MEET THE COMMISSIONERS, BROADCASTERS, STREAMERS AND FUNDERS WHO CAN MAKE YOUR PROJECT A REALITY
Aloke Devichand is Head of Documentaries at Mindhouse, the BAFTA-winning production company founded in London by filmmaker Louis Theroux.
Tom McDonald is National Geographic’s EVP of Content, overseeing television, streaming, editorial, digital and social across all platforms, including Disney+.
Charlie Parsons is Senior Vice President of Development for the National Geographic Channel.
Erika Dilday is a Producer, Director, Journalist and Media Executive.
Anna is a Senior Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 (UK).
Kate Lemberg is the Associate Manager, Industry Relations/Artist Programs at Points North Institute.
Inka is the Artistic Director of DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, and Head of Acquisitions And Strategy at Raina.
Kazz runs Sideways Film, a documentary and factual sales agency set up in 2010, with offices in London and Barcelona.
Ana Fernández Saiz is a Spanish-born documentary sales agent and producer based in London.
Natalie Campbell Reid is the Acquisitions & Business Development Executive at Together Films, a BFI-backed international sales agency and impact company based in London
Maria is the Head of Sales & Acquisitions of Asian Shadows.
Susie Jones is the Head of Documentary and Specialist at the ABC.
Joseph oversees commissioning for all unscripted content at SBS Australia.
Alison Barrat is SVP, Head of Content for Love Nature, a natural history channel that reaches over 300 million households globally.
Hulu is an American subscription streaming service majority owned by The Walt Disney Company.
Choy Lin is currently Commissioning Editor for TRT World based in Istanbul
Jo Chichester has worked on a range of internal ABC programs and co-productions, and commissioned dozens of documentaries across multiple genres including Arts & Culture, Politics, Regional, Sport, and Design.
Stephen is a commissioning editor with a passion for people and impactful stories.
As a commissioning editor for ABC Documentary + Specialist, Kalita is passionate about finding ways to make Australian stories - history / true crime / arts - entertaining and informative, and is looking to commission new Factual formats & feature documentaries.
Julie has worked extensively as an Executive Producer, Series Producer and Director across a wide range of genres with broadcasters and independent production companies.
Chloe Cassidy joined the ABC’s Documentary and Specialist team in 2021 as Executive Producer – Development, managing the departments award winning slate of Factual and Specialist content.
Rachel is an Executive Producer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) working across Documentary & Specialist, Arts, and Entertainment genres.
Senior Commissioning Editor Documentaries for Factual at Australian public broadcaster SBS.
Bethan Arwel-Lewis is Commissioning Editor of Factual for SBS Australia, and is responsible for commissioning original factual content for the broadcaster.
Joel Supple is the Manager and Commissioning Editor for Podcasts at SBS Audio.
Ian Darling is Executive Director of Shark Island Institute and Chair of Shark Island Foundation.
Shark Island Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation dedicated to funding documentary filmmaking in Australia.
Jenny is an International Sales & Operations Manager at MetFilm Studio, overseeing global distribution and rights for feature films and series.
Aleksandra is the Head of Sales at Paris based CAT&Docs
Emma is the Head of Acquisitions and Development at Journeyman Pictures.
Daniel Cantagallo is a dynamic film executive with 15+ years of experience in global documentary distribution, acquisitions, and production.
Robin Smith is currently the Director of Programming for the Whistler Film Festival and the CEO of Blue Ice Docs Inc.
Paul Wiegard is co-founder and CEO of Melbourne-based Madman Entertainment.
Andrew is Jambika Docs Australian-based Acquisitions and Production Executive in Sydney.
In 2024 Yuda Dilianzi became the Executive Director of In-Docs, a non-profit organization focusing on the cultivation of a supportive ecosystem for Asian documentary films.