PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Katharina Riedler, programme coordinator of the Crossing Europe Film Festival.
Katharina Riedler is programme coordinator at the Crossing Europe Film Festival. Crossing Europe takes place in Linz, Austria, and devotes its programme to idiosyncratic, contemporary and socio-political auteur cinema from Europe. Over six days, the festival offers a programme of around 150 fiction and documentary films, focusing on the diversity of European film.
During the 2019 edition of New Horizons, we talked to some of the participants of the ICO’s course for festival professionals, “Developing Your Film Festival”. “Developing Your Film Festival” is an intensive training program for professionals working in the festival industry. The training is organized by the London Independent Cinema Office. Each year, it is held as a part of a different European film festival. So far participants of more than 170 film festivals around the globe took part in “Developing Your Film Festival”. The instructors were experts of Berlinale, Hot Docs, as well as Rotterdam and Toronto film festivals. Training participants will have the opportunity to learn how to increase their audience, promote the festival internationally, gain sponsors and more.