Catherine Le Clef, CAT & Docs, France

Catherine Le Clef is the person behind the documentary distribution company, CAT & Docs, which came into being in 2009. Before CAT & Docs she worked with Fortissimo Films as Senior Vice President – TV and Ancillary Sales from Paris based Doc & Co, an international distributor of worldclass documentaries. Prior to Fortissimo, she was with Films Transit International in Canada where she worked for more than a decade, distributing documentaries worldwide including. She began her career at Unibelfilm in Belgium, promoting Belgian films internationally.

CAT & Docs works with pertinent and impertinent documentaries on topical questions and timeless subjects; films that are carefully researched; that rigorously explore the subject matter, that are audacious, open to the diversity of the world and that have their place on the international scene; docs that question the world and propose new ways of looking at it. Documentaries that keep us from closing our eyes.

Channa began his working career in India as an independent producer of short films. He has a Masters in both History and Film and Television Production from New Delhi, India, and also holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA.