SFFL 2024: The Challenges and Opportunities of the Documentary World

Filmmakers and industry experts working in non-fiction look at how the market and creative ambitions are evolving for documentary projects in 2024 and beyond.

How are release strategies evolving on streaming platforms and in cinemas, how are audiences for documentaries growing and evolving, and what are some of the storytelling innovations non-fiction filmmakers are pursuing?

Speakers will include Never Look Away director Lucy Lawless; Natasha Dack Ojumu, co-founder, Tigerlily Films (Eno, Blue Bag Life); Reva Sharma, Manager, Original Documentaries, Netflix; and Skywalkers: A Love Story director Jeff Zimbalist.

Journalist and producer Lama Matta will moderate the discussion.

Latecomers may not be admitted.