Doc Counseling: March 8 - 13
Doc Counseling is a service offered to attending filmmakers, providing hands-on, one-on-one consultancy sessions on topics such as festival strategy, documentary funding, creative documentary development, pitching new projects, distribution, Media desk help, TV buys, audience development, production sustainability and more.
This year’s Doc Counseling experts are:
Dionysia Arvanitou
Production Support Advisor & Project Coordinator - Film Office Central Macedonia Greece
Let’s talk about: Film Office Central Macedonia: Meet the local industry
Dates: 8/3, 11-13/3
Susana Fernandez
Head of DOK.forum - DOK.fest
Let’s talk about: Festivals & Markets strategy
Dates: 9/3
Emma Doxiadi
Filmmaker, Founder - Everybodies
Let’s talk about: Sustainable productions, green storytelling
Dates: 9-13/3
Adam Papliński & Katarzyna Szarecka
Co-founder, coordinator & Co-founder, Consultant - Pitch the Doc
Let’s talk about: Pitching projects on markets & beyond, presentation and structuring of the project, market / industry strategy
Dates: 9-12/3
Avinash Changa
CEO - WeMakeVR
Let’s talk about: WeMakeVR can provide consultancy services for Immersive Productions
Dates: 9,11/3
David Amiel
Commissioning Editor - France Télévisions
Let’s talk about: Broadcasters / Commissioning
Dates: 12/03
Anna Kasimati
Head of Creative Europe MEDIA Desk
Let’s talk about: Funding opportunities from the MEDIA program
Dates: 10,13/3
Veronika Fidrmuc Dvořáčková
East Silver Manager - Institute of Documentary Film (IDF)
Let’s talk about: Distribution & Festival Strategy/ Market Positioning & Film Circulation/ Regional Focus: Central & Eastern European Documentary Landscape
Dates: 10,12/3
Raphaëlle Cittanova
Industry Sessions Manager - Cannes Docs, Marché du Film du Festival de Cannes
Producer - Itsi Bitsi Films
Let’s talk about: Pitching new projects, documentary funding, festivals
Dates: 10,11/3
Bastien Gauclere
Head of Industry - FIPADOC
Let’s talk about: Festival strategy, pitching forum, producers networking opportunities
Dates: 10,11/3
Anna Glogowski
Festival programmer - IT'S ALL TRUE(Brazil) and FIPADOC (France)
Let’s talk about: DOCS-UP FUND, international co-production, festival strategies
Dates: 10,12/3
Malin Hüber
Producer - HER Film
Let’s talk about: Producing, International co-production, Hybrid documentaries
Dates: 10,11/3
Stella Ntavara
CPH:LAB & INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition manager - CPH:DOX International Documentary Film festival Copenhagen
Let’s talk about: Immersive programming at festival, training opportunities
Dates: 10/3
Jan Rofekamp
Consultant - Films Transit
Let’s talk about: International sales and Marketing
Dates: 11,12/3
Abby Sun
Director of Artist Programs - International Documentary Association
Let’s talk about: Positioning a project to achieve your goals, co-production in the U.S. (the U.S. does not have co-production treaties), developing your writing and speaking as a maker
Dates: 10,11/3
Maria Colomer Canyelles
Head of Programming & Artistic Co-director - DocsBarcelona
Let’s talk about: Documentaries that will be ready by 2026, or possible coproductions!
Dates: 11,12/3
Andrea Coluccia
Project officer - Creative Europe Desk Italy MEDIA
Let’s talk about: MEDIA subprogram
Dates: 12/3
Marion Schmidt
Consultant - DAE, #DocSafe
Let’s talk about: Industry advice, networking, well-being and "safety"
Dates: 12/3
Nadja Tennstedt
Director of DOK Industry - DOK Leipzig
Let’s talk about: Festivals, markets
Dates: 12/3
Johanna Tonini
Acquisitions & Sales manager - Movies for Festivals
Let’s talk about: Film festival strategies, distribution, and different circuits of distribution
Dates: 10,11/3
Zoe Kandyla
Head of Development & Production | Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center
Let's talk about: Co-producing with Greece
Dates: 10-12/3
Jenny Luukkonen
Co-production executive - Film i Väst
Let’s talk about: Co-producing with the Nordics
Dates: 10,11/3
Aurélien Marsais
Programmer - Visions du Réel
Let’s talk about: Festivals and Industry
Dates: 11,12/3
Yianna Sarri
Director of Promotion Hellas Film - Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center
Let’s talk about: Film promotion
Dates: 12,13/3
Iliana Zakopoulou
Head of Promotion & International Cultural Events - Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center
Let’s talk about: Film promotion
Dates: 12,13/3
Angeliki-Lina Milonaki
Head - Film Office Central Macedonia Greece
Let’s talk about: Locations and more: Why film your documentary in Central Macedonia?
Dates: 12,13/3
Apostolia Papaioannou
Director of Mediterranean Film Institute
Let's talk about: MFI Script 2 Film Workshops
Dates: 12,13/3
