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Co-Producing With The Brits - Heaven or Hell?
Venue: The Chapel
Thursday 05 November 2009 15:00
Moderator: Esther van Messel
Participants: Nick Fraser, Simon Dickson, Hans Robert Eisenhauer
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Producers, and even some broadcasters in Europe often say they don't like working with us Brits. They think we are happy to take cash for our films but when they ask the same we don’t come through. Are British feature documentary directors missing out on the European documentary co-production scene? Why are so few European docs seen by UK audiences? As life gets tougher and funds scarcer, UK filmmakers may have to do more than periodically get their feet wet. Will they don their swimming costumes and plunge into the European pool?