…including TorinoFilmLab, Doha Film Institute, The Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, International Marrakesh Film Festival Atlas Workshop and The Royal Film Commission of Jordan. 

In 2016, he implemented MAHD Film Lab, a Cairo-based script development programme open to filmmakers working on Arab film projects and Arab-European co-production. As a producer, his latest work includes the short fiction, FAKH, selected for the official competition of Semaine de la Critique at Cannes Film Festival 2019 and the feature documentary HAPPILY EVER AFTER, which premiered at IDFA 2016.

In 2010 Helen joined Zazen Produções for the independent distribution of the Brazilian all-time box office record, “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within” (2010). In 2011 Helen decided to dedicate herself to scriptwriting. In 2014 Helen was hired to be the CEO of The Bergman Center Foundation on Fårö and festival director of the Bergman Week, which she did for 3 years. After serving as editor for Folha de São Paulo, Helen has been dedicated to screenwriting and film consulting since early 2019.

Lately factual credits include the feature-length debut SOLE by Carlo Sironi an italian- polish coproduction handled by Luxbox. He is a member of Eave, Eurodoc, Producers’s Network and Berlinale Talents. He shares his expertise teaching production at IED in Rome and tutoring project in development workshop such Full Circle Lab.

She is passionate about media in general but film and television in particular. She worked within a public service broadcast environment as well as a commercial pay television environment. Over the years, she produced drama series, reality shows as well as lifestyle shows for various broadcasters in South Africa. Beyond her work as a producer, she has a deep passion for helping writers find the heart of their story through her work as a script consultant. The best scripts come when a writer is given permission to look beyond what they know. She owns a company called Raindrop Media, which she registered in 2014. The purpose of the company is to develop and produce film and television projects which tell African stories that have strong global resonance.

“Mama’s Angel” Black Sheep’s recent TV series, which Levari produced and edited, premiered at the official competition of Series Mania and has been distributed in many territories including the US and the UK.
Naomi lectures about production and show running and conducts one to one mentoring for writers.

Consulting, writing and co-writing animations is big part of her professional experience, she collaborates with top Polish animation producers, such as Animoon, EGoFILM, Badi Badi. Aleksandra has co-funded Polish script development workshop Atelier Scenariuszowe which is dedicated to emerging writers developing their first or second feature. She has been working for numerous selection committees and jury panels, including Krakow Film Festival, ScriptWars award, One Movie Project, TorinoFilmLab, Less Is More, Sources2, and tutoring for acknowledged script workshops.

He shifted towards producing films and in 2016 his co-produced animated short film Superbia (2016) by Luca Tóth competed at Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. As a creative producer he currently works on several animated, feature length and documentary films, such as the Eurimages supported 2D/3D animated feature film for adults White Plastic Sky (in production) by Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó and animated stop-motion feature film for children Of Unwanted Things and People (in production), winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at Cartoon Movie 2019. Juraj is an EAVE alumni and head of studies of the CEE Animation Workshop.

…“Meteora” by Spiros Stathoulopoulos,” 40 Days Of Silence” by Saodat Ismailova, “Dau” by Ilya Khrzhanovski, “Deadweight” by Axel Koenzen, “The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers” by Ben Rivers, “Together Forever” by Lina Luzyte and “Rey” by Niles Atallah, premiering in international festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary. Since 2015, he runs First Cut Lab together with Matthieu Darras. In 2017, he developed and served as tutor for the Trailer Workshop in Istanbul. In 2018, he was editing tutor for 5 projects in QUMRA (Doha Film Institute), a workshop dedicated to films in postproduction. He was part of the selection committee for Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2010 and 2011. He also collaborated with CPH:DOX Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival programming team in 2011.

After studying Modern Literature in Paris, he completed a MFA in filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was trained as a story editor by the TorinoFilmLab Script&Pitch program in 2013 and has been since tutoring in workshops such as Critic’s Week Next Step program, Biennale College-Cinema and Le Groupe Ouest (Cross Chanel Film Lab, Puissance & Ame). He collaborated both as a script consultant and film editor on Son of Saul by László Nemes (Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2015, Oscar 2016 for Best Foreign Language Film), and as co-writer and film editor on Nemes’ second feature film, Sunset, that premiered in competition in Venice in 2018. 

In 2006-2008 she attended the editing MA at the National Film and Television School. At film school she met director Michael Pearce and collaborated with him on his two BAFTA nominated shorts RITE ( 2010 ) and KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES ( 2013 ), and later on editing his feature debut BEAST which won a BAFTA for Best Debut in 2019. Maya worked on an array of projects, including the art film project DAU by Russian director Ilya Khrzanovsky ( editing the segment KATYA TANYA ), the Netflix-backed documentary KINGDOM OF US ( directed by Lucy Cohen ) and has recently worked with Sarah Gavron on the feature film ROCKS, which opened 2019 TIFF Platform section and has been shown in several international festivals. She recently completed work on Clio Barnard’s latest feature ALI & AVA, currently in post production.

She studied History and the Theory of Film at the University of Łódź and Film editing at Łódź Film School. In 2015, she was awarded „Best editing” at the Polish Film Festival for “11 Minutes” by Jerzy Skolimowski and “The Here After” by Magnus von Horn. In the same year she was nominated for Polish Academy Award for „Best editing for “Jeziorak” by Michał Otłowski. In 2016, she was awarded Polish Academy Award for „Best editing” of “11 Minutes” by Jerzy Skolimowski. In 2017 her work on the documentary film „Communion” by Anna Zamecka, culminated in a „Best European Documentary” award, which lead to a shortlist for the Oscars. This in the light of being named as candidates for “All That I Love”, “11 Minutes” and “Difret” in the category of „Best Foreign Feature Film”. Agnieszka’s last work – “Sweat” directed by Magnus von Horn was selected to Cannes Film Festival 2020.

