EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH 2013
BOOK OF PRODUCERS
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EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH 2013
BOOK OF PRODUCERS
BONOBOSTUDIO Andrijevic Vanja Croatia
Bonobostudio is a Zagreb-based company founded in 2008, specialized in production, distribution and promotion of animated and experimental films. We encourage creativity, explore new forms of expression and produce and promote films with high artistic and production standards. Films in our production and distribution have been screened and awarded at numerous festivals wordwide. Bonobostudio also provides animation, post-production and VFX services and works on production of music videos, video materials for theater and art installations. www.bonobostudio.hr Filmography: Father by Ivan Bogdanov, Moritz Mayerhofer, Asparuh Petrov, Veljko Popovic, Rositsa Raleva, Dmitry Yagodin (16’30”, 2012), a Bulgarian/Croatian/German co-production In the Beginning of Time... by Bozidar Trkulja (10’30”, 2012) Pinball by Darko Vidackovic (7’30”, 2012) Flower of Battle by Simon Bogojevic Narath (19’25”, 2011) Dove sei, amor mio by Veljko Popovic (10’30”, 2011) Archeo 29 by Vladislav Knezevic (9’30“, 2010) Currently in production: Amnesiac on a Beach by Dalibor Baric (20’) Mirror Maze by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson (8’) 4
Hunger by Petra Zlonoga (5’) Rogue Application by Vladislav Knezevic (10’) Films in distribution: Nightingales in December by Theodore Ushev (2011), Canada Vexed by Telcosystems (2012), prod. Spatial Media Lab, The Netherlands Nogomet / Football by Ana Husman (2011), prod. Pangolin, Croatia The Spectres of Veronica by Dalibor Baric (2011), Croatia New Hippie Future by Dalibor Baric (2011), Croatia Pain So Light That Appears As Tickle by Dalibor Baric (2010), Croatia Strange Invention by Dino Krpan (2010), prod. Diedra, Croatia Je criais contre la vie. Ou pour elle by Vergine Keaton (2009), prod. 25 Films, France The Suburb Within by Pekka Sassi (209), Finland Morana by Simon Bogojevic Narath (2008), prod. Kenges, Croatia / Autour de minuit, France Ona koja mjeri / She Who Measures by Veljko Popovic (2008), prod. Kenges, Croatia Rucak / Lunch by Ana Husman (2008), prod. Pangolin, Croatia Plac / The Market by Ana Husman (2006), prod. Pangolin, Croatia Leviathan by Simon Bogojevic Narath (2006), prod. Kenges, Croatia Soldat by David Peros Bonnot (2006), prod. Kenges, Croatia relocated by Vladislav Knezevic (2005), prod. Kenges, Croatia Plasticat by Simon Bogojevic Narath (2003), prod. Kenges, Croatia Bardo Thodol by Simon Bogojevic Narath (2000), prod. Kenges, Croatia Hand of the Master by Simon Bogojevic Narath (1995), prod. Kenges, Croatia
SHADEENA Bonicci Martin Malta Shadeena is a multidisciplinary production company working in advertising and film, based in Malta. Its short films has received production grants from the Malta Film Fund, won the Malta Innovation Award in the Creative Category and won Best Local Animation at the Malta International Short Film Festival. With a strong focus on project development our services range from animation to live action production. We also offer a range of in-house post-production and production management services. Our network is spread across Europe with an eye to co-produce more short and feature film projects in the years to come. For more information visit www.shadeena.com
During all these years, Zagreb film has received more than 400 awards on various Festivals all over the world. Among them is the Academy Award - Oscar for the best short animated film in 1962. Dušan Vukotić had become the first non-American author to win the Oscar award forErsatz. Famous project was the cartoon series Professor Balthazar and Inspector Mask. Georges Sadoul, coin the term «Zagreb school of animation», became the trademark of the style. Currently Zagreb film is having 10 films in preproduction, 25 short animated films in production and another 28 titles on festival competition distribution list, which were shown on more then 200 festivals in last two years. Sanja Borčić was born in 1969. Graduated for University of Salzburg, MBA, International Art Management, Graduated from University of Zagreb, BA Art History BA Archeology. Worked as program producer at Zagreb Concert Management ‘96-’05, executive director ‘06-’12 of ZagrebDox International documentary film festival. Joined Zagreb film in ‘10 in charge for international relations.
NOVAK PRODUCTION Bouzid Amel Belgium
ZAGREB FILM Borcic Sanja Croatia Zagreb film is a municipal institution of the City of Zagreb established in 1953. Since then, more than 600 animated films, 14 feature films, about 600 documentaries, 800 commercials and 600 educational films were produced in this studio.
Novak Prod is Belgian independent production company focusing in developing and producing arthouse fictions and documentaries for the international audience. Since its creation in 2001, Novak has been involved in the coproduction of various feature length fictions: The Buffalo boy by Nghiem-Minh NguyenVô (2004), Outside-the-Law by Rachid Bouchareb (2010), The Hot Potato by Tim Lewiston( 2011), Une chanson pour ma mère by Jöel Franka(2012), Le goût des myrtilles by Thomas de Thier (2013). Lagy Eso (Soft Rain) by Dénes Nagy is the com-
pany’s first short film made in coproduction with Hungary.
LES FILMS DU CYGNE Charlet Alexandre France
called Cordel Encantado and the TV Comedy Program called Bold Buddies for the Brasilian channel TV Globo. And in 2012, the french part of the russian feature film Ivan Poddubny directed by Gleb Orlov. Since January 2013, Alexandre is President of The Short Film Commission for Unifrance Films.
After our first feature docu-fiction film Z’har directed by Fatma Zamoum, we have different feature films in development : Les Immortelles by Alice Vial, Master of Bees by François Breniaux and the adaptation of the first novel written by Gregoire Delacourt, L’écrivain de la famille. Since last year, we are in development of a TV Series project which retraces the captivating story of the most famous family of executioners in France: Born to Kill – The Sanson Dynasty written by François Breniaux and Thierry Boscheron with Antoine De Caunes as Art Director & Director. Alexandre Charlet has also created a branch in Les Films du Cygne called SWAN France, which is devoted to produce TV Commercials and stills, as well as working as Line Producer, with production services for projects coming from abroad. Thus, in 2011, Swan organized the shooting of a telenovela
DAZOO
Darras Matthieu
Zoltan Aprily
France
Deak Daniel Hungary
CINEUROPA Bouvier Marjiolaine
Based in both Paris and Annecy (French Alps), Les Films du Cygne is an independant production company that has been founded by Alexandre Charlet (2008 EAVE graduated). In his company, Alexandre has produced more than 25 short movies that have received numerous awards and have been selected amongst prestigious Festivals such as Tribeca, Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, Namur, Leeds, etc. Most of them have been sold and broadcast in french and international channels such as France 2, France 3, Arte, Canal+, TV5 Monde ; and territories (Belgium, Italy, Japan, Sueden, Venezuela, …)
TORINO FILM LAB
Vigand Emma Belgium
Cineuropa is the first European portal dedicated to cinema and audiovisual in 4 languages. With daily news, interviews, data bases, in-depth investigations into the audiovisual industry, Cineuropa aims at promoting the European film industry throughout the world. Welcome to a platform where professionals can meet and exchange information and ideas.
Graduated in political sciences and sociology, Matthieu Darras has been writing for the film magazine Positif since 1999. In 2001 he founded NISI MASA, the European network of young cinema. For ten years, as the association’s director, he ideated and run dozens of film projects (from documentary filmmaking workshops to scriptwriting seminars passing by film journalism trainings) in more than 20 countries of Europe and beyond. From 2005 till 2011 he worked as programmer for the Cannes Critics’ Week. He was also the artistic co-director of Alba Film Festival, Italy, and artistic director of the IFF Bratislava in Slovakia. He is delegate for San Sebastian Film Festival, in charge of Central and Eastern Europe. Matthieu Darras works both for the Torino Film Lab, as head of programs, and for the Jerusalem Film Lab, as scout, since their inceptions - respectively in 2008 and 2011. and after you can continue with Torino Film Lab.
Zoltan Aprily Zoltan was born in Budapest. He is a cofounder and owner of Daazo.com, a short film sharing site supported my the MEDIA programme (together with Daniel Deak). Recently he has been focusing on different types of web-based distribution of short films. Zoltan also teaches video journalism at the Art Theory and Media Institute of ELTE University. Even more, he is the co-editor-in-chief of World of Shorts magazine (published at the Berlinale, the Cannes Film Festival and the Sarajevo Film Festival.) Deak Daniel Daniel was born in Budapest where he lives and works. He loves to create, write and watch films, especially shorts. After studying literature and film theory he founded Daazo. com with Zoltán Aprily - the MEDIA programme-supported short film sharing website. From 2007 to 2010 he was a board member of Nisi Masa - Network of Young European Cinema. Also, he is the co-editor-in-chief of World of Shorts magazine (published at the Berlinale, the Cannes Film Festival and the Sarajevo Film Festival.)
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ARCHERS MARK
TAMTAM FILM
De Souza Cynthia
Decker Dirk
United Kingdom
Germany
Founded by Mike Brett and Steve Jamison in 2008, Archer’s Mark is a full-service production company based in Shoreditch, East London. As a director-led company, Archer’s Mark is committed to making bold, ambitious films with strong authorial voices about striking subjects. Having built a strong reputation in the commercial industry, Archer’s Mark has now built a powerful in-house infrastructure, with full post-production and camera departments, along with a new development arm that commands a substantial annual budget. Driven by a craftsman’s passion for detail and a keen understanding of new digital technologies, the company is now gaining a strong reputation as a magnet for creative talent, whilst also pioneering innovative new models of production and distribution. Having become a creative home for gifted writers, directors and producers who believe deeply in their projects and their audiences, we do not believe that artistic integrity and commercial success are mutually exclusive. The company’s debut feature documentary NEXT GOAL WINS will be released theatrically in 2013, paving the way for a strong slate of feature-long drama and documentary projects.
