International Pitching Forum – V4 Commissioning editors and one to one meetings

VISEGRAD countries are active territories when it comes to documentary creation, and their national broadcasters are key players in this ecosystem. Every year, we pay close attention to securing their presence as decision makers for our International Coproduction Forum. The 48 directors and producers will present their projects to selected decision-makers (commissioning editors, distributors, sales agents and funders) among which we expect 4 will be from V4 countries. In our 2025 edition, we could count on the presence of 5 commissioning editors from VISEGRAD: - Marketa Stinglova (Czech Republic, Czech TV) - Ondrej Starinsky (Slovakia, Radio and Television Slovakia) – Anastassia Proinina (Czech Republic, Current Time TV) - Magdalena Borowska (Telewizja Polska, Poland) and Hanka Kastelicova (HBO Europe, Czech Republic). https://www.fipadoc.com/en/international-pitches

International Pitching Forum

Presentation of documentary projects from V4 and other European countries. Over the course of two days, 24 projects with high international potential will be presented to a large professional audience (commissioning editors, distributors and sales agents, producers, funders. Around 150/200 people). The whole forum is coordinated by a well-known and widely recognized professional, Ove Rishøj Jensen. We gather a special selection committee, composed of experienced and diverse professionals still active in the industry at a European level. The sessions are moderated and animated by two highly experienced and recognized profiles from the industry: Margje de Koning (Movie that Matter, Netherlands) and Gitte Hansen. Inside this selection, we plan on receiving quite a few projects from VISEGRAD (thanks to the free waiver we will hand to the professionals who request it). We pay close attention to the representation of VISEGRAD projects within our selection every year. Therefore, we plan on having between one and three V4 projects in the final selection. As for comparison, we presented 4 V4 projects which pitched last year (January 2024) : • FROZEN OCEAN (Hungary) • VALLEY OF THE WIDOWS / ÚDOLIE VDOV (Slovakia) • NEW ADAM (Hungary) • THE FIRST SWALLOW / PIERWSZA JASKÓŁKA (Poland) For our 2025 edition, we have selected the following VISEGRAD projects: • WALTZ FROM THE WELL by Tymon NogalskiI (Warsaw Production Team, Poland) • WORLD OF WALLS by Lucia KAŠOVÁ (Guča films, Slovakia) For our 2026 edition, we have selected the following VISEGRAD projects: • INNERLANDSCAPES by Zofia SAWICKA (Telemark, Poland) • VALLEY OF THE HEART by Theodora REMUNDOVÁ (Endorfilm, Czech Republic) https://www.fipadoc.com/en/international-pitches

Panorama of the French Industry (How to coproduce with France session and main French broadcasters line-ups)

With Fipadoc Meet & Match: Visegrad 2026, we aim at creating an accessible platform for international professionals to dive into the French industry and get to understand its mechanisms and identify key players. The How to coproduce with France session offers exciting opportunities for professionals from V4 countries and all-around Europe. Moderated by a CNC representative (French National Centre of Cinema), it introduces key schemes and French institutions and highlights them through case studies of successful coproductions delivered by experimented producers. The session give the attendees keys and ideas to start collaboration and design their coproduction ambitions more efficiently. It is designed as a premise to the formal Producers meet producers session. Besides, we'll propose a simultaneous translation of the line-ups delivered by 2 of the main French broadcasters: France Télévisions and ARTE France. These 2 line-ups will allow the international professionals to dive into the different slots and co-production possibilities they offer and to get information about the editorial lines of the 2 main French TV broadcasters. They will meet the people who coproduce and prebuy documentaries and learn about their line-ups and the way they work in different genres: Society & Politics, History, Science & Discovery, Arts & Culture. Both line-ups are usually introduced by CEO of FTV and ARTE, which shows the strategic importance of Fipadoc for the French and European industry https://www.fipadoc.com/en/industry-days-the-program