She is a member of the National Cinematographic Centre of the Slovak Film Institute team responsible for promotion of Slovak cinema and the Pop Up Film Residency project manager. Also, she writes for Asian Movie Pulse, film.sk and kino ikon.

An alumna of the Faculty of Laws of the Comenius University in Bratislava and of film theory and history at the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University in Brno, she is ever curious to meet new challenges.

He thus took his first steps into feature film production with L’INTOUCHABLE by Benoit Jacquot (premiering at Venice Film Festival) and CHARLY, the second film by Isild Le Besco. Christophe is also one of the founding members of Les Films de la Butte, a production company where he developed and produced ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE? by Stéphane Robelin. In 2013, Christophe founded Ici et Là Productions, to be fully independent. He produces the new film by Stéphane Robelin, MR. STEIN GOES ONLINE featuring again Pierre Richard (global box office success). He coproduced also the first feature by French hip hop band La Rumeur, PARIS PRESTIGE featuring Reda Kateb et Slimane Dazi. Since 2007, Christophe has given regular talks on production for various organisations, such as La fémis Film School, the Festival de Cannes Film Market and EAVE, where he established the Asian program TTB (Ties That Bind). He is the Head of Studies.

He is also a producer on the new film by Ruben Ostlund Triangle Of Sadness and Jasmila Sbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida which had its world premiere in Venice competition this year. Goodridge has spent over 30 years in the international film world, discovering and promoting new talent through festival curation (he has worked for Sarajevo and runs the Macao festival), production, finance and international sales. Mike was previously CEO of UK-based production, finance and sales company Protagonist Pictures and put together the finance and distribution of hit films such as Cold War, The Lobster, Love & Friendship, The Florida Project and many others. Among the films he has executive produced are Andrea Arnold’s American Honey, The Discovery starring Rooney Mara and Robert Redford, My Old Lady with Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline and Oren Moverman’s The Dinner starring Richard Gere and Steve Coogan.

Alessandro Gropplero is a graduate in Communication Studies at Trieste. In 2005 he began working for the Udine Far East Film Festival. Since May 2007 he has been the head of international relations of the FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA AUDIOVISUAL FUND. He has been the key figure in developing and organising a variety of international events, such as “When East meets West – Trieste Cross-border Meeting”; “Ties that bind” – Asia Europe Producers Workshop funded by MEDIA Mundus; “Eurodoc” – Transregional Workshops 2009/2011, in cooperation with the Slovenian Film Fund and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.

…and is now working as the director of BIFF Academy, the supporting and education department at BIFF. She got a Ph.D of film studies from the University of Paris 8 and is also teaching at KAFA(Korean Academy of Film Arts).

Anna Katchko has produced more than 20 award-winning international co-productions (“Harmony Lessons”, Berlinale Silver Bear, “Black Hen” Venice IFF best debut,  “Mariam” Locarno Competition, “Proxima” Toronto Jury Price etc.). Her company Tandem Production is based in Germany, Kazakhstan and Russia. Katchko is a Chief Advisor at the Kazakh Cinema Center (main film body in Kazakhstan) and has founded and curated many international film-business/training events (Moscow Business Square, Eurasia Spotlight, EAVE CIS etc). Member of European Film Academy, Katchko is acknowledged by professional magazines (Variety, THR) as “Most Promising Eastern European Producer”, “European producer to watch”. 

During his eight years at the helm, Sydney Film Festival has grown vastly. 2019, the event’s 66th year, marked highest ever attendance at the festival. As a highly respected international film programmer, Nashen has worked as an Industry Consultant at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and as an Expert at the Berlinale Talent Campus. From 2005 to 2017 he held the positions of Director of Asia and Africa Programmes and Director of Cinema of the World for the Dubai International Film Festival. He has been a jury member at various film festivals worldwide, including the San Sebastian, Busan, Toronto, Rotterdam, El Gouna, Durban and Tokyo film festivals.

The film had a wide international distribution and played successfully in festivals worldwide. Alexander served as Director of Photography for the French/German documentary NOTHINGWOOD (Sonia Kronlund) that was shot in Afghanistan and premiered in Cannes as part of La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 2017. His latest feature length documentary COLLECTIVE premiered at the Venice IFF 2019- as part of the Official Selection – Out of Competition.

He produced his first short film “SIX” with the French & Turkish directorial duo, C. Zencirci and G. Giovanetti in 2009. “SIX” was premiered at Locarno IFF short film competition in 2009. In 2013, he then produced his first fiction feature, ”Ningen (Human)” with the same directorial duo. “Ningen” was premiered at Toronto IFF 2013 and travelled more than 15 festivals receiving several awards. He is currently working as a project contractor for Japan Foundation Asia Center and his latest project includes Garin Nugroho’s “Setan Jawa”, a Silent Film with a Live 3D Sound Concert held in Tokyo 2019. Alumni of Talent Campus Tokyo 2013 and Berlinale Talents 2017.

..and is the founder/ Head of Festival Management for the International Film Festival & Awards Macao. Selected filmography includes The Beautiful Washing Machine, Rain Dogs, Crazy Stone, Love Story, My Mother is a Bellydancer, The Shoe Fairy, At the End of Daybreak, Lover’s Discourse, Come Rain, Come Shine, Postcards from the Zoo and Mrs K. She is developing film projects in Asia with her production company Paperheart, mentors/ lectures with film training programmes/ labs and consulting with various international film institutions and film funds.