East Silver

András Monory Mész, buyer, Hungarian Television /  Magyar Televízió

Company profile:
MTV1 and MTV2 are the two national public service channels of MTV Hungarian Television, financed by public funds, advertising and other fundings. The main interest of MTV1 is  general audience, news, social interest, big sport events, evening shows, films etc.
MTV2: culture, knowledge - lifelong learning -, quality fiction, documentary, worldnews, sport, travel, children.

Area of responsibility: Content development
Genre(s) of documentary programmed: Social issue, Culture, Nature, Knowledge, Travel     
Number of hours annually commissioned: 40-60   
Number of hours annually acquired: 800-1000           
Average amount paid for international license or acquisition fees: 500€ / hour      
Three examples of recent international co- productions commissioned or acquired:
„Why democracy? „
„Szent István cirkáló“  
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories: 
Inforg Studio 
Muhi András   
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series): Both:  26 and 52 min
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM and EAST SILVER MARKET?
Innovative narration, new ideas, important issues

Contact/Website
MTV
Szabadság tér 17
1810 Budapest
Hungary
Web: www.mtv.hu

Anne Johnson / Commercial Manager, FOCAL

FOCAL was formed in 1985 as an international, non-profit making, professional trade association. It represents commercial film/audiovisual, stills and sound libraries as well as interested individuals such as facility houses, professional film researchers and producers working in the industry. The organisation aims to represent all its members for their mutual benefit. FOCAL is also a central point for all enquiries relating to the content and stock footage business, information, advice and contacts being given FREE of charge. Key services are the Footage Finder, Researcher Finder and Facility Finder - all simple online forms which, once completed, send your request out to all relevant FOCAL International members in one email, ensuring a swift response. Today FOCAL International has a membership of well over 300 archives, researchers and allied services on all six continents and is fully established as one of the leading voices of the industry. FOCAL International holds regular seminars and workshops on a variety of industry related subjects, an annual Footage Training Week and Footage Fair and is represented at the leading international trade fairs such as, MIPTV, MIPCOM, Sunnyside of the Doc and the Broadcast Live Show in London. The FOCAL International Awards which are designed to promote the use of archive images in the creative media are held annually in May. Submissions are invited the previous September with a closing date at the end of the year in which a production has first been shown. FOCAL publishes the annual FOCAL International Footage & Content Directory listing all member's contact details and providing researchers and producers with a handy hard copy reference book containing all the information that can also be searched in the Web Directory. Another of FOCAL International's publications is the quarterly magazine Archive Zones which is one of the leading sources of news and information for the industry, offering a platform for debate on issues of common concern.

Contact/Website
FOCAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Pentan House
South Hill Avenue
South Harrow
HA2 0DU, UK
Email : info@focalint.org
Web: www.focalint.org

Brigitta Burger-Utzer / Director, sixpackfilm

Years in operation: 16         
Titles in portfolio: Austrian Art Films (Experimental, Documentary, Animation, Short Fiction)       
Three recent titles:
GIBELLINA-IL TERREMOTO (Joerg Burger)
INTO THE WORLD (Constantin Wulff)
VERTIGO RUSH (Johann Lurf)  
Titles from international companies: Only Austrian Films in distribution         
Genre(s) of documentary preferred: Not any Genre preferred          
Average number of titles annually acquired: 30 - 45 
What are the ways the company gets involved? Distributor, Sales Agent
Cash advance / guarantees: None  
Other platforms / VOD, mobile, podcasting…
DVD-Label INDEX (Austrian and international experimental films)        
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories:
Amour Fou (Austria)
Navigator Film (Austria)
Geyrhalter Film (Austria)           
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? No preferences, but no series for TV  
What are you looking for at the EAST SILVER MARKET and EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
To get to know TV-journalists, curators or distributors from other countries, who might be interested in our films

Contact/Website
sixpackfilm
Neubaugasse 45/13
A - 1070 Wien
Web: www.sixpackfilm.com, www.sixpackfilm.at, www.index-DVD.at

Claudia Bucher / ARTE Strasbourg, France

Company Profile
ARTE is a European channel. ARTE G.E.I.E./Groupement Européen d'Intérêt Economique is a trust consisting of: ARTE France and ARTE Deutschland GmbH (Germany), each holding a share of 50%. The two country poles deliver proposals for programmes. The central office of ARTE, located in Strasbourg, is responsible for the editorial line of programmes, the programme schedule and the broadcast.

