PLAYGROUND DOCUMENTARY - MEET THE PROGRAMMERS
PLAYGROUND DOCUMENTARY is a format at DOK.forum carefully developed for our international Industry Guests. The core of PLAYGROUND is the informal atmosphere that invites speakers and audience as equals, to exchange ideas and talk about their projects and difficulties. The experts that are invited to PLAYGROUND share insights of their work and make space for an active audience to create visions for documentary film. Please register via this link.
MEET THE PROGRAMMERS
Due to a large number of film festivals around Europe, it’s hard to keep up with all the different focuses and profiles from all of them. In PLAYGROUND we would like to introduce you to programmers of international festivals that will give some insight on their decision process for programming and their festival’s focus.
Speaker:
Christine Camdessus, FIPADOC
Elise Jalladeau, Thessaloniki Film Festival
Gerhard Wissner, Kasseler Dokfest
Selin Murat, RIDM
See here for more information on the other PLAYGROUNDS: FILM AND CROWD and DOCUMENTARY FOR CORPORATE STORYTELLING - CURSE OR BLESSING?
Film & Industry (Montreal International Documentary Film Festival (RIDM))
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is one of North America’s leading documentary film festivals. Each year, the RIDM presents more than 150 Canadian and international documentaries. Its industry event, Forum RIDM, is Quebec’s only documentary forum. Selin is the Forum RIDM's director of programming and programs films for the festival.
Festival General Director (Thessaloniki Film Festival)
Born in 1969 in Nantes, Elise Jalladeau has worked as a producer from 1992 until 2010. She has launched and leaded for 10 years the Ateliers Produire au Sud. She was also group leader for EAVE “Ties that Bind” from its creation until 2018. Since 2010, she lives in Greece. She became Audiovisual Attachée at the French Institute and was appointed Member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Film Center. She is currently the General Director of the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Managing Director (Kasseler Dokfest, Filmladen Kassel e.V.)
Gerhard Wissner Ventura, geboren 1962, Magisterstudium der Soziologie, Politik- und Erziehungswissenschaften; seit 1985 Mitarbeit im Filmladen Kassel e.V.; seit 1989 Programmmacher und Kurator für das Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest (Schwerpunkte: Kurzfilm, Installationen), seit 1997 Festivalleiter; 1995 Gründer und Mitinhaber der BALi Kinos Kassel.
Freie Kuratorentätigkeit u.a. Werkleitz Biennale (1998, 2002); Organisatorische Umsetzung der „documenta-Filmreihen“ 1997, 2002 und 2007. Mitarbeit 2010 - 2012 Maybe Education and Public Programs der dOCUMENTA (13). Mitkurator Emerging Artists (AG Kurzfilm / German Films) Vol. 1 – 3; Jurytätigkeit für zahlreiche nationale und internationale Festivals.
