Executive Seminars

The annual EURODOC Executive Seminar is dedicated to documentary commissioning editors and TV channels managers only. It fosters exchange, inter-generational transmission and critical thinking on the role of commissioning executives in private and public televisions & platforms across the globe. Founded in 2007, historically European-focused, headed in the early years by Erkki ASTALA, the head of co-productions at YLE Television (Finland) and Thierry GARREL, the former head of the Documentary Programme Unit at ARTE France, the Exec Seminar was a driving task force to fund and coproduce ambitiously creative documentary between European channels, but also to lobby for the impact of documentaries on civic societies, and public policies.

The Exec Seminar now gathers over one or two days during our Session 3 in October, senior professionals from worldwide, featuring a keynote by a major figure in the field, debates, and panels on a pressing theme or issue which changes every year. The Exec Seminar ends with a screening and a Q&A with an iconic documentary filmmaker.