You’ve made a short film, you’ve screened it a few times and it’s been entered into festivals and won awards – so what’s next? Is a career in documentary filmmaking for you? What do documentarians do all day? What does the career path look like? Where do you go from here? 

In this video, a panel of industry professionals with different career paths (television commissioner, indie producer, shooting director), experiences and perspectives share their views, and answer audience questions.

The Panel:
Finlay Pretsell is a documentary filmmaker and producer who works for the Scottish Documentary Institute.
Conor McCormack is a documentary filmmaker, who is best known for his short documentary, Christmas With Dad.
Harry Marshall is Creative Director of Icon Films, a Bristol-based production company who have produced a number of award-winning documentaries.
Aysha Rafaele is Head of Documentaries at the BBC, formerly documentaries commissioner at Channel 4.
Chaired by Clare Paterson, Commissioning Executive Producer for BBC Documentaries. 

Posted on Fri 28 Sept 2012.

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