Interviews
Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Ahmed Aaqil
Ahmed Aaqil
Aaqil Ahmed is Commissioning Editor Religion and Head of Religion & Ethics.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Ariana Meintana
Ariana Meintana
Ariana is a member of the EBU Documentary Group Bureau and the Steering Group for the Public Media Theme Day. She participated in many international meetings, fora and seminars of the EBU and CMCA (Science and Education Group, Memorial Sites collection, Health in Europe, European Man, Children’s Documentary Series, Chroniques Mediterraneennes) Conference des Programmes of ARTE.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Axel Arnö
Axel Arnö
Axel Arnö is Chair of the Eurovision Documentary Group and has been a commissioning editor at Sveriges Television (SVT) since 1996. He was the editor of SVT’s flagship current affairs magazine Striptease and later created and managed the investigative documentary strand Dokument inifrån. He has commissioned numerous award-winning domestic and international co-productions such as Why we Fight, The Beautiful Game and The Road to Europe.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Barbara Truyen and Marijke Huijbrets
Barbara Truyen and Marijke Huijbrets
Since May 2007 Barbara Truyen is Commissioning Editor Documentaries for Dutch Public Broadcaster VPR. She commissions for an authored slot and a popular culture slot. In 1998 she established BT Agency to raise finance and arrange international co-productions for documentaries in development. From 2001 to 2007 BT Agency ran the European office for Films Transit International, one of the world’s leading international distributors of quality documentaries. Barbara Truyen also gives workshops about international co-production, pitching and marketing.
Marijke Huijbregts, Commissioning Editor Arts, Avro Television
AVRO Close Up is a documentary slot about arts (photography, architecture, painting, sculpture, movies, design and fashion). Close Up features single documentaries only, with a duration of 52’ each.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Charles Schuerhoff
Charles Schuerhoff
Charles Schuerhoff has thirty years experience in the field of international television program distribution plus six years of production background. He founded and ran the distribution office of WGBH/Boston for seven years, where he was responsible for both co-productions and sales of the NOVA and VIETNAM WAR series, among others.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Charlotte Uzu
Charlotte Uzu
Charlotte Uzu - Head of International Development, Les Films D’Ici, Paris, France
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Claudia Schreiner
Claudia Schreiner
Claudia Schreiner is ARD's Department Head
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - David Cornwall
David Cornwall
With a decade of experience in programme sales the Managing Director, David Cornwall, previously headed up the sales department of a major international producer and distributor and has worked with clients ranging from the BBC, Channel 4, NBC USA, CBC Canada, Discovery, Nat Geo, NTV Japan and TV4 Sweden.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - David Hooper
David Hooper
In 1992 David formed Espresso TV initially as a TV production house, and in 1996 was approached to instigate a daily multi language sports programming/distribution service to Latin & Hispanic North America. Since 1999 David has specialised in International co-production and documentary distribution - a content catalogue covering over 700 hours in a variety of genre. David is also a visiting lecturer at Brighton University.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Dawn Porter
Dawn Porter
Dawn works closely with A&E’s programmers as well as the independent companies who produce for A&E, to assure that the programming airing on the network is commercially as well as editorially appropriate for the network and its many brands. Previously, she was Director of News Practices for ABC News advising news anchors, reporters and producers for World News Tonight, Good Morning America and 20/20. She helped develop long form documentary projects and breaking news stories.
Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Erik Van Heeswijk
Erik Van Heeswijk
Chief Editor VPRO Digital, VPRO
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Flora Gregory
Flora Gregory
Flora joined Al Jazeera English (AJE), the global English speaking news and current affairs channel, as Editor of Witness, setting up the flagship documentary strand for launch in November 2006.
AJE broadcasts out of Qatar to 200 million homes worldwide and is part of the Al Jazeera Network. Witness acquires and commissions films, featuring character-led stories, providing an insight into the world’s key events as they impact on the daily lives of ordinary people.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Greg Sanderson
Greg Sanderson
Greg joined BBC Arts in August 2010, where he is responsible for The Review Show and works across the slate, including flagship arts strand Imagine. After working in both production and development for some of the UK’s leading production companies, Greg Sanderson joined the BBC as the Commissioning Executive and Executive Producer of the corporation’s world-renowned documentary strand Storyville. He was responsible for commissioning and overseeing a substantial proportion of Storyville each year – recent titles include: Sync or Swim, Sons of Perdition, Simon Mann’s African Coup, The Marathon Boy and Out of the Ashes.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Iikka Vehkalahti
Iikka Vehkalahti
Executive Producer for YLE TV2 Documentaries, Finland since 1998. Executive Producer for projects Steps for the Future (steps.co.za), Another Finland (toinensuomi.net) and Why Democracy? (whydemocracy.net). TV2 Documentaries broadcasts weekly the best of Finnish and foreign documentaries. The films deal with a broad variety of topics from very personal and touching stories to the significant issues and events concerning the whole world around us.
Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Ivan Hronec
Ivan Hronec
Ivan Hronec has been working in television and film since 1995. He is the Founder and a partner of SPI International in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, the leading independent film distribution company in Central Europe and also the Founder and General Manager of Film Europe, a distribution company of European films. Film Europe is also a broadcaster of film channels KinoCS, DokuCS and MuzikaCS and is currently developing European film channel EuropaCinema.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Kerime Senyucel
Kerime Senyucel
Kerime is a Commissioning Editor and a Documentary Producer at TRT in Turkey. She is a member of the EBU documentary group and has a filmography stretching back 30 years. Her films have been screened across the world, and awards include the ABU (Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union) in 2003 (for Zeugma A Roman Town in Anatolia) and Radio & TV Journalists Associatıon in 2006 (for Ottoman’s Exile – Before and After).
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Klara Grunning Harris
Klara Grunning Harris
Emmy Award winning Grunning-Harris is a freelance production, distribution, financing consultant and executive producer for film, TV and media world-wide. Has expertise in international co-production, content and editing for distribution and financing, versioning for different market and works closely to customize strategies for all aspects of production. Recently Grunning-Harris was the Vice President and International Commissioning Editor, Acquisitions, Co-production & Fiction Executive of KUDOS Family, a start up media co-production and distribution company based in Stavanger, Norway, and branch in Berkeley CA, where she buys and sells films, creates strategies for world wide distribution and outreach. She also co-produces and co-finances independent productions with the intension to guide them into a successful and profitable distribution situation. Prior, she worked as the Coordinating Producer for ITVS International (The Independent Television Service) for just over nine years, to bring international and domestic documentaries, series and dramas to US television broadcast and digital platforms. She was responsible for negotiating co-production and distribution agreements, manage the programs through completion (schedule, budget and editing), reversion and delivery to multiple US broadcasters according to required specifications including legal and technical standards.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Lazslo Demeter
Lazslo Demeter
After studying Law in Budapest, László started working at Duna Televison, as administrator of film festivals and foreign connections. In 2000, László was relocated to the editorial office of Minoritates Mundi. He was Assistant to Director László Cselény, with whom he created a series on the minorities of the World, which has won the well-known Europe Award. László has been the director’s assistant on over 80 documentaries, travel movies and portraits. At present he works as the director of Programme Acquisition.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Louise Rosen
Louise Rosen
Louise Rosen is a Media Executive with over 25 years experience in all areas of the international television and film business.
She has been honoured to have among her projects Oscar, Emmy, Sundance, Prix Italia and International Emmy-winning films. Louise is a Tutor and lecturer each year at Documentary Campus Master School and has been a featured speaker at many conferences and film festivals, including Real Screen and Hot Docs.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Marianne LEvy Leblond
Marianne Levy Leblond
Marianne Lévy-Leblond is currently Commissioning Editor with the Documentary Unit at ARTE France. Prior to this she has worked as on-line producer with different production companies.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Mark Atkin
Mark Atkin
Mark Atkin is a director of Crossover Labs, the Head of the Documentary Campus Masterschool, Marketplace Consultant to the Australian International Documentary Conference and an executive producer.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Michael Norton
Michael Norton
Michael Norton is the co-founder of BuzzBnk, a crowd-funding platform for social ventures, launched in 2010 and the Director of Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action, which promotes social entrepreneurship, develops and launches social ventures and supports social entrepreneurs (www.civa.org.uk/michaelnorton. html).
