1st Symposium 2005

Tearing Down Walls

Broadcasters Pitch Their Documentary Slots How to Crack the British Market in Times of Change Inside the System - How Programming Decisions are being made

Are you fed up of pitching your projects? Of trying to get the attention of commissioning editors? Of having to sell your precious ideas? Why not let them present their slots to you and explain what they are really looking for? Discovery Campus made decisionmakers change roles. European and North American commissioning editors pitched their documentary slots and programming needs to producers and filmmakers. They had to stand up and pitch for 7 minutes. The best presentation was awarded the Discovery Campus Pitch Award.

Hosting partner:
Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC)

Cosponsors:
- Skillset
- Screen Training Ireland
- BBC Northern Ireland

Supporters of the Discovery Campus Masterschool 2005:
- the MEDIA Plus Programme of the European Union
- the Bavarian State Chancellery
- the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM)
- the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
- the Sächsische Stiftung für Medienausbildung

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register Fri, 4 Mar 2005 - Sun, 6 Mar 2005

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BBC Studios / Studio A
BBC Blackstaff House
Great Victoria Street
Belfast BT2 7BZ
Northern Ireland

topExperts

  • Hans Robert Eisenhauer , , Mainz, Germany
  • John Farren Editor, BBC Timewatch, London, United Kingdom
  • Andy Halper Senior Producer of Wide Angle & the News and Public Affairs Programming Department, Thirteen/WNET, New York, USA
  • Alan Hayling Editorial Director, Renegade Pictures UK, London, UK
  • Bert Janssens Head of Programmes & General Manager, HUMAN, Hilversum, The Netherlands
  • Peter Johnston Head of Broadcasting, BBC Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Richard Klein Controller, BBC Four, London, UK
  • Jutta Krug Commissioning Editor for Documentaries, WDR, Cologne, Germany
  • Tue Steen Müller Documentary Consultant and Teacher, , Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Marijke Rawie Director, ExpertDocs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Outi Saarikoski Commissioning Editor, YLE Teema Ateljee, Tampere, Finland
  • Fiona Scott-Johnson Reversioning Manager, Discovery Networks Europe, London, United Kingdom
  • Jess Search , Shooting People, London, United Kingdom
  • Dr. André Singer CEO and Creative Director, Spring Films , London, UK
  • Sydney Suissa Executive Vice President of Content, National Geographic Channels International, Washington, D.C, USA
  • Andrzej Titkow Deputy Head of Documentary Forms Department, TVP, Warsaw, Poland
  • Peter Weil Senior Vice President & General Manager, Animal Planet International, London, United Kingdom
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