Martin Atkin - Director, Media at WWF International, Ginevra (CH)
Martin Atkin has been Director, External and Media Relations for WWF International since April 2008. WWF, based near Geneva in Switzerland, is the world's largest environmental and conservation organisation and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2011. At WWF International, Martin is responsible for the global news and features output and also for overseeing film and video production - both in-house and co-productions.
Before joining WWF Martin led the visual communications team at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. Firstly as Senior Video Producer, then as Head of Images, and finally as Creative Director, Martin was responsible for the international video, photo and publications output for seven years. The move to Greenpeace came after twenty years in the UK as a television producer and director in news, current affairs and sport, including spells at the BBC, ITN, Sky News and Sky Sports, as well as corporate and freelance work. He's also worked as a print and radio journalist.
Martin has produced and directed many news reports, features, shorts and documentaries for various NGOs including the award-winning "The Boat and the Bomb" for Greenpeace International.





Hugh Purcell - ESoDoc Head of Studies (UK)
Hugh’s career as a British film maker covers the last twenty years and as a broadcaster in TV and Radio the last thirty five years.
He worked for the BBC between 1967-1993 and finished as Managing Editor of the TV Documentary Department. After that he was a Director of the independent company CAFE that made documentary films for broadcast in the USA and Europe. Now he is a freelance film maker and Consultant to the One World Broadcasting Trust that promotes films made in and by developing countries. The film series he is proudest of is “Living Islam”, an educational series presented by a Muslim showing what it means to be a Muslim in today’s world. It took his team over two years filming in over twenty countries and not surprisingly it is being re-shown now by broadcasters although it was made 10 years ago. In 1991 he won a BAFTA (British Acadamy Award) for a series he versioned on the American Civil War.
He enjoys travelling and teaching film documentary which is why he has taught at the European Film School in Denmark, the Film and TV Institute at Pune in India and the International Film School in Cuba. Between 1992-1995 he was President of MAP TV (Memory Archive Programmes), a Euro Media project set up in Strasbourg, France, to encourage and fund co-productions for films about European history.
Increasingly he despairs of television and hopes that documentary film making may be put to a more worthwhile purpose. That is why he is very happy to be Head of Studies for ESoDoc. He also looks forward to indulging his three hobbies; travelling, trekking and talking over a lot of wine with today’s young film makers.




Patrice Barrat - Article Z / Bridge Initiative, Paris (F)
He is TV producer / director and managing director of Article Z, the Paris based multi-media production company that creates new formats such as daily documentary chronicles and the interactive TV series madmundo.tv; since 2001 executive director of the NGO Bridge Initiative, founded by him to better inform citizens on globalization issues.
He won many awards in 29 years of journalism, including the Amnesty International award, BAFTA award, FIPA Golden Award and Adolf Grimme Preis for documentaries.




Hans Beller - Professor für Film an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (D)
Geboren in Stuttgart. 1971 Absolvent der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film in München, Abteilung "Dokumentarfilm und Fernsehpublizistik" (Diplomarbeit über Wahrnehmungspsychologie der Filmmontage: "Die Aneignung der Filmrealität"), zudem 1977 Abschluß als Diplompsychologe.
Seit 1977 arbeitet Hans Beller als freier Autor und Filmregisseur. Zwischen 1981 und 1992 doziert er als Lehrbeauftragter an der Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film mit dem Forschungsprojekt "Filmmontage". Von 1991 bis 1997 hat Beller eine Professur für Film- und Kulturgeschichte, Ästhetik und Semiotik an der Fachhochschule Rosenheim im Studiengang Szenographie inne und zwischen 1991 und 1998 eine Dozentur an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg für Filmgeschichte und Medientheorie.
Seit 1998 belegt er die Professor für Film an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, ehe er 2001 als Professor für Fernsehpraxis an die Kunsthochschule für Medien in Köln wechselt.






Eleni Chandrinou - Project Manager- film financing at MEDIA Programme, Brussels (B)




Giulio Cederna - AMREF Italy, Rome (I)
Journalist and documentary film maker; for years he has dealt with problems related to cooperation and development. Since 1998 he is in charge for the Research and Communication Section of the NGO AMREF Italy, dealing with audio-visual communication projects, dossiers, conferences, news and leaflets.
He is author of various documentaries about Africa broadcasted by RAI (“The African Spelling Book” and “Big Brother AIDS”) and Tele+ (“TV Slum – The Nairobi street boys”).
He published “The Black Pinocchio Adventures of a street boy” (ed. Giunti 2005)




Guido Cerasuolo - Executive producer for the documentaries produced by AMREF, Venice (I)
In 1986 he founded his own production company Mestiere Cinema, Venice with which he directed and produced several documentaries.
In the last ten years he worked mostly in the capacity of Line Producer (Associate Producer, Co-Producer, etc.) for many international productions shooting in Italy such as: Lasse Halstrom’s DISNEY Prod. ‘Casanova’, George Lucas’ LUCASFILM Prod. ‘Star Wars Episode I, II and III’, F.G.Gray’s PARAMOUNT Prod. ‘The Italian Job’, Richard Attenborough’s NEWLINE Prod. ‘In Love and War’, Hugh Hudson’s SONY Prod. ‘I dreamed of Africa’, including directors like Woody Allen (Everybody says I love you), Otar Ioseliani (Lunedì Matin), etc.
Beside the production service activity, he has been trying to keep producing documentaries and commercials, co-producing – UK, Italy - the first feature film in 2004.
In the last years he became the executive producer for all the documentaries produced by AMREF.



Katerina Cizek - Indipendent filmmaker, Toronto (CAN)
Her films have not only documented the Handicam Revolution, they have become part of the movement. Her films have instigated criminal investigations, changed UN policies, and have screened as evidence at an International Criminal Tribunal. Her documentary about new technologies and human rights “Seeing is Believing” won the prestigious Hamptons’ Festival Abraham Prize. It aired on TV in over 15 countries and toured at over 60 festivals worldwide. Katerina Cizek has worked in all manner of media, including print, radio, TV and new media. She has contributed to various publications, among others to “Video for change – A guide for advocacy and activism”. She is currently developing an experimental media program as a filmmaker in residence at a Toronto Inner City Hospital, for the National Film Board of Canada.



Ritchie Cogan - One World Brodcasting Trust, London (UK)
For over 25 years director, producer and executive Producer of BBC Radio and TV.
Fascinated by the use of media for social change, 1989 co-founder of One World Broadcasting Trust with over 100 international co-productions of documentaries and television events.
Coordinator and executive producer of over 70 hours of documentary films, magazines, shorts and music events for One World.




Mick Csáky - Antelope Film, Emsworth (UK)
He has directed more than 100 documentary productions while executive producing a further 600 productions for TV and cinema. The majority of his productions have been in the areas of human stories, biography, history, current affairs, music and arts for the UK and international markets.
He works as a freelance writer / director / producer / cameraman and as an executive producer, while also running his own independent production company Antelope.




Mark Galloway - Director of International Broadcasting Trunst, London (UK)
Producer and freelance film maker. Director of International Broadcasting Trust. The International Broadcasting Trust is an educational and media charity which lobbies and campaigns on broadcasting issues – and develops tv projects with all the main UK development agencies. Our aim is to further awareness and understanding of the lives of people in the developing world and the issues which affect them.




Susan Gray - Scriptwriter / Director, Rowley (USA)
Director and producer of many documentaries and national news reports for a. o. Hedrick Smith Productions, Fox News, WETA (USA), GA&A Productions (Rome) and SteFilm International (Turin).
Director of the documentary “Public Enemy” for Arte, Channel 4, Archipel 33, awarded at Venice Film Festival and shown at more than 20 film festivals.
Reviewer of programming for National Geographic Channels.




