Industry Report: Documentary
Section dedicated to the European Documentary Industry
AJB DOC 2024 – AJD Industry Days
The seventh Whickers Cost of Docs survey launched in partnership with Al Jazeera Documentary Channel
This edition of the survey will focus on mental wellness and safety, while Al Jazeera will translate it into Arabic and distribute it to increase the range of respondents
“I see a big risk in assuming that changing the world is a given mission of documentaries”
Mónica Hernández Rejón • Producer, Pråmfilm
The Mexican-born, Sweden-based producer thinks working in documentaries is a unique opportunity through which she gets to explore questions and topics she is passionate about
Human Rights Film Festival Berlin 2023
Patricia Arquette talks about Give Love’s efforts to empower poverty-stricken communities
The Hollywood actress joined programme director Alisa Keesey at the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin to explain how she uses her popularity to promote wider access to safe sanitation
“Our market is a melting pot of various industry players”
Jarmila Outratová • Head of Industry, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
The Industry head homes in on the festival's market transition from virtual to physical, its emphasis on co-productions, and nurturing global talent through the Emerging Producers programme
"One major trend in the documentary format is changing people’s outlooks"
Mathieu Béjot • Director of Strategy and Development, Sunny Side of the Doc
The event’s strategy and development director chatted to us about the 34th edition of the gathering, decrypting trends in the market and in documentary funding
“The way a festival is experienced in a cinema cannot be reproduced outdoors or online”
Csilla Kató and Dumitru Budrala • Head of programming and founding director, Astra Film Festival
We talked with the founders of Romania’s oldest documentary gathering about the challenges they encountered while preparing the 2022 edition
At Nordisk Panorama’s Town Hall, the industry hopes for the best but expects the worst for the future of Nordic documentaries
While young filmmakers demand more support from streamers and broadcasters, the industry decision makers are split between envisioning a bright 2032 and a gloomy, ten-year winter
“AJD Industry Days brings a whole spectrum of stories from countries we have not heard from before”
Rudy Buttignol • Moderator of Main Pitch and Work in Progress sections, AJD Industry Days
The independent broadcasting executive with over five decades of experience talks to us about his work at the first edition of the Al Jazeera Documentary Industry Days
