DOCNZ Summit 2009
DOCNZ Summit 2009
Auckland 23–25 Feb 2009
DOCNZ Summit is an annual industry event that includes seminars, master-classes, a pitching forum and a market place. The Summit is place to learn and network with local and international professionals from the industry.
The Summit is a 3-day industry event, held just before the DOCNZ Festival. It seeks to bring together local and overseas filmmakers/industry to share, network and learn from each other. It also aims to bring a business side to proceedings by facilitating local filmmakers to present their ideas to potential local and international funders, buyers, broadcasters and festival programmers.
List of previous DOCNZ Summit activities:
In 2007:
Panels:
- Facing Realities: Current and Future Challenges for Broadcasters and Filmmakers
- It’s a Great Idea But…: Commissioning Criteria
- A Brave New World: Alternative Funding
- A Whole New world: Internet TV, Digital Delivery, Podcasts, 3G and Virtual Worlds
- Guest Workshop: Sound Talking: Design, Capture and Integrate Sound Without Counting the Cost in Post
- The Audience You Deserve: Festivals, Broadcast, Theatrical, Sales and Distribution
Masterclasses:
- Masterclass: Close Encounters of the Single Shot Kind – Leonard Retel Helmrich
- Masterclass: Pitching
Pitching Forum:
- Baghdad Child Filmmakers Project, Nathan Price and Michele Law
- Left Behind, Wendy Douglass, Kathleen Mantel
- Lost in Wonderland, Costa Botes, Zoe McIntosh
- Miss Tibet, Echo Di Zhu
- No More Fish in The Sea, Arani Cuthbert, Dan Salmon
- The Art of Being Brown, Janette Howe, Phillip Brown
- There Once Was An Island, Lyn Collie, Briar March
Participants in 2007
- Cynthia Kane – Programme Manager, ITVS, USA
- Lois Vossen, Vice President, ITVS, USA
- Leonard Retel Helmrich – Filmmaker, The Netherlands
- Carole Lee Dean – President, From the Heart Productions, USA
- Trevor Graham – Commissioner, SBS Australia
- Sharon Robool - Producer, Al Jazeera International
- Julia Overton – Film Finance, Australia
- Fiona Lawson Baker – Acquisitions, SBS, Australia
- Amanda Duthie – Commissioner, ABC Australia
- Joost den Hartog – Director Australian International Documentary Conference
- Marcel Rawady – Madman Distribution, Australia
- John Davies – Director, Arkles Film Distribution, NZ
- Jude Callen – Commissioner, TVNZ
- Philippa Mossman – Commissioner Arts, TVNZ
- Larry Paar – Maori Television Service, NZ
- Juliana Chin, Programmer, Melbourne IFF, Australia
- Richard Driver – Documentary Channel, NZ
- Paula Jones – Head of Documentary, South Seas Film & TV School, NZ
- Dr. Annie Goldson – Associate Professor at Auckland University/Filmmaker, NZ
- Clare O’Leary �NZ On Air
- Glenn Usmar – NZ On Air
- Marcel Rawady – Madman Films Australia
- Phill Simmonds – Simmonds Brothers, NZ
- Hon. Judith Tizart – Associate Minister of Arts & Culture, NZ
- Hon. Christopher Finlayson – MP National, NZ
- Mark Verkerk – Director of Buddha’s Lost Children, The Netherlands
- Peter McCarthy – Director of Fight or Flight, Ireland
- Yonatan Weinstein – Director of My Grandma: Frau Masha, Israel
- Liz Burke – Producer of Just Punishment, Australia
In 2006:
- Panel: Trans-Tasman Co-productions
- Masterclass: Pitching
- Masterclass: Documentary International Co-financing
- Panel: The International Festival and Pitching Forum Holy Grail
Pitching Forum:
- Waka Moana, James Frankham
- Healing Nation, Chris White
- The Relocated Mountains, Julia Parnell
- Night After Night, Jennifer Bush-Daumec
- The Topp Twins, Arani Cuthbert
- Pathway to Progress: The Campaigns to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs, Neil Cervin
- George Bizos, Odette Gledenhuys
- Laughing in the Dark: The Bert Williams Story, Leanne Pooley
- The Great Escape: A forgotten Story of Bravery and Courage from New Zealand and Australia, Trevor Howis
- Beyond Blanket Man: Understanding Homelessness, Charlie Bleakley
Participants in 2006
- Stuart Menzies - Head of Documentaries, ABC, Australia
- Debra Zimmerman - Head of Women Make Movies (WMM), USA
- Sean Farnel – Director HOTDOCS, Canada
- Joost den Hartog – Director Australian International Documentary Conference
- Julia Overton – Film Finance Australia
- Susan MacKinnon �Consultant on Film Financing and Production, Australia
- Junichi Katayama – Commissioner, NHK Broadcasting Japan
- Sharon Robool – Commissioner, Al Jazeera International
- Larry Parr – Maori Television Service, NZ
- Phillipa Mossman – Commissioner, TVNZ
- Sue Woodfield – Commissioner, TV3, NZ
- Kathy Wright – Prime TV, NZ
- Gary Scott – Producer, The Gibson Group, NZ
- Sylvia Fang - Taiwan Broadcasting
- John Barnett – Head South Pacific Pictures, NZ
- Dr. Annie Goldson – Associate Professor at Auckland University/Filmmaker, NZ
- Alan Brash – Lecturer, Unitec, NZ
- Linda Halle – Creative New Zealand
- Tim O’Brien – NZ Film Commission
- Anna Cahill – Executive Director, Screen Directors Guild NZ
- Sarah Morgan – Executive Director, Women in Film & TV, NZ
- Samira Goetschel – Filmmaker, Canada
- Paul Nadler – Filmmaker, Canada
- Katarina Peters – Filmmaker, Germany
- Grace Phan – Filmmaker, Singapore
- Christina Oer – Filmmaker, Singapore
- Marsha Mason – Filmmaker, Australia
- Cathy Henkel – Filmmaker, Australia
- Jeff Canin- Filmmaker, Australia
- Jane Jeffes – Filmmaker, Australia
- Astrid Bussink – Filmmaker, The Netherlands
- Steve Miller – Filmmaker, USA
- Bann Roy – Filmmaker, USA
- The Hon Steve Maharey, Minister of Broadcasting, NZ
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