Sunny Side of the Doc Returns to La Rochelle After Budget Cuts, Launches New Sections With CNC Funding
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Anna Marie de la Fuente
Summary
The 37th Sunny Side of the Doc (SSD) documentary marketplace returns to La Rochelle, France from June 22-24, after overcoming budget cuts. Despite having only five months to organize the event, SSD launched new sections thanks to emergency funding from France's Centre of National Cinema (CNC). The event has also formed a new partnership with the Documen professional training initiative.
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The streamlined documentary marketplace launches new sections, no mean feat given that they only had five months to put it together.
Just as most documentary filmmakers learn to make do with limited coin, so has SSD.
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