Patricia Finneran, Senior Consultant with the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program is set to present the ‘Meet the Experts’ session on International Financing, one of the three key areas in documentary production. Sales Agent Peter Jäger of Autlook Filmsales will give the session International Sales and Promotion, and multi-award winning filmmaker John Appel (The Last Victory) will introduce Documentary Development.
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program provides year-round support to non-fiction contemporary-issue filmmakers internationally. Many of the documentaries that are funded by the Sundance Fund have been nominated and won awards such as ‘Which Way Home’ by Rebecca Cammisa which was Oscar Nominated this year for Best Feature Documentary.
As previously reported, the special programme for film professionals the festival will also schedule One-to-One meetings for Irish filmmakers with Peter Jäger, and UK distributor Kimberley Anwen, from Journeyman Pictures, who will discuss projects at different stages and consider their international appeal and potential sales market with the filmmakers. Autlook Filmsales is one of Europe's leading sales agencies for feature documentaries and represents films by leading directors like Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Peter Mettler, Gonzalo Arijón, Georg Misc, Peter Liechti, Andreas Horvath and many more. Journeyman Pictures, one the UK’s largest independent distributors of factual programmes and documentary films offers independent filmmakers and broadcasters a focused distribution outlet.
’Meet the Experts’ takes place on Saturday 13 June.
Pre-Registration is necessary for the One-to-One event and spaces are limited. See www.guthgafa.com for further details about the application process.
In other news, this year’s Guth Gafa opening film is to be the Scottish documentary, ‘The Edge of Dreaming’ by Amy Hardie. The film had its World Premiere at IDFA in the main Feature length Documentary competition in November 2009. It is a story about premonition, family and the power and reach of the human mind. Amy dreams of the death of her favourite horse only to wake to find him dead. She attempts to ignore the coincidence but when she dreams of her late husband telling her that she will die within the year she embarks on a journey that takes her to a shaman, a neuroscientist, and the gritty realism of a hospital bed.
For full details on our special industry events visit www.guthgafa.com or call the festival team on 074 9180730.
