DMZ Docs Industry
Global Pitch Team Tutors & Rough Cut Consultant
Announcement!
We are so
happy to invite highly acclaimed documentary industry professionals from
diverse fields this year.
Our
distinguished tutors will provide their valuable insights and feedbacks to our
Global Pitch teams during the DMZ Docs Lab (Sep. 10 to 13). Rough Cut
Consultant will provide thorough assessments and comments to Rough Cut Pitch
teams during the Market Period (Sep. 15 ~ 19).
Tutors
Keisha Knight
IDA (International Documentary Association) Funds & Advocacy Director
Keisha Knight is the Director of IDA Funds. In this
capacity Keisha oversees a portfolio of IDA's granting and artist support
programs including IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, Logan Elevate Grants,
Nonfiction Access Initiative and the Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund among other
granting programs. Keisha is an arts administrator, distributor, programmer,
curator and educator who is passionate about helping to create and sustain
robust and equitable media ecosystems. Keisha has served on numerous juries and
review panels and is a 2022-2023 Warhol Curatorial Research Fellow.
Caitlin Mae Burke
Field of Vision – If/Then Shorts Co-Director
Caitlin Mae
Burke is the Co-Director of IF/Then Shorts at Field of Vision, where she's
overseen over 95 short documentary films from development through distribution.
An Emmy-winning producer, Caitlin's work has been broadcast and screened
worldwide, recognized with Emmy, Grand Clio, and Gotham Awards, and nominated
for Critic¡¯s Choice, Independent Spirit, and Cinema Eye Honors, as well as
numerous ¡°Best of¡± designations at festivals. Highlights include NUTS! (dir.
Penny Lane, Sundance Special Jury Prize); ANBESSA (dir. Mo Scarpelli, SIMA
Award, Arte/ZDF); OBIT. (dir. Vanessa Gould; Entertainment Weekly's "Top
Ten Films 2016"); APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT (dir. Amanda Wilder,
Gotham/Independent Spirit Award noms) and WE COULD BE KING (dir. Judd Ehrlich,
Emmy/Grand Clio winner.) She is an inaugural inductee into DOC NYC's 40 Under
40 and alumna of Berlinale Talents, as well as a voting member of the
Television Academy (Documentary Programming branch.) Caitlin resides in
Brooklyn, New York.
Audrius Stonys
Film Director and Producer
His films got
numerous international film awards. Among them Audience award in Nyon, Grand
Prix in Split, prizes in Bornholm, Florence, Gyor, Neu Brandenburg, Oberhausen,
Riga, Shanghai, Bilbao and San Francisco.
In 1992 the
documentary film Earth of the Blind (1992) was recognized by European
Film Academy as the Best European Documentary Film of the Year.
LEE Changjae
Documentary Filmmaker
Professor of The Graduate School of Film & Multi-media of CAU
After Cheil
Worldwide, Samsung Entertainment Group, and Chicago Art Institute, been working
as a professor in GSAIM, Chung-Ang University since 2004. EDIT, a degree
project, been invited to YIDFF and MoMA. Between (2006) and On The
Road (2011), the biggest documentary box office hits of the year. OUR
PRESIDENT (2017), collecting more than 1.8 million box office record.
Rough Cut Consultant
Ollie Huddleston
Editor and Rough Cut Service Member
Ollie Huddleston is an award-winning film editor with over 30 years of experience working on cinema and television documentaries. He has worked with many of documentary's leading lights including Kim Longinotto, Adam Curtis, Sean McAllister, Marc Isaacs and Aliona Van der Horst. Ollie has won two Royal Television Society editing awards and twice been nominated for a BAFTA. Dunkirk (2004) won a BAFTA for best TV series, his other films have won BIFA and Grierson awards in the UK and prizes at festivals all over the world including Hold me tight, Let me go (2007) at IDFA , Rough Aunties (2008) and Dreamcatcher (2015) at Sundance and Sisters in Law (2005) at Cannes. He has worked as edit consultant on many award-winning documentaries, sat on festival juries and taken part in edit workshops and masterclasses all around the world. He is a member of Rough Cut services, a select group of internationally acclaimed editors who consult on and support international documentaries. His most recent feature documentaries include Shooting the Mafia (2019) which premiered at Sundance and Dalton¡¯s dream (2023) both directed by Kim Longinotto and In the Court of the Crimson King (2022) directed by Toby Amies.