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Paul Pawels – director – EDN (European Documentary Network)

Paul Pawels is the Head of EDN (European Documentary Network). EDN is an association spread all over the world to create connections, meetings and opportunities for helping documentary filmmakers to do their job.

We could not find a more qualified person to have a chat with on documentaries in Europe and their future.

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Pilar Orero – project coordinator – HBB4ALL

Pilar Orero, project coordinator of HBB4ALL, tells us about cinema accessibility, what this precisely means and why it is still so hard to have it acknowledged and applied . It is a wider concept that what we think and the applications are so many , and useful, that it is a matter of time ( and of effort in communicating it) when it will be an acquired and metabolized concern in the cinema industry.

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Matthew Baker – head of acquisitions – Hanway Films

Matthew Baker put his skills and experience in acquisitions into his role as a member of the selection committee for the projects to be included in the New Cinema Network line up. And he found out that it was not an easy ride, but a fulfilling one.

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Christine Eloy – general manager – Europa Distribution

Christine Eloy, general manager of Europa Distribution, tells us about her organization and the challanges distributors in Europe have to face. Most of all, the issue of geo-blocking is the most urgent for European distributors and she explains why it is so.

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Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik – Head of International Relations – Polish Film Institute

An enormous development in cinemas and audiences that leaves apalled is what happened in Poland over the last ten years. Izabela Kiszka leads us through these changes and tells us the job that the Polish Film Institute did in order to reach that goal.

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Charlie Phillips – head of documentaries – The Guardian Online Video Platform

Charlie Phillips‘ enthusiasm and commitment turned The Guardian online video platform into a strong reality with great value. they select and then produce documentary projects of social and poltitcal issues, and anything that is interesting and valuable to know. So, kudos to them!

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Carla Luzzati – producer

Carla Luzzati‘s company just finished a feature film, they are prepapring a new one and have been excutive producers for an Italian tv series. Always balancing between Italy and Brazil, fighting for funding and schedules. A fun life, it seems, but quite demanding.

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Nevina Satta – director – Sardegna Film Commission

Nevina Sanna talks to FRED about her programme of eco-friendly film producing, that is embraced by many other film commissions in Italy, as well as the rest of Europe. So… go green, filmmakers!

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Andy Whittaker / Stefano Massenzi – independent distributors – Dogwoof UK / Lucky Red ITA

At the tenth edition of the Rome Film Fest, two successful independent European distributors, Andy Whittaker of Dogwoof UK and Stefano Massenzi of Lucky Red ITA, share their secrets and their ideas on the current situation of independent film distribution. And they also share their views and opinions on what we can expect in the future of their sector – hoping not a withdrwawal of geo-blocking, right?

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Anne Demy-Geroe, Armin Miladi – directors – Iranian Film Festival Australia

This year IFFA provides cinephiles the chance to explore the fabric of Iranian identity and discover why it remains the most passionately discussed and one of the most important cinematic movements of the moment.

IRANIAN FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA: Iranian Film Festival Australia is the only nation-wide Australian festival dedicated to Iranian cinema. Contemporary Iranian cinema is one of the world’s most exhilarating national cinemas. Their aims are to showcase a diverse range of the best and most interesting of current Iranian cinema, and through cinema to introduce Iranian culture to other Australians, providing a better cultural understanding.

IFFA is an independent non-political, non-aligned and non-religious private organisation run by Anne Démy-Geroe and Armin Miladi. We are NOT supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran. They are most definitely committed to an audience comprising both Iranian and non-Iranian members where people can mingle and talk among themselves, leading to a better cultural understanding.

IFFA commenced in 2011, opening with A Separation, straight from its Berlin Golden Bear win and before its Oscar win. It expanded from three to five Australian capital cities in 2012. October 2015 sees the fifth national tour of the festival.

Many Iranians consider IFFA the key cultural event in Australia.

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