Andrea Schütte and Dirk Decker first met during a training for production management in 2005. While commuting between Hamburg and Berlin during these weeks, they couldn’t stop talking about movies and filmmakers that inspired them–and their passion for the same films excited the idea of producing films together at one point in the future. Only a few months later they collaborated for the first time: They exec-‐produced MARS, a short feature by Marcus Richardt. After that, they followed different paths on their career track for a few years, never forgetting their initial idea of one day getting back together again. That day came in 2011 when, in addition to their respective engagements at X Filme and Riva Film, Andrea Schütte and Dirk Decker teamed up for good and started their label Tamtam Film, a platform to develop, finance and realize projects for and with young and exceptional filmmakers. Their first project under that label is RIVER (FLUSS), a short feature by Michael Venus, starring Sandra Hüller and Peter Becker, which received a nomination for the German Short Film Award in 2011. Their documentary short BEIGE by Sylvie Hohlbaum and GLOOMY SABBATH, a short feature by Amit Epstein currently in postproduction, followed. Furthermore the producers are currently developing the debut feature of Student-‐Oscar winner and Academy Award ® Nominee Max Zähle (RAJU). Due to their increasing production volume the producers decided to found Tamtam Film GmbH in April 2012.
Dirk Decker Raised in Kassel, Dirk Decker received a masters degree in Business Studies from Hamburg University. After three years in project management he turned his back on the somewhat dry engineering business to tell stories. He went to Paris in order to write – and returned to Hamburg six months later in order to make movies.Since 2005, Dirk Decker has been working as freelance producer in Hamburg, i.a. at Riva Film for DAS LEBEN IST NICHTS FÜR FEIGLINGE by André Erkau, LEG IHN UM by Jan Georg Schütte, GANZ NAH BEI DIR by Almut Getto (Max Ophüls Preis 2009, Audience Award), FASTEN A LA CARTE by Hans-‐Erich Viet, the Turkish coproduction VOICE OF MY FATHER by Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan, the Israeli coproduction EYES WIDE OPEN by Haim Tabakman (Cannes Film Festival 2009, Uncertain regard) and the Norwegian coproduction UPPERDOG by Sara Johnsen. 2008 Dirk Decker joined the European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) programme, one of the leading project development and advanced training programmes for European producers. In 2010, Dirk Decker tutored the one-‐year writer’s programme at Filmschule Hamburg-‐Berlin. He is a member of the European Film Academy.
DUEMONETE Di Pietro Franco Barbano Emanuela Italy
Due Monete. It means “Two Coins”. One is for scriptwriting. One is for video production. We love to write and to produce contents for the audience. Some of them tells about our stories, other tells much about our directors’ experience. We believe a well written story could become many things: a short for cinema, an interactive experience, a web video, an internet site, a live event, a Facebook fan page. Because storytelling is the starting point for every audience engagement. That’s why we think about ourselves as Storytelling Advisors, ready to create new ideas for your audience, outstanding, based both on traditional and innovative medias. Don’t be surprised if we use words such as DocuMercial, or Interactive Short, or WebDoc. These are just neologism we create to make our mates understand how storytelling is effective for reaching people and new medias. On the other hand we know we are content creators, because we join our ability in storytelling with the most advanced technologies in video production and post production. We founded Due Monete in Turin, Italy, in 2007. Since then we create a lot of stories. Let check the
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website, or contact us if you like to know more about us. www.duemonete.it
CAMPFILM PRODUCTION
QUARK FILMS
LA LUNA PRODUCTION
Gero Marcell
Humphries Gavin
Hussenot Sebastien
Hungary
United Kingdom
France
Straight after graduating from the Hungarian Film Academy in 2007, producer Sára László, director Marcell Gerő and Tamás Dobos DOP have founded Campfilm Production. Starting from making films that rely heavily on acquaintances and favours, through the five years of Campfilm’s existence they have completed bigger and more and more complex projects, both content-wise and financially. They have successfully worked on a co-production with a national television channel (Duna Television), a commissioned production for HBO Central Europe, two feature length documentaries supported by the European Integration Fund and an executive production for Silex Films, Paris. Campfilm puts a big emphasis on the production of high quality creative documentaries dealing with social issues. Most of these productions have dealt with minority issues and/or marginalized people. The films completed so far gained recognition in national and international film festivals and were screened on several television channels. Campfilm received the ‘Best Hungarian Documentary of 2011 Prize’ awarded by the Hungarian Film Critics in 2012 for the documentary “Caught Between Two Worlds” by Viktor Oszkár Nagy. During the past years Campfilm became a stable production company with numerous projects in different stages of development or production.
Gavin Humphries has run Quark Films since it was founded in 2006 when he completed the Producing MA at the UK’s National Film and Television School.
Sébastien Hussenot founded La Luna Productions in 1994 and first dedicated himself to the production of shortfilms and documentaries, always searching for talented artists. This long work of discovering new directors made the company proceeded to produce roughly 60 films, which got a circulation all across the world and have received over 300 awards, including an Academy Award nomination in 2009 for the best short-film with MANON SUR LE BITUME (MANON ON THE ASPHALT) directed by Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont. These last years, La Luna Productions produced for exemple LA VILLE LUMIERE (CITY OF LIGHTS) by Pascal Tessaud (30min, 2012 - FFM Montréal), LE CRI (THE HOWL) by Raphaël Mathié (22min, 2011 - Best short film Gerardmer), EN BOITE (BOXED) by Mathieu Paquier (11min, 2010), HURLEMENT D’UN POISSON (HOWL OF A FISH) by Sebastien Carfora (20min, 2010 – Best Actor Clermont-Ferrand, Short Film Special Prize Colcoa Los Angeles, Best Movie Badalona), DES ENFANTS DANS LES ARBRES (CHILDREN IN THE TREES) by Bania Medjbar (20min, 2009 – ISMU Prize Milan, Best Movie for the Jury & the audience at Sancy), MASO by Rodolphe Tissot (25min, 2009 – Best Director Trouville), HUMANITAIRE, LE DISTRACTEUR, FILMBYEN, LE MEILLEUR VIN DE CHINE, …..
