Commissioning Editor – documentary department @ SVT
Company profile: Swedish public service television broadcaster with VOD service.
SVT operates four channels – SVT1, SVT2, SVT24/Barnkanalen (a children’ channel) and together with UR; Kunskapskanalen. Barnkanalen and SVT24 share the same channel ID.
All SVT channels are digital only. All are distributed via all kinds of platforms. The SVT-programmes can be viewed on SVT Play for 30 days after the first broadcast.
Job Description: I work as a commissioning editor with coproductions also doing acquisitions and pre-buys.
Strand Profile: I work with three main slots: Sunday 22:00 current affairs, Monday 22:00 feature length documentaries, Thursday 22:00 mainly Swedish documentaries. SVT also has a culture documentary slot 20:00 Friday.
SVT2 Mondays at 22:00, 58’-90’, Dox: The best documentaries on the international scene.
SVT2 Thursdays at 20:00, 58’: Creative Swedish and Nordic narrative documentaries with a human interest.
SVT2 Friday 20:00, 58’: Culture docs.
SVT2 Sundays at 22:00: Dokument Utifrån (current affairs).
Recent Co-productions:
For DOX:
Whos’s Gonna Love Me Now? – Israel
Amateurs in Space -Denmark
The Settlers – Israel
Born to be free – UK
Ambulance – Norway
Last Men in Aleppo – Denmark
Nowhere to Hide – Denmark
Tokyo Idols – Japan
Mogadishu Soldier – Norway
Dolphin Man – Canada
For Dokument Utifrån:
Bashar – the Master of Chaos – France
Higher Education – France
Behind the Altar – Italy
FIFA Family – a love story – Denmark
Europe at Sea – UK
Themes: in the current affairs slot, we show mainly journalistic films. The other slots are for human interest often character driven stories.
Main activities: I do acquisitions, pre-buys and coproductions.
What I’m mainly looking for at MIA DOC: I look for strong stories in all documentary genres that could attract Swedish audiences.
