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, born 1962, master studies at University of Kassel: sociology, political and educational sciences, since 1985 participation at Filmladen Kassel e.V., since 1989 programmer and curator for the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (focus on short film and installations), 1995 founder and co-owner of the BALi cinemas Kassel, since 1997 festival director of Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival.
Freelance curator, a selection: 1998, 2002 Werkleitz Biennale, 1997, 2002, 2007 organization and realization of the documenta film program and dOCUMENTA (13), Co-curator of Emerging Artists (AG Kurzfilm / German Films Vol. 1 - 3.); jury activity for numerous national and international festivals.
