Trust me, I’m a documentary filmmaker!
Presented by Documentary Campus
TIME
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022.
17:30 – 18:30 (CET)
LOCATION
Hotel Europe Atrium
Today documentary films have the power to make sense of a complex world, deliver knowledge and emotion, uncover and fight injustice, open the eyes of the audience towards essential issues. They reach a large audience. With great power comes great responsibility. How do we deliver fact-based stories in the fake-news era? How do we gain, as opposed to lose, the trust of viewers? How do we deal with censorship? What is the filmmaker’s responsibility towards the characters he or she films? How do we keep control of the message after the film is completed? Those and other questions will be discussed with a panel of filmmakers and field experts.
Speakers
- Henrik Underbjerg - Advisor, IMS (International Media Support), DK
- Madeleine Leroyer - Documentary filmmaker and impact producer, Little Big Story / Impact Social Club, FR
- Mladen Kovačević - Director, Horopter Film Production, RS
- Nataša Urban - Filmmaker / Director, Medieoperatørene Oslo, NO
Moderated by
- Christian Popp - Producer and documentary film consultant, YUZU Productions, FR
HENRIK UNDERBJERG
HENRIK UNDERBJERG is an adviser for IMS, a media development organisation working to enable local media to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue. The organisation prioritises film productions focusing on issues of current affairs, gender equality, cultural diversity, and human rights. Henrik is also a producer that has worked on more than 40 fiction and documentary films, awarded or nominated by film festivals and academies such as: IDFA, Emmy, Sundance, Berlinale, Hot Docs, Grierson, Sheffield, Los Angeles, Gothenburg, London and Tehran. Henrik is the founder of Stray Dog Productions. He is an EAVE 2003 graduate and has attended Film Business School and Twelve for the Future at DOKweb. He comes with a university background from studies in Literary History, American Studies and Mathematics and Economics.
MADELEINE LEROYER
MADELEINE LEROYER is an awarded French documentary filmmaker. Her debut film #387 premiered at IDFA in 2019. The success of #387 was followed by an international campaign called #numbersintonames, aimed at helping families of missing migrants reunite with their loved ones through search and identification efforts. The campaign is supported by several NGOs and funds (La Cimade, SOS Méditerranée, OAK Foundation). One of its core projects is mobile cinema with families of missing migrants. The first circuit is to take place in June 2022. #numbersintonames was nurtured by Doc Society and pitched at Good Pitch Europe 2018 and FIFDH Impact Days 2019. With #387, Madeleine participated in the 2018 Accelerator Lab (Chicken&Egg Pictures). Madeleine's second film VOTE OR LOSE (ARTE, 2021), was awarded an Etoile de la Scam. A co-founder of the Impact Social Club, Madeleine is resolutely working on bringing impact tools to the documentary scene. She is also an active member of L’arbre and Unifrance.
MLADEN KOVAČEVIĆ
MLADEN KOVAČEVIĆ’s films have been selected by hundreds of festivals including Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, Karlovy Vary, IDFA, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, FIDMarseille, where they have won numerous awards. In the last several years, he has directed five films: UNPLUGGED (2013), WALL OF DEATH AND ALL THAT (2016), 4 YEARS IN 10 MINUTES (2018), MERRY CHRISTMAS, YIWU (2020), and ANOTHER SPRING (2022). Currently he has another feature documentary BEGINNINGS: POSSIBILITY OF PARADISE in production, and a fiction feature THEY DON'T WANT US HERE ANYMORE, in development.
NATAŠA URBAN
NATAŠA URBAN is a documentary film director and editor working professionally since 2005. Her films have been screened at international film festivals worldwide and have received over 40 awards. They have aired on major TV networks, including ARTE, RAI, ZDF, and PBS, and form part of educational programs in schools around the globe, from Ghana to Mongolia. Nataša graduated from Bucharest's University of Arts, in the Department of Photography and Video and holds a Master's degree in Photography, from the University of Arts in Belgrade. THE ECLIPSE, her first feature-length film, has recently won the prestigious DOX:AWARD, the main award at the CPH:DOX 2022, as well as the Doc Alliance Award Special Mention. Born and raised in Novi Sad, Serbia, Nataša lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
CHRISTIAN POPP
CHRISTIAN POPP, upon obtaining his Master’s degree in History and Arts, worked as a commissioning editor for ARTE, between the years of 1998 and 2005. From 2005 to 2010 he worked as a producer in Berlin for interscience film. In 2012 he co-founded YUZU Productions in Paris. Over the course of ten years, his company has produced 50 documentaries. The films Christian signs as a producer have screened at Festival de Cannes, IDFA, Sundance, Berlinale and more. He has piled up more than 20 years of experience in consulting, mentoring and moderating at various documentary events (IDFAcademy, EAVE, Visions du Réel, Documentary Campus). In addition to his role as producer and expert, he was Head of Industry at the 2020 and 2021 editions of FIPADOC. Christian was an IDFA Jury member in 2017 and a member of the ARTE-Jury of the Duisburger Filmwoche from 2019 to 2021.