MIP LONDON Unveils Doc & Factual Lineup

The documentary and factual program for the upcoming edition of MIP LONDON, running from February 22 to 24, will feature a showcase of the environmental feature Greenwashed, a co-production summit, a deep dive into funding models and various analysis presentations.

On February 22, the Doc and Factual Co-Production Summit will take place with a roundtable featuring SVT’s Mikael Osterby, Quintus Studios’ Gerrit Kemming, Deep Fusion Films’ Benjamin Field, LADbible Group’s Becky Gardner, Zinc Media’s Tanya Shaw and ZDF Studios’ Kristina Hollstein. February 23 will feature a showcase for Greenwashed, followed by a Q&A session with broadcaster and conservationist Chris Packham and filmmaker Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa.

Greenwashed confronts existential ecological crises threatening the planet by exposing major yet uncomfortable truths that many environmental organizations fail to acknowledge. The showcase and Q&A session will be staged in the IET London’s Turing Theatre.

The co-production summit, staged in The Savoy’s Lancaster Ballroom, will be curated and moderated by Natalie Humphreys, founder and producer at Storyboard Studios. It is part of a greater emphasis on structured networking running across all days at the market.

Also on February 22, data-led presentations from Guy Bisson, executive director and co-founder of Ampere Analysis, and Beatrice Rossmanith, founder and director of Mothership Media Consultancy, will run back-to-back in the IET London’s Kelvin Theatre. Bisson’s presentation will focus on continued opportunities and areas of potential growth in the genre, and Rossmanith’s will give an outline of editorial trends driving the documentary market.

Additionally, on February 23, a deep dive into emerging funding models for factual in the new content economy will take place in the IET London’s Turing Theatre, featuring Zandland’s Benjamin Zand, among others, and chaired by Amanda Groom, founder and CEO of The Bridge.

MIP LONDON has to date confirmed more than 450 international buyers for its second edition, including senior acquisitions and commissioning executives from Amazon Studios, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount, The Walt Disney Company, National Geographic, Sky, ZDF, RTL, RTÉ, Nine Entertainment, Red Bull Media House, Al Jazeera International, ITV, BBC, AMC Networks, Globo, PBS and Samsung, among others.