KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH DOCUMENTARY

Award winning producer and directors Liz Garbus and Rory Kennedy presented the MIPDOC closing keynote on "Social Change through Documentary". During this exceptional event, they shared their highly-personal visions and experiences of making unparalleled socially-responsible documentary films.

Rory Kennedy, Emmy Award winning independent documentary filmmaker and Co-founder and President of Moxie Firecracker Films & Liz Garbus, Academy Award Nominated Director/Producer and Co-founder Moxie Firecracker, Inc.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

• Kick-off MIPDOC: How to Pitch?
  The opening workshop designed to help the MIPDOC participants to communicate the uniqueness of their projects by offering valuable tips on how to deliver a perfect pitch to leading broadcasters and potential partners.
• The MIPDOC Accelerator
  A unique matchmaking breakfast offering over one hundred meetings with the major commissioners and buyers from the documentary industry.
  
• The MIPDOC Co-Production Challenge
  The fifth Co-Production Challenge took the newest and hottest projects to the next level by providing international exposure and access to business executives from around the world.
• The Financing Summit
  A survivors' guide to programming financing to counter the complexities of financing production in today's challenging environment.
• Collaborative Documentary Making
  How interactivity can be used differently to engage new audiences as well as to influence the development of the documentary storytelling itself?
• The Trailblazers' Talk
  Recognising the very best in creativity and originality of the seven visionary Traiblazers who offered here a global perspective on innovation in today's documentary environment in Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Americas and the Middle East.

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