Klaas Kuitenbrouwer - Mediamatic Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
Since the beginning of 1999 he is teaching on the application of interactive concepts in different media. He programs and teaches in the several workshops series that focus on cultural impact and applications of new media technologies for Mediamatic Foundation in Amsterdam. In 2000 he became chairman of Nairobits Foundation, that set up a very successful school for slum youth in webdesign and new media applications in Nairobi, Kena.



Sibylle Kurz – Pitching and communication Skills Training, Presentation Consultation, Erbach-Günterfürst (D)
Since 1995 setting up of own office “Sibylle Kurz – Pitching and communication Skills Training, Presentation Consultation”.
Furthermore communication skills training and personal coaching in the media-industry for production companies, individuals working in this field. Script-analysis, preparation and consultation of pitching presentations of all film, multi-media genres, script-editing.



Sophie Maintigneux - indipendent cinematographer, Berlin (D)
Cinematographer Sophie Maintigneux started her career in France working with directors like Eric Rohmer and Jean-Luc Godard before she moved to Germany. Here she began to regularly collaborate with Michael Klier and Jan Schütte, directors who appreciated her authentic style, and started focussing on documentaries. In today's session Sophie Maintigneux will talk about the differences between the cinematographer's requirements working on a feature film or a documentary. Supported by screened scenes from some of her films she will discuss topics like intuition, curiosity and distance as possible attributes for directors of photography.



Neelima Mathur - Formedia - Foundation for Responsible Media, New Delhi (IND)
Since 1973 executive producer / writer and researcher at Formedia - Foundation for Responsible Media.
Speaker at several International and National Conferences on edia and media strategies.
Member of Media Advisory Group for the International Centre for Research on Women.
1972-1976 Panel Writer, UNICEF Delhi, BBC/British Council Scripting Workshop, New Delhi 1978 editor of the Sunday Magazine, freelance journalist and critic of Indian newspapers and magazines (1972-1977).



Isabel Morgan - Christian Aid, Oxford (UK)
Executive producer of video unit at the internationally active NGO Christian Aid with the aim to use video in innovative ways to support work of Christian Aid and its global network of partner organizations.
Previous activities: a. o. production coordinator at McDougall Craig independent production company, associate producer at iVillage.co.uk women’s website; debuty director of Asha Foundation, UK; editor and scriptwriter at several TVs.



Mikael Opstrup - Final Cut Productions, Copenhagen, (DK)
Most of the 80's I worked with distribution and theatrical release of documentaries. Attended script writing at the Danish Film School in 88.
Freelance production manager up through the 90's and organizer of the film festival 'Films from the South' from 1995 - 98.
Made a desk-cross-over from 1998-2002, where he worked as production adviser at The Danish Film Institute. Started his exclusive career as tutor at EDN workshops in the same period. Attended EAVE 1998/99.
Since 2002 co-owner and producer at Final Cut Productions in Copenhagen. Has produced a number of international documentaries, latest 'The German Secret' screened at IDFA 2005.



Keith Shiri - founder/director of Africa at the Pictures, London (UK)
Keith Shiri is the Zimbabwean founder/director of Africa at the Pictures, a festival of African cinema based in London. He has taught African cinema at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and the American University in Richmond. He has served on a number of international film festival juries including the Tampere Film Festival, Finland, the Pan African Film Festival, Burkina Faso, the Cape Town World Film Festival and the Festival Cinema Africano,Milan, Wolfgang Staudte Prize, Berlin International Film Festival. He currently sits on the British Film Institute’s Cultural Diversity Committee, is on the steering committee of the Independent Film Parliament (UK) and Vertigo Magazine. He is a program advisor to the Times London Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival. He is also a member of the jury of the Berlin World Cinema Fund. Publications include Africa on Film BBC Publications 1991, Directory of African Films and Filmmakers, Flicks Books 1993.



