Bio to B is the annual event that Biografilm dedicates to business to business networking between professionals of the audiovisual, in collaboration with Emilia-Romagna Film Commission. The Industry Days aim to promote and support Italian and European productions of character driven documentaries, docuseries and biopics, to encourage networking, updating and the exchange of good practices between professionals in the sector and to facilitate sales, options, co-productions and selections of new audiovisual projects.
In its ten years of activity, Bio to B - Industry Days has become a point of reference for the Italian and international documentary sector, and since 2022 it dedicates a particular focus on relations between publishing and audiovisual, making available a privileged and unique space,in which to propose, option, sell and acquire published stories to be transposed, and original subjects intended for both the editorial and audiovisual markets.
From 2024 Bio to B - Industry Days will be enriched with an additional session dedicated entirely to emerging producers in collaboration with Ji.hlava IDFF and with the support of the Emilia Romagna Film Commission.
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival is among the largest documentary festivals in Europe and the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. The festival retains a distinctive and progressive programming approach and has built innovative industry projects for over 1,000 attending film professionals. The 28th edition of Ji.hlava IDFF takes place on October 25 – November 3, 2024.
The program Emerging Producers by Ji.hlava IDFF was born in 2010 and selects eighteen European documentary producers who are being provided with extensive educational, networking, and promotional support. The workshop takes place over the course of two sessions: one during Ji.hlava and the second at Berlinale. For the session taking place in Bologna, 10 more producers will attend the workshop.
Here are the selected producers from Emilia-Romagna who will join the 3rd session of Emerging Producers, to be held during Bio to B - Industry Days 2024:
Lucia Caterina Belsito
Combo Società Cooperativa
Renato Giugliano
RLP Film Productions
Maria Eugenia Lombardi
Ginevra Films SRLS
Lucia Pornaro
Aplysia
Francesco Rubattu
Sette E Mezzo Studio SRL
Federico Riboldazzi
TIWI S.r.l.
Marta Melina
SMK Factory Srl, Bologna
Agnese Cornelio
Freetowork
Gabriele Veronesi
Taiga
Luca Bedini
Taiga
Hotel: ResArt Iacomus, Via Riva di Reno, 57
Venue: DAMSLab, Piazzetta P.P. Pasolini 5b
11:45 – 12 PM: Coffee Break | DAMSLab Hall
1:30 PM – 3 PM: LUNCH | DAMSLab Hall
4:30 PM – 5 PM: Coffee Break | DAMSLab Hall
Fighting the good fight, keep the faith. From independent cinema to Amazon studios and back
Tom Hope: Producer and founder at Amazon Studios.
11:45 – 12 PM: Coffee Break | DAMSLab Hall
1:30 PM – 3 PM: LUNCH | DAMSLab Hall
How to cut through the noise: In this workshop, publicist Mirjam Wiekenkamp (NOISE) will share her tips and tricks on how to set up an effective PR campaign and launch your film into the world.
Mirjam Wiekenkamp has been working as a publicist in the film industry for more than 15 years. She is the founder of NOISE and specializes in international PR campaigns for both fiction and documentaries at European festivals such as Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Cannes, IDFA, IFFR and Venice. Some of the docs she has recently been working with include THE FLATS (D: Alessandra Celesia, Winner DOX:AWARD at CPH:DOX 2024); LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (D: Mohamed Jabaly, Winner Best Director at IDFA 2023); MALQUERIDAS (D: Tana Gilbert, Winner Grand Prize at Venice's International Critics' Week 2023); and MUTZENBACHER (D: Ruth Beckermann, Winner Encounters Competition at Berlinale 2022). She also handles international press for Locarno Pro, the industry arm of the Locarno Festival, and the Sarajevo Film Festival.
4 PM – 4:15 PM: Coffee Break | DAMSLab Hall
Victor Ede started producing in 2014 within Cinephage Productions. Trained at workshops like Eurodoc or Emerging Producers, he has produced fifteen films, mostly international co-productions. His films are often coproduced with French and European broadcasters. Victor Ede is currently Creative Media expert, a former deputy member of the Cinemas du Monde commission (CNC), a member of the Eurodoc network DAE, and co-president of the Producers Union of the SUD-PACA region (LPA). He’s cofounded Cinephage (production), Tangente (theatrical distribution), Image Fantôme (postproduction), and in 2024 Dysflims (international distribution).
Selective Filmography as a producer: Kix by Balint Revezs and David Mikulan, 2024, 90 min; Body by Petra Seliskar, 2023, 80 min; The Order of Things by Ramona Badescu and Jeff Silva, 2022, 76 min; Lively Discussion by Tristan Thil, 2022, 12 min, animated; Women rather laugh about it by Marie Mandy, 60 min 2021; Breakpoint, a counter-history of progress by Jean Robert Viallet, 2019, 98 min; Privacy of Wounds by Dalia Kury, 70 min, 2018.
Online distribution and marketing of your film can be very rewarding if done right. In this presentation, Audun shows examples from his case study of selling his film Newtopia online with Private VOD. He will share his simple automated framework for online sales, and talk about tactics and strategies to optimize advertising spend, and audience tracking.
Audun Amundsen is a Norwegian Documentary Filmmaker, and an online marketing consultant at GonzoDocs (www.gonzodocs.com). His films Newtopia and Help, I’ve gone Viral! have screened at major Festivals, and sold to TV channels and platforms worldwide. Amundsen is known for delving into immersive long-term projects and crafting engaging participatory documentaries. He is currently working on Click The Link Below, which is about the peculiar world of gurus making millions online.
1 PM – 1:15 PM: Welcome drink | DAMSLab Hall
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM LUNCH | DAMSLab Hall
3 PM – 3:15 PM Coffee Break | DAMSLab Hall
