Navigating Bumpy RoadsCPH:CONFERENCE - Future at Our Fingertips - Production:Sustainability/ 16:30-17:30

NAVIGATING BUMPY ROADS

16:30-17:30 Wednesday 22.03, Social Cinema, Kunsthal Charlottenborg

With the documentary film market increasingly shaped by commercial entertainment entities, how can independent filmmakers sustain themselves? What role can talent agents, representing actors, artists, athletes – but also documentarians – play in navigating the challenging landscape of rapidly changing opportunities for their clients to make a living while finding a space for independent, artistic projects?

speakers

Amanda Lebow

Documentary Specialist and Distribution Strategist at Creative Artists Agency, USA

Jason Ishikawa

Senior Executive and Co-Head of Sales at Cinetic Media, USA

Grace Royer

Agent and Co-Head of Documentary Group at United Talent Agency, USA

Explore Wednesdays Schedule

09:30-11:00

Wednesday, March 22

ARTISTS & AUTEURS

Join us for a thought provoking discussion with filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, presenting his latest documentary feature, Love to Love You, Donna Summer (2023).

ARTISTS & AUTEURS is part of our morning sessions from Monday-Thursday, March 20-24.

11:30-13:00

Wednesday, March 22

A DIALOGUE ON CRAFT

This session of DIALOGUES ON CRAFT brings together Jialing Zhang, Puk Damsgård and Søren Klovborgto discuss their films selected in this edition of CPH:DOX.

DIALOGUES ON CRAFT takes place from Monday-Thursday, March 20-24.

15:00-15:15

Wednesday, March 22

2020’s Word of the Year ‘Permacrisis’ reflects the sense of lurching from one trouble to another. The DocuMentality initative is running a thorough research on the disproportionate high levels of stress, depression and sense of powerlessness in the nonfiction industry.

FUTURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS takes place from Tuesday-Thursday, March 21-23.

15:15-16:15

Wednesday, March 22

SEEKING STABILITY

Given the role producers play in finding, shaping, and championing the voices of independent filmmakers, what structures do we need to ensure their own endurance?

FUTURE AT OUR FINGERTIPS takes place from Tuesday-Thursday, March 21-23.

Hosts

Malikkah Rollins

Malikkah is the Director of Industry and Education at DOC NYC. She is also the co-founder of DocuMentality, an initiative designed to elevate the conversation around mental health in the global documentary industry. She is a trained psychotherapist which she served as for 10 years.

Philippa Kowarsky

Philippa is the founder of Cinephil, an international sales and advisory firm representing among others Academy Award nominated films such as The Gatekeepers, The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence, Collective, Flee and A House Made of Splinters. She is also the co-founder of Film Platform, an educational streaming service available in over 2,000 universities worldwide. For just under a year, until August 2022, she served as Lead Commissioning Editor for BBC Storyville.

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