BREAKTHROUGH DRINKS

Megan Gelstein is the Chief Program Officer of Catapult Film Fund. Catapult is dedicated to supporting nonfiction filmmakers with critical early stage funding and mentorship to launch distinctive, story-driven, and cinematic films. 

Mads K. Mikkelsen is Head of Programme at CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. He also runs various parallel screening series and cinema clubs, teaches film history at the Danish Film School, and is a frequent contributor to national and international magazines and publications about film.

Overseeing all our documentary films for the international market mainly from independent producers from the Nordic region as well as helping the producers with getting their films financed. Recent films: Praying for Armageddon – A Storm Foretold - The Hostage Takers - The Mole - Last Men in Aleppo.

2000-2019: IDFA senior programmer 2007-2013: Advisor Dutch Media Fund 2020: Guest Documentary Programmer Nordisk Panorama 2020-now: Started e u R O P E doconsultancy. EAVE/SOURCES 2 2021-now: festival and advisor and programmer MIRAGE 2022-now: Advisor Sheffield DocFest

BÁLINT RÉVÉSZ is a director/producer from Budapest. He's the founder behind the UK based Gallivant Film and the Hungarian based Kontra alternative film distribution agency.. On his current projects he's collaborating with NYTimes Op-Docs, IDFA Bertha Fund, CNC, HBO Max and ARTE France. ---- KIX The Story of a Street Kid (2023) GRANNY PROJECT (2017) ANOTHER NEWS STORY (2017)

Dávid Mikulán is an Intermedia artist and filmmaker. His first feature documentary entitled KIX is being co-produced in 3 different countries, with the involvement of major broadcasters (ARTE, HBO etc.). His multidisciplinary work's main focus is how public spaces have an effect on social structure.

Sean Flynn is the Program Director of Points North Institute, home of Camden IFF, where he oversees the curation and design of several international filmmaker grants and fellowships, a 2-day documentary conference, and an immersive media exhibition, all focused on the art of independent documentary.

John Turner is SVP & Head of Documentaries for IMAX Entertainment where he oversees the development of documentary films and non-fiction content for the IMAX global network. Prior to IMAX, he was a Development Consultant with Netflix Documentary Features and was creator of the series, Dirty Money.

Kiss is a Hungarian producer with 10+ years of experience. Her first feature length doc was A WOMAN CAPTURED (IDFA, Sundance, EFA Best Doc nominee 2018). Her second feature KIX is premiering at CPH:DOX 2024. She is also a business coach dedicated to improving the industry's mental health.

Jane nurtures and supports emerging documentary-makers to shape their stories in story labs across the world. She is Consultant Editor for the documentary funding foundation The Whickers and Director of UK-based production company beechtobeach, recently co-directing the feature documentary My Bones Are Woven. She regularly trains people to make documentaries and dramas on smartphones.

Rikke Tambo Andersen is a producer from Copenhagen, Denmark, with a background in Film and Media Studies, Management of Creative Business Processes as well as graduating from the Danish film school Super16 as a producer in 2016. Rikke works with both fiction and documentary.

Opal H. Bennett is an Emmy-winning Senior Producer at POV and Executive Producer at POV Shorts. Previously, Opal was Shorts Programmer and Dir of Artist Development at DOC NYC and Senior Programmer at Athena Film Festival. A Columbia Law grad, Opal holds a MSc from the LSE and a BA from NYU.

Brianna is Head of Documentary Features for Amazon MGM where she focuses on bringing premium documentary features to Amazon’s global audience. Brianna has been at Amazon Studios for 12 years where she's overseen diverse slate of narrative and documentary features.

Signe Byrge Sørensen is a four-time Oscar® nominee for producing The Act of Killing (2012), The Look of Silence (2014) and Flee (2022). She co-founded Final Cut for Real ApS in 2009. She has an MA (Int. dev. & comm. Studies), did EURODOC (2003), EAVE (2010), ACE (2018) and Inside Pictures (2021/22).

Madeline Robert has been working for Visions du Réel (CH) since 2014, on both the Programming and Industry sides. She has just been appointed head of the Swiss fund dedicated to cinema from countries with a low production capacity: visions sud est. Madeline is also producer and a regular tutor, member of funding committees or juror, with particular expertise in documentary films.

Handling a large catalogue of both fictions and documentaries, The Party Film Sales is committed to promoting new voices in art-house cinema worldwide. We have at heart to foster bold vision and fresh ideas through our sales and TV department.

Emma joined Storyville as Strand Editor in February 2023. Emma has worked in documentaries for 25 years as a film editor, director, executive producer and most recently she was Creative Director at internationally renowned independent production company, Brook Lapping.

Malikkah is the Director of Industry and Education at DOC NYC, the largest doc film festival in the United States. She's a co-founder of DocuMentality, an initiative focused on advancing discussions and offering consultations about mental health within the global documentary industry.