Doc Kyiv Fest: Programme and schedule of the industry section announced
From 28 to 30 March, Doc Kyiv Fest, the festival of medium-length documentary films, will host a professional section Doc Kyiv Industry for film industry representatives.
Over the course of three days, film professionals will take part in panel discussions, masterclasses, lectures and project pitching.
All panel discussions and lectures will be held in the format of online meetings, and accredited participants will receive links to them on 25 March. The pitching will take place live at the Planeta Kino cinema (Blockbuster Entertainment Centre, 34B Stepan Bandera Avenue).
All online meetings will be available in both Ukrainian and English. Project pitching will be held in English.
PROGRAMME
28 March
13:00 - 14:00 - Online case study: "Workflow in international co-production". Speaker - Eric Holland, CEO of DIM, producer, composer, post-production supervisor.
16:00 - 17:00 - Online discussion: "Supporting documentary films".
Moderated by Yana Goncharenko, Director of Corporate Communications and Sustainable Development at Starlight Media. Speakers: Serhiy Zlenko, National Representative of Ukraine at Eurimages; Mykola Ulyanov, Head of the EU Creative Europe Programme Office in Ukraine.
29 March
11:00 - 13:00 - Pitching of projects at the Development stage
13:45 - 16:00 - Pitching of projects at the Work in Progress stage
17:00 - 18:00 - Online lecture: "Trends in documentary film programming. The case study of 20 Days in Mariupol. Speaker - Georgi Chakarov, President & CEO of CEETV.
18:00 - 19:30 - Online discussion: "Documentary cinema is a new trend: what documentaries are streaming platforms and TV channels interested in?"
Moderated by Anastasia Steinhaus, Managing Director of ICTV, ICTV2, Starlight Doc.
Speakers: Lucy Cohn, content development editor at Storyville, BBC; Valeria Tolochyna, marketing director at MEGOGO; Asya Bataieva-Dokalenko, director of content monetisation at Starlight Media; Dan Salerno, media executive and expert, formerly head of programming at Nat Geo, Discovery.
30 March
10:30 - 12:00 - Online discussion: "Copyright protection in documentaries".
Moderated by Tetiana Hrebenik, Chief Creative Producer at Starlight Docs.
Speakers: Olha Beskhmelnytska, producer, co-founder of 2Brave Productions, Head of the Board of the Ukrainian Film Academy; Oksana Ostapko, Deputy Director of Legal Affairs at Starlight Media; Taras Kyslyy, partner at Arzinger, expert at the Netherlands Court of Arbitration for the Arts.
12:30 - 13:30 - Online lecture: "Marketing campaigns and tools for documentary films.
Speaker: Bruno Chatelin, editor-in-chief of Filmfestivals.com.
Interviewer: Olena Martynova, marketing director at Starlight Media.
14:00 - 15:00 - Online discussion: "How to make a documentary in a war zone?". Moderated by Tetiana Hrebenik, Chief Creative Producer at Starlight Doc. Speakers: Itai Engel, director, correspondent; Alisa Kovalenko, director; Volodymyr Tykhyi, director, producer.
15:30 - 16:30 - Online discussion: "Successes of Ukrainian documentary film producers in sales, distribution, and audience."
Moderated by Anastasia Steinhaus, Managing Director of ICTV, ICTV2, Starlight Doc.
Speakers: Darya Legoni-Fialko, founder of SPACE production and co-founder of OUP Documentary, Association of Ukrainian Producers; Yegor Olesov, producer, founder of United Herous Group; Asya Bataieva-Dokalenko, director of content monetisation at Starlight Media; Denys Ivanov, producer, CEO of Arthouse Traffic; Gennadiy Kofman, producer, member of the European and Ukrainian Film Academies, co-founder and board member of the Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
To apply for Doc Kyiv Industry accreditation, please follow the link: https://www.dockyivfest.com/industry/. Applications are accepted until 25 March (inclusive).
Follow the Doc Industry schedule here: https://www.dockyivfest.com/schedule/
Doc Kyiv Fest, a global hub for audience documentary films, will open on 28-30 March at the Planeta Kino cinema.
The annual international festival of medium-length audience documentaries Doc Kyiv Fest was founded by the NGO KinoFest and is organised in cooperation with StarlightMedia and the Odesa International Film Festival.
General media partner: ICTV2
Media partner: 1+1 media
Information partner: Prokino
