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Creative Executive Producer of award winning non-fiction features including four Academy nominees. Co-founder and Executive Director of Doc Society (fka BRITDOC), a non-profit launched in...
The Foundation is headed by three directors: Jess Search, Beadie Finzi and Maxyne Franklin. We believe that documentaries are a vital part of culture and democracy with a unique role to play in reflecting on the way we live and challenging our ideas, assumptions and fears about the past, present and future of the world.
And I was fortunate enough to sit down with co-founder, Maxyne Franklin, to have an open & frank discussion about the general state of documentary as well as how Doc Society fits into the whole doc landscape, as well as how you, #doclifer, can best take advantage of their programs & services. Topics Discussed
Maxyne Franklin (USA) Director. Maxyne is one of the founding Directors of Doc Society and shares responsibility for overseeing the film funding programmes. She also sits on the selection committee for the Good Pitch events and oversees the annual DOC Impact Awards; celebrating the films that have made the greatest impact on society.
For Doc Society, Maxyne has been lucky enough to executive produce a number of award-winning films including While We Watched, The Edge of Democracy, Mayor, Virunga and All These Sleepless Nights. Raised in the UK she is currently based in Brooklyn, NY and working with filmmakers globally.
Maxyne Franklin. Rose Garnett. Sandra Whipham. Credits summary: BBC Film, Doc Society, Halcyon Pictures. Certificate: TBC. Running time: 93 minutes. Released: 14 January 2022
Maxyne is one of the founding Directors of Doc Society and shares responsibility for overseeing the film funding programmes. She also sits on the selection committee for the Good Pitch events and oversees the annual DOC Impact Awards; celebrating the films that have made the greatest impact on society.
