We will be joined by prominent figures from the industry, who will explore the major developments that have taken place over the past decade. Illustrated by a series of clips, they will be examining the dramatic changes we have seen in documentary filmmaking.

John Battsek is one of the most successful producers in the UK, running the film department at Passion Pictures, known for multi-award-winning films such as One Day in September (1999), Restrepo (2010) and Searching for Sugar Man (2013). He was recently awarded the prestigious Grierson Trustees’ Award on 4 November 2013.

Charlotte Moore, was appointed as controller of BBC One in June of this year. Before that she was the BBC’s commissioning editor for documentaries, commissioning from both in-house and independent production companies across BBC One, Two, Three and Four.

Christopher Hird is the founder of Dartmouth Films, whose credits include John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See (2010) and Rupert Murray’s The End of the Line (2009). He is a former chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, was the founding chair of the Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation and is a trustee of the Wincott Foundation, The Grierson Trust and the Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Charlotte Cook will be moderating the discussion. She is currently director of programming at Hot Docs. Before moving to Toronto in 2011 she was strand coordinator at BBC Storyville and documentary programmer at the Frontline Club.

This year the Frontline Club is ten and to mark the occasion we will be joined by a panel of journalists to look back on ten years on the front line.

From Iraq to Afghanistan, Libya to Syria, our panel of journalists will be reflecting on the front lines they have reported from and discussing how they have marked the past decade. They will be sharing the stories they covered and the ones that remained unreported.

Chaired by Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow.

The panel:

Shoaib Sharifi, is an Afghan journalist who has worked with national and international media outlets in Afghanistan for more than ten years. He was editor of the state-run daily The Kabul Times, producer and presenter for Radio Television Afghanistan RTA, bureau chief of the UN news agency (IRIN News) and freelance producer and director of many documentaries for the BBC, Channel Four, PBS America and ABC Australia.

Lyse Doucet is a BBC presenter and chief international correspondent. She has been reporting for the BBC for nearly 30 years, with posts in Abidjan, Kabul, Islamabad, Tehran, Amman and Jerusalem.

Anthony Loyd is an award-winning correspondent and writer. He is currently roving foreign correspondent for The Times and author of My War Gone By I Miss It So.

Bill Neely, is international editor at ITV News. He has covered conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pakistan floods, the earthquake in Haiti and the Arab uprisings in Libya, Egypt, Syria and elsewhere.