playlist as part of Better Known Truths, please go to the booking station on the first floor at Trafalgar Warehouse. Please ensure you arrive 5 minutes early for your slot, otherwise it may be given to those waiting in line.

The MOMENT (p.89) (on Howard Street), DOUBLETHINK and Portal (as part of Exchange: Head Space, on Tudor Square, p.21) run regularly throughout the day. Go directly to each location to check availability and reserve a timed slot.

Audience Award

A number of the films and Alternate Realities projects are up for Awards – and our biggest Jury is you, the audience! To rate the films and projects you see for the Audience Awards, please look out for volunteers with tear slips.

Doc/Player Lounge

Doc/Player is an online platform featuring select films from Doc/Fest’s main programme and a further curated selection of recent titles seeking market exposure. This year for the first time the Doc/Player lounge will also be hosting a Virtual Reality Library consisting of selected titles from the Alternative Realities Exhibition. The online platform will be available from 7 June to 19 July and can be accessed remotely, via www.cinandovl.com/docplayer, or at the Doc/Player Lounge at Industry Co-Work Space on Eyre St, during the Festival: Doc/Player Lounge Thu 7 June: 12pm – 7pm Fri 8 June – Tue 12 June: 10am – 7pm

Code of Conduct

Sheffield Doc/Fest operates a zero-tolerance policy on all forms of harassment or discrimination against any person at any of our events. By attending our events you agree to abide by our code of conduct. Doc/Fest may, at its discretion, expel anyone found to be behaving unacceptably, without warning or refund, and if appropriate will involve the police. For further info, go to www.sheffdocfest.com/view/codeofconduct

Support for Those with Babies & Children

Sheffield Doc/Fest is a breastfeeding friendly event, and those with babies should feel welcome to breastfeed at Exchange: Head Space, along with all our participating venues. Sheffield Doc/Fest has partnered with TLC Mobile Childcare to offer childcare services that come to you. To discuss, email Ellie at hospitality@sidf.co.uk or call us on +44 (0) 114 276 5141.

Festival Info

Doc/Fest has also partnered with Showroom Cinema to offer a special parent and baby (under one) screening of Flow (p.66) on Monday 11 June at 11:15. To attend, you will be required to register and provide your child's birth certificate at The Showroom Cinema prior to the screening. Pre-registration can be done via www.showroomworkstation.org.uk/kinobambino.

The Fine Print

Selected film titles are subject to age classifications – please check our website for up to date ratings. 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.

If you observe or experience a violation of our code of conduct, please contact a member of Doc/Fest staff, security personnel, or email conduct@sidf.co.uk All violations of the law should be reported to the Police; in an emergency please telephone 999 or 112 from a mobile. If you are D/deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment and need to report something, text 18000. For free and confidential help from Sheffield Rape Crisis, visit www.sheffieldrapecrisis.org.uk or telephone +44 (0) 808 802 0013

Access at the Festival Sheffield Doc/Fest is committed to providing a positive and inclusive experience for all, including those with disabilities and other access requirements.

Access at the Festival

Complimentary Festival Passes are available for Personal Assistants, Carers or sign language interpreters, but must be booked in advance, and proof of DLA, a valid CEA card or international equivalent is required.

All Doc/Fest venues are wheelchair accessible, please note that wheelchair spaces are subject to availability. For more information on all venues, including details of blue badge parking, wheelchair spaces, accessible toilets, and hearing loops, please visit sheffdocfest.com/view/festivalvenues

For accessible content, please look to the information in the Films programme to see where screenings are subtitled or dialogue-free, and in the Talks & Sessions programme for the BSL symbol* to see where events are British Sign Language interpreted.

*BSL symbol

Hearing loops and headphones are available at the Showroom Cinema and Curzon Cinema.

For a complete list of accessible screenings and talks please go to sheffdocfest.com/view/accessibility or if you need this catalogue in an enlarged format for accessibility, please email access@sidf.co.uk

For all enquiries relating to accessibility and reasonable adjustments, please email access@sidf.co.uk or call +44 (0) 330 122 8870. Alternatively, speak to a member of the team at the Festival Box Office.

We’re presenting cinema you can interact with – where you, the audience, control the story: work together to escape The Dark Room (p.15), take part in a live video game show in The Incredible Playable Show (p.16), or use your mind to control the outcome of a film in The MOMENT (on Howard Street, p.89). Also, see the World Premiere of Richard DeDomenici's shot for shot mini remake of Threads: Redux (p.19), made right here in Sheffield just days before the Festival. Along with our well loved established Doc/Fest Summits, this year we’re hosting the Live Cinema Summit for the first time (p.112), which brings together practitioners, musicians and artists to discuss the future of experiential and augmented cinema. Exchange: Head Space, on Tudor Square is home not only to DOUBLETHINK, but to a compelling range of films, talks and other experiential activity, including Alternate Realities Portal – a hub for virtual reality projects projected in 360 for a truly immersive experience. All of this as well as great coffee and a range of street food stalls (thank you Peddler!)… here you will also find a bar to quench your thirst. Mine’s a pale ale.

Melanie Iredale Deputy Director Sheffield Doc/Fest

Special Events Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions

Our 25th Edition presents more live events than ever before – make a date with post-punk (Desolation Center with live performance from Thurston Moore p.16), feral singing (Nature’s Nickelodeon’s p.17), beatboxing (Reeps One presents: We Speak Music Live p.17), Singaporian vocal loops (Shirkers with live performance with Weish p.18), East African vibes (Tanzania Transit with uSiSTA Live Pop-Up p.18), or Brazilian electro-funk (Tranny Fag with Live Performance from Linn da Quebrada p.19).

Marketplace & Talent

We’re proud to premiere three new commissions this year: Black Mother with a new live score from electronic artist GAIKA (p.15); DOUBLETHINK (p.21) an immersive, video installation from celebrated artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, with music by Warren Ellis, written by Stuart Evers and performed by George MacKay; and thirdly, Face to Face (p.98), an immersive virtual reality installation from Michaela Holland and Michelle Gabel in the Alternate Realities programme (p.93).

Parties & Social

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By bringing together multiple art forms to tell stories in inventive ways, our Special Events programme can only be experienced live, in the moment, and here in Sheffield. This is cinema you can hear, play with, and immerse yourself in.

Special Events Opening Night

Special Events Special Events

Special Events

Black Mother with live score from GAIKA

Films

Sheffield Doc/Fest, in partnership with Warp Records, is proud to present GAIKA’s newly commissioned hypnotic live score, performed for the first time, responding to Khalik Allah’s latest documentary Black Mother. Part film, part rhythmic baptism, this evening of beautiful live cinema will transport audiences to the shores and streets of Jamaica through a poetic tapestry of words, sounds, images and fervent energies. See Black Mother (p.72)

Director: Khalik Allah

Sales Contact: Jason Ishikawa, Cinetic jason@cineticmedia.com

Producer: Country: Year: Duration:

Sales Contact: Charlotte Austin charlotte@catfacetalent.com

Oli Harbottle, Dogwoof oli@dogwoof.com Website: www.khalikallah.com/black-mother-1

Talks & Sessions

The Dark Room

Marketplace & Talent

Comedian John Robertson’s smash-hit live-action adventure game is coming to Sheffield for a one-off Doc/Fest special at Trafalgar Warehouse. Look out for bespoke documentary and Sheffield references, as you awake to find yourself in a Dark Room. Stuck inside with your fellow audience members you must work together to escape. You, the audience, must choose-your-own adventure and select an option. Will you: A) Find the light switch? B) Go North? C) Cry for help? Part of Doc/Fest Alternate Realities (p.93)

Following A Syrian Love Story’s Doc/Fest’s Grand Jury Award win in 2015, Sean McAllister returns to Sheffield to open the Festival’s 25th Edition with the World Premiere of A Northern Soul. With his signature vision and sense of rapport, Sean reflects on changes to his Yorkshire hometown: a city divided by Brexit that is simultaneously celebrated as UK City of Culture and hit by austerity. Drawn to the fringes of town, Sean encounters Steve, a struggling warehouse worker by day and hip-hop performer by night, with a dream…

See A Northern Soul (p.51)

Director:

Sean McAllister

Producer: Year: Country: Duration: Premiere:

Elhum Shakerifar 2018 UK 80 mins World

Sales Contact: Elhum Shakerifar, Hakawati elhum@hakawati.co.uk

Director: John Robertson

Charlotte Austin UK 2018 60 mins

Website: www.thejohnrobertson.com/thedarkroom

Parties & Social

A Northern Soul

Parties & Social

Producers: Khalik Allah Leah Giblin Country: USA Year: 2018 Duration: 77 mins Premiere: UK

Alternate Realities

Part of the Doc/Vision Strand (p.72)

Part of the Doc/Love Strand (p.51) 14

Desolation Center

Nature’s Nickelodeons

with live performance from Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

Special Events

Experience the nature documentary, but as you’ve never seen or heard it before. Inspired by an abandoned idea of Walt Disney's to build natural history cinemas in zoos, experimental composers, musicians and a sci-fi writer join filmmaker and Doctor of GeoHumanities Amy Cutler to re-invent the heroes, villains, sounds and spaces of nature broadcasts. We’ll travel through submerged volcanoes, bio-luminescence, flocking birds and swarming insects, accompanied by new performances, from live drone laments to the conducting of “feral singing” by the audience.

To open a vibrant weekend of cinema events at Abbeydale Picture House, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) will be performing live following the UK Premiere of Desolation Center. The film vividly portrays the untold story of a series of guerrilla desert gatherings now recognised as the inspiration for Burning Man and Coachella, with performances by Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, and more. See Desolation Center (p.59)

Films

Special Events Films

Special Events

Stuart Swezey USA 2018 92 mins UK

Sales Contact: Ben Bassauer, Monoduo Films ben@monoduo.net

Director: Amy Cutler

Website: www.desolationcenter.com

Lisa Brook, Nia Childs UK 2018 90 mins World

Sales Contact: Lisa Brook, Live Cinema UK lisa@livecinema.org.uk

Website: www.livecinema.org.uk

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Live Cinema UK / Get Involved UK 2018 75 mins World

Sales Contact: Lisa Brook, Live Cinema UK lisa@livecinema.org.uk

Website: www.reeps100.com

Reeps One presents: We Speak Music Live

An award-winning live video game show where you, the audience, take to the stage. Become human buttons, zap each other with barcode scanners, and play Pac-Man using inflatable toys. Or sit back, and watch your friends literally become cogs in a hilarious machine.

Talks & Sessions

The Incredible Playable Show

Producers: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

World class beatboxer and vocal artist Reeps One presents the World Premiere of his new live show, blending the latest technology, stunning visuals, and unbelievable vocal performances. Featuring footage from the forthcoming docu-series collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs We Speak Music, Reeps will be joined for an AI duet with the ‘Reepsbot’ and will create mind-blowing visual and sonic spectacles through the power of the voice.

Interactive ringmaster Alistair Aitcheson brings the madcap hilarity of his theatrical gaming mashup to Sheffield for a special performance at Doc/Fest. Referencing iconic Sheffield landmarks, themes from the Alternate Realities programme like memory and data and lampooning the documentary world in its own unique idiom. The Sheffield chapter of Incredible Playable can only be experienced as part of Doc/Fest’s Alternate Realities programme in Trafalgar Warehouse.

See Reeps One: We Speak Music (p.23) Part of Doc/Fest Alternate Realities (p.93)

Part of Doc/Fest Alternate Realities (p.93)

Director: Alistair Aitcheson

Country: Year: Duration:

UK 2018 60 mins

Sales Contact: contact@playable.show Website: www.playable.show

Alternate Realities

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Marketplace & Talent

Director: Stuart Swezey

Dan Gray, Get Involved dangray@getinvolvedltd.com

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Part of the Doc/Rhythm Strand (p.59)

Threads: Redux

with live performance from Weish

In 1984, the BBC’s dystopic docudrama Threads depicted the nuclear Apocalypse in Sheffield, terrifying millions of viewers. The day before Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 25th Edition begins, artist Richard DeDomenici will remake several minutes of Threads in the very locations that the original show was shot, and he wants your help!

In the Sundance award-winning Shirkers, filmmaker Sandi Tan sets out on a playful and revealing personal odyssey to solve the mystery behind her long lost first movie. This UK Premiere screening will be accompanied by a mesmerising live performance of music from the film’s soundtrack by Singaporean vocal loop artist Weish and a Q&A with director Sandi Tan in person.

Part of the Doc/Visions Strand (p.72)

Producers: Jessica Levin Maya Rudolph Country: USA Year: 2018 Duration: 96 mins Premiere: UK

Sales Contact: Ben Schwartz, Submarine schwartz@submarine.com

Director: Richard DeDomenici

Website: www.shirkersfilm.com

Producers: Lisa Brook, Nia Childs Philippa Barr Country: UK Year: 2018 Duration: 60 mins Premiere: World

Sales Contact: Richard DeDomenici richard@dedomenici.com

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere: Language: Subtitles:

Sales Contact: Sandro Fiorin, FiGa Films sandro@figafilms.com

Website: www.thereduxproject.com

Tranny Fag

with uSiSTA live pop-up

Talks & Sessions

Tanzania Transit

Films

Email redux@sidf.co.uk to be part of Threads: Redux, and join us for the World Premiere event of DeDomenici’s guerilla recreation on Saturday 9 June, featuring behind-the-scenes footage, the Redux screening itself, and all the unique absurdity and general hilarity that comes with DeDomenici’s live shows.

See Shirkers (p.76)

with live performance from Linn da Quebrada

The European Premiere of Tanzania Transit will take you aboard a rolling microcosm of East African society. Three characters join on us in transit - Rukia, Isaya, and Peter, each individual tells a story of overcoming hardship, and resilient momentum. This special screening will be accompanied by an immersive celebration of music and food from East Africa.

A vibrant night of queer cinema and contemporary Brazilian electro-funk. São Paulo pop star Linn da Quebrada is a Black trans woman whose explicit anthems give voice to marginalised communities from the favelas, while also confronting the Brazilian music scene’s macho, heteronormative prejudices. Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla’s candid profile of this radical performer will be followed by a special live performance from Linn and friends at Abbeydale Picture House.

See Tanzania Transit (p.41) Part of the Doc/Adventure Strand (p.37)

Marketplace & Talent

Director: Sandi Tan

Special Events

Shirkers

See Tranny Fag (p.62) Part of the Doc/Rhythm Strand (p.58)

Director: Alistair Aitcheson

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Digna Sinke Netherlands 2018 75 mins European

Sales Contact: Digna Sinke, SNG Film info@sngfilm.nl Website: www.sngfilm.nl/en/film/tanzania-transit

Directors: Kiko Goifman Claudia Priscilla

Alternate Realities

Special Events

Evelynn Mab Brazil 2018 75 mins UK Portuguese English

Parties & Social

Special Events Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace & Talent Parties & Social 18

Special Events

Special Events Exchange: Head Space

Supported by

Special Events Exchange: Head Space

Supported by

Special Events

Alternate Realities Portal

Sheffield Doc/Fest welcomes Portal back to Tudor Square. A 360° projection dome from Igloo Vision, bringing together selected works from the Alternate Realities and Head Space programmes.

Films

Come together to experience powerful documentary stories from both Alternate Realities Exhibitions: Better Known Truths (p.105) and The World Unknown to You (p.97).

Alternate Realities Bringing together a specially curated programme of Talks, Films and Alternate Realities experiences, Exchange: Head Space is a hub for all on Tudor Square.

Celebrate the power of storytelling with screenings including Awe Filled Vision of the World (p.22), On The Ground at Grenfell (p.23) and The Mighty Redcar (p.23).

Free and open to all during the day, kicking off at 10am with complimentary tea, coffee and pastries. The Exchange features daytime talks and other activities, and ticketed film screenings in the evening.

Escape to different realities by entering the Alternate Realities Portal (p.21), our 360º projection venue which will transport you to virtual and alternate worlds.

Guest speakers include SBTV founder Jamal Edwards, vocal artist Reeps One, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Mim Shaikh, director Claire Simon, S-Town host and creator Brian Reed, actor George MacKay and the filmmakers and artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Join them to hear about the inspirations and experiences behind their work.

Join us at our Exchange Cafe, run by Ozone Coffee Roasters in collaboration with The Depot Bakery and licensed Bar offering alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks by Hop Box. There is also a line-up of quality street food traders throughout the day and evenings.

Talks & Sessions

DOUBLETHINK Festival Commission

Experience DOUBLETHINK and be faced with a binary decision: enter the container marked HATE or the one marked HOPE. But choose wisely, because you can’t experience both...

DOUBLETHINK is a brand new immersive video installation by renowned artists and filmmakers Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth), with music by Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), written by Stuart Evers, and performed by George MacKay.

Marketplace & Talent

Welcome to Exchange: Head Space for special talks, films and activity, with a focus on your mental health. Come together for adventures through the mind, surprising new perspectives on life and inspiring conversation.

Created specifically for Sheffield Doc/Fest with support from Wellcome and in consultation with mental health researchers. Image: Paul Heartfield

Creators: Iain Forsyth Jane Pollard

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Phantoscopic UK 2018 15 mins World

Contact: Josh Varney, 42 joshvarney@42mp.com

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Or immerse yourself in a series of experiences that focus on divergent portrayals of mental health and mindfulness.

América

(dir. Erick Stoll, Chase Whiteside)

América (p.52) is a story of brothers confronting the chasm between adolescent yearning and adult realities when brought together to creatively care for their mentally ailing, but physically fit, 93-year-old grandmother.

Awe Filled Vision of The World

Join producer Alex Usborne (104 films) for a screening of extraordinary new short films from Neurodiverse filmmakers. Sheffield based 104 films have been developing work from a new generation of neurodiverse film makers. Neurodiversity is the disability of the mind and these films show a very different way of seeing the world.

Brian Reed (S-Town) and Richard Miron (For The Birds) in conversation

Join host and co-creator of S-Town, Brian Reed, in conversation with Director/ Producer, Richard Miron to explore the real life mysteries and strange tales that inspired their work.

Claire Simon in conversation

Join director Claire Simon (Young Solitude p.56) discussing her film which portrays the ups and downs in life between 16 and 18 years old.

The Dread

(dir. Pablo Aparo, Martín Benchimol) A strange disease threatens the residents of "El Dorado". Only an old man knows the antidote, however no one is encouraged to visit him.

Ghosthunter

(dir. Ben Lawrence)

A part-time Ghosthunter spent decades searching for his absent father. When his search converges with a police investigation, a family secret is exposed, forcing him to confront his brutal past.

Head Space Shorts

Dip into our specially curated series of short films exploring the mind and mental health perspectives from all walks of life.

Head Space Virtual Reality Find out how immersive experiences, such as virtual reality, can provide insights into a healthy mind. Future media expert Andy Miah is joined by neuroscientist Hugo Spiers.

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and George Mackay talk DOUBLETHINK and more

Join artists Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard and actor, George Mackay to explore the brave new world of DOUBLETHINK, an immersive experience exploring the value of our choices and, hear about their future work.

Infinite Football

(dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)

Romanian filmmaker Porumboiu focuses on Laurentiu Ginghina, a bureaucrat who dreams of revolutionising football. Yet when the director makes Ginghina's alternative game reality, the bureaucrat can't stop reworking his theories.

Jamal Edwards MBE: SBTV, Music & Mental Health

Founded by Jamal in 2006, SBTV is hailed as one of the most important youth culture platforms. On a mission to break the stigma around mental illness, Jamal will discuss his recent documentary exploring mental health and his plans for SBTV and beyond.

The Mighty Redcar + Q&A

Join filmmaker, John Douglas and key players, for a special screening of an episode from The Mighty Redcar, a North Yorkshire drama series.

Milford Graves Full Mantis (dir. Jake Meginsky, Neil Young)

Celebrating the creativity of legendary American percussionist Milford Graves, this film is itself a kaleidoscope ode to the creative process and a unique homage to the free jazz pioneer.

Mim Shaikh (BBC Radio 1Xtra) and Karen Gabay in conversation

BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and filmmaker Mim Shaikh joins broadcaster Karen Gabay to put music, creativity and black mental health under the spotlight.

Mind Games, Comedy Quiz

Special Events

The Pain of Others (dir. Penny Lane)

With the medical community failing to to recognise their mysterious condition, a handful of women take to YouTube to broadcast every aspect of their bizarre disease to a sympathetic cyberspace.

Join Lord Mayor Magid Magid on his free tours to guide you through Doc/Fest. Each starting at the Box Office on Tudor Square. Magid will highlight key festival events and venues with his own local Sheffield knowledge.

Silvana

Want to Work in Film?

(dir. Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, Christina Tsiobanelis)

Crushing fascists, homophobes and the patriarchy with her lyrics, the Swedish rapper of Lithuanian and Syrian heritage meets her match in pop artist Beatrice Eli, sparking a heady love story.

Social Chain’s Dominic McGregor in conversation

COO and Co-Founder of The Social Chain Group, Dominic McGregor, shares his story about how and why he became a mental health advocate.

Come and take part in a unique comedy quiz all about the mind.

The Task

On the Ground at Grenfell + Q&A

A conference unfolds. There is a tension between the observed and the observers; they have a task. Relations are tense as the group probes its dynamics and conflicting desires.

Join the filmmaker Nendie PintoDuschinsky, for a unique screening and conversation about On the Ground at Grenfell, which tells the stories of nine people: survivors, local residents and volunteers who have been affected by the Grenfell Tower fire. Unlike other reporting from the scene, it captures the complexity of being ‘on the ground’, the deep bonds within the community and the astonishing heroism of young people.

Walking Tours with Magid

(dir. Leigh Ledare)

Time Trial

(dir. Finlay Pretsell)

First time feature director Pretsell captures the final career struggle of cyclist David Millar. An immersive, visceral experience inside Millar's grueling attempt to qualify in the Tour de France.

An opportunity for aspiring and new filmmakers, artists, animators and crew to connect with Alice Ramsey (Talent Executive at BFI Network), Sam Rifkin (Project Coordinator at Creative England) and Maria Stoneman (Head of Operations & HR at Sheffield Doc/Fest) to find out about the film industry and kick-start your career. No need to book, just drop by.

We Speak Music docu-series + Q&A with Reeps One

Off the back of vocal artist, Reeps One’s unique live performance (p.17), this screening of the docu-series We Speak Music is made in collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs. Reeps joins us after the screening to explore the links between self expression, music and the mind.

Young Solitude (dir. Claire Simon)

Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age.

Films

Programme

Alternate Realities

Step into the brave new world of Alternate Realities – hear from the creators of unique virtual and augmented reality experiences that transport us to and help explore the inner workings of the mind.

Supported by

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities: Meet the Makers

Special Events Exchange: Head Space

Marketplace & Talent

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Former political aide and mental health campaigner Alastair Campbell and filmmaker Peter Gauvain talk to cultural observer and poet Naana Orleans and historian Dr Julie Gottlieb about their forthcoming BBC documentary Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me, produced by Silverfish in association with Windfall Films.

Supported by

Parties & Social

Special Events

Alastair Campbell in conversation

Alternate Realities

Programme

Films

Special Events Exchange: Head Space

Special Events

Doc/Fest is proud and committed to supporting diverse voices and representation in film.

ms Films Film

Symbols Key

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Look out for the following symbols throughout our programme:

Doc/Player

Your Festival Pass gives you access to Doc/Player, a digital platform to view documentaries seeking sales, distribution and screening opportunities. Look out for this symbol to see which films are available on Doc/Player.

Doc/Player is located in Industry Co-Work Space during the Festival and is available online six weeks following at www.cinandovl.com/docplayer 28

We want Doc/Fest audiences to be both challenged by and relate to the stories we share on the big screen, from dialectical montage to cinema with a dialect. We open with the local but our spectrum is international with featured films being co-produced between over 60 countries. Our regional focus this year displays films from Lebanon (p.79), a site of a new female led wave of creative documentary and one of narrative digestion and refuge for filmmakers fleeing the regime of suppression in Syria. These are films that value building a rapport, over the need to simply report, as a means of questioning our understanding of each other. Sometimes urgent, sometimes quiet, looking and thinking through images, offering a shared pause amongst the flickering updates of scrolled screens.

Tangents into other ways of seeing are particularly present in this year’s retrospectives: Electric Avenues (p.86), searching for another history to the canon of street documentary and a collection of Margaret Tait’s pioneering poetic cinema of the everyday (p.75), honouring both the centenary she shares with Women’s Suffrage. To quote one of the leaders of that movement, Millicent Fawcett: “Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.” These courageous filmmakers unsettle and embrace. Stay with their films and ask questions, as they will stay with you and ask questions in return. I look forward to greeting you in Sheffield.

Luke W. Moody

Director of Film Programming Sheffield Doc/Fest

Alternate Realities

Hit with a daily cacophony of divisive propaganda in both broadcast and private social media landscapes the art of non-fiction can fight back. Film is a vital dissident, radically connecting us with visions of the world around us.

Talks & Sessions

Films that feature LGBTQ+ subject matter.

Marketplace & Talent

Films that are made by female directors and creators.

Parties & Social

Symbols Key

The cinema offers another sensibility, a space to coalesce, trust and doubt, to look and be looked at through intimate and subjective moments we otherwise could not encounter.

Supported by MUBI

Illuminate Award

The award honours films that best display excellence in style, substance and approach to documentary filmmaking.

The award recognises a film and filmmaker which best reflects journalist Tim Hetherington’s legacy.

The award champions bold new creative forms of non-fiction cinema and artists’ film.

The award celebrates vibrant and innovative filmmaking exploring the human condition.

Jurors

Supported by Wellcome

Dorothy Byrne Head of News & Current Affairs (Channel 4)

Erika Balsom Critic

Sophie Fiennes Filmmaker

Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish filmmaker and writer. His latest book is The Story of Looking. His new film is The Eyes of Orson Welles (p.52).

Dorothy Byrne is the Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 Television. Programmes she has commissioned have won Emmy, BAFTA and RTS awards.

Erika Balsom is a scholar and critic based in London. She is the author of After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation and the co-editor of Documentary Across Disciplines.

Sophie Fiennes’ films include The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow and Grace Jones Bloodlight and Bami.

GAIKA Musician

Ryan Gallagher Journalist

Ashley Clark Programmer (BAM)

Alessandro Vincentelli Curator of Exhibitions & Research (BALTIC)

GAIKA’s uncompromising approach towards his music results in a myriad of themes and stories. This position within music, culture, fashion and society has cemented his place as one of music’s most prepossessing characters.

Ryan Gallagher is a UK based investigative journalist whose work at The Intercept is focused on national security and civil liberties.

Ashley Clark, senior programmer of cinema, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). From London, now working in New York, Ashley is a film programmer, writer and broadcaster. He was behind BFI Black Star, and wrote a book on Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.

Alessandro Vincentelli is Curator of Exhibitions & Research at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead. He previously worked as a Curator at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and at the Arts Council England. He initially trained in Social Anthropology before completing the Contemporary Curating Course at the Royal College of Art, London.

Liv Wynter Artist

Lydia Ogwang Senior Editor (Cléo)

Liv Wynter is an artist, activist, writer and educator living and working in South London. Sherecently resigned from the Tate, and is in grunge band Militant Girlfriend.

Lydia is a writer, senior editor at Cléo journal, and film industry professional based in Toronto, Canada. She has written for Cinema Scope, The Brooklyn Rail, TIFF, and Media Diversified.

Samson Kambalu Artist & Author

Jason Wood Artistic Director (HOME)

Malawi born Samson Kambalu is a London based artist and author. His work has featured at Venice, Liverpool and Dakar Biennials. He is an associate professor of fine art of Ruskin School of Art, Oxford.

Jason Wood is the Artistic Director of Film at HOME and Research Professor at Manchester School of Art and Visiting Professor at the University of Salford. The author of numerous books on cinema, including Nick Broomfield: Documenting Icons, he is also the co-director of the recent Always (crashing).

Nominations

Talks & Sessions

Mark Cousins Filmmaker

Films

Supported by Dogwoof

Art Doc Award

Alternate Realities

Supported by Broadcast & Screen International

Tim Hetherington Award

Nominations

A Northern Soul Sean McAllister

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Central Airport THF Karim Aïnouz

p.65

Black Mother Khalik Allah

p.72

América Erick Stoll, Chase Whiteside

p.52

A Woman Captured Bernadett Tuza-Ritter

p.44

Commander Arian Alba Sotorra

p.45

Music When the Lights Go Out Ismael Caneppele

p.75

Ghosthunter Ben Lawrence

p.38

Hale County, This Morning This Evening RaMell Ross

p.74

Kinshasa Makambo Dieudo Hamadi

p.47

Obscuro Barocco Evangelia Kranioti

p.76

The Dread Pablo Aparo, Martín Benchimol

p.65

Of Fathers and Sons Talal Derki

p.48

Laila At The Bridge Elissa Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei

p.47

The Gospel of Eureka Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher

p.67

The Pain of Others Penny Lane

p.68

The Silence of Others Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar

p.49

On Her Shoulders Alexandria Bombach

p.48

The Task Leigh Ledare

p.77

Time Trial Finlay Pretsell

p.42

What is Democracy? Astra Taylor

p.70

The Waldheim Waltz Ruth Beckermann

p.69

Turtle Rock Xiao Xiao

p.77

Young Solitude Claire Simon

p.56

Marketplace & Talent

Grand Jury Award

Special Events

Awards

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

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Awards

Awards & Prizes

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions 32

Jurors

The award is selected by five of the UK’s most passionate and stand out young documentary lovers.

Jurors

Keith Shiri Film Curator / Research Fellow (CREAM)

Jeffrey Bowers Senior Curator (Vimeo)

Rooney Elmi Founder & Managing Editor (SVLLY)

Keith Shiri is an international film curator and a Visiting Research Fellow for the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) University of Westminster.

Jeffrey Bowers is a Senior Curator at Vimeo, where he selects the site’s Staff Picks. Previously, he programmed for the Tribeca and Hamptons Film Festivals.

Rooney Elmi is the founder and managing editor of SVLLY(wood), a biannual print and digital movie magazine geared toward radical cinephilia. The activist and emerging creative specialises in nonfiction visual media and pop cultural criticism.

Dawn Walton Founder/Artistic Director (Eclipse)

Liv Little Founder (gal-dem)

Dawn Walton is Founder/Artistic Director of Eclipse - the UK's principal Black-led production company. Dawn has 21 years experience Directing Theatre Film and Radio.

Liv Little is the founder of gal-dem - an online and print magazine run by women of colour, for everyone.

Alissa Wilkinson Critic/Associate Professor of English & Humanities (The King's College)

Ananda Pellerin Senior Editor (Nowness)

Alissa Wilkinson is Vox.com's film critic and an associate professor of English and humanities at The King's College in New York City. She was a 2017-18 Art of Nonfiction Writing Fellow at the Sundance Institute.

Nominations

Owen Diplock

Nelly Ben Hayoun Designer/Filmmaker Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is an award-winning French designer of experiences and filmmaker who creates multi-dimensional experiential projects at the intersection of science, theater, politics and design.

Mads Mikkelsen Programmer (CPH:DOX)

Ananda is the senior editor at Nowness, a global culture channel based in London, UK. She is originally from North America.

Nominations

Special Events

The award presents the best short films in the Festival, made by emerging and established filmmakers from around the world.

Supported by Yorkshire Building Society

The award discovers and honors the future of documentary film, celebrating new talent and fresh perspectives.

Mads Mikkelsen is a programmer at CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival – since 2008 and is currently the Festival's Head of Selection Committee.

Nominations

Katie O'Toole Katie is a Psychology student with a passion for documentaries. She has interned with Journeyman Pictures and volunteered at the Open City Documentary Festival in London.

Beya Kabelu Beya is a journalism student and received a credit for his work on the BBC documentary Lawful Killing: Mark Duggan and worked as a social media producer for Rio 2016.

Taylor-Mae Atkinson An activist in LGBTQ+ rights and racial injustice, Taylor-Mae is a journalist who aspires to illuminate issues of international inequality through documentary and filmmaking.

Molly Harding

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns Fernando Solanas

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Black Sheep Ed Perkins

p.50

The Distant Barking of Dogs Simon Lereng Wilmont

p.46

Ex-Shaman Luiz Bolognesi

p.66

Mini Miss Rachel Daisy Ellis

p.63

Doel Frederik Sølberg

p.73

Flow Nicolás Molina

p.66

Mountain Grégoire Verbeke

p.57

For the Birds Richard Miron

p.53

Into the Okavango Neil Gelinas

p.39

Rebirth is Necessary Jenn Nkiru

p.78

The Game Marine de Contes

p.38

When Lambs Become Lions Jon Kasbe

p.70

Weltschmertz Jesper Dalgaard

p.63

Minding the Gap Bing Liu

Wild Relatives Jumana Manna

p.81

Zion Floyd Russ

p.43

The Proposal Jill Magid

The Whickers Prize

Owen is a South West-based cinematographer with a love of observational documentaries. He shoots engaging documentaries and writes for the online publication Coney’s Loft.

Molly, currently pursuing a career as a documentary filmmaker, has produced and directed independent documentaries internationally and is always looking for new projects.

Nominations Amal Mohamed Siam

Over the Limit Marta Prus

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Shirkers Sandi Tan

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Lost Warrior p.57 Søren Steen Jespersen, Nasib Farah Our New President Maxim Pozdorovkin

Tranny Fag Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla

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p.68

The Whickers Pitch brings together five emerging directors to pitch their non-fiction projects to a panel of industry judges and an audience of key Decision Makers, all looking to meet future filmmaking talent. One winner will receive the £80,000 Film & TV Funding Award to make their first feature-length documentary.

Films

Supported by Canon

Alternate Realities

Films

Jurors

Youth Jury Award

New Talent Award

Talks & Sessions

The award honors films that best address or raise awareness of the environmental challenges faced by the world.

Short Doc Award

p.51

p.68

Doc/Dispatch Prize

Doc/Dispatch is a showcase for short documentary journalism from citizen reporters, investigative filmmakers and responsive news units, featuring a collection of urgent, embedded, and unfolding stories from around the world. At the screening, auience members will vote to select the winner of the Doc/Dispatch Prize, supported by Deutsche Welle worth £1,000.

Marketplace & Talent

Environmental Award

Parties & Social

Special Events

Awards

Doc Audience Award

Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions

In memory of Dr Clifford Shaw.

To rate the films you see, please look out for volunteers with tear slips.

Marketplace & Talent

Our biggest Jury is you, the audience!

Doc Audience Award recognises the film that receives the highest audience vote during the Festival.

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

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Alternate Realities

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Supported by

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Doc/Expose

p. 79

New/Lebanon

Witness bold investigations exposing See an insightful and poetic corruption, crime, and injustice, vision of Lebanon through the from frontlines to headlines. latest documentary films.

p. 51

p. 82

Follow pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship.

Catch a new wave of UK filmmakers and extraordinary contemporary UK stories.

Doc/Love p. 58

Doc/Rhythm

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture. p. 64

Doc/Think

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

New/UK p. 85

Retro/Electric Avenues

Watch a curated collection of cult and classic documentaries and restored archive treasures.

Before Father Gets Back

In a darkened classroom of a remote mountain village of Georgia, light shines from the projector: the kids' first cinematic experience is about to begin. The experience inspires Iman and Eva to take the camera and start filming their daily lives. The girls are growing up in a valley infested by radicalism, where most people are living in a constant fear of their relatives sacrificing their lives in the name of God.

Director: Mari Gulbiani

Producer: Country:

Tekla Machavariani Georgia, France, Germany Year: 2018 Duration: 80 mins Premiere: World Language: Georgian

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Producer:

Premiere: World Language: Romanian Subtitles: English

English

Director's Filmography: Trilogy: The Door, The Window, The Music in the Window (2008), High Above the Clouds (2011), Green Yarn (2012), The Shelter (2013), I am at Home, You Are on the Way (2013)

Sales Contact: Aleksandar Govedarica, Syndicado Film Sales aleksandar@syndicado.com

Sales Contact: Andrea Cornwell, Grain Labs / Grain Media andrea@grainmedia.co.uk

Bruce Lee & the Outlaw

Nicu, a young homeless boy, is adopted by Bruce Lee, the notorious "King of the Underworld" and goes to live with him in the tunnels underneath Bucharest. As Nicu grows up, he starts to realise that perhaps the King of the Underworld is not the perfect father and has to make a choice between staying in Bruce's gang, or living a 'normal' life above ground. Filmed over six years, Bruce Lee & the Outlaw is a modern-day Oliver Twist story under the streets of Bucharest.

Director: Joost Vandebrug

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Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Films

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions of reality reimagined.

Doc/Visions

Alternate Realities

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Doc/Adventure

Talks & Sessions

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Marketplace & Talent

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Strand Doc/Adventure

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Andrea Cornwell Joachim van Trommel UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic 2018 85 mins

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

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Language: English

The Insufferable Groo

The architects' plans for Central Bus Station to swallow visitors has turned into an endless maze of corridors. Once a great gift to the citizens of Tel Aviv, it now serves to the immigrants. Yonathan has been a guide there for 17 years and is able to show the other side of the station's significance to those who walk with him. Yonathan knows that the purpose of going down to the building is to find not only himself, but also a society that harbours its values, protects its original traditions and wants to defend its home.

Director: Tomáš Elšík

Strand Doc/Adventure

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Central Bus Station

Films Having made nearly 200 low-budget movies in just two decades, Utah writer-director Stephen Groo is now seeking production funds and the involvement of celebrity fan Jack Black for a remake of his 2004 human/elf fantasy drama The Unexpected Race. Scott Christopherson's hilarious yet sincere portrait depicts this uphill battle, while examining the unusual methods of a determined DIY auteur. [MA]

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Jitka Kotrlová Ondřej Šejnoha Czech Republic 2018 78 mins World

Language: English, Hebrew Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Jitka Kotrlová, Frame films jitka@framefilms.cz

The Game

Director: Scott Christopherson

Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Jared Hess Jared Harris Eric Robertson USA 2017 98 mins World

Director's Filmography: Peace Officer (2015)

Sales Contact: Scott Christopherson, Saint Cloud scottchristopherson@gmail.com Website: www.theinsufferablegroo.com/

Into The Okavango

From the view of their log cabin hut in the Landes region of France, men scour the autumnal skies. They listen to the rustling of the forest, eagerly awaiting the birds to pass overhead. In a strange choreography, they pull on the strings of time to activate their trap, while all around them the trees are falling.

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The Okavango River Basin provides a vital source of water to about 1 million people, the world’s largest population of African elephants and significant populations of lions, cheetahs and hundreds of species of birds. However, this once unspoiled oasis is now under siege due to increasing pressure from human activity.

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Fabrice Marache France 2018 53 mins International

Language: French Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Emeline Bonnardet, l'atelier documentaire atelierdocumentaire@yahoo.fr

Ghosthunter

Director: Neil Gelinas

Producer: Country: Year: Duration:

Premiere: International Language: English

Sales Contact: Ross Fremer, Cinetic ross@cineticmedia.com Website: www.intotheokavango.org/

The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid

A security guard and part-time Ghosthunter has spent two decades searching for his absent father. As a survivor of a violent childhood, he seeks reconcile his fractured memories and put together his past. When his search converges with a police investigation, a horrific family secret is exposed - forcing him to confront his brutal past that threatens to destroy him.

In The Lonely Battle Of Thomas Reid we find Thomas, the Irish farmer living on the fringes of mainstream society. Beyond the walls of his 17th century farm looms a vast American factory - vital to the national economy but an unsettling presence. Thomas does not welcome the State agents who come to forcibly purchase his house and lands. He vows to resist. Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Director: Ben Lawrence

Neil Gelinas USA 2018 94 min

Producer: Country: Year: Duration:

Rebecca Bennett Australia 2018 100 mins

Doc/Fest MeetMarket Pitched

Premiere: International Language: English

Sales Contact: Salma Abdalla, Autlook Filmsales welcome@autlookfilms.com

Director: Feargal Ward

Talks & Sessions

Director: Marine de Contes

Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

Marketplace & Talent

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Luke McManus Ireland, Germany 2017 77 mins UK

Language: English Director's Filmography: Quarantine, (2011), Yximalloo, (2014), The Great Wall, (2015)

Sales Contact: Luke McManus, FSE films lukemcmanus@gmail.com Website: www.fsefilms.com

Parties & Social

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Screening with: Skywards (p.43)

Producer:

Year: Duration: Premiere: Language:

2018 89 mins UK English

Sales Contact: Jason Ishikawa, Cinetic International jason@cineticmedia.com

Parties & Social

Director: Daniel Patrick Carbone

Producer:

Premiere: International Language: English

Country: Year: Duration:

Ryan Scafuro Annie Waldman Daniel Patrick Carbone USA, UK 2018 93 mins

Director's Filmography: Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (2007)

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Digna Sinke Netherlands 2018 75 mins European

Language: Swahili, Masai Subtitles: English

Producer:

Becky Read Grace Hughes-Hallett UK, USA 2017 96 mins European

Language: English

Special Events Sales Contact: Lucas Verga, Film Sales Company danielpatrickcarbone@gmail.com Website: www.phantomcowboys.com

Alternate Realities

Tanzania Transit

A train crossing Tanzania presents a rolling microcosm of East African society. Three characters join on us in transit - Rukia, an entrepreneurial woman, travels second class. Isaya, a charismatic old Masai, sits with grandson William, in the train’s poorest part, while Peter, a preacher, travels first class. Each individual tells a story of overcoming hardship, and resilient momentum.

In 2007 Banksy slips into Palestine to paint on the West Bank barrier. Someone takes offence at a piece depicting an Israeli soldier checking a donkey’s ID. A local taxi driver decides to cut it off and sell it on eBay. What follows is a story of clashing cultures, art, identity, theft and black market.

Producer: Country: Year:

Marco Proserpio Filipo Perfido Italy 2017

Duration: 91 mins Premiere: European Language: English

Sales Contact: Semira Hedayati, Elle Driver sales@elledriver.eu

Director: Jeroen van Velzen

Website: www.themanwhostolebanksy.com

Over the Limit

Director's Filmography: Homosapiens (2007), Drieduizend Meter Boven de Wolken (2008), Baba (2009), Wavumba - They Who Smell Fish (2011), A Goat For a Vote (2014)

Sales Contact: Journeyman Pictures films@journeyman.tv Website: www.sngfilm.nl/en/film/tanzania-transit/

Marketplace & Talent

Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions

Jason Kohn Amanda Branson Gill Anne White Jill Mazursky David Styne USA

Three Identical Strangers

20-year-old Russian rhythmic gymnast Margarita has a brutal coach but her senior coach is another level. Dripping in designer chic, she glides in like Elizabeth Taylor, washed up on Olympic shores and is compulsively spitting venom. A rare and gripping insight into the coaching of a young female athlete by two generations of women, this is Black Swan meets Grey Gardens. [SB]

In 1980 this remarkable true story made international news. Three identical triplets, complete strangers raised in entirely different New York households managed to discover each other decades after they had been separated at birth. But behind the splashy headlines lurked a disturbing secret which called into question the very notion of who we are.

Screening with: Cheer (p.43) Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

Director: Marta Prus

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

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In this imaginatively realised longitudinal film, three boys in small town America find their hopes and dreams tempered by their circumstances. While Nick is reluctant to leave his hometown, Ty’s ambitions change as he becomes a father. Meanwhile, jail puts Larry’s life on hold. Moving back and forth over eight years, this is a moving, skilful exploration of adolescence. [CN]

The Man Who Stole Banksy

Director: Marco Proserpio

Strand Doc/Adventure

Phantom Cowboys

At 86, famed tennis coach Nick Bollettieri is a living legend who raised a generation of champions. His greatness though came at a price. Broken marriages, financial ruin and most devastatingly, a fractured relationship with surrogate son and cherished student, Andre Agassi. Love Means Zero tells the story of this celebrated yet controversial coac, and the cost of an all-consuming drive for greatness.

Director: Jason Kohn

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Maciej Kubicki Anna Kępińska Poland, Germany, Finland 2017 74 mins UK

Language: Russian Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Salma Abdalla, Autlook Filmsales welcome@autlookfilms.com

Director: Tim Wardle

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Love Means Zero

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Marketplace & Talent

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Talks & Sessions

Strand Doc/Adventure

Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Director's Filmography: In Search of Mr Average (2007), Coppers: What's Your Emergency? (2010), Lifers (2012), One Killer Punch (2016), Three Identical Strangers (2017)

Sales Contact: Josh Braun, Submarine schwartz@submarine.com

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Screening with: Over the Limit (p.40)

Screening with: Doc/Adventure Shorts

Tina Vidmar | UK | 2018 | 6 mins | World Premiere Email: tina-vidmar@hotmail.co.uk

Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan | USA | 2018 | 17 mins UK Premiere | Email: charlie.phillips@theguardian.com

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Sonja Henrici UK 2017 81 mins UK

Language: English Director's Filmography: Ma Bar (2009), Cutting Loose (2011)

Sales Contact: Salma Abdalla, Autlook Filmsales salma@autlookfilms.com Website: www.timetrialfilm.com

From Parts Unknown

Skywards

To Be a Torero

Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight

Jesse ‘Madman’ Manson decides to live out his fantasy to start an underground Professional Wrestling league. Ten years later, the toll of injuries threaten to end his life’s passion. Michael T. Workman | USA | 2018 | 28 mins International Premiere | Email: mtworkman@gmail.com

Cuba is one of the most successful countries in Olympic boxing history, but women are banned from competing. Maceo Frost's atmospheric and immersive film follows the fortunes of 39-year-old potential champion Namibia as she trains alongside male athletes at Havana's legendary El Trejo gym, while hoping for the government to change its stance before she ages out of eligibility. [MA]

Hands Up, Chin Down

"Just a couple rounds more!" yells Jerry Mitchell, a highly respected amateur boxing coach. Breathing, blows, energy and focus rhythmically unfold on split-screen over the real-time of a boxing round.

Screening with: Hands Up, Chin Down (p.43) Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Klaudia Gainza Netherlands, USA 2017 77 mins World

Language: Spanish, Cuban Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Raised By Krump (2016)

Sales Contact: Klaudia Gainza, Klaudia Gainza klaudia@filmproducer.london

Screening with: Namibia: The Cuban Boxing Revolution (p.42) Matt Houghton | UK | 2017 | 3 mins | World Premiere Email: matt.r.houghton@gmail.com

Prom's over and the future is uncertain. The irresistible pull of the beach makes long-time friends from an industrial corner of the Everglades drive 60 miles to chill, pose and frolic.

The screen separates and unites as pigeons soar above a bustling Old Delhi. Skywards celebrates the forms and patterns of the flights, and the pigeonkeepers' love of their tradition.

The Water Slide

A succession of news stories explore a tragic cocktail of ego, short-sightedness, and thrill-seeking abandon. With the opening of ambitious waterslide 'Insane', a Kansas waterpark throws caution to the wind. [SB] Screening with: Doc/Adventure Shorts Nathan Truesdell | USA | 2018 | 9 mins European Premiere | Email: NathanTruesdell@gmail.com

A grandfather pins his hopes on 12-yearold grandson Borja to transform the family's fortunes. Unemployment weighs heavy on Borja's mother, as he submerges himself in the practise of bullfighting.

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Eva Weber | UK | 2017 | 5 mins | UK Premiere Email: eva@oddgirlout.co.uk

Inma de Reyes | Spain, UK | 2017 | 14 mins World Premiere | Email: nana8186@hotmail.co.uk

Taking the Waters

Zion

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Zion is a star of the high school wrestling team. The 19-year-old was born without legs, survived abusive foster care, and rose above adversity with unparalleled strength, talent and positivity.

Walpole Bay Tidal Pool has witnessed war and socio-economic neglect, yet the 80-year-old remains an anchor for the community. Despite turbulence, its waters are a redemptive haven, full of memories. Kathryn Ferguson, Anna Hart | UK | 2017 | 18 mins World Premiere | Email: kathrynfergusonis@googlemail.com

Doc/Fest Short Doc Award Nominee

Screening with: Doc/Adventure Shorts Floyd Russ | USA | 2017 | 10 mins European Premiere | Netflix

Vienna Calling

Grave robber and death obsessed artist Ondrej Jajcaj is on a mission to stop people fearing the grim reaper. Now he’s travelling with sidekicks Jan and Tomas in a horsedrawn caravan of death to return some famous teeth. In this creatively realised docufiction, the road to Vienna is full of surprises. [CN]

Director: Petr Šprincl

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Cheer

When the youngest member of a reputable all-star cheerleading team struggles to hit her stunt during her coach's rigorous training sessions, the rest of the team suffers. Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Director: Maceo Frost

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First time feature director Finlay Pretsell set out to document professional cyclist David Millar's triumphant last hurrah: a 13th run at the Tour de France. Unexpectedly Pretsell captured Millar battling the rain and his aging body merely to qualify in the race. Pretsell's poetic doc is a visceral, immersive experience that places the viewer into the haunted heart of its subject.

Director: Finlay Pretsell

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Marek Novák Czech Republic 2018 67 mins World

Language: Czech, Slovak, German Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Warped Ján (2013). Blue box (2014), Moravia, O Fair Land I (2015), Moravia, O Fair Land II. (2016)

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Sales Contact: Marek Novák, Xova Film, s.r.o. marek@xovafilm.cz Website: www.smrtnadzlato.cz Cheer

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The Ballymurphy Precedent tells the unknown story death of eleven innocent people at the hands of the British Army in a Catholic estate in Belfast in 1971. This is a massacre that few have heard of, yet it was one of the most significant events in the Troubles. The British army continues to cover it up because they cannot afford to admit the truth.

Director: Callum Macrae

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Christo Hird Gwion Owain Ireland, UK 2018 106 mins World

Director's Filmography: No Fire Zone (2012), Gem Wars (2015), The War the World Forgot (2016)

Sales Contact: Christo Hird, Dartmouth Films christo@dartmouthfilms.com

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Director Alba Sotorra follows YPJ Commander Arian and her group of female fighters into the heart of the Syrian War, as they break through the siege of Kobane on an epic mission to liberate their lands from ISIS. Hit by 5 bullets, Arian is forced to deal with the wounds of war - both visible and invisible - and to find new ways to fight for women’s freedom.

When a 23-year-old Afghan woman, Khatera, confronts the will of her family and the traditions of her country to seek justice for years of sexual abuse from her father, she sheds light on the faulty Afghan judicial system and the women it rarely protects. One woman’s obstinate battle to make her voice heard demonstrates the power of action over fear, documented by an Afghan filmmaker.

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

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Nicole Levigne Afghanistan, France 2018 76 mins European

Language: Afghan Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Kaloo School (2013), Beyond the Burqa (2014)

Sales Contact: Gitte Hansen, First Hand Films gitte.hansen@firsthandfilms.com

A Woman Captured

Director: Alba Sotorra

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Stefano Strocchi Germany, Spain, Syria 2018 105 mins European

Language: Kurdish Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Marcel Karst, Dogwoof marcel@dogwoof.com

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Arne Birkenstock Olivier Zobrist Germany, Switzerland 2017 100 mins UK

Language: French, English, German, Swahili, Lingala Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Georg Gruber, MAGNETFILM GmbH georg.gruber@magnetfillm.de

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The Congo Tribunal

Slavery is a European invention, and still exists. Filmmaker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter encounters Eta in Hungary, a woman proud of keeping domestic slaves. Violent, abusive, and manipulative Eta has stripped 53-yearold Marish of her belongings, her family and her identity. As trust builds between Marish and the filmmaker, Marish begins to mentally prepare for a dangerous bid for freedom.

The war in Congo has caused more than six million deaths over the last 20 years in one of globalisation's crucial economic distribution battles over major deposits of many high-tech raw materials. Acclaimed theatre director Milo Rau gathers victims, perpetrators, observes and analysts for a unique civil tribunal in eastern Congo. An unvarnished portrait of the largest and bloodiest economic wars in human history. Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter

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Julianna Ugrin Viki Réka Kiss Hungary 2017 89 mins UK

Language: Hungarian Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: "Just the way it is..." (2013)

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Director: Milo Rau

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Director's Filmography: The Last Days of the Ceausescus (2010), The Moscow Trials (2014), The Congo Tribunal (2017)

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In a chaotic and often dangerous Kinshasa nothing is certain. Three activists risk everything trying to unseat Joseph Kabila, who is refusing to relinquish control as promised. Congolese director Dieudo Hamadi (Mama Colonel) follows the young men as they attempt different tactics to mobilise a rebel generation amidst secret police on the lookout for trouble makers. [CN]

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Language: Ukrainian Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Dormitory Master (2009), Travelling with Mr. T (2012), The Fencing Champion (2014), Chikara - The Sumo Wrestler's Son (2014)

Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil info@cinephil.co.il

Director: Dieudo Hamadi

Website: www.finalcutforreal.dk/distantbarking-of-dogs

Producer: Quentin Laurent, Frédéric Féraud, Dieudo Hamadi Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Switzerland, Germany, Norway Year: 2018 Duration: 75 mins

Premiere: UK Language: Lingala Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Stephan Riguet, Andana Films sriguet@andanafilms.com

Director's Filmography: Ladies in Waiting "Congo in 4 Acts" (2009), Atalaku (2013), National Diploma (2014), Mama Colonel (2017)

Laila At The Bridge

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Dancing with Le Pen

Notes from Dunblane

The rise of the Front National in France, told through the story of the 2016 French presidential election and of father and daughter LePen.

Following the Sandy Hook Massacre, a priest from Dunblane, Scotland reaches out to Father Bob offering support 16 years after a school shooting in his own town.

Nuuca

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Dir. Kim A. Snyder

The oil boom in North Dakota has brought tens of thousands of new people to the region and with that has come an influx of drugs, crime and sex trafficking.

Testimonies of a Massacre: Tula Toli Dir. Shafiur Rahman

The film contains testimonies of survivors from the worst massacre in the Rohingya crisis. Filmed at the border and in refugee camps, it also discusses crucial evidence of pre-planning.

Time is Out of Joint

Since the US invaded Afghanistan, heroin addiction has rocketed. One woman is singlehandedly battling the crisis. Scooping men and women from under a squalid bridge, Laila Haidari detoxes them in her recovery clinic which she funds through her restaurant staffed by former addicts. Her precarious income is destabilised as the Taliban attacks increase and corrupt ministers reject her fundraising appeals. [SB]

Dir. Victor Arroyo

Blending performance with observational approaches and ethnography, this documentary provides a glimpse into Indigenous rural Mexico at the intersection between ecocide, narcolabour and enforced disappearance.

I, Dolours

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Monica Hellström Denmark, Finland, Sweden 2017 91 mins UK

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Director: Elissa Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei

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Ina Fichman Canada, Afghanistan 2017 97 mins UK

Language: Dari, Pashto Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Stranded in Kabul (2013), Farewell Kabul (2014), For Sardar: The Afghan Journalist (2016)

Sales Contact: Ina Fichman, Intuitive Pictures Inc. Ina@intuitivepictures.ca

Lost Warrior

Intense cinematic portrait of Dolours Price, one time IRA radical terrorist and hunger striker, who gave a lengthy interview shortly before her death at the age of 61. Set against her haunting testimonial are vivid fictional re-enactments masterfully interspersed with searing documentary footage. Ultimately Price's turbulent life mirrors the violent, complex history of Northern Ireland's long civil conflict.

After returning to his native Mogadishu and briefly joining al-Shabab, Mohammed is no longer welcome in the UK where he grew up. But with his wife and young son in London, he is desperate to return and refuses to give up hope. This intimate observational film follows Mohammed and his wife as they try to stay connected. [CN]

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

Director: Maurice Sweeney

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Nuala Cunningham Ed Moloney Paul Myler Ireland 2017 82 mins European

Language: English Director's Filmography: Saving The Titanic (2012), Brendan Behan (2013), King of Ireland (2015), Trial of the Century (2016), Barbarians Rising (2016)

Sales Contact: Judith Baugin, Kew Media judith.baugin@kewmedia.com

Director: Søren Steen Jespersen Nasib Farah

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Kinshasa Makambo

Ten-year-old Oleg is much loved by his grandmother, who is raising him in the wake of his mother’s death. But their quiet village in eastern Ukraine is the epicentre of the war between the government and pro-Russian separatists. In this beautifully crafted observational film, Oleg’s ordinary boyhood plays out against a continuously ominous landscape. [CN]

Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont

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Helle Faber Denmark 2017 85 mins UK

Language: English, Somali Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Hamlet har da blå øjne (1990), Warriors from the North (2014), The Lost Warrior (2017)

Sales Contact: DR TV, International Sales, DR TV, International Sales drsales@dr.dk

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The Silence of Others reveals the epic struggle of victims of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco, who continue to seek justice to this day. Filmed over six years, the film follows victims and survivors as they organize the groundbreaking “Argentine Lawsuit” and fight a state-imposed amnesia of crimes against humanity, in a country still divided four decades into democracy.

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98 mins UK Arabic, English English

Sales Contact: Salma Abdalla, Autlook Filmsales welcome@autlookfilms.com Website: www.www.offathersandsons.com/

Director: Almudena Carracedo Robert Bahar

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Robert Bahar Almudena Carracedo Spain, USA 2018 96 mins UK

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Myles Estey Brent Kunkle Damon Tabor USA 2017 125 mins European

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Tom Brisley UK 2018 93 mins

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Director's Filmography: Made in L.A. (2007). Robert Bahar: Laid to Waste (1996), Meet Joe Gay (1999), Made in L.A. (2007)

Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil info@cinephil.com Website: www.TheSilenceofOthers.com

The Trade

On Her Shoulders

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Ansgar Frerich Eva Kemme Tobias N. Siebert Hans Robert Eisenhauer Germany, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria 2017

Addicts and their families struggle in Atlanta, drug lords and poppy-seed farmers toil in Mexico, and narcotics units and dealers clash in Columbus. Intimate moments lay bare the physical and emotional grip of dependency, the complicit pain of enabling addiction, the complex roles of law enforcement, and the seemingly unbreakable cycle of supply and demand.

