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This chapter is comprised of an interview with Diana Tabakov, Acquisitions Manager at Doc Alliance Films, a VOD platform specialising in documentary created by an alliance of European documentary festivals. The discussion touches on topics of festival collaboration, curation, submission procedures, the festival circuit, distribution, TV broadcasting, online circulation, regionalism, event platforms, festival competitions and premieres, film access, funding schemes, industry developments and economically sustainable business models for documentary distribution in the age of the Internet.
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This interview is based on a conversation that originally took place in Prague in 2014, and was updated in October 2018 at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic).
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At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival France’s exhibitors’ (which are represented on the festival board) recommended, without success, to yank two Netflix films from competition because they were not to be released in French cinemas. Nevertheless, the festival stated that aiming at theatre release will be a requirement for all films in competition in the future (Keslassy 2017).
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Keslassy, Elsa. 2017. Cannes Keeps Netflix Movies in Competition but Says Future Films Must Have Theatrical Release. Variety, May 10. http://variety.com/2017/film/global/cannes-film-festival-maintains-netflixs-movies-in-competition-sets-new-rule-amid-turmoil-1202420874/
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Slováková, A. (2020). Connecting Festivals, Distributing Films: An Interview with Diana Tabakov, Acquisitions Manager at Doc Alliance Films VOD Platform. In: Vallejo, A., Winton, E. (eds) Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 2. Framing Film Festivals. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17324-1_16
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