LIFE TO LIVE FILMS Falby Ohna United Kingdom
ohnafalby@gmail.com Ohna Falby is a UK producer who set up London based production company Life To Live Films to produce compelling independent films. Ohna has collaborated with directors including Daniel Mulloy, Douglas Hart, Sonja Philips, Gaelle Denis and most recently Jane & Louise Wilson to produce outstanding award winning short films since 2003 (the most recent film is The Toxic Camera which has just premiered at Rotterdam). Ohna is currently in post-production on 5 short films commissioned by Bombay Sapphire and due to be released at Tribecca in April 2013. Educated in Paris, Ohna later studied filmmaking and creative writing in New York and then settled in London to work in commercials and then later in film. With this background she is always looking for ways to collaborate internationally and co-produce with European colleagues.
Credits include: -Film4 / BFI short THE CURSE. Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award 2013, winner of the Illy Best Short Film Prize in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival 2012 and selected for Sundance; -digital interactive project THIS EXQUISITE FOREST at Tate Modern, produced with Google and Film4; -crowd funded feature doc THE REAL SOCIAL NETWORK, screening at 82 UK universities in one week in November 2011; -BBC Wonderland BOY CHEERLEADERS - seen by 2 million viewers in the UK, selected for IDFA & HotDocs and sold by Zodiak to 61 countries; Gavin has produced 18 short films selected for festivals such as Sundance (three times), Edinburgh, Clermont Ferrand (four times), Annecy and London as well as twice being shortlisted for the Oscars ©. To date, these shorts have won 43 international awards. He has feature development deals with the British Film Institute and Film4.
While the company started developing feature films from these directors since few years, LAST SEASON (Combalimon), a documentary feature film by Raphaël Mathié, (ACID selection for Cannes Festival, Special Jury price Seattle, IDFA, Belfast, Gandst, Punto de Vista... ) distributed by Eurozoom was released in 2009 in theatres and 7
broadcasted on french TV channel Arte in 2011. La Luna Diffusion is a department from the company dedicated to short films international sales, in order to promote its own productions and other companies’ productions or self-produced films which could represent an interest for the public. This catalog contains around 200 titles. La Luna Editions is a department dedicated to video publishing : A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT HUBERT SELBY JR (documentary by Ludovic Cantais), FILMBYEN THE NEW MECCA OF CINEMA ? (documentary by Pablo Trehin Marçot), LA TUEUSE (fiction by Rodolphe Tissot)…
AMORARTE FILMHOUSE Jansen Tim Belgium
Amorarte Filmhouse is a Belgium-based production office that houses complete in-house production services. Short film, movies, music videos are our main projects.
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SAGA FILM
EAST OF WEST CINEMA
LIGHTHOUSE
Kelemen Oana
Krosny Kaska
Kyriakides Emily
Romania
Sweden
United Kingdom
Saga Film is a production company based in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 2000 by Alexandru Teodorescu. It was initially producing TV commercials for the Romanian and international market, and since 2006 it produces features and short films as well. Saga Film co-produced the 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, directed by Cristian Mungiu and produced by Mobra Films and the documentary La nouvelle vague du cinema roumain (2008), produced by De Films en Aiguille and directed by Marius Doicov and Vincent Guyottot. The first short film the company produced was The Yellow Smiley Face (2008) directed by Constantin Popescu, which was selected at Locarno Film Festival and awarded at film festivals in Belgrad and Trieste. It’s first feature film was Outbound (2010), made after an idea of Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru, and directed by Bogdan George Apetri, a film that received awards at Warsaw FF, Viennale and Thessaloniki FF, and was selected at festivals such as Locarno and Toronto. Saga Film’s latest production The Unsaved, will be premiered this year and is the debut of director Igor Cobileanski, with a script by Corneliu Porumboiu.
East of West Cinema AB is a Stockholm-based production company, established 2004 and run by Kaśka Krosny. Over the years of the professional activity she acquired an extensive experience in each phase of film and television production and made significant contribution to the artistic values of her projects. Awarded for her creative merits as producer and earlier line-producer for successful features, TV-series, theatrical events. As producer Krosny is mainly known for: TV series ”Report to Heaven” directed by Ulf Malmros and acclaimed “One of the Ten World’s Best” in Cologne 1995; “... Happy New York” by Janusz Zaorski, polish emigrant drama filmed in New York for HBO, ”Nina’s Journey” directed by Lena Einhorn and awarded in Sweden as Best film and Best script of 2005 or ”And all things fair” directed by Swedish master Bo Widerberg, nominated in 1996 for Oscar Academy Award (foreign film) and awarded with the Silver Bear in Berlin. Co-producer of the Polish-Swedish short feature “The Big Leap” by Kristoffer Rus., presented at the Forum.
