Producer, Media Company, Yahoo Japan Corporation

Yusaku Kanagawa heads up the Yahoo! JAPAN CREATORS Program’s short documentary division. After launching his career as a visualmedia reporter for the Asahi Shimbun in 2004, Kanagawa realized the importance of stories from his experiences reporting the Paris terrorist attacks, the Tohoku earthquake, and other events in Japan and abroad.He eventually decided to pursue those interests and study documentary filmmaking in New York, where he worked on films that garnered nominations at the SXSW film festival and other showcases.

News Division Program Producer (Telementary), TV Asahi Corporation

Uramoto Isao joined TV Asahi in 1996. He has been involved in many special features as a director of TV Asahi's "News Station" and "Press Station". In particular, he has been covering the end-of-war programs for over 15 years. He is currently the general producer and director of Telementary. He is exploring new possibilities for documentary programming.

Deputy Director, Programming and production department, Fuji Television Network, Inc.

Hayami Daisuke Joined Fuji Television Network in 2000. After working as a producer for various programs, including “Brain Workout”, “Unbelievable”,“Neta Parade” and “RIZIN”, he now belongs to the Programming and Production Dept, and in charge of documentary programs,“The Nonfiction” and “NONFIX”.

General Manager/Producer, Infortainment and Documentary Dept., Fuji Television Network, Inc.

Nishimura Akira served as director for various infotainment programs, prior to becoming producer of factual programs. He is currently a producer of a discussion-based talk show "Weekly Critique on Fuji TV" and the documentary series "The Nonfiction", and also produced two documentary films "The God of Ramen" and "Kanzaburo". Several of his works have won international awards, including Asian TV Awards and NY Festivals.

Chief Producer, Content Production Division, Entertainment & Informative Programs Production Department, WOWOW INC.

Kobayashi Kengo Joined WOWOW in 1992. Involved in directing and producing live music broadcasts and negotiating deals for foreign sport broadcasting rights. Currently produces theater and comic storytelling stage broadcast programs and supervises and produces documentary programs.

Head of Documentaries for the France Televisions Group

She Head of Documentaries for the France Televisions Group since January 2019.   Previously, she served as a Deputy Director Specialist Factual Department at ARTE FRANCE (2011-2016).   She served as a Deputy Managing Director at EUROPE IMAGES INTERNATIONAL (2007-2011) and Director of International Co-productions for BOREALES (2006-2007). She is the award-winning international distributors and co-producers of factual programming.

CEO & Founder, Taskovski Films Network

CEO & founder of Taskovski Films  network - since 2003, London based  world sales & production company with offices across Europe. Irena is working as film consultant / expert on marketing, sales, financing and festivals for many film institutions e.g. HBO Europe, Asian Cinema Fund, Dok.incubator CZ, Sources Germany, and Head Tutor at Emerging Producers - at Ji.hlava IDFF CZ.Founder of the Film Academy for Conscious Producers & DIstributors and film residencies.

Commissioning Editor of BBC Storyville

Mandy Chang is the Commissioning Editor of Storyville, the BBC’s acclaimed global documentary strand and Heads up Documentary Acquisitions at the BBC. She has produced and directed award-winning films such as feature documentary, The Mona Lisa Curse. She worked as a Commissioning Editor and then as Head of Arts at the ABC in Australia.

CEO & Producer POINT DU JOUR

Point du Jour is a Paris based company which produces documentaries. Among them, The dark side of the moon (William Karel, ARTE), Dashi, essence of Japan (Shohei Shibata, Asia Documentary, ARTE, NHK) Samurai and Idiots (Hyoe Yamamoto, Vesuvius, ARTE, BBC 4), Judging Japan (Tim Toidze, ARTE, SRC, HK TV) Empire of Time (Cedric Condon, Arya Suriwidjojo, IFA, ARTE, CCTV, CICC)

President/ Producer, INTUITIVE PICTURES

INTUITIVE PICTURES is a Montreal-based company dedicated to producing quality documentary and narrative features and interactive projects. Veteran producer/executive producer Ina Fichman helms the company. Intuitive Pictures recently produced the Emmy-nominated THE OSLO DIARIES which had its world premiere at Sundance 2018 where it sold to HBO, GIFT, INSIDE LEHMAN BROTHERS and the award-winning LAILA AT THE BRIDGE.

Producer, 90th Parallel Productions

Since 1974 Gordon Henderson has written, directed or produced well over one hundred current affairs segments or documentaries, many of which have aired around the world and won national and international awards. Henderson was the senior series producer of the celebrated CBC: A People’s History. 90th Parallel Productions has produced performing arts films, sports documentaries, social and political exposés, history programs and many science and adventure films, including Journey to the Disaster Zone: Japan 3/11 and Nahanni River of Forgiveness both with NHK.

EyeSteelFilm

Tom Koch is Vice President of PBS International. Koch is a 30-year veteran of public broadcasting. He helped launch History Makers in 2001, for which he served as chairman for six years. Koch is a board member of the International Emmy Committee, a founding partner of the European Television and Media Academy, and a member of the Discovery Campus advisory board.

Senior Industry Programs Manager Hot Docs

Stephanie McArthur is an eleven-year veteran of industry programming at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, North America’s largest documentary festival and market. In her role as Senior Industry Programs Manager Stephanie oversees Hot Docs’ Emerging Filmmaker program Doc Accelerator, and manages Hot Docs’ International Delegation and Alumni programs. Stephanie has been instrumental in the development and launch of several key Hot Docs programs including the Hot Docs Blue Ice Group Documentary Fund for filmmakers living and working on the continent of Africa, and most recently the Canadian Storytellers Project which is supported by Netflix.

Co-Producer | Programming & Production, POV

Nicole Tsien is the Co-Producer at POV. As a member of the programming and production team, she manages film submissions, supervises pre-screeners, and contributes to the curation and production of the series. She has experience assisting New York-based documentary filmmakers in various stages of production and has participated on panels and juries worldwide, including Doc NYC, Austin Film Festival, and DocAviv. She is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) and serves as a board member of Brown Girls Doc Mafia.

Vice President of Production and Development Discovery Networks

As Vice President of Production and Development, Vikram is responsible for the production of all original Discovery content out of Asia-Pacific. Based in Singapore, he works closely with Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific’s (DNAP) senior management and country heads to provide editorial direction. Vikram and his team produce approximately 100 hours of programming every year across DNAP’s portfolio of eight channel brands.

Documentary Producer, Mirror Media

Fan Wu is a documentary producer at Mirror Media. Prior to that she was the Programmer of TIDF (Taiwan International Documentary Festival), the Director of CCDF (CNEX Chinese Doc Forum), the Festival Director of CNEX Documentary Film Festival. Mirror Media, based in Taiwan, is a media group consisting of weekly magazine, literature publishing, online radio, and a lot more. We are preparing to launch a new 30-min daily factual program, and aiming to broadcast it on TV channels in the near future.

Film Programmer, Consultant and Writer

Originally from Wales, Jim Kolmar is a Film Programmer and writer who curated features for SXSW from 2009-2020, and where he continues to consult. His primary interest is international films, with a particular focus on Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx films. Since 2010, he curated the SXSW Global section for international films. Jim has supported Film Festival in Mexico, Bogotá, CONNeXT, CPH:DOX, Docaviv, DocsDF, IDFA, IFFPanama, Krakow Film Festival, New Horizons, and Ventana Sur.

Commissioning editor, SVT Documentaries

Axel has been a commission editor at SVT since 1998. At SVT’s documentary department he deals with international current affairs, special series and creative documentaries. He has commissioned numerous award winning international co-productions. In 2006, Axel was elected chairman of the EBU Documentary Group. He is a regular at the big documentary festivals and forums where he is frequently seen as moderator.

Founder and Managing Director, AUTENTIC

Dr. Patrick Horl is the founder and Managing Director of the factual entertainment label AUTENTIC.The company produces and distributes high quality factual shows and series. Horl is MD of the two factual pay-tv channels SPIEGEL GESCHICHTE and SPIEGEL TV WISSEN, a joint venture between Autentic and Spiegel TV.Horl is member of the Board of Directors of the factual section of PRODUZENTENALLIANZ and of the Board of the WORLD CONGRESS OF SCIENCE AND FACTUAL PRODUCERS.

Director of Strategy and Development at Sunny Side of the Doc

Mathieu Béjot has been Director of Strategy and Development at Sunny Side of the Doc since January 2020. He is the founder and CEO of Connoisseur Media, a consulting company, and a Senior Adviser to BEAJ (the Broadcast Program Export Association of Japan). He was Executive Director of TV France International from 2000 to 2018. He was previously cultural attaché in charge of creative industries at the French Embassy in Japan (1997-2000), Hong Kong (in charge of SE Asia, 1994-1997) and Canada (1988-1993).

Documentary Buyer, Commissioning and Programming Editor for Documentaries, TVP

TVP is Polish national public TV service. TVP1&2 are main channels. Broadcast for the broad audiences, focus on politics,current affairs, human stories, education and documentaries. Looking for documentaries: Human Stories and Wild Life, 1h-off or short series. Since 1995 I work in TV as a journalist, reporter, buyer,commissioning editor. Participate in festivals, screenings, pitching sessions and TV Forums.

Director of Content, Cwmni da’

A multi award winning director with BBC for 10 years, before freelancing. Llion spent 7 years as Factual Commissioner at S4C (UK broadcaster). His PhD examined documentary film.

Internatinal Documentary Consaltunt, Global Short Docs Forum

Flora is an International Documentary Consultant. She is Executive Producer with One World Media’s Fellowship Programme and Project Director of the Global Short Documentary Forum. She conceived and ran Channel 4’s long running Unreported World and was founding commissioning editor of Witness, Al Jazeera English’s flagship documentary strand and also oversaw 20 new Al Jazeera series.

President CAT&Docs

Le Clef set up the Paris based documentary sales company in November 2009 after working at Fortissimo Films, Films Transit and Doc & Co. Le Clef is one of the best connected figures in the world of doc sales. She has assembled an impressive slate of award winning docs such as Citizenfour, Cameraperson, Communion, China’s van Goghs, The Good Postman, Sonita, 5 Broken Cameras, Last Train Home, to name a few.

President & CEO Knowledge Network Corporation

Rudy Buttignol is the President & CEO of British Columbia’s Knowledge Network. Since 2007, he has transformed the public broadcaster into a successful service available through television and streaming on its many websites and apps. He’s the winner of nine Canadian Academy Awards, an honourary Doctor of Letters from Thompson Rivers University, and a Member of the Order of Canada.

Filmmaker

Jason Hanasik is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and journalist. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, featured on the BBC, The Guardian and in The Los Angeles Times, published in the academic journal Critical Military Studies, screened at various international film festivals, and presented on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Ace Theater in LA. His photography monograph, “I slowly watched him disappear” is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, Stanford University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Co-Founder & Executive Producer, Field of Vision

Charlotte Cook is the Co-Founder & Executive Producer of Field of Vision, a film unit that supports short, episodic and feature-length creative visual journalism. Prior to Field of Vision, she was Director of Programming at Hot Docs. Charlotte is a programmer at CPH:DOX and produced Our New President, The Proposal & The Gospel of Eureka.

Section Chief of Documentary Platform, International Dept. Public TV Service

Yen-Ming Lai started his career as the visual director, served couple major broadcasters in Taiwan. With directing expertise, he produced/directed several documentaries recognized by international awards including Jackson Hole Media Award, FIPA and BANFF Rockie Award. He is now the section chief of documentary platform in charge of documentary development for Public TV Service, Taiwan.

CEO, CNEX Studio CEO & Co-Founder, CNEX Foundation

RUBY CHEN is the Co-Founder and CEO of CNEX Foundation,the CEO of CNEX Studio. With her passion to support and promote Chinese documentary films internationally, she is the executive producer for almost 90 documentaries, including the award-winning: Chinese Mayor, Plastic China. She is also a member of AMPAS, as well as the selection committee of documentary in the Oscars.

Executive Producer, EBS Korea EIDF

Gunny has majored film & TV Production in the US and started his career in the EBS Korea as a documentary division. He used to station in the Netherlands, America & Malaysia working for documentary producer and director. EIDF (EBS International DOC Film Festival) is the his first mission of International Film Festival combined with Public TV networks.

Executive Producer, Head of Industry DMZ International Documentary Film Festival

Ellie Jo is the Executive Producer in charge of DMZ Industry at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (aka. DMZ Docs).She has pursued a career in the production/distribution of films and documentaries, film events, and publication, for more than a decade, with a focus on independent and art house films. DMZ Docs showcases films dealing with 'peace, co-existence and reconciliation' accompanied by events like seminars, conferences and the pitch program for DMZ Docs.

Manager of Planning & Scheduling | Planning & Scheduling Department, Aljazeera Documentary Channel

Adel Ksiksi is manager of programming, responsible for developing plans for programs’ strands and preparing the programs grid. Also oversees the global planning effort concerning special events, series, and long and short-term programs planning to increase viewership ratings. At AJD, we tell the stories that deserve to be told. And we show documentaries whether political, historical, social or cultural; our mission is to make brilliant films.

Head of Content Harimau Entertainment Sdn Bhd

Hakim has 23 years experience of working with Astro from 1996, where his last position was being in charge of ideation, new formats, concepts & content development. He is also a regular international jury for Emmy Awards, Asian Broadcasting Union TV Prizes, Japan Prizes and others.23 years of experience with broadcaster, Astro (Malaysia) with main focus in content development, ideation & strategy. A specialist in Islamic content with proven track records, currently a creative content consultant, collaborator and strategist for factuals/ docus/ realities