Documentary cinema: the new landscape

From writing to exhibition, the trajectory of a documentary film, with authors, producers and distributors.

At the outset, cinema was documentary. Today, documentaries are widely screened in film theatres and the general public is coming to watch them. Yet, writing and producing a documentary for cinema means facing a host of difficulties given that the system for funding filmmaking is mainly geared to fiction films: from writing to exhibition, what is the specific trajectory of a documentary film? What avenues should be explored for documentary filmmaking so that the place of the documentary can assert itself within a new landscape in the film industry?

round table facilitated by Rebecca Houzel (Petit à Petit production),

with: Julie Bertuccelli (Scam), Aleksandra Chevreux (Docks66, SDI), Carine Chichkowski (Survivance, Nous sommes le documentaire), François Farellacci (SRF), Régis Sauder (Acid, La Boucle documentaire), Édouard Mauriat (Mille et une productions, SPI), Jean-Marie Barbe (Tënk)