Before joining Lighthouse in 2006, Emily worked in production, accumulating credits on 30+ features starring some of cinema’s best-known stars, including Al Pacino, Penelope Cruz, Christopher Walken and Michael Caine. At Lighthouse, Emily runs a number of large-scale projects, including the BFI Shorts 2012 scheme, on which she is currently overseeing the production of 17 films with budgets of up to £50,000 each. In 2010 she executive produced a slate of shorts with BBC Film Network. Of the four films produced, Turning received a BAFTA nomination, and Wish 143 was nominated for an Academy Award. Emily is also responsible for managing the prestigious Guiding Lights programme, which creates mentorships between emerging film talent and some of the UK’s most successful industry professionals. Over the years, Guiding Lights mentors have included Danny Boyle, Barbara Broccoli, Sam Mendes, Abi Morgan, Seamus McGarvey, Paul Greengrass and many more. Lighthouse Lighthouse is a digital culture agency based in Brighton, which supports, commissions and exhibits new work by filmmakers and artists. Strategically positioned at the intersection of the arts, education and media industries, we have established a strong reputation for delivering high quality training and professional development opportunities for emerging and established practitioners. Working with a wide range of partners, our programme aims to show how important artists and filmmakers are in a changing media landscape, and is presented in galleries, festivals and cinemas nationally and internationally. www.lighthouse.org.uk
LA MARMULE L’Hotellier&Florent France
La Marmule aims to participate in strong and offbeat universes projects development ; looking for experimentation in narrative and film forms.
short film award of the Romanian as well as the European Film Academy. The co-production DERBY likewise saw its opening night within the Berlinale Shorts Competition program of 2010 as well as SILENT RIVER that was nominated for the Golden Bear 2011. Both films were also nominated for the European Film Award 2011 and SILENT RIVER won the Romanian Film Award in two categories in 2012. The same year the documentary films SONS OF MUSE and ANATOMY OF LEAVING had its premiere. The later one was also guest in the Berlinale 2013. Another documentary NO LULLABY is in postproduction at the moment. Other projects are in the process of financing or development. David Leporda Born in 1979 in Berlin, David Lindner Leporda grew up in Potsdam. David was acting in one of the last DEFA films when he discovered his passion for the film industry.
FILMALLE Leporda David Germany FILMALLEE was founded in 2006 by David Lindner in Munich where he studied film production at the University of Television and Film. FILMALLEE specialises in producing sophisticated narrative and documentary films. In doing so, a number of projects that won over 75 awards in the past three years were shot inland and abroad and produced within the framework of international co-productions. The German-Romanian co-production RENOVATION premiered at the Berlinale Shorts Competition 2009 and was subsequently nominated for the
Starting 2000 he worked in film shootings in the production department and later as an assistant to film producer Christoph Müller. This was followed by the study of film production and media management at the University of Television and Film in Munich, from which he graduated in 2008. Since 2006 David has worked under the name of his company FILMALLEE as an independent creative producer. Since 2009, David has been occasionally teaching at different venues e.g. the University of Television and Film in Munich and the Goethe Institute. He was also invited as juror to the Regensburg International Short Film Week 2010, the WizArt Film Festival Lviv 2011 and the Filmfest Düsseldorf 2012. David Lindner is a member of the European Film Academy.
BRIVE FESTIVAL Mayor Isabelle France
The European mediumlength film meetings is a festival dedicated to 30 to 60 minutes films organized by the French Directors’ Guild (SRF). For ten years, the European competition - the heart of the festival - has been discovering emerging filmmakers of fiction films, documentaries, and experimental films. We are also organizing for the first time a mediumlength pitch workshop (only in french). It will take place between between the 2nd and the 7th of April 2013. To know more about the festival : www.festivalcinemabrive.fr
Michaux Bernard Bernard studied Film Production and Media Studies at Munich’s University of Television and Film. During his studies he worked as a line producer and producer on several shorts and documentaries. He also participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus. After graduating, Bernard established his production company Lucil Film in Luxembourg. Coming from one of the smallest countries in Europe, Bernard is very well aware of the needs and opportunities of international coproductions. In 2008, Bernard Michaux represented Luxembourg in the Producer on the Move networking programme at the Cannes International Film Festival. Bernard took part in the first EFP Producers Lab Toronto in 2010. Bernard is a EAVE Graduate and a member of the European Film Academy.
LUCIL PRODUCTIONS Michaux Bernard Luxembourg
AMOUR FOU Minck Bady Luxembourg /Austria
We produce stories! Lucil Film (Lucil s.à r.l.) is a young independent producer of feature films for the international market. Working with emerging talents, Lucil has a fresher creative drive. Based in Luxembourg, Lucil Film was founded in 2006 by Bernard Michaux. In 2007 Lucil Film has been approved for the tax shelter program by the Luxembourg authorities. The company can benefit from the regime of audiovisual investment certificates (CIAV+). Lucil film is a member of the Union of Luxembourg Audiovisual Producers (ULPA). In 2012 Lucil Film created Lucil Distribution s.à r.l.
Born in Luxembourg, she works as an artist, filmmaker and producer in Vienna and Luxembourg. She is the founder and managing director of AMOUR FOU Luxembourg (since 1995, former name MINOTAURUS FILM) and founding partner and producer of AMOUR FOU Vienna (since 2001). In 2009 she was a member of the Orizzonti Jury at the 66th Venice Film Festival. www.amourfoufilm.com www.badyminck.com Founded in 1995 by Luxembourgian producer
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and film director Bady Minck and Austrian producer Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, AMOUR FOU Luxembourg is deeply rooted in Europe. The company, originally called Minotaurus Film, was renamed AMOUR FOU Luxembourg in 2012, when the production companies AMOUR FOU in Vienna and Minotaurus Film in Luxembourg decided to join forces in their quest to create a production zone for strong and well developed art-house cinema with an international market potential. Its capacities in terms of production encompass fiction as well as documentary and animation. Films produced by AMOUR FOU Luxembourg have been invited to renowned international Film Festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Nyon and Toronto and have been coproduced and bought by international broadcasters such as ARTE, ZDF/ARTE, Bayerischer Rundfunk, WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, TVP Polonia, ORF and 3sat. The company works with distribution partners such as Bavaria Film International, Autlook Film Sales, The Match Factory and The Co-Production Office.
SCREENINGS EMOTIONS
FILM FACTORY
TUFFI FILMS
Mosholova Elena
Pernat Mojca
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Toivoniemi Elli & Pitkanen Tiina-Mari
SCREENING EMOTIONS is a film production company based in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was founded by Poli Angelova, Nikolay Todorov and Elena Mosholova in 2008. Its aim is to discover and to support emerging film talents. Since the creation of SCREENING EMOTIONS the company has produced various short films, developing both local productions and international co-productions. Our strategy is pointed at collaboration with talented young filmmakers.
MOOVES Ottenheijm Wilfred
QUIDDITY FILMS
The Netherland
Film association Film Factory is a perspective production company based in Maribor, Slovenia. The main front of interest is focused on production of fiction and animation films. Reaching the desired vision of the author and giving him possibility for visualization of his personal artistic language is most important. The best quality, and not quantity, in given situations is vital for our work. We achieved successes in Slovenia as well as in Europe. Beside film production, our activities lie in the field of commercial projects and education of younger generations of film-makers. Mojca Pernat is actively involved in film making from her early high school years. She co-founded film association Film Factory and later accepted the role of president. She graduated in the field of media communication. Now she mainly works as a producer of short films.
Morgan Emily United Kingdom
Emily Morgan set up Quiddity Films in 2011 and has since produced a number of short films that have played at festivals worldwide and won awards in Locarno, Bilbao and San Sebastian. Through Quiddity, Emily hopes to work on distinctive projects that will connect with audiences worldwide.
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CONTACT Mooves is an independent film producer based in the Netherlands. Having a background in developing both artistic and commercial movies, Mooves creates scene setting narratives and artistic shorts for large audiences and festivals. Wilfred Ottenheijm recently started as executive producer at Mooves. He has a background in producing Music Video’s.
Mojca Pernat info@filmfactory.si blog.filmfactory.si 00386 31 828 043 Address: Ruška cesta 55 2000 Maribor Slovenia
Finland Project: Tigers The film production company Tuffi Films Ltd. was founded in the spring of 2010 by a producer, a director and two screenwriters. It aims at producing films of high artistic quality, both fiction and documentary. The company is based on the principles of openness to different ways of working, “fair-trade” production methods, and the sheer love of films. Tuffi´s shorts The Date ( Dir. Jenni Toivoniemi) and the Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? (Dir. Selma Vilhunen) have been selected and nominated for several festivals. Jenni Toivoniemi’s The Date won The Short Film Jury Award (International Fiction) in Sundance film festival. The festival is held in Park City, Utah until January 27th 2013. In April Tuffi Films is starting the shootings of Akseli Tuomivaara’s (b. 1979) feature film debut Korso. Producer Elli Toivoniemi’s one of the latest work is the feature film The Good Son (Hyvä poika, directed by Zaida Bergroth (production company Oy Bufo Ab) and a mid-feature length documentary Cat Trap (Kissanloukku, a film by by Maija Hirvonen). She is a co-owner of Tuffi Films Ltd. She has also worked in the production of several short, and feature films and commercials as a line producer, casting director and assistant director. Tiina-Mari Pitkänen is a freelance producer now working in Tuffi Films. Pitkänen has been working for several years for film and television, mostly in production. She has experience in working as a production coordinator, script supervisor and assistant director. At the same time Pitkänen is finishing her studies in Elo Film School Helsinki, majoring in producing.
Coming up: Wife (feature | ~80’ | Selma Vilhunen | in development/ EAVE 2013-project) Song (documentary/-80min/ Selma Vilhunen/ in production/ Oct 2013) Destination home (documentary/ 60min/ Veera Lehto-Michaud & Maria Seppälä/ in production/ Sep 2013) Art-Rally (working title, a short fiction/ 7 min/ Jukka Kärkkäinen/ co-production with Mouka Filmi, in production Aug 2013) Tuffi Films Vanha talvitie 1 2nd floor, FI-00580 Helsinki, www.tuffifilms.com Elli Toivoniemi Mobile +358 40 172 1778 elli@tuffifilms.com Tiina-Mari Pitkänen Mobile +358 50 596 8370 tiina-mari.pitkanen@aalto.fi
NISI MASA Pnacekova Michaela Slovakia
Michaela Pnacekova graduated in English and American studies and theatre studies. Since 2005 she has worked for film festivals, such as IFF Berlinale, FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany), achtung berlin – new berlin film award (Germany), IFF Artfilmfest (Slovakia) and QFF Mezipatra (Czech Republic) where she participates in different areas of festival organization (programming, guest management and festival management). She has been invited to be member of the TEDDY Jury at IFF Berlinale (2007) and the jury of the GLBT FF Image+Nation in Montréal, Canada (2008). She has also been studying a postgraduate degree with the focus on sociolinguistics
and gender studies. Since May 2012, she is one of the members of the executive board at NISI MASA. She spends her leisure time traveling (to and from film festivals, workshops and conferences), writing (reviews, articles and her thesis) and exploring Berlin where she’s been currently living.
DANSU Pocius Justinas Lithuania
Dansu was found in Lithuania in order to provide high quality world class film production. Company is formed by working professionals with many years international experience in movie business. We provide full production services to the film and commercial film companies that are willing to shoot in Lithuania. The company also provides development, producing, partnership reasearch and coproduction services to feature, shorts and television series. www.dansufilms.com
ANINGFILM
SACREBLEU
Radeljak Matija
Bellicaud Louise Dyens Ron
Croatia
France Aning Film has been established in early 2011 as a new part of a 20 year old family company until then involved in finance and legal consulting. Founder’s son, Matija Radeljak, previously involved in different productions as a freelancer shopping around for production companies, started the film department with confidence made after completing several projects. With his family company acting always as a co-producer on projects he produced or was author of, he moved his active projects to the new-old company. Aning Film’s first priority being clear from its name, the company policy is to focus on extending audience experience to all reachable formats and platforms, creating a strong basis for what today is known as cross-media (and we like to say that this will simply be called storytelling). We believe in strong production value and motivated authors working together on as diverse level as possible. We are planning to extend the company to Belgium in 2013, and further in the future, as our international network has grown and cultural diversity is what we found to be the biggest filmmaking motivator so far. Aning film’s mission is to develop and produce authorial audiovisual projects, dramatic narratives, whose core revolves around market value and author’s liberty working together in harmony.
Sacrebleu Productions began producing short films in 2001. Since then, more than fifty films have been produced and selected in over 1000 French and foreign festivals as prestigious as Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand… Sacrebleu Productions is interested in all genres of short films : live action and animation, fiction, documentary and experimental films. In 2010, Sacrebleu Productions was rewarded for its work by receiving the prestigious Procirep Award for Best Producer. This year also marked the Palme d’Or for best short film awarded to « Barking Island » by Serge Avedikian. In 2010, Sacrebleu Productions produced its first feature documentary, « Free Radicals, a history of experimental film » by Pip Chodorov and is currently working on two feature films projects, « Longway North » and « Sexperiences », and on an animated TV serie, « Casimilo and the legends of the new world » (39x13’). Besides Sacrebleu still goes on to develop and produce several short films : « Acoustic Kitty », « Sirenashow », « Beach Flags », « Cargo cult » and a collection of 11 short films from the « Sexperiences » project. In 2012, we produced an animated TV series (20x3’), « Faces from Places » by Bastien Dubois, in coproduction with ARTE. Sacrebleu Productions in figures : 1 Palme d’Or (2010), 2 Oscar nominations for animated short film (2005, 2011), 1 Silver Bear (Berlin, 2012), 1 qualification for the Cesar (2011), 1 Procirep prize for Best producer (2010), 1 Crystal d’Annecy (2012), 1 Lutin for best production (2006), 1 Lutin for best animation (2010); 102 TV presales
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Schrekenberg Catharina
Segre Daniele
Siniarska Katarzyna
Solecka Joanna
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Catharina Schreckenberg is a freelance producer for Hamburg based company Detailfilm and Berlin based company Endorphine Production. Detailfilm is one of Germany’s most successful short film production companies, having showed their shorts at more than 400 festivals such as Berlinale, Sundance, Karlovy Vary, IDFA, etc. and winning over 100 awards with films such as Wagah (2009), The External World (2010) and Rhino Full Throttle (2013). Endorphine Production produced the award winning German-Turkish-Dutch co-production Men on the Bridge, shown at more than 40 festivals and released in several countries. Currently the company is post-producing the Dutch-BelgianGerman co-production Land. by Jan-Willem van Ewijk and developing a number of international co-productions. Last year Catharina won the prestigious CoProduction Prize of the Robert Bosch Foundation for the project I’ll Go To War, But First Make me Coffee, together with Arben Zharku and Ariel Shaban, a former participant at Nisi Masa. The Kosovo-German co-production will go into production in April this year. Catharina is looking for original new projects, which are suitable for international co-production.