Genre of documentary programmed: Current affaires,  factual and cultural documentaries
Number of slots or hours programmed per year: 52 x cultural documentaries, 40 x current affaires and factual programs (120‘ slot), 52 x theme evenings on Sunday (180‘ slot with fiction film + documentary)
How are the co-productions, acquisitions and license commissions divided?  (Numbers or percentages): ARTE G.E.I.E. coproduce about 15 theme evenings and 2 cultural documentaries per year.
Could you give us some examples of recent international c-productions or acquisitions you made? Co-Productions: « The oligarchs – raise and fall of a russian elite » (ARTE / YLE / TVP - 2005), « Bad guys faces «  (ARTE / RTBF/ TSR / History channel Italy - 2006), « Muztag Ata » (DRS / ARTE - 2005), « Childrens of the revolution » (ARTE / TVP - 2006), « The Marshall-Plan » (2007), « The polish ambulance murders «  (BBC/SVT and others - 2008) and « Magic mountain » (ARTE/TSR/DRS - 2008).
With producers from which countries or territories have you co-operate in the past? Germany, France, UK, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Russia, Sweden
What is your programming mandate for next year?
In production for 2009/2010: „Return to Lodz“ with TVP, „The secret stories of the Sherpas“ with DRS, „René Magritte“ with RTBF, „Moon inside you“ with Spanish regional channels, „Tap water stories“ a French- canadian coproduction, „History of Prostitution“ with WDR/RBB.
The exact programming mandate 2009 of the theme evening unit ARTE G.E.I.E. is not fixed yet.
What is your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? 52 – 90‘ single programs
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
Current affairs programs and cultural documentaries

Cristina MOYA / Doc & Co / Acquisitions & Sales Manager      

Company profile
DOC & CO was created in 1996 by eight French independent producers to distribute their documentaries.Since 1999, DOC & CO has broadened its mandate and today distributes internationally documentaries from all over the world. DOC & CO represents a catalogue of important quality titles in the following categories: Society, Current Affairs, History, Arts & Culture, Science, Discovery & Adventure
Company proposes some prime collections like:
Artists - Cinéma of our Times - Landscapes and Voyages.

Years in operation: Since May 2007   
Titles in portfolio:
Cinema de notre Temps
Jazz Collection
Sin City Law      
Three recent titles:
End of the Rainbow
Popov double Agent
Museum Business                        
Titles from international companies:
End of the Rainbow
The Battle of Guadalajara         
Genre(s) of documentary preferred: Art, History, Current Affairs        
Average number of titles annually acquired: 8              
What are the ways the company gets involved? Distributor, Sales agent          
Cash advance / guarantees: none         
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories
La Grosse Boule (France)
The History Channel (Spain)     
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? 52‘ and singles & series       
What are you looking for at the EAST SILVER MARKET and EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
Good project or powerful production

Contact/Website
DOC & CO
13 Rue Portefoin
750 03 Paris
France
www.doc-co.com

Cynthia Kane, Program Manager  [ITVS] International

Company Profile
ITVS funds, presents and promotes award-winning documentaries on public television and cable, innovative new media projects on the Web and the Emmy Award-winning weekly series Independent Lens on PBS. The Independent Television Service (ITVS) brings to audiences high-quality, content-rich programs created by a diverse body of independent producers. ITVS documentaries take creative risks, explore complex issues, and express points of view seldom seen on commercial or public television. ITVS programming reflects voices and visions of underrepresented communities and addresses the needs of underserved audiences, particularly minorities and children. ITVS seeks to expand cultural and global awareness, advance civic participation, and creatively engage audiences as it brings new and diverse voices into the public discourse through programming. ITVS forges alliances and explores new opportunities through emerging technologies that will cultivate new audiences for independent media.

Area of responsibility: All program initiatives, funding calls and commissioned programming for ITVS. Acquistion for ITVS/PBS series “Independent Lens” and distribution of international programming to PBS and other U.S. broadcasters.              
Genre(s) of documentary programmed: Story and character-driven documentaries take creative risks, advance issues and represent points of view not usually seen on public or commercial television.  We look for those unique, untold or unknown stories from around the world.PBS ITVS: mostly all, except lifestyle, wildlife, how-tos.             
Number of hours annually commissioned: ITVS International funds through International Call and commissioning between 8-15 documentaries a year plus some acquisitions. PBS ITVS: 45            
Number of hours annually acquired: ITVS International: primarily through International Call / the next International Call deadline will be February 6, 2009. PBS ITVS: 30
Number of hours from international producers: PBS ITVS: 30 
Average amount for international funding: ITVS International: can fund up to U.S.$150,000 per project. PBS ITVS: $30-150 000
Three examples of recent international co- productions commissioned or acquired:
Garbage Warrior, Ice Lakshmi and Me, The Last Two Tightrope Dancers In Armenia, The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories, Russia’s Pepsi Generation, Shadow of the Holy Book, Shadya, Shafeen.com: We’re Watching You, The Siege, A Story of People in War and Peace,  Waltz With Bashir, A Working Mom, Young Yakuza….
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories:
Sinisha Juricic, Martichka Bozhilova, Vardan Hovhannisyan       
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? PBS ITVS: prefer broadcast hours, but will consider feature-length occasionally      
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM and EAST SILVER MARKET?
That spectacular story and great new talent! And all of the above.

Contact/Website
[ITVS] International
651 Brannan Street
Suite 410
San Francisco, CA 94107
Web: www.itvs.org/producers/funding

Cynthia Lopez / American Documentary | P.O.V. / PBS USA

Genre of documentary programmed: Documentary – Contemporary social issues, personal storytelling, cinema verite, stories ignored by mainstream media
Number of slots or hours programmed per year: 15-18 slots per year. 18 – 23 hours
How are the co-productions, acquisitions and license commissions divided?  (Numbers or percentages): 60% acquisition, 40% co-production/finishing funds
Could you give us some examples of recent international c-productions or acquisitions you made? The English Surgeon, by Geoffrey Smith
9 Star Hotel by Ido Haar
Campaign by Kazuhiro Soda
Belarusian Waltz by Andrzej Fidyk
Up the Yangtze by Yung Chang
No More Tears Sister by Helene Klodawsky
Tintin et Moi by Anders Ostergaard
With producers from which countries or territories have you co-operate in the past? Poland, Canada, Japan, Holland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Belgium, Israel
What is your programming mandate for next year? To program 15-18 new documentaries.
Average amount for acquisition or license fee? $30,000 - $50,000 USD
What is your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Program length 52:30 and 82: 30, we also program shorts with longer pieces.
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM and EAST SILVER MARKET?
A sense of what projects are in production. To find Eastern European stories that will appeal to US audiences. To connect with Eastern European producers.

Contact / website:
www.pov.org
www.pbs.org

Daniela Kuzmanova / Bulgarian National Television

Area of responsibility: Programme Sales & Acquisitions Dept
Genre(s) of documentary programmed: All  kind of documentaries
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? One hour singles or series
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM and EAST SILVER MARKET? Current affairs, culture oriented, science

Website:
www.bnt.bg

Danielle DiGiacomo, IndiePix/Tribeca Gucci Fund / Head of Documentary Acquisitions

