Now you can listen to the EFM podcast entitled Shifting Grounds: Navigating Documentary Production and Distribution.

Shifting Grounds: Navigating Documentary Production and Distribution examines the pressing challenges and emerging opportunities shaping the documentary community today. The episode is hosted by Matthew Carey, the Senior Documentary Editor at Deadline.com and is featuring Academy Award–winning producer Geralyn White Dreyfous and owner of Paradiddle Pictures Ove Rishøj Jensen.

Together, they reflect on the resilience of documentary storytelling and the importance of safeguarding creative independence in a rapidly consolidating industry. The discussion also highlights how pitching forums are changing, why public support for independent voices remains vital, and how streaming platforms and algorithms are reshaping access to audiences.

Shifting Grounds: Navigating Documentary Production and Distribution is part of the podcast series Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast, presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale.

The European Film Market special documentary initiative DocSalon, is running from February 13–17 during the European Film Market in Berlin. DocSalon returns with expert-led consultations, roundtables, panel conversations, and daily networking sessions.

Listen to the podcast at the EFM web site here: https://efm-industry-insights.podigee.io/81-shifting-grounds-navigating-documentary-production-and-distribution

Here you can read more about the DocSalon. 

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