Naman Ramachandran Halfway through leading documentary market Sunny Side of the Doc, Mathieu Bejot, director of strategy and development, is tired but happy.
The market’s aim of resuming in-person meetings after two online editions is working well, and the panels and networking events are operating at capacity.“We thought the priority should really be given to meetings, because we know people have missed seeing each other for two years.
So, although there’s a very dense agenda, panels, etc. we made sure that we created new meeting areas where it will be easy to meet with people, because I think that’s the key priority in the industry,” Bejot tells Variety.
This is Bejot’s first in-person Sunny Side, after being appointed to his role in 2020 during the pandemic. Bejot says that there is a general feeling that the documentary field has recovered post COVID-19 slower than animation or drama, because documentaries necessarily mean contact with the outside world. “We want to make sure that there’s a flow of information filled meetings.
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