These are my notes on the Televisual Factual Festival 2018. This is the first session on 22nd November.
Session chair: Emma Wakefield, MD Lambent Productions.
Panel: Alisa Pomeroy, Commission Editor, Documentaries, C4. Clare Sillery, Head of Commissioning Documentaries, BBC. Guy Davies, Commissioning Editor, Factual, C5, and Jo Clinton-Davies, Controller. Factual ITV.
The term Factual covers a wide spectrum of content. This session is particularly interesting, for me, as it zooms in on my field of interest! In this talk there was no commissioner speak buzzer
Each Commissioner was asked to talk about their highlights for the past year and to show a clip from that show.
Starting with Guy Davies, C5.
All the commissioners from C5 are here: https://www.channel5.com/commissions/
This Clip is the one that Guy selected: