DOCUMENTARY IN EUROPE
Documentary in Europe is a non profit member association established to promote documentary filmmaking and foster opportunities for young talents, filmmakers and independent producers. Since 1997 it organizes the annual Italian pitching event called Documentary in Europe. Today it also manages the Super8misti project (an archive dedicated to the collection, digital transfer and promotion of private super8 family movies) and various seminars and training initiatives for documentary professionals.
The annual event, co-organized with EDN, gathers an average of 250 participants inviting 15 TV decision makers and financiers as well as producers and distributors to actively attend its sessions. These include a match-making session for filmmakers seeking producers, a pitching forum for producers seeking financial support and broadcaster involvement, a master class, various case studies on documentary productions and a video-on-demand section.
See www.docineurope.org for more info.
Documentary in Europe is supported by MEDIA and various local institutions and bank foundations. It partners with EDN, Fert and Doc/it (Italy), Documentor (Romania), Docedge (India), Documentary Campus and Reelisor (Germany).
President of the Association and director of the annual event: Stefano Tealdi
Association Documentary in Europe
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Stefano Tealdi
Born in Johannesburg (South Africa) in 1955, he graduates in Architecture and in 1985 he founds, with Elena Filippini and Edoardo Fracchia, STEFILM working as a director and producer. He studied production at the MEDIA training course ‘EAVE', is a founder member of the Associazione FERT and has directed the first twelve editions of Documentary in Europe. He chaired EDN (European Documentary Network) and is the national coordinator for INPUT, Television in the Public Interest.
With STEFILM he produced several award winning films including “Citizen Berlusconi”, nominated for a Grimme Award - 2004, “Porto Marghera - Venice” 59. Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2002, “Sorriso amaro (Rice girls)” 60. Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2003 and MoMA New York. He directed: “Eritrea: the red land”, “Tougher than the rest”, “The falling of an angel”, “A world of pasta" and "Doctor Ice”.
Olaf Grunert
Following his studies at universities in Germany, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, Olaf Grunert began to work for German public broadcaster ZDF based in Mainz. Beginning as a freelancer in the entertainment department, he soon became a full-time Commissioning Editor in the Classical Music and Theatre departments. In 1990, he became Deputy Head of Zentralredaktion Kultur, the programming unit of ZDF’s culture and science department. When the German-French Culture Channel ARTE was created, he became Senior Commissioning Editor of all the documentaries ZDF produces for ARTE. In 1998, he headed the department exclusively dedicated to theme nights, THEMA. He has since been involved in an increasing number of international co-productions, mainly of European origin. Recently, several Spanish and Italian projects have been realized with the support of his department. In January 2005 he moved to ARTE Headquarters Strasbourg where he continued to work as head of Unité THEMA.
Leena Pasanen
Leena Pasanen, studied Finnish language and literature at Oulu University in Finland. She started her carrier as a journalist in 1988 at the Finnish News Agency.
In 1993 she joined YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company, where she worked as a reporter, political commentator, subeditor and TV-presenter. From 1999 to 2000 she was the head of documentaries for YLE TV1. When the digital cultural channel YLE Teema was launched, Leena Pasanen was chosen as Head of Programme. Since 2004 she was also the deputy director of the channel. From November 2005 to Aug 2008 she was the director of the European Docmentary Network (EDN).
Since 2000, Leena has built up a strong reputation as one of the most internationally orientated and engaged European commissioning editors, especially known for her support to new talent. As an expert and tutor Leena has been called upon from workshops organized by Discovery Campus, Television Business School, Eurodoc and EDN.
After her successful spell as the EDN Director, Leena has returned to YLE as an Executive Producer and Coordinator of Programmes.
Greg Sanderson
Greg is Editorial Executive of BBC 'Storyville', the BBC's flagship documentary strand. Involved in both commissioning and overseeing projects, he works closely with Nick Fraser and Jo Lapping. Recently Greg has been running the BBC's ‘Why Democracy?’ season, as well as acting as Executive Producer on ‘The English Surgeon’, ‘The Real Father Ted’, ‘The Ministry of Truth’ and other 'Storyville' titles. Prior to 'Storyville', Greg worked in a range of independent films before moving into in-house production.