Company profile:
IndiePix is the leading resource for independent film, with a website (www.IndiePixFilms.com) that delivers a highly-curated collection of the best independent films from around the world. Featuring an expanding catalog of features and shorts, IndiePix award-winning art house, foreign, and documentary films are supported by trailers, synopses and filmmaker video interviews. We’re the equivalent of a smart thrift shopper – passionately rummaging through undistributed work to pick out that gem of a film no one has seen but ought to. The website, weekly newsletters, blog and ground events reach opinion makers in the indie-film community in addition to an educated and affluent market of consumers from around the US. Fiercely committed to the spirit of indie film, IndiePix affords its enthusiastic filmmakers the opportunity to distribute their projects while maintaining the rights to their work. All IndiePix filmmakers receive more than half of the purchase price for each film bought on IndiePixFilms.com. For our  spotlight filmmakers, we offer educational, retail, and international broadcast distribution. We also advertise, plan events, and arrange screenings. Recent acquisitions include Kristi Jacobsons’ TOOTS, Lucia Small and Ed Pincus’ THE AXE IN THE ATTIC, and Jeremy and Randy Stulberg’s OFF THE GRID.          

Years in operation: Since 2004
Titles in portfolio: Red Without Blue, Toots, The Axe in the Attic, Hell on Wheels, Skidrow, Billy the Kid, 21 Below      
Three recent titles: The Axe in the Attic, 21 Below, The End of America
Titles from international companies: States of Mind (Italy) , Living with the Tudors (U.K.), The Hunger Season (U.K.), The Mother (Switzerland) 
Genre(s) of documentary preferred: Cinema verite, character-driven, historical, social issue 
Average number of titles annually acquired: 24            
What are the ways the company gets involved? Distributor, Executive Producer, Sales Agent
Cash advance / guarantees: Filmmaker gets 60% of gross.        
Other platforms / VOD, mobile, podcasting…: Download-to-own, mobile platforms (iTunes), Streaming online (SnagFilms)               
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories
Rachel Wexler, U.K.
Antoine Cattin, Switzerland
Sandra Whipman, Channel 4, U.K.        
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Single, feature length (between 60 and 80 minutes) What are you looking for at the EAST SILVER MARKET and EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
Great Eastern European films to acquire for DVD, digital and broadcast in North America.

Contact/ Website
IndiePix
31 East 32 St. 12th Floor
NYC 10016
Web:www.indiepixstudios.com

David Hooper / Espresso TV / Managing Director

Company Profile:
Espresso T.V. is an international television production and distribution company based in Brighton, UK. Having started in 1992, Espresso T.V. has specialised in programming from the documentary and factual entertainment genre. Our catalogue covers history, science, sport, religion, travel, music, arts, culture and lifestyle. Apart from the main international terrestrial channels, Espresso TV focuses on multi-platform distribution channels including educational and dvd as well as new media such as mobile, broadband, IPTV and VOD. We are also active in pre-sales and co-productions on new projects across our specialist areas.              

Years in operation: 16
Titles in portfolio: Approximately 200
Third party percentage: 30-35%             
Genre(s) of documentary preferred: All            
Average number of titles annually acquired: 50 - 100 
What are the ways the company gets involved? Distributor / Co-producer     
Cash advance / guarantees: No             
Other platforms / VOD, mobile, podcasting…: Cover all TV rights, educational, DVD, New Media
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories: Work with UK and European Producers for co-pro projects.  
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? One hour or feature length for docs
Half hour or one hour for series             
What are you looking for at the EAST SILVER MARKET and EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
New productions, co-production partners.

Contact/Website
Espresso TV
25 York Villas,
Brighton, BN1 3TS
United Kingdom
Web: www.espressotv.com

Dimitra Kouzi ERT-Digital / Buyer

Company Profile
ERT Digital is the digital arm of the Greek Public Broadcasting Corporation, and has been operating at pilot stage since March 2007. It currently covers 55% of the Greek Population, and is planning to extend its coverage throughout Greece by the end of 2009. The ERT Digital platform currently offers 3 channels:
cine+ programming includes an extensive movie library with art house films as well as blockbusters from an international selection, popular international series and mini-series, arts and culture, creative, history and feature length documentaries.
prisma+ programming is multigenre, including series, movies, documentaries on nature and wildlife, children's programmes, as well as popular greek series and current affairs shows with additional accessibility features for people with hearing disabilities (subtitles and sign language).
sport+ programming includes mainstream as well as extreme / less popular sports and docs about sports, and broadcasts exclusively for Greece important tournaments from around the world.

