Ben Croll Even as outside circumstances forced Sunny Side of the Doc to pare down elements of this year’s edition, event programmers never jettisoned the theme they envisioned for 2020.“We wanted to maintain our original framework,” says Sunny Side director of strategy and development Mathieu Béjot. “We had planned for many more sessions and different activities that we subsequently had to cancel, but we were certainly going to stick with our original idea to focus on history.”Every year, the La Rochelle-based rendezvous has sought to spotlight trends and formats influencing the documentary landscape, creating thematic sections around genres like science, culture and human affairs.
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