Cecilia Lidin has more than twenty years' experience in the field of international development and financing of documentaries. After starting as a loans officer in the first MEDIA programmes office DOCUMENTARY followed by a position promoting short and documentary films at Filmkontakt Nord, Lidin joined the EDN team in 1998, where for more than a decade she was responsible for a large number of EDN workshops and events as an organiser, tutor and moderator. From 2006 to 2009, she was Artistic Director of the Odense International Film Festival and from 2009 to 2011, she co-led the EDN with Hanne Skjødt. From 2011 to 2015, Lidin was the documentary consultant at the Swedish Film Institute, and from 2015 through 2020 she held the same position at the Danish Film Institute. She was one of the programmers of the documentary section at Nordisk Panorama in 2020 and 2021, and continues to work as a freelance curator and consultant.
