Collective Care & Solidarity in Storytelling

14 Jun, 2025, 10.00 AM @ Atelier Gardens

Event language: English

This session explores the value of community-driven creation in documentary filmmaking and the many ways we can collaborate—both locally and internationally. How and why should we build networks of support? We’ll highlight diverse models that foster care, resilience, and systemic change, showing how collective practices are reshaping the field from the ground up.

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Program Info

Presentation and Conversation

An exploration of how community-driven collaboration and collective practices are transforming documentary filmmaking—locally and globally.

Guests

Hasse van Nunen

Hasse van Nunen is a documentary producer at Een van de jongens, which she founded together with Renko Douze. She works with unique creators to produce impactful documentaries. To increase social impact, she co-founded the Impact Academy (now Impact Makers) with Bernadette Kuiper, promoting collaboration between funds, broadcasters and producers. This initiative introduced the role of impact producer in the Netherlands. Hasse also works as an impact producer.

Afsaneh Salari

Afsaneh Salari is a documentary director, editor, and producer based in Paris and Tehran. She founded Docmaniacs in Paris and co-founded the Women's Film Collective Docmaniacs in Tehran. Her directing works include The Silhouettes (Visions du Réel 2020) and Great Are the Eyes of a Dead Father (CPH:DOX, Sheffield, DMZ 2023). As a producer, A Sisters' Tale premiered at Locarno 2024, and she co-wrote and edited Writing Hawa (FIPRESCI Award, IDFA 2024).

Pierre-Yves Beaulieu

Pierre-Yves Beaulieu is a documentary filmmaker and video editor from Montreal, based in Berlin. In 2023, he started a monthly meetup for Berlin documentary filmmakers. He also acts as a local team organizer for the Berlin Video Consortium local chapter, which aims to connect non-fiction filmmakers from abroad with the local German industry.

Aliaksei Paluyan

Aliaksei Paluyan, born in Belarus, is a writer, director, and co-founder of the Belarusian Independent Film Academy. Based in Germany since 2012, his short film Lake of Happiness (2019) premiered in Clermont-Ferrand, won numerous awards, and was nominated for the 2020 European Film Awards and longlisted for the 2021 Oscars. His debut documentary Courage (2021) premiered at Berlinale and screened at major festivals. It was longlisted for the 2022 Oscars.

Moderation

Marta Golba-Naumann

Producer, curator, owner of ENDORFINA studio company based in Warsaw and Berlin and co-director of HER Docs Foundation. In 2015 and 2017 she was awarded by Polish Audiovisual Producers Chamber of Commerce for the best producer’s debut for documentary ’15 Corners of the World’ by Zuzanna Solakiewicz and multi-awarded drama “All These Sleepless Nights” by Michał Marczak. Since 2021 she has been developing the industry section within HER DOCS Film Festival.

Best Case Studies

Afsaneh Salari and Hasse van Nunen will share best practice examples of successful creators & producers collective collaboration.

Moderation

Vivian Schröder

Vivian Schröder started her career in the film industry producing commercials in the entertainment sector.Since 2012 she has been working closely with Boekamp & Kriegsheim.There she focused on the production of documentaries and series.Through B&K's production The Bornio Case, she got to know the principle of Impact Producing and has been working as Germany's first Impact Producer since 2020. She co-founded The Good Media Network and Dokumentale.