TIDF28 Doc Counseling

Doc Counseling continues this year with an exciting lineup of experts providing 1:1 consultancy sessions designed for the festival and industry participants. This is a service offered to attending filmmakers on topics such as: festival strategy, documentary funding, creative documentary development, pitching new projects, distribution, Media desk help, TV buys, audience development, and production sustainability, among others.

Artistic Director | DocsBarcelona

Let's talk about: Your film!

Adviser | Norwegian Film Institute

Let's talk about: Co-production with Norway

Owner of E Klinck Research / Archive Producer

Let's talk about: Archive and music rights and clearances

Consultant | Films Transit

Let's talk about: International Sales and Marketing

Head of the Film Project Assessment, Evaluation and Approval Unit | Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (ΕΚΚΟΜΕΔ)

Let's talk about: Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center's Selective funding

Head of Sales and Acquisitions | Impronta Films

Let's talk about: Festival Strategies and Sales

Producer | Parabellum Film

Let's talk about: Co-production; German funding landscape; funding and festival strategies;

Project Manager | Locarno Film Festival

Let's talk about: Film festivals, film markets, acquisitions, production

Founder and coordinator | Pitch the Doc

Let's talk about: Pitching techniques and tips, pitching packages, building projects' market recognition and visibility, projects' development.

Head of Industry and Development | Doclisboa - International Film Festival

Let's talk about: Festival strategy, creative documentary development

WeMakeVR.com

Let's talk about: Immersive, XR, VR, Digital Preservation

Head of Docs up Fund

Let's talk about: Pitching new projects, creative documentary development

Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Greece | Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center

Let's talk about: Creative Europe MEDIA | Funding & Training Opportunities

Documentaries Commissioning Editor | DW

Let's talk about: Getting Broadcasters on board, finding co-production-possibilities with broadcasters, what is a good exposé? co-production or pre-sale? How to deal with commissioning editors etc.

Senior Programmer, Biografilm Festival and Head of Industry, Bio to B – Industry Days Doc

Let's talk about: Opportunities to present Italian premieres at the festival and to showcase documentary projects at the industry days, with an overview of the different participation and development opportunities available.

Senior Industry Consultant | Sheffield DocFest

Let's talk about: Sales & festivals, co-productions

Head of Industry | Millennium Docs Against Gravity

Let's talk about: Get to know Millennium Docs Against Gravity F.F. and MDAG Industry

Executive Director | IDFA Bertha Fund

Let's talk about: Documentary funding and fair coproduction

Director of DOK Industry | DOK Leipzig

Let's talk about: Festivals, markets

Manager, Artist Accelerator & Women | Sundance Institute

Let's talk about: Documentary funding and grant applications (US), Sundance Institute artist programs, project development

Supervision and Audit of Audiovisual Investment Projects | HFAC

Let's talk about: Cash rebate

Head of Impact Distribution and Audience Engagement | Lightdox

Let's talk about: Sales / Programming

Coordinator | Cannes Docs - Marché du Film

Let's talk about: Cannes Docs - Marché du Film

Producer and Buyer | WELT TV (a part of Premium Gruppe GmbH)

Let's talk about: Creative documentary development, TV buys (in connection with pitching new projects)

Project Manager | Balkan Documentary Center

Let's talk about: Creative documentary development, TV buys (in connection with pitching new projects)

DAE Documentary Association

Let's talk about: Networking Possibiliy, Associations, Festival/Markets

Head of Film Office-Central Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Let's talk about: Filming in Central Macedonia: Locations, opportunities, and creative collaborations