Signe Sorensen - Film director Final Cut Productions, Copenhagen (DK)
MA in Communication Studies. Producer at Final Cut Productions. Previous experience includes directing the documentary ”The Sound of People (Klangen af mennesker)” and producer of the documentaries ”Johanna-Yohanna”, ”Do you love me?” (Elsker du mig?), ”Ancestors On-line” (Online med forfædrene), ”Syrian children in Denmark” (Syriske børn i Danmark) and most recently of the documentary ” Hotel of Dreams” (Drømmenes hotel). The films were produced in South Africa, Sweden, Zimbabwe, Senegal and Denmark. Signe Byrge Sørensen has previously worked as a producer at SPOR MEDIA and functioned, among other things, as coordinator of the Danish creative input to the South African film project STEPS FOR THE FUTURE.



Stefano Tealdi - SteFilm International, Turin (I)
Founder and managing director of SteFilm International. Developer, producer and co-producer of documentaries for the international market, broadcasted by BR and ZDF-Arte (D), RTBF (B), DR (DN), Planéte and TELE+ (I) and National Geographic TV.
Former chair of EDN and director of the international workshop “Documentary in Europe”.




Iikka Vehkalahti - YLE & TV2 Documentaries, Tampere (FI)
Since 1998 Executive Producer for the Finnish  Broadcasting Company, YLE & TV2 Documentaries, one of the most established broadcasters in Finland.
Executive Producer of the international project “Steps for the future” producing more than 30 films about HIV/AIDS infected people’s life in Southern Africa.
Director and producer of several internationally awarded documentaries.




Chris Wherry - Indipendent sound engineer, Maribor (SI)
He started his sound career in UK with Westward TV later becoming Head of Sound for TV South West.
He later became freelance, working on a wide range of documentary and drama productions for ITV, Channel 4, Discovery Channel and the BBC.
Currently he lives in Slovenia and writes and announces for Radio Slovenia International.



Sabine Bubeck-Paaz - Commissioning editor at ZDF/ARTE, Mainz (D)
Since 1990 Commissioning Editor of one of the most important public German broadcasting, ZDF. Since 2000 responsible for the development and production of thematic evenings in the department “ARTE Theme evenings”.
Tutor of international pitching workshops organized a. o. by EDN, IDF Prague, Media Desk Strasbourg and Discovery Campus Masterschool. Free lance Journalist for several German newspapers.



Bert Janssens - Commissioning editor at HOS – Humanist Broadcasting Foundation, Hilversum (NL)
 


Leena Pasanen - YLE, Helsinki (FI)
Leena Pasanen has studied Finnish language and literature at Oulu University. She started her carrier as a journalist 1988 at the Finnish News Agency.In 1993 she joined YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company, where she worked as a reporter, political commentator, subeditor and TV-presenter. From 1999 to 2000 she was the head of documentaries for YLE TV1. When the digital cultural channel YLE Teema was launched, Leena Pasanen was chosen as Head of Programme. Since 2004 she was also the deputy director of the channel. In November 2005 she started her work as the director of EDN.



Nick Ware - Commissioning editor at Community Channel, London (UK)
Nick Ware has been in post as the Controller of the Community Channel since 2005. Prior to joining the channel, he worked at the BBC for BBC Learning, BBC Knowledge and a variety of arts and radio shows. Nick Ware is also a Trustee of the Independent Film Trust.




Angelo Loy - Documentary director, Rome (IT)
As an PhD biologist he worked as researcher at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. In 1996 he co-produced Emanuele Crialese’s first feature film “Once We Were Strangers”. Since then he’s been working in producing, directing and editing documentaries. Starting from 2001 he collaborates with AMREF (the African Medical and Research Foundation) in the attempt to find new and original ways of communication Africa through media. In this context he promoted (along with Giulio Cederna and John Muiruri) a rehabilitation project and video training that in 2003 produced “TV SLUM”, a documentary entirely filmed by a group of Nairobi’s street boys and, in 2005, the “African Spelling Book”, a series of twenty episodes written and filmed by seventy boys and girls from Nairobi’s slums.



