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Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Sunny Side of the Doc returns to La Rochelle, France for 2019 with a spotlight on Germany, a science and nature theme and an expanded PiXii program.<\/em><\/p>\n

The international marketplace for documentary and narrative experiences will take place from June 24 to 27 this year, bringing together top producers and distributors in the factual space.<\/p>\n

For CEO Yves Jeanneau, Sunny Side of the Doc \u201cis not about showing up; it\u2019s not about getting awards. It\u2019s about building up the next season, building up the next co-production. It\u2019s a place where you know who you are with, even if you don\u2019t know the people personally. But you are sure that of the people at your table or behind you is someone interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"***Image***\"With Germany as the country of honor for its 30th edition, Sunny Side is gathering together major German broadcasters, producers, funds and more. Jeanneau says that since Germany is a federal republic, with everything going through its separate regions, it can complicate the country\u2019s media industry\u2014and that Sunny Side provides a unique platform for its documentary players to present and promote their projects, as well as to join projects from international colleagues.<\/p>\n

Members of the AG DOK professional association of independent producers, with support from German Films, will be in attendance alongside more than a dozen production companies, including Vidicom Media, a&o buero filmproduktion, fechnerMEDIA, NEW DOCS, L\u00e4ngengrad Filmproduktion, Karbe Film, COIN FILM, G-Film, Vision Airways and 4ED1.<\/p>\n

With the slogan \u201cStand Up for Science,\u201d this banner year for Sunny Side will highlight projects that do just that. \u201cIt\u2019s really the kind of discussion we must have as documentary makers, as part of the documentary community, because it\u2019s part of our responsibility as well,\u201d says Jeanneau, referring to the notion of putting all things science front and center. As for the slogan, Jeanneau explains, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean we trust science 100 percent, it means that we have to be serious about it, and we have to stop saying things that are not true, stop lying, stop saying things without any proof. We need to get back to a certain seriousness; that\u2019s what science is about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big science projects are traveling very well, very successfully,\u201d Jeanneau adds. \u201cMore and more, they are co-produced because they are global, because they are calling for understanding or for action, calling for understanding about global phenomena. It\u2019s important to gather the best documentaries on the issue. If you are a broadcaster, you can find this year at Sunny Side ten films, easily, which are answering all these questions. So in a way, we are also a platform for preselecting the good stuff and the good programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

To support its science theme, the event in La Rochelle will feature a number of conferences and networking events centered on the challenges of blue-chip science documentary production. Among the programs is a session titled \u201cAlliance Doc: International Co-Productions on the Spot\u201d to help launch international co-productions for science projects. A session called \u201cMeet the Executives\u201d will feature buyers and heads of science programming such as Greg Boustead (Sandbox Films\/Simons Foundation), Ricarda Schlosshan (ZDF Terra X), Bernadette McDaid (National Geographic), Chris Hoelzl (Smithsonian Channel) and Susan Dando (CBC) sharing their programming strategies and projects for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

The market will also include such program highlights as the \u201cMore Than a Movie: Media with Impact\u201d conference with Ru Mahoney (Sea of Shadows<\/em>), the \u201cScience Is Not Enough\u2014How to Communicate Science?\u201d panel and a talk with Tom Jennings (1895 Films) about the importance of archives ahead of the Moon landing\u2019s 50th anniversary.<\/p>\n

Returning for the third year in a row, PiXii (Paths of Interaction, eXperiences in Immersion & Innovation) serves as a generator for digital co-production activities. The program gathers and organizes the next generation of producers and explores location-based entertainment (LBE), which can provide a more immersive documentary experience at venues such as museums and even schools. For the first time, immersive and interactive installations competed to join the PiXii Festival official selection.<\/p>\n

For 2019, PiXii has expanded into three parts\u2014a market, a festival and a kickstarter. \u201cMy concern was to really bring younger producers, and different\u2014not broadcasters per se, but distributors\u2014for the new formats,\u201d says Jeanneau. \u201cThis is important because these younger producers are using new ways of producing, new formats, new techniques. It has always been really important for Sunny Side to reflect these innovations, to reflect these new young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, Sunny Side of the Doc will hold five pitching sessions this year\u2014Science (followed by one-to-one meetings), Social and Human Interest, History, Arts and Culture, and Natural History and Wildlife\u2014that will enable creatives from across the globe to pitch their in-development projects before more than 300 international decision-makers and distributors such as Christiane Hinz (Western German Broadcasting, ARD\/WDR), Harrison Cassian (BBC), Hossein Panahidorcheh (Ayat Media), Otto Schwarz (ORF III), Ana Paula Mansur (Canal Curta!), Dirk Neuhoff (NDR Television), Akira Yoshizawa (NHK), Nicola Hewitt (Viasat World), Tom Bleyaert (VRT), Marie Beuzard (ARTE France) and Francesca Johnson (National Geographic Partners).<\/p>\n

A total of 12 science and nature projects were selected to be pitched at Sunny Side of the Doc next month, and eight of the new projects will get the opportunity to move from the media laboratory into production through international collaborations during a closed-door session.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must say that this year, the projects that we gathered covering science and nature were really good. It was pretty difficult to select,\u201d says Jeanneau. \u201cIt means something that we have more good projects in than before, and it becomes something important for the TVs, for the producers and the distributors, too, to get to see this content.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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