Daniele Segre has a Master’s degree in Political Science and has been working in the audiovisual industry since 2001, as head of the production department of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte. He has worked for several feature films and tvseries, among which “Il Divo”, “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, “Inkheart”, “My Brother is an Only Child”, “Sangue Pazzo” and “Quando la notte”. He has also been working since 2008 as production advisor at the Torino Film Lab, a script development project for first and second feature films. He is also involved as production advisor of FIP (Film Investimenti Piemonte), a revolving fund based in Turin that makes investments in national and international feature films. In 2012 he has created Redibis Film develop and produce feature films. Redibis Film is a newly established production company and born in 2012. Its ambition is to produce non conventional feature films with an international appeal, in coproduction with other European countries: films that aim to combine an auteur quality with a commercial potential. A big investment is made on the relations with the authors, in order to be a really creative production company, following any project since the very beginning. Redibis Film has produced Dreaming Apecar a short film of Dario Leone with Lorenza Indovina and Mircea Andreescu in collaboration with Elefant Films (Romania) and is producing the new short of Lorenza Indovina “Comunque, io, praticamente non l’ho tradita” in coproduction with Cinedoddké (Switzerland). Redibis Film is also currently developing Ultimo giro by Giuseppe Sansonna
New Europe Film Sales is a boutique world sales company based in Warsaw, Poland but working across the world. The company holds full worldwide rights to a number of short and feature films and works with theatrical, TV, VOD and internet buyers. Until the end of 2011, NEFS specialized in short film sales and worked with award-winning directors, such as Ruben Östlund, Tomek Baginski and Jonas Odell. Since 2012, we opened up to other forms of content - feature films and animated series. Currently, the company sells, among others, the Oscar-shortlisted animation Paths of Hate by Damian Nenow. Our full-length feature films are It Looks Pretty From a Distance (Poland, 2011), Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi(USA, Poland, 2012), which had their world premiere at the Rotterdam IFF in 2012 (Competition and Bright Future section) and Matt Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker (Sundance and Berlinale Forum 2013). It Looks Pretty From a Distance won awards at several festivals including Linz IFF, Yerevan (Silver Apricot) and T-Mobile New Horizons (Best Polish Film). The company’s most recent acquisition is the high-profile Polish film Papusza by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze – the film is currently in post-production. We work very closely with our filmmakers and buyers and only acquire films that we like and believe in. Our aim is to promote and sell short and feature films worldwide and work in the filmmakers’ best interest. Our focus is on Central and Eastern Europe but we also have a catalogue of Scandinavian films and world cinema. We are also monitoring the independent US market.
The Wajda Studio was founded in 2001 in Warsaw by two directors, some of the most acclaimed Polish artists - Andrzej Wajda, winner of an Oscar for lifetime achievement, and Wojciech Marczewski, an outstanding director and educator. Wajda Studio is focused on art house films and international co-productions. The Wajda Studio continues the Wajda School’s mission and supports auteur film projects. We are looking for feature, documentary films, and short films on contemporary subjects. The Studio focuses on international co-operation and co-productions. The Studio makes a difference through artistic supervision from the best Polish and European artists, and by playing an emphasis on project development. It offers script doctoring and the production of short fictions and documentaries under the “30 minutes” program and „First Documentary” program. The Studio runs the EKRAN international hands-on training program focusing on the creative pre–production process. more: www.wajdastudio.pl
ARGONAUTS Tsiga Maria Greece
An EAVE graduate, Maria is a partner and member of the BoD at Argonauts Productions based in Athens. Her feature film producer credits include: 2011- DO NOT FORGET ME ISTANBUL, omnibus. Co-producer 2010- OTHER HALF by Vangelis Seitanidis. Producer 2010- IN THE WOODS by Angelos Frantzis. Associate producer
MOVIEBRATS Weimer Alex
It is our goal to merge modern technologies, digital work environments and all-media distribution channels with first-rate creative talent to tell stories that grab audiences, inspire and move them. The people behind MovieBrats combine talents in many aspects of movie making and the creation of cinematic visuals, from storyboarding through editing to animation and visual effects. We encourage filmmakers to strive for visually compelling narratives that have to unfold on the big screen. Recent productions include the German-American co-production “Asternauts”, a sci-fi comedy short film that originated at the Berlinale Talent Campus 2011 as well as the feature film “Lost Place” in 3D, coming to theatres throughout Germany in Summer 2013, released through NFP/Warner Bros. MovieBrats also served as animation studio for the 2011 Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize winner, the German-Polish animated short “The Little Red Paper Ship”. Currently, the company is prepping the animated short film “Keep Hanging”, a German-Azerbaijan co-production and also a Robert Bosch Co-Production Prize Nominee for 2013, and is teaming up with Paris-based studio Sacrebleu for the German-French animated short “SirenaShow”.
broad selection of commercials, social art, documentaries and short films. They worked with financial institutes, tax offices, social walfare organisations, universities and independent artists – the main focus always being on visual and emotional storytelling. www.anachrom.de
RED LION Chanial Gilles Luxembourg
Red Lion S.r.l is an independent production company based in Luxembourg. We’re specialised in bringing young luxembourguish talents to their first feature and in coproducing documentaries and long features for the international market, with a high artistic value.
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ANARCHROM MovieBrats Films & Animation is a film production company and animation studio, formed in late 2010 in the heart of Berlin. MovieBrats develops and produces theatrical short, feature and animated films that combine sophisticated entertainment with powerful emotions. Our focus lies on universal stories with characters viewers can strongly identify with as well as on genre movies like thriller, mystery, horror, comedy or family entertainment: Stories that appeal to a large audience, offering a strong potential for global markets and from which promising cross media brands may be established.
Weidenmann Dominik Germany
Anachrom Filmproduktin Hildesheim, Germany Telling stories is the most important activity of mankind. Stories create visions and form reality. Without talking about a different world there is no change. Without asking “what would happen if...” there is no innovation. This is the main believe of the founders of Anachrom Filmproduktion. Over the last three years, Dominik Wiedenmann and his team produced a 13
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