Rose McCausland - Living Lens, London (UK)
"I found myself training to be a teacher, which was very unexpected and did nothing to improve my spelling. And then there was a two year stint in TV, producing educational programmes. But it was what I learnt during the seven years working as Education Officer at Anti-Slavery International that really inspired me and opened my eyes to the world of participatory education."





Amy Barbor - Living Lens, London (UK)
"After getting a Masters in Islamic Studies, in the middle of which I had my son (nearly 12 years ago, now!!), I then worked for some years at Actionaid. It was here that I learned about the people-centered-rights-based work that ActionAid were doing all around the world. Put more simply, this means work that empowers people to mobilise and make the changes they want to happen, happen and not just a service provided for people. What I love about participatory video is; it is not only rights based and all about the people who take part, but it is also creative, exciting and fun.
I came across the School of Social Entrepreneurs in 2004, whilst working freelance doing participatory video projects around the UK. The school, the staff and the vast network of brilliant people who came to talk and coach us gave me the confidence and inspiration to think bigger. It was following this course that Rose and I decided to constitute Living Lens."




Lars Barthel - Director of Photography, Berlin (D)
Born in 1953. Studied at the University of Cinema and Television, Potsdam-Babelsberg (1973–1977); master operator's course (1978-1980). In 1982 he worked in India; returned to West Berlin, 1983. Guest professor at the HFF-Babelsberg, 1996/1997. Collaborates as director of photography with directors such as H. Reidemeister, H. Schönemann, E. Schmitz, H. Kutlucan, S. Mackinnon, D. Benke, W. Rösing, W. Vogel, F. Calvert, L. Merrison, R. Marschallek.




Sorious Samura - Insight News TV, London (UK)
Sorious Samura (born 1964) is an award-winning Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: Cry Freetown (2000) and Exodus from Africa (2001). The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999). The film won, among other awards, an Emmy Award and a Peabody. Exodus from Africa shows the harrowing effort by the best of young African male blood to break through to Europe via death and danger ridden paths from Sierra Leone and Nigeria, via Mali, Sahara desert, Algeria and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain. In his latest two projects Living with Hunger and Living with Refugees (nominated for an Emmy award), he takes reality television to its extreme, becoming the central character in the films by living the lifestyle of an Ethiopian villager and Sudanese refugee respectively; in doing this he tries to break the boundary between "us" (the people watching on TV) and "them" (those before the camera) by becoming one of them (albeit for just a month). Samura is also one of the directors of 'Insight News TV', an independent television production company focussed on international current affairs programming.



Barrie Vince - Independent Editor, London (UK)
Editor. Among his latest feature films:
- Opa! (2005)
- Things to Do Before You're 30 (2004)
- Gabriel & Me (2001)
- Misery Harbour (1999)
- Get real (1998)
- Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
- Hooked (1994)




Herz Frank - Film director, Israel/Latvia
A Merited Artist of the Latvian SSR (1975). Has been awarded the Latvian SSR State Prize (1967). He is a documentary film director, a scriptwriter, photographer,a lawyer according to his education, and a cameraman. He was born in Latvia, in 1926, studied law in Moscow. Starting from 1959 worked at Riga Film Studios as a photographer, editor and a documentary film script writer and director. Directed more than 30 documentaries. Since 1965, Herz Frank works solely as a film director, and he is famous by his fine understanding of human psychology. Characteristic features of Frank's films are philosophical generalisations, his ability to get into the depths of human soul, and the desire to discover secrets in relations between a human being and the surrounding world, Being an author of more than 30 films, he has received a number of international prizes at various film festivals.