Area of responsibility: Acquisitions – Program department
Genre(s) of documentary programmed: Arts and Culture (cinema, architecture, fashion, design,  music), history, feature length documentaries. Nature and wildlife, current affairs, social issues (e.g. emigrants, the aged, people with disabilities/particularities/notable work, young people), travel, cooking, science, environment and docs about sports.  Number of hours annually commissioned: None, We acquire ready-made documentaries.
Number of hours annually acquired: 721 hours for prisma+, 350 hours for cine+ and 104 for sport+ = total 1175 hours              
Number of hours from international producers: 880   
How are the co-productions, acquisitions and license commissions divided?  (percentage): 100% acquisitions           
Average amount paid for international license or acquisition fees: 500 euro per broadcasted hour (52 min) and materials on loan, 1000 euro for feature length docs
Three examples of recent international co- productions commissioned or acquired:
Acquired: Great Expectations, Flying Confessions of a free woman, Stranded-The Andes Plane crash survivors, Hold me tight, let me go, A working Mom, Bolero-Boleros.        
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories:
ARTE (Germany and France), NPO (The Netherlands), Magic Hour Films (Denmark), Taskovski Films (Czech Republic), Filmstransit (Canada), Fortissimo Films (France)            
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Both single and series. We broadcast any length we are very flexible. The format we prefer is 4:3
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM and EAST SILVER MARKET?
Single docs from Central and Eastern Europe! And any other interesting docs for our slots (see above)

Contact/Website
ERT Digital
432 Mesogion Str.
Building D‘. 1st floor, office 27
15342 Agia Paraskevi
Greece
www.ert.gr

Dušan Jurčík / Buyer / Czech Television

Company Profile
Czech TV ( public broadcaster ). Inception on 1st  January 1992 by the Czech Television Acts as an independent public service channel. Statutory  body - Director General appionted by the Czech Television Council for a six-year team. Supervisory   body- The Czech Television Council, composed of fifteen members elected by the Chamber of Deputies of Czech parilament for a six years term, woth one -third replaced every two years. Funding mainly by the television licence fee supplemented by revenues from business operations. Programme television broadcasting of a broad range genres, news provider, broadcaster of major sports events, important producer of films, documentaries a current affairs programmes. Broadcasting two nationwide channels CT 1 and CT 2 , Czech Television Teletext and Teletext Express, CT websites www.ceskatelevize.cz , CT 24 (DVB-T satelite and cable distribution, on -line internet broadcasting) CT 4 SPORT ( DVBT -T  satelite and cable distribution).
Public benefit activities-  media partnerships and broadcasting spots, own charity projects  etc. CT broadcasting according to programme type in 2005 : news 21.4 %, currents afffairs 11.4 documentaries 13.5 %, drama 22.5 % etc.             

Genre of documentary programmed: All of them         
Number of slots or hours programmed per year: 15 , mostly one hour
How are the co-productions, acquisitions and license commissions divided?  (percentage): 100% buy            
Average amount for acquisition or license fee? 900 EURO/ one hour
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Specials, one hour …

Contact/ Website
Czech Television
Kavčí hory
140 70 Prague 4
www.ceskatelevize.cz

Filippo D‘Angelo / Vitagraph / President & CEO

Company Profile
Established in 1995, Vitagraph is a distribution company which handles the worldwide sales of feature, documentary and short films (all rights). Since the beginning Vitagraph specialized as a distribution company for the Italian independent documentary production, in order to help little and creative films to meet the international market. In the last years the company has been acquiring international films too, such as the Norwegian “Forever Yours” and the French-Latvian “My Husband Andrei Sakharov”, and its catalogue includes now more than 50 titles. Vitagraph looks for documentaries of all genres, preferably realized in a personal and creative way. Being in contact with the most important Italian TV networks and channels, Vitagraph also cooperates with several international production and sales companies in order to place their products on the Italian market. Vitagraph is mainly present at market events such as Fipa, Thessaloniki Doc Market, MipDoc & MipTv, Sunny Side of the Doc, Mipcom, Medimed, Docs for Sale, Mercadoc.

