Hangout with Brigid O'Shea and plan your documentary season
Attending markets, workshops and festivals is not only a big time commitment but also a financial one. It seems like new events are popping up every day, and it can be hard to navigate their relevance to your projects as well as understand their specific idiosyncratic fingerprint and speciality.
Brigid O'Shea will walk you through the world of Documentary Film Markets and find out how to know which event will match your project and where are the decision makers travelling to in 2024/25
We will do a round up of the dramaturgy of pitching and networking events so that you can tailor your travels this year to suit your projects, maximise your effectivenesss and efficiency as well as learn more about new possibilities for financing and distributing your creative documentary in a saturated European market. What's worth paying an accreditation fee, what is not-to-be-missed and what can wait for another year!
WHAT ARE EWA NETWORK ONLINE HANG-OUTS?
Through an online space where EWA members from all around can connect and know each other, we organise once a month a meeting where an expert introduces a topic followed by Q&A and members can interact. Each meeting will last 75 minutes aprox and it's open to 20-25 EWA members, who can introduce themselves and participate in the following Q&A.
An invitation to join the talk will be sent to EWA members (first come, first served basis).
If you are not a member you can become one here
Brigid O’Shea is an Australian native who has worked for European film festivals and documentary organisations since 2008. Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts obtained in Melbourne and Berlin, she started at the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2008. She worked for various Berlinale departments as a freelancer until 2014, including the EFM and Co-Production Market, until taking a more focused approach on creative documentary. This came from coordinating the DOK Industry Programme from 2009-2015, which allowed her to also freelance for the Institute of Documentary Film in Prague, for Documentary Campus Masterschool, and Berlin-based production companies. She was appointed Head of DOK Industry Programme in January 2015. She regularly tutors on topics like European co-financing, cultural management and festival strategies in places like North America and East Europe.
In February 2020 she co-launched the Documentary Association of Europe.