What can a sales agent do for your film? How can you find and work with a sales agent? Get to know experienced sales agents who will share insights into their working practices and current trends. Find out about their marketing and sales strategies and what they are looking for when selecting documentaries for their slates.

Training initiatives are vital in supporting the development of projects and creative careers. Get an intro to what they can offer, who can apply and which creative processes their programmes focus on. Make sure to sign up for roundtable meetings with representatives of diverse training initiatives to get answers to your questions.

What does a fair co-production actually look like? This session introduces the Value-Based Co-Production manual, co-published by IMS and the National Film School of Denmark, and its practical approach to recognising the value each partner brings to a film – beyond financing alone. It invites us to rethink how ownership, rights and revenues are shared in international co-productions, particularly when partners operate in very different production economies.
 

Representatives of different organisations and companies discuss various strategies for distributing and marketing documentaries – online and off.

We invite our fellow festival programmers and market organisers to introduce themselves to each other and to attending filmmakers, and to outline what kinds of films they are looking for and what industry activities and opportunities they offer. The session will conclude with plenty of space for free mixing and mingling.