Years in operation: 14
Three recent titles:
Forever Yours
My Husband Andrei Sakharov
Eyes Wide Open            
Third party percentage: 20% or 30%    
Titles from international companies
The Beauty Academy of Kabul
Sauve qui peut… les poulets
Purity
Nose, Iranian Style       
Genre(s) of documentary preferred: Personal Viewpoint, History, Politics/Society, Current Affairs
Average number of titles annually acquired: 10            
What are the ways the company gets involved? Distributor, Sales Agent         
Cash advance / guarantees: No             
Other platforms / VOD, mobile, podcasting…: VOD, Mobile, IPTV       
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories
Magic Lantern Media (USA)
Amythos Films (Canada)
Point du Jour International (France)    
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? 30‘/60‘/Feature lenght, Single/Series           
What are you looking for at the EAST SILVER MARKET and EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
Good East-European documentaries for the international and Italian markets

Contact/Website
Vitagraph
Via Schiavonia, 1
I-40121 Bologna
Italy
Web: www.vitagraph.it

Flora Gregory / Al Jazeera English / Witness / Buyer, Commisioning Editor

Company profile:
Al Jazeera English, AJE, is a global news channel broadcasting into 100 million homes. It aims to give a worldwide perspective, encouraging new voices not previously heard. Witness is the channel’s flagship daily documentary strand presented by Rageh Omaar from our London studios. In particular, it aims to showcase the talents of the world’s multi-skilled documentary makers. With inspirational or provocative stories, Witness is providing a fresh insight into the world’s key events as they impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, with intimate character led accounts. Witness has two slot lengths, 22 minutes (for which we acquire and commission) and 43 minutes (for which we acquire). To pitch an idea to the Witness team, please register on the website www.ajicommissioning.net

Genre of documentary programmed: Economic Development, Politics / Poverty, Human Rights, Indigenous People
Number of hours annually commissioned: Al Jazeera International: 75             
Number of hours annually acquired: Al Jazeera International: 75         
Number of hours from international producers: All     
Please give some examples of recent international co- production or acquisition you have made: The Singing Barber of Mosul, Caravan of Love, Insuring Against Famine             
What is your programming mandate for next year? No details for the moment .         
Average amount for acquisition or license fee? open
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)?
Al Jazeera International: 30’
Al Jazeera Witness: 21’ 15’’, 42’ 30’’     
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM and EAST SILVER MARKET?
Short commissioned or acquired films gathered from independent filmmakers, world issues into focus with courageous, human stories and provocative debate.Witness stories

Contact / website
Al-Jazeera English | London
1 Knightsbridge
London SW1X 7XW
United Kingdom
www.aljazeera.net/english
www.aljazeera.net/english/witness
www.ajicommissioning.net

Gabriele Gärtner-Schlüβ/ Buyer / WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln

Company profile:
The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German broadcasting corporation) is an institution that has been established under public law and is one of ten independent state public broadcasting institutions of the ARD, the Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in the Federal Republic of Germany. WDR is a broadcaster for North Rhine Westphalia with an international perspective. With its five radio programmes Eins Live, WDR 2, WDR 3, WDR 4 and WDR 5 and WDR 5 Funkhaus Europa as well as the WDR television channel it produces 149 hours of radio and 38 hours of television programmes every day.      

Area of responsibility: Acquisition for all WDR programmes    
Genre(s) of documentary programmed: History, Politics, Current Affairs, Culture, Music, Science, Children     
Number of hours annually commissioned: Varies every year strongly
Number of hours annually acquired: Varies every year strongly           
How are the co-productions, acquisitions and license commissions divided?  (percentage): It depends on the programme, there are no special demands in percentage  
Average amount paid for international license or acquisition fees: About 60 % of the acquisition fees            
Three examples of recent international co- productions commissioned or acquired
Human Footstep
Shaun the Sheep
Johnny Cash    
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories: worldwide              
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? 45‘ – one offs (documentaries), but 90‘ docufilms as well, 6‘ animated series for children
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM and EAST SILVER MARKET?
Documentaries (history, current affairs, foreign affairs etc.)

