The independent movie business still depends very largely on selling and buying individual titles. Much of that is driven, despite the eruption of streaming platforms, by festivals and markets.
So how events react to COVID-19 is no secondary question Switzerland’s documentary Visions du Réel Festival, one of the first festivals to go totally online, debated the issue Sunday at a thoughtful digital panel, led by artistic directors, programmers and heads of a range of doc and more general European festivals: Directors’ Fortnight Paolo Moretti, the Berlinale’s Sergio Fant, Orwa Nyrabia at IDFA, IndieLisboa’s Miguel Valverde and Visions du Réel’s own Emilie Bujès.
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