Charlie Parsons is Senior Vice President of Development for the National Geographic Channel, responsible for developing new projects, discovering new talent, and serving as the network’s main point of contact for the global production community and agents around the world. He is across programming for both the global linear network, as well as National Geographic’s tile on Disney+, and recently added oversight of the natural history development pipeline to his responsibilities.

Shaminder Nahal is Head of Specialist Factual at Channel 4. She recently commissioned the major new series The Piano, recently recommissioned for two more series, and the department covers formats including SAS: Who Dares Wins and Grayson’s Art Club. This year she commissioned Paula, a series about Paula Yates; Depp v Heard, a co-production with Netflix; the documentary series Kids about Kids in care, and a contemporary history series about the Miners’ Strike, to be broadcast next year. Previously she commissioned Investigating Diana, a co-production with Discovery Plus, as well as award-winning single films Grenfell: The Untold Story, Munya Chawawa: How to Survive a Dictator, and David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count. Channel 4’s Specialist Factual also department commissions Guy Martin’s series such as the recent Guy Martin’s Great British Power Trip, and the Grayson Perry documentary series. Shaminder also commissioned 100 Vaginas, Me and My Penis, Superkids: Breaking Away from Care, The Extraordinary Life of April Ashley, and oversaw “Murder in the Car Park”. She also co-commissioned The Big Narstie Show and was one of the commissioners behind The Black to Front project along with Vivienne Molokwu. Prior to Channel 4, she was Deputy Editor of Channel 4 News and Deputy Editor of the BBC’s Newsnight.

As Head of Content, Ally leads local content efforts and is responsible for the design and execution of our local content slate, including TV and film licensing, for the Prime Video service in Australia and New Zealand. Ally joined Amazon in September 2016 as legal counsel supporting Prime Video in the US before moving on to other roles covering international expansion of the Prime Video Channels business, including leading the content acquisition function for the launch of Prime Video Channels in Australia. Prior to Amazon, Ally spent 7 years as a lawyer with Bauer Media (now Are Media) and in private practice. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Monash, and currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Imogen leads the Festival Department at Autlook Filmsales, one of the leading sales agents for feature documentaries, hybrids and doc series. Autlook offers a full spectrum of customized festival, sales and distribution strategies maximizing audience engagement and revenue as well as fostering filmmakers’ careers. We have an endless passion for the art of documentaries. Current titles include: Estonia’s Official Academy entry SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD (Sundance awarded) by Anna Hints, Morocco’s official Academy entry THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES (Cannes awarded) by Asmae El Moudir, THE CORRIDORS OF POWER by Dror Moreh, THREE MINUTES – A LENGTHENING (Giornate degli Autori, Telluride, TIFF, Sundance) by Bianca Stigter, A COMPASSIONATE SPY by Steve James, INNOCENCE (Venice premiered) by Guy Davidi, BELUSHI by R.J. Cutler, WRITING WITH FIRE by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh (94rd OSCARS® nominee), THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF by Benjamin Ree (93rd OSCARS® shortlist), FOR SAMA by Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts (Emmy® Awarded, 92nd OSCARS® nominee) and OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki (91st OSCARS® nominee).

Floran is a Producer at ZED, an independent French production and distribution company based in Paris, with more than 20 years experience producing documentaries. He’s dedicated to discovery, wildlife, sciences and sport documentaries, winning several awards all over the world. He’s also very familiar with international co-productions with countries such as Canada, Australia and Denmark, as well as with international broadcasters such as National Geographic, CCTV in China, ZDF in Germany, NHK in Japan.

Virginia Hodgson is senior commissioner at Warner Bros. Discovery ANZ overseeing commission & production of unscripted for Three & Discovery ANZ.
Virginia has an extensive career as an executive producer with credits including Big Brother, The NRL Footy Show, Emergency, The Living Room and Midday with Ray Martin.
She held senior roles at Sixty Minutes and A Current Affair and was co-producer of the Sir Donald Bradman documentary, 89 Not Out.
Virginia began as a journalist at the Daily Telegraph and The Australian and was publisher of magazines New Idea and TV Week.

Kazz runs Sideways Film, a documentary and factual sales agency set up in 2010, with offices in London and Barcelona. Kazz established Sideways Film – a world documentary sales agency – in 2010, and is regularly invited as an expert to various festivals, training programs and juries. The company also occasionally partners at the project stage to develop and close budgets.