Sunny Side of the Doc… 20 Years!
Of course it needs to be celebrated, the 20 years of Sunny Side of the Doc, now in la Rochelle for a couple of years, before in Marseilles with a prologue in Lyon. Lots of memories for someone like me who were at almost all of the markets when in wonderful Marseilles (and to the prologue in Lyon, I still have the impressive catalogue from there) but not yet in la Rochelle. It is a place to go and meet old and new friends, and to launch your new film projects or give an update on the one, you presented the year before. Veeery French, some people say, maybe and so what…
Focus this year is of course on presenting new potential financiers from networks and platforms, introducing cross media, and making people aware of the educational market. In other words, it is not only about meetings and hearing about the classical tv broadcasters.
But don’t forget, if you go there, to go and watch some of the masterpieces that Sunny Side presents to celebrate the documentary genre: 12 of 38 ”emblematic films from the last 20 years” will be presented on a big screen, three of them by Nicolas Philibert, La Ville Louvre, La Moindre des Choses and Retour en Normandie (all reviewed or mentioned on this site).
