Doc Edge invites all filmmakers to the sixth of this year's Doc Edge Clinics

As with Clinics 2, 3, 4 and 5, Doc Edge will deliver this event online.

Doc Edge Clinic #6 focuses on Release.
Distributors, exhibitors, festivals, platforms, sales agents...
Who should you bring on board, when, and what will they bring to your production?

Tricks, tips and tactics to give your baby its best chance to survive and thrive. Learn to let go.

PANEL
Jay Lin (Taiwan)
Jay is the founder of Taiwanese production house and OTT service Portico Media, co-founder of the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, and creator of Asia’s first LGBTQ+ streaming platform, GagaOOLala, which is available to watch worldwide.

Since 2017 GagaOOLala has produced over 30 original features, shorts and series, including Taiwanese feature 'The Teacher', Thai-Taiwanese co-pro 'Present Still Perfect' and the world's first LGBTQ+ quarantine anthology series 'Unlocked'.

Jill Macnab (NZ)
Jill began her career working in theatre management, then home entertainment, marketing blockbuster and arthouse releases.

From there she moved to Vendetta Films to head up sales and marketing, and then help launch the international acquisitions side of the business. Jill has acquired multiple award-winning films and revenue winners across varied genres, and now oversees the whole business, which encompasses all-rights distribution across Australia and New Zealand.

Wearing her producer hat, Jill has been a producer and/or executive producer on NZ titles including Born to Dance and docos 'In the Zone' by Robyn Paterson and 'Pecking Order' by Slavko Martinov.

Kathleen McInnis (USA)
With 30 years' experience in festival programming, film publicity and producing, Kathleen McInnis helps filmmakers merge their creative and business development via the film festival circuit.

A strategic publicist, Kathleen represents films premiering at A list festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Sundance and Toronto. As producer, Kathleen’s recent films include 2019 BAFTA and Film Independent Spirit Award-nominee, Retablo, and in-production Swedish documentary, Broadcast.

Kathleen currently curates the Seattle Int’l Film Festival’s New Works-in-Progress Forum, bringing together documentary and narrative filmmakers both, industry mentors, and audience at the critical creative moment before the film is locked.

Previously, Kathleen has been programmer and/or festival director for festivals including Hot Docs, Palm Springs, Seattle, Slamdance, Toronto and Tribeca.

Nick Paris (NZ)
Nick is the MD of Christchurch’s Lumière Cinemas - a two-screen arthouse/crossover cinema presenting a wide cross-section of independent, festival, cult, and documentary programming.

Nick’s been in the exhibition business for many years, and is dedicated to preserving the art of cinema-going.

*** PLEASE NOTE ***
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This Doc Edge Clinic is presented with the kind support of our industry partners for 2020: Department of Post, the New Zealand Film Commission, NZ On Air, RNZ, Screenrights and the University of Auckland.