Distance tutoring

(This will take place in July)

Claire Aguilar is the Vice President of programming at ITVS (Independent Television Service), which will finance, promote and distribute content by independent producers on public television. At ITVS, Claire supervises all aspects of initiatives for programmes, programming strategies and applications for financing. 
She co-commissioned the series Independent Lens, winner of the Emma award, a series that programmes independent documentaries from all over the world and is broadcast weekly on PBS.
Before she joined ITVS she worked at ITVS of KCET/Hollywood as head of programming and acquisitions. From 1984 to 1991 she was a programmer at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, one of the country’s leading institutions for showing documentaries and classic Hollywood films.

Cynthia Kane is Senior Manager in the ITVS Programming Department. She is responsible for supervising initiatives and international convocations to finance projects. 
For the last 14 years she has worked as executive for film acquisitions, programmer and curator, with particular experience in documentaries and world cinema.  
Her most recent activities include international financing for documentaries and prize-wining productions.  
She is known world-wide for her experience in evaluating scripts and films and for her extensive knowledge of world markets.

Writing workshop

(July 20th, 21th and 22 th)

Marta Andreu is academic coordinator of the Master in Creation Documentary at the Pompeu Fabra University, and gives post-graduate courses in documentary cinema: “Estudios Culturales del Mediterráneo” at the Rovira y Virgili University in Tarragona. In 2004-2005 she coordinated the retrospective of Spanish Documentary Cinema for Cinéma du Réel (Pompidou Centre, Paris), and in recent years she has taken part as jury member and speaker at various documentary film festivals such as Documenta Madrid, DocLisboa, Alcances, L’Alternativa, PlayDoc and Punto de Vista. Since 2005 she has analysed scripts for documentaries for the Centre de Desenvolupament Audiovisual (CDA) of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Marta is the Academia Coordinator of DOCMONTEVIDEO. She has a degree in audiovisual communication and a Master in Creation Documentary from the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. 
She worked on a number of films including “En construcción” by José Luis Guerín, “Durruti Anarchiste” and “Le concert de Mozart”. In 2004 she set up Estudi Playtime to concentrate on the production of creation documentaries and her work in this field includes “La terra habitada”, “Distancias”, “Entre el dictador y yo”, “Morir de día” and “Cuchillo de palo”.

Noe Mendelle co-founded and directs the Scottish Documentary Institute, a research and production centre based in Edinburgh. She directed more than 30 films, and ten years ago she concentrated her efforts on production. She has worked with French and Portuguese producers at AfricaDoc, an initiative to strengthen the production of African documentaries. The Institute invests in the training of new directors and the production and distribution of films. It is a space for reflection about documentaries and possible creative projects. As a result of this work, its films have been shown on British television and at the main international festivals including Sundance, IDFA and Visión du Reel.
She is a director, producer and executive producer. Since 1980 she has worked on documentaries for various media organizations (Ch 4, BBC, Arte, RTP, RTBF).

Executive production workshop

(23th and 24th july)

Susanne Guggenberger is coordinator of DokLeipzig in Germany, and was  “head of the market” at Visions du Réel 2011, in Switzerland . She was head of sales for TV at the distributor Autlook Films. 
She is a director, producer and production director.
Since 2010 she has been working as a producer for Filmwerkstatt Wien, a production enterprise that specializes in documentaries with cultural and social content geared to the international TV market. She worked as a producer at Navigator Film and was involved in the development and distribution of projects. 
For three years she was at Egon Humor Filmproduktion, where her work included production director on several television documentaries.  
In 2001, along with the Firstmedia network, she developed various projects with new formats centred on the construction of online video communities.

Diana Holtzberg is Vice President of Films Transit International, a leading worldwide documentary film sales company with a catalogue of highly acclaimed films, many of which have won Grand Jury and Audience Awards at preeminent film festivals throughout the world as well as Emmys, Peabodys, duPonts, BAFTA’s, and Oscar nominations. She has been working for Films Transit since 2001.
Diana also executive produces and acts as creative consultant on a select number of films each year. Examples include: The Art of Failure, The dictator hunter, End of the century: the story of the ramones, Imaginary witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, Held hostage in Colombia, Pucker up: the fine art of whistling, loving & cheating, and Still doing it: The Intimate Lives Of Women Over 65.
Diana conducts film workshops throughout the world and has sat on panels at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, IDFA, Sunnyside of the Doc, NYON, Guadalajara, Full Frame, Hot Docs, Galway Film Festival, and Encounters in South Africa. She is on the Documentary Committee at the Paley Center for Media.
She is the co-author of three widely read documentary industry articles: The Current State of the International Marketplace For Documentary Films (for the IFP), Feeling Festive: Strategies for Taking Your Film on the Festival Circuit, and Distribution To The Max (both for International Documentary Magazine). Diana wrote and edited numerous articles while a contributing writer and editor for the now defunct POWER Magazine, and is the credited ghostwriter of The Warrior Diet (Dragondoor, 2002).

Pitching moderator

(july 27th)