Netflix, Amazon, CuriosityStream and Red Bull are all commissioning content, but not giving many clues about what they might be looking for, or how their programming strategies are developing.

  
This year’s Televisual Factual Festival, held at BAFTA next Wednesday and Thursday, will hear from a panel with hands-on experience of producing, directing and distributing for, and with, the new online broadcasters. The panellists include renowned documentary maker Simon Chinn who will discuss his new series for Netflix. They will share their experiences of working with the SVoD services and discuss the different and changing demands for programme makers.
 
Online channels represent one of the growing US markets for content. The Festival’s US session will gauge opinion from a panel of UK producers that have made a success of their businesses in the US, as well as hearing from the Discovery US new man in the UK. As First Dates sees the launch of its NBC version, produced with Ellen DeGeneres, delegates will learn about its journey the ceo of its UK production company Twenty Twenty.
 
The Factual Festival features 14 sessions across two days, with leading UK and international broadcasters, producers and business experts giving insight into the TV schedules of 2017 and beyond.
 
To find out more and to book for these sessions and others, go to www.televisual.com/festival
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p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Times New Roman’; min-height: 15.0px}Netflix, Amazon, CuriosityStream and Red Bull are all commissioning content, but not giving many clues away about what they might be looking for, or how their programming strategies are developing.This year’s Televisual Factual Festival, held at BAFTA next Wednesday and Thursday, will hear from a panel with hands-on experience of producing, directing and distributing for, and with, the new online broadcasters. The panellists include renowned documentary maker Simon Chinn who will discuss his new series for Netflix. They will share their experiences of working with the SVoDs and discuss the different and changing demands for programme makers.

Staff Reporter

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