DOC DAY
15 MAY 2018
9:30 TO 22:30
E X P L O R
9:30AM to 12:00PM
Plage du Gray d’Albion, La Croisette, Cannes
Welcoming Café & Croissants
Opening words by Jérôme Paillard, Executive Director, Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes and Christophe Tardieu, Directeur Général Délégué, CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
Opening Keynote by ESA astronaut ThomasPesquet - a filmmaker in space. One year after his 6-month mission on the International Space Station, he will discuss Europe’s exciting ongoing programs that go even beyond 2001: A Space Odyssey’s visionary promises. With a presentation of the multi-format documentary project about his mission in space.
Documentary in a Changing Media Landscape
PaulPauwels, Director of European Documentary Network (EDN) introduces André Singer, Producer, Spring Films, to present EDN’s initiative: “Media & Society: European Documentary in a Changing Media Landscape”.
Paneldiscussion: Renowned industry experts will be asked to contemplate the near future of the documentary field. They will share their views on the 3 biggest challenges and 3 opportunities lying ahead for the industry and the filmmakers in the next 5 years.
Featuring:
Orwa Nyrabia, Artistic Director - IDFA
FabricePuchault, Director, Society and Culture Unit - ARTE
TomQuinn, Founder, CEO - NEON
DianeWeyermann, President, Documentary Film & TV - PARTICIPANT MEDIA
Moderated by WendyMitchell, Screen International
ATION(S)
3:30PM to 5:30PM
Olympia Theatre, 5 rue de la Pompe, Cannes
Welcoming words by the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes, followed by a presentation of the ‘L’Œil d’or’ Documentary Award by JulieBertuccelli, President, LaScam
Filmmaker Marie Losier, in conversation with Catherine Bizern, Artistic Director, about her film Cassandro the Exotico! (in selection, Acid)
When Docs Get Animated: Exploring, Reviving & Preserving Memory
A conversation with StefanoSavona, Director of Samouni Road (in selection, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) and AnjaKofmel, Director of Chris the Swiss (in selection, Semaine de la Critique), moderated by StéphaneDreyfus, Journalist, La Croix.
Tribute to Alice Guy-Blaché, the first woman director in the history of cinema. By JoanSimon, Co-Writer and Executive Producer of Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, directed by Pamela B. Green (in selection, Cannes Classics).
6:00PM to 8:00PM
Plage des Palmes
Doc Lovers Mixer (by invitation)
The one-and-only networking cocktail for the doc community in Cannes.
8:30PM
Olympia Theatre, 5 rue de la Pompe, Cannes
Closing screening
16 Sunrises, a feature documentary by Pierre-EmmanuelLeGoff about ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s mission in space, produced with the support of the European Space Agency.
On November 17th 2016, Thomas Pesquet takes off for his first mission in space. 450 kilometers from Earth, over six months during which the world seems to fade into the unknown, a dialogue is woven between the astronaut and Saint Exupéry’s visionary works which he took with him on the space station.
Written by Dallas Fitzmartin