Mobbed by iPhone cameras and pushy reporters, 23-year-old Nadia Murad leads a harrowing but vital crusade: to speak out on behalf of the embattled Yazidi community who face mass extermination by ISIS militants. Nadia is forced to revisit these realities again and again, for without her testimony the genocide happening right in front of the world’s eyes might go completely unnoticed. Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Director: Alexandria Bombach

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Hayley Pappas Brock Williams USA 2018 94 mins European

Language: English, Kurdish, Arabic Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Common Ground (2014), Frame by Frame (2015), Afghanistan by Choice (2016)

Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil philippa@cinephil.com

One or Two Questions

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Sales Contact: Pagan Harleman, paganharleman@yahoo.com

Under The Wire

In 1986, Uruguay passed a law granting amnesty for human rights violations committed by the military and police during the dictatorship (1973-85). One or Two Questions uses footage of interviews recorded on the streets between 1987 and 1989, to present a multifaceted reflection of the country and its inhabitants, in which the values of democracy - such as peace and justice - are continually questioned.

Director: Kristina Konrad

Director: Matthew Heineman

On 10 February 2012, war-correspondent Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy entered war-ravaged Syria to cover the plight of civilians trapped in besieged Homs, under attack by the Syrian army. Only one of them returned. Based on Conroy’s book Under the Wire, the film is a gripping account of the triumph of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.

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Kristina Konrad Germany, Uruguay 2018 237 mins UK

Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Greater Freedom Lesser Freedom (2000), Our America (2005), When We Were Happy and Didn't Know It (2011), Diego (2015), Dos días en mayo (2017)

Sales Contact: Kristina Konrad, weltfilm GmbH konrad@weltfilm.com

Director: Chris Martin

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The Silence of Others

Posing as a sympathetic war photographer, Syrian director Talai Derki (Return to Homs) gains access to the world of minesweeper Abu Osama, who is raising his many young sons to be Jihadi fighters. Shot over two years amongst a Northern Syrian militia fighting for an Islamic caliphate, this is an intimate and unforgettable foray into extremist religious indoctrination. [CN]

Director: Talal Derki

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Language: Slovak Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Stone Games (2012)

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A Northern Soul

Sean McAllister returns to his Yorkshire hometown of Hull as creative director of the opening ceremony of the City of Culture celebrations: living back with his 90 year-old parents, McAllister reflects on the changes to a city hit by cuts in public spending and divided by Brexit and where more than 1 in 3 children are living in poverty. Drawn to the fringes of town, McAllister met and started filming with Steve Arnott, a struggling warehouse worker by day and hip-hop performer by night, who harbours his own creative dream.

With exclusive, behind-the-scenes access, this film charts the final year in office of South African anti-corruption champion Thuli Madonsela as she attempts to seek justice for ordinary people. After successfully challenging President Jacob Zuma for illegal use of state funds, she faces the biggest challenge of her career: exposing the systematic takeover of government by a private family in cahoots with the President.

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Francois Verster Shameela Seedat Neil Brandt Brechtje Smidt Milan Colling South Africa 2018 87 mins

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Short Doc Award Nominee Cornelius' family departed London following Damilola Taylor's murder. Nonactors reconstruct Cornelius' memories of the chilling racist violence he subsequently faced, and the extreme measures he took for survival. Screening with: Doc/Expose Shorts Ed Perkins | UK | 2017 26 mins | European Premiere charlie.phillips@ theguardian.com

Ebrahim

Teenager Ebrahim and his friends yearn for home-cooking. Passing time in a refugee camp limbo, their studies and futures are compromised by wartorn origins and bleak prospects in Europe. Screening with: Doc/Expose Shorts Elliott McKee | Germany Greece 2018 | 28 mins World Premiere elliottmckee@gmail.com

Fake News Fairytale

Once upon a time in Veles, Macedonia, a craze caught on for the lucrative activity of generating outrageous online stories. Fake news helped shift the course of history, or reality. Screening with: Watching the Detectives Kate Stonehill | UK | 2018 14 mins | World Premiere festivals2@nfts.co.uk

Premiere: European Language: English Director's Filmography: Monwabisi and the Sharkspotters (2013), Khalo's Tribute to Madiba (2013), I Am Woman (2016)

Francois Verster, Undercurrent Film and Television ucurrent@mweb.co.za

Director: Sean McAllister

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Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

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Elhum Shakerifar UK 2018 80mins World

Language: English Director's Filmography: The Liberace Of Baghdad (2004), Japan: A Story Of Love And Hate (2008), The Reluctant Revolutionary (2012), A Syrian Love Story (2015)

Sales Contact: Elhum Shakerifar, Hakawati elhum@hakawati.co.uk

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Radovan Síbrt Alžběta Karásková Czech Republic, Croatia 2018 76 mins UK

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Peter Švrek is the chillingly self-possessed young leader of the Slovak Recruits, a volunteer militia drawing the attention of the media, as it trains in the local woods and ‘welcomes’ arriving refugees. This compelling observational film takes us deep inside Švrek’s world, as he vows to stay true to his Slavic blood and readies the troops for war. [CN]

Director: Jan Gebert

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Amal The Holiday Inn-Side

A 16-year-old in a secure facility awaits sentencing, to be determined once the gravity of the offence reveals itself. Animated and anonymous, the subject invites the viewer into his dilemma. Screening with: Doc/Expose Shorts Charby Ibrahim Australia | 2017 | 20 mins World Premiere charbyibrahim@ gmail.com

Las Nubes

In the town of Las Nubes, an anonymous rancher recounts how since he stopped measuring time his memory has clouded almost completely. What he does remember with exact precision is the last night he saw his daughter.

Watching the Detectives

Reddit and 4chan users unleash a flurry of wild speculation following the Boston Marathon Bombing. The trail of the amateur detectives observes the power of internet frenzies and crowd-sourcing culpability. [SB]

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Juan Pablo González USA | 2017 | 20 mins UK Premiere jamescgoncalves@ gmail.com

Chris Kennedy | Canada 2017 | 37 mins UK Premiere director@cfmdc.org

Filmed over six years, Mohamed Siam’s intimate and unflinching portrait of a politicized teenage girl in contemporary Egypt follows the titular Amal (whose name means ‘hope’) from the age of 15 through to adulthood. Confronting male authority figures and fellow protestors during the Arab Spring’s turbulent aftermath, she defies a patriarchal society to find her place in the revolution. [MA] Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

Director: Mohamed Siam

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Myriam Sassine Mohamed Siam Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Lebanon, Norway 2017 83 mins

Premiere: UK Language: Arabic Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Théo Lionel, Doc & Film International t.lionel@docandfilm.com

Director's Filmography: Whose country? (2016)

Website: www.docandfilm.com/en/cinema/ amal-2/

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A woman’s love for her pet ducks and chickens - all 200 of them - begins to threaten her marriage and draw attention from local animal rescuers. As an escalating custody battle unfolds in vérité, an unlikely cast of characters finds their own fates intertwined with the fate of these birds.

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Erick Stoll Chase Whiteside USA 2018 76 mins UK

Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Chase Whiteside, cwhiteside@gmail.com

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Richard Miron Jeffrey Star Holly Meehl USA 2018 90 mins World

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Jean-Laurent Csinidis Meike Martens Kelly Parker France 2018 90 mins

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Sarah Shaw Eddie Martin Australia 2017 86 mins UK

Language: English

Director's Filmography: Art and Craft (2014), Life, Animated (2016), The Surrounding Game (2018)

Sales Contact: Holly Meehl, Lunamax Films holly@lunamaxfilms.com Website: www.forthebirdsmovie.com

Game Girls

Ashore portrays the life of a singular fisherman in an ancient riverfront community near Lisbon. Divided between the quiet solitude of the river and the family ties that wash him ashore, the film follows Albertino Lobo, as nature renews itself with each season cycle.

Alternately raw and tender, Alina Skrzeszewska’s compassionate observational documentary charts the relationship between two women trying to survive the violence and chaos of Los Angeles’ sprawling Skid Row. Tiahna seems resigned to life on the streets, but her girlfriend Teri is determined to escape. They share their hopes and fears at a weekly Expressive Arts workshop for homeless women. [MA]

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Filipa Reis João Miller Guerra Portugal 2018 82 mins UK

Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Rhoma Acans (2013), Batrachian’s Ballad (2016), Ashore (2018)

Sales Contact: Christa Auderlitzky, Filmdelights auderlitzky@filmdelights.com

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Director: Alina Skrzeszewska

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Director's Filmography: The Scent Of The Sky (2002), Last One Left (2009), Songs from the Nickel (2010), Traviesos (2013)

Sales Contact: Théo Lionel, Doc & Film International t.lionel@docandfilm.com Website: www.docandfilm.com/en/cinema/ game-girls-2

Have You Seen The Listers?

From All This Mayhem director Eddie Martin comes the exciting story of the Lister family in Have You Seen the Listers? Anthony Lister sets out to become the world's greatest street artist which takes him from his home in Australia to New York and across the world. With unbelievable home footage capturing the highs and lows of family life, this is a touching, funny and one-of-a-kind family portrait.

With exclusive access to hundreds of private drawings and paintings by Orson Welles, Mark Cousins dives into the world of the legendary man to reveal a portrait of the artist as he's never been seen - through Welles’ own eyes. He vividly brings to life the passions, politics and power of this brilliant 20th-century showman, exploring his genius in the age of Trump. Screening with: Last Man Standing (p.57)

Director: Mark Cousins

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Director: Richard Miron

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Mary Bell Adam Dawtrey UK 2018 115 mins UK

Language: English Director's Filmography: Life May Be (2014), 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia (2014), I Am Belfast (2015), Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015), Stockholm My Love (2016)

Sales Contact: Marcel Karst, Dogwoof marcel@dogwoof.com

Director: Eddie Martin

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Director: Leonor Teles

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For the Birds

Diego, a young circus artist, must return home and reunite with his brothers after their 93-year-old grandmother, América, falls from her bed, causing their father to be jailed under accusation of elder neglect. Diego is a dreamer who sees poetry and purpose in this tragedy. He believes América, despite her immobility and advanced dementia, fell wilfully, to bring the separated family back together.

Director: Erick Stoll Chase Whiteside

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Claire Babany Éléonore Boissinot Sébastien Deurdilly Johan De Faria France 2018 70 mins

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Hao Wu China 2018 95 mins European

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Liao Ching-song Ho Chao-ti Taiwan 2018 87 mins World

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Out

A season in the life of Alina, a poor 20-yearold girl from Kyiv who has a chance to be saved by football. She’s about to join the Ukrainian national team, but life challenges her once again: her mother dies leaving two young siblings. Now, Alina must choose: football or family.

Director: Alisa Kovalenko

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Films Through a montage of compelling videos posted on the Internet by young gays, bis, lesbians or transsexuals, Out makes us experience from within the groundbreaking moment of their coming out – after which their intimate and social life shall be forever changed.

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Stephane Siohan Ukraine, France, Poland 2018 86 mins World

Language: Russian, Ukrainian Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Selected: Sister Zo (2013), Alisa in Warland (2015)

Sales Contact: Aleksandar Govedarica, Syndicado Film Sales aleksandar@syndicado.com

Lovers of the Night

Director: Denis Parrot

Sales Contact: Antoine Bertrand-Hardy, Upside Distribution antoine.bertrand-hardy@ upsidetelevision.com Website: www.upsidedistribution.com

People's Republic of Desire

Anna Frances Ewert’s contemplative portrait of a monastery and small farm in rural Ireland spotlights seven elderly monks, who reflect on faith, aging and the challenges they face with frankness and humour. Punctuated by atmospheric footage of the surrounding countryside, the film captures sacred rituals and the Fathers’ everyday pleasures, notably following the fortunes of Munster’s provincial rugby team. [MA]

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The online showrooms of two live streaming stars from China have become virtual gathering places for hundreds of thousands - from the super rich to poor migrant workers. All these characters are brought together in a series of bizarre online idol competitions, where they discover that happiness in the virtual world may be as elusive as in the real one.

Anna Frances Ewert Germany, Ireland 2017 57 mins European

Language: English Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Into the Middle of Nowhere (2010), Endless Day (2012), Nadeshda (2014), Amanda (2015)

Sales Contact: Anna Frances Ewert, Áine Films mail@annafrancesewert.com

Director: Hao Wu

Director's Filmography: Beijing or Bust (2005), The Road to Fame (2013)

Sales Contact: Jason Ishikawa, Cinetic Media jason@cineticmedia.com Website: www.desire.film

Turning 18

Minding the Gap

Two young girls meet at a vocational training program after which their lives move in completely different directions. Both from broken homes, Pei searches for hope in love while Chen struggles to avoid her parents' fate. As they approach 18, the undercurrents of their lives surface nearly overwhelming them. How can an unloved life find a strength of her own?

First-time feautre filmmaker Bing Liu's documentary Minding the Gap is a comingof-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession. In his quest to understand why he and his friends all ran away from home when they were younger, Bing follows 23-year-old Zack as he becomes a father and 17-year-old Keire as he gets his first job. Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Director: Bing Liu

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Diane Quon Bing Liu USA 2018 93 mins

Premiere: UK Language: English

Sales Contact: Marcel Karst, Dogwoof marcel@dogwoof.com

Director: Ho Chao-ti

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Director's Filmography: Wandering Island (2009), My Fancy High Heel ( 2010), 303 (2012), Sock’n’Roll (2013), Sunflower Occupation (2014)

Sales Contact: Ho Chao-ti, Conjunction Films conjunctionfilm@gmail.com

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23-year-old Ismaael moves home for a temporary stint with his parents. He navigates his new chapter of adulthood on a road of tricky transitions, and experiences bone-breaking growing pains.

Sophie Dulac France 2018 100 mins UK

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Kamau Bilal | USA | 2016 | 14 mins | European Premiere Email: kamaubilal@gmail.com Language: French Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Gods Offices (2008), Gare du Nord (2013), Human Geography (2013), The Woods Dreams Are Made Of (2016), The Graduation (2016)

Sales Contact: Anais Clanet, Wide House infos@widehouse.org

Black I Am

The women of the first Garifuna community in Honduras work hard for their daughters' futures. Surrounded by a stunning landscape, they celebrate their identity and importance of maternal figures. [SB] Screening with: Doc/Love Shorts Laura Bermúdez | Honduras | 2018 | 13 mins UK Premiere | Email: alicia@yaqdistribucion.com

Confessions of an Angry Mother

Stop-motion animation pieces together a portrait of a mother dangerously overwhelmed by the boisterous behaviour of children, and the memories of her own abusive mother simmering in her blood.

Distant voices recall clandestine encounters, confrontations and the fear of exposure. Across the rolling farmland, and deep blue lonely dawns, Keith Ineson's helpline for gay farmers is a vital beacon. Screening with: Doc/Love Shorts Matt Houghton | UK | 2017 | 12 mins Email: matt.r.houghton@gmail.com

Last Man Standing

Australia's last remaining motion picture film processor contemplates the impact his impending retirement will have on the future of film in Australia. Screening with: The Eyes of Orson Welles (p.52)

Mountain

Doc/Fest Short Doc Award Nominee Springtime in northern Albania sparks the herding of goats from the lowlands, up to the towering mountainsides. Will broken shoes and an umbrella suffice for the four-day trek? Screening with: Lovers of the Night (p.54) Grégoire Verbeke | Belgium | 2017 | 15 mins World Premiere | Email: verbekegregoire@gmail.com

Pumpkin Movie

On Halloween, the director and her friend Skype each other with creepy stories of a particular bent. Screening with: Doc/Love Shorts Sophy Romvari | Canada | 2017 | 10 mins European Premiere | Email: sophyromvari@gmail.com

Lucy Knox, W.A.M. Bleakley | Australia | 2018 | 5 mins International Premiere | Email: lucy@swagmanfilms.com

Lotus

An old woman is waiting for a permit to enter an island to visit her son's grave. Screening with: Doc/Love Shorts Mohammadreza Vatandoust | Iran | 2018 | 13 mins International Premiere | Email: Vatandoust_m@yahoo.com

Screening with: Doc/Love Shorts Catarina Diehl | Finland | 2018 | 6 mins | World Premiere Email: tommi.seitajoki@impressiofilms.com

Shirkers with live performance from Weish (p.18)

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Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

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Set in the Paris suburbs in high school, teenagers chat after and even during class, sitting in the hallway or outside on a bench, looking at the city below them. Claire Simon sets up a cinematic dialog with the teens speaking about their personal history, their family, but also passions and loneliness. A pure coming-of-age story, Young Solitude is an ode to youth.

Director: Claire Simon

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Stuart Swezey USA 2018 92 mins UK

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Frank Evers USA 2018 108 mins None

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Website: www.bluenoterecords-film.com

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Desolation Center is the untold story of a series Reagan-era guerrilla desert happenings now recognized as the inspirations for Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella including performances by Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Einstürzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories and more. The true story of how the risky, and at times even reckless, actions of a few outsiders can unintentionally lead to seismic cultural shifts.

Pedro González Rubio Mexico, France 2018 73 mins UK

Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Toro Negro (2005), Alamar (2010), Inori (2012), Icaros (2014)

Sales Contact: Charlotte Uzu, Les Films d'ici charlotte.uzu@lesfilmsdici.fr

Director: Stuart Swezey

Sales Contact: Ben Bassauer, Monoduo Films ben@monoduo.net Website: www.desolationcenter.com

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Generation Wealth

A poetic and political portrait of a workingclass suburb in the process of change, Ash and Ember invite us to meet its inhabitants a journey from dusk to dawn where, while speaking of their lives, they also express their revolt and their quest for freedom.

Director: Manon Ott

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Director's Filmography: Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2012)

Sales Contact: Peter Worsely, Eagle Rock Entertainment peter.worsley@eagle-rock.com

Desolation Center

In the biggest public university in Latin America a group of theatre students and their teacher prepare Antigone, a Greek tragedy that addresses the conflict between the rules of power and the will of a young woman to do the right thing. Life, theatre and fiction are interwoven following the rehearsals in classrooms, in their homes, in public spaces and surrealist landscapes of the city.

Director: Pedro González Rubio

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Susanne Guggenberger Chiemi Karasawa Hercli Bundi Sophie Huber Switzerland, USA 2018 85 mins

The film explores the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Through current recording sessions, rare archive and conversations with iconic Blue Note artists, the film reveals an intimate perspective of a legacy that continues to be vital in today’s political climate. Legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter come together with today’s generation of ground-breaking Blue Note artists such as Robert Glasper and Ambrose Akinmusire to record an All-Stars album.

Director: Sophie Huber

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Lauren Greenfield's postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture. Simultaneously personal journey and historical essay, the film bears witness to the global boom-bust economy, the corrupted American Dream, and the human costs of late stage capitalism, narcissism, and greed.

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Céline Loiseau France 2018 71 mins UK

Language: French Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Yu (2008), Narmada (2012)

Sales Contact: Céline Loiseau, TS Productions cloiseau@tsproductions.net

Director: Lauren Greenfield

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Director's Filmography: Beauty CULTure (2011), The Queen of Versailles (2012), The Bling Dynasty (2015), Magic City (2015)

Sales Contact: Marcel Karst, Dogwoof marcel@dogwoof.com

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Sami Jahnukainen Mouka Filmi Finland 2017 97 mins

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Michael HekMarn USA 2018 72 mins UK

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Stina Gardell Anna Weitz Sweden 2017 91 mins UK

Language: Swedish, Lithuanian, English Subtitles: English

A remarkable chapter in music history was closed when Finnish punk rock band Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (PKN) retired. After becoming celebrities in Finland, they conquered new fans around the world, playing nearly 300 gigs in 16 countries in just seven years. A film about being true to yourself, making hard decisions and moving on in life, this is a smelly journey full of tears and laughter.

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Maria Babikova Frederick Paxton Russia, UK 2018 71 mins UK

Language: Russian Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Europe's Edges; Ice Core Sampling (2013), Connection Disconnection (2013), Ghost of Aleppo (2014), Behind the Zero Line (2016)

Sales Contact: Frederick Paxton, Freddie@frederickpaxton.com

Director: JP Passi Jukka Kärkkäinen

Director's Filmography: Punk Syndrome (2012)

Sales Contact: Sami Jahnukainen, Mouka Filmi sami@mouka.fi Website: www.pkn.rocks/en/punk-voyage/

Shakedown

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Milford Graves Full Mantis

"If you straight, you don't need to be in the front." Former drag show host Teresa and Ronnie-Ron co-founded Shakedown in the 90s, establishing a thriving underground scene. Dancers including Egypt, Miss Mahogany, I-Dallas and Slow-Wine entertain the throng. This strip club was a space for LA's African-American queer community to explore identity, sexuality and have an incredible time. [SB]

Celebrating the creativity of legendary American percussionist Milford Graves, this film is itself a kaleidoscope ode to the creative process. Graves’ protege Jake Meginsky and co-director Neil Young interweave rich performance archive with Graves’ reflections upon a 50 plus year career, painting a unique homage to the free jazz pioneer and hero to drummers everywhere. [CN]

Director: Jake Meginsky Neil Young (Co-Director)

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Punk Voyage

Boldly associative urban symphony reveals the terrible beauty found in the highly polluted Siberian city of Chelyabinsk. Amid this mesmerizing mix of images, director Frederick Paxton highlights the often punishing rituals inflicted on young Russian boys and girls. A dense, hypnotic crust of music from opera to East European hip hop underscores this city portrait quite unlike any other.

Director: Frederick Paxton

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Jake Meginsky USA 2018 91 mins

Premiere: UK Language: English

Sales Contact: Jake Meginsky, Independent Artist jmeginsky@gmail.com

Director: Leilah Weinraub

Website: www.fullmantis.com

Parallel Planes

Director's Filmography: Hood By Air: Spring 2015 New York Fashion Show (2014), Shakedown (2018)

Sales Contact: Lison Hervé, Stray Dogs lison@stray-dogs.com

Silvana

This film pays homage to the American DIY spirit and the diversity of the US musical landscape outside the commercial music industry. Nicole Wegner maintains eye level with her 12 subjects, including Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), Michael Gira (Swans) and Valentine Falcon (Get Hustle) who gleefully hack the music industry and play by their own rules.

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Silvana Imam is a fierce force of nature. We witness the Swedish rap artist's career soar and the genesis of her relationship with pop artist, Beatrice Eli. The pair become Sweden's Beyoncé and Jay-Z; a power-couple of phenomenal talent and influence. As the pressures of her iconic status begin to spiral, Silvana is forced to confront her inner conflicts. [SB]

Director: Nicole Wegner

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Academy Of Media Arts Ute Dilger Germany 2017 100 mins European

Language: English Director's Filmography: To Be Continued (2009), In Particular (2010), KERN (2011), Broke Vultures (2015)

Sales Contact: Aleksandar Govedarica, Syndicado Film Sales aleksandar@syndicado.com Website: www.syndicado.com

Director: Mika Gustafson Olivia Kastebring Christina Tsiobanelis

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Sales Contact: Diana Karklin, Rise And Shine World Sales diana.karklin@riseandshine-berlin.de

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Website: www.www.facebook.com/ silvanamovie/ 61

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Language: Chinese, French Subtitles: English

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CHANEL, GIVENCHY, DIOR, GAULTIER. The world of haute couture designers is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world: Mostly men. Exclusively European. Largely funded by conglomerates. Yet, an independent designer from China has been invited to present a collection next year. Her designs have been likened to Alexander McQueen and she has been profiled by The New York Times and Vogue. If you don't know her name yet, you will soon. Meet Guo Pei, China’s only haute couture designer.

Bobby A. Suarez Phillipines 1978 110 mins

Language: English

Sales Contact: Richard Suarez crystalskymultimedia@gmail.com

Director: Pietra Brettkelly

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Pietra Brettkelly Richard Fletcher Naomi Wallwork New Zealand 2017 94 mins European

Director's Filmography: Beauty Will Save the World (2003), The Art Star and The Sudanese Twin (2008), Maori Boy Genius (2011), A Flickering Truth (2015)

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Race, class and sexuality intersect at Newark strip club The Dojo: a karate school by day, home to the New Jersey Nasty Boyz by night. In addition to spotlighting the exotic dancers who work there - both male and lesbian - Gene Graham’s affectionate portrait celebrates the community of women who sustain this microcosm of Black American society. [MA]

Arr. for a Scene

The sonic force of cinema's most famous murder scene is investigated. Two foley artists recreate Hitchcock's shower sequence, deconstructing the associations of aural signifiers, and the synesthetic power of sound. [SB] Screening with: Doc/Rhythm Shorts Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Gene Graham Paul Rowley USA 2018 83 mins International

Language: English Director's Filmography: The Godfather of Disco (2007)

Sales Contact: Gene Graham, Determined Pictures genegraham@mac.com Website: www.thisonesfortheladiesmovie.com

Jonna Kina | Finland, France | 2017 | 5 mins | UK Premiere Email: cord.d@interfilm.de

Artificial Things

In this fluid dance film, director Sophie Fiennes collaborates with choreographer Lucy Bennet to reimagine Stopgap Dance Company's performance piece Artificial Things.

Tranny Fag

São Paulo pop star Linn da Quebrada is a Black trans woman whose explicit electrofunk anthems give voice to marginalised communities from the favelas while also confronting the Brazilian music scene’s macho, heteronormative prejudices. Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla’s candid profile of this radical performer deftly blends raucous concert footage with tender offstage interludes showcasing her family and friends. [MA]

Screening with: Doc/Rhythm Shorts

Sales Contact: Graham Fine, The Film Sales Company graham.fine@filmsalescorp.com

Mini Miss

Doc/Fest Short Doc Award Nominee

Weltschmerz

A group of 3- to 4-year-olds are cajoled into dance routines and fancy costumes for Mini Miss Baby Brazil. They run riot, indifferent to the adult world and its values. [SB]

Emerging from a decade-long relationship, blind theatre director Anna Sophie calls on her actors to help work through her broken heart. The group metamorphoses through love, loss and the afterlife. [SB]

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Rachel Daisy Ellis | Brazil | 2018 | 16 mins European Premiere | Email: rachel@desvia.com.br

Jesper Dalgaard | Denmark | 2017 | 29 mins International Premiere | Email: dalgaarddoc@gmail.com

Doc/Fest Short Doc Award Nominee

To the Front: Scenes From a Women's Rock Camp

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This One's For The Ladies

Director: Gene Graham

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Yellow Is Forbidden

An inspiration for Shirkers director, Sandi Tan, They Call Her Cleopatra Wong follows Singapore's top policewoman as she teams up with her Filipino counterpart to bust a counterfeit currency operation that threatens several Asian countries with bankruptcy. A fast, furious, martial arts-packed quest from Singapore to Hong Kong and finally Manila.

Director: Bobby A. Suarez

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A group of unacquainted women with no musical experience have three days to learn an instrument, form a band and perform live.

Sophie Fiennes | UK | 2018 | 25 mins | World Premiere Email: chasseriau@gmail.com

Screening with: Parallel Planes (p.60)

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Fran Broadhurst | UK | 2017 | 13 mins Email: jenniferc@myaccomplice.co.uk

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

Director: Kiko Goifman Claudia Priscilla

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Evelynn Mab Brazil 2018 75 mins UK

Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English

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They Call Her Cleopatra Wong

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Sales Contact: Sandro Fiorin, FiGa Films sandro@figafilms.com

To the Front: Scenes From a Women's Rock Camp

Films Berlin's historic defunct Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures. Today its massive hangars are used as Germany's largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers, like 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim. As Ibrahim adjusts to his transitory daily life of social services interviews, German lessons and medical exams, he tries to cope with homesickness and the anxiety of whether or not he will gain residency or be deported.

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Director: Karim Aïnouz

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns

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Central Airport THF

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Felix von Boehm Charlotte Uzu Diane Maia Germany, France, Brazil 2018 97 mins UK

Language: Arabic, English, German, Russian Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Gala Hernández , Luxbox festivals@luxboxfilms.com

Director's Filmography: Praia do Futuro (2014), Cathedrals of Culture (2014), Velázquez - Réalism Sauvage (2015)

Website: www.luxboxfilms.com/thf

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Christian Beetz Germany, Brazil 2018 88 mins UK

Language: English, Tagalog Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Philippa Kowarsky, Cinephil philippa@cinephil.com

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The Cleaners

Digital scavengers' are outsourced to delete inappropriate content from the net, while at the same time the lives of people around the globe are dramatically affected by online censorship. A 'cleaner' rates thousands of disturbing images every day, with lasting psychological impact. From the shared global village to fake news and radicalisation, the film charts the rise and fall of social media's utopian ideology.

Veteran filmmaker Fernando Solanas creates a moving, humane, and urgently political vision of an environmental crisis in Argentina. Based on testimonies, re-creations, archives and photos, this investigative documentary reveals the effects of agrochemicals on both an individual and global scale. Solanas unfolds dramatic stories and testimonies from locals, farmers and researchers. Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

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Victoria Solanas Argentina 2018 97 mins UK

Language: Spanish Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Anais Clanet, Wide House infos@widehouse.org

Boys Who Like Girls

Director: Hans Block Moritz Riesewieck

Website: www.gebrueder-beetz.de/en/ productions/the-cleaners#synopsis

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Director: Fernando Solanas

The Dread

Two years have passed since the infamous Delhi gang rape, and India is ablaze with talk of men's role in gendered violence. Teenager Ved joins a boys’ club run by 'Men Against Violence and Abuse' and realises there may be a healthier path for him than the one paved by his abusive father. Will his be the first generation of boys that actually respects girls?

In a remote village in Argentina, home cures replace western medicine. Every disease is treated by neighbours except ‘the dread', a rare disease that attacks women and is only curable by an old man, whom no one is encouraged to visit. A strange microclimate of mysteries this is a world where religious beliefs, esotericism and harsh precepts about family are combined. Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Director: Inka Achte

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Liisa Karpo Finland, Norway, India 2018 68 mins World

Language: Hindi, Marathi, English Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: The Beginner (2008), The Wait (2012), Home to the Homeless (2012), Boys Who Like Girls (2018)

Sales Contact: Andrew Norton, napafilms sales@napafilms.fi

Director: Pablo Aparo Martín Benchimol

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Mayra Bottero Argentina 2017 67 mins UK

Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: La gente del río (2012)

Sales Contact: Jouni Kantola, Berta Films jouni@bertafilm.it Website: www.bertafilm.com/catalogue/ the-dread

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Tuki Jencquel Venezuela, Mexico, Germany 2018 70 mins World

Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Ayer Empieza Maana (2002), Sed en los pies (2005), Sin Ti Contigo (2010)

Sales Contact: Tuki Jencquel, Orinokia Filmproduktion tjencquel@gmail.com

Director: Florian Heinzen-Ziob

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Website: estatodobien.net

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Florian Heinzen-Ziob Georg Heinzen Germany 2018 89 mins World

Director's Filmography: Original Copy (2015)

Sales Contact: Florian Heinzen-Ziob, polyphem Filmproduktion heinzenziob@polyphemfilm.de Website: www.klassedeutsch.de

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The Gospel of Eureka

The small town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas is known for both its evangelical passion play and gospel drag shows, attracting Christian and queer audiences alike. Charting the build-up to a vote safeguarding LGBT rights, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's nuanced portrait of divergent yet coexisting Southern cultures blends colourful performances and contrasting opinions to enlightening, humorous and optimistic effect. [MA]

The uncontacted tribe from Amazônia ‘Paiter Surui’ has been encroached upon by modernity since its first contact with the white man in 1969. Smartphones, electricity, gas tanks, guns and Facebook replace traditional forms of life. In the midst of this new world, an ex-shaman who was forced into evangelical Christianity struggles to cure the suffering people of his village and faces the wrath of spirits of the forest, who are upset he has abandoned them.

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Fabiano Gullane Luiz Bolognesi Laís Bodanzky Caio Gullane Brazil 2018 82 mins

Premiere: UK Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Rio 2096, a Story of Love and Fury (2013)

Sales Contact: Antoine Bertrand-Hardy, Upside Distribution antoine.bertrand-hardy@ upsidetelevision.com

Director: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher

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Charlotte Cook USA 2018 75 mins International

Language: English

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Marcela Ursu Romania 2018 70 mins UK

Language: Romanian Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Jason Ishikawa, Cinetic Media jason@cineticmedia.com Website: www.www.thegospelofeureka.com/

Website: www.upsidedistribution.com

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Following closely the lives of children from abroad as they take their first steps in the German school system, small successes, large set-backs, pranks and the looming threat of deportation are just a few of the challenges they face. A touching portrait of learning, adapting and growing in a new society, and a fresh look at an institution that we think we all know well - school.

Ex-Shaman

Director: Luiz Bolognesi

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"That's the drama. You can't get sick." These sadly apt words are spoken by Francisco, an activist who delivers badly needed medicines in Venezuela where salaries peak at 12 dollars a month and 16,000 doctors have left the country. This urgent chronicle follows four resilient Venezuelans struggling to find creative solutions amid a staggering health care crisis.

Director: Tuki Jencquel

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Infinite Football

Flow

Flow explores the morphological and human connection between two geographically opposing rivers: the Ganges in India and Biobío in Chile. The film observes the behaviour of the inhabitants along both streams, from the mountain range to their vanishing into the ocean. Gradually, the journey will enter into the complexity of cities and civilizations along the river shore. Through a poetic interweaving, a new temporal space is created: a single river.

Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu trains his cameras on Laurentiu Ginghina, civil servant and part-time philosopher who sees himself as a modern day superhero. His dream? To revolutionize the sport of football by focusing on the ball rather than the players. Yet when the director makes Ginghina's alternative game reality, the bureaucrat can't let his labyrinth of sporting possibilities go. Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

Director: Nicolás Molina

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Marcela Santibáñez Chile 2018 82 mins World

Language: Spanish, Hindi, Bengali, Chedungún Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Beaverland (2014)

Sales Contact: Marcela Santibáñez, Marcela Santibáñez Productions marcesanti@gmail.com

Director: Corneliu Porumboiu

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Director's Filmography: Police Adjective (2009), When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013), The Second Game (2014), The Treasure (2015)

Sales Contact: Fionnuala Jamison, MK2 Films fionnuala.jamison@mk2.com Website: mk2films.com/en/film/infinite-football

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Maxim Pozdorovkin Joe Bender Charlotte Cook USA 2018 78 mins

Premiere: UK Language: English, Russian Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Rena Ronson, United Talent Agency ronsonr@unitedtalent.com

Director's Filmography: Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013), The Notorious Mr. Bout (2014), Clinica de Migrantes (2016)

Website: thirdpartyfilms.com

The Pain of Others

Director: Gyrid Listuen

NRK Norway 2018 47 mins

Language: Norwegian Subtitles: English

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Maria Ramos Paulo de Carvalho Gudula Meinzolt Wout Conijn Brazil, Germany, Netherlands 2018

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The Trial offers a behind-the-scenes look at the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female President. The film portrays the “judicial political” trial first at the House of Representatives and then, at the Senate focusing on the President’s Defence Team: her lawyer José Eduardo Cardoso and two senators who struggle to prove the President’s innocence against a majority vote by a Congress riddled with corruption.

A supportive invisible internet community lies at the heart of Penny Lane's original documentary. Under the skin parasites trailing colourful fibres plague the sufferers of the little-known Morgellons Disease. With the medical community failing to to recognise their condition, a handful of women take to youtube to broadcast every bizarre aspect of their condition to a sympathetic cyberspace. [CN] Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Director: Penny Lane

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Gabriel Sedgwick USA 2018 71 mins UK

Language: English Director's Filmography: The Voyagers (2010), Our Nixon (2013), Just Add Water (2016), NUTS! (2016)

Sales Contact: Gabriel Sedgwick, Dipper Films gabriller@gmail.com

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The Proposal

Sales Contact: Maria Ramos, Nofoco Filmes nofocofilmes@gmail.com

Director's Filmography: Hill of Pleasures (2013), Future June (2015), The Trial (2018)

The Waldheim Waltz

The Proposal follows conceptual artist and writer Jill Magid as she develops an unorthodox project to explore artistic legacy. It takes as its subject the work of the Pritzker Prize-winning Mexican architect Luis Barragán, which is aggressively “protected” by its Swiss copyright holders, at the expense of public access.

A film about truth and lies and how a dishonest man can rise to power uncovering former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. It shows the swift succession of new allegations by the World Jewish Congress during his Austrian presidential campaign, the denial by the Austrian political class, the outbreak of antiSemitism and patriotism, which finally led to his election. Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Director: Jill Magid

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"I live on love but do not get enough love..." Sten Erik Holstad knows everything about dying on stage - loves the theatre and would like to be an actor. In this projected podcast event, Radio Atlas presents Gyrid Listuen's Prix Europa-winning radio documentary from the nineties - exploring the internal world of a young man with Down's Syndrome. Radio Atlas is a platform and podcast for subtitled audio from around the world.

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Radio Atlas: A Lunkhead Among The Stars

Russia's threat to American democracy is brought to starkly astonishing life in Our New President, consisting entirely of Russian propaganda videos and user generated content. Maxim Pozdorovkin juxtaposes the brazen, ridiculous and sinister efforts by Russians determined to usher in the Orange One. Had Trump lost this would be pure comedy; instead, it's a chilling sign of the times. [CN]

Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin

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Jarred Alterman Charlotte Cook Laura Coxson USA, Mexico, Switzerland 2018 83 mins

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Premiere: European Language: English

Sales Contact: Jason Ishikawa , Cinetic International jason@cineticmedia.com

Director: Ruth Beckermann

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Ruth Beckermann Austria 2018 93 mins UK

Language: German Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: American Passages (2011), Those Who Go Those Who Stay (2013), The Missing Image (2015), The Dreamed Ones (2016), The Waldheim Waltz (2018)

Sales Contact: Anais Clanet, Wide House infos@widehouse.org

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90 Seconds in North Korea

Time decelerates as we drift past people relaxing in North Korea. The haunting soundscape evokes a dreamlike disconnect, in this observational portrait of the flipside to the oppressive political systems.

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Lea Marin Canada 2018 117 mins World

Language: English Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Zizek! (2005), Examined Life (2008), What is Democracy? (2018)

Sales Contact: Nathalie Bourdon, National Film Board of Canada distribution@nfb.ca

Screening with: Doc/Think Shorts Ranko Paukovic | Netherlands | 2018 | 15 mins World Premiere | Email: ii@everythingworks.hr

Identity is fluid and evolving. A phone call with director Declerq's mother weaves through portraits of friends, as Declerq explores her own experience of girlhood and the limiting notions surrounding gender.

When Lambs Become Lions

Screening with: Doc/Think Shorts Mahdi Fleifel | UK, Germany, Switzerland | 2018 | 10 mins UK Premiere | Email: patrick@nakbafilmworks.com

David de Rozas | USA | 2017 | 16 mins | UK Premiere Email: davidderoz@gmail.com

I Am Bisha

President Bashir's dictatorship terrorises villages across the Nuba Mountains. Ganja, the son of a rebel commander, fights back with a satirical web series of puppetry, that has gone viral. [SB]

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Heleen Declercq | Belgium | 2017 | 14 mins International Premiere | Email: heleendeclercq@gmail.com

Roopa Gogineni | USA, Kenya | 2018 | 14 mins European Premiere | Email: roopa.gogineni@gmail.com

The River of the Kukamas

Drifting through the Nanay River, a Kukama man discusses its significance; flow, mythology, and Kukama identity. Modern technology is turning the Kukamas away from one another, and their own culture. [SB] Screening with: Doc/Think Shorts

Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

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Jon Kasbe Innbo Shim Tom Yellin Andrew Harrison Brown Kenya, USA 2018 76 mins

Premiere: International Language: Swahili Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: John Sloss, Cinetic Media john@slosslaw.com

Director's Filmography: A Beautiful Waste (2012), Mipso in Japan (2014), Nascent (2016)

Website: www.whenlambs.com/

Without Brutality: 25 Years of the Art and Design Research Centre

I Am Bisha

Coinciding with Doc/Fest’s 25th Edition, 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC) at Sheffield Hallam. To recognise these anniversaries this programme consists of films by students and staff of the university, from 1969, up to 1993. Curated by Esther Johnson, with thanks to Alex Glen Wilson and Mark Albrow.

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Immediately after a Palestinian man signs an online petition, he is thrown into a panic-inducing spiral of self-doubt.

Nika Belianina | Peru | 2018 | 7 mins International Premiere | Email: write.right@gmail.com

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The Great Cloud of Witnesses' collage in Ingleside's Presbyterian Church holds a remarkable shrine to the achievements of African-Americans. Roland Gordon's empowering collage is vital storytelling for carving future narratives.

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IIn a town bordering conservation land, two men try to hold onto their increasingly fragile status quo. A small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilise to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn’t been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline. The plummeting elephant population has captured the attention of the world. As authorities crack down, poachers face their own existential crisis.

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With democracy under threat globally, Astra Taylor's timely essay probes the meaning of the institution itself. Featuring a wide range of big thinkers from Cornel West to Silvia Federici, Taylor interweaves discussions about democracy's philosophical underpinnings with evidence of its all too flawed implementation, traveling from Athens, the birthplace of Plato's Republic, to Trump's unsettled America. [CN]

Director: Astra Taylor

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Nathaniel Dorsky USA 2017 137 mins

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Sales Contact: Nathaniel Dorsky, ndorsky@gmail.com

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Mathilde Hvid Lippmann Denmark, Belgium 2018 67 mins International

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Jacqui Davies UK 2018 74 mins European

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Dominic Gagnon Canada 2018 104 mins UK

Language: English

Director's Filmography: Two (2008), They Have Sold The Lungs of the World (2010), Dinner on the West Coast (2015)

Sales Contact: Mathilde Hvid Lippmann, Made in Copenhagen Mathilde@madeincopenhagen.dk

Director: Josh Appignanesi

Alternate Realities Director's Filmography: Song of Songs (2005), The Infidel (2010), The New Man (2016)

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Going South

The second in a tetralogy exploring the cardinal points of the Internet in the posttruth era. With a credo of cinema without camera, material is drawn from the world of YouTubers. Playing absurdly along with the Flat Earth theory of contemporary gurus, this is a journey from the polar centre of the disc-shaped Earth towards the Tropics, the cold waters strewn with glaciers, and beyond, to space!

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In this utterly original film, celebrated American photographer Khalik Allah weaves the voices of Jamaica - the prostitutes, faith healers and old timers - into a mesmerising tapestry. Shooting through a singular lens, Allah creates a wondrous mosaic reflecting the natural, spiritual and cultural fabric of contemporary Jamaica in all its glory.

Director: Khalik Allah

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Shot in the real-life contemporary art world, Female Human Animal is a psychothriller about a creative woman disenchanted with what modern life and “modern men” have to offer her. When writer Chloe Aridjis curates an inspiring retrospective of the surrealist Leonora Carrington, an elusive, brooding man appears, seeming to offer more. A darkly romantic docufiction that puts on screen the lurid unconscious of our new sexual politics.

Black Mother

Associated talk: Khalik Allah (p.123)

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Female Human Animal

A magical collection of seven 16mm films by Nathaniel Dorsky, explores the beauty of Californian nature in Spring light. Each silent film celebrates qualities of energy, joy, fullness, and rebirth. The programme comprisies of Elohim (2017), Abaton (2017), Coda (2017), Ode (2017), September (2017), Monody (2017) and Epilogue (2017).

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Doel is a ghost town in Belgium surrounded by a nuclear power plant, a gigantic container dock, and the port of Antwerp. For decades the inhabitants have been battling the authorities who want to tear the town down and build a new container dock. Only 26 inhabitants reamin - a colourful crowd of common and uncommon people clinging onto the idea of keeping their vandalized and abandoned town alive.

Director: Frederik Sølberg

Arboretum Cycle

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Khalik Allah Leah Giblin USA 2018 77 mins UK

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Sales Contact: Marcel Karst, Dogwoof marcel@dogwoof.com

Director's Filmography: Field Niggas (2015)

Website: www.khalikallah.com/black-mother-1/

Director: Dominic Gagnon

Director's Filmography: Rip in Pieces America (2009), DATA (2010) Pieces and Love All to Hell (2011), Big Kiss Goodnight (2012) Hoax_Canular (2013), Of the North (2015)

Sales Contact: Dominic Gagnon, Film 900 dg900@hotmail.com

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UK 1918 64 mins

Language: English

Sales Contact: Ben Cook, LUX ben@lux.org.uk

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Andee Ryder Nick Taussig Paul Van Carter UK, USA 2017 111 mins Special Preview

Language: English

Sales Contact: Hugo Grumbar, Embankment Films hg@embankmentfilms.com

A retrospective collection of films by Margaret Tait, comprising of the following titles: Colour Poems, A Portrait of Ga, Tailpiece, Aerial, Where I am is Here.

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RaMell Ross Joslyn Barnes Su Kim USA 2018 76 mins

Premiere: UK Language: English

Sales Contact: John Sloss, Cinetic Media john@slosslaw.com

Director: Margaret Tait

Website: www.halecountyfilm.com

McQueen

‘Lee’ Alexander McQueen’s rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale laced with the gothic. An unremarkable working-class boy from East London, he harnessed his demons and went on to become a global one-man fashion brand. This film is an intimate revelation of McQueen’s own world which celebrates a radical and mesmerising genius of profound influence.

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television before and during a tragic workers' class revolt. Doc/ Fest will be presenting the English subtitled shorter, 220 minute theatrical version of the original, nearly six-hour-long work to audiences for the first time.

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Language: French Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Geoffrey Luque, geoffrey.luque@13productions.fr Website: www.pwatkins.mnsi.net/

Last Year in Utopia

Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui

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Music When The Lights Go Out

As reality shows go, the German Newtopia was decidedly different. Promised no producer interference, 15 people tried to create their own utopia living in an isolated forest camp. But soon ratings concerns caused the show to implode. Six cast members make an emotional return to the show's location in an oddly playful and revealing Brechtian recreation of events.

In a small town in Brazil, where pristine nature meets growing urbanity, Emelyn is a teenager with an androgynous appearance. When a woman director – both foreign and close, perhaps like a feminine alter ego of the filmmaker, arrives in town and starts to turn her life into fiction, Emelyn becomes Bernardo. Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

Director: Jana Magdalena Keuchel, Katharina Knust

Producer: Jana Magdalena Keuchel Katharina Knust Country: Germany Year: 2017 Duration: 72 mins Premiere: UK

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La Commune (Paris, 1871)

Director: Peter Watkins

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Language: German Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Kaffee un Kippen (2009), Die Drehung der Welt (2012), Kontakt (2015), No Postcard from Liberia (2018)

Sales Contact: Jana Keuchel, Jana Keuchel jana.keuchel@gmail.com

Director: Ismael Caneppele

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From church services to basketball training, family gatherings and children's play, photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross observes the lives of African Americans in Hale County Alabama through luminous poetic cinematography. Shot over five years Ross eschews traditional storytelling in favour of a series of intimate associative moments, illuminating a fresh vision of daily life in the American South. [CN]

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Beca Furtado Ricardo Baptista da Silva Brazil 2017 70 mins UK

Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Jessica Luz, Besouro Filmes jessica.luz@besourofilmes.com Website: besourofilmes.com/projetos/musicwhen-the-lights-go-out/

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Director Leigh Ledare films a group relations conference using the Tavistock Method. 28 people from diverse ages and backgrounds assemble to explore how they relate within their self-made structure. Intimacy, vulnerability, discomfort and fears clash with indifference, animosity and suspicion. Psychologists are positioned among the group to observe and feel, intensifying an obscure and provocative sense of power dynamics. [SB]

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Evangelia Kranioti France, Greece 2018 60 mins UK

Language: Portuguese Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (2015)

Sales Contact: Aleksandar Govedarica, Syndicado Film Sales aleksandar@syndicado.com

Mindy Goldberg USA 2017 118 mins

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Sales Contact: Leigh Ledare, leighledare@gmail.com

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Turtle Rock

In the early 1990s young punk cinephile Sandi Tan wrote and starred in Shirkers, a quirky girl road movie, directed by her older, enigmatic mentor Georges. But her dreams of making a big splash in Singapore's nascent film industry were cut cruelly short. In this highly original and entertaining personal documentary Tan delves into Shirker's mysterious, painful history.

Named after a turtle-shaped rock formation, the eponymous mountain village is where Chinese director Xiao Xiao was raised. He films multi-generational families across four seasons. Shot in black and white with a naturalistic soundtrack, this beautifully composed piece of slow cinema captures the rhythms of the villagers' chores and prayers, while also conveying the remoteness of their existence. [MA] Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

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Jessica Levin Maya Rudolph USA 2018 96 mins UK

Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

Language: English Director's Filmography: Moveable Feast (1996), Gourmet Baby (2001)

Sales Contact: Ben Schwartz, Submarine schwartz@submarine.com

Director: Xiao Xiao

Website: www.shirkersfilm.com

Sleep Has Her House

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Lin Lin China 2017 101 mins UK

Language: Chinese Subtitles: English

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Sergei Loznitsa Germany 2018 94 mins UK

Language: German, Russian Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Valeria Losniza, Impertativ Film valeria@loznitsa.com

Victory Day

If a tree falls? Lightning illuminates a pine forest, horses wait in the darkness, an owl watches. Shapes shift in a woodland clearing, lit by the bluish hue of the moon. This could be an X-Files crime scene, or the forest that lives while Twin Peaks sleeps. Painterly visions of fantastic beauty capture a disorientating sense of the unreal.

Director: Scott Barley

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Shirkers

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Once a year, crowds gather in Berlin's Treptower Park to mark the anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. Russia's master of sustained observation, Sergei Loznitsa, captures the medal bedecked veterans and burly biker gangs assembling for this spring day of patriotic songs and speeches. Loznitsa's carefully framed compositions become a meditation on the nationalistic myths still gripping Europe.

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The Task

Under heavy skies and a glittering city, a voice emerges from the somnambulist dreamers. This audio-visual explosion is a feast for the senses. A figure straight out of Kenneth Anger's Rabbit's Moon wanders the streets of Rio de Janeiro, amidst the carnival revellers and the protestors, spectral and solitary. Transgender narrator Luana Muniz reflects on the beauty of transformations.

Director: Evangelia Kranioti

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Director: Sergei Loznitsa

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Here There Is No Earth

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A 35-year-old shepherd wandered over the border from the Turkish district of Kars into Armenia to retrieve his animal. In this haunting, desolate landscape, the borders are invisible, but fatal.

An explosive and rhythmic synthesis of beautiful archive footage, new visions and rich textures. This is an ode to the magic of Blackness, and a visceral reinvention of film language.

Bernhard Hetzenauer | Germany, Austria, Mexico | 2017 20 mins | UK Premiere | Email: dietmar@sixpackfilm.com

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Martin DiCicco | USA | 2017 | 5 mins | World Premiere Email: martindicicco@gmail.com

Jenn Nkiru | UK | 2017 | 11 mins Email: jennnkiru@gmail.com

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A God's Shadow

In the mountains of Nayarit, the indigenous settlement La Mora suffered a massacre at the hands of Faustino, a man convinced he was God. His cousin Chon recalls his escape.

Somewhere in the hills of Los Angeles, we meet four actors who portray the police through narrative and staging. Screening with: Doc/Visions Shorts Tova Mozard | USA, Sweden | 2017 | 20 mins UK Premiere | Email: info@hjartanikki.com

Fluid Frontiers

Along the Detroit River, locals read poems of the African-American experience from regional publications. 16mm film captures the glow of the city, magic light and soft colours of analogue textures.

The representation, context and meaning of 'home' is explored in pounding rapidfire. A psychedelic reverie of emigration and immigration, this is possibly the visual embodiment of house music.

Doc/Fest Short Doc Award Nominee

A message for motorists on the Eurotunnel resounds with joy. It has been 28 years since the submarine passage forged an exultant connection from the British Isles to mainland Europe.

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John Smith | UK, France | 2017 | 4 mins | UK Premiere Email: info@johnsmithfilms.com

Maskirovka

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A strobed montage plays with imagery of techno and queer culture. Identity, masks and the 'masked' Russian intervention in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine fuse together in neon and imposing structures.

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Ephraim Asili | USA, Canada | 2017 | 23 mins European Premiere | Email: effieasili@gmail.com

Tobias Zielony | Germany, Ukraine | 2017 | 9 mins Email: weigel@kow-berlin.com

What is a species? Peering into the future beyond our environmental and political wreckage, this science fiction of the human race is a tender observation of the undoing of meaning. Screening with: Doc/Visions Shorts Korakrit Arunanondchai | Thailand, USA | 2017 23 mins | UK Premiere

Through four feature length and two mid-length films this year’s country focus offers an insight into engaging new images of contemporary Lebanese documentary cinema. The featured works represent a further wave in the female led scene of creative non-fiction emerging from Lebanon in recent years, following the conceptually playful political critiques and magical realist films of Rawane Nassif, Joana Hadjithomas, Eliane Raheb, Mary Jirmanus Saba and breakout film of 2017 Ziad Kalthoum’s ‘Taste of Cement’. Each selected work shows evidence of a wider regional tendency of addressing conflicted identity and histories through a personal, abstract and yet pointed essayistic lens.

Locally documentary and non-fiction works offer counter narratives and subversive forms to state controlled news services, with organisations like Screen Institute Beirut placing documentary cinema at the core of its storytelling mission. The nation is not only an incubator of home-grown filmmakers and stories, it has become a site of emergence for international artists, and a place of narrative refuge and digestion for exiled regional creatives from Palestine and more recently Syria.

Counting Tiles

Clowns Without Borders have arrived in Greece, hoping their antics will brighten the lives of refugees - only to find that bureaucracy prevents them from getting close to any refugees. As the troupe whiles the days away, Lebanese director Cynthia Choucair, whose sister Sabine is one of the clowns, muses about their own days of displacement as children of war. [CN]

Director: Cynthia Choucair

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Arwen Curry USA, Canada 2018 65 mins

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Without Ursula K. Le Guin there would be no Harry Potter. Breaking though the limitations imposed by male-dominated structures, Ursula K. Le Guin transformed the science fiction genre, and the realm of literature itself. She exposed the corrupt machinations underpinning our existence and with fierce intellect and imagination, created worlds that reveal how different our own planet could be.

Director: Arwen Curry

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Dimitri Khodr, Cynthia Lebanon 2018 86 mins UK

Language: Arabic, English, French Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: El Haouch (1998), Pictures of Life (2000), Al Kursi (2002), Elie Fairuz (2003), Powerless (2012)

Sales Contact: Cynthia Choucair, Road 2 Films cyntia@road2films.com Website: www.road2films.com

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Ali Roche Lebanon, UK 2017 51 mins UK Festival Premiere

Language: Arabic Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: Beit Iksa Boys (2013), Jerusalem Pink (2015), The Embroiderers (2016), The Drift (2017), Listening in the Dark (2018)

Sales Contact: Ali Roche, Spike Film and Video ali.roche@spikeisland.org.uk

Director: Anthony Chidiac

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Carole Abboud Talal Al-Muhanna Argentina, Lebanon, USA 2017 77 mins UK

Director's Filmography: Equal Men (2010), Maman, Non, Merci (2013)

Sales Contact: Pascale Ramonda, Pascale Ramonda pascale@pascaleramonda.com Website: www.35mmfrombeirut.com/cannes/ room-for-a-man/

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Wild Relatives

Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: 2012, an international agricultural research centre relocated from Aleppo to Lebanon due to the Syrian Revolution turned war and began duplicating their seed collection from Svalbard Global Seed Vault back-ups. This transaction of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, unfolds a matrix of human and non-human lives.

Following three main characters - the gatekeeper of the Roman temples of Niha in the Beqaa Valley; a young mechanic from Britel, a village known for trading automobile parts; and an archaeological conservator working at the American University of Beirut – The Drift focuses on the desire to reassemble and rebuild, in a landscape laden with the traces of past conflict.

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Culture Resource Lebanon, Germany 2017 48 mins International

Language: Arabic, French, English Subtitles: English

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Myriam Sassine Lebanon, United Arab Emirates 2017 69 mins UK

Language: Arabic Subtitles: English

Director's Filmography: E.D.L (2011), Golden Rush (2014)

Sales Contact: Siska, Siska mail@siska.info

Director: Jumana Manna

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Jumana Manna Lebanon, Norway, Germany 2018 66 mins UK

Language: Arabic, Norwegian, English Subtitles: English Director's Filmography: The Goodness Regime Jumana Manna & Sille Storihle (2013), A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (2015)

Sales Contact: Jumana Manna, jumana.manna@gmail.com

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In the Ruins of Baalbeck Studios

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An evocative personal essay reflecting Beirut’s difficult recent past and uneasy present. Lebanese sound designer Rana Eid’s feature debut pens a filmic letter to her deceased army father. Delving into her childhood memories, merging them with the audio and underground landscapes of modern Beirut, Eid notes “the wars have multiplied, and we have lost sight of the enemy.”

Director: Rana Eid

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Young gay Lebanese filmmaker Anthony Chidiac explores identity and family history, first through discussions with the Syrian builders refurbishing the Beirut apartment he shares with his mother; then by travelling to Argentina with his formerly estranged father. Favouring artful, static camerawork and a yearning voiceover, this hypnotic personal essay meditates on masculinity, sexuality and a lifelong quest for acceptance. [MA]

Screening with: In the Ruins of Baalbeck Studios

Director: Siska

See an insightful and poetic vision of Lebanon through the latest documentary films.

Room for a Man

Director: Maeve Brennan

Strand New/Lebanon

Special Events

The Drift

Films

See an insightful and poetic vision of Lebanon through the latest documentary films.

Talks & Sessions

Strand New/Lebanon

Year: Duration: Premiere:

Sales Contact: Irit Neidhardt, mec film irit@mecfilm.de Website: www.mecfilm.com/index.php?id=3512

Parties & Social

Special Events

Films

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Sales Contact: Graham Fulton, Park Circus graham@parkcircus.com

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Jesse Lichtenstein USA 2017 88 mins European

Language: English

Sales Contact: Emma Cooper, Pulse Films emma.cooper@pulsefilms.co.uk

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Nick Read UK 2018 90 mins World

Language: English

Sales Contact: Nick Read, Red Zed Films nick@nickread.org

Director: Tom Dumican

Website: www.againstthetidesfilm.com/

Alternate Realities Director's Filmography: The Second Coming (2010), Pint Sized Preachers (2011)

Marketplace & Talent

The Idaho Followers of Christ don’t believe in any kind of medical intervention. Luckily for them, state law permits them to practice faith healing instead. But the local sheriff, and a number of the church’s ex-followers, have watched too many children die, and are determined to change the law. Remarkable 360° access illuminates both sides of the impassioned divide.

Grenfell

Rough/Ready Rough/Ready is an industry screening for UK and Irish films at rough cut and fine cut stages to engage with festival programmers, sales agents, distributors, and financiers.

Filmed across the year following the Grenfell tragedy, this documentary features accounts from the people whose lives were irrevocably changed by the most devastating tower block fire in British history. Directed by Ben Anthony and from Executive Producer Morgan Matthews, Grenfell encompasses multiple voices from the community - as well as interviews with those who were in positions of responsibility.

Blacklist

Forgiveness

Hope Frozen

Poly Styrene

Blacklist is an intimate portrayal of a group of construction workers, who were denied employment because of political or trade union activism, showing the isolation and paranoia of being denied work and how the fight for justice can build a community.

A haunting allegory of a house that vanished. In the wake of two seemingly inexplicable shooting sprees, can a community forgive the teenage boy at the heart of its tragic past?

In 2015, a two-year-old girl from Bangkok - nicknamed “Einz” – became the youngest person in the world to undergo cryopreservation. After her death from brain cancer, her family sent the girl’s body to an American lab. Her head and brain now rests in a cryonic tank in Arizona.

A daughter's journey across three continents to reveal the untold story of one of the most remarkable and pioneering women in music history, X-Ray Spex front woman, Poly Styrene.

Dir. Lucy Parker

Director: Ben Anthony

Premiere: World Language: English

No Greater Law

The story of an extraordinary woman, marathon swimmer Beth French, attempting the world’s most extreme swimming challenge. Driven to be a role model for her autistic son, and by her battle with lifelong illness (ME), Beth confronts jellyfish, sharks, wild weather and reluctant skippers. But as her journey unfolds, dangers of the sea prove easier to conquer than upheavals of the heart.

Director: Stefan Stuckert

Country: Year: Duration:

Zac Beattie Georgina Cammalleri UK 2018 75 mins

Changing hands over a decade, used in eleven shootings and three murders, this is the story of Britain’s deadliest illegal gun: Gun No. 6. As governments and news headlines wrestle with the reality of violent crime, this bold hybrid film explores why men pick up guns and the shockwaves that follow each shooting, for victims, police, communities and perpetrators.

Director: James Newton

Against the Tides

Producer:

Gun No. 6

Special Events

Catch a new wave of UK filmmakers and extraordinary contemporary UK stories.

Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Gaby Aung UK 2018 90 mins World

Language: English Director's Filmography: The End Of The World Cult (2007), Sectioned (2010), 7/7: One Day In London (2012), Life and Death Row: Execution (2014), Don’t Take My Baby (2015)

Sales Contact: Andreas Lemos, Banijay andreas.lemos@zodiakrights.com

Films

Strand New/UK

Dir. Elizabeth Stopford

Dir. Pailin Wedel

Talks & Sessions

Films

Dir. Paul Sng

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Films

Special Events

Films

Little Pyongyang

The suburbia of New Malden is home to the largest community of North Koreans outside of Korea. Joong-wha Choi reflects on his traumatic past and complex sense of 'home'. Screening with: New/UK Shorts Roxy Rezvany | UK | 2018 | 23 mins | UK Premiere Email: charlie.phillips@theguardian.com

Screening with: New/UK Shorts Jay Bernard | UK | 2017 | 8 mins Email: jaybernard@protonmail.com

Street 66

With profound abilities to influence and activate, Angell Town resident Theodora Boatemah transformed the neglected Brixton estate and empowered the community. However, the hounds of gentrification threaten its future generations. Screening with: New/UK Shorts

Young black British people discuss their experiences of invisibility; being seen only as racist stereotypes. 17-year-old Ethan survived a knife attack ignored by passersby, and was presumed responsible by nurses. [SB] Screening with: New/UK Shorts Leon Oldstrong | UK | 2018 | 13 mins | World Premiere Email: leon@solaris2.com

Neighbours from the blocks surrounding Grenfell share their experiences of media stereotyping, and the dangers that predated the fire. The residents fight for their community, despite institutional neglect. Screening with: New/UK Shorts Alex Healey | UK | 2018 | 21 mins | World Premiere Email: charlie.phillips@theguardian.com

Riots, traffic, shopping. Walking, cruising, stopping.

Talks & Sessions

Every street is a theatre set awaiting another act. These are radical streets: the street of the artist, the migrant, the performer, the inquirer and the night walker. Sheffield Doc/Fest is pleased to present a parade of rarely seen films portraying revivifying and subversive spectacles of public life from Guangzhou, to Cairo, to Dakar. In these films the street is not the route, it is the destination. From early images of workers leaving the factory, to the poetry of city symphonies and urgency of direct cinema the notorious canon of street documentary is a surveying gaze of a privileged flaneur. This collection of works offers a subversive glimpse toward an alternative canon emerging after the moment street production was somewhat democratised with the introduction of portable Bolex film cameras.

Marketplace & Talent

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The Tower Next Door

Ayo Akingbade | UK | 2018 | 13 mins | UK Premiere Email: ayoeakingbade@gmail.com

Parties & Social

Little Pyongyang

Something Said

Watch a curated collection of cult and classic documentaries and restored archive treasures.

Special Events

That's Not Ours

Films

Max Colson | UK | 2017 | 14 mins | World Premiere Email: maxdfcolson@gmail.com

The New Cross Fire 1981 – Yvonne Ruddock's 16th birthday party became a tragedy. This audio-visual letter is a queer response to black British archives, and a dialogue with the present.

The Tower Next Door

As the urban street of today is increasingly commercialised, technologised, surveyed, gentrified and homogenised, each of these films reimagines the street as a public space, as a locus to navigate and negotiate of ownership, ideology and the right to exist through play, power, protest, perusal and performance. Unfamiliar images glow with radical sensibilities, subjective looking and tangents into worlds rarely seen. The compilation of short films in the Electric Avenues programme looks forward after looking back, exhibiting visions of the streets transitioning from the cinema with a human point of view to the digitized and algorhytmically analysed experience of machinima. The city symphony of the present is streamed through Bluetooth headphones, guided by street view in a driverless Uber.

Alternate Realities

Screening with: New/UK Shorts

Something Said

Strand Retro/Electric Avenues

Talks & Sessions

The Green and Pleasant Land

Films

Marketplace & Talent

Films

Catch a new wave of UK filmmakers and extraordinary contemporary UK stories.

New/UK Shorts A chorus of internet comments draws a 'live' animation portrait of Britain, in all of its pastoral glory. The disconnect between patriotic, sentimental perceptions and reality builds an incongruous vision.

Alternate Realities

Strand New/UK

Parties & Social

Special Events

Films

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Films

Zelimir Zilnik | Yugoslavia | 1971 | 14 mins Email: zilnik@hotmail.com Producer: Country: Year: Duration: Premiere:

Jean Rouch France, Niger 1974 93 mins

Language: French Subtitles: English

In Order Not To Be Here

An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 1

Footage from a dozen amateur videographers becomes a symphony of urban social dysfunction in China.

Deborah Stratman | USA | 2002 | 33 mins Email: distro@vdb.org

Secrets From the Street: No Disclosure

Secrets From the Street examines the intersection of cultures and classes as exemplified by the street life of San Francisco's Mission District. Producer: Country: Year: Duration:

Huang Weikai China 2009 58 mins

Language: English, Mandarin, Chinese Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: Karin Chien, dGenerate Films info@dgeneratefilms.com Website: www.icarusfilms.com/df-diso

Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 1 Martha Rosler | USA | 1980 | 12 mins Email: kmccool@eai.org

City of Contrasts

A somewhat-humorous look at the city of Dakar, its people, architecture, politics, social behaviour, and even the white French tourists.

Horse of Mud + Sad Song of Touha + The Sandwich

Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2 Djibril Diop Mambety | Senegal | 1969 | 22 min Email: mambety@gmail.com

Three films by the esteemed Egyptian director, Attiyat El-Abnoudi whose work is one of few Arab directors to be consistently acclaimed in the Western world, having been awarded numerous prizes for her documentaries, while frequently displeasing the authorities.

Director: Attiyat El-Abnoudi

IFO

Country: Year: Duration:

Egypt 1971-1975 36 mins

Language: Arabic Subtitles: English

Sales Contact: John Sinno, Typecast john@typecastfilms.com

Liberty City Crawl is a series of performances in Liberty City, GTA IV's virtual replica of New York, where the avatar of William Pope.L replays seminal performances of his physical counterpart. Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2 Colleen Flaherty, Matteo Bittanti | USA | 2017 | 12 mins

Sales Contact: Ludivine, CNRS ludivine.pelletier@cnrs.fr

Disorder

Liberty City Crawl (Superman II)

IFO is about three famous UFO sightings over Mansfield, Ohio. One of several recent and upcoming films featuring people, events, and incidents centred in the filmmaker's hometown. Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2

Many Thousands Gone

Parallels are drawn between a summer afternoon on the streets of the Salvador the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery - and the African diasporic stronghold of Harlem. Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2

Stolat

Students from Papua New Guinea make a film about senior people and how they are treated in France. They meet a dashing 80-years-old man and manage to communicate and get along well. Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2 Pengau Nengo | France | 1986 | 21 mins Email: communication@ateliersvaran.com

The Strike

In 2018, the police began a heavy-handed campaign of ‘stop, search and detain’ on any person who appeared to be part of an outlaw movement of "guerilla bikers". Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2 Gaika | UK | 2017 | 7 mins

Ephraim Asili | Brazil | 2015 | 7 mins Email: effieasili@gmail.com

Mobile Men

Two young men in a pickup truck are filming themselves. Belonging to different parts of the world, through the use of a camera they are discovering each other. Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2

Strolling: Eps 3, 5 & 9

Three episodes from Cecile Emeke's Strolling series. Screening as Electric Avenue Shorts 3 Cecile Emeke | UK | 2018 | 35 mins

Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 2008 | 3 mins Email: kickthemachine@gmail.com

Moor Mother Live in London

The Detroit-dwelling, interdisciplinary artist, afrofuturist empress and political agitator – spits venom with this poignant performance from a South London estate. Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2 Sonny Jake | UK | 2017 | 8 mins

Special Events

Zilnik picks up a group of homeless men from the streets of Novi Sad and takes them home. While they rest, the filmmaker tries to 'solve' their housing problem.

Films

Black Film

Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 1

Director: Huang Weikai

Watch a curated collection of cult and classic documentaries and restored archive treasures.

Retro/Electric Avenues Shorts

Lam is a peddler of chickens. Having sold everything he leaves Niamey to restock in the villages of the surroundings. At the wheel of his van, dubbed "Cocorico" because of the noise it makes when it finally starts, Mr. Poulet, assisted by Tallou, set forth into the bush.

Director: Jean Rouch / Dalarou

Strand Retro/Electric Avenues

Alternate Realities

Cocorico Monsieur Poulet

Films

IFO

Talks & Sessions

Watch a curated collection of cult and classic documentaries and restored archive treasures.

Marketplace & Talent

Strand Retro/Electric Avenues

My White Baby

A lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana.

Parties & Social

Special Events

Films

Screening with: Electric Avenue Shorts 2 Akosua Adoma Owusu | Ghana | 2009 | 22 mins Email: obibini.pictures@gmail.com

Kevin Jerome Everson | USA | 2017 | 10 mins Email: picturepalacesale@yahoo.com My White Baby

Alternate Realities

Join us for our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

Fathers, Sisters and Misters

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

A selection of shorts exploring the complexities of image and identity.

Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

Human Rights, Human Wrongs

A collection of shorts exploring the current state of the world and humankind's role within this.

Irene Baque Retro

A retrospective collection of shorts from artist Irena Baque's back catalogue.

Ladies With a Lens 1 & 2 A collection of shorts focusing on the remarkable work, stories and talents of women around the world.

Lovers of the Night

Seven elderly monks reflect on faith, ageing and the challenges of maintaining a monastery and farm in rural Ireland. Sacred rituals mingle with mundane pleasures in this contemplative portrait. [MA]

A selection of short films depicting the identities of both communities and the self.

Milford Graves Full Mantis

Celebrating the creativity of legendary American percussionist Milford Graves, this film is itself a kaleidoscope ode to the creative process, and a unique homage to the free jazz pioneer. [CN]

Mothers, Brothers and Others

A selection of shorts exploring the complexities of image and identity.

Nowness

A collections of shorts from global video channel Nowness.

On the Bench 1 & 2

A collection of episodes of On The Bench by Harry Meadley. Commissioned by UP Projects.

Power Hour 1 & 2

These films focus on challenges to power, and the power to challenge.

Random Acts

A collections of shorts from Channel 4's Random Acts.

Special Events

Resident Advisor: Beats 1 & 2

Films

Me, Myself and I

Join us for a free launch event for Doc/Fest’s AVA Library Project. Enjoy a sneak preview of a Doc/Fest film followed by tea and coffee. See website for details.

A collection of shorts from online music magazine Resident Advisor

Sleep Has Her House

A hypnotic reverie in a dark forest, underneath waterfalls and shifting shapes in the night. Captured on an iPhone, this is a symphonic and haunting science fiction of nature.

Soundtracks

Songs and image intertwine beautifully here in this collection of shorts curated & soundtracked by songwriter and BAFTA winning filmmaker Tristan C Anderson.

Spectrum

A prism through which to understant the diversity of experiences in our contemporary landscape.

The MOMENT

Alternate Realities

Docsersise 1 & 2

AVA Library offers a free year-round programme of selected films from the Doc/Fest catalogue available at Sheffield Central Library and at home online with your Sheffield library membership details.

Imagine watching Black Mirror whilst using the very dystopian technology the narrative is based on. The MOMENT is a unique film-watching experience where your brain controls the cuts and the narrative. Don a headset connected to a Brain Computer Interface, and the rhythms of your brain data will create a new narrative edit through one of 1.1 trillion possible edit combinations.

The MOMENT explores three narratives in a dystopian future where brain-computer interfaces are both a source of social threat and potential revelation with the narrative adapting to the subconscious responses of one viewer, selected as ‘The Controller’.

Talks & Sessions

A nostalgic look at past Festival trailers and other treats from the Doc/Fest archive.

Doc/Fest Mix 1 & 2

Makala

A young man from a village in the Congo hopes to offer his family a better future. His only resources are his own two hands, the surrounding bush, and an iron will. When he sets out on an exhausting, perilous journey to sell the fruit of his labor, he discovers the true value of his efforts, and the price of his dreams.

A 24 hour visual experience following the pattern of day and night, drawn exclusively from BBC Arena’s rich and varied archive.

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AVA Library

Strolling

A collection of retrospective episodes from Cecile Emeke's Strolling series.

Struggle

A selection of shorts depicting a range of different human struggles.

Super Spectrum

A prism through which to understand the diversity of experiences in our contemporary landscape.

Thee, Thyself and Thy

A selection of short films depicting the identities of both communities and the self.

Turtle Rock

Chinese director Xiao Xiao films the eponymous mountain village where he was raised. Shot in black and white, this beautiful slow cinema piece captures the rhythms of remote existence. [MA]

Director: Richard Ramchurn

Producer: Country: Year:

Rachel Ramchurn UK 2018

Duration: Premiere:

45 mins World

Marketplace & Talent

Free Screen Discover free outdoor screenings of new and rarely seen films with friends and family. Arena: Night and Day

Films

Free Outdoor Screen The Light Cinema Free Screen on Howard Street

Parties & Social

Films

Special Events

Films

The dramatic rise of virtual reality as an artistic medium over the last five years is certainly at the heart of the evolution for non-fiction. It is also the subject of William Uricchio from MIT’s keynote in our annual summit, where he tackles the progression from authored, to experienced to algorithmic storytelling (p.94). Beyond the Alternate Realities Exhibition and Summit we also have the demonic delight of The Dark Room (p.15) and the infectious fun of The Incredible Playable Show (p.16), two unmissable live video game events. The work in this year’s programme is provocative, powerful and deeply personal. Come to Trafalgar Warehouse to immerse yourself in their stories and stay to share your experience with others over local street food and drinks.

Dan Tucker

Alternate Realities Curator & Executive Producer Sheffield Doc/Fest

Special Events Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions

Enter a Sanctuary of Silence (p.105). Come Face to Face with an everyday hero (p.98). Remember our recent tragedies in The Loss Levels (p.100) and Grenfell: Our Home (p.104). Or step back in time to The Day The World Changed (p.98).

Marketplace & Talent

This year we are taking residency in Trafalgar Warehouse, a warehouse and gallery in the Cultural Industries Quarter of Sheffield that we are transforming into a space for digital exploration and real life conversation. Inside, our exhibition is split into Better Known Truths - a room that brings together real stories captured in 360º that the audience experience communally and The World Unknown To You - a large space that contains powerful and potent installations.

Parties & Social

Journey into the lives of others in more visceral ways than ever before. Visit new digital dimensions that create connectivity and shared understanding with a real purpose. Defy the divisive and destructive rhetoric we see in our feeds and on our flat screens and look to a future of hope and unity.

alities Alternate Realities Alte Alternate Realities Alternate

The future of non fiction and documentary is here. Welcome to Alternate Realities, Doc/Fest’s programme of interactive and immersive story worlds.

Join the world’s leading interactive and immersive makers to discover how they are changing the way we see ourselves and others.

Alternate Realities Summit Welcome Dan Tucker, Executive Producer & Curator of Alternate Realities welcomes you for a thought provoking day day of talks and discussions with the international digital storytelling community. Compered by Sharna Jackson and Emma Cooper, co-curators of CMC’s Playground. Session Producer

Annabel Grundy

Speaker

Dan Tucker (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

Comperes

Sharna Jackson Emma Cooper

Authenticity and Diversity in Storytelling Often we’re presented with stories told about the developing world, rather than stories told with the developing world. Because of this, stories are often skewed and singular in how they represent some of the most critical issues of our time and the communities in focus. Zahra Rasool, the Head of Al Jazeera’s Contrast VR, presents an impassioned keynote about the path to authentic storytelling through diversity and collaboration. Zahra Rasool (Contrast VR, Al Jazeera/ Executive Producer Yemen's Skies of Terror p.106)

Speaker

Ruthie Doyle (Sundance Institute)

Meet the makers that want to unite us all.

Better Known Truths: Considering Creative Practice Stories of the present day that you need to see. Meet three exceptional makers who’s work is featured in Better Known Truths, Alternate Realities’ 360º documentary showcase. Featuring enlightening presentations and a group discussion with the artists about the importance of portrayal and representation to their work. Chair

Gaylene Gould (BFI Southbank)

Speakers

Jesse Ayala (Dir. Authetically Us p.103) Charlotte Mikkleborg (Dir. The Journey p.104) Gabriela Arp (Creator, Life After Hate p.105)

Stories are Changing We had long understood stories as events that are re-told to us in a telling. Then along came the digital era, offering ways to stand that story form on its head. Go through the looking glass with William and discover another story revolution, this time, algorithmically enabled. These stories meld portrayals of the self with their portrayal of the world. Speakers

Speaker

What do we want the future to look like? Immersive media, artificial intelligence and other innovations promises to impact every aspect of our societies. The stakes are too high for limited inclusion in the design of the future of media. Ruthie Doyle shares the highlights of a year-long research project on this topic as a commission of Ford Foundation’s JustFilms programme.

William Urricchio (Head of MIT Open DocLab)

Artist Spotlight: Gabo Arora There are few makers who have had such a political and creative impact as Gabo Arora, former head of UNVR. Recognised as one of virtual reality’s leading auteurs, his work includes Clouds Over Sidra and The Last Goodbye and he continues to create immersive documentary works that can be seen at all the major film festivals. Chaired by Katy Yudin from the Future of Storytelling Festival, this session features a presentation and interview with the artist about his canon of work. Chair

Katy Yudin (Future of Storytelling Festival)

Speakers

Gabo Arora (Creator, The Day The World Changed p.98)

Incredible Playable Alternate Realities invite the audience to return and become cogs in a ridiculous machine. Interactive ringmaster, Alistair Aichenson brings the madcap hilarity of his live video game experience to the summit for 20 minutes of stupendous fun. Associated event: The Incredible Playable Show (p.16)

Special Events

It is time to stand together. The world is divided and the discourse is scary. What do we want from our new worlds of digital exploration? As we see toxicity, corruption and division revealed in other creative industries, how can the emergent landscape of interactive and immersive bring us together?

Films

Welcome to the new era of story. Technology is rapidly changing the way we experience documentary and our role as the audience. What is shaping the future of non-fiction and how are we depicted in a world of digital representation?

Making a New Reality

The World Unknown to You: Considering Creative Practice Stories that are a testament to the power of the human spirit. Join three artists that have powerful and personal stories in The World Unknown to You, Alternate Realities’ showcase of immersive and interactive installations. Sarah Ellis leads a session of project insights and group discussion with the artists about their work. Chair

Sarah Ellis (Royal Shakespeare Company)

Speakers

Stu Campbell (Dir. Mind at War p.100) Michaela Holland (Dir. Face to Face p.98) Dan Hett (Creator The Loss Levels p.100)

Closing Remarks Alternate Realities Curator Dan Tucker shares his closing remarks on the Summit and invites the attendees to meet the Alternate Realities artists for drinks at Trafalgar Warehouse.

Speaker

Alternate Realities

Afternoon Session Union

Talks & Sessions

Morning Session Portrayals

Marketplace & Talent

Alternate Realities Summit

Dan Tucker (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

See Meet the Alternate Realities Artists Drinks supported by Immerse UK (p.251)

Parties & Social

Special Events Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions Marketplace & Talent Parties & Social 94

Alternate Realities Summit

Jurors

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. One of only a few such awards in the documentary world, Sheffield Doc/Fest is dedicated to recognising new platforms for interactive storytelling.

Gabrielle Jenks Director (Abandon Normal Devices)

Ruthie Doyle Filmmaker

Gabrielle Jenks is the Director of Abandon Normal Devices and the UK’s only roaming festival of art, new cinema and digital culture. She is a curator and cultural producer interested in critically engaged and site specific practice.

Ruthie Doyle is an artist and filmmaker, and since 2013, a member of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier team, identifying, supporting and exhibiting artists at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as year-round via Labs and residencies.

Myriam Achard Director of PR & Communication (Phi Centre)

William Uricchio Founder (MIT Open Documentary Lab)

Myriam Achard has more than 20 years’ experience in public relations. Since 2015, Myriam has been researching immersive and interactive works at the Phi Centre as part of the virtual reality exhibits.

William Uricchio is Founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and professor of Comparative Media History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Robin McNicholas Co-Founder & Creative Director (MLF)

Zahra Rasool Editorial Lead (Contrast VR, Al Jazeera)

Co-founder and Creative Director of the award winning creative studio Marshmallow Laser Feast, Robin has directed a myriad of virtual reality experiences, large-scale installations and live performances.

Zahra Rasool is the Editorial Lead for Contrast VR — Al Jazeera’s new immersive media studio where she focuses on the production of compelling 360-degree video, virtual reality and augmented reality content.

Nominations

Authentically Us: We're Still Here (p.103)

Life in VR – California Coast (p.99)

Cosmic Top Secret (p.97)

Berlin Paris Terror (p.103)

Manic VR (p.100)

The Loss Levels (p.100)

The Day the World Changed (p.104)

Mind at War (p.100)

Sensible Data / Mixed Emotions (p.101)

Porton Down (p.101)

Every King Tide (p.104)

Terminal 3 (p.101)

The Real Thing (p.105)

Face to Face (Festival Commission) (p.98)

The Voice of the Unicorn (p.102)

Sanctuaries of Silence (p.105)

Where is Home? (p.102)

Grenfell: Our Home (p.104)

This Is Climate Change: Feast & Famine (p.106)

Hold the World with David Attenborough (p.98)

Vestige (p.102)

Is Anna OK? (p.99)

Homo Machina (p.99)

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Films

Jurors

Sheffield Doc/Fest's Virtual Reality Award celebrates virtual reality documentary as a flourishing creative medium. Recognising the ever-growing number of high-quality VR documentaries, a jury of expert VR makers and industry leaders will award this prize to the project that displays excellence in factual storytelling as well as technical ingenuity.

The World Unknown to You Engage with the interface and cross into the unknown to reveal worlds anew.

Belongings

Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities Interactive Award

Experience an intimate interaction with displaced people and their stories of identity, resilience and hope.

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Creators: John-Paul Marin Matt Smith Tea Uglow Kirstin Sillitoe

Producers: Megan Gibbon Jonathan Richards Country: Australia Year: 2018

Duration: 20 mins Premiere: UK Format: Installation

Producer: Lise Saxtrup Country: Denmark, Austria Year: 2018

Duration: 60 mins Premiere: UK Format: Interactive Documentary

Contact: John-Paul Marin, SBS john-paul.marin@sbs.com.au

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities Virtual Reality Award

Special Events

Alternate Realities Exhibition

Website: www.sbs.com.au/belongings

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Films

Special Events

Alternate Realities Awards

Cosmic Top Secret

An autobiographical adventure game about T, who wants to find out what her dad did for the Danish Intelligence Service during the Cold War.

Yemen's Skies of Terror (p.106)

Life After Hate: Meeting a Monster (p.105)

Alternate Realities Audience Award Supported by REWIND

Voted for by the Sheffield Doc/Fest exhibition audience, this award recognises the Alternate Realities work that receives the highest audience vote during the Festival.

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Creator: Trine Laier

Contact: Lise Saxtrup, klassefilm klassefilm@gmail.com

Parties & Social

The Journey (p.104)

Website: www.cosmictopsecretgame.com 97

Alternate Realities The World Unknown to You

The Day the World Changed

Homo Machina

Special Events

Alternate Realities The World Unknown to You

Dive into a fantastic universe where the human body becomes a gigantic mechanised factory, inspired by Fritz Khan’s medical illustrations.

An intimate history and commemoration of the victims and survivors of atomic bombings and nuclear arms testing through first-hand testimonies.

Creators: Gabo Arora Saschka Unseld

Producer: Jennifer Tiexiera Country: USA, Japan Year: 2018

Duration: 10 mins Premiere: International Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Nathan Brown, Tomorrow Never Knows nathan@tomorrowneverknows.co Website: www.thedaytheworldchanged.world

Face to Face

Image: Michelle Gabel

(Festival Commission)

Creators: Marc Lustigman Noam Roubah Olivier Bonhomme

Producers: Laura Fournier Claire Léger Country: France, Germany Year: 2018

Duration: 90 mins Premiere: Eurpoean Format: Interactive Documentary

Producers: Tom Burton Ben Curtis Country: UK Year: 2018

Duration: 10 mins Premiere: UK Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Producers: Kevin Jorge David Bradshaw Ben Curtis Country: UK

Year: 2018 Duration: 15 mins Premiere: World Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Adrien Larouzée Darjeeling Productions a-larouzee@artefrance.fr Website: www.homomachina-game.com

Is Anna OK?

A true story of twins thrown apart by one night. Step into their shoes and a beautifully illustrated world, explore memories through objects, and uncover what happened from both perspectives.

A compelling installation based on the life of Michelle, who wears a facial prosthetic due to a near fatal gun injury. A Sheffield Doc/Fest commission, supported by Arts Council England.

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Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Alternate Realities

Films

Contains content that some may find distressing.

Producer: Ivana Jiron Country: USA Year: 2018

Duration: 45 mins Premiere: World Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Michaela Holland facetofacestory@gmail.com Website: www.facetofacestory.com

Hold the World

A unique one-on-one encounter with a digitally realised Sir David Attenborough, in which he teaches you how to examine remarkable specimens from the Natural History Museum's collection.

Website: www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories

Experience life in the ocean from the microscopic to the truly gigantic and prepare to encounter the unexpected in an underwater world bursting with life.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producer: John Cassy Country: UK Year: 2017

Duration: 90 mins Premiere: Eurpoean Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Sam Browne, Factory 42 sam.browne@sky.uk Website: www.factory42.uk

Contact: Rosie Taylor, BBC Studios rosie.taylor01@bbc.co.uk

Life in VR — California Coast

with David Attenborough

Creator: Dan Smith

Creator: Camila Ruz

Creators: Charlotte Jones Tom Burton Phil Stuart

Talks & Sessions

Creators: Michelle Gabel Michaela Holland

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Marketplace & Talent

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Contact: Bradley Crooks, BBC Worldwide bradley.crooks@bbc.com

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Contains content that some may find distressing.

The Loss Levels

Porton Down

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Producer: Dan Hett Country: UK Year: 2018

Duration: 4 mins Premiere: Festival Format: Game

Contact: Dan Hett hellodanhett@gmail.com Website: www.danhett.itch.io/the-loss-levels

Duration: 15 mins Premiere: World Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Constance Nuttall constancen@gmail.com

Producer: Martin Hertig Country: Switzerland Year: 2018

Duration: 5 mins Premiere: World Format: Installation

Contact: Martin Hertig martin.hertig@gmail.com

Producers: Jill Klekas Jake Sally Nigel Tierney Zeda Stone Country: USA, Pakistan

Year: 2018 Duration: 12 mins Premiere: European Format: Augmented Reality

Contact: Asad J Malik, Kaleidoscope a@1ric.com

Alternate Realities

Explore the exuberant and chaotic worlds of an imagination haunted by bipolar disorder. Guided by the compelling voices of Felicia and François who, for the past three years, have used their sister’s voice mail as their personal diary.

Discover how the machine sees you and decide whether that re-informs how you see yourself.

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producers: Sandra Rodriguez Bob Moore Nicolas S. Roy Country: Canada Year: 2018

Duration: 15 mins Premiere: World Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Sandra Rodriguez, Eyesteelfilm sandra@eyesteelfilm.com

Creator: Martin Hertig

Website: www.eyesteelfilm.com/ web-projects/manic-vr/

Mind at War

Terminal 3

Explore post-traumatic stress disorder and the banal horrors of war through hand-drawn 3D illustrations of Scott England's memories.

Explore contemporary Muslim identities in the USA through the lens of an airport interrogation.

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Creator: Sutu

Producer: Constance Nuttall Country: UK Year: 2018

Sensible Data / Mixed Emotions

Manic VR

Creators: Kalina Bertin Sandra Rodriguez Fred Casia

Creators: Don Webb Callum Cooper Sam Von Ehren Anna Meller

Marketplace & Talent

Creator: Dan Hett

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producers: Jake Sally Amy Rosner Michelle Zauzig Jackie Westfall Country: USA

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Relive the experiences of an ex-serviceman who unwittingly found himself in a bizarre, mind-altering military trial that changed the course of his life.

Talks & Sessions

A deeply personal yet playful story of loss based on the artist's personal experience during the 2017 terrorist attack on Manchester Arena.

Special Events

Alternate Realities The World Unknown to You

Year: 2017 Duration: 22 mins Premiere: UK Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Jake Sally, RYOT jake.sally@ryot.org

Creators: Asad J. Malik

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Vestige

Better Known Truths Coalesce and immerse yourself in stories of love, loss and hope.

Journey into the mind of Lisa as she remembers her lost love, Erik, through a series of fragmented memories.

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Producers: Paul Mowbray Antoine Cayrol Jill Klekas Basmajian Country: UK, France, USA

Year: 2018 Duration: 15 mins Premiere: European Format: Virtual Reality Installation

Contact: Elaine Wong, NSC Creative elaine@otherset.com Website: www.vestige-vr.com

The Voice of the Unicorn

A provocative exploration of the art of the non-verbal that challenges how we see and understand language, disability, art and alienation.

Step into the life of Aiden ShortCloud, a Two-Spirit artist and historian in Boise, Idaho, struggling to preserve and revive his heritage in a race against time.

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Creator: Richard Butchins

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producers: Richard Butchins Patrick Knill Country: Japan, UK Year: 2018

Duration: Loop Premiere: World Format: Installation

Contact: Richard Butchins tvotu1@gmail.com

Creator: Jesse Ayala

Website: www.thevoiceoftheunicorn.com

Where is Home

Producers: Amy Seidenwurm Anna Therese Day Lauren Burmaster Paula Cuneo Country: USA

Year: 2017 Duration: 3 mins Premiere: European Format: Mobile VR

Contact: Anna Therese Day, Fovrth Studios Anna@GoFovrth.com

Producers: Dorothee Pitz Maik Bialk Sophie Schulenburg Country: Germany Year: 2017

Duration: 20 mins Premiere: UK Format: Mobile VR

Contact: Maik Bialk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk maik.bialk@wdr.de

Website: www.AuthenticallyUs.com

Berlin Paris Terror

A journey through West Africa that asks the simple question: Where is home?, revealing a complex range of thought provoking answers.

Experience the memories of the first responders and surviving hostages of the major terrorist incidents in Germany and Paris.

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Creator: Ifeatu Nnaobi

Alternate Realities

Authentically Us: We're Still Here

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producer: Ifeatu Nnaobi Country: Nigeria, Canada Year: 2017

Duration: 30 mins Premiere: UK Format: Interactive Documentary

Contact: Ifeatu Nnaobi ifeatu.nnaobi@gmail.com

Creators: Jürgen Brügger Jörg Haaßengier Astrid Schult Ricarda Saleh

Talks & Sessions

Creators: Aaron Bradbury Paul Mowbray

Films

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Films

Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market Pitched

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Alternate Realities Exhibition

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Every King Tide

Life After Hate: Meeting a Monster

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producers: Greer Simpkin Tanith Glynn-Maloney Country: Australia Year: 2018

Duration: 10 mins Premiere: International Format: Mobile VR

Contact: David Jowsey, Dark Matter david.jowsey@icloud.com

Creator: Gabriela Arp

Producer: Gabriela Arp Country: USA Year: 2017

Duration: 10 mins Premiere: International Format: Mobile VR

Website: www.bunyaproductions.com.au

Grenfell: Our Home

Contact: Gabriela Arp, Rabbit Raccoon arp.gabriela@gmail.com Website: www.meetingamonster.com

The Real Thing

An experience that combines powerful interviews with beautiful animation to visualise the memories of home still held by the survivors of the Grenfell fire of 14 June 2017.

Alternate Realities

Creators: Aaron Fa'Aoso Craig Deeker Greer Simpkin

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Step into a copy of our world, exploring real-life stories inside China's replicas of Paris, Venice and London.

Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market Pitched

Creator: Jonathan Rudd

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producers: Nicki Chandris Alessandra Bonomolo Country: UK Year: 2018

Duration: 20 mins Premiere: World Format: Mobile VR

Contact: David Wise, Parable david@parableworks.com

The Journey

Producer: Benjamin Landsberger Country: France Year: 2018

Duration: 16 mins Premiere: International Format: Mobile VR

Contact: Benjamin Landsberger, DVgroup b.landsberger@artlinefilms.com Website: www.therealthing.film

Sanctuaries of Silence

Journey through childhood in three of the toughest environments on Earth.

A mindful and thought-provoking film that highlights the impact of noise pollution on a journey into Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places in North America.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Creator: Charlotte Windle Mikkelborg

Creators: Benoit Felici Mathais Chelebourg

Marketplace & Talent

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Producers: Toby Fricker Tanya Turkovich Country: USA, Germany Hong Kong

Year: 2018 Duration: 10 mins Premiere: World Format: Mobile VR

Contact: Charlotte Windle Mikkelborg, Picture This Productions charlotte.mikkelborg@gmail.com

Films

Witness Angela King relive the memories and motivations of the eight years she spent inside the white power movement and the path she took to get out.

Creators: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Adam Loften

Talks & Sessions

Poruma island in the Torres Strait of Australia is slowly being swallowed by the sea. Hear a first-person perspective of a community's spirit and passion for the island they call home.

Special Events

Alternate Realities Better Known Truths

Producers: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Adam Lofte Country: USA Year: 2017

Duration: 8 mins Premiere: European Format: Mobile VR

Contact: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Go Project Films evaughanlee@globalonenessproject.org

Parties & Social

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Marketplace & Talent

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Films

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Alternate Realities Better Known Truths This Is Climate Change: Feast & Famine Confront our new reality of catastrophic weather events that are displacing communities and transforming landscapes with alarming speed.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Creators: Danfung Dennis Eric Strauss

Producers: Diana El-Osta Catherine Yrisarri Country: USA, Somalia Brazil, Greenland

Year: 2018 Duration: 18 mins Premiere: International Format: Mobile VR

Contact: Rob Williams, Participant Media rwilliams@participant.com

Producers: Viktorija Mickute Joi Lee Zahra Rasool Country: Yemen

Year: 2018 Duration: 6 mins Premiere: World Format: Mobile VR

Contact: Jackie Morris Contrast VR / Al Jazeera morrisj@aljazeera.net

Yemen's Skies of Terror

Witness a rare glimpse of life inside Yemen and learn about the reality of childhood in a country that has suffered three years of devastating air raids falling from the skies.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Creators: Viktorija Mickute Joi Lee Zahra Rasool

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Parties & Social

Alternate Realities Special Events The Dark Room (p.15)

The Incredible Playable Show (p.16)

Reeps One presents: We Speak Music Live (p.17) DOUBLETHINK (p.21) Portal (p.21)

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Website: www.contrastvr.com/Yemen

The Facebook Cambridge Analytic scandal highlights another abuse of power: big data: we explore both this issue and how the pursuit of truth is affected by social media and ‘dark PR’ in our annual Doc/Question Time (p.120). Finally, we invite you to an essential discussion Influencing Brexit - Have Your Say (p.121) which includes examining opportunities to stay in Creative Europe. I look forward to seeing you in Sheffield.

Nigel Fischer

Head of Talks & Sessions Sheffield Doc/Fest

Special Events Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions

The allegations against Harvey Weinstein and many others give gave us cause to examine the industry and the power structures within it in Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment (p.125): documentary film has a proud tradition of exposing abuses of power, but too often abuse has been allowed to go unchallenged when it happens within the industry’s own backyard. We’re celebrating women and feminism with author of Women & Power: A Manifesto, Mary Beard (p.118), and female empowerment and fluidity with model and LGBTQ+ activist Munroe Bergdorf (p.123).

Marketplace & Talent

We bring filmmaking talent to the fore in the Craft Summit (p.114), showcasing the expertise and production skills of this year’s film programme; explore ways of looking and identity, including in an intimate lecture with Mark Cousins (p.117); and are proud to have masterclasses with BAFTA and Oscarnominated director Matthew Heineman (p.117) and street photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah (p.123).

Parties & Social

Our core values - to champion unheard voices and opportunity for all - are reflected across the programme. My Big Break (p.124) sees innovative emerging filmmakers talk openly about the successes and challenges of their careers, including welcoming Jamal Edwards MBE (p.122) - best known as the then-15-year-old founder of YouTube channel SBTV to Exchange: Head Space.

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Our talks and sessions this year celebrates an even greater range of diverse and inclusive documentary stories; from shorts, features and series to interactive and virtual reality.

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Live Cinema Summit

Marketplace & Talent Parties & Social

Introduction: Real Live The Summit begins with an overview of the world of live cinema, its presence in the Doc/Fest 2018 programme and the potentials of ‘liveness’ for factual storytelling with Lisa Brook (Director, Live Cinema UK), Dr Sarah Atkinson (King’s College London) and Helen Kennedy (University of Brighton).

Archive and Live Scores Artists including Jarvis Cocker and British Sea Power have premiered live scores to archive films at Doc/Fest. With more archive releases with big name artists being released each year including Asunder (Esther Johnson / score by Field Music and Warm Digits), we ask those making, including Jason Singh who will perform as part of Nature’s Nickelodeons (p.17) at the Festival and those exhibiting, what is the enduring appeal of the genre, how has it become a staple of live cinema internationally and how can filmmakers and producers get involved? Chair

Joel Mills (British Council)

Speakers

Bryony Dixon (BFI) Esther Johnson (Artist/Filmmaker, Asunder) Jason Wood (HOME Mcr)

Helen Kennedy (University of Brighton)

Chair

Colm McAuliffe (Creative Producer/Writer)

Speakers

Sam Smaïl (Choose Your Own Documentary)

Speakers

Amy Cutler (Artist, Nature’s Nickelodeons p.17)

Erwin M. Schmidt (Cinemathon)

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (Artists, DOUBLETHINK p.21)

Richard Ramchurn (Artist The MOMENT p.89)

Films

Artists from the 2018 Doc/Fest programme join journalist and live cinema producer Colm McAuliffe to take an exclusive look behind the scenes of their world premiere events including Reeps One on his new live show We Speak Music Live (p.17), Richard DeDeomenici on his guerilla recreation of Threads: Redux (p.19), Amy Cutler on Nature’s Nickelodeons (p.17) and Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on their Doc/Fest commissioned immersive video installation DOUBLETHINK (p.21).

Chair

Richard DeDomenici (Filmmaker, Threads: Redux p.19)

Kirsty Jennings (Blast Theory)

Chair

Dr Sarah Atkinson (King’s College London)

Speakers

Anthony Andrews (We Are Parable) Kiri Inglis (Mubi) Dorottya Székely (Dogwoof) Rebecca Ashdown (Together Films)

Expanded and Live: Audiovisual Performance Artists Christopher Thomas Allen, Katharine Vega and Toby Harris have forged new forms of events, collaborated across the arts, and embraced cultures and technologies - old and new. Join them for an exploration of audio-visual performance, projection design and a whole lot of provocation about what the ‘live’ in Live Cinema can be. Speakers

Christopher Allen (The Light Surgeons) Toby Harris (Toby *spark)

Round Tables: Concepts and Ideas What makes a great live cinema project? How and why should filmmakers, producers and artists be using ‘liveness’ in their work? Whether you have a fully formed idea or just want to find out more, explore it with our creatives and academics. Speakers

Christopher Allen (Light Surgeons) Helen Kennedy (University of Brighton) Colm McAuliffe (Creative Producer/Writer) Dr Sarah Atkinson (King’s College London)

Round Tables: Funding and Exhibition How do you get your idea off the ground, and where can you exhibit? Funders, venues and tour bookers are here to give their advice on making a financially viable project with big audience appeal without jeopardising your creativity. Speakers

Talks & Sessions

Eventise! Experiential Events

Alternate Realities

Reeps One (Musician, We Speak Music Live p.19)

From one-night-only live score presentations to experiential launch events and virtual reality projects on tour with national releases, films can hugely benefit from the live experience as part of their launch strategy. In the age of VOD, why should you consider a live element in your film’s launch strategy and how can this work for factual releases, as well as fiction? Hear from industry leading live cinema event-makers, exhibitors and marketers, and discover how cinemas are changing to embrace the concept of liveness.

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Mobile, virtual reality and interactive tech innovations have left cinema-going largely unchanged – phones remain (generally) on silent and collective cinematic virtual reality experiences are not yet commonplace with a few exceptions. Meet the exhibitors and artists, including Richard Ramchurn whose brain-controlled film The MOMENT (p.89) is playing at the Festival, harnessing tech for in-cinema experiences, including user-controlled and multi-narrative films, and mobile interactivity.

Meet the Artists of Doc/Fest 2018

Marketplace & Talent

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Audience Participation and Tech

Lisa Brook (Live Cinema UK) Stuart Brown (BFI) Sally Folkard (Film Hub North) Kate Murphy (Arts Council England)

Katharine Vega (chome.space)

The Live Cinema Summit also includes three world premiere live events: Reeps One presents: We Speak Music Live (p.19) Nature's Nickelodeons (p.17) Threads: Redux (p.19)

Parties & Social

New to the Festival and reflecting Doc/Fest’s growing programme of live and multi-media events, we explore the phenomenon of live cinema, including film screenings augmented through live performance or immersive elements, site-specific locations, technological intervention, digital participation and musical accompaniment.

Special Events

Presented in partnership with and supported by public funding from Arts Council England.

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Films

Special Events

Presented in partnership with and supported by public funding from Arts Council England.

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Krishan Arora (SBS)

Speakers

Anna Humphries (InfoCandy)

Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Speakers

RaMell Ross (Dir. Hale County This Morning, This Evening p.74)

Rupert Russell (Dir. How the World Went Mad)

The Colourist: Making a Grade Great As screens become more hi-res, colour grading has become an essential tool to work with raw camera images. How can you change the look of a shot, what effect does it have and are there cost-effective solutions? Hear from a colourist who specialises in bringing black and white archive to life and a colour grader at a leading post house. We'll discuss apps and online tools as well as high-end kit. Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Speakers

Samuel Francois-Steininger (Composite Films)

Through the experience of a psychologist, this interactive and probing session will gain insight into the art of directing real events, the portrayal of character and examine whether we can ever get too close to the subject in documentaries. Using clips from their films, two filmmakers will put themselves 'on the psychologist’s couch’ to explore how they engage with their subjects and whether they ever cross the line.

Sound Design: The Art of Noise As advances in technology mean better sound in cinemas and from televisions and evermore focus on a films soundtrack, what can sound designers do for a film? We explore this question with a director whose debut feature creates a striking portrait of Beirut through sound and image and a sound designer working across documentary and fiction. Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Speakers

Peter Albrechtsen (Sound Designer, The Distant Barking of Dogs p.46) Rama Eid (Dir. Panoptic p.80)

Why we Film: Directors and Their Choices From the narrative drive of story-led films to the compelling beauty of essay films, documentary takes many different forms. How do directors see their films and is there a difference in how national audiences respond to different types of storytelling? Two directors with films at this year’s Doc/Fest will talk about their filmmaking approach, their motives and inspirations whilst sharing insights into each other’s work.

Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Chair

Simran Hans (Observer)

Speakers

Geoffrey Beattie (Edge Hill University)

Speakers

Sandi Tan (Dir. Shirkers p.36)

Bernadette Tuza-Ritter (Dir. A Woman Captured p.44) Livvy Haydock (Presenter/Director)

Special Events

Maceo Frost (Dir. Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight p.42)

Katherine Jamieson (Halo Post)

Documentary Subjects: How Close Do You Go?

Films

Chair

The choice of formats, cameras, lenses and workflows is ever increasing. Is the choice of lens ‘the new film stock’? How small can cameras get? What does the practice of stills photography add to the moving image? With the focus on a film's story or issue, are we paying enough attention to what it actually looks like? Hear filmmakers and DoPs discuss what they use and their reasons for using it.

Tim Wardle (Dir. Three Identical Strangers p.41)

Alternate Realities

As the form evolves, documentary and animation are coming together in surprising ways. Some filmmakers are using the artistic scope of drawn or computer-generated images to create new visual languages. For others, it may be a way round the costs of dramatic reconstruction or lack of real footage. Animator Anna Humphries will lead us through a survey of the genre’s range and we will explore with other panelists the potential for filmmakers to use animation techniques in their work.

Focus on Cinematography: New Ways of Seeing?

Talks & Sessions

Animated Documentary: Frame by Frame

Marketplace & Talent

The creative minds behind many of the films in this year’s programme will explore how they have developed their craft, the creative choices they make, the tools and workflows they use.

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A day dedicated to the craft of documentary – both the techniques and the tech that goes into non-fiction film and programme making, from shorts to features.

Presented by Documentary Campus

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In this session, producer Lindsey Dryden will discuss in detail the creative distribution strategy for Unrest, which was pitched in the MeetMarket in 2016 followed by a World Premiere at Sundance and UK premiere at Doc/Fest in 2017 where it won the Illuminate Award. The film has since screened at numerous international festivals, been released theatrically in the USA and UK, sold to PBS and Netflix and performed well in the home entertainment market via DVD and iTunes.

International sales agents can help a film find distribution partners in markets worldwide, often inputting into marketing and festival strategy. In this session, executives from a range of international sales companies will introduce themselves, explain their approach to acquisitions – what they’re looking for – and share examples of films they have recently worked on. Following the presentations, there will be time for filmmakers to connect with sales agents and exchange business cards.

Lindsey Dryden, (Producer Unrest)

Films

Speaker

Meet the Sales Agents

Algorithms & Discovery: Are Bots the Next Content Curators? As people increasingly create and discover content through social media, video on demand and EPGs, and with commissioning becoming increasingly data-driven, is human content curation doomed to be replaced by algorithms and bots? These issues are increasingly relevant not just commercially for documentary makers trying to reach an audience, but for audiences themselves trying to understand the authenticity of what they are watching.

Art 50: Art in a Post-Brexit Britain with Kirsty Wark What will art in a post-Brexit Britain look and feel like when it is no longer a member of the European Union? When Article 50 was triggered in March 2018, Sky Arts launched Art 50 inviting artists from all walks of life and art forms, to each create a piece of work examining post brexit Britain. A number of the commissioned artists join BBC Newsnight's Kirsty Wark to discuss their projects and how they reveal ways we’re redefining ourselves.

Session Producer

Nick Crossland (Joi Polloi)

Session Producer

Danielle Graham (Story Vault TV)

Speakers

Caitlin Meek-O'Connor (Little Dot Studios)

Chair

Kirsty Wark (BBC Newsnight)

Speakers

John Godber (Playwright)

Farida Viz (University of Sheffield) Max Gogarty (BBC3)

Special Events

Distribution Case Study: Unrest

Talks & Sessions

Films

Special Events

Sales & Distribution Summit

Jonathan Maltland (Playwright)

For the past few years, virtual reality (VR) has been heralded as the “future of filmmaking” by the digital vanguard. While the medium has become a staple at forward-thinking film festivals, wider distribution for VR remains nascent. This session will explore the challenges and opportunities that VR faces in terms of reaching wider audiences. Presented in partnership with DDD60. Chair

Tom Grater (Screen International)

Speakers

Victoire Thevenin (MK2)

Marketplace Drinks Rounding off the Sales & Distribution Summit and kicking off a new week of industry activity, Marketplace Drinks offers an opportunity to get to know Decision Makers and fellow filmmakers better. The event welcomes everyone involved in Sales & Distribution Summit, MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Market, Doc/Player and all Marketplace initiatives. The Marketplace & Talent team will be present so do come by for a drink, say hello and tell us about your documentary projects – we’re here to help get them made!

Lydia Penke, (Curzon Cinemas)

Alternate Realities Summit A full day of thought-provoking talks, interactivity and illuminating presentations from the world's leading digital storytellers. See, hear and experience the latest developments in immersive and interactive technology. Supported by Arts Council England For full details, see p.94

Session Producer

Annabel Grundy

Comperes

Sharna Jackson Emma Cooper

Tilman Scheel (Reelport/ DDD60)

A Story on Every Corner: Images of America Today Always a rich narrative vein for documentary stories, portrayals of the USA are continually in flux. How can filmmakers translate the complexities and nuances of this vast and divided country, particularly when looking in? We explore differing visions of the USA, that challenge and dispel stereotypes, attempting to show new and untold stories and approaches to America today. Session Producer

Carol Nahra (Docs on Screen)

Chair

Alan Hayling (Renegade Pictures)

Speakers

Sam Santana (Laguna Films Ltd) Alina Skrzeszewska (Dir. Games Girls p.53), Tom Dumican (Dir. No Greater Law p.83)

Alternate Realities

Distribution for VR

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Dreda Say Mitchell (Author)

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A chance to find out more about how distributors handle a film’s delivery to the audience by managing and marketing its journey through the various exhibition platforms. In this session, we invite executives from different distribution companies to introduce themselves, explain how they work with filmmakers and comment on the kinds of documentaries they are seeking with reference to recent examples. Following the presentations, there will be time for filmmakers to connect with distributors and exchange business cards.

Sales & Distribution 101 What’s a sales agent? What’s a distributor? How do I get my film sold and seen by audiences worldwide? If you’re new-ish to documentary filmmaking and want to know more about the incredibly important stages of sales and distribution, this session is for you. Doc/Fest’s Marketplace & Talent team will bring you up to speed with the current, need-to-know aspects of working with industry partners in a ‘no assumed knowledge’ and ‘no questions are silly’ spirit. Speakers

Karolina Lidin (Sheffield Doc/Fest) Patrick Hurley (Sheffield Doc/Fest) Manon Euler (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

An Evening with Mark Cousins: 30 Images in the Dark Acclaimed filmmaker and author Mark Cousins works to reassess not only how we look at film, but how we can look at the world differently through the image world of a filmmaker. Join Mark for an intimate lecture exploring the aesthetics, politics and emotion of ‘looking’. Using 30 key cultural images, Mark will examine how our ‘looking selves’ develop, the ways that looking has changed through the centuries and explore how our social and cultural surroundings shape what we see. Speaker

Mark Cousins (Dir. The Eyes of Orson Welles p.52)

BAFTA Masterclass: Matthew Heineman Matthew Heineman, the BAFTA-and-Oscar-nominated director, is one of the most exciting documentary filmmakers working today. His films City of Ghosts (awarded Doc/Fest’s Grand Jury Award 2017) and Cartel Land (awarded Doc/Fest’s Tim Hetherington Award 2015) offered searing comment on the fight against ISIS and the war on drugs. Doc/Fest welcomes Matthew back to Sheffield to discuss these films and his new documentary series The Trade (p.49) depicting the US heroin epidemic, two episodes of which are screening at the Festival. Chair

Mariayah Kaderbhai (BAFTA)

Speakers

Matthew Heineman (Dir. The Trade p.49)

Marketplace & Talent

Meet the Distributors

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Mandy Chang (BBC Storyville)

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At a time when binge-watching box sets has become the new guilty pleasure and when Netflix, Amazon and other streaming giants are leading the charge curating some of the best-in-show box sets - how are public service broadcasters responding to this new way of watching? And how will filmmakers get their passion project box sets commissioned and on air today?

Films

Session Producer

Madonna Benjamin & Charlotte Desai (Channel 4)

Chair

David Glover (72 Films)

Speakers

Bruce Goodington (Filmmaker)

Best of Times, Worst of Times: The Future of Feature Documentaries Are we entering a new Golden Age for feature documentary? Will new funding sources create a flurry of blockbuster features or is cinema exhibition inexorably declining as audiences ‘Netflix and chill’? The rising power of SVOD platforms opens up new audiences and revenue streams but may also be skewing the market towards over-long, sensational documentaries based on profit algorithms. We will explore who's got the money whether today's market prioritise ‘Films that do Well’ over ‘Films that do Good.’ Session Producer

Lucy Baxter (Darkley Films)

Chair

Rajesh Thind (Pindu Production)

Speakers

Mandy Chang (BBC Storyville)

Channel 4 First Cut Pitch Shortlisted directors vie to prove that they are ready to take on the challenge of an hour-long, post watershed documentary for Channel 4. Each director will introduce, show and discuss their films in front of a live audience and a panel of executive producers and filmmakers. Come and discover the next wave of exciting talent. Pitch Producer

Rita Daniels (Channel 4)

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Jonathan Smith (GMX) John Douglas (72 Films)

Chicken & Egg Accelerator Pitch The Accelerator Lab brings together ten non-fiction projects helmed by first- or second-time women directors, with a special focus on underrepresented voices. The participants will pitch their projects to a live audience and will receive feedback from international Decision Makers and buyers. This will be an opportunity for all delegates to hear from and meet filmmaking talent for future collaborations. Pitch Producer

Tereza Simikova

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Mandy Chang (BBC) Jutta Krug (WDR/ARD)

Colette Cadman

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Battle of the Boxsets

Talks & Sessions

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Special Events

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Lisa Marie Russo (Doc Society) Mark Edwards (ARTE)

Lisa Marie Russo (Doc Society)

Mary Beard; public intellectual, feminist and bestselling author – is one of TVs most popular presenters. In conversation with Charlotte Moore, Director of Content at the BBC, Mary will discuss her broadcasting career, which includes co-presenting the documentary series Civilisations, along with David Olusoga and Simon Schama, as well as her most recent book, Women & Power: A Manifesto, hailed as a modern feminist classic. Session Producer

Caterina Turroni (At Land Productions)

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Charlotte Moore (BBC)

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Mary Beard

The Boiler Room Pitch Boiler Room started with a webcam taped to a wall, broadcasting from a London warehouse opening a keyhole to the city’s underground. DIY at its finest - raw, uncut, homemade. Now a huge brand, championing music culture across the world, Boiler Room is looking to commission energetic films focused on dance music and hedonism. Selected filmmakers will pitch their short film ideas to win a £10,000 commission. This will be a chance to meet both emerging and established filmmaking talent.

The Channel 4 Interview: Guy Martin We welcome the Grimsby-born TV adventurer, motorcycle racer and lorry mechanic to the Festival for the first time. With inspirational documentaries, produced by North One, spanning world speed records, Formula 1 motor racing and his First World War tank build, the enigmatic Guy Martin is genuine and honest. However, he is known to shy away from the limelight; this will be a rare opportunity to hear first-hand about Guy’s passion for engineering and the thrill of speed.

Pitch Producer

Kat Chirnside

Session Producer

Tom Porter (Channel 4)

Panel

Stephen Mai (Boiler Room)

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Guy Martin

Collaborating with Canada: Creating, Commissioning and Funding What does it take to work with Canadian producers, access Canadian funding, and get your doc commissioned by Canadian broadcasters? This focused lightning talks session will focus on everything you need to know about working with Canada and feature some of the biggest names in Canadian documentary production. Session Producer

Madelaine Russo (Hot Docs)

Speakers

Charlotte Engel (CBC Television) Marin Lea (NFB. Pro. What Is Democracy p.70) Nathalie Clermont (Canada Media Fund)

Joe Walker (Boiler Room) Anais Bremond (Boiler Room)

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The BBC Interview: Mary Beard

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Alternate Realities

Elhum Shakerifar (Pro. A Northern Soul p.51)

The BBC is on a mission to create new collaborations with talented filmmakers based in the north of England. As part of this drive, shortlisted directors will pitch in front of a live audience and panel of BBC commissioners and executives for the prize of a long form documentary commission for BBC Three. Come and meet exciting northern filmmaking talent looking for support and funding for their films. Pitch Producer

Oriana Franceschi (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

Panel

Abigail Priddle (BBC) Damian Kavanagh (BBC) Fran Baker (Blakeway North)

Breaking into Prisons

Commissioning: Arts

The crisis facing British prisons continues to be prominent in the news. However, it remains challenging to tell this story, with almost no access granted. From piecing together narratives using illegal footage, to sending undercover journalists into prisons, we’ll discuss how to capture the inside story. With the Ministry of Justice opening their doors to cameras for two Channel 4 series, what are the opportunities and pitfalls for filmmakers, when we are trusted with sensitive access in complex institutions.

