Opening Keynote & Master's Pitch
DOK.forum Marketplace 2026
Hinweis: Diese Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt.
At the Master’s Pitch, eight outstanding projects with significant international potential will be presented on stage to an international jury of industry experts as well as our audience.
This year's Opening Keynote will be held by Leonard Cortana, Inclusion Programs & Strategic Partnerships Manager at EURODOC.
Pitching projects
AGNES AND ME | USA, Germany, Norway
Pitching team: Violet Du Feng (director) & Alex Tondowski (producer)
CHOIR OF SISTERS | Switzerland
Pitching team: Sophia Bösch (director) & Franziska Sonder (producer)
THE GOOD WOMAN | Germany
Pitching team: Lena Leonhardt (director) & Anna-Luise Dietzel (producer)
HITLER'S EYE | Germany, Denmark
Pitching team: Konstanze Speidel (producer) & Sigrid Dyekjær (producer)
LANDFALL | UK
Pitching team: Peter Middleton (director) & Clive Patterson (producer)
NEVER MOVE BACKWARDS | Iran
Pitching team: Alexandra Tahereh Kaucher (director) & Michael LaPointe (producer)
SHE HOLDS THE LINE | Germany
Pitching team: Insa Onken (director) & Daniela Dieterich (producer)
WHAT THE LAND FORGOT | Greece
Pitching team: Lucas Paleocrassas (director) & Dafni Kalafati (producer)
In partnership with
Redakteurin (ZDF/ARTE)
Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is a Senior Commissioning Editor at the German Public TV Broadcaster ZDF, where she is dealing with diverse documentary slots on ARTE, the European Culture Channel. Within the editorial department “ZDF/ARTE Culture and Music”, she mostly co-produces documentary films (52minutes and feature length) for the ARTE documentary slots: Visual Arts, Culture, Music, Pop-Culture, Cinema Documentary and La Lucarne. Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is also tutoring at diverse documentary development initiatives.
Inclusion Program and Strategic Partnerships Manager (EURODOC)
(CAT&Docs)
(Gitte Schnyder-Hansen Consultancy)
Redaktion Dokumentarfilm (WDR)
von 1992 bis 2000 bei ARTE in Strasbourg ab 2000 bis heute WDR-Redakteurin in Köln
Commissioning Editor (Südwestrundfunk (SWR))
Bernd Seidl, Jg. 1963, verfügt über mehr als 35 Jahre Erfahrung als Journalist und TV-Redakteur. Nach dem Studium der Theologie in Tübingen begann er seine Laufbahn als Regisseur und Redakteur beim Südwestrundfunk (SWR) in Baden-Baden. Seit 2004 ist er verantwortlicher Redakteur in der Arte-Redaktion innerhalb der Hauptabteilung Doku des SWR. Er ist insbesondere für abendfüllende Dokumentarfilme und internationale Koproduktionen zuständig.
