September 24-25, 2016. St. Petersburg, Russia

How Docs Reach the Audience is an international conference on film political initiatives in promotion, distribution, festivals and VOD streaming.
EDN Network and Partnerships Manager Cecilie Bolvinkel will take part and talk about Moving Docs and the launch of a pan-European screening network.

How Docs Reach the Audience is a conference where documentary professionals from Nordic countries and Russia meet. Here they will exchange the most up-to-date information, experience, and ideas in the field of film exhibition, promotion, distribution, sale and popularization of creative documentary films. Over two days the conference will cover both traditional and innovative technologies of distribution of creative documentary and making documentary content reach the viewer. The attention of the audience will be focused on the experience of Nordic countries and Russia. The participants of the conference will discuss the current situation in the field of distribution of documentary films in Russia and Nordic countries. The following issues will be discussed: the development of festivals, distribution (video on demand, DVD, the exhibition of films, etc), broadcasters, special screenings, internet platforms and IT-technologies.

Sixteen leading and experienced experts from Scandinavia and Russia: commissioning editors, producers, distributors, film distributors, festival managers, curators of non-competition programmes and system operators of single-purpose internet portals will give a speech and take part in the discussions.

EDN is a partner of the project and EDN Network and Partnerships Manager Cecilie Bolvinkel will take part and talk about Moving Docs and the launch of a pan-European screening network.