- Company
Java Films - Occupation
Sales Representative - Country
France
Bonnici Kathryn
Kathryn has spent the past ten years working in distribution. At Java, her responsibilities include developing and sourcing documentaries from independent directors, handing pre-sales and co-productions and overseeing sales to America, Iberia, Germany, Australasia and the Middle East.
Documentaries she has worked on include the Emmy winning film ‘Songs of War’, the Goya nominated ‘30 Years of Darkness’ and ‘I Will Be Murdered’. In 2012, she was on the selection committee of the Medimed pitching forum and on the jury at the BANFF Film Festival while in 2011, she was a jury member of the Silver Eye Award at the Jihlava Festival. Previously, she worked in London for six years, heading the sales department of a news and current affairs distribution agency.
Java Films
4-6 Villa Thoreton
75015 Paris Java Films is one of Europe’s leading independent distributors specialising only in documentaries and current affairs. Founded in 2005, we have expanded rapidly to secure contracts for award-winning programmes like ‘Envoye Special’ and ’30 Minutes’ and open a seperate office in Barcelona. Our documentaries have been selected for prestigious festivals like IDFA, Sundance, HotDocs and Thessaloniki and won awards like the Prix Albert Londres Award, the Sony Impact Award and the Jury Special Prize (FIPA). To promote our films effectively, we attend an average of 20 markets and festivals a year, including IDFA, MIPDOC, Docs Barcelona, Sunny Side, Medimed and Sheffield. We have output deals with channels in Latin America and Europe and are also involved in co-productions and pre-sales.
4-6 Villa Thoreton
75015 Paris Java Films is one of Europe’s leading independent distributors specialising only in documentaries and current affairs. Founded in 2005, we have expanded rapidly to secure contracts for award-winning programmes like ‘Envoye Special’ and ’30 Minutes’ and open a seperate office in Barcelona. Our documentaries have been selected for prestigious festivals like IDFA, Sundance, HotDocs and Thessaloniki and won awards like the Prix Albert Londres Award, the Sony Impact Award and the Jury Special Prize (FIPA). To promote our films effectively, we attend an average of 20 markets and festivals a year, including IDFA, MIPDOC, Docs Barcelona, Sunny Side, Medimed and Sheffield. We have output deals with channels in Latin America and Europe and are also involved in co-productions and pre-sales.
What are the ways the company gets involved? / Distributor, Executive Producer, Co-Producer, Sales Agent…. Will it be the same also the next year? Please explain if there are any changes planned:
Pre-sales, sales agent, distributor.
Documentary genre(s) preferred:
Current affairs, history, science, social issues.
Average number of titles annually acquired:
80.
What do you expect of the East Doc Platform?:
Java Films is one of Europe’s leading independent distributors specialising only in documentaries and current affairs. Founded in 2005, we have expanded rapidly to secure contracts for award-winning programmes like ‘Envoye Special’ and ’30 Minutes’. Our documentaries have been selected for prestigious festivals like IDFA, Sundance, HotDocs and Thessaloniki and won awards like the Prix Albert Londres Award, the Sony Impact Award and the Jury Special Prize (FIPA) To promote our films effectively, we attend an average of 20 markets and festivals a year, including IDFA, MIPDOC, Docs Barcelona, Sunny Side, Medimed and Sheffield. We have output deals with channels in Latin America and Europe and are also involved in co-productions and pre-sales.
Pre-sales, sales agent, distributor.
Documentary genre(s) preferred:
Current affairs, history, science, social issues.
Average number of titles annually acquired:
80.
What do you expect of the East Doc Platform?:
Java Films is one of Europe’s leading independent distributors specialising only in documentaries and current affairs. Founded in 2005, we have expanded rapidly to secure contracts for award-winning programmes like ‘Envoye Special’ and ’30 Minutes’. Our documentaries have been selected for prestigious festivals like IDFA, Sundance, HotDocs and Thessaloniki and won awards like the Prix Albert Londres Award, the Sony Impact Award and the Jury Special Prize (FIPA) To promote our films effectively, we attend an average of 20 markets and festivals a year, including IDFA, MIPDOC, Docs Barcelona, Sunny Side, Medimed and Sheffield. We have output deals with channels in Latin America and Europe and are also involved in co-productions and pre-sales.