Art, in its many forms, can both celebrate the diverse range of a country’s culture and identity and look outwards to reflect upon shifting world politics and global tensions. Our panel of commissioning editors will outline their ambitions for the future of Arts programming, discuss how their respective slates appeal to both broad and niche audiences, and explore whether or not broadcasters have a responsibility to nurture and preserve the Arts for future generations.

Session Producers Alisa Pomeroy & Laila Bouromane (Channel 4)

Session Producer

Suzy Gregg (The Garden Productions)

Simon Ford (Executive Producer, The Secret Life of Prisons)

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Celia Taylor (Mentorn Media)

Paddy Wivell (Director, Durham Prison (WT)

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Emma Cahusac (BBC)

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Shaminder Nahal (Channel 4)

Marketplace & Talent

BBC Northern Docs Pitch

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Joe Alexander (Boiler Room)

Phil Edgar-Jones (Sky Arts)

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Sally Ogden (True Vision) Narinder Minhas (Sugar Films)

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Eric Hynes (Film Comment)

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Alisa Pomeroy (Channel 4)

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Alissa Wilkinson (Vox)

In 2017 the Grenfell Tower tragedy shook the nation: claims of gross negligence, government cuts, and lack of political action angered communities, and the demand for justice and change began. For many the tragedy highlighted a local story missed by the media elite disconnected from the ‘real world’. In the lead up to the first anniversary we examine the response to disaster and explore whether the tragedy will be the turning point that many are hoping for. Session Producer

Amy Richardson (True Vision)

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Siobhan Sinnerton (Channel 4)

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Nendie pinto-Duschinsky (Filmmaker, On the Ground at Grenfell p.82)

Clare Sillery (BBC)

Nick Pinkerton (Art Forum)

Jonathan Rudd (Creator Grenfell: My Home p.104)

Jo Clinton-Davis (ITV)

Simran Hans (Observer)

Guy Davis (Channel 5)

Matt Turner (Little White Lies, MUBI Notebook)

Simon Hattenstone (Pro. The Tower Next Door p.84)

Commissioning: Factual Entertainment Factual entertainment programming aims to explore the world through broadest appeal. Our panel of factual entertainment commissioners will discuss what works for their respective channels and their approaches for creating the next big hitting formats and series. We ask: are the well-known on-screen talent and super formats - available only to the super indies - necessary to draw large audiences? Or, can the smaller producers and new talent prevail? Session Producer

Patricia Doherty (True Vision)

Chair

Neil Smith (Boundless)

Speakers

Kelly Webb-Lamb (Channel 4)

The Doc Maker's Guide to Real Britain How do we tell the story of everyday Britain? Can the television establishment, viewed by many as largely middle class, ever truly represent the nation on TV? How do we make these stories entertaining and authentic? And is class the final elephant in the room? As well as factual, this session will touch on other genres including comedy and drama.

Freedom to Play: Pros & Cons of Filmmaking as Research A panel of filmmakers and academics explore the growing trend of straddling filmmaking and academic lives and discuss the pros and cons of making films as research. Academia can free filmmakers from conventional narratives and forms, allowing for experiments in creative storytelling. But does their work impact in academia as traditional ‘research’ and what influence have their films in the broadcast industry?

Session Producers Rich Turner (Channel 5) & Ziyaad Desai Chair

Ninder Billing

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Guy Davis (Channel 5) More speakers to be confirmed. Check the website for details.

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John O’Rourke

Chair

Hans Petch (Anglia Ruskin)

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Shreepali Patel (StoryLab and Eyeline Films)

Influencing Brexit: Have Your Say Hear how Brexit could affect the future of filmmakers both in the UK and the rest of the EU. Help inform and contribute to our lobby of the UK government to save crucial funding that the EU provides and for the UK to stay in the Creative Europe programme. A call to our colleagues across Europe - help us consider the future of our joint industry. Chair

Alison Rooper (In Focus Productions)

Inside National Geographic: Meet the Commissioners National Geographic is enjoying global success with its strategy of premium programming and investing more than ever in innovative factual and drama content. In this session, we hear from Hamish Mykura, EVP of Programming and Development, and Commissioning Editors Carolyn Payne and Bernadette McDaid, along with recently commissioned producers, about pushing boundaries, and what it takes to work with National Geographic in the era of ‘fewer, bigger, better’. Session Producer

Alexander Lawson (National Geographic)

Speakers

Hamish Mykura (National Geographic) Bernadette McDaid (National Geographic)

Joanna Callaghan (University of Sussex)

David Brindley (BBC)

Special Events

Much like documentary filmmaking, non-fiction film and TV criticism has both an artistic and journalistic impulse. Yet during an era when documentary films and series are evolving and progressing in new directions, has criticism risen to meet this? This open and participatory forum gathers contemporary international critics to discuss the challenges and opportunities confronting the nonfiction critic working across a range of platforms, and seeks to open a productive dialogue between filmmakers and film critics

Documenting Grenfell: A Problem in Plain Sight

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The documentary heads from the major UK broadcasters outline their 2018/19 visions and strategies for documentary and factual programming. They will set out commissioning opportunities for filmmakers and producers, discuss pertinent issues such as diversity and representation in factual TV, and explore what is working (and not) for their respective channels. They’ll also examine the continued pressure from the increasingly prolific digital platforms such as Netflix and Amazon.

Critics Forum: The Art of Writing About Non-Fiction Film

Carolyn Payne (National Geographic)

Alternate Realities

Commissioning: Documentary for Broadcast

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

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Nicola Daley (Director of Photography)

Kate Teckman (ITV)

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How do we keep specialist factual in the spotlight when the genre is facing more competition than ever? With budgets squeezed, are commissioners still investing in the genre and what are they doing to reach a broader audience? Can this genre of programming ever be binge-worthy?

Doc/Question Time: Big Data, Dark PR & Whistleblowing

Session Producer

Victoria Noble & Rob Holloway (Discovery Networks International)

Chair

Kim Shillinglaw (Endemol Shine)

Documentary and broadcast journalism have a powerful tradition of exposing and challenging abuses of power by those who would otherwise escape accountability. A panel of whistleblowers, journalists, media lawyers and filmmakers examine how the pursuit of truth and justice is affected by the issues of dark PR and data mining, including a discussion about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal. In the era of big data and the new social ‘arms race’, what legislation is needed to protect the individual, what are the best new ways for investigative stories, and when do the regulations go too far?

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Shaminder Nahal (Channel 4)

Session Producer

Lucy Willis (Channel 5) Hamish Mykura (National Geographic)

Goodness Gracious Me: Asian Representation from Grannies to Jihadis Did Goodness Gracious Me represent a high-point in British Asian representation on TV and can British Asian portrayal find new direction following what many see as the fallout from 9/11 and Rotherham, with continued ill-considered, and even biased coverage. How can broadcasters attract young audiences with fuller and fairer representations of British Asian culture in all its diversity? Session Producer

Fozia Khan (BBC) & Mahi Iftikhar (Twenty Twenty Television)

Anna Hall (True Vision)

Chair

Nikki Bedi (Presenter)

Chair

Prash Naik (Media Lawyer)

Speakers

Anita Rani (Presenter)

Speakers

Dorothy Byrne (Channel 4), Carole Cadwalladr (The Guardian), Callum Macrae (Dir. The Ballymurphy Precedent p.45)

Tom McDonald (BBC)

Mehreen Baig (The Trouble with Pakistani Men) Mobeen Azhar (BBC)

Inside UKTV: Meet the Commissioners Britain’s multichannel broadcaster UKTV, reaches an average of 40million viewers every month through its 11 brands including Dave, W, Gold and Really and an innovative mix of factual entertainment, observational and investigative documentary and constructed reality. Deputy Director of Commissioning,Hilary Rosen and Commissioning Editor Helen Nightingale will explore what works for their channels, commissioning opportunities for filmmakers and offer a sneak peek at UKTV’s new factual and factual entertainment shows. Session Producer

Kerry Goode & Ali Laurie (UKTV)

Chair

Jes Wilkins (Firecracker)

Speakers

Hilary Rosen (UKTV)

Marketplace & Talent

Commissioning: Specialist Factual

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Adrian Padmore (Channel 5)

Helen Nightingale (UKTV)

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Sir Trevor McDonald

Self-taught photographer and filmmaker Khalik Allah's profoundly personal work has been described as "street opera" - visceral, haunting and honest. Having previously worked with Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep, Khalik's feature debut Field Niggas garnered critical acclaim from the cultural press and his follow up Black Mother receives its UK Premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Khalik will talk to film programmer Ashley Clark about his work as an artist and the creation of a unique and daring film language and aesthetic.

Session Producer

Bianca Manu & Erinma Ochui

Chair

Ashley Clark (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Chair

Jolyon Rubinstein (Satirist)

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Khalik Allah (Dir. Black Mother p.72)

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Jamal Edwards MBE (SBTV)

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation x Guardian Pitch Up to six filmmakers will pitch their idea for a short documentary about poverty in the UK, that seeks to reframe the issue and engage a mainstream audience ‘beyond the choir’. A panel of representatives from JRF and the Guardian will award up to three £20,000 commissions and a global release via theguardian.com. Come to hear and meet exciting filmmaking talent for future collaborations.

Korean Pitching Day Korean Pitching Day returns, offering participants of the Korean Delegation the chance to pitch documentary ideas to a host of international Decision Makers in front of a live Festival audience. The event will feature seven projects in total, with each project receiving feedback from key international Decision Makers. Come and discover exciting new filmmaking talent.

Munroe Bergdorf: Women, Gender & Activism As both an activist and international model, Munroe Bergdorf's experiences as a transgender woman remain the driving force behind her work. Voted 8th in Pride Power's Top 100 List 2017, Munroe uses her platform to campaign for the trans community worldwide, and for all those who define as women. Munroe will discuss her work, activism, and new documentary What Makes a Woman (Antidote Productions) for Channel 4. Chair

Liv Wynter (Doc/Fest Grand Jury p.30)

Session Producer

Cassie Fletcher (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

Speakers

Munroe Bergdorf Laura Jones (Antidote Productions)

Music Docs: New Forms & Platforms Thanks to digital platforms, filmmakers are embracing an experimental approach to the music promo, releasing formats that straddle fiction, documentary and music video. Brands are racing to engage with their consumers by creating compelling content - and music remains one their most powerful tools. Meet the filmmakers and platforms that are pushing the forms of storytelling.

Pitch Producer

David Alamouti (Inovi)

Session Producer

Pegah Farahmand (Disney)

Panel

Charlie Phillips (The Guardian)

Chair

Jennifer Byrne (Firepit, Warner Music)

Abigail Scott Paul (JRF)

Speaker

Rollo Jackson (Filmmaker)

Lindsay Poulton (The Guardian)

Robert Semmer (Noisey / Vice)

Campbell Robb (JRF)

Alex Hoffman (Noisey / Vice)

Sean McAllister (Dir. A Northern Soul p.51)

Jacqueline Edenbrow (Frieze)

Alternate Realities

Films Session Producers Stuart Cabb & Lisa Keane (Plum Pictures)

Britain's hottest young entrepreneur founded YouTube-based SBTV in 2006 with a self-recorded grainy rap battle. Hailed as one of the most important digital youth culture platforms, SBTV boasts nearly 1,000,000 subscribers and has launched the careers of countless UK grime and hip-hop artists. Now on a mission to break the stigma around mental illness, Jamal will talk to Jolyon Rubinstein (The Revolution Will Be Televised) about his recent documentary exploring mental health and future plans for SBTV and beyond.

Khalik Allah: Exploring a New Film Language

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Sir Trevor McDonald has spent five decades investigating the most troubling stories to be broadcast. Nevertheless, he was left so deeply affected by his award-winning 2013 series Inside Death Row that he vowed to "never do another prison series". What caused him to change his mind? Following the impact of his ITV Death Row 2018, Sir Trevor discusses what drives him to make some of the most gripping and inspiring documentaries.

Jamal Edwards MBE: SBTV, Music & Mental Health

Marketplace & Talent

The ITV Interview: Sir Trevor McDonald

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

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Oriana Franceschi (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

Chair

Ade Rawcliffe (Channel 4)

Speaker

Ed Perkins (Dir. Black Sheep p.50) Elhum Shakerifar (Pro. A Northern Soul p.51)

Poverty in the UK is increasing for the first time in two decades. We are seeing more people struggling to make ends meet. Does television set out accurately the complexities of living in poverty, or too crudely as either a deserving economic victim or undeserving ‘scrounger’? How can we tell more accurate stories of poverty to skeptical audiences, for a fuller debate and actions? Session Producer

David Alamouti (Inovi)

Ramy El-Bergamy (Channel 4)

Chair

Poppy Noor (Guardian)

Chair

Anne Morrison (WFTV)

Speakers

Campbell Robb (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

Speakers

Rita Daniels (Channel 4)

Session Producers Victoria Musguin-Rowe, Jemma Gander &

Ayo Akingbade (Dir. Street 66 p.84)

Jaimie D’Cruz (Acme Films)

Lucy Cohen (Filmmaker)

Tom McDonald (BBC)

Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment Eight months since the Weinstein allegations and following the birth of the Times Up and #metoo movements we debate how the industry is responding. We explore the new initiatives implemented for much needed change, and listen to additional ideas for creating the safest work environments in an often fragmented industry. Session Producers Victoria Musguin-Rowe, Jemma Gander & Laura Adams (Directors UK)

Jack Monroe (Food Writer & Vlogger)

Chair

Ali Bailey (Directors UK)

Speakers

Natasha Dack Ojumu (Tigerlily Productions) Fiona Campbell (BBC)

Daisy-May Hudson (Filmmaker)

Kelly Webb Lamb (Channel 4)

Mark Raphael (BBC)

Tim Hunter (BAFTA) Billie JD Porter (Filmmaker)

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Clare Richardson (Filmmaker)

The Naked Me: Personal Stories What drives a presenter to bare all? We explore the phenomenon of celebrity-led documentaries that tackle deeply personal - and sometimes painful - stories. A panel of well-known faces unpack the ethics, emotions, embarrassments and arguments involved in this kind of filmmaking. What is the purpose and effectiveness of such personal authorship? Can passion become self-promotion? And are those who bare all always happy with the finished product? Session Producer

Jack Bootle (Raw)

Chair

Alison Kirkham (BBC)

Speaker

Mim Shaikh (BBC Radio 1Xtra) Anne Robinson (Presenter) Anita Rani (Presenter) Matt Smith (Filmmaker)

Onwards and Upwards: The Future of Documentary Shorts Short form continues to offer a space to discover exciting new voices. The continued rise of digital platforms allows producers to connect directly with viewers, while broadcasters and brands continue to fund short form. Commissioners and filmmakers will explore ways and places where shorts are punching through and discuss the future for this innovative form of storytelling. Session Producer

Meagan Tillock (Producer)

Chair

Adam Gee (Little Dot Studio)

Speakers

Lindsey Crouse (New York Times Op Docs) Nasfim Haque (BBC3)

Special Events

The film and TV industry remains an unlevel playing field. Still rife with nepotism and ‘Old Boys’ networks, women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and those from working class backgrounds are still sorely underrepresented. We discuss the obstacles faced to create a representative and diverse workforce, examine current schemes and explore what we can do together to deliver meaningful change.

Poverty in the UK: New Approaches to Storytelling

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Film and TV professionals at varying stages in their career discuss the successes (and challenges) that paved their way into the industry. With a panel made up of two BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, the Creative Producer of two award-winning feature documentaries, and a true innovator working in short-form, this panel is a must for anyone looking for advice on how to get their work made and seen. Session Producer

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Not Another Diversity Panel!

The Real Stories Special Relationship Pitch Real Stories is the home of compelling, award-winning documentary films from the very best international storytellers. In Summer 2018, Real Stories will be commissioning their next slate of films and as part of this drive, five selected filmmakers will pitch live at Doc/Fest for the chance to win up to £20,000 to produce a 10-minute film, which directly appeals to the Real Stories large young North American audience base. This will be an opportunity for all delegates to hear from and meet filmmaking talent for future collaborations.

University of Sheffield presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea In this live pitch, development producers and broadcaster commissioners offer guidance to academics from the University of Sheffield. In front of an audience, shortlisted academics showcase their fields of expertise. They will receive feedback on their areas of study to determine whether they have potential as a possible TV format or segment whilst also offering advice on how to present effectively to documentary producers and commissioners. This will be a chance for all delegates to meet future on-screen talent and research experts.

Pitch Producer

Kat Chirnside

Pitch Producer

Rebecca Coxon (True Vision Yorkshire)

Panel

Adam Gee (Little Dot Studio)

Panel

Dan Korn (A&E)

Joe Alexander (Boiler Room)

Alex Hryniewicz (Little Dot Studio)

Carolyn Payne (National Geographic)

Andy Mundy Castle (DocHearts)

Kathryn Bonnici (Java Films)

Jago Lee (Antenna Pictures)

Sam Barcroft (Barcroft Media)

Carol Nahra (Docs on Screens)

Paul Windle (Development Producer, BBC)

Alternate Realities

My Big Break

Talks & Sessions

Special Events

Talks & Sessions

How do African producers and directors reach new audiences and make ends meet? A panel share their experiences: from made-for-mobile to branded content, and from TV formats to features, they’re all working across different platforms and in different international collaborations which are transforming the way stories emerge. Session Producer

Andy Jones (Radio Film)

Chair

Patricia van Heerden (Media24)

Speakers

Tulanana Bohela (BBC World Service) Molatelo Maintje (Bolobatha Media) Rita Ray (Sundog Pictures)

Original Documentaries Preview with Channel 5 Guy Davies, Commissioning Editor, Factual for Channel 5 introduces a sneak peak of exciting, upcoming Channel 5 documentary singles and series and Q&A with the programme makers, including a couple of special surprises.

SOS Planet Earth: Ways for Docs to Save the World Broadcasters are often criticised for not doing enough to bring environmental issues to primetime television. In the wake of the success of Blue Planet II and the rallying cry from Sir David Attenborough to do more to protect our environment, this panel debates what role television should play in raising awareness of environmental issues; what more could be done and how can we avoid solely preaching to the converted. Session Producer

Jane McMullen (BBC)

Chair

Matt Baker (The One Show, BBC)

Speakers

Tom McDonald (BBC) Wendy Rattray (Hello Halo) Mark Galloway (IBT)

Marketplace & Talent

New Devices & New Voices: Pan-African Experiences

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Lucy Vernall (Academic Ideas Lab)

Liz Bonnin (Presenter)

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The Whickers Pitch

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Who will be awarded the coveted £80,000 Film & TV Funding Award to make their first feature-length documentary? The Whickers Pitch brings together five emerging directors to pitch their non-fiction projects to a panel of industry judges and an audience of key Decision Makers, all looking to meet future filmmaking talent. Come and support the finalists, be your own armchair judge and bear witness as the legacy of pioneering broadcaster Alan Whicker brings another exceptional documentary idea to life. Pitch Producer

Phoebe Hall (The Whickers)

Panel

Paul Pauwels (EDN) Seyi Rhodes (Presenter & Journalist) Harriet Armston-Clarke (TVF International) Jane Mote (The Whickers)

Talks & Sessions

Alternate Realities

Klara Grunning (Swedish Film Institute)

Vicky McClure talks Dementia & Music The star of This is England and Broadchurch comes to Sheffield to discuss her new BBC series Vicky McClure: My Dementia Choir, produced by Curve Media. For the programme, Vicky, who has close personal experience of dementia, joins forces with the University of Nottingham to form a unique choir. Vicky will discuss the making of the series and the ambition to leave a lasting legacy in our understanding of how music therapy can help people with dementia. This talk will be a Dementia Friendly event.

Chair

Craig Hunter (BBC)

Speakers

Vicky McClure Camilla Lewis (Curve Media)

Whose Story? Authentic Voices in Storytelling From the Syrian conflict to Black Lives Matter; now more than ever there is an urgency for stories told by less represented and authentic voices emerging from affected communities. Getting access to a community not your own, to spend a few days filming on the ground, is widely considered ‘extractive’ storytelling. Can extended integration with protagonists truly embed a filmmaker with their subject's experience? What does it take to tell an ‘authentic’ story? A panel of filmmakers share their own experiences of extractive vs authentic storytelling. Session Producer

Laura Gane (Frontline Club)

Chair

Anca Dimofte (Frontline Club)

Speakers

Deeyah Khan (Filmmaker) Feras Fayyad (Filmmaker)

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

Leon Oldstrong (Dir. That's Not Ours p.84)

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Molly Dineen (Dir. Being Blacker)

Patrick Hurley

Head of Marketplace & Talent Sheffield Doc/Fest

Special Events Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions

As much as we’re about attracting the most experienced in the business, we are equally committed to supporting new and emerging talent from all backgrounds and regions. We can connect up-and-comers with the head honchos by bringing everyone to Sheffield. This year’s Future Producers (p.168) will be introduced to international industry delegates during the Festival; emerging directors will share a meal with top commissioners at Doc/Dinner and selected filmmakers can gain expert guidance at Meet the Execs, run in partnership with the European Documentary Network. Come speak to us at the Marketplace Switchboard, open 10am-6pm in Cutlers’ Hall on Monday and Tuesday, where we’ll be pleased to talk about making your documentary idea a reality.

Marketplace & Talent

It’s deeply affirming that so many of the most experienced and accomplished filmmakers come to Sheffield to do business and we are delighted to welcome over 300 industry Decision Makers from around the world (p.170) who are looking to invest in and support new documentaries. Take a look at the projects selected for the MeetMarket (p.137) and Alternate Realities Market (p.159), come watch the live pitches (p.134) and connect with industry via our Round Table sessions (p.134). Don’t miss our Sales & Distribution Summit on Sunday (p.116) which includes networking sessions in the afternoon and wraps up with Marketplace Drinks (p.251).

Parties & Social

It’s terrifically exciting to witness new ideas find their backers in our Marketplace and we are especially pleased when the pitching teams return to share the completed work with audiences. This year, six films in the Film programme and two works in the Alternate Realities exhibition are alumni of our Marketplace.

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While new films debut in the cinemas of Sheffield, Cutlers’ Hall becomes a veritable hive of business activity where thousands of connections are made and conversations had about documentaries for the future.

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Oriana Franceschi (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

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Abigail Priddle (BBC) Damian Kavanagh (BBC) Fran Baker (Blakeway North)

Kat Chirnside Stephen Mai (Boiler Room) Joe Walker (Boiler Room) Anais Bremond (Boiler Room) Joe Alexander (Boiler Room)

Rita Daniels (Channel 4)

Panel

Jonathan Smith (GMX) John Douglas (72 Films) Colette Cadman

Tereza Simikova

Panel

Mandy Chang (BBC) Jutta Krug (WDR/ARD) Lisa Marie Russo (Doc Society) Mark Edwards (ARTE)

David Alamouti (Inovi)

Panel

Charlie Phillips (The Guardian) Abigail Scott Paul (JRF) Lindsay Poulton (The Guardian) Campbell Robb (JRF) Sean McAllister (Dir. A Northern Soul p.51)

Kat Chirnside

Panel

Adam Gee (Little Dot Studio) Alex Hryniewicz (Little Dot Studio) Kathryn Bonnici (Java Films) Carol Nahra (Docs on Screens)

Pitch Producer

Rebecca Coxon (True Vision Yorkshire)

Panel

Dan Korn (A&E) Carolyn Payne (National Geographic) Derren Lawford (Woodcut Media) Jago Lee (Antenna Pictures) Paul Windle (Development Producer, BBC) Lucy Vernall (Academic Ideas Lab)

The Whickers Pitch Who will be awarded the coveted £80,000 Film & TV Funding Award to make their first feature-length documentary? The Whickers Pitch brings together five emerging directors to pitch their non-fiction projects to a panel of industry judges and an audience of key decision-makers, all looking to meet future filmmaking talent. Come and support the finalists, be your own armchair judge and bear witness as the legacy of pioneering broadcaster Alan Whicker brings another exceptional documentary idea to life. Pitch Producer

Phoebe Hall (The Whickers)

Panel

Paul Pauwels (EDN) Seyi Rhodes (Presenter & Journalist), Harriet Armston-Clarke (TVF International), Jane Mote (The Whickers), Klara Grunning (Swedish Film Institute)

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Session Producer

In this live pitch, development producers and broadcaster commissioners offer guidance to academics from the University of Sheffield. In front of an audience, shortlisted academics showcase their fields of expertise. They will receive feedback on their areas of study to determine whether they have potential as a possible TV format or segment whilst also offering advice on how to present effectively to documentary producers and commissioners. This will be a chance for all delegates to meet future on-screen talent and research experts.

Alternate Realities

BBC Northern Docs Pitch

Up to six filmmakers will pitch their idea for a short documentary about poverty in the UK, that seeks to reframe the issue and engage a mainstream audience ‘beyond the choir’. A panel of representatives from JRF and the Guardian will award up to three £20,000 commissions and a global release via theguardian.com. Come to hear and meet exciting filmmaking talent for future collaborations.

University of Sheffield presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea

Talks & Sessions

The pitches are also an essential forum for Decision Makers looking for new ideas and talents for their platforms.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation x Guardian Pitch

Marketplace & Talent

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 offers many pitch opportunities for filmmakers and producers, with substantial amounts of funding, in-kind support and opportunities up for grabs, for a wide range of factual projects.

Special Events

Marketplace & Talent Pitches

Parties & Social

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The MeetMarket is one of the world’s largest documentary pitching forums offering filmmakers the opportunity to meet with hundreds of international funders, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors. Doc/Fest offers a unique way to pitch your projects through matchmade meetings between filmmakers and Decision Makers for creative and financial discussions. Projects include features and series in varying stages of development/production. Each year 65 projects are selected from over 500 submissions.

Global to our outlook, we are delighted to welcome 10 International Delegations to the 25th Edition of Doc/Fest. Filmmakers, producers and industry representatives from around the world come to Sheffield for networking receptions, Marketplace meetings and world-class expert guidance.

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The Alternate Realities Market, now in its fifth edition, is a forum for exploring the creation, funding, distribution, exhibition, and marketing of interactive, immersive and virtual reality projects. Run in tandem with the MeetMarket, 25 selected projects will pitch their idea to commissioners, distributors, exhibitors, digital agencies, brands, third sector representatives and experienced digital producers.

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Future Producer School Now in its fifth year, Future Producer School is a six-month training initiative delivered in association with Bungalow Town Productions supported by Creative Skillset, in which ambitious and dedicated emerging producers receive mentoring and training from some of the most exciting producers in the documentary industry today. The programme comprises of a three-day residential workshop with training from leading producers and experts, followed by bespoke one-to-one mentoring. The Future Producers then take their learning to Doc/Fest’s world-leading Marketplace and are hosted in a session of match-made meetings with international Decision Makers. For more on Future Producer School see p.168

Meet the Execs is a unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary filmmakers to connect with experienced Executive Producers for expert guidance and advice about a specific film project. Coordinated by the European Documentary Network (EDN), successful applicants will be given pitch-training and paired with an experienced industry EP for project-specific feedback and pointers on development, where to go to next, and how to improve the chances of securing funding and distribution. Advance application via the Doc/Fest website required.

Round Tables You are invited to meet with Decision Makers through informal group discussions over the course of 90 minutes. Each session will reflect a contemporary theme in the industry. Open to all Festival Pass Holders but places are limited. Advance application via the Doc/Fest website required. A standby queue will be in operation on the door.

With support from the Irish Film Board, the Irish Delegation of producers, directors, and Decision Makers come to Sheffield to connect with international audiences, co-producers, and financiers. Recent Irish documentary successes include The Farthest, A Mother Brings Her Son to be Shot, School Life, Bobby Sands: 66 Days, Elián, A Cambodian Spring. The 2018 edition of Doc/Fest will see the European Premiere of I, Dolours (p.46) and the UK Premiere of The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid (p.39).

Chicken & Egg Pictures Delegation

Jordanian Delegation

Coordinated by Chicken & Egg Pictures

Coordinated by the Royal Film Commission Jordan

Doc/Fest welcomes the 2018 participants selected for Chicken & Egg Pictures’ Accelerator Lab, which brings together ten nonfiction projects helmed by women directors making their first or second films. Over a year, programme participants receive a $35,000 grant and tailored mentorship, and attend retreats providing masterclasses, workshops, and networking.

Emerging filmmakers, selected during a filmmaking workshop at the Royal Film Commission - Jordan (RFC) in collaboration with the British Council Jordan, are excited to attend Doc/Fest and benefit from additional mentoring through the Doc/Fest Marketplace. The delegation is supported by the RFC, helping Jordanians to pitch their stories to an international audience.

Chilean Delegation

Korean Delegation

Chilean filmmakers and industry players come to Doc/Fest to establish new connections in the British and European film industry through co-productions, sales, and networking. Supported by ProChile and ChileDoc, who aim to improve the distribution and promotion of Chilean documentaries, give them international exposure, and promote their commercial development.

South Korean filmmakers gather in Sheffield, supported by the Korea Communications Agency (KCA), celebrating powerful Korean documentaries that have entered the international market with strong results. KCA will host the Korean Pitching Day event in Doc/Fest 2018, inviting you to meet with promising Korean filmmakers.

Coordinated by ProChile and ChileDoc

Coordinated by the Korea Communications Agency

Alternate Realities

Doc/Dinner is a special evening during the Festival for dinner & doc-chats between established industry leaders and emerging talent. A chance for mutual learning and connection. Supported by Canon, the evening will be MC’d by BBC Radio 1Xtra Presenter Mim Shaikh, and will bring commissioners, producers and mentors, including Doc/Dinner founder Reggie Yates, together with 20 young filmmakers. Places at Doc/Dinner are limited and filmmakers aged 18-25 can apply to take part on the Doc/Fest website. Priority will be given to applicants from backgrounds and regions that are underrepresented in the film industry.

Meet the Execs

Coordinated by the Irish Film Board

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Doc/Dinner

In partnership with the High Commission of Canada, and celebrating excellence in Canadian documentary production, we are delighted to welcome a delegation of Canadian filmmakers, creatives and producers from across the documentary, VR and interactive industries to attend Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Irish Delegation

Marketplace & Talent

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Alternate Realities

Coordinated by High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom

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Filmlab: Palestine aims 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. The delegation at this year’s Festival includes three Palestinian filmmakers.

South African Delegation

Coordinated by the Documentary Filmmakers Association (DFA) of South Africa, with UK partners Radio Film

Coordinated by Creative Scotland and SDI

Scottish Documentary Institute

Final length: 70 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Rough Cut Financing Total budget: £235000 / €264000 / $326000 Total in place: £72000 / €81000 / $100000 Financiers: CORFO Development (Chile)

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On the outskirts of San José in Costa Rica, Melba (65) and Victor (70), a devout couple, have formed an exceptional family. From what they considered a miracle, Melba decided to dedicate her life to do what she knew best: to be a mum. Thus, for almost 40 years, they have adopted and raised dozens of boys and girls from vulnerable environments, with a total of more than 130 children. Today, the upbringing continues in this great home, with the adventures and difficulties of the almost 50 kids and youngsters who, thanks to Victor and Melba, are transforming their lives

The DFA supports and nurtures documentary filmmakers, representing the documentary community in South Africa and on the international stage. This year sees their biggest ever delegation to Doc/Fest with 20 directors, producers and industry representatives showcasing their latest projects and seeking new opportunities for collaboration.

Project Team Director: Ainara Aparici Producer: Daniela Camino DOP: Eduardo Guaita Editor: Martin Santapau

Genres: War & Conflict; Personal & Human Interest; Geopolitics Company: Seventh Art Productions Country of Production: UK Contact: Phil Grabsky Email: pgrabsky@seventh-art.com Website: www.seventh-art.com Final length: 90-100 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Production

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A group of filmmakers from across the Nordic countries come to Sheffield Doc/Fest in conjunction with Nordisk Panorama, a film festival that proudly showcases and encourages the production of quality Nordic films by Nordic filmmakers, and provides an industry platform in the Nordisk Panorama Market and Forum.

Special Events

Coordinated by Filmlab: Palestine and British Council Palestine

Scottish Delegation

Alternate Realities

Genres: Youth & Children; Youth & Children; Personal & Human Interest; Personal & Human Interest; Human Rights; Human Rights Company: Mimbre Producciones Country of Production: Chile Contact: Daniela Camino Email: daniela@mimbreproducciones.cl Website: www.mimbreproducciones.cl

Palestinian Delegation

Coordinated by Nordisk Panorama

Scottish talent come to Doc/Fest supported by Creative Scotland, the public body supporting the Scottish arts, screen and creative industries. Their funding supports emerging and established film and television talent producing distinctive and engaging work. Additional support provided by the Scottish Documentary Institute, specialising in documentary training, production and distribution.

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Genres: Social Issue; Religion; Politics & Economics; Personal & Human Interest; Faith / Religion; Current Affairs; Community Company: Corisco Filmes Country of Production: Brazil Contact: Nicholas Bernstein Email: filmescorisco@gmail.com Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development Financing Total budget: £184975 / €207942 / $250000 Total in place: £14430 / €16361 / $20000

A Voz De Deus / The Voice of God

In Brazil’s vast Pentecostal church, its youngest preachers must balance childhood with the demands of their vocation. João, 7, is launching his career. Matheus Nonato, 13, is a rising star. Daniel Pentecostes, 16, is approaching "retirement". Each journey concludes at Gideoezinhos, the most important child preaching event in the country. Pastor Walter Luz, 45 runs the show, recruiting kids whose parents yearn to be selected. Uncovering the mechanisms that drive an exploding evangelical movement just as the 2018 presidential election approaches. The Voice of God is a story of ambition, desperation and hope, revealing a Brazil few know or understand.

Project Team Director: Miguel Antunes Ramos Producers: Nicholas Bernstein & Paulo Serpa

Talks & Sessions

This extraordinary film follows a humorous young boy of 8 who, in 2002, was living in a cave in Bamiyan. We follow him over a period of twenty years we are filming him until, at the age 27 and now living in Kabul, we can see through unprecedented personal access just what life has been like - and is now like- in this most troubled of countries. A film ideal for the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Marketplace & Talent

Project Team Director: Shoaib Sharifi Producer: Phil Grabsky

Parties & Social

20 Years in Afghanistan

Marketplace & Talent

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Financing Total budget: £355396 / €400506 / $494626 Total in place: £141996 / €160000 / $197600 Financiers: Westdeutscher Rundfunk

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Financing Total budget: £250000 / €280000 / $345000 Total in place: £227500 / €255000 / $315000 Financiers: Irish Film Board, Distributor (Ireland), Distributor (International), Broadcaster (Ireland), Independent Investor, Tax Break (Ireland).

Angels of Sinjar. Yazidis – 21st Century Genocide He’s proud, determined, young and handsome. He knows how to use a gun. She’s feminine, emotional and gentle. She witnessed her five sisters, aged 8 to 18, being abducted by ISIS. Hit by five bullets, he saw his sisters trucked off to be raped. Hanifa’s and Saeed’s stories intertwine and diverge. She weeps out of grief; he of helplessness. She tries to get her family back; he to punish the murderers. She cries but is strong. Under the surface, he hides his broken heart. We feel their struggle and empathize with the hard choices they're forced to make.

After my grandmother’s death, my father Rob - a retired psychologist - decides to organise the untenable lifestyle of his autistic brother René. So he can finally be ‘normal’ at 74. What starts as a desperate attempt to sort out René’s life, becomes a search in understanding what ‘normal’ actually is. This in turn prompts questions about their youth and how this effected both brothers. But what can be defined as their shared history? Who is their father for example? In a search for this man, they discover more and more about themselves.

Genres: War & Conflict; Personal & Human Interest; Human Rights Company: Saxonia Entertainment G Country of Production: Poland Contact: Friederike Freier Email: friederike.freier@saxonia-entertainment.de

Genres: Politics & Economics; Current Affairs Company: gebrueder beetz filmproduktion Country of Production: Germany Contact: Lea-Marie Körner Email: l.koerner@gebrueder-beetz.de

Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Early Development

Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Production

Financing Total budget: £335000 / €380000 / $460000 Total in place: £122000 / €138600 / $162178 Financiers: Polish Film Institute (Development Grant) €16433; Script Award from HumanDoc Festival € 4793; Czech TV Coproduction Prize at East Doc Forum 2018 €5900; HBO Developed Prize at East Doc Forum 2018 €2000; ZDF/ARTE €11000

Financing Total budget: £400000 / €450000 / $555000 Total in place: £106000 / €120000 / $148000 Financiers: ZDF/ ARTE

Project Team Director & Producer: Hanna Polak Producer: Simone Baumann

Brazil – The Rise and Fall of Lula Da Silva

The documentary film follows Lula da Silva in the months leading up to the decision "President or Prison" and deconstructs piece by piece, moment by moment, the corrupt history of this crisis-stricken country. We hear the opinions of numerous politicians who have never publicly expressed their views on this systemic corruption. Former presidents and economic experts will unravel its weaknesses, putting forward their own suggestions and scenarios about the future of Brazil.

Genres: Social Issue; Refugees; Politics & Economics; Point of View; Personal & Human Interest; Love; Human Rights; Geopolitics; Current Affairs; Biography; Archaeology; Anthropology / Ethnography; Activism Company: Banyak Films / Hakawati Country of Production: UK Contact: Hugh Hartford Email: hugh@banyak.co.uk Website: banyak.co.uk/projects/50-the-disappeared

In 1937 Max Mallowan, Agatha Christie’s husband, was digging the Tell Brak site in Syria. He unearthed the ‘Eye Temple’ from 3300 BC, full of hundreds of small, simply carved figurines with large eyes but no mouths. In 2011 Bassel was a successful open source developer and hacker in Damascus. Paolo was a well-known priest based in Mar Musa monastery. Both active in the revolution, they were forcibly disappeared. Today Noura, Bassel’s wife and human rights lawyer, has become a spokesperson for the missing and detained prisoners in Syria. Ayouni (My Eyes, My World) follows high profile figures of the Syrian revolution, Father Paolo and Bassel & Noura, ‘The Bride & Groom of the Revolution’, as they ask how you rebuild a country when its civil society has been disappeared, killed and scattered across continents.

Financing Total budget: £318000 / €360935 / $418000 Total in place: £125000 / €141636 / $142528 Financiers: Banyak & Hakawati, €49733 / £44008; UK Tax Relief, €25800 / £22830; International Media Support, €11481 / £10159; Doha Film Institute, €24510 / £21688; Amnesty International, €6450 / £5700; CAP Kuwait, €4712 / £4169; BFI Vision, €10486 / £9200; SANAD, €8463 / £7400 Project Team Director: Yasmin Fedda Producers: Hugh Hartford, Elhum Shakerifar

Project Team Director: César Charlone Producer: Christian Beetz Photographer: Ricardo Stuckert Image: © jsl globa media & wishtrend thailand, 2017

Genres: Point of View; Personal & Human Interest; Crime Company: Markay Media Country of Production: United States Contact: Christine Delp Email: christine@markaymedia.com Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature, Broadcast hour, Mini-series Project status: Production Financing Total budget: £659128 / €742266 / $922425 Total in place: £49720 / €55974 / $69560 Financiers: HBO Documentary Films $35060; Sundance Documentary Film Program $15000; Southern Documentary Fund, $3000; Individual contributions, $16500

Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Post-Production

Ayouni

Project Team Director: Tom Fassaert Producer: Hasse van Nunen

Burden of Proof

Burden of Proof follows a brother who revisits the cold case of his sister’s disappearance. After decades of believing she ran away, new evidence implicates his parents, unraveling the myth of the “perfect family” and illuminating the enduring effects of family trauma.

Project Team Director: Cynthia Hill Producer: Christine Delp

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Between Brothers

Alternate Realities

Almost everyone has played the lottery and everyone would like to win it. For Stefan Klincewicz, it became his obsession. Having fallen on hard times in the 1980s, the mathematician saw his chance for redemption when the Irish Lottery launched in 1986. He dedicated his life to finding ways to beat the lottery. His quest ultimately led to him putting together an audacious plan to purchase all of the possible combinations on a big Jackpot in 1992, hoping to guarantee a win. This unashamedly entertaining caper will tell the incredible story of the perfectly legal heist that divided a nation.

Project Team Director: Ross Whitaker Producer: Aideen O'Sullivan Executive Producers: Alan Maher, John Wallace

Financing Total budget: £497433 / €559580 / $690779 Total in place: £122971 / €140342 / $172915 Financiers: KRO-NCRV, €42500; NPO Fund €21842; Dutch Film Fund €26.000; Cultural Fund Almere €50000

Talks & Sessions

All The Numbers

Special Events

Final length: 90 mins / 55 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Early Development

Marketplace & Talent

Talks & Sessions

Genres: Point of View; Personal & Human Interest Company: Een van de jongens Country of Production: The Netherlands Contact: Hasse van Nunen Email: hasse@eenvandejongens.nl Website: https://eenvandejongens.nl/en/projects/rene/

Final length: 88 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development

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Genres: Thriller Company: True Films Country of Production: Ireland Contact: Ross Whitaker Email: rosswhitaker@yahoo.com

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Genres: Social Issue; Investigative; Human Rights; Geopolitics; Crime Company: Codebreaker Films Country of Production: United States Contact: Ines Hofmann Kanna Email: ihk@codebreakerfilms.com Website: www.codebreakerfilms.com Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Production

Enemies Of The State

Enemies of the State is an investigative documentary feature exposing the U.S. government’s systematic intimidation and prosecution of activist hackers and whistleblowers, disregarding their constitutional rights. Through the disturbing true stories of two internet activists, the film reveals questionable and disproportionate government methods that involve secret surveillance, even torture, and the pursuit of controversial criminal cases to retaliate against people who could potentially become leakers. Enemies of the State is based on original research and exclusive access and will convey hard facts through a character-driven narrative and expressive visual language to bring complex national security issues to a wide audience.

Genres: Travel & Adventure; Sports; Social Issue; Personal & Human Interest; Nature & Wildlife; Lifestyle; History; Gender / Women's Rights; Anthropology / Ethnography; Adventure Company: GotFat Productions Country of Production: India Contact: Puk Eisenhardt Email: puk@gotfat.dk

Genres: Social Issue; Personal & Human Interest; Human Rights Company: ERA FILM, UAB Country of Production: Lithuania Contact: Rasa Miskinyte Email: erafilm.rasa@gmail.com Website: www.erafilm.lt Final length: 90 mins / 2 x 52 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Production

Final length: 50 mins / 90 mins Slots: Feature Festival & Cinematic, Feautre for TV Project status: Production

India, 1967: a group of young women fight for the right to climb a Himalayan mountain. Fifty years later, the women tell us, in their own words, how their expedition made history and advanced the cause of women in India. This year they went on one last expedition deep into the Himalayas to pay their respects to friends they lost on their struggle to reach the top 50 years ago.

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

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Financing Total budget: £227335 / €258585 / $281452 Total in place: £50000 / €56930 / $70363 Financiers: Cem Serter (private investor)

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Project Team Director: Anne Svejgård Lund Producers: Mike Lerner, Puk Lodahl Eisenhardt, Thor Hampus Bank

Exemplary Behaviour

The documentary explores the understanding of exemplary behaviour in lifers and their personal efforts to return to society. Lithuania is the only country in the European Union that does not allow conditional release for inmates sentenced for life imprisonment. Some inmates are changing, but do society’s attitudes towards them changing? The main goals of this documentary are: to show how murderers are trying to change and serve our society; to raise tolerance for outcasts of our society (for the “other”); and to stimulate viewers’ imagination by representing how the impossible can become possible and how a murderer is able to change himself.

Genres: Technology; Social Issue; Investigative; Current Affairs Company: Filmtank Country of Production: Germany, Italy, France Contact: Michael Grotenhoff Email: michael-grotenhoff@filmtank.de

A film about the installation of the biggest social control system ever seen. The Chinese government is proud to do things that other governments would never dare to do openly: the creation of technology-driven and controlled public morals. We follow high-level technical developers who are proud to export their techniques to the rest of the world, social engineers and politicians who are enthusiastic about the gamification of a social moral system, and regular citizens – some of whom are delighted with this system, some less so.

Project Team Director: Audrius Mickevicius Producer: Rasa Miskinyte Co-Producer: Martichka Bozhilova Scriptwriter: Nerijus Milerius

Final length: 58 mins / 90 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Production

Financing Total budget: £652057 / €734000 / $900171 Total in place: £35536 / €40000 / $49061 Financiers: SWR, €20000 (development); MEDIA, €24000 (MEDIA Slate)

Digital Dictatorship China (WT)

Financing Total budget: £221861 / €247426 / $288375 Total in place: £160907 / €193906 / $209147 Financiers: Creative Europe Development, €25000; Lithuanian Film Centre, €71051; FOCAL, €5385; Sardinian Film Commission €4262; YLE, €5000, LTV, €1000; Current Time TV, €3500; Bulgarian Film Centre, €18928; Tax incentives Lithuania €16000; Eurimages, €50000

Genres: Religion; Crime; Community Company: Head Film Country of Production: UK Contact: David Lale Email: davidlale@live.co.uk Website: www.davidlale.org

Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature Festival & Cinematic / Feautre for TV Project status: Concept

Project Team Director: Andreas Pichler Producers: Michael Grotenhoff, Thomas Tielsch Other: Jianwei Hans

Project Team Director: Sonia Kennebeck Producer: Ines Hofmann Kanna

Financing Total budget: £195000 / €221740 / $200000 Total in place: £36000 / €40240 / $48000 Financiers: Hartley Film Foundation Laura Healy $8000; California Humanities John Lightfoot $40000

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life

Synanon was the first therapeutic community, where dope fiends, misfits and idealists came together to change their lives and change the world. It was a sober Utopia which revolutionised the treatment of addictions - and promised a cure for the ills of American society. Thousands joined this radical experiment in new ways of living. But their leader's own struggle with alcoholism would plunge the commune into fanaticism, paranoia and violence. In the end, the need to belong proved harder to kick than any drug. The First Day of the Rest of Your Life tells the epic 30-year story of Synanon’s rise and fall.

Project Team Director: David Lale Producer: Laura Wagner Editor: Miikka Leskinen

Films

No crime provokes greater revulsion and yet is so woefully under-examined as child sexual abuse. As awareness has grown, the punishment of past crimes has been all. In this film, a young psychiatrist takes on the task of preventing future abuse, seeking to identify and control impulses in paedophiles before they act. His trial may lead to the prevention of abuse committed by treating men worldwide. With incredible access to the participants and the contributions of the best minds in the field, Robinson’s film is required viewing for all who grapple to understand this blight on the lives of millions.

Project Team Director: Sophie Robinson Producer: Dewi Gregory Editor: James Scott Animator: Tony Comley

Financing Total budget: £611185 / €696513 / $820000 Total in place: £276585 / €315178 / $371000 Financiers: IDA $100000; Reva and David Foundation $100000; Chicken & Egg $35000; Private Donor $123500; Producer Cash $12500

Alternate Realities

Dark Corner

Alternate Realities

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Financing Total budget: £563875 / €639926 / $784812 Total in place: £45000 / €51069 / $62635 Financiers: Sunshine

Talks & Sessions

Final length: 90 mins / 60 mins Slots: Feature Festival & Cinematic, Feature for TV Project status: Late Development

Marketplace & Talent

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Genres: Social Issue; Sex / Sexuality; Science Company: Sunshine Country of Production: UK Contact: Sophie Robinson Email: sophie@thesunshinecompany.com Website: www.thesunshinecompany.com

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John Lynam takes early retirement to be a stay-at-home dad for his twin daughters, miracles of IVF treatment. He’s a devoted father who adores his girls, spending every moment with them. Then one day John’s perfect world is shattered. A woman wrongly accuses him of sexually abusing one of his daughters on a beach. A catalogue of incompetency and negligence by the Police and Social Services follow, leaving John separated from his daughters for 8 years. Now John wants his life, his dignity and his daughters back. A universal story of one man’s battle against the power of the state.

Genres: War & Conflict; Social Issue; Science; Globalisation; Faith / Religion Company: Momento Film Country of Production: Sweden Contact: Micheal Krotkiewski Email: michael@momentofilm.se

Genres: Music; Environment Company: Make Productions Country of Production: UK Contact: Sarah Macdonald Email: sarah@makeproductions.com Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Production

Final length: 75 mins / 58 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Late Development

Genesis

Genesis explores how the digitalization and globalization of war connects three disparate locations and lives across the world: In a trailer park in the Nevada desert - from where the majority of overseas drone strikes are being operated - a former military selfmedicates with alcohol. In a Swedish university town, a scientist is becoming increasingly aware of the potential dangers of the artificial intelligence technology that he’s developing. And finally, in war torn Pakistan, a 32-year old former Taliban, that lives under the constant threat of drone strikes has turned to the mystical and peaceful Sufi belief.

Financing Total budget: £537121 / €606178 / $743578 Total in place: £193002 / €217025 / $267612 Financiers: Swedish Film Institute - Independent Producers support, €28623 ; Swedish Film Institute - Development / Klara Grunning €109734 ; Creative Europe Development €25000 ; Film i Väst/ Katarina Krave €51112 ; Swedish Arts Grants Committee €2556 Project Team Directors: David Herdies, Georg Götmark Producer: Michal Krotkiewski

Financing Total budget: £565432 / €642864 / $800000 Total in place: £424074 / €482220 / $600000

The Great Green Wall

Genres: Politics & Economics; Investigative; Crime Company: Curveball Productions Pty Country of Production: South Africa Contact: Zivia Desai Keiper Email: zivia@mweb.co.za Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Late Development

Final length: 84 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development

Financing Total budget: £331525 / €373387 / $457570 Total in place: £81374 / €91649 / $112312 Financiers: Hotdocs Blue Ice Fund Canadian $10,000 Claude Leon Foundation (South African Rand) 500,000 Millennium Trust (South African Rand) 750,0000

Financing Total budget: £320000 / €365934 / $436763 Total in place: £200000 / €229000 / $318573 Financiers: Creative Scotland, BBC Scotland / UK Tax Credit

Going Back (The Mysterious Tale of Brian MacKinnon)

When 16 year old schoolboy Brandon Lee was unmasked as 30-year-old Brian MacKinnon, the residents of a wealthy Glasgow suburb were hit by a media frenzy. This film is the story of Brian’s incredible year back at Bearsden Academy, where oblivious teachers who’d taught him first time round, bestowed him with A grades, cast him in the lead role of the school musical and helped him win a highly-prized place studying medicine at university. A documentary/drama, starring internationally renowned actor Alan Cumming as Brian, in a film directed by one of Brandon Lee’s classmates.

Project Team Director: Jarred Scott Producer: Sarah Macdonald Co-Producers: Fernando Meirelles, Alexander Asen

A bold and visually epic documentary feature following the emergence of a new world wonder changing lives on the African continent. The Great Green Wall tells the incredible story of one of the planet’s most timely and ambitious endeavours taking root on the edge of the Sahara Desert. A dream to grow a wall of trees and plants across the entire width of Africa, and stop the ravages of climate change firmly in its tracks. The film takes the audience on a musical journey through Africa, intercut with dramatic human stories from a continent seeking to control its own destiny.

Genres: Youth & Children; Personal & Human Interest; Investigative; Education; Biography Company: Hopscotch Films Country of Production: UK Contact: John William Archer Email: john@hopscotchfilms.co.uk

Project Team Director: Jonothan McLeod Producers: John Archer, Olivia Lichtenstein Other: Alan Cumming

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Project Team Director: Natalija Yefimkina Producers: Andrea Schütte, Dirk Decker

The Good Father

How to Steal a Country

In the middle of 2017, over 320,000 explosive emails are leaked to a team of South Africa’s foremost investigative journalists. The email leaks (which have become known as the #Guptaleaks), expose billions of US dollars of illegal business deals - both on a national and international level - and uncover a nexus of state capture engineered by none other than the President of South Africa Jacob Zuma himself. Using unique access to investigative journalists and politicians, How To Steal A Country follows journalists, whistle-blowers and activists from civil society as they attempt to obstruct the project of the shadow state.

Project Team Director: Mark Kaplan Producers: Rehad Desai, Zivia Desai Keiper, Anita Khanna

Alternate Realities

It’s where he saunas, makes music, breeds quail, where he runs illegal fish shops, distils his own moonshine or builds his little love nest: in vast colonies outside Russian cities, men embellish their garages at their own discretion, outside the jurisdiction and reach of government officials. A parallel-world, meticulously created; for some, a means of existence, for others, pure recreation. A retreat to privacy, the garages are an escape from the oppressive structures of everyday life. At the same time, they are an expression of individualism and self-fulfilment – in a country that is not known to encourage such efforts.

Project Team Director: Neasa Ní Chianáin Producer: David Rane

Talks & Sessions

Garage People

Financing Total budget: £161064 / €184000 / $227102 Total in place: £161064 / €184000 / $227102 Financiers: MDR/ARTE, €63551 / £56131; Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) €25000 / £22081; German Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) €40000 / £35330; German Federal Film Board (FFA), €11903 / £10513; Creative Europe MEDIA, €30000 / £26497

Financing Total budget: £436000 / €490000 / $602000 Total in place: £13400 / €15000 / $18500 Financiers: Irish Film Board, €15000

Special Events

Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Early Development

Marketplace & Talent

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Genres: Personal & Human Interest; Investigative; Human Rights Company: Soilsiu Films Country of Production: Ireland Contact: David Rane Email: david@soilsiu.com

Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Production

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Genres: Personal & Human Interest; Community; Anthropology / Ethnography Company: Tamtam Film Country of Production: Germany Contact: Mathieu Dolenc Email: md@tamtamfilm.com Website: www.tamtamfilm.com/filme/garagenvolk

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The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

Based on the top secret notes of the CIA agent and analyst, John Nixon. For four weeks, Nixon interrogated Saddam Hussein in 2003. The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein tells the story of what led to the invasion of Iraq and throws back and forwards to the nightmare of today.

Financing Total budget: £309000 / €347408 / $428209 Total in place: £15000 / €16864 / $20686 Financiers: Docsville

Financing Total budget: £445000 / €507000 / $507000 Total in place: £410000 / €467000 / $626000 Financiers: Broadcaster EO/IKONdocs (the Netherlands), Dutch Film Fund (development & production), The Netherlands Film production Incentive, CoBo Fund, Bertha Doc Society Documentary Journalism Fund, Democracy & Media Foundation, Free Press Unlimited

Project Team Director: Fran Robertson, Hana Vojackova Producer: Fran Robertson Executive Producers: Nick Fraser & Kevin Macdonald

Letters from Prison (WT)

In Letters from Prison, we follow former inmates and warders as they struggle for better conditions in this violent prison world. In the process, we shine a spotlight on a system in which both prisoners and guards are victims of a global trend: the privatisation of prisons. The film gives a detailed account on the far-reaching impact a system based on profit can have on fundamental human rights and society.

Project Team Directors & Producers: Femke van Velzen, Ilse van Velzen

Genres: Sports; Social Issue; Personal & Human Interest Company: JSL Global Media / Wishtrend Thailand Country of Production: Thailand Contact: Stephane Lambert Email: sl@bagamail.com Website: www.instantbadassdocumentary.com

Genres: Sex / Sexuality; History; Biography Company: Kinescope Film Country of Production: Germany Contact: Luisa Schwamborn Email: luisa.schwamborn@newdocs.de Website: www.newdocs.de/liberace-the-king-of-bling/

Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins / 6x26 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour, Online or Other Platforms Project status: Late Development

Final length: 90 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Production

Financing Total budget: £180000 / €200000 / $250000 Total in place: £23000 / €25000 / $32000

Financing Total budget: £354965 / €402386 / $495000 Total in place: £116170 / €131690 / $162000 Financiers: Radio Bremen / ARTE

Project Team Director: Andy Funnell Producer: Stephane Lambert, Jitinat Asdamongkol

Project Team Director: Jeremy Fekete Producer: Matthias Greving Sales Agent: Elina Kewitz

Liberace : The King of Bling

He was an icon, flamboyant pianist, egomaniac, showman par excellence: Liberace – the King of Bling – enjoyed an unparalleled career. In the middle of the Californian desert, where Hollywood stars celebrated wild parties around private pools, he lived a paradoxical life of spectacle and secrecy, illusion and reality. His success is closely linked to the growing popularity of television and the American TV era. We examine his stellar career and its abrupt end in the context of America's social and media history. Liberace's story reflects the American dream – but also the country's bigotry and the divisions of a rapidly growing society.

Genres: War & Conflict; Investigative Company: Met Film Production Country of Production: United Kingdom Contact: Al Morrow Email: al@metfilm.co.uk

Genres: Politics & Economics; Nature & Wildlife; Investigative Company: Wanderlust Productions, Country of Production: United States Contact: Elizabeth Unger Email: ewu5191@gmail.com

Final length: 80 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Late Development

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Financing Total budget: £1308142 / €1470000 / $1813961 Total in place: £8000 / €8989 / $11093 Financiers: BFI Locked Box, £8000

Financing Total budget: £725988 / €824300 / $1006868 Total in place: £174224 / €197817 / $236102 Financiers: Worley Works, Individual donations, IUCN NL, Elephant Action League, National Geographic Society, Kickstarter

Project Team Director: Angus McQueen Producers: Al Morrow, Rachel Heywood

Madidi (WT)

In the heart of the Amazon, large numbers of jaguars are being quietly decimated for the Chinese black market – and the world has no idea. Desperate for answers, a park ranger, a zoologist, and a young journalist spark their own investigations into the trade, uncovering a powerful political-economic force between China and South America that is trickling down to their fight on the ground.

Project Team Director: Elizabeth Unger Producer: Elizabeth Unger Co-Producer: Kate Brooks Writer: Mark Monroe Other: Marjon Javadi

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Genres: Investigative; Human Rights; Community Company: ifproductions Country of Production: The Netherlands Contact: Ilse van Velzen Email: ilse@ifproductions.nl Website: www.ifproductions.nl

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We accept that love, security and happiness are basic human desires. But what about fear, pain and fighting for survival, do we need to feel these emotions as intensely? Joe believes we do, as do 1000s of people that follow his Street Fight organisation. Ordinary men meet to fight one another for no other reason than to feel alive and free from the constraints of their daily lives. Despite being considered illegal by the authorities the movement continues to grow. What does it say about men's need for violence and the modern world that denies them this desire?