Contact/Website
ARD/WDR
Appelhofplatz 1
50667 Köln
Germany
Web: www.wdr.de

Gitte Hansen Schnyder / First Hand Films / Deputy Director

Company profile:
Since 1998, Esther van Messel runs FHF in Zurich and Berlin for international distribution of documentaries, TV series and fiction films. In 2008, FHF consists of an enthousiastic staff of 5 and represents around 250 films and 150 producers from all over the world. First Hand Films acts as executive producer for selected projects. Present at all major festivals around the year, with meeting and screening facilities at stands at the main markets - Berlin, Cannes, Mip, La Rochelle and Amsterdam. First Hand Films have competed in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Locarno, Sundance, Toronto and many other festivals. Its very first pick-up went on to receive the Oscar© for Best Documentary Feature. Since then, most First Hand Films have won awards: Emmy, Prix Europa, IDFA main awards, Biarritz, Banff, Grimme-Preis, Grand Prix Nyon, National Film Awards, European Film Awards, Silver Leopards, Golden Rose Montreux and more.

Years in operation: 9   
Titles in portfolio: The catalogue includes around 250 hand-picked films from all over the world and is constantly renewed.              
Three recent titles: The Monastery – Mr. Vig & The Nun, The Prize of The Pole, 3 Times divorced, Corridor # 8            
Genre(s) of documentary preferred: Love good television. Love to make people watch it.      
What are the ways the company gets involved? Sales Agent, Executive Producer, Co-producer. FHF finds finance and partners, facilitates and coordinates international co-productions. FHF deals with the entire production process as its ‘foreign ministers’ - and then FHF delivers.      
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories: FHF has access to stories, directors, producers, broadcasters and funding bodies anywhere - aiming for the best, and for vision.       
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Ambitious and realistic, FHF can sell one-offs and series, and programme slots, theme nights, and strands.        
What are you looking for at the EAST SILVER MARKET and EAST EUROPEAN FORUM? First Hand Films sells and produces accessible and passionate programmes worldwide combining unique international intelligence with practical knowledge and experience.

Contact/Website
First Hand Films International Sales
Main Office
Fritz Heeb – Weg
5 8050 Zürich
Switzerland

Berlin Office
Mehringdamm 33
10961 Berlin
Germany
www.firsthandfilms.com

Charlotte Gry Madsen / DR (Danish Broadcasting Corp), Denmark

Company profile:
DR is a national public service channel financed by license fees. It has two television channels: DR1, the main channel which broadcasts for the broad audience, and DR2 which has special focus on political debate, comedy, history, science and culture. DR1 transmits by analogue and digital terrestrial network, satellite and cable. DR2 transmits by digital terrestrial network, satellite and cable.

Genre of documentary acquired for distribution: All types
Number of slots or hours acquired for distribution per year: Approx. 40 - 60 new titles released each year.
How are the co-productions, acquisitions and license commissions divided?  (Numbers or percentages): The majority of the programmes we distribute are co-produced with or broadcasted on DR, but this is not a condition.
Could you give us some examples of recent international c-productions or acquisitions you acquired for distribution?
Crossing the Line (VerySoMuch Prod.), Reserved to Fight (Mirrorlake Films), The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World (Drive Thru Pictures), Traders‘ Dreams (Filmquadrat), Life Extended (Bigert & Bergstrøm), On the Sky On Earth (Centrala Sp. Z.o.o.), Music Partisans (Film Studio Everest), Circus School (Ke Dingding)
With producers from which countries or territories have you co-operate in the past? Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland,  Norway, USA, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Poland, France, Germany, UK, Spain, China
What is your programming mandate for next year? N.A.
Average amount for acquisition or license fee? N.A.
What is your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Both singles and series. Preferably 52 - 60 min. but also  22 - 28 min.
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
Especially strong personal stories as well as political and historical themes. But generally good stories that will interest an international audience.

