BBC, Fremantle, Hot Docs Decision-Makers on Delivering Documentaries That Make People Say ‘Wow, I Want to See That’
variety.comTara Karajica Documentary filmmakers were reminded of the importance of storytelling during a panel discussion about their craft as part of the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry program Cinelink earlier this week. “It’s about telling the story.
It doesn’t have to be a complex story. It could be anything, but it’s the way you tell it and it’s the characters you tell it through,” said Lucie Kon, commissioning editor at BBC’s doc strand Storyville.
She explained that filmmakers should package their project not only with a brilliant story, but one that can charm a broad audience within its first five minutes.
The visuals should also be flashy. “Even the still that tells you what story it is on the poster needs to be like: ‘Wow, I want to see that!’” One project that impressed Kon was the Croatian film “Pavilion 6” by Goran Dević, featured in Cinelink’s Docu Rough Cut Boutique, a platform for docs from the Balkan region.
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