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Instant Badass, from Street to Cage

Genres: Sports; Politics & Economics; Personal & Human Interest; History Company: Two Step Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Fran Robertson Email: fran@twostepfilms.com

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Between 1955 and 1985, the communist government of Czechoslovakia organised a series of extraordinary mass gymnastic events - the Spartakiades - which, in terms of scale, spectacle and strangeness, remain unsurpassed today. An inspiration for the North Korean mass games, at their height the Czechoslovakian displays involved over 2 million people. The story of the Spartakiades reflects how the communist state planned to engineer a new man and a new society, and also represents how this experiment turned from a dream into a nightmare. I Am Spartakiade will explore the bizarre world of communist social engineering through the prism of these unique events.

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Genres: Sports; Personal & Human Interest; Community Company: Venom Country of Production: Ireland Contact: Andrew Freedman Email: freedman@venom.ie Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour, Online or Other Platforms Project status: Early Development

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Financing Total budget: £370412 / €420000 / $503645 Total in place: £0 / €0 / $0

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Genres: War & Conflict; Investigative; History; Biography Company: Met Film Production Country of Production: United Kingdom Contact: Al Morrow Email: al@metfilm.co.uk Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development

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Maya

Mohsen, a wild animal trainer, works in the Iranian film industry with his 300lb Bengal Tiger - Maya. After four years of work together, Mohsen wants to release Maya into the wild. Maya (working title) is a magical real-life exploration of what happens to freedom when you take away the cage.

Financing Total budget: £696821 / €787456 / $827364 Total in place: £240500 / €271781 / $381404 Financiers: UK Tax Relief, €45202 / £40000; Broadcasters: €226578 / £200500 - ZDF/ARTE, (Germany/France), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland), EO (Netherlands), ERT (Greece), TVP (Poland), HMRC UK Tax Relief (18% of UK core spend), Banyak Film Fund Project Team Director: Anson Hartford Producer: Hugh Hartford

Financing Total budget: £1087000 / €1230000 / $1514579 Total in place: £5000 / €5630 / $6966 Financiers: Arts Alliance Productions £5000 - Development

Misha's Story

Genres: Social Issue; Politics & Economics; Gender / Women's Rights; Current Affairs; Community; Anthropology / Ethnography Company: Kamara Country of Production: Turkey Contact: Yoel Meranda Email: yoel@kamarafilm.com Website: www.amarafilm.com/

Final length: 80 mins / 52 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Production

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Financing Total budget: £305000 / €347000 / $425000 Total in place: £25000 / €28500 / $35000 Financiers: Private Investor $15000, International Documentary Association $15000, Producers Cash $5000

Mayor

Mayor follows Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah; a city which is the beating cultural and political heart of the emerging Palestinian state. Musa is young, popular, and wants to change the way his city operates and looks to the outside world. An exploration of what leadership looks like in the absence of government, Mayor follows Musa as he navigates labyrinthine structures and rigid egos to change the very DNA of his hometown; from embattled and oppressed face of the occupation to an unexpectedly cosmopolitan city seeking to redefine the notion of Palestinian identity.

Project Team Director: Sam Hobkinson Producers: Al Morrow, Poppy Dixon, Matt Wells

When she was seven, Misha Defonseca escaped the Nazis, crossed Europe on foot, lived with wolves and endured unimaginable hardship in search of her deported parents. Her Holocaust memoir took the world by storm and a Hollywood studio came knocking. But a fallout with her publisher who turned detective, revealed Misha’s story as an audacious deception created to hide an even darker truth.

Genres: War & Conflict; Geopolitics; Current Affairs Company: Rosewater Pictures Country of Production: United States Contact: David Osit Email: david.osit@gmail.com

Project Team Director: David Osit Producer: Mohanad Yaqubi

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To some pigeon racing is a hobby. To others, it’s a religion. Whichever way they perceive it, there’s no denying the outlandish nature of the sport and the pigeon fanciers’ devotion to it. Every year in South Africa an outrageously high-staked race attracts the very best pigeons from across the globe. Competitors from the poor townships of Johannesburg compete against wealthy American businessmen and Saudi Princes for the greatest pigeon prize on the planet. The birds may connect these people but it’s the battle for the million dollars and the prestige that ultimately divides them.

Genres: Personal & Human Interest; Nature & Wildlife; Environment Company: Banyak Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Anson Hartford Email: anson@banyak.co.uk Website: banyak.co.uk/projects/49-maya/

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Miss Holocaust Survivor

The preparations are underway for the Miss Holocaust Survivor beauty pageant. Potential participants are interviewed by Heli Ben-David, 1979 Grace Queen of Israel. Sophie Leibowitz (80s) doesn't want to tell her dark story in front of a crowd but she later changes her mind. She joins the rehearsals where Heli teaches the participants how to catwalk and bow on the red carpet. The pageant is attended by nearly a thousand people, including the first lady Sara Netanyahu. After the jury announces the winners, the celebratory mood is not reflected on the face of Sophie who didn’t win any awards.

Financing Total budget: £188000 / €215000 / $358739 Total in place: £58000 / €65000 / $80044 Financiers: New Film Fund (Turkey) Development 5000 TL, Production Support 1500TL, DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) 100000 DKK Project Team Director: Eytan Ipeker Producers: Yoel Meranda, Ingmar Trost Co-producers: Katrin Pors, Eitan Mansuri

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The BAFTA, BIFA & Grierson nominated team behind critically acclaimed debut feature Half Way are developing an important new film. The all-female team will investigate working class mothers seemingly punished by the British judicial system’s reluctance to give up archaic laws EU countries have long since abolished. The director’s first feature captured her own family’s experience of homelessness for a year, combining moments of tenderness with unexpected humour. Half Way was the first film to be used in an official enquiry into homelessness at the House of Commons; was screened at City Hall and had an official partnership with Shelter.

Project Team Director: Gavin Fitzgerald Producer: Ken Wardrop Executive Producer: Andrew Freedman

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Financing Total budget: £300000 / €343490 / $422370 Total in place: £0 / €0 / $0 Project Team Director: Daisy May Hudson Producers: Claire O'Neill, Alice Hughes Editor: Vera Simmonds Executive Producer: Jacquai Edenbrow

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Genres: Politics & Economics; Personal & Human Interest; Investigative; Human Rights; Gender / Women's Rights; Anthropology / Ethnography; Activism Company: Beehive Films Ltd. Country of Production: UK Contact: Claire O'Neill Email: clairelouiseoneill@gmail.com

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Genres: Youth & Children; Social Issue; Religion; Politics & Economics; Personal & Human Interest; Human Rights; Crime Company: My Accomplice Country of Production: UK Contact: Aleksandra Bilic Email: aleks@myaccomplice.co.uk

Genres: Music; History; Arts & Culture Company: Vault Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Alex Hurle Email: alex@vaultfilms.co.uk Final length: 100 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Early Development

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Nascondino (Hide and Seek)

Nascondino is a portrait of contemporary Naples told by Entoni, 12, a Neapolitan streetkid and his grandmother Dora, a former criminal boss. The world that she has built around them faces an outside threat: with Entoni due to be removed from the family by social services, they face a life-changing battle across three generations.

Financing Total budget: £267000 / €300000 / $370000 Total in place: £8913 / €10000 / $12298 Financiers: New York Op Docs (Pulitzer development grant), Vice Media (development) Project Team Director: Victoria Fiore Producers: Aleksandra Bilic, Jennifer Corcoran

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Nothing Succeeds Like Success: The Trident Story

Two brothers, full of piss, vinegar and other people’s money, built a media empire that almost conquered the world, along the way launching some of the biggest names in Rock and Roll history. Helping to shape the careers of such seminal artists as David Bowie, Elton John, and Marc Bolan, they also gave birth to the mighty Queen. This is the story of how Norman and Barry created a record factory and media empire that revolutionised the music and television industries… and how their falling out caused it all to crumble to dust. This is the story of Trident.

Genres: Thriller; History; Geopolitics Company: New Sparta Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Sheryl Crown Email: scrown@newsparta.net Website: www.newspartafilms.co.uk

Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development

Financing Total budget: £572665 / €650912 / $1122272 Total in place: £214358 / €243647 / $280568 Financiers: Dignity Film Finance, New Sparta Films

Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Through the prism of one of America’s most ambitious (some say crazy) yet least-known covert operations, the Azorian Program, Neither Confirm Nor Deny will tell the story of the CIA’s ingenious and hubristic plan to raise a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean – in total secrecy, and yet, in plain view. A feat, which took six years, made possible only by an intricate cover story fronted by billionaire Howard Hughes, and the cooperation of the press, not to mention a purpose-built recovery ship, the likes of which has never been seen before or since.

Project Team Director: Dylan Harvey Producers: Alex Hurle, Kaie Hodgkin, Simon Halfon

Genres: Social Issue; Sex / Sexuality; Personal & Human Interest; Music; Lifestyle; History; Gender / Women's Rights; Fashion; Arts & Culture Company: Time Country of Production: UK Contact: Anna Silver Email: mrsannasilver@gmail.com

Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development

Project Team Director: Philip Carter Producer: Sheryl Crown Associate Producer: Josh Green

Financing Total budget: £500000 / €561420 / $693605 Total in place: £105000 / €117902 / $145657 Financiers: UK Tax Credit £100000, Fat Controller Management Limited £5000

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In 1957 seven-year-old Maria Ridulph was abducted near her home in Illinois. The disappearance sent shockwaves around the US. Maria's remains were eventually found but her killer was never caught. Then, in 2012, former suspect, Jack McCullough, was convicted of Maria's murder. Famously it became America's oldest cold case to be solved. McCullough, a former cop, became a figure of hate. The trouble is - he was innocent. Now freed from jail the film follows Jack McCullough as he sues police and state for corruption. But, like a thriller, as uncomfortable truths are revealed, the story becomes more complex with each turn.

Project Team Director: Michael Fanning Producer: Mairéad Ní Thréinir

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A mysterious fugitive, a hijacked airplane, and an audacious mid-air escape. This is the extraordinary, real-life tale of one of the greatest unsolved heists in American history. It is a case that has taunted the FBI for decades. Now, 47 years on, there are four possible suspects. Inspired by 70s classic movie thrillers, The Mystery of DB Cooper will bring to life their stories through candid testimony, archive and stylised drama. Each account is gripping and highly plausible. But who is telling the truth, who is lying and – ultimately – who is DB Cooper?

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Project Team Director: John Dower Producers: Morgan Matthews, Anna Stephens

Financing Total budget: £440379 / €500777 / $611730 Total in place: £60000 / €68229 / $83346 Financiers: Northern Ireland Screeen

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Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Early Development

Financing Total budget: £1000000 / €1138000 / $1575000 Total in place: £780000 / €887700 / $600000 Financiers: BBC Storyville, Altitude - Sales agent / distributor, Expected Tax Credit

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Genres: Thriller; Thriller; Personal & Human Interest; Personal & Human Interest; Crime; Crime Company: Below the Radar Country of Production: UK Contact: Claire Burgoyne Email: cburgoyne@belowtheradar.tv Website: www.belowtheradar.tv

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Genres: Thriller; Personal & Human Interest; Crime Company: Minnow Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Anna Stephens Email: annas@minnowfilms.co.uk

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The Nova Story

After discovering a copy of Nova; the outspoken women's lifestyle magazine that ran from 1965-1975, an inspired young filmmaker begins a journey to find the people who created it. Charmed by the still-relevant socio-political issues, innovative design and controversial articles he tracks down the original team, reconnects old friends, foes and lovers and uncovers a group of inspiring people who influenced generations of creatives with their fearless approach and original thinking.

Project Team Directors: Kes Glozier, Nate Camponi Producer: Jason Bick Co-Producer: Anna Silver

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Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Early Development

Financing Total budget: £239690 / €271276 / $233955 Total in place: £184690 / €209028 / $247652 Financiers: Pannonia Foundation, €104,514 / £92,344; Silicon Valley Community Foundation €104,514 / £92,344

Financing Total budget: £1400000 / €1576985 / $1932819 Total in place: £0 / €0 / $0

The Protector

Genres: Social Issue; Politics & Economics; Gender / Women's Rights Company: Backbone Films / Kartemquin Films Country of Production: United States Contact: Hillary Bachelder Email: hillary@kartemquin.com Website: https://www.thefilmrepresent.com Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Production

Financing Total budget: £309000 / €348000 / $430000 Total in place: £102 / €115000 / $142000 Financiers: IFB / RTE

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Represent

Represent follows two parallel stories of women running for local office across the Midwest: Myya Jones, a 22-year-old recent graduate running for Mayor of Detroit, and Bryn Bird, a produce farmer in rural Ohio fighting for progressive values as township trustee. With behind-the-scenes verité and thought-provoking archive, Represent sets these deeply personal stories of triumph and tragedy against a backdrop of the current women’s movement for equal representation in our democracy.

Dr Phil Kennedy is a pioneer in the field of Brain Computer Interfacing. In the late 1990s he made global headlines for implanting several wire electrodes in the brain of a paralysed man that enabled the patient to control a computer cursor with just his mind. Kennedy made headlines more recently in 2014 when he had electrodes implanted inside his own brain. It’s wildly believed among neuroscientists that Brain Computer Interfacing will become ubiquitous; but to what degree? Original Machines examines the ethical quandaries of self-experimentation and the unintended consequences of a future in which technology and human brains combine. Genres: Youth & Children; Social Issue; Personal & Human Interest; Music; Arts & Culture Company: Gambit Pictures Country of Production: Ireland Contact: Raymond McCormack Email: ray@gambitpictures.eu

There are 30 million piano students in China but only 30 places at the Shanghai Conservatory, the nation’s most prestigious music academy. With unique access to the institution and the most renowned piano teachers, we follow three exceptional students as they strive to gain entry to the Conservatory and the status that goes with it. Observing the students and their parents closely throughout an academic year will grant us a unique glimpse into a section of Chinese society that barely existed until recently, but has mushroomed to become the most dynamic social group on the planet: the new Chinese middle-class.

Project Team Director: Hillary Bachelder Producer: Anne Sobel Co-producers: Rosie Garthwaite, Kirstine Barfod

Final length: 75 mins / 30 mins Slots: Feature length, Online or Other Platforms Project status: Late Development

Financing Total budget: £435000 / €492123 / $615000 Total in place: £96000 / €110000 / $135000 Financiers: The Irish Film Board €15'000, Creative Europe €25'000, Tax Credit €35'000, Post equity €35'000 Project Team Director: Gary Lennon Producer: Raymond McCormack Sales agent: Vesna Cudic

Financing Total budget: £315158 / €361054 / $445857 Total in place: £16964 / €19435 / $24000 Financiers: Chicago DCASE Individual Artists Grant; Helianthus Fund; Kartemquin Films; Private Individual Donors

Genres: Travel & Adventure; Social Issue; Love; Lifestyle; Globalisation; Experimental / Art; Arts & Culture; Anthropology / Ethnography Company: Tambo Film / Bullitt Film Country of Production: Denmark Contact: Rikke Tambo Andersen Email: rikke@tambofilm.dk Website: www.bullittfilm.dk

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This feature documentary The Protector tells a tale starkly relevant to our time of resurgent nationalism and fake news. It is the story of a charlatan who is able to lead a family into an elaborate and destructive conspiracy by convincing them that they are exceptional within the world.

Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development

Project Team Directors: David Burke, Sean O'Cualain Producer: David Burke

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Resorts

Resorts is an aesthetic human study of the tourist as species. As if an alien tourist landed on the beach and pointed the lens to the human body, behaviors and relationships when they lay roasting in the sun, get drunk at night or swim in the waves. How do they act at the different sights where they seem mostly occupied taking creative selfies, than, looking around? In observational, almost anthropological footage shot in open areas of the resort, the line between the private and public gets blurred and the audience get an original look into human behavior.

Financing Total budget: £277547 / €312268 / $384000 Total in place: £32580 / €37407 / $43943 Financiers: The Danish Film Institute, Development; Local funds Project Team Director: Mette Carla Toft Albrechtsen Producer: Rikke Tambo Andersen

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Project Team Director: Tilda Swinton Producer: Lily Ford Co-producers: Colin MacCabe, Vijay Vaidyanathan DOP: Bartek Dziadosz

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Genres: Point of View; Investigative; Crime Company: Rogan Productions Country of Production: United Kingdom Contact: Vivienne Steele Email: vivienne@roganproductions.net

Genres: Technology; Science; Biography Company: Dot TV & Films Country of Production: Ireland Contact: David Burke Email: david@dottv-films.com

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Genres: Youth & Children; Social Issue; Education Company: The Derek Jarman Lab Country of Production: UK Contact: Bartek Dziadosz Email: bartek@jarmanlab.org

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Witnessing a year in the life of one small school on a hill in the Scottish Highlands, this film introduces an approach to education that puts students’ natural abilities at the centre of the curriculum, cultivating the innate curiosity and imagination of every child, a sense of wonder and self-sufficiency for life.

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Financing Total budget: £352431 / €402537 / $491679 Total in place: £176512 / €201500 / $247885 Financiers: BBC; NRK; NHK; TVO

Financing Total budget: £310834 / €354834 / $440000 Total in place: £132131 / €148642 / $183315 Financiers: Spike Lee Film Production Fund $5,000; Alan Landsburg Documentary Post-Production Fund $3,750 ; Holt Family Charitable Fund $500; NYU Tisch School of the Arts $5,000; Equity Investment: 3Paw Pictures $75,000, J. Kaempfer $50,000, W. Selden $10,000; Charitable Donation: J. Calabrese $5,000, M. Greenberg $10,000, J. Howe $1,000, W. Janes $5,000, L. Narrow $1,000; S. Ripley - $5,000, S. Porter $250, Raleigh Enterprises $1,000; Crowdfunding Event $5,815

Rodney Stotts is a falconer who believes in the healing power of nature, and the unlikely face of a new movement for environmental justice. In this intimate portrait film we follow Rodney over four years as he works to build a sanctuary for injured birds of prey, and in the process creates so much more. His five acres of wild and overgrown land become important access to nature for members of his stressed Washington DC community, and sacred refuge for Rodney himself.

Genres: Music; Arts & Culture Company: 9am Media Lab Country of Production: Spain Contact: Ana Castañosa Email: acastanosa@9ammedialab.com Website: www.theriseofthesynths.com

Genres: Economics; War & Conflict; Politics & Economics; Investigative; Human Rights; Health; Globalisation; Environment; Current Affairs; Activism Company: Films à Cinq Country of Production: France Contact: Rebecca Hagege Email: rhagege@filmsacinq.com Website: www.filmsacinq.com www. kensingtontv.com

Final length: 90 mins / TV hour + webdoc Spanish version for TVE Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour, Online or Other Platforms Project status: Production

The Rise Of The Synths

The story of a music scene born on MySpace in the mid-2000s, known as Synthwave: electronic modern composition heavily inspired by the soundtracks of cinema, TV and video games from the 80s. Born underground, Synthwave now gets millions of plays in social media, a true 80s revival that began with the "Holy Trinity" of John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream and Giorgio Moroder. Today, films such as Drive and Ready Player One and TV series like Stranger Things or Glow, show a trend. A random spark or lasting evolution? Discover Synthwave before it bursts into the mainstream or dies without glory!

Financing Total budget: £372000 / €418000 / $516000 Total in place: £103000 / €118000 / $146000 Financiers: IndieGogo campaign € 56.000; Private investors (USA) € 32.000; Private investors (Spain) €30.000 Project Team Director: Iván Castell Producers: Ana Castañosa, Javier Moreno Sales agent: Louise Rosen

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The Shadow of Gold

In the last 15 years mankind has extracted more gold from the earth’s crust than in all of human history combined. We are witnessing the biggest gold rush ever, powered by out of control prices and a globally interconnected supply chain with hardly any restraints. What are the consequences of this unprecedented thirst for yellow metal – on our economies, on our planet and on our lives?

Genres: Point of View; Personal & Human Interest; Arts & Culture Company: B&B Film Country of Production: Italy Contact: Raffaele Brunetti Email: raffaele@bbfilm.tv Website: www.bbfilm.tv

The Rossellinis

Roberto Rossellini was Italian Neorealism’s most renowned film director and an equally legendary womaniser, with several wives, numerous children and many grandchildren now dispersed across the globe. This cosmopolitan, nonconformist and slightly crazy family includes Hollywood stars, a daughter who converted to Islam and even someone who chose to live on a desert island. It also includes Alessandro Rossellini, photographer and recovering drug addict, who is in search of balance in his life. With the encouragement of his spiritual mentor, he decides to undertake a journey to meet each of his relatives and confront the roots of his and their internal conflicts once and for all.

Project Team Director: Alessandro Rossellini Producer: Raffaele Brunetti Script Editor: Markus Nikel Scriptwriters: Andrea Massara, Dāvis Sīmanis

Financing Total budget: £918537 / €1033200 / $1274170 Total in place: £752403 / €848307 / $1041270 Financiers: ARTE France, CNC, PROCIREP-ANGOA, Newen Distribution (MG), TVO, Canal D, Knowledge BC, SVT (presale), CMF, Rodgers Documentary Fund, OMDC Film Fund Project Team Director: Denis Delestrac Producer: Sally Blake Co-Producer: Robert Lang Editor: Sarah Bachinski

Genres: Sports; Social Issue; Human Rights; Globalisation Company: Country of Production: UK Contact: Gemma Kate Thorpe Email: info@gemmathorpe.com Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Production

Final length: 52 mins / 90 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Late Development Financing Total budget: £362907 / €412929 / $464030 Total in place: £149815 / €170465 / $302505 Financiers: Elad Noy, Channel 8, €5500 / £4834; Philippa Kowarsky (Cinephil), Moviestar, €10000 / £8796; Sanita Muceniece, National Film Center of Latvia, €41000 / £36033; Lazio Innova, Lazio Region €75664 / £66498; Mibact, National Tax Credit €38301 / £33661

Project Team Director: Annie Kaempfer Producer: William Stefan Smith Other: Peter O'Brien

Financing Total budget: £392850 / €443534 / $549230 Total in place: £0 / €0 / $0

Shanghai Blues

Shanghai Blues is a unique insight into the fastly developing Chinese Super League, revealing a burgeoning, radical football culture through the eyes of its most passionate fans, the Blue Devils. This fiercely loyal band of brothers – products of China’s “one-child” policy – have found their family on the terrace. Full of passion, belief and dedication, they’re proud to be different from the rest of the 1.4 billion-strong nation. As they experience at first-hand China’s unprecedented growth and change, Shanghai Blues is a coming of age film, addressing themes of identity, fraternity, belief, freedom, globalisation, control and counter-culture.

Project Team Director: Gemma Thorpe Producers: Daniel Gordon, João Inada

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Sanctuary

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Genres: Personal & Human Interest; Nature & Wildlife; Community Company: 3Paw Pictures Country of Production: USA Contact: Annie Kaempfer Email: akaempfer@gmail.com Website: www.sanctuarydocumentary.com

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Genres: Thriller; Politics & Economics; Investigative; History; Geopolitics; Biography Company: Crescent Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Ziad Zafar Email: ziadzafar@gmail.com

Charismatic and larger than life, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto electrified the masses and swept to power after Pakistan's first free elections in 1970. He was hailed a messiah by the poor and enjoyed popular support from every corner of Pakistan. Less than 10 years later he was hanged like a common criminal as the country watched in silence. Part political thriller part Athenian drama, the film examines his meteoric rise and fall from the perspective of friends, enemies and closest family members who have broken their silence after decades.

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Financing Total budget: £890500 / €1000000 / $1238000 Total in place: £445250 / €500000 / $619000 Financiers: Broadcaster BNN VARA/NPO - 125.000 EUR per episode (4 episodes) - Sjoerd van den Broek

Project Team Director: Grace Sweeney Executive Producer: Michael Fanning

Project Team Director: Hans Pool Producer: Femke Wolting

The Singh Case

Genres: Investigative; Gender / Women's Rights; Crime Contact: Isabel Tang Email: isabel.tang@icloud.com

Genres: Politics & Economics; Point of View; Arts & Culture Company: a_BAHN Country of Production: Luxembourg Contact: François Le Gall Email: francois@a-bahn.com Website: www.a-bahn.com

Final length: 90 mins / Potential for 3-part Series/TV Hour Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development Financing Total budget: £800000 / €905000 / $1200000 Total in place: £0 / €0 / $0

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Project Team Director & Producer: Isabel Tang Executive Producer: John Battsek

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The Sherwood Case

Society Must Be Defended: Michel Foucault Predicts the Future

What is worse than being raped by a stalker? This: being raped by a stalker and not being believed. Worse still? This: being raped by a stalker and being prosecuted because you’re not believed. Gail Sherwood was sentenced for two years for perverting the course of justice because she was found guilty of lying about being raped. When she got out of jail she says she was raped again. If Gail’s version of events is true, it would be one of the most startling miscarriages of justice in recent memory. Isabel Tang tries to piece the story together and asks what really happened.

Genres: Politics & Economics; Point of View; Anthropology / Ethnography Country of Production: Turkey Contact: Elizabeth Lo Email: elizabethx.lo@gmail.com Website: www.elizabeth-lo.com

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Financing Total budget: £108064 / €121519 / $150000 Total in place: £54082 / €60765 / $75000 Financiers: Private Equity

In Suburban America, there is a high school like so many others, trying to make the best decisions for its students. Principal G experiments with a controversial diversity initiative—but has been measuring success in test scores for too long; Security Guard Bill, an ex-marine with a hero complex, is a solution in search of a problem; and Ms. Karen sees her students as unique thinkers and artists, but struggles to help them find their way in a learning environment that’s been on lockdown long before the gun ever appears. Along the way, 17-year-old Shatira makes the filmmakers listen instead.

Project Team Director: Antonino D'Ambrosio Producer: François Le Gall Sales agent: Louise Rosen

Is our turbulent world at a breaking point or, a turning point? In 1976, controversial philosopher Michel Foucault presented a sensational lecture on power that predicted our current moment of conflict, describing it as a perpetual war waged through racism, violence and technology. He called this: biopower. Now, biopower is in full fury around the world. Both a bitter fable and a fever dream, this film offers an alternative: opposition.

Genres: Social Issue; Point of View; Love Company: Listen Productions Country of Production: United States Contact: Mitch Dickman Email: mitch@listenproductions.com

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In 1986, Surinamese-Dutch Jaitsen Singh (73) was convicted of murder on his wife and stepdaughter, despite having a water-tight alibi for the time of the murders. The killer was never found and Singh has maintained his innocence ever since. Now a young Dutch lawyer has discovered a range of judicial failings and corruption in his case. She’s vowed to do everything she can to set him free. During her investigation she discovers links to a Mexican gang. Who is guilty here? The corrupt prosecution? The Mexican gang? And will Singh open up about family secrets to regain his freedom?

Project Team Director: Mitch Dickman Producers: Shane Borris, Britta Erickson

Stray

From Istanbul to Anatolia, Stray traverses Turkey in search of what it means to live as a being without status or security under a rising authoritarian regime. Through intimate observation of street dogs, the film attempts to examine a troubled society through a position of extreme marginalisation. Three dogs inhabit ideologically distinct regions in Turkey. Over months, the film follows these dogs as they wander in search of food and shelter - cutting across class and religious divisions as only an unassuming street dog can. Through the embodiment of these strays, Stray seeks to shed an unexpected light on Turkey’s unfolding crisis.

Financing Total budget: £198008 / €222428 / $275000 Total in place: £87509 / €96717 / $149981 Financiers: Rooftop Filmmaker Fund $20,000 in equipment services, ARRI Inc $30,000 in equipment services, Private financiers $100,000 in no-interest loans Project Team Director: Elizabeth Lo Producer: Shane Boris Co-producers: Celyan Carhoglu, Zeynep Koprulu

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As the impact of a Trump White House takes hold, this film follows candidates in contrasting and highly charged sheriffs' elections. In the run-up to polling day on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, the contenders for this iconic role will have to prove themselves but, incredibly, a background in law enforcement is not essential. With protests, mass shootings and hate crimes now a daily occurrence, this documentary explores how and why people come to power in America, and how they represent a community that is ever dividing. Expect big egos, deep-rooted social problems and personal rivalries. The race is on.

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Financing Total budget: £400000 / €453786 / $555640 Total in place: £57500 / €65231 / $79815 Financiers: Northern Ireland Screen

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Genres: Thriller; Investigative; Crime Company: Submarine Country of Production: The Netherlands Contact: Natalya Sarch Email: natalya@submarine.nl

Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour, Series and formats Project status: Late Development

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Genres: Law and order; Social Issue; Politics & Economics Company: Below the Radar Country of Production: UK Contact: Claire Burgoyne Email: cburgoyne@belowtheradar.tv Website: www.belowtheradar.tv

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Final length: 80 mins / 60 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Late Development

Uproar

Uproar is the story of an all-female band of Cuban Rumba musicians from the slums of Havana. Led by the powerful Diunis O’Farrell, Rumba Morena have carved out a place for themselves in the male-dominated world of Rumba music, shattering its gendered traditions. Despite fierce opposition from the male ‘old guard’ of Rumba, and the struggles of living hand to mouth, Diunis and her band remain undeterred in their continued fight for respect and equality. With Cuba undergoing social and political change, now is the time for Rumba Morena to be heard.

Genres: Music; History; Experimental / Art; Dance; Community; Biography; Anthropology / Ethnography; Activism Company: Wajda Studio Country of Production: Poland Contact: Agnieszka Rostropowicz-Rutkowska Email: arostropowicz@wajdastudio.pl

Genres: Youth & Children; Religion; Point of View; Faith / Religion; Community Company: Gramafilm Country of Production: United Kingdom Contact: James Morton-Haworth Email: james@gramafilm.com Website: gramafilm.com/what-we-believe-documentary

Final length: 55 mins / 60 mins Slots: Feature length, TV broadcast hour Project status: Post-Production

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Symphony of the Ursus Factory

The Symphony of the Ursus Factory is a creative documentary, which applies the methods of participatory art and social practice, and combines video art with choreography and experimental music. Above all, though, it is a voice commemorating the Ursus Factory and the industrial and workers’ culture, a voice which fights for the dignity of the working people and for a historical politics that takes notice of their lives.

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Financing Total budget: £187917 / €210507 / $259289 Total in place: £165600 / €185507 / $228496 Financiers: Polish Film Institute (financial contribution) €115062, MX35 (in-kind contribution) €15260

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What we Believe

Hillsong attracts a congregation of over 15,000 people a week to pop concert-like services in the UK, selling out the O2 Arena and generating £60,000,000 revenue globally in the process. The church is rapidly growing its congregation of teenagers and young adults while franchising itself internationally in 19 territories. This film journeys alongside some of the congregation and its ambitious pastors over the most important years since their establishment as they expand their services, grow the church and as more and more kids join this phenomenon.

Genres: Social Issue; Sex / Sexuality; Personal & Human Interest; Music; LGBTQ+; Gender / Women's Rights; Fashion; Arts & Culture; Activism Country of Production: United States Contact: Tabs Breese Email: tabsbreese@gmail.com

Final length: 70 mins / 52 mins Slots: TV broadcast hour Project status: Late Development

Untitled Princess Nokia Project

Seven years ago, Destiny Frasqueri escaped her abusive foster home in East Harlem with 'three dollars in my pocket and 75% on my phone battery' for a life on the streets. Now, she's one of the world's best known female rappers. She repeatedly made headlines in 2017: for throwing hot soup on a man shouting racist abuse on a New York subway, for punching an audience member at the Cambridge Student Union following his inappropriate comments to her and finally for raising thousands of dollars for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

Financing Total budget: £400000 / €449446 / $555532 Total in place: £0 / €0 / $0 Project Team Director: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini, Orian Barki Producers: Tabs Breese, Alli Maxwell

Project Team Director: Nick Aldridge Producers: Kate Vogel, Kat Mansoor, James Morton-Haworth

Genres: Economics; Investigative; Globalisation Company: Little Big Story Country of Production: France Contact: Raphaël Pelissou Email: rpelissou@lbstory.fr

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Project Team Director: Matt Kay Producers: Rachel Wexler, Jez Lewis Executive Producer: Emily James

Project Team Director: Moe Najati Producers: Matthew Cooper, Georgia Woolley, Christine Cowin Executive Producers: Nigel Sinclair, Robert Rosenberg

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Women have been banned from professional sumo since the rules were formalised over 500 years ago. Now women can compete at an amateur level but are still forbidden from professional rings. The Sumo Supremes follows two groups of women affected by this rule. One, a group of female sumo wrestlers, all champions, yet unable to progress to the level they dream of because of the gender bar. The other, a group of female mayors who, unlike their male counterparts, aren’t allowed in the ring. We follow their fight for equality inside and outside of the ring of Japan's national sport.

Financing Total budget: £599999 / €681595 / $853724 Total in place: £0 / €0 / $0

The World According to Amazon

Millions of people are buying on Amazon every day, ordering a book, a tee-shirt or dog toys. Yet in the Amazon World, every employee, from the worker to the executive, is seen as the last step before the robot. And this company is more powerful than any state. This film investigates the heart of the greatest logistics revolution in history, from a utopia born in the '60s, to a contemporary nightmare, and tells the story of the global empire of Amazon, its expansion and raises the question: how far will it go?

Financing Total budget: £394233 / €448349 / $556894 Total in place: £288950 / €328614 / $408171 Financiers: France 5 €130 000, Films Du Rapide-Blanc (Coproduction Canada - including broadcaster SRC, Credit Tax, MFC) €112500, CNC – automatic fund €55000, Distributor RapideBlanc (USA-Canada) €2614, Distributor Java Films (worldwide) €15000, Procirep-Angoa development €13500 Project Team Director: Adrien Pinon Producer: Valérie Montmartin

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Financing Total budget: £267900 / €300594 / $371092 Total in place: £17676 / €20182 / $24838 Financiers: Film London £7000 (for short version - to be used as finance raising teaser), Tribeca Film Institute / ESPN short documentary award $15,000 (short plus creation of teaser as above)

Final length: 90 mins Slots: Feature length Project status: Late Development

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Genres: Music; Gender / Women's Rights; Arts & Culture Company: Villager Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Georgia Woolley Email: georgia@villagerfilms.com Website: Villagerfilms.com

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Genres: Sports; Gender / Women's Rights; Faith / Religion Company: Bungalow Town Productions Country of Production: UK Contact: Rachel Wexler Email: rachel@bungalow-town.com

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Where The Peach Is In Bloom

Peach Reform School is divided into two segments: the “Upstairs” and “Downstairs”. The former contains students who are sent here by their parents, while the latter contains students sent by the police for criminal offenses. Between the two sections, any form of interaction is strictly forbidden. Boys and girls are also separated. Anyone who breaks the rules will face severe physical punishment. The story follows Wenjun's journey of becoming the class leader and Leigong and Chanjuan's secret love under the separation rule. The two storylines converge by the time of New Year celebration and each takes a dramatic turn.

Financing Total budget: £90469 / €102842 / $126302 Total in place: £39604 / €45021 / $54885 Financiers: Shanxia Documentary Lab $44885, Journeyman Pictures $5000, CNEX Award $5000 Project Team Director: Chunhua Jiang Producer: Ruby Chen

#OpenLetterInteractive

When Brazil’s economic and social crisis deepened in 2015, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings and schools with the intention of stopping budget cuts and improving public education. Like Occupy Wall Street, the student movement uses direct democracy to decide everything, always voting for the next steps together. Inspired by the use of this non-hierarchical social organization, in #OpenLetterInteractive the audience decides by raising their hands and voting on the next occupation, theme, or narrator. The interactive documentary follows the main marches and occupations that happened between 2015 and 2017.

Genres: Personal & Human Interest; Music; Arts & Culture Company: Kloos & Co. Medien Country of Production: Germany Contact: Michaela Pnacekova Email: michaela.pnacekova@kloosundco.de Website: www.kloosundco.de

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Slots: Virtual Reality Project status: Late Development Financing Total budget: €195000 / $242000 / £170800 Total in place: €25000 / $27667 / £150000 Remaining finance needed: €170000 / $214333 / £176600 Financiers: CreativeXR £20000

A Symphony Of Noise VR

A virtual reality documentary inspired by the work of the British musician Matthew Herbert that reflects much of the seemingly everyday found sounds of modern life, the personal and human, and the vast and inaccessible spaces we never get to listen to. The sound of an atom; the silence of an actor forgetting their line; a thousand cardboard boxes dropping into the back of a thousand removals lorries; a single step on grass at an important football match in Dortmund; the first step of a toddler in Syria; a step towards a lover. Find the symphony all around by listening to the world differently. - ‘Anything can be music.'

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Project Team Creator and Director: Eliza Capai Producer: Mariana Genescá

Project Team Creator and Producer: Jamie Balliu, Michaela Pnacekova VR Director: Anrick Bregman

Genres: Experimental / Art; Biography; Arts & Culture Company: Drakeford Studios, LLC Country of Production: USA Contact: Jason Drakeford Email: jdrakeford@gmail.com Slots: Virtual Reality Project status: Early Development Financing Total budget: €69000 / $84000 / £61000 Total in place: €2030 / $27667 / £1785 Remaining finance needed: €66970 / $56333 / £59215

A Video Ghost

An immersive virtual reality documentary about Shigeko Kubota (1937-2015), a groundbreaking artist of the Japanese avant-garde, the New York Fluxus events in the 60s, and eventually a pioneer of video art and sculpture starting in the '70s. This documentary and VR experience follows her incredible journey, artistic process, studio life with Nam June Paik, and final sculptural video work, all recreated in virtual reality. The viewer will leave this experience with a new respect and awe for a medium birthed by this pioneer. "Video is a ghost of yourself" - Shigeko Kubota

Project Team Director: Jason Drakeford

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Financing Total budget: €200000 / $250000 / £176600 Total in place: €0 / $0 / £0 Remaining finance needed: €200000 / $250000 / £176600 Financiers: Open Documentary Lab - MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Slots: Interactive Story,Live Performance Project status: In Production

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Genres: Human Rights; Education; Activism Company: TVa2 Country of Production: Brazil Contact: Mariana Carpenter Genescá Email: mariana@tva2.com.br

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Genres: Youth & Children; Youth & Children; Social Issue; Social Issue; Love; Love; Education; Education; Crime; Crime Company: Beijing CNEX Production Country of Production: China Contact: Ningxin Xie Email: ningxin.xie@cnex.org.cn Website: www.

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Financing Total budget: €100000 / $123979 / £89300 Total in place: €8000 / $9973 / £7100 Remaining finance needed: €92000 / $114006 / £82200 Financiers: Somerset House, Anidox lab, !F-Lab

Using the technology of a lo-fi videogame, this project visually represents an aspect of our social infrastructure that is never seen in physical form, and rarely reported on in the media, yet has a huge impact on the daily lives of thousands of people: an NHS waiting list. This interactive documentary centers on the image of a long queue of people, using everyday experiences of waiting to visualise the waiting list, alongside other aspects of the transgender experience. Users are invited to talk to many different trans people with diverse experiences, in interactive text-based dialogues based on real interviews.

Genres: Women's Rights; Investigative; Human Rights; Health; Gender / Women's Rights; Activism Company: JAPC Country of Production: Nepal Contact: CJ Clarke Tsukii Email: cj@japc.eu Website: www.emblematicgroup.com

Genres: Science; Nature & Wildlife; Environment Company: Surround Vision Country of Production: UK Contact: Richard Nockles Email: richard.nockles@surroundvision.co.uk Website: www.surroundvision.co.uk Slots: Virtual Reality Project status: Early Development

Slots: Interactive, Story Installation, Virtual Reality, WebVR Project status: Concept

Financing Total budget: €800000 / $1000000 / £750000 Total in place: €0 / $0 / £0 Remaining finance needed: €800000 / $1000000 / £750000

Blood Speaks: A Ritual of Exile

Blood Speaks explores the social, emotional and physical consequences of normalised violence against women. Focused on the Nepali ritual of Chaupadi, during which women are forced to leave their homes and stay in rudimentary shelters following child birth or because they are menstruating. Comprising three VR films and other immersive video content, photographs, projections and interviews, it cracks open the veil of silence and shame experienced by women, linking menstrual exile to wider conversations about gender-based violence. Blood Speaks doesn’t seek to just inform, it seeks to immerse audiences in a hidden world, making them bear witness to such injustice.

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Financing Total budget: €34000 / $42000 / £30000 Total in place: €11000 / $14000 / £10000 Remaining finance needed: €23000 / $28000 / £20000 Financiers: Cortona on the Move

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Project Team Director: Poulomi Basu Producer: Kevin Tsukii Executive Producer: Nonny de la Peña

Climate Changers

The fight against climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. Each of us has a responsibility to come together to protect the planet for future generations. Some of the greatest scientific and technological minds are helping to develop solutions to issues such as ocean pollution, energy consumption and clean water provision. The films will mix CGI with state-of-the-art camera techniques whilst focussing on the people and technology behind the scenes, as well as, taking the audiences on an inspiring journey to see the positive impact they are making.

Genres: War & Conflict; Social Issue; Personal & Human Interest; Geopolitics; Environment; Current Affairs Company: UNIT9 Country of Production: UK Contact: Anrick Bregman Email: anrick@unit9.com Website: www.campcentury.com

Genres: Personal & Human Interest; Health; Environment Company: Aconite Productions Country of Production: UK Contact: Lorna Jane Ferguson Email: lorna@aconiteproductions.co.uk Slots: Augmented Reality,Mixed Reality Project status: Late Development

Slots: Interactive Story, Virtual Reality, Room Scale Experience Project status: In Production

Financing Total budget: €90729 / $112036 / £80780 Total in place: €4700 / $5804 / £4185 Remaining finance needed: €86029 / $106232 / £76595 Financiers: Visible Films €4700

Financing Total budget: €109704 / $132030 / £100000 Total in place: €0 / $0 / £0 Remaining finance needed: €109704 / $132030 / £100000

Camp Century

Camp Century was a top-secret US Army programme during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. It was abandoned eight years after being built, the ice reclaiming it. But what was left behind? And how does that continue to impact the local people in Greenland today? Camp Century is a transmedia documentary project which you can explore and learn from, at your own pace. It will include real photographic evidence, and interviews with people who lived there, and people who are still impacted by it today. We will bring Camp Century back to life to finally tell this mysterious story.

Project Team Director: Anrick Bregman, Nicole Paglia

Project Team Director: Mary Matheson Producer: Richard Nockles

Electric Malady – AR. Invisible Fields

Part AR/MR generative artwork, part science; this experience reveals the invisible electronic fields moving around us right now and presents the opportunity to measure and render ones own unique exposure. Taking the form of a short user journey, it visualises how much e-Radiation the user is exposed to - seen in context of their own lives and featuring the latest in accessible technologies.

Project Team Director: Marie Lidén Producer: Lorna Jane Ferguson, Aimara Reques Creative Producer: Jamie Balliu

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Cis Penance: Transgender Lives in Wait

Project Team Creator: Zoyander Street Advisor: Jennifer Booth

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After The Fire is an animated documentary VR experience about a parent and child who both survived the Grenfell Fire but until now have never openly expressed to each other what they went through. In exploring their changing relationship from either or both their perspectives, the experience seeks to ask the user: What are the things that most affect you that you have never shared with your own loved ones?

Financing Total budget: €16900 / $20800 / £15000 Total in place: €0 / $0 / £0 Remaining finance needed: €16900 / $20800 / £15000

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Project Team Director/Producer: Jayisha Patel

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Genres: Social Issue; Sex / Sexuality; LGBTQ+; Human Rights; Health; Gender / Women's Rights; Current Affairs; Community; Anthropology / Ethnography; Activism Country of Production: UK Contact: Zoyander Street Email: zoya.street@network.rca.ac.uk Website: www.zoyander.cc

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Genres: Youth & Children; Point of View; Love; Gender / Women's Rights Company: Jayisha Patel Films Country of Production: UK Contact: Jayisha Patel Email: jayishapatel1@gmail.com

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Financing Total budget: €41905 / $49601 / £36500 Total in place: €24571 / $30430 / £21400 Remaining finance needed: €17334 / $20519 / £15100 Financiers: Heritage Lottery Fund £21400 Project Team Director: Paul Long Lead Researcher and Creative consultant: Ashok Mistry

Inside Tumucumaque

The interactive VR experience leads straight into the middle of the Amazon rainforest, enabling users to become part of the exotic fauna. Inside Tumucumaque opens up a unique opportunity to turn into animals like caiman, harpy, tarantula etc. and to discover their habitat using their senses. With the aid of movements in super-slow motion, visualisations of echolocations and infrared night visions, vibrations, binaural sound design, we interpret the creatures’ perception. This scientifically based experience conveys the beauty and vulnerability of this unique ecosystem and the creatures’ extraordinary abilities.

Genres: Youth & Children; Technology; Social Issue; Sex / Sexuality; Science; Politics & Economics; Lifestyle; Human Rights; Globalisation; Education; Community; Arts & Culture; Anthropology / Ethnography; Activism Company: House of Real Country of Production: Germany Contact: Jesper Jack Email: jesper@houseofreal.dk

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Forgotten War

The interactive web documentary Forgotten War explores the reality of everyday life in the so-called ‘grey zone’, the territory adjacent to the front line in East Ukraine. It allows viewers to see the military conflict from the perspective of local residents and to experience the situations that the civilians are facing in this troubled region. It is a webbased road movie in which the viewer chooses with whom and where they go to see the impact of war, that has been forgotten.

I am (not) a monster

I am (not) a monster is a multi-platform project demonstrating the state of ideologies in contemporary society. It investigates how knowledge is interweaved with cultural heritage while current development in AI suggests a global notion of ‘collectiveness’. Trained by the Japanese Noh theatre and Sumotoris, with Bunraku puppets in hand, Nelly Ben Hayoun reenacts Hannah Arendt's writings while talking to the world's biggest thinkers and engaging with students from the University of the Underground. Together, they try to answer one of the great questions: who owns knowledge and the act of thinking?

Financing Total budget: €416500 / $514515 / £370377 Total in place: €64500 / $79659 / £57357 Remaining finance needed: €352000 / $434856 / £313020 Financiers: Czech Film Fund, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (AMU) Project Team Director: Zdeněk Chaloupka Producer: Zuzana Tichá, Jakub Pinkava

Project Team Creative Director: Ina Krüger Producer: Michael Grotenhoff, Diana Schniedermeier

Slots: Multiformat project consisting of interactive digital webisodes a linear 7 episode TV-series for broadcast and a feature film for festivals and cinemas Project status: Late Development

Internet vs Humanity

Internet vs. Humanity is a film and webseries structured around seven emotions and how the internet is radically transforming the way we experience them. From trolls unleashing new forms of anger, to live-streamer girls maintaining romantic relationships with thousands of men simultaneously, each episode illustrates a human culture in flux. Our online platform will use documentary, social experiments, and interactive layers to ask users: How has the internet transformed the way we experience the world? How do actors use our emotions online to attract attention and manipulate our decisions? Why does our relationship with technology sometimes feel so wrong?

Financing Total budget: €1045000 / $1290000 / £930000 Total in place: €215000 / $265000 / £191300 Remaining finance needed: €830000 / $1025000 / £738700 Financiers: New Danish Screen / DFI, Danish Ministry of Education Project Team Director: David Borenstein Producer: Jesper Jack

Genres: Reenactment; Travel & Adventure; Social Issue; Politics & Economics; Music; Investigative; Human Rights; Globalisation; Geopolitics; Experimental / Art; Education; Current Affairs; Arts & Culture; Architecture & Design; Anthropology / Ethnography; Activism Company: Nelly Ben Hayoun Studios Country of Production: UK Contact: Nelly Ben Hayoun Email: admin@nellyben.com

Genres: Travel & Adventure; Point of View; Personal & Human Interest Company: ARVORE Immersive Experiences Country of Production: Brazil Contact: Ricardo Laganaro Email: ricardo@laganaro.com

Slots: Installation, Live Performance, Mixed Reality, Room Scale Experience, Short films for online use and others for exhibition, sculptures, workshops and a feature length documentary with comic characters and animations Project status: Early Development

Financing Total budget: €1094593 / $973675 / £1352000 Total in place: €0 / $0 / £0 Remaining finance needed: €1094593 / $973675 / £1352000

Financing Total budget: €150353 / $185468 / £132480 Total in place: €22000 / $24687 / £17619 Remaining finance needed: €128353 / $160781 / £114861 Financiers: MU artspace_ Eindhoven, Z33 Museum for Contemporary Arts, Belgium, Whitechappel Gallery, London Project Team Director: Nelly Ben Hayoun Producer: Christopher Hird

Slots: Virtual Reality Project status: Early Development

Invisible Heroes

Invisible Heroes is a six episode documentary series that, at first, uses VR to put the audience in spectacular and inaccessible places to most of the people, but also brings the story of different hosts each episode and their point-of-view about work, purpose and life in general. The spectacular landscapes are one of the attributes of the series, but the stories of each Invisible Hero that will make it unique, presenting to the public a deeper understanding of other cultures, ways of living and relating to the Planet and Mankind. The series is a provocation disguised as an adventure.

Project Team Creator and Director: Ricardo Laganaro Screenwriter: Leopoldo Joe Nakata

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Financing Total budget: €678986 / $838208 / £603503 Total in place: €225069 / $277848 / £200048 Remaining finance needed: €453917 / $560360 / £403455 Financiers: MFG Baden-Württemberg, MBB Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

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Slots: Interactive Story,Installation,Virtual Reality,Mixed Reality,Room Scale Experience Project status: In production

Slots: Installation,Virtual Reality,Room Scale Experience Project status: In Production

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Genres: Nature & Wildlife; Environment Company: Filmtank GmbH Country of Production: Germany Contact: Florian Koehler Email: florian-koehler@filmtank.de

Genres: War & Conflict; Refugees; Politics & Economics; Point of View; Human Rights; History; Geopolitics; Faith / Religion; Education; Current Affairs Company: Pink Productions Country of Production: Czech Republic Contact: Zuzana Tichá Email: zzntch@gmail.com

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Genres: War & Conflict; Social Issue; Personal & Human Interest; Human Rights; Faith / Religion; Education; Dance; Arts & Culture; Anthropology / Ethnography Company: Metro-Boulot-Dodo Country of Production: UK Contact: Charlotte Angharad Email: charlotte@metro-boulot-dodo.com Website: www.mbd.limited/empire-soldiers

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Empire Soldiers: A South Asian Story, looks at the contribution of South Asian troops, and how the movement of people from South Asia to Britain in the last century has affected the multicultural world we live in today. The project combines a fusion of contemporary and traditional South Asian dance alongside a virtual reality film. The final experience is a highly theatrical hybrid of live and digital immersive content that gives a personal account of a complex cultural relationship.

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Slots: Serialized Interactive Documentary Project status: Early Development

Financing Total budget: €129000 / $107000 / £112000 Total in place: €40000 / $18500 / £35000 Remaining finance needed: €89000 / $88500 / £77000 Financiers: OPEC Foundation for International Development, FACT

Financing Total budget: €204000/ $250000 / £180800 Total in place: €0 / $0 / £0 Remaining finance needed: €204000/ $250000 / £180800

Primal Screams: The Fun of Fear

Genres: Works well for subjects with a strong spatial component. Company: Killing Architects Country of Production: Netherlands Contact: Alison Killing Email: alison@killingarchitects.com Slots: Interactive Story Project status: Early Development Financing Total budget: €100000 / $122467 / £88666 Total in place: €0 / $0 / £0 Remaining finance needed: €100000 / $122467 / £88666

Financing Total budget: €230000 / $271500 / £200000 Total in place: €62500 / $101500 / £55000 Remaining finance needed: €167500 / $170000 / £145000 Financiers: Bell Fund, POV Digital, Blue Ice Docs

No Visible Trauma

A serialised interactive documentary set in Calgary, Canada, that asks users to investigate the disturbing experiences of Godfred, a young immigrant from Ghana, who was the victim of horrific police brutality. Kidnapped and abandoned in -28°C weather by two police officers, Godfred was then tasered and beaten by another. Charged with “assaulting an officer”, Godfred insists that video footage and a careful examination of the evidence will expose the lies of the officers. In each episode, users take a deep dive into court testimony, police helicopter footage, and officer's notes, drawing their own conclusions about who is telling the truth.

Stories in Maps and Data

Genres: Technology; Social Issue; Science; Politics & Economics; Personal & Human Interest; Human Rights; Current Affairs Company: Jane Gauntlett Country of Production: UK Contact: Jane Gauntlett Email: jane.gauntlett@gmail.com Website: www.janegauntlett.com

Slots: Interactive Story, Virtual Reality Project status: Late Development

Slots: Interactive Story, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality Project status: Early Development

Financing Total budget: €68450 / $84200/ £60000 Total in place: €33700 / $41700 / £30000 Remaining finance needed: €167500 / $170000 / £145000 Financiers: Arts Council England

Playing God

Playing God is an interactive fact-based VR sci-fi experience that lets you imagine you are the captain of a space station, a space station suddenly presented with a humanitarian crisis. The piece extrapolates real word statistics based on the global refugee crisis and presents them in a hypothesised thought experiment. An experiment that separates out the emotional and emotive documentation of the refugees' plight and focuses on a future fictitious space to test the responses on how the audience would deal with a humanitarian crisis. When given the choice, who will they choose to save?

Project Team Director/Producer: Alison Killing Producer: Josie Gardiner

A storytelling format using maps and data visualisation. It is suited to issues that have a strong spatial element and to exploring them in depth. We have successfully done one project with it – migration trail, stories of migration to Europe - told in real time, over ten days, which launched in November 2017. Visitors stayed on the site for an average of 11 minutes and we retained 65% of our audience over the ten days via our Facebook bots. This software can be used for further projects and we are looking for co-producers with whom to develop them.

Genres: Refugees; Experimental / Art Company: Cats Are Not Peas Country of Production: UK Contact: Alexandra Ruhl Email: alex@catsarenotpeas.com Website: www.benfredericks.co.uk/playing-god

Project Team Director/Writer: Ben Fredericks Producer: Alexandra Ruhl

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Primal Screams: The Fun of Fear is a short room scale VR documentary about the history and science behind why we like being scared. Last year over three billion dollars was spent on the Fear Entertainment Complex though ticket sales to roller coasters, ghost trains, haunted houses, horror films and horror games. Though the VR experience we ask: Why do sane people spend good money to be scared witless?

Slots: Interactive Story, Serialized Interactive Documentary Project status: Late Development

Project Team Director: Marc Serpa Francoeur, Robinder Uppal Producer: Geoff Morrison

Project Team Producer / Director: Lester Francois Producer / Editor: Anna Brady

Financing Total budget: €46361 / $57050 / £41240 Total in place: €15363 / $18903 / £13665 Remaining finance needed: €30998 / $38147 / £27575

TrueLove

TrueLove is a dark comedy/documentary about personal data and future technology, combining interactive theatre and augmented reality. It explores the impact that shared data and technology might have on our future encounters. Truelove is split into two chapters: Chapter 1: An advert. A seduction. A promise: The advert is for a new (almost believable) project which prompts a request for you to complete a (slightly absurd) questionnaire. Chapter 2: a live interactive performance/ experience using augmented reality technology. Is Truelove an agency? Or is it something far more sinister?

Project Team Artist & Producer: Jane Gauntlett Creative Producer: Tessa Ratuszynska

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Project Team Director: Abd Alkader Habak, Waad Al Kataeb Creative Producer: Alex Pearson Creative Technologist: Andy Overton

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Genres: Thriller; Science; History; Arts & Culture Company: StudioBento Country of Production: Australia Contact: Lester Francois Email: lester@studiobento.tv

Genres: Social Issue; Social Issue; Investigative; Investigative; Crime; Crime Company: Lost Time Media Country of Production: Canada Contact: Marc Serpa Francoeur Email: marc@losttimemedia.com

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Genres: War & Conflict; Personal & Human Interest; Human Rights Company: RedThread.Media Country of Production: UK Contact: Alex Pearson Email: alex@redthread.media

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Using virtual reality we will reveal what it was like for those who experienced the Chemical Weapon attacks in Khan Sheikhoun. Leading with a Mixed Reality experience, we will immerse users into the immediate aftershock of a father whose daughter has ingested the lethal mixture of Sarin and chlorine and the delusion he demanded of himself as he hoped beyond reason that she might survive. We will accompany this with a WebVR companion piece depicting the interior spaces that survivors had to entrap themselves within to survive the day whilst those they loved were dying in the streets outside.

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Genres: Thriller; Technology; Investigative Company: Weiler Productions Country of Production: USA Contact: Lance Weiler Email: lance@lanceweiler.com Slots: Interactive Story, Installation, Live Performance, Mixed Reality Project status: Late Development Financing Total budget: €36360 / $45000 / £31400 Total in place: €8348 / $10000 / £7358 Remaining finance needed: €29219 / $35000 / £25755

Genres: Arts & Culture Company: Camera Lucida Country of Production: France Contact: Chloé Jarry Email: cjarry@cameralucida.fr

Financing Total budget: €240000 / $186000 / £211098 Total in place: €100000 / $31000 / £88000 Remaining finance needed: €140000 / $155000 / £123098 Financer: ARTE France

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Project Team Director: Nicolas Thepot Producer: Chloé Jarry

The series of Water Lilies is an unique artistic adventure. It is an obsession that Claude Monet explored for nearly 30 years. Exploring the effects of light on the water, Monet gradually moved away from a realistic representation of the garden he himself had created. The VR experience Waterlilies is a sensory exploration where the visitor takes the point of view of the artist. From the garden of Giverny to the Orangery rooms, through the workshop where Claude Monet completed his research, we rediscover the artworks in a journey inside the color, the paint, and the light.

