FOLKESTONE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
Industry Day
Friday 18th October 2024
10am – 6pm
INDUSTRY DAY IS NOW FULL. IF YOU’D LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITING LIST, PLEASE EMAIL – info@folkestonedocumentaryfestival.co.uk
Quarterhouse, 49 Tontine St, Folkestone, CT20 1JT
Calling local filmmakers, artists, and the doc-curious – want to get to know more about the UK documentary sector, who’s funding independent non-fiction films, moving image art, and immersive projects and meet with other film creatives and potential new collaborators?
This free day of panels, roundtables, and friendly networking is for you. The Folkestone Documentary Festival team will be in conversation with talented filmmakers about documentary shorts, features, and hybrid projects. Open to all, whatever level of experience.
If you have any questions about the Industry Day, or if you have any accessibility requirements to be able to attend, please email info@folkestonedocumentaryfestival.co.uk
Industry day schedule
9:30 – Doors Open
9:45 – 10:00 – Introductions
10:00 – 11:00 – Screening of our Filmmaking Challenge entries (60 mins)
11:00 – 11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15 – 12 – Filmmaker Masterclass – Tamara Kotevska
We’re delighted to welcome the director of our opening night film The Walk, Tamara Kotevska, to talk about her career in documentaries. Tamara Kotevska is the Oscar®-nominated director of HONEYLAND, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize and Special Jury Award for Impact for Change. It also went on to become the first documentary to ever receive Academy Award® nominations for both Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature. THE WALK is her follow-up feature.
12:00 – 1:15 – The Producer-Director Relationship (75 mins)
Producers are crucial for the smooth running of a documentary production, but for directors used to working alone, finding the right one can be an intimidating prospect. So how do a producer and a director work together on documentaries, and what should they be looking for in one another? Featuring a panel of top UK producers speaking from experience, and a case study of new feature documentary Grand Theft Hamlet (SXSW Documentary Feature Jury Award) with the producer and directors
Speakers include Nikki Parrott (Tigerlily Two), Laura Shacham (She Makes), Becca Wolff (Grasp The Nettle), Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls (Grand Theft Hamlet), Tolu Stedford (Story Compound), Christo Hird (Dartmouth Films) and Rebecca Mark Lawson (Tyke Films)
1:15 – 2:15 – Lunch break
2:15 – 3:30 – Artists, Documentary Making and Celluloid (75mins)
Many documentary makers started as moving image artists, and documentarists can often be as at home in the gallery as they are in the cinema. This is especially true when they’re shooting on film, giving a richness to real life. In this session, we’ll meet documentary makers, artists and exhibitors working with reality on celluloid. In this session, we’ll meet documentary makers, artists and exhibitors working with celluloid and we’ll discuss bridging the artists’ film and documentary worlds
Speakers include Georgia Bradburn (Filmmaker, The Stimming Pool), Sapphire Goss (Filmmaker), Paul Daly (Filmmaker), Maria Palacios Cruz (Open City Docs), Dawn Bothwell (Berwick Film and Media Arts)
Hosted by Jo Nolan (Screen South)
3:30 – 5:00 – Funder and Exhibitor Plenary (90 mins)
Your chance to hear from documentary commissioning/funding, distribution and exhibition executives and ask them anything. Speakers include representatives from BFI Doc Society, Dogwoof, The Guardian, The Whickers, London Short Film Festival, Together Films, and Arts Council England
5:00 – 6:00 – Talent Mixer hosted by BFI Doc Society and Screen South (60mins)
Mix and match with your fellow filmmakers and creative storytellers working across the South East, meet new collaborators and chat with the speakers from the day
