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Sunny Side of nan Doc, nan world documentary marketplace held successful La Rochelle, France, has announced nan first speakers for its upcoming 2026 edition.
The 37th SSD, moving June 22-24, will characteristic a keynote reside from recently minted Oscar victor Helle Faber, shaper of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, who will stock her observations connected world co-production successful a clip of unprecedented change. SSD writes, “As accepted financing narrows and nan equilibrium of powerfulness shifts, [Faber’s] convention will springiness a clear-eyed position of what is changing, what remains essential, and really producers tin navigate this infinitesimal to decisively make nan correct move.”
In a statement, Faber commented, “International co-production has ever been astir ambition and telling stories beyond borders. Today nan exemplary is nether pressure, but collaboration is much important than ever. I’m looking guardant to speaking astatine Sunny Side of nan Doc and breaking down nan challenges astir adapting and building partnerships that fto bold, world stories scope audiences.”
Also confirmed for nan lineup is Ben Zand, laminitis and CEO of Zandland, “who is building a caller exemplary by creating, funding, and distributing documentaries wholly in-house. His keynote will face what really resonates pinch audiences coming beyond clicks, and what it takes to build lasting engagement successful an ecosystem wherever audiences are progressively elusive.”
Sunny Side of nan Doc, presented successful business pinch Documentary Campus, attracts thousands of participants from astir nan world each year, offering “a operation of high-level transportation sessions, panels connected nan latest manufacture trends and an accumulation hall.”
Additional confirmed speakers see Jen Topping, who will measure YouTube’s existent worth for documentary producers, and really to usage it strategically. Per SSD, high-profile keynotes and “straight talk” sessions will tackle a assortment of challenges: closing financing gaps, forging viable world alliances, and navigating an ecosystem reshaped by exclusivity and level power. Broadcasters including France Télévisions, NHK, China Media Group, ARTE, Canal+ Group, and Global Doc pubcasters confederation will stock transparent insights connected budgets, co-production priorities, and business expectations for nan adjacent 12 to 24 months.
Further sessions and debates will analyse nan communicative domiciled of AI, nan imaginable of archives arsenic a contented engine, and nan distribution strategies emerging from a digital-first market.
“The documentary and actual scenery is shifting faster than nan professionals tin absorb. The correct corporate move is to beryllium portion of a marketplace built to make world co-productions and world income happen,” notes Aurélie Reman, managing head of Sunny Side of nan Doc. “In La Rochelle this June, nan voices reshaping business models and partnerships will speak plainly astir what it takes to get projects crossed nan decorativeness lines connected TV, streaming and integer platforms. Ours is an manufacture that runs connected in-person relationships and that urgent conversation, held openly and pinch existent stakes, is simply a strategical choice.”
Donata von Perfall, managing head of Documentary Campus, adds: “We person designed this year’s to straight reside nan urgent challenges facing producers, revealing nan astir promising opportunities crossed nan TV, integer and streaming markets. The attraction is connected applicable penetration and open, solution- driven speech – and that tin only hap successful nan room. This version is nan merchandise of a unique, strategical business betwixt Documentary Campus and Sunny Side of nan Doc, shaping each constituent to create a abstraction wherever nan manufacture tin engage, align, and move projects forward, making it basal for nan manufacture to beryllium successful La Rochelle and portion of these conversations.”
