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Industry Announcement: Soap Box Line Up Announced!

The Soap Box line-up Announced! Come hear Festival All-Stars and contribute to the conversation on the future of documentary at THE SOAP BOX conference session. Friday May 7, 2:00pm - 3:15pm at The Rogers Industry Centre, 2nd Floor Chapel.

You must be an industry delegate to attend.

Peter Wintonick | Filmmaker (Canada) presents Future Soapbox ; A 20 point pecha kucha MANIFIESTA on the Future of Docmedia

Tahani Rached | Hot Docs “Focus On” Filmmaker (Egypt) presents New Motivations for Stories Yet to Be Told

Tim Sparke | CEO, Mercury Media (UK) presents the Documentary Distributors Association – a new lobby for documentary

John Zaritsky | Filmmaker, Leave them Laughing (Canada) presents The Filmmaker’s Guide to Documenting Death

Danya Alhamrani and Dania Nassief | Founders, Eggdancer Productions (Saudi Arabia) presents What the World needs to know about the Arab doc industry

Karen Dougherty | Director of Development, Q Media Solutions (Canada) presents The Camera that’s Changing the Whole Game: The Canon 5D Mark II DSLR

Tobias Wilner | Composer, Tankograd, Twilight, Miami Vice (Denmark) presents The Nuances of Composing for Doc and Fiction Features – a designer speaks

Stephanie McArthur | TDF and Market Coordinator, Hot Docs (Canada) presents A Hard-Core Lesson: What the Documentary industry can learn from the Porn Industry

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