Profiles

Jimmy Humphrey, Passion Distribution's head of acquisitions, talks about the company, which was acquired by Tinopolis in 2012.

The head of factual speaks about some of the company's unscripted highlights.

CEO Jon Kramer shares how his company’s non-scripted series break through the noise in the factual space.

This year's edition of the international documentary festival will take place in La Rochelle, France, from June 19 to 22.

MIPDoc, along with MIPFormats, drew some 1,800 participants the weekend before MIPTV, and in the doc sector, high-end projects reigned supreme.

The acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger talks about his two-night documentary event Killing Richard Glossip, which airs on Investigation Discovery (ID) this month.

Execs from ZDFE, NHNZ, PBS, CCTV9, ARTE France and ZDF weighed in on co-pros in a MIPDoc keynote superpanel moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati ahead of the premiere of the blue-chip series Big Pacific.

FOX Networks Group Content Distribution launched the new series Origins: The Journey of Humankind to the global market at a MIPDoc lunch, which featured a conversation with the show’s host, Jason Silva, and Nat Geo’s Tim Pastore, moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati.

Nat Geo’s Hamish Mykura, Foxtel’s Hannah Barnes, Canal+’s Isabelle Antraygue and ORF’s Andrew Solomon weighed in on acquisition and commissioning trends in a MIPDoc session moderated by World Screen’s Anna Carugati before each receiving a Factual Trendsetter Award.

World Screen, in partnership with Reed MIDEM, is presenting the Factual Trendsetter Awards at MIPDoc.