Osama Qashoo - Independent Filmmaker, London (UK)
"I grew up in Palestine, within a story which is close, fierce and painful… I first took up a camera in reaction to the unbelievable scenes around me. I found a broken camera and discovered that when I pretended to film - at the check points, in demonstrations or during the many curfews - soldiers acted differently. My camera became like a physical reaction to what was happening around me. Gradually, I came to learn how to make short reports and documentary films whilst working within various media organizations, and so began my career as a filmmaker.From 1998 to 2003 I worked full-time as a programme-maker and presenter for the Palestinian radio and television companies Q TV, Peace TV and Nablus TV. During 2001 I worked as a photographer for Reuters and as a translator for European journalists in Palestine.I came to the UK in 2003. Throughout my time in the UK I have been commissioned to film various conferences, events, theatre productions and functions. I have worked as script advisor and assistant for the BBC and Channel 4. I have also provided advice in both script-writing and direction for fiction and non-fiction films, both feature-length and shorts."




Florian Thalhofer - Media artist, Berlin (D)
Florian Thalhofer is a Berlin based media artist who's main topic is nonlinear and interactive narration.Born in Bavaria (1972). Lives and works in Berlin.2005-2006 guest-professor at the German Literature-Institute Leipzig (DLL), University of Leipzig.2001-2004 lecturer at the University of the Arts, Department of Experimental Media-Design.Inventor of the [korsakow system], a software to create database narratives. Motorbike test rider since 2004.Thalhofer studied at the University of the Arts Berlin (MA and Meisterschüler) and at the UCLA, Los Angeles.
thalhofer.com




Eric van den Broek - Videoletters, Amsterdam (NL)
Is a TV director and cameraman for fifteen years. He directed several programs for the Dutch public TV VPRO including series for children and documentaries. He reported live for Dutch tv- and radiochannels during the Serbian Revolution and the Nato bombings in 1999. He lives in Amsterdam.Since 2005 he was supervisor of the pilot of Videoletters made in Rwanda. He and Katerina Reiger won the Nestor Almendros for courage in filmmaking award in New York for the Videoletters series. In 2007 he made a video installation on the Greek island Hydra and won the Verena foundation award for the best artpiece.




Phil Cox - Native Voice Films, London (UK)
"I have directed and filmed documentaries and drama in locations as diverse as Iraq to the Sudan to the South American jungle. My background in running a small production company and as a trainer around the world, has given me extensive experience to understanding the changes and trends of modern documentary. My strength is directing to a high quality in difficult areas whilst achieving great intimacy and depth with my subjects and actors. I teach documentary practices and filming at international workshops and to University Master Level."




Sally-Ann Wilson - CBA, Norwich (UK)
Sally-Ann Wilson has twenty plus years experience as a documentary producer/director/executive producer making documentaries for the BBC, Granada and Anglia. Passionate about reflecting the wider world to UK audiences in 2001 she decided to combine a background in development with her programme making experience and launched the CBA-DFID Broadcast Media Scheme. To date the Scheme has provided development funding for more than 180 programmes enabling producers to research programme ideas in and about the developing world. Sally-Ann was recently appointed Deputy Secretary General of the CBA [Commonwealth Broadcasting Association] and has special responsibility for working with public service broadcasters through Africa.




Don Edkins - Filmmaker/Producer, Cape Town (RSA)
Don Edkins is a documentary filmmaker and producer. He produced the Southern African series on truth and reconciliation Landscape of Memory (1998), and the multi-awarded documentary project Steps for the Future (2001/04) – a collection of 38 films about Southern Africa in the time of HIV and AIDS. He is Executive Producer of the STEPS International global documentary project Why Democracy? 10 long and 18 short films.








