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CPH:DOX
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March 19 – 30, 2025

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WHO IS WHO?

15:30 - 17:00 Sunday 17th Mar 2024 / 90 min

This session will bring participants closer to industry representatives, showcasing different types of gatekeepers and what they look for in projects. We will focus on connecting emerging voices to the established ecosystem and initiate a forward-thinking and inclusive action process to help up-coming talent thrive. Divided into three panels; each led by different types of industry representatives: broadcasters; distributors and sales agents; and film festival programmers.

Speakers

Kim Christiansen

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.

John Turner

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.

Martijn te Pas

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

Mads Mikkelsen

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.

Opal H. Bennett

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 Oh

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.

Madeline Robert

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.

Estelle de Araujo

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 Hindley

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.