EDN Pitching talk Leena Pasanen

This was the talk I posted about just before catching the bus to go to it. Leena Pasanen gave a great overview of the documentary market in Europe for feature docs. Most importantly highlighting the cultural differences between countries, how to pitch to commissioning editors and showed us trailers/taster DVD's as used in pitches. Soon realised that really there is nothing much out there for short docs. And I think the session slightly skirted around what a long shot pitching co-productions are. However very interesting food for though - European Documentary Network website is worth having a look at as well (she is the head of it).