Alexandre Brachet - eProducer at Upian, Paris (F)
Since Alexandre created Upian.com in 1998, the studio has been an innovative content producers for the Internet in France. Upian.com enjoys exploring unknown parts of the Internet and creating new formats: in 2002 and 2007, he launched presidentielles.net, a creative independent political space to cover the Presidential election in France. In 2006, Upian.com produced an interactive webdoc lacitedesmortes.net, about Ciudad Juarez a city in Mexico where women are mysteriously killed. Lacitedesmortes.net was viewed as a cornerstone for a new editorial format on the Internet. In 2007, thanatorama.com, an online experience around the death and funeral businesses won, won the Grand Prix at the Web Flash Festival. Upian.com is actually co-producing Gaza-Sderot with ARTE.tv. Gaza Sderot is a 100% online documentary : reporting on life as experienced by men, women and children in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel).http://www.upian.com




Jörg Grossmann - Managing Director Greenfilm - Green.tv, Berlin (D)
Jörg Grossmann, Dipl. film economist, born in 1958 at Berlin. Studies at the Free University Berlin, UDK Berlin (Mass Communications) and at the Konrad Wolf Academy for Film and Television, Potsdam Babelsberg (film production). Has worked for more than 20 years as a production manager for feature films and documentaries. Lecturer and Production Manager at the German Academy for Film and Television in Berlin and Consultant / Project Manager for new media, Internet TV and crossmedia applications. Jörg Grossmann has managed a wide range of international media projects, developed a number of documentaries, feature films, multimedia and Internet -Video presentations, and conducted a project study about a “Green Channel” with TV programmes about nature and the environment. He is currently developing a documentary about uranium and is a producer of a video letter series for children about global warming. Since 2007 he has been Managing Director of Greenfilm ltd. and is working as the www.green.tv / Germany national channel representative.




Kavita Das Gupta - Community Media, Ahmedabad (India)
"I have been trained first as a sociologist and then as a filmmaker. My first love has always been cinema and I was consumed by the magic of cinema. As a child I always wanted to create this magic. I always thought of myself as a filmmaker. As I grew up though, I started developing a passion for people and spaces other than the ones in which I lived which was the modern metropolitan Delhi. I desired to travel to villages and visit tribal heartlands. I was mesmerized by their songs, their art and their way of life. This is what made me seek out a Masters in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics. It was at this juncture that my desire for becoming a filmmaker reared up again. Cinema and Sociology… The natural road for me to travel was towards Documentary Film Making. This is how I found my way into Earthcare Films. Though a full-fledged production house, for me Earthcare was my film school. I learnt film making here under Krishnendu Bose. In the many years that I spent here I researched, assisted, scripted and eventually produced films. We worked on conservation politics and made films on communities living in the different forests of India. I spent many beautiful years filming forests and people and the world in between. I met so many wonderful people and soon I started wondering how to make my work a more organic whole of their lives? This was what started off my journey towards Community Media."




Claudio Scotto di Carlo - Chief Editor Babelgum, London (UK)
Claudio Scotto di Carlo is a specialist in Television Communication, Branding and Promotion, with a wide ranging experience of commercial and pay TV. In the different stages of his carreer, he has assumed all of the key management roles of a TV station.He has been responsible for the launch of several products, including Commercial free-to-air stations, Subscription channels and Pay per view services.He has hands-on experience of programme scheduling, of commissioning and producing original programming, as well as the definition and the development of a channel identity – content and presentation.Claudio Scotto di Carlo is an able problem-solver and has applied his skills with consistent success in the development and implementation of marketing strategies for TV channels. He also has extensive experience of Cross-Promotion.He is a team worker and has an excellent track-record of working with international groups.




Jacek Petrycki - Director Of Photography, Warsaw (PL)
Born 01 of December 1948 in Poznan, Poland. Grown up in Krakow. Film School in Lodz, Camera Department 1966-1970. In 70s – shooting documentaries and features of Polish new wave of Moral Unrest. In 80s – mainly working for Polish Underground under Martial Low. In 90s – mainly big documentaries and some fiction for British tv and cinema.







