Doc Ignite: Strategies for Building a Sustainable Career

This event took place on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022 at 1:00 pmOnline

This event will be live-streamed over the Eventive platform, participants are encouraged to ask questions through the chat feature. If in-person participation is an option, registrants will be contacted directly to signup to attend. 

Documentary filmmaking is a métier; a career that one should in fact sustain a livelihood from. Evolving industry changes have made that more difficult. Core skill building, diversifying talents and strategic planning are at the heart of this workshops. Participating filmmakers do skills assessments, identify areas of growth and self prescribe action plans to move their professional goals forward.

Facilitator: Julian Carrington supports the administration of the Hot Docs portfolio of funds and helps to run the Festival's market programs, assisting filmmakers with generating distribution opportunities. Julian is also the founder and co-programmer of the For Viola screening series. Across these combined activities, he seeks to equip filmmakers with the resources to tell authentic, revelatory, and socially resonant stories, and to help connect those stories with audiences. Prior to joining Hot Docs, Julian managed the Documentary Organization of Canada's Festival Concierge service. In that capacity, he supported independent filmmakers in developing distribution and audience-engagement strategies and promoted Canadian documentaries at festivals around the world. Julian also serves as a film programmer for Toronto's Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, and previously served as an associate programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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