In addition he took the leading role in setting up UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, which received the Millennium Legacy of £100 million and established UnLtd India.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Michael Treves
Michael Treves
Born in 1963, Paris, France. Michael holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), Israel; and Graduate (BA) in Social Science, Tel Aviv University. In 2003, Michael Treves established JMT Films: a Tel Aviv based Distribution, Co-Productions and International Sales Company for Israeli and International Documentaries and Fiction Films. Michael exclusively represents the World Sales of numerous Award Winning documentaries, including ‘Sisai’, ‘The General Store’, and ‘Description of a Memory’.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Robert West
Robert West
Robert West is Co-founder and Executive Director of Working Films — an international non- profit organisation committed to linking high-quality, non-fiction media to serious activism. Now in its 10th year, with offices in New York, North Carolina and London, Working Films has partnered or collaborated on audience and community engagement and non- traditional distribution efforts with celebrated documentary campaigns, including: Dirty Business, Freedom Riders, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Everything’s Cool, Moving to Mars, Erasing David and many others.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Ryan Harrington
Ryan Harrington
Ryan Harrington is the Director of Documentary Programmes at the Tribeca Film Institute, where he oversees the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund, the TFI Documentary Fund and the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund; while developing other initiatives and programmes that support and promote non-fiction filmmaking.
Independently he is currently producing a feature doc with Participant Media and filmmakers Kristi Jacobson & Lori Silverbush.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Sally Wilson
Sally Wilson
Sally-Ann Wilson has over 20 years experience as a documentary Producer/Director/Executive Producer making documentaries for the BBC, Granada and Anglia. Passionate about reflecting the wider world to UK audiences, she decided in 2001 to combine a background in development with her programme making experience and launched the CBA-DFID Broadcast Media Scheme. The Scheme has provided development funding for more than 150 programmes enabling producers to research and develop programme ideas in and about the developing world.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Simon Kilmurry
Simon Kilmurry
Simon Kilmurry joined American Documentary | POV in 1999 and was appointed Executive Director in 2006. Kilmurry oversees all aspects of American Documentary’s programmes and operations, and serves as Executive Producer of POV, PBS’s award-winning documentary series. He has been involved in the production of over 160 POV films, and has helped lead new initiatives to increase POV’s reach and diversity, including the Diverse Voices Project, for emerging filmmakers, and the Webby-winning online series Borders.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Slava Rubin and Jeanie Finlay
Slava Rubin and Jeanie Finlay
Slava Rubin is CEO and co-founder of IndieGoGo - a collaborative funding platform - which provides the tools and process for funding creative, entrepreneurial, or cause projects. The service is used in 133 countries. Slava also is a partner in Distribber - a digital distribution service - providing access to iTunes, Amazon, and Netflix while taking no rights or revenue share.
Jeanie Finlay is an award-winning British artist and film-maker who creates intimate, funny and personal documentary films and artworks. She creates compelling portraits of outsiders, pretenders and people who change how they look in order to be themselves.
Credits include feature documentary Goth Cruise for IFC (USA, 75 min) – most downloaded title ever on IFC, the critically acclaimed Teenland (BBC4 60 min) and the interactive project Home-Maker.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Stephen Segaller
Stephen Segaller
Stephen Segaller joined WNET.ORG in September, 2008. He has responsibility for all national and local programming. Among the acclaimed productions Segaller supervises are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets of the Dead, Need To Know, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Cyberchase, SundayArts, and Reel 13.
Segaller has been a journalist, producer, director, writer and author whose work has been broadcast and published on both sides of the Atlantic and all over the world.
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Sheffield Doc/Fest - Interviews 2010 - Tomoko Okutsu
Tomoko Okutsu
Okutsu started working for NHK in 1992 as a TV director. She has directed live shows, news magazine shows and documentaries mainly in the field of current affairs. Okutsu was an establishing member of a new style news magazine show TsunagaruTV@human (ConnectingTV@human) in 2006. In 2008 Okutsu joined the international co-production/acquisition team and is currently in charge of the World Documentary slot on NHK’s satellite channel. She is looking for co-production and acquisition on documentaries mainly on current affairs.
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Documentary Campus' 10th anniversary and 3rd Symposium 2010
The Future of Media
From 10 to 12 September 2010 the training initiative Documentary Campus celebrated its 10th anniversary in Munich with a weekend full of high-quality content and valuable networking opportunities. The 3rd DC Symposium 2010 was accompanied by special screenings of 3D documentaries Cane Toads - The Conquest and The Queen in 3D attended by the filmmakers.
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http://www.documentary-campus.com/v2/page/symposia/50/Documentary Campus 2nd Open Training Session “Virtually Yours!”
Krakow, Poland - 5 & 6 June 2010
These interviews about new media and filmmaking in the digital world were conducted during the Documentary Campus Symposium in Krakow in June 2010.