William Dowell - Freelance Writer, Geneva (CH)
Current Position
Freelance writer based in Geneva, Switzerland;
Regional editor and correspondent for Global News Enterprises, a Boston-based internet news service focusing on international reporting.
Deputy editor and co-founder of the Essential Edge (http://www.essentialgeneva.com), an internet-based magazine for the greater Geneva region.
Previous Employment
- CARE International (2005-2008): Media and Information Coordinator for CARE Emergency Group;
- TIME Magazine (1989-2001): Staff correspondent;
- New York University (2001-2005);
- ABC News (1975 through 1989): Contract television reporter,  field producer, and radio correspondent for  ABC News, Paris Bureau;
- NBC News (1971-74): Radio correspondent in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos from 1971 through 1972;
- National Public Radio (1973-74): Associate producer.




Yoav Gross - B'Tselem, Jerusalem (Israel)
Born in Jerusalem in 1977, Yoav is a documentary director, editor and photographer.  He currently works as a video coordinator in B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
Graduating from Tel Aviv University with a B.A in film and television in 2004, Yoav has directed and photographed documentaries and TV reports for several Israeli TV channels. In his video work, Yoav takes an interest in various social and human issues, focusing mainly on the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Joining B'Tselem in 2006, Yoav has been working on several unique video projects aimed to document and expose human rights violations in the West Bank, among them are B'Tselem's camera distribution project. This project has revealed never-before-seen footage of settler and army violence and has gained extensive international media exposure.




Femke Wolting - Submarine, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Femke Wolting is co-founder and head of Submarine, an Amsterdam based production studio that develops and produces documentaries and cross media programs for broadcasters and media companies. Since its formation in January 2000, Submarine has produced documentaries for directors such as Rob Smits and Alexander Oey, created an extensive game for renowned director Peter Greenaway and released a variety of interactive productions by international new media artists.
From 1994 to 2002 Femke Wolting was the initiator and programmer of Exploding Cinema - part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam - which explored the future of media, and featured exhibitions, conferences and filmprograms. Between 1995-2000 she worked at the Dutch national public broadcasting network VPRO as staff member of the digital department and from 1998 as editor for VPRO?s documentary series Laat op de Avond na een korte wandeling and De Nieuwe Wereld. Since 1999 Femke Wolting has directed documentaries such as It?s The End Of TV As We Know It, a two-hour television documentary and web documentary about the future of television, the cross media documentary Sneakers about the rise and rise of the sportsshoe and Viktor & Rolf: Because We Are Worth It, which followed a year in the lives of avant-garde fashiondesigners Viktor & Rolf.
Website: submarine.nl




Rex Bloomstein - Director, London (UK)
Bloomstein was brought up in a working class family in East London, and decided he wanted to become a documentary filmmaker after the influential Seven-Up. He trained at ATV and the BBC before becoming an independent filmmaker in 1970. Films such as his series Lifers and the 2003 follow-up Lifer - Living with Murder, talking to prisoners serving life sentences, and his latest film KZ, about the people living and working in the towns that used to house Nazi concentration camps, reveal the preoccupations in his work.
Filmography:
- Traitors to Hitler (1979)
- Lifers (1982)
- Hustlers, Hoaxers, Pranksters, Jokestars and Ricky Jay (1995)
- Liberation (1995)
- Roots of Evil (1997)
- Human Rights, Human Wrongs (1999)
- Strangeways - Revisited (2001)
- Lifer - Living with Murder (2003)
- Kids Behind Bars (2005)
- KZ (2005)




Mike Dicks - Bleedinedge, London (UK)
I set up Bleedinedge in 2008 as a digital consultancy, training company and development resource so I that could  work with the best producers and broadcasters, developing innovative new 360 degree formats, from Bafta nominated kids’ game-shows to online dramas with shops and mobile virtual worlds.
I specialise in developing and delivering entertainment content, utilising games, television, the internet and mobile phones, most notably as Executive Producer on the BBC’s online soap Wannabes. Nowadays I spend a lot of my time training and speaking about Multi-platform production and commerce, and have been lucky enough to provide training for Channel 4, the Entertainment Master Class and Skillset, as well as speaking at conferences that include ITVT,Showcomotion, Games Eden and Cinekid.
Website: bleedinedge.co.uk