Durban FilmMart Accreditation

We welcome Film industry professionals and media to attend Durban FilmMart as accredited delegates. Please note that admittance to the Finance Forum is by invitation only. Admittance to the Producer’s Forum is by accreditation and payment of a fee. Accreditation will grant you access to the Producers Forum, Africa in Focus, nightly Networking events and Durban International Film Festival screenings (tickets subject to availability).

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Durban FilmMart 2011 Lead Experts were:

 
Juliane Schulze
Will present a session on Film Finance Fundamentals. She is Senior Partner at peacefulfish, a strategic media consulting company based in Berlin, specializing in content financing, and in particular in developing innovative financial solutions for audiovisual projects.   As Executive Advisor, she has extensive cross-industrial knowledge, covering feature film, internet and mobile content. She advises not only international production companies but also public institutions and works on several projects for the European Commission and MEDIA.
 
Peter Broderick
Will present on Distribution Techniques and will provide a guided tour of the worlds of “Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing”. He is President of Paradigm Consulting, which helps filmmakers and media companies design and implement state-of-the-art distribution strategies. A key player in the growth of the ultra-low budget feature movement, Broderick has become one of the most influential advocates of digital moviemaking. 
 

Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
Founded Scarabee Films, which specializes in high-quality creative documentaries, short films and features and her productions have been repeat winners at both IDFA and Sundance. Naaijkens works with broadcasters including NPS, VPRO, AVRO (Netherlands); HBO, PBS, and VRT (Belgium), Arte (France/Germany), TV 7 and France 3 (France) and Télévision Suisse Romande (Switzerland) amongst others. Naaijkens will present on Documentary Finance Wizardry.
 
 
 
Other exciting participants that participated in  Durban FilmMart 2011 include:

 

Bruni Burres, is producer and senior consultant with the Sundance Documentary Program (SDP), where she works to expand the roster of national and international documentary filmmakers, deepen national and international collaborations with filmmakers and cultural institutions, and broaden the human rights themes explored by the SDP.  She will mentor projects inside Doc Station Durban (part of the Talent Campus Durban) along with Peter Raymont, Peter Broderick and Sandi DuBowski.
 
Sandi DuBowski’s award-winning work has screened at over 200 festivals, had theatrical release in over 150 cities, aired on BBC, The Sundance Channel, ZDF-Arte, and been funded by over 60 foundations. He is Outreach Director for The Good Pitch, is a media strategist with The Sundance Institute developed and co-leads Seize The Future with Peter Broderick, and launched Films That Change the World.
 
Don Edkins  produced the Southern African series on truth and reconciliation and the multi-awarded documentary project Steps for the Future. He is Executive Producer of the STEPS International global documentary project Why Democracy?And is now doing the same with Why Poverty? He is a mentor for documentary projects at the Durban FilmMart.
 
Beadie Finzi, is a producer and a Director at Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation which is dedicated to reinventing funding and distribution models for documentary filmmakers. It has funded over 60 award winning films and brokers relationships between filmmakers and NGO and brand sectors to create better, more effective films. As part of this strategy, the Foundation runs the Good Pitch events.
 
Peter Raymont has produced and directed over 100 documentary films. His films have taken him to Ethiopia, Nicaragua, India, Rwanda, the High Arctic and throughout North America and Europe and has received over of 35 international awards. His films are informed with a passion for human rights and social justice .
 
Midge Sanford, co-head of Sandford/Pillsbury Productions, and producer of 7 feature films for theatre and four made for TV movies. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

 

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