www.drsales.dk

Jan Rofekamp / Films Transit International Inc / President and General Manager

Company profile:
Founded in 1982 by Dutch national Jan Rofekamp, Films Transit International is one of the world's leading international distributors of quality feature length and tv hour documentaries. The films represented by Films Transit usually have epic ( feature length) or urgent ( tv hours) qualities. Films Transit is based in Montreal and has an office in New York. We have done and do some executive producing occasionally. Some of Jan Rofekamp's recent executive producer credits: End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones, Imaginary Witness- Hollywood and the Holocaust, Battle for our Minds and Still Doing It. Jan Rofekamp and Diana Holtzberg ( NYC office) are available for production, distribution and marketing consultancies on an ad hoc basis. Jan Rofekamp was born in Zurich, Switzerland, grew up in Holland where he attended the 4 year production course of The Dutch Film Academy from 1968-1972. He worked in theatrical and non-theatrical distribution from 1972 to 1982, when he moved to Canada, where he founded Films Transit.   

Years in operation: Since 1982   
Titles in portfolio: 150 titles   
Three recent titles:
Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
Addicted to Plastic
Full Battle Rattle   
Third party percentage: All films made third parties   
Titles from international companies: All films   
Genre(s) of documentary preferred: all   
Average number of titles annually acquired: Between 15 and 25   
What are the ways the company gets involved? Distributor and sometimes Exec. producer   
Cash advance / guarantees: sometimes   
Other platforms / VOD, mobile, podcasting…: All platformd   
Please name producers you have co-operated with in the past/ please specify the countries or territories: Too many, see website   
Your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Tv hour ( between 50 and 60 minutes and feature length preferably not longer than 90‘   
What are you looking for at the EAST SILVER MARKET and EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
Sales, contacts, new films

Contact/Website:
FILMS TRANSIT US OFFICE
166 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10003, USA
www.filmstransit.com

Jane Jankovic / TVO, Canada

Company profile:
TVO is Ontario's public educational media organization and a trusted source of interactive educational content that informs, inspires, and stimulates curiosity and thought. TVO's vision is to empower people to be engaged citizens of Ontario through educational media.

Genre of documentary programmed: Contemporary POV social issues.
Number of slots or hours programmed per year: 2 hours per week (plus repeat hours). More than 100 hours per year.
How are the co-productions, acquisitions and license commissions divided? (Numbers or percentages):
The View From Here – commissions, some acquisitions, priority given to Canadian POV social issues
Human Edge – pre-license sales & acquisitions for international docs.
Masterworks – pre-license sales & acquisitions for arts docs.
TVO commissions require that TVO have an exclusive first-window broadcast of the film for a negotiated period of time. Acquisitions and pre-license sales can be either first-window (with an exclusive period) or second-window (depending on the original broadcast territory).
Could you give us some examples of recent international c-productions or acquisitions you made?: Current multinational commissioned projects include:
Diamond Road (3 part series)
Paris 1919 (2 part series)
Empire of the Word (4 part series)
Past acquisitions for Human Edge:
9-Star Hotel
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
Forever
Devil’s Miner
China Blue
Fog of War
With producers from which countries or territories have you co-operate in the past?: TVO has worked in productions with investments from France, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Italy, Sweden, and other western European countries.
What is your programming mandate for next year? Contemporary Point-of-View stories with strong characters that explore or exemplify social conscience themes. Humor welcome. One offs, and limited series (English preferred).
Average amount for acquisition or license fee?
Acquisition: 6K – 9K per program
Pre-license sales: 7k-10k per program
Commissions: 50k – 70k per program on average
What is your preference regarding to length and format (single/series)? Singles – one hour, series – one hour per episode, up to 2 - 6 episodes.
What are you looking for at the EAST EUROPEAN FORUM?
Unusual stories about social and political change; social struggle; consequences of change. Human interest stories that tell us something about the changing world in which we live.

www.tvo.org/documentaries