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Mar 15, 2022 · The report published on Friday by the leading Nordic regional film fund Film i Väst, and presented at the European Co-Production Forum in Brussels, focuses on the future legitimacy and relevance of public film funds in Europe,- in particular selective public film funding, at a time when the traditional eco-system in Europe is being challenged ...
- MO Abudu
- Maren Ade and Janine Jackowski
- Kristina Börjeson
- Barbara Broccoli
- Bettina Brokemper
- Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings
- Francesca Cima
- Bénédicte Couvreur
- Valérie Delpierre
- Sidonie Dumas
CEO, EbonyLife Media (Nigeria) Abudu got her start as producer and host of pan-African talk show Moments With Mo, before expanding into local and international TV and film with her EbonyLife studio, which operates its own theater chain, produces and releases female-centered dramas (Fifty, Òlòtūré) and mainstream franchises (The Wedding Party, Chief...
Co-founders, Komplizen Film (Germany) Ade and Jackowski set up Komplizen Film in 1999 and have built the boutique outfit into an art house champion, with a focus on German festival-favorite directors (including Ade, whose Oscar-nominated Toni Erdmann was a Cannes 2016 breakout) and international co-productions, such as Pablo Larraín’s Spencer, Mari...
Head of Production, Film i Väst (Sweden) Under Börjeson’s guidance, Trollhättan-based Film i Väst has become a pivotal financing and production partner for ambitious European features, from Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round and Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World to Bill Nighy starrer Living and Ruben Östlund’s Cannes-winning Triangle of ...
Co-owner, Eon Productions (United Kingdom) Broccoli is a producer who needs little introduction, having presided over what is arguably the world’s most famous franchise for almost three decades, aiding its successful transition into the modern age (with record-breaking box office tallies to boot). While Broccoli and Eon Productions move into other ...
Founder, Heimatfilm (Germany) Brokemper worked her way up from the bottom — “I started as a Kabelträger [cable schlepper] on German TV,” she says — to one of Europe’s leading producers of award-winning and crossover art house, with a side gig as Lars von Trier’s German co-producer. Given such specialty credentials, it might be surprising that she n...
Co-founders, Causeway Films (Australia) Ceyton and Jennings launched Causeway Films in 2014 with the Sundance sensation The Babadook and produced director Jennifer Kent’s follow-up feature, The Nightingale, which won the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival 2019. A string of hits and festival darlings has followed, including Rodd Rathjen’...
CEO, Indigo Film (Italy) Cima is best known for her work with Paolo Sorrentino, including the Oscar-winning The Great Beauty and Youth, which the former journalist produced through the company she co-founded in 2002 with Nicola Giuliano. More recent productions include Mario Martone’s The King of Laughter and Laetitia Colombani’s upcoming drama The...
CEO, Lilies Films (France) As Céline Sciamma’s producer — Couvreur has worked with the acclaimed director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Petit Maman since her 2007 feature debut, Water Lilies, which lent its title to her Paris-based outfit — Couvreur has been at the forefront of the new generation of female French filmmakers.
CEO, Inicia Films (Spain) Delpierre’s Inicia Films has been a key component in Spain’s female-led new cinema movement, supporting up-and-coming women filmmakers including Carla Simón (director of the 2017 Berlin best feature winner Summer 1993), Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Berlin Silver Bear winner 20,000 Species of Bees) and Pilar Palomero (2023...
CEO, Gaumont (France) Since taking over the reins of the world’s oldest film studio from her father in 2004, Dumas has expanded internationally — with operations in L.A., the U.K. and Germany — as well as into television, but has not abandoned Gaumont’s dedication to mainstream audiences, whether it’s with French blockbusters (2011’s The Intouchabl...
While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
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Set in a German POW camp during World War I, the film lays bare the fault lines of class and nationality among a group of French prisoners and their German captors and comes to the conclusion...
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May 27, 2020 · The list below takes you around the world via 23 new titles with stories representing 16 countries from four continents, including award-winners at festivals like Cannes, Sundance, Venice, and...