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Genres: Music; Gender / Women's Rights; Community Country of Production: UK Contact: Hazel Grian Email: hgrian@gmail.com Slots: Virtual Reality Project status: Prototype Financing Total budget: €101359 / $125803 / £90000 Total in place: €20545 / $25510 / £18250 Remaining finance needed: €80814 / $100293 / £71748

We Sing In Fire And Blood

Seven years ago Hazel was brutally attacked by an intruder and left for dead. She very nearly lost her life, she lost everything she owned but she learned that her city has a brilliant capacity for empathy. Terrible events like the Manchester bombing, the murder of MP Jo Cox and Grenfell Tower fire are counteracted by public gatherings involving song. Her response as an artist is to express the communal reaction to the horror of her attack. A virtual chorus of police officers, nurses, neighbours & friends sing about their part in solving a crime & caring for the survivor.

Project Team Writer/Director: Hazel Grian Composer: Duncan Speakman VR Production: All Seeing Eye

Where There's Smoke

Where There's Smoke mixes live documentary, immersive theatre and an escape room to create an experience that explores memory and loss. Set within the aftermath of a blaze, participants race to determine the cause of a tragic fire by sifting through the charred remains. Inspired by true events in writer/director Lance Weiler's life, Where There's Smoke details the connections between two mysterious fires and his father's battle with cancer.

Project Team Writer/Director/Experience Designer: Lance Weiler

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Featuring live music by Mim Suleiman & friends, films by Zippy Kimundu & a host of add-ons including food, art, story-telling. DJs and augmented reality content from Tanzania pioneers Tulanana Bohela of Ona Stories, uSiSTA celebrates a century of stories of unsung heroines and explores the common issues faced by women in East Africa and around the world today.

Project Team VR Content Director: Tulanana Bohela 2D Content Director: Zippy Kimundu Producer: Andy Jones

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Financing Total budget: €105487 / $128930 / £93027 Total in place: €26104 / $31908 / £23058 Remaining finance needed: €79383 / $97022 / £69969

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Slots: Augmented Reality,Live Performance,Room Scale Experience Project status: Prototype

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Genres: Gender / Women's Rights; Education; Arts & Culture; Activism Company: Radio Film Country of Production: Tanzania Contact: Andy Jones Email: andy.screenstation@gmail.com

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Chiara Ventura

Elaine Sharp

Elaine is a documentary producer and filmmaker. After beginning her career at WNET/PBS in investigative journalism she has been based in the UK and Italy. She has produced diverse content for the BBC, ITV, C4, Discovery, A&E and Mediaset. Recently, she set-up Sharp Angle Productions to co-produce documentaries with international filmmakers.

Working as a producer on both documentary and digital content for the last five years, Natasha is currently developing a documentary for broadcast and just directed and produced a short. She’s also an impact producer, most recently for Last Men in Aleppo, and runs her own 24-hour film challenge called Listeners Project.

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Chloe Mamelok

Gannesh Rajah

Nicola Allieta

Alexander Noel Ivan Polunin

Dan Cleland

Georgie Turnbull

Georgie is a creative producer at DAZN, an award-winning live and on-demand international sports channel dubbed the ‘Netflix of Sport’ and has over a decade’s worth of experience in TV drama, features, entertainment, music and sports broadcasting. She is currently developing her first slate of independent films, focused on the less documented stories found on the side-lines of sport.

Sarah Caddy

Alex is a BFI award-winning BAFTA Newcomer with a background working across the development and production of content with the BBC, ITV Studios, Film4, NBCUniversal and Discovery in both the UK and the USA.

Dan is a producer and founder of Lions Den Films. His current slate includes SICK(ER) part of the Film London Microwave Scheme, Are You Proud? a documentary feature and Nathan Won’t Ride selected by IFFR’s Cinemart 2018. He is a member of BAFTA CREW and participated in EIFF Connections.

Sarah is an award-winning producer of documentary, short film and advertising content. Sarah co-produced Unseen: The Lives of Looking, written and directed by artist Dryden Goodwin and acclaimed BBC Four documentary 100 Seconds to Beat the World: the David Rudisha Story. She also produced Grant Gee’s essay film Patience (After Sebald) and serves on the BAFTA jury.

Angela Clarke

Donna Chang

Marcel Karst

Zara Meerza

Natasha Coleman

Currently Head of Development at Avanti Media, Angela has 14 years factual experience producing, directing and developing international co-production documentaries. In 2017, her first independent short Bachelor, 38 premiered at the Iris Prize Film Festival. With her second short in production, she is now developing her first independent feature.

Donna is a development executive at Screen Australia. She was formerly the production executive at Ridley Scott's Scott Free Films. There, she co-produced India in a Day (TIFF, Sheffield Doc/Fest). She has also produced the William Yang documentary trilogy (ABC) and co-produced Sydney Opera House documentary Autopsy on a Dream (ABC).

Marcel has been working in high-end fiction and non-fiction film sales and distribution for several years on more than 200 releases. With a passion for producing projects that urge social and environmental change, he is currently developing several documentaries with up-and-coming and established filmmakers across television and film.

Nicola Allieta heads Under the Milky Way’s international activities in UK, Ireland, Italy, Australia and Asia. In his role he is responsible for content partner acquisition, digital distribution and production. Allieta previously worked in the international home entertainment department of STUDIOCANAL and at BMS Finance in London, where he gained valuable insight into the dynamics of the film financing industry.

Zara is a writer and producer with a background in academia, the music industry and journalism. She has worked with the BBC, Warp Films, and Sky Arts across TV and film, and in 2017 was a Producers Guild of America Diversity Fellow and Black List x Women in Film Episodic Fellow.

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Gannesh has worked as an account director and producer in the world of digital content for several years running multi-million-pound accounts, including Google, Samsung and Sky 1. He is currently working in development and production on a feature documentary, and a documentary series based on a Pulitzer-Prize-nominated book.

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Chloe is a self-shooting producer and journalist. Her recent work includes documentaries on international extremist groups for VICE, and the Edward Murrow award-winning series ASPIREist. She is currently co-directing a short film about a rehabilitation program for drug-addicted mothers in New Jersey and developing a feature-length documentary.

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Alex is a producer working across narrative and documentary films. Alex produced the feature documentary The Banksy Job, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival 2016 and was released internationally in 2017. He is currently developing a number of narrative and documentary projects through his production outfit, Vault Films.

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NFTS graduate Chiara Ventura has produced a number of award-winning short films across fiction, animation and documentary. Having worked in production, development and distribution, Chiara is currently developing a slate of feature-length projects which includes the BFI-backed documentary My Husband, the Cyborg whilst also serving as development executive for ARDIMAGES UK.

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Now in its fifth year, Future Producer School is a six-month training initiative delivered in association with Bungalow Town Productions supported by Creative Skillset.

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David Doepel is CEO and Managing Director of Demand.Film, the leading global cinema on demand company, currently releasing films theatrically in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, USA, Canada and Germany. Mr. Doepel is overseeing the rapid expansion of the company to deliver cinema-worthy films to the top 20 markets.

International Content Consultant for Australian public channel SBS Television, previously at the BBC and Arte.

Managing Director, Demand.film

International Content Consultant, SBS

Contact Information krishan@mixingmedia.co.uk www.sbs.com.au

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Contact Information uk.demand.film

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Science, History, Social issues, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, 30', 52'/60', 90 What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? SBS acquires approximately 250 new hours of factual per year. What are you looking for? Compelling factual programming on international subjects that can attract an Australian audience that has lots to choose from.

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Susan Jones

Joseph Maxwell

Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, SBS

Susie Jones joined SBS as Commissioning Editor, Documentaries in 2016. SBS Susie has overseen a range of Series & documentaries, including: Secrets of Our Cities, Who Do You Think You Are, Untold Australia, Look Me In The Eye and slow TV project, The Ghan - Australia's Greatest Train Journey. Contact Information susie.jones@sbs.com.au www.sbs.com.au/shows/ commissionedcontent/about/page/ i/2/h/Documentaries/

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The people listed in this guide are a diverse bunch, but they’re united in their power to make decisions that can have a massive impact on your ideas — creatively and financially.

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Head of Documentary, SBS

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, History, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 10% of the content is commissioned on SBS the rest is all acquired What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Ghan - Australia's Greatest Train Journey (slow TV documentary) Who Do You Think You Are (Series 9)

Joseph Maxwell is Head Of Documentaries, SBS Contact Information joseph.maxwell@sbs.com.au www.sbs.com.au/shows/ commissionedcontent

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Human interest, History, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Not a priority. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 90% of SBS schedule is acquired content and is very international. I look after the 10% that is commissioned, and is Australian focused. What are you looking for? To be surprised.

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Each year we welcome over 300 Decision Makers from over 25 countries. These include commissioning editors, funders, distributors, sales agents, programmers, exhibitors, mentors, and executive producers — all working across a range of platforms and each seeking to offer support and showcase new documentaries to audiences worldwide.

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Head of TV Sales, Autlook Filmsales

Buyer Documentaries and Factual, VRT

Industry Programmer, Deal Maker, Hot Docs

Distributor, KinoSmith / Blue Ice Docs

Tom Bleyaert has a degree in Communication Sciences. Since 2001 he has been responsible for the acquisition of international documentaries at VRT, which is for the main channels – Eén and Canvas. Contact Information www.vrt.be

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Online, 30', 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 400 hours What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Blue Planet II, New Lives in the Wild

Madelaine Russo is Industry Programmer of Deal Maker at Hot Docs in Toronto, Canada. Before joining Hot Docs, Madelaine ran the Alternate Realities Market at Sheffield Doc/Fest. She has also worked at short film distributor Ouat Media. She holds a Master of Arts in English and Cultural Studies. Contact Information mrusso@hotdocs.ca hotdocs.ca

Robin Smith

What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? The Hot Docs Forum is our flagship pitching event, Deal Maker organizes 700 meetings for films in development and production looking for financing. Since their inception, the our film funds have supported 187 Canadian and international documentary projects with an incredible $3.9 million in no-interest loans and grants. What are you looking for? Great docs to fund! CrossCurrents fosters storytelling from within communities whose perspectives have been historically underrepresented or marginalized, in both theatrical and interactive/shorts streams. The Hot Docs-Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund offers development and production grants for African filmmakers. The Hot Docs Ted Rogers fund is a production fund for Canadian productions and majority co-productions.

Robin is the President of KinoSmith Inc. and CEO of Blue Ice Docs, a distribution and equity funding company dedicated to funding, acquiring and distributing the best nonfiction work from around the world. Robin also acts as the Cinema Programmer for the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema. Contact Information robin@kinosmith.com blueicedocs.com

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Executive in Charge of Production, Documentaries, CBC Television

Distribution Manager, Hot Docs

Executive Producer, Digital Content and Strategy, National Film Board of Canada

Director PR and Communications, Phi Centre

Charlotte Engel

Based in Toronto, Charlotte Engel looks after CBC Docs POV, a doc Series that airs on CBC’s main network. She looks for compelling Canadian stories that will engage the nation and get people talking. Engel also works in collaboration with CBC's Documentary Channel and will take pitches on their behalf. Contact Information charlotte.engel@cbc.ca www.cbc.ca/independentproducers/ genres

Julian Carrington

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Politics, Human interest, Social issues, POV Length / Format: Single, Feature, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? CBC Docs POV and the Documentary channel each commission 15 - 18 x 1 hour docs annually. Documentary Channel also acquires programming. CBC Docs POV mainly commissions programming from Canadian producers but there are opportunities for co productions early in development. What are you looking for? For CBC Docs POV, we look for unique stories that look at a subject matter from a new angle. Our stories tend to be intimate as opposed to broad in scope. For documentary programming line-up includes character driven docs that provide relevant, compelling insight on important issues that relate to our lives; the places we live and the people we know: politics and crime, adventure and injustice, recreation and religion, performance, poverty and poetry.

Julian Carrington oversees distribution programmes at Hot Docs, including Distribution Rendezvous (pre-arranged oneon-one pitch meetings pairing producers with distributors, buyers and sales agents) and The Doc Shop, the festival's on-demand industry library and marketplace. Contact Information jcarrington@hotdocs.ca www.hotdocs.ca/i/

Rob McLaughlin

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual Entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Cross-platform media is eligible for Distribution Rendezvous, as are featurelength docs, TV docs, Series, and interactive projects. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approximately 100 newly completed and rough-cut projects participate in our Distribution Rendezvous networking meetings. The Hot Docs Doc Shop features roughly 400-500 hours of content each year. What are you looking for? Distribution Rendezvous is open to rough-cut and completed projects with international appeal, aimed at theatrical, broadcast and educational audiences.

Rob is the Executive Producer and head of the NFB's digital studio where he leads in the development of the institution's digital-first programming and strategy, including interactive documentaries, social media and virtual reality projects. Contact Information www.nfb.ca

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual Entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Feature, 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Some but not many. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 12-20 What are you looking for? Feature length theatrical documentaries.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Politics, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20-25 films per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Of Fathers And Sons by Talal Derki, Over The Limit by Marta Prus (p.40), Time Trial by Finlay Pretsell (p.42), Machines by Rahul Jain, It's Not Yet Dark by Frankie Fenton, The Workers Cup by Adam Sobel, Untitled by Michael Glawogger&Monika Willi, Bobbi Jene by Elvira Lind, Big Time by Kaspar Astrup Schroder What are you looking for? Stories with strong international appeal.

Madelaine Russo

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Contact Information andrea@autlookfilms.com www.autlookfilms.com

Tom Bleyaert

Myriam Achard

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist Factual Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes

Myriam Achard has more than 20 years of experience in the cultural field. Since the opening of the Phi Centre in 2012, she has been Director of PR & Communications. She is travelling the world to research the best immersive and interactive works to showcase at Phi. Contact Information www.phi-centre.com

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Andrea leads the TV department at Autlook Filmsales, one of the leading agents for documentaries operating from Europe and North America.

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Festival and Industry progammer, Rencontres Internationales Documentaire de Montréal

Commissioning Editor, TVO

Commissioning Editor & Buyer, DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Editor, Documentaries and Co-productions, DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation

The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is one of North America’s leading documentary film festivals. Each year the RIDM presents more than 140 Canadian and international documentaries. Its industry event, Doc Circuit Montréal (DCM), is Quebec’s only documentary forum.

Jane Jankovic

Strand / Slot / Genre: Author-driven films. Length / Format: Single, Feature, Specials, Shorts, 30', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? The RIDM programs over 140 films a year.

Contact Information jjankovic@tvo.org www.tvo.org/documentaries

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Jane Jankovic is Executive Producer and Commissioning Editor for TVO, a public broadcaster and media organization that informs with the intent to stimulate curiosity and thought. Commissions focus on social-issue and current-affairs documentaries that focus on contemporary social, political and cultural issues that are of direct relevance to Canadian audiences.

Anders Bruus

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Series, 30', 52'/60', 90', one hours strongly preferred Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Kathy Vey -- Executive Producer of Digital Media (will not be in attendance) What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20-plus original commissioned hours. Up to 100 hours of acquisitions.20-plus original commissioned hours What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Heat: A (K)itchen Revolution, A Better Man, The Life-Sized City (6x60), Employable Me (6x60) What are you looking for? Commissions & prebuys: Contemporary social-issue docs with unfolding storylines told through strong characters that we can witness in action or real time.

Anders Bruus is Commissioning Editor for DR2 and has worked with international documentaries and factual programming at DR since 2008. He is the Editor of DR2’s award-winning feature documentary strand Dokumania and is also commissioning and buying current affairs documentaries, human interest and factual series. Contact Information www.dr.dk

Kim Christiansen

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Sport, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90', 45, 60 or 90 What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Weekly feature documentary slot Dokumania + various, single and shorter Series What have been your most successful titles in the past year? OJ: Made in America, Last Men in Aleppo, Solitary, Forever Pure, Catching A Killer What are you looking for? World's best documentary films.

Kim Chritstiansen has a Masters degree in Film and Law from University of Copenhagen. He has worked with international documentary (selling, buying, commissioning and co-prod.) for the last 18 years. Previously he was the Head of Sales at TV 2 WORLD and Head of Industry at CPH:DOX. He is currently Editor responsible for all DR documentary films for the international market. Contact Information kimc@dr.dk drsales.dk

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CEO, CNEX

Executive Producer, Czech Television

Acquisition Executive, DR - Danish Broadcasting Corporation

Programme & Sales Manager, DR Sales

Ruby Chen

Ruby Chen is the CEO of CNEX. She is the executive producer for almost 90 documentaries, including the award-winning Chinese Mayor, Plastic China etc. She is also a member of AMPAS, as well as the selection committee of documentary in the Oscars. Contact Information www.cnex.com.tw

Jiri Vlach

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Human interest, Environment, History, Social issues, Biographies, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Online, 30', 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? CNEX Doc Channel is a 7x24-hour streaming IPTV channel

Jiri has worked for Czech Television since 2015. He is part of the producing group with producer Alena Müllerova. Next to documentaries made for a Czech audience he is focused on international co-productions (Big Fish Man, Maria Theresa, etc.). His main producing core is documentaries, TV formats, fiction miniSeries, feature film projects. Contact Information jiri.vlach@czech-tv.cz www.ceskatelevize.cz/english/

Kimi Seerup

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual Entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational, all Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, 30', 52'/60', 90', all lengths Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Cervena; Children on-line; Trial – The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov; Children of the Full Moon; Maria Theresa What are you looking for? We are looking for good programming. We have wide focus.

Kimi buys and commissions documentaries for DR K at Danish Broadcasting Corporation. She is looking for history and culture documentaries. Contact Information www.dr.dk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approx. 20 films per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Last Men In Aleppo What are you looking for? Compelling and contemporary.

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Selin Murat

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Denmark

Jan Daae

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, History, Music, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Five weekly slots. Mostly with titles acquired on completion, but also a few prebuys and co-productions. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Venus - Let's talk about sex, A Modern Man, The Act of Killing What are you looking for? Feature docs within culture, history and 'the big questions in life'.

Jan is responsible for acquisition of documentaries for worldwide distribution by DR Sales. DR Sales distribute film and TV programmes produced by DR and by independent production companies around the world specialising in documentaries as well as handling projects in production for international coproductions and pre-sales. Contact Information jada@dr.dk drsales.dk

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Canada

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20-25 hours / titles per year. Preferable feature and 1 hour versions suitable for both TV and major festivals. What are you looking for? Contemporary and compelling stories from our globalized world.

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Canada

Contact Information www.ridm.ca

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Thomas Heurlin is the Company Owner at Impact TV. He has produced several hundred hours of documentaries, series, magazines and drama. He has a special interest and focus on factual, lifestyle series and creative documentary. He has produced many awardwinning documentaries and documentary Series.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Danish Producer Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What are you looking for? Documentaries with an impact.

Jenny Westergard is working as Commissioning Editor for documentaries in the Yle Coproduction department. She is mainly commissioning for two weekly slots on Yle Fem/ Teema tv channel and also the online service focusing on contemporary, social, political, human interest and strong stories with good characters.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? About 50 hours per year.

Hélène Ganichaud is the Deputy Head of the Specialist Factual Unit at ARTE France since June 2016. In her role, she commissions natural history, science, expedition and history programmes. Before that, she was a London-based freelance producer, writer and director for more than 10 years.

Marianne Levy-Leblond

Head of Web Productions and Transmedia Projects, ARTE France Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Science, Environment, History, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, 52'/60', 90', 26'43' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 50 hours.

Contact Information www.arte.tv

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Marianne Lévy-Leblond commissions original digital productions within ARTE France's Digital Department. ARTE France's objectives are to support creativity, innovation, and public service for digital ecosystems. Some recent co-productions include virtual reality productions Alteration and Notes on Blindness, an interactive documentary How to make a Ken Loach Film and the mobile game Bury me, my Love.

Contact Information thomas@impacttv.dk www.impacttv.dk

Contact Information www.yle.fi

France

Sales Agent, Andana Films

Commissioning Editor, ARTE France

Commissioning Editor – Chargée de Programmes, ARTE France

Head of Thema, ARTE G.E.I.E

Contact Information www.arte.tv

Stephan Riguet

Stephan Riguet moved to Lussas (France) in 1996 to work for the Festival Les Etats Généraux du film documenataire. After an experience there in production, he created AndanaFilms in 2003 to represent independent filmmakers and film companies in the documentary field. Contact Information sriguet@andanafilms.com www.andanafilms.com

Mark Edwards

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Shorts, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Not yet. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? AndanaFilms acquires 10 to 15 new documentary films each year and supports 2 to 4 projects. What are you looking for? Feature length documentaries with an international scope and strong festival potential and also one-hour documentaries in the fields of Society, Human Interest, Politics, History and Arts.

Based in Paris since 1995, Mark Edwards began specialising in international co-productions about history, film, politics and culture for broadcasters in Europe and North America. Since 2012, Mark Edwards joined ARTE France, a Franco-German TV network and online resource that promotes high-quality programming across Europe as Commissioning Editor for documentaries. Contact Information www.arte.tv

Karen Michael

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, History, Geopolitics, Virtual reality Length / Format: Single, Series, 52'/60', 90', Series (2 x 52, 3 x 52, 4 x 52) Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We acquire between 5 and 10 hours per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Les enfants du 209 rue St Maur by Ruth Zylberman (Leipzig 2017- FIPA 2018), The Vietnam War by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Notes on Blindness (Film + VR) by Peter Middleton & James Spinney, The Obama Years by Norma Percy & Delphine Jaudeau, Judging Japan by Tim Toidze What are you looking for? History, Culture, Current Affairs, Investigation and Geopolitics. Projects that resonate with today’s world. All genres.

Since September 2011, Karen is Commissioning Editor for the Society and Culture Department and in charge of Culture and Investigation documentaries. Contact Information www.arte.tv

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Deputy Director of Specialist Factual Dept, ARTE France

Héléne Ganichaud

Olaf Grunert

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Multiplatform, 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20 hours / year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Persona, le film qui sauva Ingmar Bergman, L'Inde vue par Raghu Rai, Histoires d'Israël What are you looking for? Mainly coproduction and pre sales.

In 2010 Olaf became Head of the newly founded department – Development and Events. Olaf is one of eight voting members of the ARTE conference of programmes which decides on all ARTE programmes, programming, strategies and schedules every month. From 2002 to 2006, Olaf chaired the Documentary Program Group of the European Broadcasting Union.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Social issues Length / Format: Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? We do look at cross-platform proposals, in collaboration with our TV colleagues if a TV component is included. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Around 20 projects published yearly.

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Commissioning Editor, YLE

Jenny Westergard

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Owner, Impact TV

Thomas Heurlin

France

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Finland

Contact Information www.arte.tv

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Head of THEMA and Geopolitics, ARTE G.E.I.E.

Festivals & Acquisitions Manager, CAT&Docs

Project Manager Research and Development, France Télévisions

Commissioning Editor, France Télévisions

CAT&Docs is dedicated on promoting and distributing all types of documentaries in all media around the world. Pertinent and impertinent documentaries on topical questions and timeless subjects and documentaries that are carefully researched, audacious, question the world and propose new ways of looking at it. Contact Information maelle@catndocs.com www.catndocs.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We acquire about 20 to 25 films a year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Communion, The Poetess, When the War Comes What are you looking for? Originality! In the topic and/or the approach.

Annick was Artistic Director for several of French channels. In addition, she has a strong experience in documentaries as well as having written and directed some of her own. Since 2012 she has attended many international documentary conferences. In 2015 she joined the Nouvelles Ecritures &Transmedia department of Ftv. Contact Information annick.jakobowicz@francetv.fr www.nouvelles-ecritures.francetv.fr

Gwenaëll Signaté

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, Series of shorts, alternate reality Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? VR, AR projectsirl.nouvelles-ecritures. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? "Commises d'office", Datagueule, Professeur feuillage, La barbe, 2° avant la fin du monde... What are you looking for? Series of shorts about now days society, youth way of life... New storytelling.

Gwenaëlle Signaté is a Commissioning Editor for the Digital storytelling department of France televisions, the French public national television. Gwenaëlle is also the Head of IRL, a digital platform dedicated to non-fiction. Contact Information nouvelles-ecritures@francetv.fr irl.nouvelles-ecritures.francetv.fr/

France

VR Acquisitions & Sales, Diversion Cinema

Head of TV Sales & Acquisitions, Doc & Film International

Head of Acquisitions, Java Films

CEO, Luxbox

Paul Bouchard

Exhibitor, Distributor, Curator, Diversion knows how to link the audience to the creators of virtual reality content. After eight years in international sales, Paul Bouchard joined Diversion cinema in 2018 and is responsible for international distribution of virtual reality and immersive productions. Contact Information paul@diversioncinema.com www.diversioncinema.com/about

Gorka Gallier

Gorka joined Doc & Film International in 2008. He heads the TV department and oversees the sales, pre-sales and acquisition of documentaries. Recent documentaries include Pierre Cardin biopic (in production), Ryuichi Sakamoto:Coda (Venice 2017), Amal (IDFA 2017), and Dead Souls by Wang Bing (Cannes 2018). Contact Information g.gallier@docandfilm.com www.docandfilm.com

Kathryn Bonnici

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We acquire between 10 to 15 new documentaries per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum (52'). Sold to over 40 broadcasters (including BBC, HBO Europe, TCM, Movistar, AVRO and ARTE). What are you looking for? Passionate, audacious new filmmakers & producers to work with. Programmes can be at the production stage or completed one-offs (52' / feature docs), Series. Genres: Current Affairs, Pop Culture (fashion,music), Arts & Culture, Social Issues/Human Interest. Strong stories about our contemporary world.

Kathryn has worked in documentary distribution since 2002. At Java, her responsibilities include developing documentaries from independent producers and heading the feature documentaries and development department. She has previously sat on the jury or selection committee for festivals like Hot Docs Dealmakers, DOK Leipzig Forum and the Banff Film Festival. Contact Information kathryn@javafilms.tv www.javafilms.tv

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 3 hours What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Commises d'office, Trucs de meufs

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 12 TV hours per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Child Soldiers of Daesh, Th. Dandois and FX Trégan, Catalonia: Spain on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sylvain Louvet, The Kim Dynasty, Anthony Dufour and Minju Song What are you looking for? Fascinating stories about important international geopolitical topics.

Annick Jakobowicz

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Claudia has been Head of THEMA and Geopolitics at ARTE G.E.I.E. since January 2013. During 2010-2012 she was Deputy Head of Documentaries (ARTE G.E.I.E.) in charge of current affairs programs and from 2000-2009 was Commissioning Editor in the theme evening department.

Maëlle Guenegues

Fiorella Moretti

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, History, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approx 15 - 30 What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Pornocracy, The Ransom, Love and Sex in Japan What are you looking for? Strong international stories, relevant to people all over the world.

Fiorella Moretti acted for nine years as Head of the Production in Mantarraya, later as Head of Distribution and then as Director of NDM, a Mexican international sales company. In 2016, she co-founded Luxbox Films, a Paris-based company dedicated to international sales and co-production of selected projects. Contact Information www.luxboxfilms.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Human interest Length / Format: Feature What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20

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Claudia Bucher

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France

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France

Contact Information claudia.bucher@arte.tv www.arte.tv

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform, Immersive projects Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Between 10 and 20 VR content a year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Kinoscope, I Philip, Superhot VR What are you looking for? High-quality virtual reality experiences.

Antoine has worked at Upside for two years handling international sales of feature documentaries and TV programmes. Contact Information www.upsidedistribution.com/#3

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, 30', 52'/60', 90', 10' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 15 to 20 a year.

Kate is responsible for the documentary strand of Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. She is looking for compelling stories that speak to our audiences around the world. Her main focus is on global current affairs and filling in the picture behind the headlines. Contact Information kate.cox@dw.com www.dw.com/en/tv/docfilm/s-3610

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, 30', 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? DW Documentary completes about 10-12 productions or coproductions per year. We do not commission projects but we do buy about 50 hours of acquisitions What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Ai Weiwei Drifting - art, awareness and the refugee crisis, Afro.Germany - being black and German, Masoud's list - one man against the IS, Zero Tolerance / Bangladesh - Dawn of Islamism What are you looking for? Thought-provoking, contemporary stories with a strong human rights message. Urgent political issues but also moving and compelling films that inspire and inform..

Arno Becker works as Commissioning Editor/ Programme Buyer for Germany's documentary channel GEO TELEVISION which is part of the RTL group. Most recent acquisitions have been OJ: Made in America, City of Ghosts and Becoming Bond. Most recent co-financing projects include Riders of Destiny, Cold Case Hammerskjold and Carnival Pilgrims.

Germany

Acquisitions Manager, Upside Distribution

Deputy Head of Documentaries / Commissioning Editor, ARD/NDR

Managing Director, Kloos & Co. Medien / Rise and Shine World Sales

Funding Advisor Interactive Content, Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg

Johan is looking for feature length documentaries with an international potential. Contact Information johan.defaria@upsidetelevision.com www.upsidedistribution.com

Barbara Biemann

Barbara is Head of Documentary Films at NDR/ ARD. She is mostly interested in 90' minute films on political, social, investigative issues. She is also looking for quirky crowd pleasers and outright funny films but does not have much interest in experimental projects or art films. Contact Information b.biemann@ndr.de www.daserste.de

Stefan Kloos

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Many What are you looking for? The best of the best.

Stefan heads the production company Kloos & Co. Medien, an established player for international co-productions for cinema and TV and Rise and Shine World Sales, one of the leading sales agents for documentaries. Notable films from Rise and Shine include Genesis 2.0, Silvana (p.61), Raving Iran, Pre-Crime, The Russian Job and others. Contact Information info@riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.de

Strand / Slot / Genre: Political, Science, Environment, History, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature, Series, 30', 52'/60', 90', Flexible What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 250 programming hours per year

Contact Information geo-television.de

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Johan De Faria

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Commissioning Editor, GEO Television/RTL Television

Arno Becker

Esther Rothstegge

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature, Series, Specials, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Open to cross-platform, but very few opportunities. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 15 new films per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Pre-Crime, Silvana, Genesis 2.0 What are you looking for? Great documentary films with a strong storyline. Films that make a difference!

Esther Rothstegge studied German Studies, Political Science and Media Science. She worked as an Editor and Author and was Director of an international film festival. Now she works as a Funding Advisor for Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg, concentrating on innovative content. Contact Information e.rothstegge@medienboard.de www.medienboard.de

Films

International Sales Manager, Upside

Deputy Head, Documentaries and Cocroductions, Deutsche Welle (DW)

Kate Cox

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Contact Information victoire.thevenin@mk2.com www.mk2films.com/en/collections/vr

Germany

Antoine Bertrand-Hardy

VR & Digital, mk2

After working at Visit Films in New York, Victoire joined mk2 in 2011 as an international sales executive. She handled sales to Northern America, Asia, Germany, Eastern Europe and the Middle East before taking the helm of mk2 films and virtual reality, mk2's label dedicated to the international distribution of virtual reality experiences.

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Talks & Sessions

Victoire Thevenin

France

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Social issues Length / Format: Series, Multiplatform, Online

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CEO, NEW DOCS

Commissioning Editor, WDR/ ARD

Assistant Head of Phoenix Chinese Channel, Phoenix Media

Ben is the Head of Acquisitions and Sales at Monoduo Films. He is an alumni of Bard College and went on to work for Magnolia Pictures in acquisitions. Moving back to Germany he worked for Berlinale before starting his own company. Monoduo Films exclusively represents music documentaries.

Elina Kewitz

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Music, Music Documentaries Length / Format: Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 4-6 films a year What are you looking for? Story driven and well-crafted music documentaries.

Contact Information elina.kewitz@newdocs.de www.newdocs.de

Jutta Krug is currently working as a Commissioning Editor for WDR, one of the largest German public broadcasters based in Cologne. She is in charge of feature length documentaries within the culture department. Contact Information dokfilmoffice@wdr.de www.wdr.de

Yang Miney Ye

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Environment, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? About 20 x 90 min per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Cleaners; The Fourth Estate; Island Of The Hungry Ghosts; When God Sleeps. What are you looking for? Feature length documentaries that are thought provoking and pretty unique in their topic and approach.

Miney Ye is a veteran documentary producer with 20 years experience of production, international co-operation, programme format innovation and project management. As Assistant Head of Phoenix Chinese Channel, she also looks for potential partnership and strategic collaboration opportunities worldwide. Contact Information www.phtv.ifeng.com

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Iceland

Ireland

Sales & Festivals, Rise And Shine World Sales

Commissioning Editor, SWR

Producer, Sales Agent, Financier, Compass Films/Spier Films Iceland

Project Manager, Irish Film Board

Anja Dziersk

Anja Dziersk is Co-Founder of Rise and Shine World Sales, one of the leading international boutique size sales agents marketing and selling outstanding documentaries to broadcasters and distributors around the world. The exquisite catalogue of award-winning films includes Genesis 2.0, Silvana (p.61), Pre-Crime, The Trial (p.69) and Raving Iran. Contact Information info@riseandshine-berlin.de www.riseandshine-berlin.de

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Elina is CEO at NEW DOCS, an independent worldwide distributor specialised in documentaries. Before running NEW DOCS Elina worked for seven years as Sales Manager at German United Distributors, the distribution subsidiary of Germany’s public broadcaster ARD. She holds a Master's degree in Media Studies and lives in Cologne.

Jutta Krug

Simone Reuter

Strand / Slot / Genre: Political, Human interest, Youth, Environment, History, Social issues, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature, Series, 30', 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We take around 15 new films every year and try to sell them to as many slots as possible. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Raving Iran and Silvana What are you looking for? Outstanding documentaries with a personal approach.

Simone is a Commissioning Editor. She worked for many years as a filmmaker (SWR, ARTE). Since 2010, she has been involved in documentaries and feature-length creative documentaries on cultural and current affairs topics. She is responsible for featurelength documentaries (Slot: "Dokumentarfilm im Ersten") with a focus on aspects of globalisation. Contact Information www.swr.de

Heather Millard

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Environment, Social issues Length / Format: Feature, 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20 hours

Compass Films produces independent non-fiction and fiction content for cinema, television and online. Based in Reykjavik, Compass Films also provides production services throughout Iceland, as well as consultancy and financial services to international productions. Contact Information heather@compassfilms.is www.compassfilms.is

Special Events

Head of Acquisitions & Sales, Monoduo Films

Ben Bassauer

Celine Haddad

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Science, Environment, Travel & adventure, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Up to 5 project per year. What are you looking for? New stories, exciting stories, global stories.

Celine Haddad is currently in the role of Project Manager at the Irish Film Board where she oversees the Production and Development of Irish feature films, documentaries, TV and film animation and international co-productions. Contact Information www.irishfilmboard.ie

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? None. What are you looking for? Potential partnerships or cooperation opportunities in documentary production.

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Germany

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Contact Information ben@monoduo.net www.monoduofilms.com

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Project Manager, Irish Film Board

Radio Producer, RTÉ Radio, Ireland

Acquisitions Manager, Documentary, DBS

VP Content, SH CHANNEL 8

Lesley is a Project Manager for the Irish Film Board (IFB), the national development agency for Irish filmmaking investing in talent, creativity, and enterprise. She is one of three project managers who are responsible for assessing and overseeing projects through development and production.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Music, Sport, Biographies, Feature length Length / Format: Single, Feature, 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? The IFB invests over €1 million annually to support the development, production and distribution of theatrical documentaries typically resulting in funding of about 10-12 feature documentaries per year including minority co-productions. What are you looking for? Distinctive and authored cinematic feature documentaries with theatrical ambitions. An emphasis on Irish cultural references or the potential involvement of Irish creative talent.

Ireland

Proinsias Ní Ghrainne

Avital Lavi

Ronan Kelly has worked in radio and TV production in Ireland and the USA since the 1980s. He is a producer with the hugely-successful RTE radio Series Documentary On One. His hobby is a weekly video Series on Facebook Ronan Kelly’s Ireland.

Avital is Documentary Buyer at DBS. She has previously worked at ABC (Formats), Hiro Media (Acquisitions) and various magazines and media outlets. Contact Information www.Yes.co.il

Contact Information www.rte.ie/doconone

Proinsias is genre head contemporary factual programming - commissions and acquisitions for the Irish language broadcaster. Also heads up arts, music and cultural programming and schedule events. Current priority is finding landmark factual and arts programming to co-produce or acquire that will stand out in factual slots and as schedule events.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 250 hours per year. What are you looking for? Pre-buy -10-20 international films annually. We're looking for films that are more cinematic (less TV-hour/ current affairs style), nevertheless communicative, with strong narrativearc, dealing with provocative stories, and/or challenging POV, and/or celebrated icons of culture/society, preferably English speaking. Lengths are flexible.

Edit is responsible for the acquisition of content, along with the original productions of Channel 8 - the leading documentary channel in Israel. Edit represents the channel at festivals and conferences abroad and keeps regular contact with the world's leading content distributors. Contact Information edit@hscc.co.il www.hscc.co.il

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Managing Director, Cinephil

Deputy Managing Director, NHK

Senior Producer, NHK

Philippa Kowarsky

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Human interest, Science, Environment, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Contemporary factual Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Contemporary Factual - approx 30 hoursArts / Music / Culture - 50 hours - 30 hours.Contemporary Factual approx 30 hours.Arts / Music / Culture - 50 hours - 30 hours. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Rocky Rosmuc - Oscar nominated feature doc on the Irish American boxer. Éire Fhián (Wild Ireland) - two hours natural history filmed along the Irish coast. What are you looking for? Stand out projects that can be co produced with Irish based companies and personnel.

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Israel

Kazuto Kimura

Commissioning Editor, TG4

Contact Information proinsias.ni.ghrainne@tg4.ie

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Ronan Kelly

Cinephil is an international sales and advisory firm which has a strong reputation for securing international distribution, broadcasting and financing deals. Films include The Gatekeepers, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence all of which were nominated for the Academy Award. Contact Information info@cinephil.com www.cinephil.com/

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Geopolitics, Educational, LGBT Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Cross- platform only in conjunction with our films. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Between 12-18 films per year. What are you looking for? We look for a unique artistic approach in a variety of formats. We root for great stories and storytelling. We work with feature length films designated for theatrical release as well as for TV. Educational outreach is a passion- see under filmplatform.net

Kazuto is Deputy Managing Director at NHK Cosmomedia Europe and Senior Executive Producer of Culture and Arts, Documentary Department at NHK. Contact Information www.nhk-cm.co.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues, Music, Sport Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 400 Hours per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? O.J.: Made In America, The Putin Inerviews, I Am Not Your Negro, Dina, Planet Earth 2, The Family What are you looking for? The best factual content around.

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Lesley McKimm

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Asako Kume

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest Length / Format: Specials, 52'/60' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 8

Kume has produced numerous human documentaries as a filmmaker, such as programmes covering the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. As a producer, she has also made history, art and entertainment programmes. In her more than 20 years of career, she is most interested in human and social issues. Contact Information www.nhk.or.jp/corporateinfo

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Special programs for NHK.

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Contact Information lesley.mckimm@irishfilmboard.ie www.irishfilmboard.ie

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Programme Director, NHK Cosmomedia

Producer/Director, NHK Cosmomedia

Buyer, AVROTROS, BNNVARA, EO, HUMAN, KRO-NCRV, MAX, NOS, NPO Extra, NTR, VPRO

IDFA Forum Coordinator, IDFA

As a TV director at NHK Cosmomedia Europe, she has produced a number of documentaries, travelogues and Sport programmes to NHK and NHK world. She has been working for the company since 2012.

Hiroko Togo

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Environment, History, Social issues, Sport, Travel & adventure, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90'

Contact Information production@nhk-cm.co.uk www.nhk-cm.co.uk/en/index.php

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Travel & adventure, Educational Length / Format: Feature, Series, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What are you looking for? We would like to co-produce documataries with European production but topic has to be very exclusive which we are not able to access.

Joan works for the factual Acquisition Department for NPO, based at VPRO. This department acquires documentaries, factual entertainment and music for all Dutch broadcasters. Every broadcaster has their own speciality and specific taste and audience. Contact Information j.morselt@vpro.nl www.vpro.nl

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Hiroko Togo has been making docuntaries as a producer/ director for NHK Cosmomedia for last 18 years. She covers natural history to art all types of topics.

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Yorinde Segal

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Online, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Around 130 titles, 250 hours per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? City of Ghosts, I Am Not Your Negro, Golden Dawn Girls, Recruiting for Jihad, The Reagan Show What are you looking for? Documentaries that feel urgent and relevant for a Dutch audience and that surprise us due to their originality, quality, and talented team.

Yorinde Segal has a Master’s degree in Film and Television Science from the University of Amsterdam. She has worked as Coordinator of the Forum since 2010 and is part of the selection committee of the training program of IDFA (Summer School), the IDFA Crossmedia Forum, IDFA Bertha Fund. Contact Information yorinde@idfa.nl www.idfa.nl/en/

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Netherlands

Senior Producer/Buyer, NHK Enterprises

Commissioning editor / TV buyer, AVROTROS

IDFA Mew Media, IDFA

Sales Agent, Illumina Films

Seiko Ikuta

Seiko Ikuta worked as a producer for NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). Currently she is working for NHK Enterprises as Senior Producer and Buyer for documentary titles. Contact Information ikuta-se@nhk-ep.co.jp www6.nhk.or.jp/wdoc/eng/2017.html

Jessica Raspe

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, 30', 52'/60' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Acquisitions: approx. 130 new documentaries a year (52mins) What are you looking for? With emphasis on current-affairs, we cover a wide range of topics, such as economy, technology, history, science and wildlife― virtually anything that sheds light on important issues in modern society. Our repertoire also includes human interest stories, and Arts & culture programs. Innovative and experimental storytelling is most welcome.

Jessica Raspe has a MA in History of Art from the University of Amsterdam. She works for Dutch Public Broadcaster AVROTROS and has contributed to their slot devoted to documentaries about art called Close Up for the past 12 years. Contact Information jessica.raspe@avrotros.nl syrine.krabman@avrotros.nl www.avrotros.nl/close-up/home/

Wotienke Vermeer

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Single, Series What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 26 hours per year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Our most successful titles have been (1) Dalí's Last Masterpiece by Spanish filmmaker David Pujol, (2) Retromania a documentary about the love for all things vintage,a coproduction with ARTE France, and (3) AMOS TV a documentary about Israeli photographer Amos Nachoum. What are you looking for? We are looking for beautiful stories about artists, which portray both their personalities and their creative proces. We are looking for both coproductions and acquisitions.

Wotienke Vermeer works for IDFA’s new media programme DocLab, showcasing the best interactive non-fiction storytelling and exploring how the digital revolution reshapes documentary art. IDFA DocLab is one of the leading platforms for interactive documentary art, offering a wide range of activities supporting those shaping the landscape of emerging media. Contact Information wotienke@idfa.nl www.idfa.nl

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What are you looking for? IDFA selects some 250 new documentaries each year, divided into various competition, regular and focus programs. The Forum is open to all documentary forms (including features, Series and crossmedia projects) and there are special sections for Youth Documentaries, Arts & Culture projects and Rough Cut projects.

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Robin Brinster

Strand / Slot / Genre: All subjects as long as it is a new media project Length / Format: Series, Specials, Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What are you looking for? The IDFA DocLab programme and competition are open to all sorts of works that use new media to represent reality, ranging from digital nonfiction storytelling and art to physical installations, virtual reality experiences, live performance and multimedia projects.

Illumina Films is a boutique sales company based in Amsterdam. It focuses on documentaries with meaningful cultural and social themes and devotes its passion and energy to find the right place for them. Contact Information robin@illuminafilms.nl www.illuminafilms.nl

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Science, History, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 30', 52'/60', 90', various Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? About 5 per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? A Stranger Came to Town, My Love Affair with the Brain, 50 Feet From Syria, Drokpa Nomads of TIbett What are you looking for? Topical documentaries that are a new subject or bring a new aspect to the generally known information. People and unusual places.

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Commissioning Editor Documentaries about Arts & Culture, NTR

Head of Documentaries/ Commissioning Editor, VPRO

International Talent Manager, Zoomin.TV

Comissioning edito / acquistion exec., Norweigan Broadcasting Corp (NRK)

Diana graduated from the Dutch Film Academy in 1998. She worked as a researcher for documentaries. Since 2007 she works at broadcasting company NTR in the Arts & Culture-department. Since 2015 Commissioning Editor at Het Uur van de Wolf (The Hour of the Wolf), the documentarystrand of NTR for Arts & Culture films. Contact Information Diana.tromp@ntr.nl www.ntr.nl/hetuurvandewolf

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Barbara Truyen

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Music Length / Format: Single, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes, but the TV Documentary needs to be the primary medium. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 24 What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Bird's Paradise: Peter Vos - David de Jongh / The hunt for my father - Gülsah Dogan / Instant Dreams - Willem Baptist / The Greenaway Alphabet - Saskia Boddeke / Etgar Keret: Based on a true story - Stephane Kaas / Sgt. Pepper 50 years ago: The Analogues - Marcel de Vré What are you looking for? Documentaries about Arts & culture.

Barbara Truyen has worked in the industry since 1990. Since 2007 she works for VPRO as Head of Documentaries. She has co-produced about 250 documentaries so far. Contact Information b.truyen@vpro.nl www.vprobroadcast.com/titles/genres/ documentary.html

Netherlands

Founder, VR Base

Head of JustMe, Zoomin.TV

Daniel Doornink

Daniel started his career at ING but switched to working in virtual reality after kickstarting Oculus. Early 2014 he started the Dutch community VRNL, and co-founded VRDAYS Europe. Recently he founded the XRBASE network with the goal of uniting several physical hotspots in Europe to facilitate and accelerate the European XR industry.

Katie Sakka

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? I only co produce, Nathalie Windhorst acquires for VPRO. I co-produce about 25 hrs a year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Cleaners, The End of Fear, The Raft, Stranger in Paradise, Independent Boy and classics like Kings of Pastry, Armadillo, The Queen of Versailles and Men who Swim. What are you looking for? We like good storytelling! Character-led films, with a clear dramatic development and narrative urgency. The films need to have the quality of cinema with the rhythm of television. Documentaires that are idiosyncratic, progressive, urgent, relevant in subject, tone, form and authorship.

Contact Information f.deroose@zoomin.tv l.lago@zoomin.tv www.zoomin.tv

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, Series Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We produce a general of half an hour to 1 hour a day. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? In the past months we have covered with short documentaries, some topics such as asexuality and poliamorous relationship, that went viral on our Facebook watchpage with million views. What are you looking for? We are looking for Dare Care Share stories: edgy but heart warming character driven visually strong stories for a global Gen Z audience.

Norway

Lara Lago

Lara Lago has worked at newspapers and for TV broadcasters for nine years in Italy. At Zoomin.TV Lara heads Just Me, a video magazine with raw, honest and provocative character driven stories.

Katie is currently Head of Talent at Zoomin.TV, global media company and largest MPN in Europe. She has held various roles within the media industry, with positions at Zoomin.TV including Production Manager and Head of Channel Development. Katie's current role is heavily focused on Talent & Content development and distribution.

Carina Bordewich

Diarmuid Jeffreys Manager of Programmes, Al Jazeera English

Acquisition Executive, Norweigan Broadcasting Corp (NRK) Penny Wayne Claire has acquired and commissioned content for NRK since 2017, prior to this she worked on the production and presenting side of things in both radio and TV. Contact Information www.nrktv.no

Contact Information www.nrk.no

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Science Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? NRK acquire documentary and drama content for our online platform. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Weekly slot for science, current affair and human interest documentaries. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Series like "The Vietnam War", TV-docs with Louis Theroux and Reggie Yates and feature docs like "Jane" has a popular standing among our audience. What are you looking for? Documentaries with strong storytelling and VOD rights.

Qatar

Penny Wayne Claire Kembba

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, Series Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We produce a general of half an hour to 1 hour a day. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? In the past months we have covered with short documentaries, some topics such as asexuality and poliamore relationship, that went viral on our Facebook watchpage with million views. What are you looking for? We are looking for Dare Care Share stories: edgy but heart warming character driven visually strong stories for a global Gen Z audience.

Carina has acquired and commissioned content for NRK since 2007, prior to this she was consulting for the Norwegian Film Fund and freelancing as a Producer/ Production Manager for feature films, Head of Commercial Films in Paradox and was a Producer at Bates Films.

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Norway

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Youth, Music Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 50 What are you looking for? Well told stories.

As Manager of Programmes at Al Jazeera English, Diarmuid Jeffreys commissions for AJE’s flagship weekly current affairs strand People & Power and is also responsible for Faultlines, 101 East, Africa Investigates, Latin America Investigates, Earthrise, The Cure, Rewind and a range of Series and standalone output on the channel. Contact Information jeffreysd@aljazeera.net www.aljazeera.com/documentaries/

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Netherlands

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, 30', 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? I am looking for films that would fit our main weekly strands. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? People & Power, 101 East, Fault Lines and Witness. To get a sense of what we do and the kinds of films we commission and / or acquire, please go to our main website: www.aljazeera.com/ documentaries/ What are you looking for? Films (investigative, current affairs, documentary) that would fit our main strands and our international editorial agenda.

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Contact Information www.xrbase.co

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Sweden

Producer - Documentary Department, Russia 1 Channel

Programme Editor, TV Slovenija

Sales Executive, NonStop Entertainment

Commissioning Editor, SVT

Andraz Pöschl is the Editor of Documentary Programme of Culture and Arts Programme TV Slovenia. He began working for Slovenian national TV station 20 years ago and spent most of the years working as author of documentaries. Later he became the Editor in charge of Documentary Programme.

Mirva Huusko works as Sales Executive at NonStop Entertainment, a Stockholm based all rights film distribution company of upmarket arthouse films, award-winning documentaries and classics. In 2017, she was appointed to be one of the Future Screen Leaders in Sales and Acquisitions by Screen International.

Contact Information www.rtvslo.si

Contact Information mirva.huusko@ nonstopentertainment.com www.nonstopentertainment.com

Charlotte Gry Madsen

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Music, Biographies Length / Format: Feature What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? In 2017 NonStop Entertainment acquired 31 feature length documentaries. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? 1) Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words 2) Searching for Sugar Man 3) Superswede: A Film About Ronnie Peterson 4) The Swedish Theory of Love 5) Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 6) Yves Saint Laurent - L'amour fou 7) Our Last Tango 8) I Called Him Morgan 9) I Am Not Your Negro 10) 20,000 Days on Earth What are you looking for? The next Amy.

Charlotte is based in Malmö, commissioning Nordic documentaries for SVT’s prime time slot for creative documentaries. She is also looking for content for our international documentary slots. Contact Information charlotte.madsen@svt.se www.svt.se

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Spain

Sweden

Managing Director, Docs Port Incheon / Incheon Film Commission

Head of Non Fiction Selection, Movistar+

Commissioning Editor, SVT

Commissioning Editor/Film Commissioner, Swedish Film Institute

Seokpil Kang

Seokpil Kang has made documentary films for more than 20 years and many of his films were invited to international film festivals. In 2014 he has organized Docs Port Incheon, an initiative to promote Asian documentaries which is regarded one of the most important documentary agenda in Asia. Contact Information forzorba@gmail.com www.idocs-port.org

Cristina Merino

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Environment, History, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Rarely. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 30 hours What are you looking for? Creative and potential Asian documentary projects.

Cristina has been working in Movistar+ for the last 10 years. She is now Comissioning Editor for Movistar+ documentary slot. She is selecting titles for our channels and delivering nonfiction projects. Previously, she worked in different areas related to marketing, digital strategic and innovation stuff. Contact Information cristina.merinoalvarez@telefonica.com www.movistarplus.es

Emelie Persson

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies Length / Format: Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We programme around 90 hours per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Muerte en León (Justin Webster), Bowie: The Last 5 Years, George Michael: Freedom, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week, Cantábrico, I am Bolt, The Putin Inteviews What are you looking for? The most succesful feature documentaries about music, social issues, character-base stories and brilliant projects.

Emelie Persson is a Commissioning Editor at the K special, a slot for Arts & Culture documentaries at SVT since 2010. Contact Information www.svt.se/k-special/programmeproposals-for-k-special www.svt.se

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Swedish/Nordic slot: 6 - 10 hours per year. International slots 70 hours. What are you looking for? Stories & characters.

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Contact Information olgasmirnova@vgtrk.com www.russia.tv

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: 52'/60', 90', 44' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 2 slots a week (up to 1 hour each, sometimes 90 min or more for big festival hits) What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Diana documentary for the 20th anniversary of Diana's death. What are you looking for? Co-productions and/or acquisitions of big festival hits (or potential festival hits or big international projects), something that has to do with current affairs or memorable dates films, biographies of famous people ( also we have to show them for a reason which could be an anniversary) or something that has to do with Russia or Russian people/history.

Mirva Huusko

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Before working at Russia 1 Channel, Olga worked as a Film Producer with award winning directors such as Sergei Miroshnichenko (Russian “Up Series”, IOC official Sochi Olympic Games film), Alex Gibney and many others. She has previously worked for Moscow International Film Festival selecting films for its documentary programme.

Andraz Pöschl

Klara Grunning

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Single, 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 52 hours / year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? I Called Him Morgan, Ingrid in Her Own Words, Himlens mörkrum.

Emmy Award winning Producer, now Commissioning Editor for the Swedish Film Institute, supporting feature documentary and converged media. Previously she was at the Danish Film Institute and at ITVS. She has supported, I Called Him Morgan, Concerning Violence, The Raft, The War Show, 1989, The Visit and The Queen of Versailles. Contact Information klara.grunning@filminstitutet.se www.filminstitutet.se

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Youth, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Production supported per year 25-30 including 4-6 international coproductions. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Real Estate (main competition Berlinale 2018), The Raft (winner CPH:DOX 2018), Hobbyhorse Revolution, VENUS, Big Time, I Called Him Morgan What are you looking for? Innovative, creative storytelling with a strong perspective.

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Olga Smirnova

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United Kingdom

Deputy Director, First Hand Films

Audiovisual Producer, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Senior Sales Manager, Altitude

Acquisitions and Development Manager, Altitude

Christopher is the Audiovisual Producer producing and commissioning video and digital stories about the work of International Committee of the Red Cross and the people they are trying to help. Contact Information cnicholas@icrc.org www.icrc.org

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Human interest, Social issues, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Two hours of multiple short and longer pieces. What are you looking for? Innovative people focussed stories using VR and AR.

Vicki Brown is the Senior Sales Manager of Altitude Film Sales. She has represented diverse and critically acclaimed titles including Moonrise Kingdom, The Girl With All The Gifts and Maradona. She started off her career at the BFI London Film Festival and was named a Screen International Future Leader.

Ellie Gibbons

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies Length / Format: Feature What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Varies. We usually take on 2-3 feature film docs a year.

Ellie Gibbons has instigated and overseen pick-ups such as Moonlight, The Rider, Beast, Lady Macbeth, I Am Not Your Negro, Fruitvale Station and many more during her time at Altitude. Gibbons was named a Future Leader of 2017 due to her commitment to supporting new voices and upcoming talent.

Contact Information www.altitudefilment.com

Contact Information elliegibbons@altitudefilment.com www.altitudefilment.com

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Commissioning Editor, TRT

Head of Documentaries, TRT World

Head of Sales and Acquisitions, Aquatic Films

Head of Digital, Artangel

Choy Lin Mok

Choy Lin Mok commissions original documanteries and Series for TRT World, the international English language news channel of Turkey's national broadcaster. TRT World reaches over 260 million homes worldwide. Contact Information choylin.mok@trtworld.com www.trtworld.com

Michael Davie

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 40 hours What are you looking for? For any idea, tell us why we need to do it now and how it speaks to the themes and events of our time.

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Contact Information stories@firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Online, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Around 15 new titles per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Ambulance, Nothing is Forgiven, Jaha's Promise, Hitler's Chroicles, The Side of the Wall, Presenting Princess Shaw, Nice People, The Crossing What are you looking for? Films that are subversive and commercial at the same time – that change the world and don’t forget to entertain the audience.

Vicki Brown

Michael Davie is the newly appointed Head of Documentaries at TRT World, Turkey's English-language international broadcaster. Michael spent the first 20 years of his career as a director, making films for National Geographic Channel Discovery, CNN, NBC and ABC Australia. Contact Information ChoyLin.MOK@trtworld.com www.trtworld.com

Silvia Angrisani

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We are commissioning 40 hours of programming for 2019. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? 2019 will be our first year on the air! What are you looking for? Compelling, character-driven stories revealing a fresh take on the people, places and issues of our time.

Silvia started her career in international sales as a consultant for the Italian public broadcaster, RAI. In 2012, she joined DIFFA, a start-up specialising in sales of African films and drama. Silvia currently runs Aquatic Films, an international sales company for documentaries. Contact Information silvia@aquaticfilms.net www.aquaticfilms.net

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Works with project development, executive producing, financing, marketing strategy, sales, acquisition of non-fiction. Latest executive produced film A Thousands Girls Like Me. Serves as tutor, lecturer and moderator at events around the world and holds a Masters in Film and Rhetoric from the University of Copenhagen.

Christopher Nicholas

Charmian Griffin

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Environment, History, Social issues, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Series, 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 10-12 programmes per year What are you looking for? We are looking for great stories with an international potential, inviting us to discover unexpected points of view and memorable characters.

Charmian is responsible for Artangel's digital commissions programme. Artangel produce extraordinary art in unexpected places in London, across the UK and around the world. Working with artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Ryoji Ikeda and Roni Horn to produce art that wouldn’t be possible within the confines of a gallery. Contact Information @artangel.org.uk www.artangel.org.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What are you looking for? Ever had an idea for a project you thought could never be made?

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Relationship Manager, North, Creative Media, Arts Council England

Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, BBC

Head of Commissioning, Arts, BBC

Kate has ten years of experience working in Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants, with specialism in moving image and digital art. Kate has produced award-winning short films and artist moving image events in Manchester and Liverpool. Contact Information kate.murphy@artscouncil.org.uk www.artscouncil.org.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Single, Feature, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Arts Council England representatives will be available to discuss creative alternate realities/storytelling projects for application to our funding programmes. Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant offers grants between £1,000£100,000 to support thousands of artists, community and cultural organisations, including artists that work with digital technology and artist film. What are you looking for? Arts Council England representatives will be available to discuss creative alternate realities/storytelling projects for applications to our funding programmes such as Project Grants and Developing Your Creative Practice.