The following international experts shared their knowledge with us:
- Heather Croall, Festival Director, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK
- Ingrid Kopp, Director, Shooting People, US Office, New York, USA
- Andreas Lemos, Director of Acquisitions, Babelgum, London, UK
- Erkko Lyytinen, Artistic Director, DocPoint Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
- Leena Pasanen, Coordinator of Programmes / Executive Producer, YLE Fact and Culture, Helsinki, Finland
- Stefano Tealdi, Director / Producer, Stefilm, Turin, Italy
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http://www.documentary-campus.com/v2/page/symposia/49/Documentary Campus 1st Open Training Session “My Money, My Film”
Graz, Austria - 20 & 21 March 2010
These interviews about alternative film financing were conducted during the Documentary Campus Symposium in Graz on 20 & 21 March 2010.
The following international experts shared their knowledge with us:
- Andrew Buchanan, Freelance Executive Producer & Producer, United Kingdom
- Erik Bäckman, Head of Audience Insight, YLE Fact and Culture, Finland
- Jakob Høgel, Artistic Director, New Danish Screen, Denmark
- Juha Rajamäki, Secretary General, The Church Media Foundation, Finland
- Maarten van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Producer/Cameraman, Greenpeace International, The Netherlands
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Documentary Campus Masterschool Final Pitching Session
Leipzig, Germany - 24 & 25 October 2009
These interviews were conducted during the Documentary Campus Masterschool Final Pitching Session in Leipzig on 24 & 25 October 2009.
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Documentary Campus 3rd Open Training Session "Documentaries: Secrets of Success"
Chania, Crete / Greece - 3, 4 & 5 July 2009
The interviews were conducted during the 3rd Open Training Session "Documentaries: Secrets of Success" in Chania on 3-5 July 2009. The following programmers and producers from across the globe shared their recipes of success with us:
Tabitha Jackson, More4, UK - Fiona Campbell, BBC, UK - Elizabeth Klinck, Elizabeth Klinck Research, Canada - David Glover, Channel 4, UK - Alan Hayling, Renegade Pictures, UK - Jihan El-Tahri, Director & Writer, France.
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Documentary Campus 2nd Open Training Session "Faster, Leaner, Keener, Meaner"
Manchester, United Kingdom - 23 & 24 May 2009
The interviews were conducted during the 2nd Open Training Session "Faster, Leaner, Keener, Meaner - Survival of the Fittest in Factual" in Manchester on 23 & 24 May 2009. The following programmers and producers from across the globe shared their knowledge on topics like 360° & how to survive in the current difficult economic climate with us:
Alex Connock, Ten Alps, UK – Mark Wild, National Geographic Television International, UK – Laura Fleury, A&E Television Network. USA – Barbara Truyen, VPRO TV, The Netherlands – Sascha Hartmann, ARTE France, France – Amy Greenlaw, PortalVideo, USA.
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1st Discovery Campus Open Training Session "Seriously on Series"
Munich, Germany - 7 & 8 March 2009
The interviews were conducted during the 1st Open Training Session "Seriously on Series" in Munich on 7th and 8th of March 2009. The following programmers and producers from across the globe shared their knowledge on documentary series with us:
Richard Bradley, Lion TV, UK – Hans Robert Eisenhauer, ZDF/ARTE, Germany – Tom Koch, PBS International, USA – Christine Lubrano, IFC, USA – Olivier Mille, Artline Films, France – Lynne Polak, EBU, Switzerland – Jan Ronca, Fox International Channels, Italy – Thomas Wartmann, Filmquadrat.dok, Germany – Lisa Weinbrenn, Discovery Networks Europe, UK.
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Cineuropa Industry Report: European Documentary Industry
In collaboration with Documentary Campus, EURODOC, and reelisor
This section dedicated to the European Documentary Industry and published by Cineuropa will be regularly updated with interviews, videos, articles and news regarding the documentary sector and its rapid changes. Here is a selection of experts who already contributed to the guide:
Tue Steen Muüller, International Consultant on Documentary, Denmark – Wilbur Leguebe, RTBF, Belgium – Jacque Bidou, JBA Production, France – Annette Scheurich, Marco Polo Film, Germany – Olaf Grunert, ARTE G.E.I.E., France – Barbara Truyen, VPRO TV, The Netherlands – Mark Wild, National Geographic Television, USA – Tom Koch, PBS, USA – Laura Fleury, A&E TV Network, USA – Peter Symes, Documentary Campus Masterschool, United Kingdom – Charlotte Uzu, Les Films d’Ici, France – Vardan Hovhannisyan, Bars Media, Armenia – Bruno Nahon, Zadig Productions, France.
http://cineuropa.org/dossier.aspx?lang=en&treeID=1703&documentID=90814