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SEMINARS and WORKSHOPSDIFF’s Seminars and Workshops programme covers a range of topics pertinent tothe filmmaking community and of interest to film lovers. The programme aims tocontribute to skills transfer and industry development and draws on the knowledge,skills and insights of a range of industry experts and filmmakers present at the 34th DurbanInternational Film Festival.Africa in Focus (see pages 19-23) consists of a series of panels which unpack theexperiences of filmmakers in the African continent and which highlight opportunities forinnovations and collaboration and features on the programme of the Durban FilmMarttaking place from 19 to 22 July (see pages 28-29) as well as Talent Campus Durban between19 and 23 July (see pages 26-27).These workshops are in addition to industry development programmes presented with variouskey partners, including International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Hotdocs, BerlinaleTalent Campus, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and other festival contemporaries.Partnership with the National Film and Video Foundation enables us to deliver a strandof workshops that allow the filmmaking community an opportunity to engage with thenational industry body through various panels in the programme and other targeted events.DIFF also works with key industry bodies such as the South African Guild of Editors, theDocumentary Filmmakers Association and the Writer’s Guild of South Africa in order topresent panels that speak directly to their constituencies.A long-established part of DIFF’s industry development and community outreachprogramme, many of the festival’s workshops are open and free, to professionals andpublic alike.Festival Networking EventsThe Durban International Film Festival hosts over 500 industry delegates from Africa andbeyond, offering a range of networking events aimed at fostering strategic relationships forfilm production and co-production. The Durban FilmMart has nightly functions sponsoredby partners and industry organisations while the Durban International Film Festival hostsnightly functions for selected premieres. As part of the Durban International Film Festival’smembership of the World Documentary Exchange, a breakfast meeting of selecteddocumentary producers, including the projects of the Durban FilmMart, Doc Station, visitinggrantees of the Hotdocs Blue Ice Group Fund and European producers of documentariesscreening at the Durban International Film Festival, will take place.16 34th Durban International Film Festival