Jamie is a Commissioning Editor for BBC Documentaries. Working across all four channels, his projects include Flatpack Empire, Drugsland, Valley Cops, Life and Death Row: Mass Execution, Misfits Like Us, Without Limits, Love and Hate Crime. Contact Information Jamie.balment@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/ articles/documentaries

Mark Bell

Strand / Slot / Genre: Human interest Length / Format: Single, Series, Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Don't acquire anything, but commission lots! What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Drugsland, Flatpack Empire, Valley Cops.Drugsland, Flatpack Empire, Valley What are you looking for? Ideas which feel timely, have distinct tone, stuff with real sense of place. Attitude, boldness - a bit of swagger wouldn't go amiss. And anything which will make me laugh.

Mark Bell is Commissioning Editor, Arts at BBC TV, responsible for commissioning programming across BBC One, Two, and Four. Subject areas range from painting, through literature and theatre, to culture in its broad sense; the aim is to reflect the arts of today and provide cultural and historical context. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/arts

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Curator of Exhibitions & Research, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Project Manager, Artistic Director's Office, Battersea Arts Centre

Head of Commissioning, Popular Factual & Factual Entertainment, BBC

Head of Interactive & VR, BBC

Alessandro Vincentelli

Alessandro is a Contemporary Art Curator with an interest in documentary film. Actively involved in commissioning film/art for exhibition. He has worked in publicly funded sector both in the UK and freelance projects in Europe. Contact Information alessandrov@balticmill.com www.baltic.art

Maddie Wilson

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Specials, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 5 hrs

Maddie works in the Producing team at Battersea Arts Centre, an old Town Hall in South London. Her work on digital and film projects at BAC includes the BBC Two strand ‘Performance Live’ (with BBC Arts & ACE) and BAC’s film of the 2016 show London Stories: Made by Migrants. Contact Information maddiew@bac.org.uk www.bac.org.uk

David Brindley

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Music, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We don't commission or acquire programming directly - but have occasionally screened documentaries at BAC in the past, and have connected with and supported digital and film projects in ways. What are you looking for? Interested in finding out about innovative digital projects that BAC might be able to support or connect with in the future.

David joined the BBC as Head of Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment in January 2017. His team work across BBC One and Two. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, History, Biographies Length / Format: Single, Series, Format What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 90

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Contact Information lara.devitt@artscouncil.org.uk www.artscouncil.org.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Single, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Arts Council England representatives will be available to discuss creative alternate realities/storytelling projects for application to our funding programmes. Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant offers grants between £1,000£100,000 to support thousands of artists, community and cultural organisations, including artists that work with digital technology and artist film. What are you looking for? Arts Council England representatives will be available to discuss creative alternate realities/storytelling projects for applications to our funding programmes such as Project Grants and Developing Your Creative Practice.

Jamie Balment

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Lara's specialism covers technology and broadcast. Partners have included Channel 4 (Random Acts), BBC (The Space), Sky Arts, Canvas Arts, Nesta and Digital Catapult. Her role also supports individual artists and organisations applying for project funding and national portfolio support for organisations across a variety of art forms.

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Tom Burton

Strand / Slot / Genre: Length / Format: Series What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 300+

Tom is Head of Interactive at BBC Studios and founder of BBC Studios Digital. Previously an agency founder and consultant for businesses, startups and organisations. Advising BAFTA on Immersive Entertainment and a trustee and founder of a theatre and creative tech collective. Contact Information www.bbcstudios.com/teams/bbcstudios-digital/

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Human interest, Youth, Science, History, Music, Travel & adventure, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts

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Commissioning Executive Producer - Arts, Music and Events, BBC

Executive Producer, Commissioning, Format and Features, BBC

Commissioning Editor, Digital, BBC

Commissioning Editor, BBC Three, BBC

Daisy is Commissioning Editor, Digital in Factual Content at the BBC. Commissioning digital content across all Factual genres - the majority of this is related to long-form linear programmes, but also commissioning original digital content for BBC and social platforms.

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Contact Information daisy.griffith@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

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Since joining BBC Three as Deputy Editor in 2016, Nasfim has overseen a range of short form content for the channel such as for The Idris Takeover. She is now the channel's ShortForm Commissioner ordering content such as Eating with my Ex and Things Not to Say to. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

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Commissioning Editor BBC Storyville and Factual Acquisitions, BBC

Executive Editor, BBC Three, BBC

Assistant Commissioner, BBC

Lead Commissioner, Natural History & Specialist Factual, BBC

Mandy Chang

Mandy Chang is the Commissioning Editor of Storyville, the BBC’s acclaimed global documentary strand and Heads up Documentary acquisitions at the BBC. She has produced and directed the feature documentary, The Mona Lisa Curse. She worked as a Commissioning Editor and then as Head of Arts at the ABC in Australia. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Digital Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes in conjunction with the relevant linear commissioner for that title or genre. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Digital isn't governed by slots or hours of programming so this is flexible. What are you looking for? Innovative, digital-first ideas that come from an innate understanding of what it is young audiences want from content these days.

Max Gogarty

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics, Authoured Length / Format: Features, Series Do you accept cross-platform proposals? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 30-35 hours What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web, My Mother's Lost Children, Trophy, Tokyo Girls, The Farthest Voyager's Interstellar Journer, Last Man in Aleppo, OJ: Made in America What are you looking for? We aim to bring the most compelling stories from around the world to the screen. That gives us amazing scope to commission a huge range of genres and subjects. Stories can be both retrospective and unfolding. They must have scale and ambition, strong narratives, great access and characters. Films are feature length and can be acquired, commissioned, co-produced or pre-bought.

Max is Executive Editor at BBC Three, 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 in 2015. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree

Gaby Hornsby

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Environment, Sport, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Shorts

With a background in longform filmmaking, she now has a particularl focus on how short-form and digital can complement and support core, linear programming within a season. Contact Information gaby.hornsby@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning

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Catherine Catton is Executive Producer, Commissioning, Format and Features at the BBC.

Nasfim Haque

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Music Length / Format: Single, Series, Specials What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 60

Daisy Griffith

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Emma Cahusac is Commissioning Editor for BBC Arts & Music, working across BBC One, Two, and Four. Subject areas range from the visual arts to literature, culture travelogues to ideas-based constructed narratives, classical dance to performance poets, theatre to pop music.

Catherine Catton

Craig Hunter

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Factual Seasons and Campaigns Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? No set amount.

BBC’S Lead Commissioning Editor for Natural History and Specialist Factual. Titles include Live events (Wild Alaska Live), social experiments (The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs), formats (Inside the Factory), documentary Series (Heart Transplant: A chance to Live) and competition formats (Astronauts: Do you have what it takes?) Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, History Length / Format: Series, Format What have been your most successful titles in the past year? As the BBC’s lead Commissioning Editor for Natural History and Specialist Factual, Craig has commissioned a number of science documentaries relating to health and mental wellbeing. Including BBC One’s The Doctor Who Gave up Drugs, How to Stay Young and The Truth About Dementia. As Executive Producer Craig produced the Terry Pratchett Documentaries: Living with Alzheimer’s and the multi award winning Choosing to Die.

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Emma Cahusac

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Controller, BBC Factual Commissioning, BBC

Assistant Commissioner, BBC

Commissioning Editor, Popular Factual, BBC

Assistant Commissioner, Documentaries, BBC

Contact Information A new online submission system for BBC Storyville and BBC Factual Acquisitions will be going live in May. Details about how to access the system will be published on the link below in due course. www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/ articles/acquisitions

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Human interest, History, Music, Storyville Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 30', 52'/60', 90', Mainly singles but some limited Series opportunities. Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Not currently. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Variable. What are you looking for? Single films and Series that compliment the BBC's commissioned output.

Clare spent 11 years at Dragonfly TV working across production and development. Her original commissions include Driving Wild, The Hedgehog Hotel and The Human Power Station. Her production credits include Born Too White, Return From the Dead, and Wildfire 2014: Inside the Inferno. Since joining the BBC she’s been looking after series including Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and forthcoming talent-led projects with Anne Robinson and Ed Balls.

Beejal Patel is in the BBC Documentaries commissioning team. Working across BBC One, Two and Three programmes include Ambulance and MisFITS Like Us. Before this she Series produced the BAFTA winning Educating Essex and was the Series consultant on the Grierson award winning Secret Life of 4 year olds. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

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Head of Commissioning, Natural History & Specialist Factual, BBC

BBC Controller of TV Channels and iPlayer, BBC

Commissioner, Specialist Factual, BBC

Commissioning Editor, BBC

Tom McDonald

Tom McDonald is the Head of Commissioning for Natural History & Specialist Factual at the BBC. Recent commissions include the BAFTA and Emmy winning Planet Earth II, BAFTA winner Muslims Like Us and The BAFTA and Grierson nominees The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs and Life That Glows. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

Charlotte Moore

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Assistant Commissioner with a responsibility for acquisition and some pre-buy opportunities in Documentaries (including Storyville), Arts, Music, and some Specialist Factual programming across all the BBC channels.

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Charlotte Moore is Director of BBC Content. She also remains Controller of BBC One. She is responsible for the creative vision across the portfolio of channels, BBC iPlayer and genres. She also takes on oversight of BBC Sport. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

Diene Petterle

Diene has been a Commissioning Editor at the BBC for 3 years. I commission Science programmes/Series/ formats for BBC One, Two and Four. She is particularly keen to popularise science and take risks in terms of form and content. Contact Information Diene.petterle@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

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Alison Kirkham was appointed Controller, BBC Factual Commissioning in September 2016. During her tenure as Controller, Factual Commissioning has been multi award winning. Notable projects include: Exodus, Hospital, Surgeons, Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II and Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad.

Jo Lapping

Abigail Priddle

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Human interest, Science, Environment, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, 30', 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Between 6 of us we commission over 150 hours a year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Fifteen billion pound railway (highest rating Series across factual, bbc two)The day the dinosaurs died (highest rating single across factual, bbc two)Truth about sleep (highest rating science show in the last 5 years, BBC One) Who do you think you are, Danny Dyer (BBC One. Bafta and Broadcast Award winner) What are you looking for? I’m looking for returnable formats, unique access to extraordinary people and places, scientific firsts, social experiments, clinical trials and factual theatre - with warm and relatable subjects at their heart.

Abigail is BBC Commissioning Editor working across all of Specialist Factual. She commissions directly in History and Religion & Ethics. Previously a Director and Series Producer, her credits include BBC's The Met: Policing London and C4's 24 Hours in A&E and Hunted. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Travel & adventure, Religion and ethics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Format, Multiplatform, Online

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Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/ articles/factual

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Commissioning Editor, Current Affairs, BBC

Assistant Commissioner, BBC

Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, BBC

BBC R&D Lead, BBC

Gian Quaglieni is Commissioning Editor for Current Affairs at the BBC. He works across BBC Two and Three, commissioning titles such as Putin: The New Tsar, Manchester: The Night of the Bomb, Meet The Lords and on BBC Three, Stacey Dooley Investigates, Love and Drugs on the Street and Ellie Undercover.

Hayley Reynolds is the Assistant Commissioning Editor for Storyville, the BBC’s international feature documentary strand. Before joining the BBC Hayley produced award winning and critically acclaimed singles, Series and feature documentaries including Williams which was released in cinemas and on Netflix last year.

Emily Smith

Emily is Commissioning Editor in documentaries at the BBC. Before that, she produced and directed a range of Series and singles including The Week the Landlords Moved In, An Hour to Save Your Life and Employable Me (Best Popular Factual RTS award and Best Factual at Edinburgh TV awards). Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/ articles/documentaries

Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mfx6

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Adrian Woolard

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Human interest, Youth, Social issues, BBC 1,2,3 Length / Format: Single, Series, Specials, Format, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? As a team, we commission documentary singles and Series for prime time slots across all BBC channels. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Our department's successes in the past year include RTS-winning Hospital (BBC2), Bafta-nominated Druglsand (BBC3), and the powerful 3-parter Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation (BBC1). What are you looking for? Timeliness, scale, and ambition.

Adrian is Head of BBC’s Research & Development North Lab located in MediaCityUK, Salford. Current work areas are focused on Augmented and virtual reality, object based media, AI and machine learning in production as well as Connected Studio, BBC Taster and Reality Labs. Contact Information adrian.woolard@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/taster

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Commissioning editor, Religion & Ethics, BBC

Commissioning Editor, BBC

Commissioning Editor for History, BBC

Commissioning Executive, BBC NI

Fatima Salaria

Clare Sillery

Fatima Salaria was a Series producer at BBC current affairs who has worked for many years as a producer and director at the corporation. Her last programme credit was Britons Jihadi Brides for BBC Two. Now working as part of Martin Davidson's Commissioning Team for History, Business, Religion and Science.

Clare Sillery was appointed Head of Commissioning, Documentaries in December 2016, leading one of the biggest commissioning teams at the BBC. She is responsible for a huge range of output across all channels from BBC One to the award-winning global documentary strand Storyville on BBC Four.

Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk

Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv

Simon Young

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Human interest, Youth, Educational Length / Format: Single, Series, Specials, 30', 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? We frequently work with the Drama Commissioning team. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We commission a significant number of hours across four different channels from BBC One to BBC Four. The Number of hours available will vary from year to year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Hospital, The Mighty Redcar, IKEA and Hillsborough on BBC Two and Stephen: Murder That Changed A Nation, Ambulance and Reported Missing on BBC One to the award-winning global documentary strand Storyville on BBC Four and BBC Three stand-out film Murdered For Being Different. What are you looking for? We are looking for bold, mischievous, timely, diversity of tone and a sense of place.

Simon Young is the History commissioning lead within the Specialist Factual department at the BBC. Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/ articles/history-business

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Youth, Music, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 0-3 hours of original material. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? AR Civilisations What are you looking for? New content experiences.

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Justin Binding

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Human interest, History, Biographies, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approximately 50-60 hours per year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Coronation; A House Through Time; Elizabeth I's Secret Agents; Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain; Before Grenfell: A Hidden History; My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me. What are you looking for? History singles and Series with modern resonance and relevance.

Commissioning Executive for BBC Northern Ireland's TV team Justin develops, commissions and executive produces programming for audiences in Northern Ireland from Natural History through to Mockumentary. Winner 2017 Grierson for Wild Ireland, credits also include Searching for Shergar, Beauty Queen & Single and BBC NI's True North strand. Contact Information justin.binding@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel and adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, 30’, 52'/60, 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes - pointing at iPlayer What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Including all content for BBC NI in general programmes approximately 120 hours of which 70 hours is in Factual. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Wild Ireland - the Edge of the World What are you looking for? Strong local content that reflects back contemporary issues on universal themes.

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Stephen is Senior Commissioning Editor at the BBC World Service responsible for The Assassination - the first podcast-first Series and new programmes and formats including BBC MINUTE, a new 24/7 global news for young listeners. He has also reported from all over the world from Haiti to Hong Kong.

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Head of Film, Boiler Room

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes, very much so. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? World Service is a 24/7 Network. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Swedish Ambassador's Guide to Britain. The Assassination. The Big Idea. The Inquiry. BBC Minute. The Real Story. The Conversation. What are you looking for? Something which is effortlessly global in appeal and matters whether it's fun or serious.

Bob & Co Partners acts as fund adviser to The Cultural Capital Fund, a unique fund investing in television, film and live entertainment. Polly is the Sector Analyst responsible for Television and Film investment. Prior to Bob & Co, Polly worked in digital distribution at NBCUniversal, focused on strategic initiatives and transactional licensing.

Joe Alexander

Joe started as a camera assistant on features. Years later he moved into directing shortform, represented by RSA. He has been Head of Film at Boiler Room for three years where he oversees commissioning and production of all visual output, from broadcasts to branded content to documentary and more.

Contact Information www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

Contact Information steve.titherington@bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

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Film Programmer, BFI London Film Festival

Distribution Sales Manager, BFI Sales

Executive Producer, Boiler Room

Managing Director, Boudica Films

Ana David

Ana joined the BFI London Film Festival from a programming role at IndieLisboa and advisor for Berlinale Panorama. She has previously held the role of co-director and programmer at Queer Lisboa, co-coordinated the industry event LISBON DOCS and worked at Portugal Film film agency and at Festival Scope in Paris. Contact Information www.bfi.org.uk/lff

Violette Martin

Violette works for the BFI, the UK’s lead film organisation internationally represents one of the UK’s biggest film libraries. The catalogue includes films that shaped British cinema, restorations of masterpieces from the BFI National Archive and new productions of curated archive content. BFI Sales now is looking at developing its catalogue with culturally relevant pieces. Contact Information sales.films@bfi.org.uk www.bfi.org.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Youth, Social issues, Music, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? There's no real limit. Boiler Room's an online entity and as such we don't work to a traditional TV-style schedule.

Contact Information www.boilerroom.tv

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Joe Walker

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Human interest, History, Social issues, Biographies Length / Format: Single, Feature, 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? There is no set number What are you looking for? Films fitting BFI's cultural mission

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Senior Commissioning Editor, BBC World Service

Ayesha leads global digital business distribution for BBC World Service, responsible for delivering reach, brand awareness and commercial revenues. Ayesha joined the BBC in 2002 as a Graduate News Trainee Journalist and went on to lead productions for the BBC in TV and digital, focusing on content for young audiences.

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In 2017, Joe joined Boiler Room as Executive Producer where he is responsible for development and execution across all branded content, factual entertainment and documentary commissions. Contact Information www.boilerroom.tv

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Ian Davies

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Youth Length / Format: Single, Series, Online, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? I am currently commissioning across two editorial strands. Boiler Room does not operate as a conventional broadcaster and so we don't have a defined schedule of slots and hours.

Through Boudica Films (film fund for female-centric films) and Initialize Films Ian works with producers and filmmakers to help them finance, sell and distribute their films. Initialize has been involved in more than 20 completed feature documentaries, including Emmy-winning The English Surgeon and most recently IDFA competition title Time Trial (p.42). Contact Information ian@boudicafilms.co.uk www.boudicafilms.co.uk

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Arts Programme Manager, British Council

CEO, British Underground

Director / Producer, Bungalow Town Productions

Producer, Bungalow Town Productions

Jonathan is Arts Programmer at British Council, creating projects exploring digital culture, cross-disciplinarity and social engagement. From Tate’s Turbine Hall, to buildingwide takeovers in Bogota, Jonathan’s work commissioning and producing spans theatre, installation and digital contexts. He is Trustee of the Live Art Development Agency and Strike A Light Festival.

Crispin Parry

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: No set format What are you looking for? Looking to support practitioners to make connections to the arts industry in the UK and internationally.

Crispin Parry is CEO of British Underground a publicly funded arts organisation that produces events showcasing UK culture internationally. In 2019 we will be producing the Future Art and Culture programme for Arts Council England at SXSW including virtual reality/alternate reality projects.

Jez Lewis

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: AR/VR tech/art projects What are you looking for? We are looking for content for Arts Council England's Future Art and Culture programme at SXSW which could be showcased in the Art programme or VR Theatre.

Contact Information www.britishunderground.net

Contact Information www.creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org

Jez Lewis is Company Director of Bungalow Town Productions, a UK-based multi-award winning feature documentary production company with a strong track record in theatrical, festival and forms of distribution as well as worldwide broadcast. They are strong on co-productions and keen to find more exciting projects including international collaborations.

Rachel Wexler

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We do not commission, but we coproduce.

Contact Information www.bungalow-town.com

Rachel has produced many acclaimed films including The English Surgeon, Guilty Pleasures, All White in Barking, Shed Your Tears and Walk Away, Out of the Ashes, and Garbage Warrior. Bungalow Town Productions films have been screened at dozens of festivals worldwide and have won a Grierson, two Peabodys and an Emmy.

Contact Information btp@bungalow-town.com www.bungalow-town.com

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Senior Project Manager, British Underground

Commisioning Editor, BSKYB

Executive Producer, Catalyst Global Media

Commissioning Executive, Documentaries, Channel 4

Katie Weatherall

Katie Weatherall is Senior Project Manager at British Underground, a publicly funded arts organisation that produces events showcasing UK culture internationally. In 2019 we will be producing the Future Art and Culture programme for Arts Council England at SXSW including virtual reality/alternate reality projects.

Marvyn Benoit is a Commissioning Editor at Sky in Entertainment and Arts. Looking after South Bank show originals, Andre Rieu, Alistair McGowan's satirical comedy show - The Week That Wasn't, Romesh's Look Back to The Future, Westworld's ultimate fan show West:Word and Sky Atlantic’s Thronecast with Sue Perkins. Contact Information www.skygroup.sky/corporate/ about-sky/commissioning-and-ideassubmission

Keith Potter

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture Length / Format: Single, Series, Specials, Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What are you looking for? Ideas with scale and great access to talent and institutions.

Keith works for Catalyst, a multi-faceted film and television production and financing company based in London. They produce and invest in narrative features, television and documentaries. Contact Information kp@catalystglobalmedia.com www.catalystglobalmedia.com

Madonna Benjamin

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, History, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Feature Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes, we are exploring the VR space. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Catalyst is a new company and we are currently building our slate. What are you looking for? Material with genuine theatrical potential.

Madonna Benjamin is Commissioning Executive for Channel 4 Factual and responsible for returning brands including First Dates, Hunted, Catching a Killer, plus a slate of new commissions. Before joining Channel 4, she was Executive Producer at Maverick and Minnow Films, and spent 10 years directing her own singles and Series. Contact Information MBenjamin@Channel4.co.uk www.channel4.com/

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Factual Length / Format: Series, Format, 52'/60' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Upwards of 50 hours. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? First Dates, First Dates Hotel, Hunted, Celebrity Hunted

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Marvyn Benoit

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We tend to produce 3 or 4 films at any one time What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Pacemakers What are you looking for? Strong stories, great characters for a global audience

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Head of News & Current Affairs, Channel 4

Executive Producer, Channel 4

Specialist Factual Commissioning, Channel 4

Commissioning Editor, Channel 4

Contact Information rdaniels@channel4.co.uk www.channel4.com

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Social issues, First cut Length / Format: Single, 47' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 7 What have been your most successful titles in the past year? First Cut: British Workers Wanted First Cut: Quadruplets and Homeless First Cut: White Kid Brown Kid What are you looking for? British based Character led, observational documentaries with a present tense narrative.

Shaminder is the Topical Specialist Factual Commissioner at Channel 4. Before joining this year, she was Deputy Editor of Channel 4 News, and prior to that, Deputy Editor of Newsnight. As Deputy Editor of Channel 4 News, she was involved in overseeing TV and digital coverage for the multiaward-winning prime-time daily news programme. Contact Information www.channel4.com

Alisa is Commissioning Editor for Documentaries at Channel 4. She commissioned the Cutting Edge strand including the films The Secret Life of Prisons, The Gun Shop, The Trouble with Dad. Prior to joining C4 she was a BAFTA-nominated director, directing the first ever Series of 24 Hours in Police Custody. Contact Information www.channel4.com

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Commissioning Editor, Documentaries, Channel 4

Head Of Factual Entertainment, Channel 4

Commisioning Editor, Factual, Channel 4

Commissioning Editor in News and Current Affairs, Channel 4

Charlotte Desai

Charlotte Desai, recently joined Channel 4 Documentaries, commissioning Series and singles for 9pm and 10pm. Previously, she worked at Shine TV and in Factual at the BBC. After the BBC, Desai worked across a range of thought provoking Documentaries and Factual Entertainment juggernauts, including BAFTAwinning The Apprentice and The Choir. Contact Information www.channel4.com/info/ commissioning/4producers/ documentaries

Alf Lawrie

Strand / Slot / Genre: Human interest, Youth, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Series, Format, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 9pm and 10pm slots. What are you looking for? www.channel4.com/info/ commissioning/4producers/ documentaries

Alf joined Channel 4 in 2017 starting in Specialist Factual where he was responsible for Series such as SAS: Who Dares Wins and From Russia to Iran: Crossing The Wild Frontier. Prior to that he was a producer across a range of Fact Ent formats including The Apprentice, The Face and The Island. Contact Information www.channel4.com

Tom Porter

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, 8-9-10pm Length / Format: Series, one-offs

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, 52'/60'

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Rita Daniels is an Editor 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.

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Dorothy Byrne is Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel Four. Films she has commissioned have won numerous International Emmy, BAFTA and RTS awards. This year she won the Outstanding Contribution Award at the RTS Journalism awards. She began her TV career at Granada where she was a producer/director on World In Action.

Shaminder Nahal

Tom is a Commissioner in Specialist Factual at Channel 4. He joined in 2012 in News and Current Affairs where he was responsible for BAFTA and Grierson winning films such as Syria: Across The Lines and Hunted. He is currently Commissioning in Specialist Factual with a particular eye on Science. Contact Information

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Siobhan Sinnerton

Siobhan is Commissioning Editor, Immersive Content and Commissioning Editor, News and Current Affairs at Channel 4. Her first 360 commission, Grenfell: Our Home (p.104) is premiering in the Alternate Realities Exhibition (p.103). She has recently overseen single documentaries such as Syria’s Disappeared and films for strands including Dispatches and 24 Hours in Police Custody. Contact Information www.channel4.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Social issues, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Unlimited. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Syria’s Disappeared, 24 Hours in police custody What are you looking for? Original, important television investigations and game-changing 360 projects.

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Dorothy Byrne

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Deputy Director of Programmes & Head of Popular Factual, Channel 4

Commissioning Editor: Factual, Channel 5

MEDIA Officer Scotland, Creative Europe

Manager, Creative Europe Desk Wales

Benjamin Taylor

Guy Davies is currently Commissioning Editor: Factual at Channel 5, commissioning factual programming across the Channel. Prior to this he was Head of Documentaries at ITN.

Ben Taylor is based at Creative Scotland in Glasgow and is responsible for promoting and facilitating Creative Europe's MEDIA sub-programme in Scotland. Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme supports film, television, new media and video games, offering funding, training and networking opportunities.

Contact Information www.channel5.com

Contact Information benjamin.taylor@creativescotland.com www.creativeeuropeuk.eu

Contact Information www.channel4.com

Judy Wasdell

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, XR Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes, the Creative Europe Single Project Development call accepts applications for interactive and cross platform work. The Videogame Development call can also be applicable to interactive narrative projects. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? The total budget is estimated at €5.4 million over two deadlines. Single projects grants are non-repayable and are awarded in lump sums with €25,000 available for creative documentary projects. What are you looking for? European independent production companies looking to develop a project with international potential for cinema, television or digital platforms.

Judy Wasdell has over 30 years experience of working in film and TV for United International Pictures, Richard Attenborough Productions, BBC and MEDIA Antenna Wales. Creative Europe, the EU Programme for creative and cultural industries, supports documentary from project development through to distribution, training schemes, markets and festivals. Contact Information judy.wasdell@gov.wales www.creativeeuropeuk.eu

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Commissioning Editor, Channel 5

Project Officer, Games & Digital, Creative England

Director, Crossover Labs

CEO, Curve Media

Daniel Pearl

Sam Rushton

Daniel joined Channel 5 as Commissioning Editor for Factual in February 2018. Before this he has held positions at both Channel 4, as Commissioning Editor, News & Current Affairs and Editor of Dispatch, and at the BBC as Deputy Editor of Panorama, the Ten O'Clock News and BBC Newsnight.

Sam works for Creative England as part of their Games and Digital programme, specialising in interactive storytelling. He works on a number of projects and is interested in XR and interesting collaborations. Creative England support filmmakers based in England outside of London and is a requirement for our funding.

Contact Information www.channel5.com

Contact Information gameslab@creativeengland.co.uk www.creativeengland.co.uk

Mark Atkin

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Online, Varies Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 8 What are you looking for? Interesting ways of telling stories for audiences from experienced film makers.

Mark is Curator of Electric Dreams Festival of Immersive Storytelling, South Bank, London, the Head of Studies at CPH:LAB, Curator of FutureCade (Festival of the Mind), Sheffield, Curator of Immersive Media, Global Health Film Festival at Barbican, Producer of Immersive Media at Crossover Labs and Moderator/ Mentor at Crossover Immersive Media Production Labs. Contact Information mark.atkin@xolabs.co.uk www.xolabs.co.uk/

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Human interest, Youth, History Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Not applicable. What are you looking for? Creative Europe supports project with potential for international distribution.

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As Channel 4’s Deputy Director of Programmes Kelly oversees the FactEnt, Features and Daytime commissioning teams, Creative Diversity and Nations & Regions teams. Kelly is responsible for successfully landing C4’s Bake Off, commissioning award-winners like Old People’s Home and caretaking bands including Gogglebox. Previously Kelly was Managing Director at ShineTV.

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Rob Carey

Curve Media is an unscripted production company lead by Emmy and BAFTA awardwinning producers Rob Carey and Camilla Lewis. Curve specialise in high quality long-running factual and entertainment shows for the world’s biggest networks including BBC, Discovery Networks, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Viacom, and Sky. Contact Information elainewishart@curvemedia.com www.curvemedia.com

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative Length / Format: Series, Format, 30', 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 100 hours a year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Salvage Hunters (Discovery), Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars (Discovery), The Restorers (Discovery), Call the Cleaners (ITV), Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters (Channel 5), A Matter of Life and Debt (BBC One) What are you looking for? Returnable Series or lightly-formatted factual television ideas.

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CEO, Curve Media

Cinemas Programmer, Curzon

Executive Producer – Factual, Discovery Networks International

Senior Director, Discovery, Factual, Discovery Networks International

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Victoria Noble is Senior Director of Production and Development, Factual, for Discovery. Noble commissions content for Quest and Discovery UK, recent credits include Idris Elba: Fighter, Salvage Hunters, The Restorers, Slider, Goblin Works Garage.

Contact Information corporate.discovery.com/tag/ discovery-networks-international/

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Science, History, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Series, Format What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Commissioning for Quest, a long running returning Series

Contact Information victoria_noble@discovery.com www.questtv.co.uk

Lead Technologist at Digital Catapult, exploring new applications of virtual reality and alternate realities across industries and leading the CreativeXR programme, which boosts early-stage development of immersive arts and culture projects in the UK. Previously, Rebecca was a Development Producer for BBC Connected Studio, delivering a set of ambitious experimental virtual reality pilots. Contact Information www.digitalcatapultcentre.org.uk

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BFI Doc Society Fund Officer, Doc Society

BFI Doc Society Fund Executive, Doc Society

Lynn Nwokorie

Lead Technologist, Immersive, Digital Catapult Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture

Rob Holloway is Executive Producer - Factual at Discovery Networks International.

Contact Information www.curzoncinemas.com

Rebecca Gregory Clarke

Deputy Director, Arts, Libraries and Digital Culture, Dept for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Contact Information www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ department-for-digital-culture-mediaSport

Strand / Slot / Genre: Virtual reality Length / Format: Varies What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Theatrical only.

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Kate McGavin

Kate works as part of a jobshare with Helen Williams as the Deputy Directors for Arts, Libraries and Digital Culture in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. They were responsible for the Government's recent Culture is Digital report. Kate has a background in Creative Industries and Media policy.

Lydia has been programming Curzon cinemas for four years, including virtual reality. Previously she worked at London Film School, BFI London Film Festival, Film Education, on the Film: 21st Century Literacy strategy, The Hospital Club, and Arts & Business.

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Contact Information elainewishart@curvemedia.com www.curvemedia.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative Length / Format: Series, Specials, Format, 30', 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 100 hours a year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Salvage Hunters (Discovery), Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars (Discovery), The Restorers (Discovery), Call the Cleaners (ITV), Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters (Channel 5), A Matter of Life and Debt (BBC One) What are you looking for? Returnable Series or lightly-formatted factual television ideas.

Rob Holloway

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, VR/AR What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? I work with VR/AR content, and Digital Catapult runs an innovation and seed funding programme, rather than acquiring content directly. What are you looking for? To meet UK-base companies, particularly those with VR/AR projects in the early stages, and understand if/how our programme might apply to them.

With experience in production, exhibition, cinema programming and distribution in UK and USA, and very recently cultivating international documentary filmmaking at Doc Society as the new BFI Doc Society Fund Officer, Lynn will now focus on developing and supporting UK filmmakers as well as continuing curating for film festivals. Contact Information www.docsociety.org

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Lisa Marie Russo

Strand / Slot / Genre: Creative and hybrid documentary Length / Format: Feature, Shorts

Prior to joining Doc Society, Lisa Marie produced The Spirit of ’45, Self Made and Swandown at Fly Film. She also executive produced shorts by young people for Screen South Random Acts Network. She was an executive producer on Hockney and Of Time and the City. Contact Information lisamarie@docsociety.org www.docsociety.org

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Experimental and hybrid films. Length / Format: Feature, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? not applicable. What are you looking for? Creative documentary features and shorts, via an application process.

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Camilla Lewis

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Co-Founder, Docsville

Co-founder, Docsville

CEO, Dogwoof

Head of Distribution and Acquisitions, Dogwoof

Lawrence Elman

Contact Information www.docsville.com

Nick Fraser

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90'

Nick is the Co-Founder and Editor of Docsville, the international online documentary platform. Formerly the editor of BBC Storyville, he was the recipient of last year’s BAFTA Special Award. His book about the best documentaries will be released with Faber and Faber in the autumn.

Anna Godas

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues Length / Format: Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90'

Anna is CEO of Dogwoof. Anna has steered the company from a small indie film distributor to a leading global brand in the field of documentary, building a vertically integrated true stories powerhouse - with theatrical distribution, sales, and production.

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Oli Harbottle

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20-25 films a year

Oli has been at London-based International Sales Agent and UK Theatrical Distributor Dogwoof since 2006. As Head of Distribution and Acquisitions, he is responsible for acquisitions and overseeing all film releases. Oli is now also actively involved in the sourcing of projects for Dogwoof's new production fund.

Contact Information www.docsville.com

Contact Information sales@dogwoof.com www.dogwoof.com

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Associate Producer, Docsville

Development and Acquisitions, Docsville

Founder, Dogwoof

Head of Sales, Dogwoof

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies Length / Format: Feature What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 15-20 features a year.

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Holly Whiston

Holly is an Associate Producer and Junior Commissioner for Docsville, the online documentary streaming platform established by former BBC Storyville editor Nick Fraser.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Multiplatform, Online, 30', 52'/60', 90'

India Woods is Associate Producer and Junior Commissioner at Docsville. Contact Information www.docsville.com

Andy Whittaker

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies Length / Format: Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90'

Andy is the Founder of Dogwoof. The leading international Documentary Producer, financier and distributor. Contact Information andy@dogwoof.com www.dogwoof.com

Ana Vicente

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 12 feature Films. What are you looking for? Strong stories with outstanding protagonists and original voices.

Ana launched the International Sales arm of Dogwoof in 2011. As Head of International Sales, Ana has been involved in the international positioning and sales of critically acclaimed documentaries like The Eyes of Orson Welles and as presales and financing of documentary film projects, including Westwood and John + Bjorn. Contact Information sales@dogwoof.fom www.dogwoofsales.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport Length / Format: Feature, Series, 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Dogwoof acquires 15-20 documentaries per year.

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Contact Information holly@docsville.com www.docsville.com

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Lawrence Elman is the CoFounder of documentary streaming platform Docsville.

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Managing Director, Drive

Aquisititions and Sales Executive, Drive

Head of Innovation, FACT

Development Executive, Ffilm Cymru Wales

Lulu works for Drive and is looking for projects with commissioner interest or some budget attached that require more finance, pre-sale or distribution. They're able to advances, co-pro opportunities and a competitive commission. Drive MDs previously held senior positions at Raw, ZigZag, Channel 5 and TVF. Contact Information www.drive-tv.co.uk

Celi Fowler

FACT is a world class artist commissioning and exhibition space. Roger leads on collaboration between artists, technologists, HE and cultural institutions, scientists and creative industry specialists and businesses, exploring the social and economic impact of emergent technologies. Projects include LCR Activate, FACTLab, Film Talent Development Programme, the CX Hub (AHRC) and the Living Room of the Future (BBC).

Celi oversees the development activities for Ffilm Cymru Wales (2018 BAFTA-winning I Am Not A Witch) - regional funding body for feature length films and documentaries involving Welsh or Wales-based talent. Celi has spent over 15 years working in film and television as a producer in both development and production. Contact Information www.ffilmcymruwales.com

Contact Information www.fact.co.uk

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Joint Founder / Director, elevenfiftyfive

Managing Director, Espresso Media International

Production and Special Projects Manager, Ffilm Cymru Wales

Head of New Formats, Financial Times

David Kapur

David is a creative entrepreneur and has passionately worked across the creative, advertising and film industries for the past 16 years. Currently working as Founder & Co-CEO at ourscreen. David is also a Founding Director of elevenfiftyfive and is at the cutting edge of engaging audiences with film and cinema. Contact Information david.kapur@ourscreen.com www.ourscreen.com

David Hooper

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Environment, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature, Specials Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? we are a crowdsourced cinema platform With access to 200 cinemas across the UK. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? 89, My Feral Heart, Northern Soul, Spice World What are you looking for? Interesting people with interesting projects for clear audience groups.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies Length / Format: Feature, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Please look at our website for development funding details.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We are always looking for new content to acquire for both our distribution and co-production businesses. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Diana: Our M, 8 Days that Made Rome. What are you looking for? Topical and noteworthy specials and Series.

Roger Mckinley

David has enjoyed a 30 year career in the industry as an Editor, Director, Producer and most recently as an international TV distribution and co-production company. Since 2000, David has expanded the company to over 800 hours of high end documentary and factual content from over 120 international producers. Contact Information david@espressomedia.co.uk www.espressomedia.co.uk

Adam Partridge

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, 30', 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We acquire around 150 hours per year. What are you looking for? We are looking to acquire new or recent high-quality factual entertainment Series and documentary programmes.

Adam joined Ffilm Cymru Wales in January 2007. Previously, Adam worked for Breakthru Films in London and coordinated a two year drama project with filmmakers in Sierra Leone for ScriptNet. Adam has acted as an Executive Producer on over 20 features including the documentaries Dark Horse and Queerama. Contact Information enquiries@ffilmcymruwales.com www.ffilmcymruwales.com

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Ben specialises working with UK and international producers and rights holders to help identify international production, distribution and commercial opportunities for content creation, financing and rights exploitation.

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Juliet Riddell

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes, the Creative Europe Single Project Development call accepts applications for interactive and cross platform work. The Videogame Development call can also be applicable to interactive narrative projects. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We make 3-6 production or completion awards a year, at least one of which is toward a feature in the Welsh Language. What are you looking for? Ffilm Cymru Wales supports feature film projects with production and completion funding. We prioritise feature film projects involving a Wales born or based writer, director or producer but we will consider feature films with significant Welsh cultural value or opportunities for Welsh talent.

Juliet has been developing, commissioning and executive producing online films for ft.com. Before working at the Financial Times Juliet was a Broadcast TV Producer and Director and also worked at The Guardian as Commissioning Editor of Features and Series. Contact Information Juliet.riddell@ft.com www.ft.com/video

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? We accept cross-platform proposals and are open to different forms of digital film making and stories telling. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Our video features have been between 10-20 minutes to date but this is not a rule. What are you looking for? Headline worthy access, characters and stories on current international issues and topics.

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Principle Research Engineer, BBC Research & Development

Head of Sales & Distribution, Goldfinch Studios

Editor in Chief, Huck

Lecturer / Consultant / Researcher, i-Docs & !F Lab (Interactice Factual Lab) & Westminster University

Andy sells Goldfinch Studios' films to sales agents and sometimes direct to distributors and broadcasters. He executive produces (invest/sales) and creatively develops film and TV projects for distributors/ broadcasters. Contact Information ag@goldfinchstudios.co.uk www.goldfinchstudios.co.uk

Andrea Kurland is Editor in Chief of Huck, a print magazine and film channel that celebrates independent culture. Andrea is interested in transmedia storytelling and is working to bring Huck’s editorial voice to life as films and digital experiences that can live on Huck's own channels and with broadcast partners. Contact Information andrea@tcolondon.com www.huckmagazine.com

Sandra Gaudenzi

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Environment, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 6-12 shorts a year. Also looking for features and Series formats that can live on both Huck's channels and those of our broadcast partners. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Our biggest release is a BikeLife documentary, out May 2018. What are you looking for? Global youth culture stories that offer a counternarrative, challenging perceptions and breaking stereotypes.

Dr Sandra Gaudenzi consults, researches, lectures, writes and blogs about interactive factual narratives. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster and Head of Studies of !F Lab – a Creative Europe training scheme for interactive documentary makers. She also co-directs the i-Docs conference, research group and website. Contact Information www.interactivefactual.net

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Program Manager, Google Arts & Culture

Artistic Director of Visual Art, HOME

Partner, Influence Film

Controller of Popular Factual, ITV

Freya Murray

Freya Murray is the Creative Lead for the Google Arts & Culture Lab where tech and creative communities come together to share ideas and discover new ways to experience Arts & culture. Contact Information freyam@google.com www.artsandculture.google.com/

Sarah Perks

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What are you looking for? Google Arts & culture is non for profit and so collaborators must be non for profit or an individual artist.

Sarah Perks (Artistic Director of Visual Art, HOME) is an international curator, film producer and writer. In 2011, Perks set up Cornerhouse Artist Film (now HOME Artist Film), the UK’s only specialist producer and distributor of artist feature film, and is also Co-Founder of the Feature Expanded training initiative. Contact Information sarah.perks@homemcr.org www.homemcr.org/about/work/film/ artist-film/

Victoria Steventon

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political Length / Format: Single, Feature, Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We commission films as part of our Visual Art exhibitions at HOME and also acquire works, which are distributed as part of HOME Artist Film. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Edith Walks (Andrew Kötting, 2016) Theatrical / DVD & Blu-ray, Rey (Niles Attalah, 2017) Theatrical / DVD & Bluray, Lek and the Dogs (Andrew Kötting, 2017), Theatrical Aliens (Luis Lopez Carrasco, 2017)

After spending over a decade travelling to the more challenging corners of the world developing films, Victoria founded Influence Film in 2011. Created in the belief that documentaries have the power to address pressing social issues and inspire change in behaviour and attitudes, Influence has supported over 40 films. Contact Information victoria@influencefilm.com www.influencefilm.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Interactive & immersive non-fiction Length / Format: Multiplatform, Interactive & immersive non-fiction Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? I do not commission, but I select projects for the IF Lab Accelerator. What are you looking for? Innovative projects that challenge interactive and immersive storytelling.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative Length / Format: Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? The VR Hub is focused on VR commissions What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We will be commissioning a small number of projects that fit in with our audience research agenda from companies with a proven track-record of delivering high-end award-winning VR. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? See list at www.bbc.co.uk/virtualreality What are you looking for? The BBC VR hub works with external suppliers and teams across the organisation to produce, create and commission groundbreaking, high-end story-led VR content for our audience.

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Bill Thompson is Principle Research Engineer now working in BBC Research & Development and exploring ways in which the BBC uses online tools to engage audiences. He is also at Doc/ Fest on behalf of the BBC VR Hub.

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Jo Clinton-Davis

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Music, Feature Documentary Length / Format: Feature, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approximately 5 to 10 projects a year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Trophy, Unrest, Game Changers, Island and the Whales, Silvana (p.61) What are you looking for? Influence Film provides funding to character driven feature length documentaries from around the world that provide opportunities to engage in the important issues facing us today.

Jo Clinton-Davis is Controller of Factual at ITV. Her commissions include Long Lost Family, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, The Queen’s Green Planet, Paul O’Grady for the Love of Dogs, The Real Full Monty, Joanna Lumley’s India, The Mafia with Trevor McDonald and the C&P strand. Contact Information jo.clinton.davis@itv.com www.itvplc.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Human interest, Social issues, Travel & adventure, Peaktime Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, 30', 52'/60', 90' What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Queen's Green Planet, The Real Full Monty Live & The Real Full Monty Ladies' Night, Long Lost Family, The Crime and Punishment season of documentaries, Diana Our M : Her Life and Legacy What are you looking for? Fact ent formats, doc formats, stand out scheduling events/stunts major access pieces - talk about titles, noisy propositions which appeal to broad mainstream audience through compelling stories of our time told imaginatively and entertainingly.

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Factual Entertainment Commissioning Editor, ITV

Creative Director, Jaunt UK

Head of Digital Economy & Creative Industries, Knowledge Transfer Network (Immerse UK)

Knowledge Transfer Manager (Creative and Digital), Knowledge Transfer Network (Immerse UK)

Rafael Pavon

Jon Kingsbury

Carrie Wootten

Rafael Pavon is creative director at Jaunt. He graduated at Central Saint Martins where he specialised in moving image and digital media. He has been directing since 2008 with credits that include Ray, Snatch, Melita and the Oculus produced Series Campfire Creepers and nominations at Venice, Cannes, Tribeca and Raindance Film Festivals.

Jon works at Immerse UK bringing together industry, researchers and research organisations, the public sector, entrepreneurs, innovators and end users to support the UK in becoming the global leader in applications of immersive technologies: high-end visualisation, virtual, mixed, and augmented reality, haptics and sensory interfaces with data.

Carrie works at Immerse UK bringing together industry, researchers and research organisations, the public sector, entrepreneurs, innovators and end users to support the UK in becoming the global leader in applications of immersive technologies: high-end visualisation, virtual, mixed, and augmented reality, haptics and sensory interfaces with data.

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Acquisitions Executive, Journeyman Pictures

Head of Acquisitions and Development, Journeyman Pictures

Executive Director, Lighthouse

CEO, Limina Immersive

Strand / Slot / Genre: All genres

Percy is an Acquisitions Executive at Journeyman looking to sign up fresh new documentaries for release across all markets worldwide, including theatrical, broadcast and digital. Percy also works on the launch strategy of new titles. Contact Information films@journeyman.tv www.journeyman.tv

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Sport, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Around ten critically successful feature docs a year, plus approximately 50 hours of television docs, current affairs titles and digital releases. What are you looking for? Revelatory, impactful docs that appeal to an international audience.

As the Company Manager at Journeyman, Emma's main focus is acquiring exciting new documentaries, developing documentary projects and building the global, multi-market release strategy for each film Journeyman represents. For a few select projects each year, Emma works on raising co-production partnerships and pre-sales. Contact Information emma@journeyman.tv www.journeyman.tv

Emily Kyriakides

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Specials, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Around 10 critically-successful feature docs a year, plus approximately 50 hours of TV docs, current affairs titles and digital releases. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Plastic China, A River Below, Indivisible, Goodbye Aleppo, Still Tomorrow What are you looking for? Revelatory, impactful productions that have international audience appeal.

Emily has led many flagship schemes including Guiding Lights, the UK’s leading film mentoring programme, and Reframed, supporting interactive and immersive work. She has also overseen the production of 21 BFI and BBC funded shorts, which have won numerous industry accolades including an Oscar nomination and four BAFTA nominations. Contact Information emily@lighthouse.org.uk www.lighthouse.org.uk

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Catherine Allen

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Youth, Social issues, Music, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What are you looking for? Interdisciplinary cross art-form works, including installations and film/moving image.

Catherine is the founder of arts virtual reality exhibition and curation company, Limina Immersive. Previously she led the creation of two of the BBC's first VR experiences. She has judged virtual reality for Sheffield Doc/Fest and Encounters Festival, with her subsequently joining their advisory boards. Contact Information www.liminaimmersive.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Educational Length / Format: Single, Multiplatform, Virtual reality Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 12 pieces What are you looking for? VR experiences to license for Limina's library

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Kate has been at ITV since September 2016 where her commissions include The Real Full Monty Live and Ladies Night, Gone To Pot, 100 Years Younger In 21 Days. At Channel 4, she looked after Grand Designs and Embarrassing Bodies and commissions included George Clarke's Amazing Spaces and Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners.

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Creative Producer, Limina Immersive

Commissioning Editor, Little Dot Studios

Documentaries and Features Manager, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Head of Sales, Met Film

Emma Hughes

As Creative Producer for Limina, Emma has assisted in the research, production and hosting of a sell-out virtual reality arts festival at Watershed in Bristol and event-managed the first VR Diversity Bootcamp. She has recently produced Open Space, an immersive audio experience, as part of Digital Catapult’s Creative XR programme.

Adam Gee

Adam is the first Commissioning Editor of original programming at Little Dot Studios, commissioning documentaries for ‘Real Stories’ channel. Previously he was a Commissioning Editor at Channel 4. He has won 80 international awards for his productions, including four BAFTAs, an Emmy and the New York Film Festival Grand Award.

Emma Parkin

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Commission about 20 docs per year. Plus acquisitions and completion funding projects. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Sorry I Shot You, Absent From Our Own Wedding, Social Media Addicts Anonymous What are you looking for? Stories of universal human significance which are uplifting.

Emma looks after documentary collaborations with filmmakers and broadcasters for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). MSF is an international humanitarian and medical NGO and we want to help filmmakers to make arresting and insightful content about our work and the people we help.

Vesna Cudic

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Science Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Unlimited.

Contact Information emma.parkin@london.msf.org www.msf.org.uk

Vesna runs MetFilm Sales, a new documentary sales agency. She joined Met Film from Dogwoof where she headed their sales arm until 2017. Vesna now works closely with filmmakers helping them finance their films through pre-sales. Her slate includes Last Breath and The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks. Contact Information vesna@metfilm.co.uk www.metfilmsales.com

Contact Information emma@liminaimmersive.com www.liminaimmersive.com

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Head of Multiplatform, Little Dot Studios

Producer, Manchester International Festival

Commissioning Editor, National Geographic Channel

Executive Vice President & Head of International Content, NGCI, National Geographic Channel

Alex Hryniewicz

Natasha Chubbuck

Natasha is a Producer with Manchester International Festival, the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF launched in 2007 as an artist-led festival presenting new works from across the spectrum of performing arts, visual arts and popular culture.

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Contact Information natasha.chubbuck@mif.co.uk www.mif.co.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform, Gaming, Live Events What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? MIF commissions new work for each festival, staged every two years. The next festival will take place from 4 - 21 July 2019 at venues all over the city.

McDaid's primary focus is developing and overseeing major premium Series and events for National Geographic. Prior, McDaid served as Head of Programming at Discovery Science in the USA, where she was responsible for four-time Emmy-nominated Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman and Emmy-nominated Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero with Steven Spielberg.

Hamish Mykura

Strand / Slot / Genre: Premium content, Global Length / Format: Premium Series, Singles and Feature Docs What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Unlimited.

Hamish oversees all editorial development and production for NGCI. Before joining National Geographic Hamish was head of documentaries at Channel 4. Contact Information www.nationalgeographic.com

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Alex is a BAFTA and Emmyaward winning digital producer working as channel editor for Real Stories, Little Dot Studios' specialist documentary and factual channel. He is responsible for acquiring and scheduling documentaries for the channel as well as working on the first slate of original commissions.

Bernadette McDaid

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Last Breath What are you looking for? We are looking for urgent, globally relevant stories that are narrative-driven and skillfully told.

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Commissioning Editor, National Geographic Channel

Head of Digital Development, National Theatre

Director of Documentaries, Netflix

Executive Producer, Nutopia

Carolyn Payne

Carolyn Payne is a Commissioning Editor at National Geographic. Commissions include the hit Series Dian Fossey: Secrets in the Mist, Primal Survivor, Nazi Megastructures, and Car SOS, and hit singles Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings, Drain Alcatraz, Drain the Oceans: WWII, Comet Catcher: The Rosetta Landing.

Toby Coffey is Head of Digital Development for the National Theatre in London. His team is responsible for the creative and technical development of the digital interfaces between the NT and its audiences. Toby is currently leading the NT’s Immersive Storytelling Studio looking at the application of 360 films and virtual reality. Contact Information www.nationaltheatre.org.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Youth, Social issues, Music, Geopolitics Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Draw Me Close What are you looking for? Virtual reality, 360˚ film, augmented reality and emerging technologies that enhance dramatic storytelling.

Diego joined Netflix as Director of Original Documentaries. He will be based in the company’s new London office. Prior to that, he was Head of Documentaries for Canal+ for 4 years and before that Diego produced, directed and hosted various documentaries for National Geographic, Arte, France Television and Canal+. Contact Information www.netflix.com

Mike Lerner

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Music, Sport, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Feature, Series What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? This is a work in progress What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Titles contribute in different ways to the slate, so hard to say. What are you looking for? The greatest stories to be told

Mike is an Oscar nominated and Emmy winning Producer and Director of feature documentaries which include Afghan Star, Hell and Back Again, The Square, Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, The Russian Woodpecker. He leads Nutopia’s development and production of world-class feature documentaries. Contact Information mike.lerner@nutopia.com www.nutopia.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Not really. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Unlimited. What are you looking for? The next world-class feature documentary.

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Junior Acquisitions Executive, NBC Universal

Creative Director, Nerd TV

Head of Acquisitions and Co-productions, Orange Smarty

CEO, PARABLE Works

Genevieve Segall

Genevieve has worked in film distribution for six years. After joining Universal Pictures International Entertainment in 2015, she has worked across numerous documentaries such as Trophy, Jim, I Am Bold, Cobain: Montage Of Heck, I Am Ali, Ronaldo and Meru. Contact Information www.nbcuniversal.com

John Farrar

John is the Co-Founder of NERD. Recent successes include Wild Kids, Selfie Life, The 12 Year Old Lifer and the Grierson nominated Inside The Gangsters’ Code. Prior to NERD, John was a director and development head for leading indies including Tiger Aspect and Raw where he developed The Imposter. Contact Information www.nerdtv.co.uk

Stella Briley

Starting in music, Stella next produced music shows for Sky TV then entertainment items for Sky News. After buying content for Nine, Australia and RTL Netherlands, she moved into distribution, acquiring hundreds of hours of factual programmes. Stella delights in building enduring relationships with an illustrious list of production companies. Contact Information stella.briley@orangesmarty.com www.orangesmarty.com

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Nicholas Minter-Green

Nicholas has spent 20 years working in journalism, branded content and production. Cofounder of Parable, a crossdiscipline studio and agency specialising in immersive experiences, TV shows and brand content. Before Parable, Nicholas was founder and President of Economist Films, the factual film division of The Economist newspaper. Contact Information nicholas@parableworks.com www.parableworks.com

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Science, Environment, History Length / Format: Series, Specials, 52'/60' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Numerous

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Producer, Park Circus Group

Founder/Lead Creative, Persistent Illusion

Producer, Pistachio Pictures

Founder and CEO, Power to the Pixel

Michael is the Co-Founder of Clipper Media Capital, an international production company / sales agency based in London with an emphasis on the Chinese market. Contact Information michael@clippermedia.co.uk www.clippermedia.co.uk

Alex Boden's Pistachio Pictures (established 1999) produces and finances films that innovate and entertain for the international market and audiences. Producers of PULP: A Film About Life, Death and Supermarkets (Doc/Fest Opening Night Film 2014) as well as the Netflix Series SENSE8. Pistachio Pictures is based in the UK and work globally. Contact Information contact@pistachio.co.uk www.pistachio.co.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Social issues, Music, Sport Length / Format: Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Not really What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 1-2 films as Producer / Financier What are you looking for? Films that entertain and work globally from filmmakers with a track record.

Founder and CEO of Power the Pixel, an organisation helping international film and media businesses adapt to stay relevant to digital and changing audiences. PttP helps creators and businesses to create, finance and distribute stories that engage audiences across multiple platforms. Contact Information www.powertothepixel.com

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Joint Managing Director, Picturehouse Cinemas & Picturehouse Entertainment

Programmer & Head of Virtual Services, Picturehouse Cinemas

Global President of Non-Fiction, Pulse Films

Head of Programmes, Rich Mix

Clare Binns

Clare is the Joint Managing Director of Picturehouse and is involved in all aspects of growing and running the most innovative and successful neighbourhood cinema group in the UK.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest Length / Format: Feature What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? All slots across 23 Picturehouse Sites

Chris has been a programmer at Picturehouse Cinemas since 2007, and founded the Picturehouse DOCS strand, which shows the best in current documentary releases across Picturehouse cinemas. Recent films screened include Even When I Fall, The Final Year and Unrest. Contact Information www.picturehouses.com

Emma Cooper

Emma Cooper is Global President of Non-Fiction at Pulse Films. Contact Information www.pulsefilms.com

Josh McNorton

Josh McNorton is a creative producer, festival director and curator. His career has spanned three continents, two Olympic Games, a multitude of cultural and academic institutions, high-profile festivals, showcases and tours. He is currently the Head of Programmes at Rich Mix, a multi-use arts centre in Shoreditch, east London. Contact Information josh.mcnorton@richmix.org.uk www.richmix.org.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Social issues, Music, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Rich Mix hosts over 400 events per year. What are you looking for? Digital entertainment, ideally work that blends live/interactive and passive formats.

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Contact Information matt.wells@parkcircus.com www.parkcircus.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? I will consider crossplatform. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 5-10 hours dependent on country. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Sale of large Danish Series to major Chinese streaming platform. What are you looking for? Programming that appeals to the Chinese marketplace which does not fall foul of censorship concerns - these tend to be documentaries which are engaging, memorable and have 'big' ideas at their heart, whilst keeping away from most geopolitical concerns.

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Matt is a Producer and Filmmaker at AAP and Park Circus. He was Executive Producer on Sam Hobkinson’s film Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable. His latest short was Work & Play: A Short Film About The Shining, which played in cinemas internationally with that movie.

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Film and Broadcast Producer, Roundhouse

Senior Producer, Broadcast & Digital, Roundhouse

Creative Lead, Save the Children

Head of Sales and Acquisitions, Sideways Film

Claudia is Film and Broadcast Producer at the Roundhouse, London. She produces original video content for live and on demand audiences, and creative film commissions in venue and external clients. She commissions short films through the festival film fund and supports the production of short documentary films by emerging filmmakers. Contact Information claudia.lee@roundhouse.org.uk www.roundhouse.org.uk Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Youth, Social issues, Music, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, Shorts

Derek Richards

Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes we are a multi arts organisation interested in interactive and immersive projects. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We are currently programming two film screenings per year during our Last Word and And Now What Festivals and are always looking for emerging filmmakers to make content that is inspired by our artists programme which includes music, circus, spoken word, performances by emerging artists and socially engaged stories. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? I'm a Man - by Alice Johnstone and Holly Lucas about drag kings lampooning the worst of misogynist and chauvinist tropes (funded by And Now What film Fund screened at BFI Flare and ICA Playback Festival ) What are you looking for? Talented emerging filmmakers who are interested in both the arts and exploring new technology and formats to tell socially engaged stories.

Derek is an award-winning inter-disciplinary producer specialising in digital and interactive. He has also produced a number of short and feature length documentaries. At the Roundhouse Derek is responsible for commissioning and producing a programme of immersive theatre productions, virtual reality and interactive installations, online and crossplatform work. Contact Information derek.richards@roundhouse.org.uk www.roundhouse.org.uk

Adam Robertson

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Youth, Environment, Social issues, Music, Educational Length / Format: Series, Specials, Multiplatform, Interactive, Virutal Reality, Pervasive Media, Live Cinema Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes, myself or Marie Horner. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 6 - 12 What are you looking for? Cross platform work; immersive theatre; live cinema; VR and 360 films (in particular those that sit or can be developed to sit within an experiential installation) and interactive installation work.

Adam Robertson is Creative Lead at Save the Children. In 2001, he set up the Film Unit at Save the Children since which time the organisation has collaborated with a wide variety of film makers and production companies to produce many successful films for online, broadcast and theatrical release. Contact Information a.robertson@savethechildren.org.uk www.savethechildren.org.uk

Kazz Basma

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Youth, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature, Multiplatform, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We produce between 100 and 200 short films each year for our digital channels. In the past we have also collaborated with film makers on long form documentaries, experiential events, and VR / AR projects. On occasion we commission these projects more usually we help by providing access to stories. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Made in Britain. What are you looking for? Good ideas that will help us raise issues of children's rights to a wide audience.

Kazz set up Sideways Film in 2010 to distribute documentaries across all rights and all territories. They have offices in London and Barcelona and attend 15+ international markets and festivals each year to find partners and market our titles. Get in touch, we love meeting filmmakers and exchanging ideas! Contact Information Kazz@sidewaysfilm.com www.sidewaysfilm.com

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Head of Audience Labs, Royal Opera House

Director Of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company

Director of Acquisitions, Silverlining

Commissioning Editor, Sky

Annette Mees

Annette Mees is an awardwinning artist and immersive theatre director. She works across art forms, mixing live and digital experiences. She is the Head of Audience Labs at the Royal Opera House - a new department creating new immersive experiences with technology reimagining opera and ballet for the 21st Century. Contact Information www.roh.org.uk

Sarah Ellis

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture Length / Format: Series What are you looking for? We are looking for talented makers with distinct artistic voices or technical talent that are interested in exploring new ideas creating work in collaboration with opera or ballet talent in the context of the Royal Opera House.

Sarah Ellis is an award winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company to explore new artistic initiatives and partnerships. Contact Information sarah.ellis@rsc.org.uk www.rsc.org.uk

Rachel Job

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Prior to joining specialist production finance broker and distribution agent, Silverlining, Rachel was Director of Programming for A&E's' HISTORY and H2 channels in the UK and EMEA. During her ten-year tenure at A&E, Rachel commissioned titles such as Mud Men with Johnny Vaughan, Pawn Stars UK and Shaun Ryder on UFOs. Contact Information rachel@silverliningtv.com www.silverliningtv.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We take on 12 documentaries / Series each year. What are you looking for? Documentaries or projects that surpise, captivate and tell us something new and original - great characters and access, stunning production values, insight and revelation, nuance and ambiguity. We know it when we see it.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Social, Narrative, Politics, Science, Surprise us Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes What are you looking for? Broad, populist and well made factual content that can appeal to a number of audiences globally.

Barbara works as a Commissioning Editor in Entertainment and Arts. She looks after A League of Their Own & Carnage on Sky 1. On Sky Arts she commissions music documentaries and Series. Contact Information www.sky.com

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Music Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We don't commission into slots at Sky. But we generally look at 6 x 60 Series. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? A League of Their Own and ALOTO Roadtrip, Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road What are you looking for? Epic scale entertainment shows - set in the real world for Sky 1. Groundbreaking or access content for Sky Arts.

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Creative Director, Sky VR / Surround Vision

Head of Development, Spring Films

Producer/Director, Guardian Virtual Reality, The Guardian

VR Producer, The Guardian

Figs Jackman is Head of Global Development at Spring Films, the multi-award winning production company. Recent productions include the Emmy, RTS, and Peabody winning Night Will Fall, Emmy nominated Into the Inferno, directed by Werner Herzog for Netflix and the soon to be released Herzog’s Meeting Gorbachev for A+E/Arte/MDR.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational, Some Environment and Factual Entertainment, but not much. Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Format, Multiplatform, Online, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Spring Films received 4 Emmy nominations in 2017: Into the Inferno directed by Werner Herzog for Netflix. City 40 (I produced for Spring with DIG Productions) for Netflix, Look Of Silence (Spring films co-production. 2 nominations). What are you looking for? The jaw-dropping must-have stand out.

Nicole Jackson is an-awardwinning Producer / Director in The Guardian’s virtual reality studio. Previously, Nicole was a Commissioning Editor on The Guardian's multimedia team and the features editor for Guardian Weekend magazine. Contact Information nicole.jackson@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

Anetta Jones

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative Length / Format: Online, Virtual reality / 360 What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We are not currently commissioning any additional VR or 360 slots. What are you looking for? To offer advice on VR / 360 submissions

Anetta is a documentary filmmaker and currently a producer at The Guardian. She produced First Impressions which premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and won Best VR Documentary at Raindance. Celestial Motion is her most recent work, it was made in collaboration with Sadler’s Wells and premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto.

Contact Information figs.jackman@springfilms.tv www.springfilms.tv

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Head of Sales and Acquisitions, Taskovski Films

CEO, Taskovski Films

Deputy Global Head of Video & Audio, The Guardian

Head of Documentary, The Guardian

Tijana Djukic

Tijana holds degree a in Art History and she has 15 years of experience in the cultural & cinema sector in political and operational functions. Since the beginning of 2015 Tijana is working in Taskovski films as Head of Sales and Acquisitions as well as Creative Producer on selected film projects. Contact Information sales@taskovskifilms.com www.taskovskifilms.com

Irena Taskovski

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Environment, Social issues, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Up to 15 films a year. What are you looking for? Taskovski Films welcome innovative, playful and risky forms of filmmaking capable of engaging and surprising audiences around the globe.

Irena studied at Prague Film Academy (FAMU), Sam Spiegel Film School in Jerusalem and obtained a Master degree from National Film & TV School, London. Since 2003 Irena acts as CEO & founder of Taskovski Films, a London and Berlin based world sales and production company of independent documentary films. Contact Information www.taskovskifilms.com

Contact Information www.theguardian.com

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Richard is a pioneering virtual reality director working at the cutting edge of immersive technology for Sky VR studios and London based virtual reality team Surround Vision. Richard uses virtual reality across documentary, drama, Sports and entertainment formats and has produced virtual reality films for Google, National Geographic, SKY, BBC, Channel 4 and the UN.

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Mustafa Khalili

Mustafa is The Guardian's Deputy Global Head of Video and Audio. He oversees all news and current affairs video. He is a multi-award filmmaker and photographer with close to 20 years experience in an ever changing media landscape. Contact Information www.theguardian.com/profile/ mustafa-khalili

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Charlie Phillips

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest Length / Format: Single, Feature, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts

Charlie Phillips is the 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 and prior to that he was Editor of Four Docs for Channel 4. Contact Information charlie.phillips@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/documentaries

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Specials, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No, we only do linear shorts. For cross platform, it's Francesca Panetta. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approximately 20 x short (15-30 minute) documentaries per year What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Fish Story, The Fight, Qandeel, How To Make a Pearl, The Internet Warriors, Second Innings, Erica, Dearborn Michigan What are you looking for? Short documentaries with brilliant storytelling and characters focused on contemporary subjects which are relevant globally and feel very new.

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Executive Producer, Documentaries, The Guardian

Asst. Multimedia Editor, Culture, The Guardian

Editorial Consultant, The Whickers

Artistic Director, The Whickers

Lindsay Poulton is a multiaward winning filmmaker and journalist who is passionate about innovation in digital storytelling. She has produced a wide range of documentaries and multimedia interactives on subjects ranging from climate change to the garment industry in Bangladesh to the psychological impact of solitary confinement in American prisons. Contact Information lindsay.poulton@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/documentaries

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Shanida Scotland

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues Length / Format: Single, Shorts, 30' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No I don't, I work exclusively in the docs strand. The Guardian doesn't tend to commission stand-alone cross-platform projects but sometimes we might create or commission additional editorial work that compliments a documentary commission. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approx 20 x 20' What have been your most successful titles in the past year? For very different reasons: The Fight; Fish Story; Second Innings. What are you looking for? A creative approach to compelling global stories.

Shanida Scotland is Assistant Multimedia Editor, Culture at The Guardian, commissioning and acquiring short films with a focus on Arts & Culture. The Guardian is one of the world’s most read English Language news sources, with 120million monthly unique browser visits. Contact Information shanida.scotland@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/video

Jane Mote

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Music, Biographies Length / Format: Series, Specials, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Varies. What are you looking for? Strong narrative short docs that explore global cultural moments and icons.

Journalist, storyteller and TV Executive Jane Mote is a champion for the power and accessibility of documentary. As Consultant Editor for The Whickers she nurtures and supports new audio and film documentary filmmakers who share a curiosity for the world. Also Director of production company beechtobeach. Contact Information jane.mote@whickerawards.com www.whickerawards.com

Jane Ray

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies Length / Format: Feature, 52'/60' Do you accept cross-platform proposals?We welcome all forms of innovation and extended formats as long as there is a 52m+ feature doc at the centre. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? The Whickers awards £80,000 to one first-time feature doc Director with a £15,000 runner up award granted annually. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? We Were Kings by Alex Bescoby and Hope Frozen (soon to be premiered) by Pailin Wedel What are you looking for? Great stories, driven by a curiosity for the world, that take viewers to unknown or undiscovered places .

Jane Ray set up and now runs a fund for new documentaries from emerging talent from across the globe. Her background is with BBC production. Alongside The Whickers she runs her own company, Cat Flap Media and teaches documentary at the British Film Institute. Contact Information info@whickerawards.com www.whickerawards.com

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Creative Technologist, The Mill

Chief Executive and Creative Director, The Space

WHY Producer, World Stories, The WHY Foundation

Campaign Manager, Together Films

Kevin Young

Kevin Young is a Creative Technologist with over 15 years experience in designing and building games and immersive experiences. He runs The Mill London's Emerging Technology Team and since joining The Mill has worked on projects including the virtual reality collaboration with The Guardian 6x9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement.

Fiona Morris

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? No set limits or requirements.

Fiona is Chief Executive and Creative Director. A Music and Arts producer with 25 years experience producing and commissioning Fiona joined The Space in 2016. Working in the UK indie sector for most of her career, she has produced several award winning films that received Prix Italia, Emmy, Grammy and BAFTA awards. Contact Information www.thespace.org

Virginia Cromie

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Music Length / Format: Single, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Our focus is online What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? One annual commissioning round no fixed number of hours. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Playcraft, 100 Masters, Akram Kahn's Giselle for English National Ballet What are you looking for? Digital projects that increase the UK arts and cultural sector's engagement with audiences online and new innovative technology.

Virginia is a Producer of World Stories at the Why Foundation. The Why Foundation initiates, produces and distributes public media projects to a global audience through broadcast, cross-media platforms and outreach activities to ensure that all people have free access to independent information. Contact Information www.thewhy.dk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? No not as yet. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We don't commission, we fund. 1 £80K winner and 1 £15K runner up per year plus a separate bursary though Chicken and Egg Pictures for 1 film a year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? We Were Kings, The Feeling of Being Watched, Hope Frozen What are you looking for? Authored documentary at the proposal of early production stage that can be completed on a budget or £160,000 or less which shed news light on an hitherto unknown or unseen world.

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Rebecca Ashdown

Rebecca is Campaign Manager for Together Films. She is responsible for managing Theatrical and Non-Theatrical bookings for Together Films titles and lead acquisitions. Contact Information www.togetherfilms.org

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Politics, Human interest, Youth, Environment, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature, Series, Specials, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60, 90', virtual reality What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We advise up to 200 filmmakers per year on marketing and distribution strategies

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Harriet Armston-Clarke is Division Head at TVF International, the world’s leading independent distributor of documentary and factual programming. TVF International’s catalogue encompasses everything from factual entertainment and lifestyle Series to exceptional award-winning documentaries, representing some of the most innovative and creative content makers from across the globe.

Irini Papadimitriou is a curator and producer, working at the forefront of digital culture in the UK and internationally. She is currently Digital Programmes Manager at the V&A and Head of New Media Arts Development at Watermans, where she is curating the exhibition programme and an annual Digital Performance festival.

Alex Hoffman

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Science, Social issues, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, Shorts

Alex is Executive Producer and Head of music at VICE. He spent 9 years at MTV where he won an NME Award for Gonzo with Zane Lowe. As a director, Alex has made many documentaries including Hip Hop in the Holy Land hosted by Mike Skinner and films about Liam Gallagher and Skepta. Contact Information www.vice.com

Contact Information www.watermans.org.uk

Contact Information contact.international@tvf.co.uk www.tvfinternational.com

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Acting Head of Acquisitions, TVF International

Deputy Director of Commissioning, UKTV

Global Executive Producer, VICE

Head of Distribution, Violet Pictures

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Matthew Perkins

Matt Perkins is acting Head of Acquistions at TVF International, the world’s leading independent distributor of documentary and factual programming. TVF International’s catalogue encompasses everything from factual entertainment and lifestyle Series to exceptional award-winning documentaries, representing some of the most innovative and creative content makers from across the globe. Contact Information matt.perkins@tvf.co.uk www.tvfinternational.com

Hilary Rosen

Hilary Rosen is Deputy Director of Commissioning at UKTV, responsible for award-winning shows including Taskmaster (Dave), John Bishop: In Conversation With... and Inside The Ambulance (W). Before UKTV, Hilary was Creative Director at Silver River, Senior Executive Producer at Lion Television and before that, she worked for BBC News and Current Affairs. Contact Information www.uktv.co.uk

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Divison Head, TVF International Sarah is the Founder and CEO of Together Films, a Marketing, Distribution and Data company based in London. Sarah leads on strategic consultations with film clients including Producers, Sales Agents, Film Festivals and Brands. She drafts Impact Distribution Strategies for titles on their slate and raises third party funding to support P&A. Sarah will be launching the Together Insights data platform in 2018 to bring clarity to the business of film.

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Eloise King

Executive Producer, Eloise is instrumental in the Awardwinning commissioning, production and programming strategy of cross-platform documentaries and factual Series heading up all digital channels in the UK in addition to, i-D’s content globally. Leading commissioning, development and production across VICE's programming; from headline grabbing documentaries to politics, sub-culture and fashion. Contact Information eloise.king@vice.com video.vice.com/en_uk

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James Collie

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Social issues Length / Format: Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? As Executive Producer of VICE I head up all digital channels in the UK (inc Broadly) in addition to i-D’s content globally - last year I commissioned 20 hours of video content. What are you looking for? VICE Media: Original reporting and documentaries about everything that matters in the world.

James is Head of Distribution at Violet Pictures, a UK-based production and distribution company who specialise in customising distribution strategies for independent films. Since 2012, he has overseen the innovative distribution for titles such as Beyond Biba, No Manifesto: A Film About Manic Street Preachers and Emmy winner After Tiller. Contact Information info@violetpictures.co.uk www.violetpictures.co.uk

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Environment, History Length / Format: Feature Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Five hours. What are you looking for? Engaging stories that will play in cinemas acrosss the UK over an extended period so the public has a chance to hear about the film and see it.

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Pervasive Media Studio Managing Producer, Watershed

Creative Director, Watershed

Editorial Lead, Contrast VR, Al Jazeera

Coordinating Producer, American Documentary | POV

Verity McIntosh is Managing Producer at Watershed's multi-disciplinary R&D lab, the Pervasive Media Studio. She curates a vibrant mix of projects and events and works closely with a community of over 100 Studio residents. She is also Watershed's lead for virtual reality programming and a member of the Bristol VR Lab.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online, VR/AR/360 Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Not specified - dependent on current programming considerations. What are you looking for? To meet creative practitioners embarking developing work that engages with creative technology in interesting and unusual ways.

Clare leads Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio, Playable City, engagement and cinema teams, working with industry, academic and creative partners from around the world to support talent and champion new ideas. Contact Information clare.reddington@watershed.co.uk www.watershed.co.uk

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Manager, YouTube Originals, YouTube

SVP Feature Films, A+E Networks

Jake Chudnow

As Creative Executive for YouTube Originals, Jake develops, funds and launches world-class programming, broadcast for a global audience on YouTube. Jake has a decade of experience on YouTube, nurturing shows from the next generation of influential creators and entertainers. An American by birth and accent, he currently resides in London. Contact Information www.youtube.com/youtuberedoriginals

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Zahra Rasool

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Youth, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes - we support artists and creatives to develop new creative technology enabled ideas including online, AR and VR. We do this by offering free residencies in Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio, through funded artist residencies programmes and through R&D commissions. We are a founding partner in Bristol's VR Lab. I work with Watershed's cinema and Film Hub teams (although do not lead on curatorial / exhibition decisions) What are you looking for? Ideas which engage with new technologies (in form or content) and challenge the status quo.

Molly is the founder and head of A&E IndieFilms®, the feature documentary division of A+E Networks. She also serves as executive producer for shortand long-form documentaries and scripted features produced under the History Films® and Lifetime Films® banners. Contact Information www.aetv.com/indiefilms

Zahra Rasool is the Editorial Lead for Contrast VR - Al Jazeera's new immersive media studio where she focuses on the production of compelling 360-degree video, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content.

POV is the longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films on PBS. Since 1988, POV has presented over 400 of the best and most innovative documentaries to viewers across America. Each broadcast receives our full set of services including a website on PBS.org, community engagement activities and a national press campaign.

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Contact Information cfe@pov.org www.pbs.org/pov

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Molly Thompson

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Youth, Social issues, Music, Biographies, LGBTQ Length / Format: Feature, Series, Specials, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? We are exclusive to YouTube. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Confidential. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, Kedi

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Yvonne Ashley Kouadjo

Sarah Masters

Director, Hartley Media Impact Initiative at Auburn, Auburn

Associate Producer, American Documentary | POV Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, History, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature, Series, Specials, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 2-5 projects per network per year. Hours vary.

Yvonne Ashley is an associate producer in the innovation arm of the iconic independent nonfiction film programme POV. Contact Information ykouadjo@pov.org www.amdoc.org

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Geopolitics, POV, America ReFramed, POV Shorts Length / Format: Single, Feature, Format, Multiplatform, Online, 52'/60', 90', 52/82 Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Opeyemi Olukemi, Yvonne Kouadjo What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 15-16 slots, 20+ hours What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Minding The Gap (p.54), Last Men in Aleppo What are you looking for? We program character-driven films that put a human face on contemporary social issues; we're looking for films that are superbly crafted and push our understanding of the documentary form, and we're just looking for interesting, unique, and under-heard voices.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? At the moment, it is not restricted for the innovation arm of POV.

Sarah Masters is Director of the Hartley Media Impact Initiative at Auburn in New York. The Initiative equips leaders of faith and moral courage with the media tools to amplify their voices and broadens the network of leaders and organizations leveraging the power of story for social good. Contact Information www.auburnseminary.org

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United Kingdom

Strand / Slot / Genre: Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Environment, Social issues, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What are you looking for? Short and feature-length films that provide leaders of faith and moral courage with stories that enhance and advance their justice work, involving content on LGBTQ issues, environment, immigration, racism, inequality, whiteness, repro rights, immigration, and prison reform.

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Contact Information verity.mcintosh@watershed.co.uk www.watershed.co.uk/studio

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Vice President, Sales & Acquisitions, Cargo Film & Releasing

Director of Sales + Marketing, Cargo Film & Releasing

Co-Founder/Senior Creative Consultant, Chicken & Egg Pictures

Program Director, Chicken & Egg Pictures

Contact Information www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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Rebecca Celli is Director of Sales and Marketing at distributor, sales agent, and Executive Producer Cargo Film and Releasing. Recent films include Satan & Adam (Tribeca), Netizens (Tribeca), and Becoming Who I Was (Berlinale). Rebecca champions urgent and cinematic projects, while cultivating relationships with international buyers, festival programmers and filmmakers.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We acquire six to twelve titles a year for our international sales slate. In some cases, we involve ourselves in early stages of production and are credited as Executive Producers. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger's Intent to Destroy (Tribeca, IDFA), Netizens (Tribeca), Satan & Adam (Tribeca), Chasing Trane (TIFF), Becoming Who I Was (MoMA DocFortnight, Berlinale). What are you looking for? We look for non-Fiction that challenges expectations, makes us laugh, pushes boundaries and informs our world.

Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand (Blue Vinyl, A Healthy Baby Girl) is best known for her ability to take the dark worlds of chemical exposure, corporate malfeasance and environmental injustice and make them personal, highly-charged and even entertaining. A committed field-builder she co-founded Chicken & Egg Pictures in 2005. Contact Information Judith@chickeneggpictures.org www.chickeneggpics.org

Lucila Moctezuma

Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Shorts, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? We currently accept proposals for feature length documentaries. The project can absolutely have a cross-platform Component. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We support 10 projects a year for support in our Accelerator Lab. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? UNITED SKATES, THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED, STRONG ISLAND What are you looking for? Women directed projects by first and second time women directors for our next accelerator lab - the open call is now open.

Lucila is Program Director at Chicken & Egg Pictures in NY. Previously she was Executive Producing Director at UnionDocs, Manager of the Production Assistance Program at Women Make Movies, Director of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowships, and Founder of the Latin America Media Arts Fund for Tribeca Film Institute. Contact Information www.chickeneggpics.org

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Co-Founder, Catapult Film Fund

Program Coordinator, Chicken & Egg Pictures

Head of Grants, Cinereach

Executive, Cinetic Media

Lisa Chanoff

Lisa Kleiner Chanoff is CoFounder of Catapult Film Fund, which provides development grants to help launch new documentary films. Catapult supports powerful stories and moving storytelling across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives. Catapult projects also receive assistance in areas including story development, production process, fundraising, and distribution strategy. Contact Information lisa@catapultfilmfund.org www.catapultfilmfund.org/

Sabine Fayoux

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Single, Feature, 30' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What are you looking for? Compelling documentary films in development.

As Program Coordinator, Sabine ensures all programmatic activities are effectively run at Chicken & Egg Pictures, including open calls, workshops, and filmmaker support. From production to programming, Sabine has diverse experience in the documentary film industry and previously held positions at Loki Films, Margaret Mead Film Festival, and America ReFramed/POV. Contact Information www.chickeneggpics.org

Leah Giblin

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As Head of Grants, Leah ensures that relationships with Cinereach’s grant-supported films flourish, while also serving as an antenna for new projects and ideas of potential resonance. Her previous experience includes work with the Tribeca Film Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowships and Tribeca Film Festival. Contact Information leah@cinereach.org www.cinereach.org

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics, Character driven stories Length / Format: Feature, Series, Multiplatform, 90', Project must be directed or co-directed by a woman

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Judith Helfand

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A graduate of Harvard University and London Film School, Daniel Cantagallo has worked in the documentary field as a producer, writer and editor. At Cargo Film & Releasing, he is Vice President of Acquisitions and Distribution. Recent films include: Satan and Adam and Netizens.

Rebecca Celli

Jason Ishikawa

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature, 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We support a number of films each year, in various capacities. Cinereach grants are awarded to support any stage of a film’s progression, from development to completion. Each year 20-30 grants are awarded to new and existing grantees in amounts ranging from $5,000 – $50,000. What are you looking for? We look for feature length projects (at any stage) that create deep and lasting impressions through story, character, or cinematic approach.

Jason Ishikawa is an executive at Cinetic Media where he runs the international sales division for the company. He is responsible for working in tandem with the finance, management and sales arms to devise worldwide distribution strategies for feature narrative and documentary films. Contact Information sales@cineticmedia.co www.cineticmedia.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, City of Ghosts, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Last Men in Aleppo, Love Means Zero, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, RBG, Score, Strong Island

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Daniel Cantagallo

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Contact Information dan@cargofilm-releasing.com www.cargofilm-releasing.com

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Film and Partnerships Executive, Doc Society

Director of Development, ESPN Films

Director, Acquisitions, FilmRise

Creative Producer, Future of Storytelling

Adam Neuhaus works as the Director of Development for ESPN Films including the award winning 30 for 30 documentary brand which encompasses features, shorts and podcasts. Previously, Adam worked in development for Radical Media and Original Media and currently serves on the Advisory Board for The Ghetto Film School.

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, History, Social issues, Sport Length / Format: Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We are actively commissioning feature films within the realm of Sport that speak to larger human themes. Primarily we deal with historical documentaries but are open to seeing all Sports related projects. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Two Bills, Nature Boy What are you looking for? Looking for Sports stories that tell us something new about something known.

Faye is director of acquisitions at Brooklyn-based distribution company, FilmRise. Recent acquisitions include The Miseducation of Cameron Post, My Friend Dahmer, the Boy Downstairs and Breath. Contact Information www.filmrise.com

Katy Yudin

Katy is a Creative Producer who curates and produces creative programming at Future of Storytelling’s live events and summit Series. She specialises in researching and developing forward-thinking talent, workshops, exhibits and immersive experiences. She is also a world food map and bathhouse aficionado.

Contact Information www.espn.com

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Founder, Factory 25

Co-Creator & Executive Producer, Field of Vision

VR Program Manager, Google

Senior Director, Programming, IFP (Independant Film Project)

Matt Grady

Matt Grady founded Factory 25, an independent film distribution company in 2009. Factory 25 is a home for conceptually provocative narratives and documentaries. His mission is to expose the world to underthe-radar films, music, and curiosities theatrically, digitally, on TV, VOD and physically. Contact Information matt@factory25.com www.factorytwentyfive.com

Charlotte Cook

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Music Length / Format: Feature What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 8 films What are you looking for? Factory 25 is looking for music and art based documentaries and stays away from social issue/political/current affairs films.

Charlotte is a Co-Founder and Executive Producer of Field of Vision, a film unit that commissions short, episodic and feature length films. Charlotte is also currently a programmer at CPH:DOX and recently produced Our New President (p.68), The Gospel of Eureka (p.67) and The Proposal (p.68). Contact Information charlotte@fieldofvision.org www.fieldofvision.org

Contact Information www.fost.org

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Contact Information marjon@docsociety.org www.docsociety.org

Sarah Steele

Strand / Slot / Genre: Current affairs & investigative, Political Length / Format: Feature, Series, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Unlimited. What are you looking for? Films with a political subject matter, told artfully.

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts and culture, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Multiplatform, Online What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Varies year-round.

Sarah Steele is a lead programme manager and producer on Google's VR team focused on empowering filmmakers in the space. Contact Information www.vr.google.com/daydream/

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Social issues Length / Format: Feature, Series, Shorts

Faye Tsakas

Milton Tabbot

Strand / Slot / Genre: Human interest, Science, Environment, Social issues, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Series, Virtual reality What are you looking for? VR & AR pitches.

Milton is responsible for the supervision of all documentary programmes including project selection for Spotlight on Documentaries of IFP Week and the IFP Labs for firsttime directors. Has served on program review panels for Doc Society’s Good Pitch, P.O.V., Sundance DFP, and CoPro, The Israel Documentary Screen Market Contact Information mtabbot@ifp.org www.ifp.org

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Biographies, Geopolitics, Creative Documentary Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Online Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Potentially, depending on the project, but not as a matter of course. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Approximately 60-70 projects selected annually for Spotlight on Documentaries of IFP Week. What are you looking for? Creative, distinctive non-fiction work.

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Marjon is the Film and Partnerships Executive at Doc Society. Based in New York, she works across all international film funds. Her prior experience is in development, production, and acquisitions for both fiction and non-fiction features. Prior to Doc Society, she worked at Netflix Originals, Scott Rudin, and CAA.

Adam Neuhaus

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Education Programs Manager, International Documentary Association

Dir. Narrative Film, Kickstarter

Director, Original Documentary, Netflix

Coordinating Producer, Op-Docs, New York Times

Ranell Shubert is the Educational Programs Manager at the International Documentary Association, in Los Angeles, a membership organization dedicated to serving documentary filmmakers, artists and activists through education, funding, resources, and advocacy.

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Elise McCave

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, History, Social issues, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Format, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. Our Enterprise development fund accepts applications for features, shorts, and new media projects such as VR, AR, Podcasts, etc. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? None.

Elise joined Kickstarter in 2016 after eight years with Doc Society, and is based in New York. She works with filmmakers worldwide to bring projects to life, providing tailored support and mentorship as they raise funds and build audiences for their films. Contact Information film@kickstarter.com kickstarter.com

Kate Townsend

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We're a crowdfunding platform, so there's no end to the number of projects that can seek funding with us. We are able to give tailored support to around 100 projects a year.

Kate has directed and produced for over 10 years now. Global Documentaries including Cutting Edge, This World Right Through to Louis Theroux. As a Commissioning Editor for five years at BBC’s Storyville, she oversaw releases from Pussy Riot, India’s Daughter to A Syrian Love Story. Kate's in her second year as part of Netflix's Original Documentaries commissioning team. Contact Information www.netflix.com

Lindsay Crouse

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment Length / Format: Feature, Series, Shorts Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? This is a work in progress. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Titles contribute in different ways to the slate, so hard to say. What are you looking for? Bold, innovative documentary Series and features which resonate globally.

Lindsay has been with Op-Docs since the Series was launched by the opinion section of The New York Times in 2011. She has worked on roughly 270 short documentaries and interactive and virtual reality films, which have won two Emmy Awards, two Peabodys, and two Oscar nominations. Contact Information lindsay.crouse@nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/opdocs

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Managing Director, Louise Rosen

VP, Special Projects & Documentary, NEON

Head of Acquisitions and Sales, Passion River Films

EP, Feature Docs, Pulse Films

Louise Rosen

Louise Rosen has been working in independent media and the arts for over 25 years. In the film world she serves as an editorial and business consultant, international distributor, producer, and sales agent. Her projects have included Oscar, Emmy, FIPRESCI, Teddy and Sundance award-winning films. Contact Information www.louiserosenltd.com

Dan O'Meara

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, History, Social issues, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, 52'/60', 90' What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 6-8 per year

Dan O'Meara is VP, Documentary at NEON. The company's releases include I, Tonya and the upcoming Three Identical Strangers (p.41). Dan's producing credits include By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, Freakonomics, and Print The Legend. Contact Information www.neonrated.com

Mat Levy

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Music Length / Format: Feature, Series, Shorts What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 1-12 films per year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? I, Tonya What are you looking for? Doc features, Series, shorts.

Mat has been acquiring and selling documentaries for Passion River Films since 2004, specialising in theatrical, educational, major VOD and physical home video distribution. Mat attends most major markets and film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, Tribeca, AFM, IDFA, CPH:DOX and Hot Docs. Contact Information mat@passionriver.com www.passionriver.com

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Ranell Shubert

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Ryan Harrington

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Online, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? About 75 titles a year. What are you looking for? Documentaries that create imperative conversation.

Pulse Films is an awardwinning, independent, modernday studio encompassing the development, production, financing and distribution of cross-platform content for audiences worldwide. Contact Information Ryan.harrington@pulsefilms.com www.pulsefilms.com

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No. What are you looking for? Pulse Films is dedicated to creating moments of culture through innovative storytelling.

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Contact Information ranell@documentary.org www.documentary.org

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Managing Director, ro*co films productions

COO, RYOT

Head of Program Acquisitions, Starz

Director of Sales and Distribution, Submarine Entertainment

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Feature, Series, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We are a sales agent/distributor, as well as US Producers. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? The Devil We know, The Fourth Estate Doc Series, Dolores, The Judge, Knife Skills - "Short" Oscar Nomination 2018 What are you looking for? Strong, character driven, feature length documentaries that are cinematic, topical and relevant.

Matt oversees all business, legal, financial and day-to-day operations including content acquisition. Matt has executive produced films with premieres at Sundance and negotiated the sale of projects to Hulu. Contact Information www.ryot.org

Brett Marottoli

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Human interest, Music, Travel & adventure Length / Format: Feature, Series, Format, Multiplatform, Shorts, Virtual reality Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 6-12 features 2-4 shorts 5+ VR Experiences

Brett Marottoli is Head of Program Acquisitions at Starz. In this role, Marottoli oversees content strategy and acquisition of all feature film, documentaries and television Series for all Starz Networks, On Demand platforms and broadband services. Contact Information brett.marottoli@starz.com www.starz.com

Ben Braun

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, Social issues, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Starz is home to the flagship Starz® brand and Starz Encore channels and provides high-quality, entertaining premium subscription video programming with 17 premium pay TV channels and associated on-demand and online services, including the Starz app. What are you looking for? Feature length documentaries.

Ben Braun is the Director of Sales and Distribution at Submarine Entertainment/ Submarine Deluxe, joining the company in 2011. Submarine Entertainment is a hybrid sales and production company founded in 1998, consulting and strategising on domestic and international sales, distribution and development of documentaries and feature films. Contact Information www.submarine.com

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Head of RYOT Films, RYOT

Director of Immersive Development, RYOT

New Frontier Labs Program Manager, Sundance Institute

Film Fund Coordinator, Sundance Institute

Hayley Pappas

As Head of RYOT Films, Hayley Pappas runs the content and creative strategy of Oath's centralised development studio. She oversees industry partnerships, content development, packaging and distribution, and all ancillary marketing campaigns. Contact Information www.ryot.org

Jake Sally

At RYOT, Jake spearheads development of immersive content designed to expand and explore the human experience across the full range of emerging platforms including 360 video, virtual reality and augmented reality. His work has premiered at various film festivals including Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca. Contact Information www.ryot.org

Ruthie Doyle

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Arts & culture, Science, Music, Educational, Overall genre content Length / Format: AR, virtual reality, 360-video What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? TBD What are you looking for? Immersive projects that explore the human experience, causing the user to think once they have finished.

Ruthie Doyle is an artist and filmmaker, and since 2013, a member of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier team, identifying, supporting and exhibiting artists innovating the art and form of story at the Sundance Film Festival, and year-round via artist development Labs, residencies and public sessions. Contact Information newFrontierStoryLab@sundance.org newFrontier@sundance.org www.sundance.org/ programs/new-frontier

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ro*co films currently operates as four divisions: ro*co films international, ro*co films educational, ro*co films digital and ro*co films productions. ro*co films educational focuses on creating campaigns around the educational and semitheatrical distribution of a small but powerful collection of films.

Matt Ippolito

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Sue Turley

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Betsy Tsai

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Multiplatform, innovative/immersive media Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? varies throughput the year. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Examples include: VR film COLLISIONS (supported via our residency and Festival) won a News and Documentary Emmy. VR experiences SPHERES (Festival world premiere) sold out of the Festival at a seven figure sales price. What are you looking for? We support and exhibit artists that innovate on the art and form of story, at the intersection of art, performance, film, music, medias and technology.

Betsy is a part of the Sundance Documentary Fund team at the Documentary Film Program of Sundance Institute. Before, she worked for a conflict analysis non-profit, and on fiction and nonfiction films. She is a directing alumna from UCLA, where she also studied English Literature and International Conflict Resolution. Contact Information www.sundance.org/documentary

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Science, Environment, Social issues, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Online, 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? Sundance New Frontier What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We fund approximately 40 feature films annually. What are you looking for? The Sundance Documentary Film Program supports non-fiction filmmakers worldwide in the production of cinematic documentaries on contemporary themes.

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Contact Information sue@rocofilms.com www.rocofilms.com

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Film Conference Programming Manager, SXSW

Creative Director, Director of Digital Distribution Initiatives, The Film Collaborative

Director of Marketing and Publicity, Visit Films

Director of Distribution & Acquisitions, Women Make Movies

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Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Science, Environment, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Multiplatform, Online, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90' Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? We do accept cross-platform proposals and showcase most of these projects in the Experimental Storytelling Track in the SXSW Conference. Also for the first time in 2018 we allowed open submissions for an Indie Episodic strand of the Film Festival. What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? At SXSW we program over 120+ features and 100+ shorts each year as well as 30+ VR projects and 8+ days of Conference programming.

David has guided over 60 films through TFC’s Digital Distribution programmes, advises filmmakers about digital strategy via TFC’s membership programme, and speaks on panels regarding digital distribution. David handles TFC’s branding and design needs, and provides graphic design support to filmmakers in the form of key art and website design. Contact Information david@thefilmcollaborative.org www.thefilmcollaborative.og

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Senior Director-Sales and Acquisitions, The Film Sales Company

Manager, Artist Programs, Tribeca Film Institute

Lucas Verga

Lucas Verga currently serves as the Senior Director of Sales and Acquisitions at The Film Sales Company. Prior to that he served as the Director of Sales, and the Acquisitions Coordinator. He has also been a part of the DOC NYC screening committee since 2011. Contact Information lucas.verga@filmsalescorp.com www.filmsalescorp.com

Jerry Li

Bryce Norbitz

Bryce is the Manager, Artist Programs at Tribeca Film Institute, where she supports scripted and documentary filmmakers through grant programmes, workshops, screenings and events. TFI funds include Tribeca All Access, TFI Latin America Fund, and Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, etc. She is a NY native and attended Northwestern University. Contact Information bnorbitz@tfiny.org www.tfiny.org

Born in Shanghai, Jerry graduated from NYU with a double degree in Economics and Cinema Studies. Since joining Visit Films, he has worked on films including It Follows, Tanna, Chronic, Columbus, and Krisha. In his current role, he leads the marketing and publicity campaigns for international sales and US distribution. Contact Information www.visitfilms.com

Kristen Fitzpatrick

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Travel & adventure, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? We typically work on 12-20 films a year for international sales and 3-5 films for US distribution.

Currently the Director of Acquisition & Distribution at Women Make Movies, Kristen is responsible for acquiring the organisation's new releases as well as managing their exhibition, outreach and impact plans. Kristen lives in Brooklyn with her chihuahua and enjoys deliberating about how documentary can change the world. Contact Information www.wmm.com

Strand / Slot / Genre: Factual entertainment, Specialist factual, Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Youth, Science, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics, Educational Length / Format: Single, Feature, Series, Specials, Multiplatform, Shorts, 30', 52'/60', 90', Do you accept cross-platform proposals? Yes What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? 20-25 films per year, but we have rolling submission. What have been your most successful titles in the past year? Strong Island, Atomic Homefront, Unrest, Shirkers and The Bomb. Atomic Homefront, Your's in Sisterhood, Azmaish and A Better Man. What are you looking for? For our Distribution Program, films both directed by and about women. For our Production Assistance Program, films by directed or co-directed by a woman in any stage of production on any subject.

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Along with programming and overseeing all aspects of the Film Tracks in the SXSW Conference, Austin is on the film festival programming team and programmes sessions for the Experiential Storytelling and the VR/AR tracks. He also is an associate programmer for the Virtual Cinema, which showcases VR projects at SXSW

David Averbach

Strand / Slot / Genre: Arts & culture, Current affairs & investigative, Political, Human interest, Environment, History, Social issues, Music, Sport, Biographies, Geopolitics Length / Format: Feature Do you accept cross-platform proposals? If not, who in your organisation does? No What's the total number of slots and hours of programming you commission or acquire? Through grants fund up $1 million total to 30 feature length documentaries per year, and up to 10 shorts per year. What are you looking for? Feature projects in advanced development - post.

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Austin Nauert

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Our networking events are supported by a who’s who of the world’s highest profile factual funders, distributors and broadcasters including ITV, British Council, Canon, Grierson Trust, BBC Arts, Immerse UK, Molinare and UKTV, who present the Meet the Filmmakers drinks event this year. Everyone is welcome at our Delegation receptions from countries close to home and far and wide, including those from Ireland, Scotland and South Africa who are looking forward to making connections meeting you. Celebrate deals done with the Marketplace Drinks, and meet new faces in arts, craft and tech with our Live Cinema, Craft and Alternate Realities Summits drinks events. Pace yourself, and most importantly, have fun!

Lisa Brook

Events & Marketing Consultant

Special Events Films Alternate Realities Talks & Sessions

Doc Society are running the show at the Doc Society Clubhouse @ DINA, with the WHAM! British Tropical Summer Party and it wouldn’t be Doc/Fest without our grand Festival finale Guilty Pleasures Party at Plug, straight after the Awards Ceremony, with the Nordic Vodka Hour presented by Nordisk Panorama.

Marketplace & Talent

This year we’re celebrating our 25th Edition and we invite you to hop in our Doc/Fest time machine as we rewind to 1994 with early ‘90s chart, grunge and dance on decks. Fancy dress not essential but do raid your wardrobe for any ‘90s classics you can put in your suitcase.

Parties & Social

Our parties this year include incredible collaborations much loved and new, including Boiler Room hosting a party, and Festival-favourite, the Channel 4 Party.

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Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar to meet new collaborators, friends and funders informally over a drink. You never know who you’ll meet!

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Awards Ceremony

As Doc/Fest’s 25th Edition draws to a close, we honour the very best of the Festival, including the reveal of our Audience Award winner as chosen by you. This year we’re thrilled to welcome back BBC Radio Sheffield’s Paulette Edwards as our host.

BBC Arts Drinks

A chance to meet the BBC Arts Commissioning team. Authored arts documentaries have flourished at the BBC for as long as they have existed, and the world’s longest running arts strand Arena is a byword for excellence, originality and maverick wit. BBC Arts invites you to celebrate this heritage and offers the chance for creative arts documentary makers to discuss ideas with its Commissioning team in a relaxed environment.

BFI Doc Society Fund: Meet the Team

Doc Society is the BFI’s delegate partner for the UK’s documentary funds and they are looking out for the most creative, diverse doc-makers and doc-curious folk in the country, and they are keen to meet filmmakers from all backgrounds and walks of life. Join the BFI Doc Society Fund team for brunch and find out how we can collaborate and continue to build a thriving UK documentary community.

The team from Canon are delighted to welcome industry delegates attending Sheffield Doc/Fest for drinks at Holt on Saturday Night, which follows the Canon supported cinematography session as part of the Festival’s Craft Summit. Come and meet the Canon team to discuss your forthcoming documentary projects.

Channel 4 Party

The Channel 4 Party is back due to popular demand, this year at Sheffield’s Foundry. Come join the C4 team for a drink or three.

Closing Night Party: Guilty Pleasures

Our 25th Edition will come to a climax with our traditional Guilty Pleasures party. Celebrate the end of your Doc/Fest journey with wild dancing and join in with Nordisk Panorama and our Nordic filmmakers from 9:30pm for free vodka to kick the night off.

Craft Summit Drinks presented by Documentary Campus

To conclude the 2018 Craft Summit, the Documentary Campus team invites you to mingle with speakers, Documentary Campus Master school alumni and this year’s participants.

Exchange Breakfast Reception

Breakfast is on us at the Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees – get there quick, whilst the pastries last!

Grierson Trust New Talent Drinks

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 2018 Grierson DocLab.

Igloo Vision Reception

Come and visit Exchange on Tudor Square for drinks courtesy of Igloo Vision. It’s a great opportunity to catch-up with people and trends from the world of immersive film and entertainment.

Irish Delegation Reception

The Irish Film Board (Bord Scannán na hÉireann) is delighted to invite you to the Irish Reception at Sheffield Doc/Fest to celebrate the Irish work screening and allow you to meet and network with the large Irish delegation of filmmakers in attendance.

ITV Drinks

The ITV Factual team invites delegates to raise a glass to documentaries at The Holt.

Live Cinema Summit Drinks

Join Live Cinema UK to celebrate the first day of the Live Cinema Summit at Doc/Fest. Meet with artists and practitioners over a drink to discuss the latest in immersive and experiential moving image.

Meet the Filmmakers Drinks supported by Molinare Molinare and the Doc/Fest Film Programme team welcome you to raise a glass or two to the talented directors and producers behind this year’s Film Programme. Share stories over a drink and share the rest of your week with these awesome filmmakers.

Meet the Alternate Realities Artists Drinks supported by Immerse UK

Following the Alternate Realities Summit, join the Sheffield Doc/Fest team, Immerse UK and fellow delegates for a chance to meet the artists behind immersive, VR and interactive artworks in this year’s Alternate Realities Exhibition.

New Talent Drinks presented by The University of Hertfordshire

Come and visit Curzon’s Bar and Terrace and kick off your Monday night with drinks courtesy of University of Hertfordshire. It’s a fantastic chance to connect with new and upcoming talent, industry guests, local filmmakers and fellow documentary lovers.

Opening Night Drinks

Help us kick off the Festival in style, with drinks and dancing as we celebrate our 25th Edition.

‘94 saw the first ever Edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest and to celebrate, we’re throwing it back with some classic club tracks and headbanging tunes. So whether you’re a rocker or a raver, hop into the Doc/Fest time machine and get ready to party like it’s 1994.

Scottish Delegation Drinks

To celebrate the UK Premiers Scottish Documentary of Mark Cousins’ The Eyes of Institute Orson Welles (p.52) and Finlay Pretsell’s Time Trial (p.42) please join us and meet the Scottish Delegation of producers, filmmakers and screen executives present in Sheffield. Learn more about their films and about Scotland as a first-class place for documentary filmmaking and co-production. Creative Scotland is the national funder for film in Scotland.

South African Delegation Drinks

Come and join the South African delegates who’ll be bringing sunshine and inspiration to the Curzon Bar and Terrace. Before the drinks event the delegations are hosting a discussion panel New Devices - New Voices: Pan-African Experiences (p.124) at Crucible Adelphi. Both events are supported by the DFA (Documentary Filmmakers’ Association of South Africa) in collaboration with the Department of Trade and Industry.

Too Beautiful: World Premiere Drinks: Cuban Evening

Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight (p.42) is a story about acceptance, female empowerment and boxing beautifully portrayed by internationally recognised director Marceo Frost. At the reception you will meet the main character Namibia the Cuban boxing star of Havana, director Marceo Frost, the documentary team from Adidas and Revolver Films Amsterdam.

UKTV Drinks Reception

Join UKTV’s commissioners for an early evening drink at Tamper. It will be an opportunity to meet the team responsible for the broadcaster’s growing slate of factual and factual entertainment UKTV Originals and network with festival delegates.

University of Stirling Factual TV Drinks

Help the University of Stirling celebrate the launch of their new factual television Masters programme. To find out more about the course, their student film competition (cash prize) and festival of factual in October, come and join them for drinks and gentle networking at the beautiful Winter Garden.

Warp Presents: Gaika + Friends

Following Gaika’s electric live score to Khalik Allah’s Black Mother (p.72), come down to Sheffield’s iconic gig venue The Leadmill for some dancing and drinks soundtracked by Gaika and a slew of Warp DJ’s.

WHAM! British Tropical Summer Party at the Doc Society Clubhouse

Let me take you to the place where the membership’s a smiling face… brush your shoulders with the (documentary) stars. Where strangers take you by the hand and welcome you to their (British) wonderland from beneath their Panamas. Club Doc Soc drinks are cheap, fun and sunshine – there’s enough for everyone. All delegates welcome, arrive early for a cocktail on the house. Suntan not included.

Special Events

Rounding off Sales & Distribution Summit, this reception offers a chance to get to know Decision Makers and fellow filmmakers better. We welcome everyone involved in the Sales & Distribution Summit, MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Market and all Marketplace & Talent initiatives. The team will be present so do come by for a drink, say hello and tell us about your documentary projects – we’re here to help get them made!

Party Like It’s 1994

Films

Join us for the opening of the Alternate Realities exhibition in our new home, Trafalgar Warehouse. Experience a specially curated selection of immersive and interactive works and meet some of the artists in our world leading showcase of digital storytelling.

Canon Drinks Reception

Film Hub North is a members’ organisation that supports independent film exhibition and production in the North of England through funding schemes, network building and training opportunities. The Hub team invites you to join them for a drink to toast the vibrant future of film in the North and to meet-up with programmers and filmmakers from throughout the region.

Marketplace & Talent Drinks

Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities Preview Drinks

Come and meet British Council Film and the leading international documentary film professionals they have brought from around the world to attend this year’s Edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Film Hub North Drinks Reception

Talks & Sessions

Boiler Room’s new film channel 4:3 is proud to host the after party for Leilah Weinraub’s Shakedown (p.61). Vogue icon Ian Isiah aka Big Shugga will be flying in specially from NYC for an exclusive UK performance, alongside London’s queer poc collective / turn up BBZ.

British Council Drinks Reception

Marketplace & Talent

4:3 x Boiler Room Present: Shakedown After Party

Parties & Social

Marketplace & Talent

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Alternate Realities

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Staff & Contributors Festival Team

Brett-Morgan Nielson Outreach Assistant Trainee

Dan Tucker Alternate Realities Curator & Executive Producer

Elizabeth McIntyre Festival Director & CEO

Freya Bell Events Runner Trainee

Joe Barker Publications Assistant Trainee

Kate Boddy Communications Assistant

Lisa Hutchinson Production Runner Trainee

Mat Steel Head of Production

Alay Paun Events Coordinator

Anthea Okereke Hospitality Assistant

Carmen Thompson Digital Marketing Coordinator

David Chang Festival Photographer

Elisabeth Pelosof Marketing Runner Trainee

Hannah McHaffie Programme Coordinator

Joe Cutts Alternate Realities Producer

Katrin Schmiedel Film Programme Assistant Trainee

Luke W Moody Director of Film Programming

Matt Sturdy Video Coordinator & Editor

Aleksandra Dimitrijevic Production Coordinator

Beth Prior Alternate Realities Programme Assistant Trainee

Cassie Fletcher Assistant Accountant

Ed Brooks Alternate Realities Production Assistant

Ellie Irwin Hospitality Coordinator

Helen Wright Volunteers Coordinator

Joe Newberry Volunteers Assistant

Lena Moss Events Assistant

Maeve Armstrong Box Office Manager

Mathy Selvakumaran Marketplace & Talent Assistant Trainee

Alex Lancastle Operations Assistant

Bethany O'Brien Events Runner Trainee

Chloe Patrickson Marketing & Publications Coordinator

Ed Weller Alternate Realities Production Assistant

Erinma Ochu Exchange Curator

Helena Dolby Festival Photographer

John Farrar Exchange Producer

Lena Nitsch Administrative & Executive Assistant

Manon Euler Marketplace & Talent Coordinator

Melanie Iredale Deputy Director

Alex Szabo-Haslam Publications Layout Assistant

Bianca Manu Exchange Session Producer

Corrigan Lowe Marketplace Sessions Assistant

Elaine Wong Alternate Realities Market Producer

Fiona Outram Finance Manager

James Lowe Festival Graphic Designer

Karolina Lidin Marketplace Executive Producer

Lisa Brook Events & Marketing Consultant

Maria Stoneman Head of Operations & HR

Monika Klavins Photography Coordinator

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Annabel Grundy Alternate Realities Summit Producer

Staff & Contributors

Aisha Jan Marketing Assistant FEDs Trainee

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Staff & Contributors Contributers Board of Directors

Natasha Harish Registration Assistant

Noor Hanif Rodin Operations Runner Trainee

Owen Jones Distribution Assistant

Samantha Armstrong Assistant Accountant

Sukayna Najmudin Delegate Centre Assistant

Previewers

Alex Graham, Chair Two Cities Television

Madonna Benjamin Channel 4

Aga Baranowska BFI & ICA

Elena Lazic Film Critic

Brian Woods, Deputy Chair True Vision Productions

Mary Burke British Film Institute

Anna Bogutskaya Film and Event Programmer, Writer

Emily Wright Filmmaker & Journalist

Barbara Lee Sky

Patrick Holland BBC

Anna Parker Producer, Little Heard

Isla Badenoch Postcode Films & Whalebone Films

Derren Lawford Woodcut Media

Peter Armstrong Harbottle & Lewis

Arya Lalloo Filmmaker

Helen Scott Clear Focus Productions

Sharna Jackson Seahorse

Becca Voelcker Film and Visual Studies PhD student

Jannet Nuñez Content Development Manager, ITVS

Ian Wild Sheffield Media & Exhibition Centre

Shirani Sabaratnam Freelance

Becky Sliwa Webb Events Producer

Matt Turner Writer and Programmer

Ben Nicholson Freelance Writer and Programmer

Niki Harman Film and Event Programmer, Nottingham Contemporary

Jo Clinton-Davis ITV

Chloë Roddick Programmer, Morelia International Film Festival Daniel Dylan Wray Freelance Arts Journalist

Honorary President

Ela Bittencourt Critic and Independent Film Curator

Nick Fraser Yaddo Oli Gots Festival Publicist

Patrick Hurley Head of Marketplace & Talent

Sarah Dawson Film Programme Manager

Staff & Contributors

Nia Childs Events Producer

Elaine Wong BFI London Film Festival Shorts Pre-Selector

Sylvia Bednarz Director of Partnerships & Development

Advisory Committee Liesel Evans Century Films

André Singer Spring Films

Liz Mermin

Ashok Prasad Nigel Fischer Head of Talks & Sessions

Olivia Parkin Hospitality Runner Trainee

Paul Hayes Showroom Production Coordinator

Sarah Harvey Head of Press

Vicki Rolley Box Office Coordinator

Carol Nahra Carolyn Payne National Geographic International Cat Cooper Elfin Productions Catherine Allen Limina Charlie Phillips The Guardian Christina Burnett Wide Eye Pictures Danny Horan BBC

Nikki Aslatt Festival Publicist

Oriana Franceschi Talks & Sessions Assistant

River Ferris Marketing Manager

Sarah Howe Alternate Realities Programme Coordinator

Mona Lisa Head of Dogumentaries

Dick Fontaine National Film and Television School

Lucy Baxter Mandrake Films Martin Rosenbaum Lone Star Productions

Carol Nahra Documentary Journalist, Lecturer and Producer Manish Agarwal Film Programmer

Sophie Brown Film Programme and Journalist Thomas Logoreci Filmmaker

Andrew Moore

Joe Jefford

Angel Aheto-Tsegah

Kellianne Cadavona

Anika Hutte

Kevin Coyne

Charlotte Imlah

Lauren Parker

Chris Bell

Lisa Buckby

Daniel Chadwin

Lucy Bailey

Emily Hilton

Lucy Barnes

Evelyn Griffiths

Melissa McVeigh

Fran Bundey

Molly Cowderoy

Francesca Eastment

Nick Gosling

Freyja Gillard

Nick Randles

Georgina Jessop

Paul Hayes

Hannah Grencis

Ryan McLean

Helen MacKenzie

Tom Jordan

Iona McEwan

Victoria Midgley

Jade Patel

Viviana Bianchini

Nick Crossland Joi Polloi Oli Harbottle Dogwoof Pegah Farahmand The Walt Disney Company Rachel Wexler Bungalow Town Productions Rajesh Thind Open Circuit Roger Graef Roger Graef Productions

Simran Hans Observer

Jolyon Rubinstein

Thomas Logoreci Filmmaker

May Abdalla Anagram

Emily Renshaw-Smith

Jan Bednarz Buzz Films

Sophie Brown Film Programme and Journalist

Venue Coordinators

Simon Chinn Red Box Films / Light Box

James Quinn Maverick

Paul Ridd Acquisitions and Distribution Executive Picturehouse UK

Matimba Kabalika BFI Network

Elizabeth Wood DocHouse

Iyare Igiehon S.O.U.L.

Onyeka Igwe Artist Filmmaker

Copywriters

Adam Gee Littledot

Andy Glynne Mosaic Films

Jenni Tuovinen Producer, IDFA Bertha Fund

Sue Sudbury Sequoia Films

Staff & Contributors

Staff & Contributors Festival Team

Festival Assistants

Taghi Amirani Amirani Films

George Bustin

Katherine Wei

Hannah Broadbent

Magdalena Musialkiewicz

Victoria Noble Discovery Networks International

Hannah Glossop

Sara Henderson

Joe Georgiou

Shona Ashton

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Sheffield Doc/Fest would like to thank the following people: Agnieszka Moody Creative Europe

Ian Wild & the team at Showroom Workstation

Mária Rakušanová

Aimee Harrison Joi Polloi

Irini Papadimitriou V&A

Marianne Lévy-Leblond

Amy Benjamin

Jane Tompkins Marketing Sheffield

Matt Hill

Jean-Jacques Peretti Sunny Side of the Doc

Oliver Kibblewhite

Jerome Grelet Novotel Sheffield

Paul Billington

Jez Lewis

Bungalow Town Productions

Professor Sally Wade

John Mothersole Sheffield City Council

Professor Vanessa Toulmin

Jonathan May British Council

Rachel Wexler

Judith Nichol BBC

Rebecca Gregory

Kate Murphy

Arts Council England

Rebecca Lichtenfeld

Kathryn Gomm BlueFin Insurers

Richard Eyre

Katie Brown JONAS Hotel

Robin Smith

British Council

Katy Turner

Ruby Chen

Colin Pons

Sheffield Hallam University

Katy Yudin

Daan Doornink

Kendall McQueen

Radio Film

Andy Whittaker Dogwoof

Asta Liutvaityte Jurys Inn Sheffield

Barry Vincent

Northend Creative Print Solutions

Becky Dyke Kenwood Hall

Ben Luxford Thanks

British Film Institute

Ben Roberts

British Film Institute

Bertie Millis

Virtual Umbrella

Bonny Tydeman Second Home

Christine Bardsley

VR Days Europe

Dan O’Meara NEON

Donata von Perfall Documentary Campus

Edward Highfield Sheffield City Council

Emma France

Marketing Sheffield

Gemma Thomason

Sheffield Hallam University

Helen Johnson Jurys Inn Sheffield

Future of StoryTelling

Principal Funders, Sponsors and Partners

Microsoft Mixed Reality

ARTE

Union Street

REWIND

Sheffield City Council

Major Sponsors

Sheffield Culture Consortium

University of Sheffield

Bungalow Town Productions

Sheffield Metropolitan

Bertha Foundation