The 37th Sunny Side of the Doc (SSD) returns this year to the coastal city of La Rochelle, France after facing off budgetary headwinds.
From June 22 – 24, the streamlined documentary marketplace launches new sections, no mean feat given that they only had five months to put it together. But just as most documentary filmmakers learn to make do with limited coin, so has SSD.
Saved by new funding from France’s Centre of National Cinema (CNC), what has been touted as the largest documentary-focused market worldwide has forged a new alliance with professional training initiative Documentary Campus. Together, they will focus on establishing a B2B milieu where both linear and digital projects participate.
“It’s probably a moment in time and in history when there is a strong need and appeal for trustworthy content – truth-telling, verified, cross-checked factual content. It’s a key moment when our industry needs to think of itself as a global ecosystem, and we need to rethink and rebuild the funding models together,” said Sunny Side managing director Aurélie Reman.
Aurélie Reman Credit: Hugo Lafitte
