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°efp producers on the move presented by °efp european film promotion 16 – 20 May 2019 at the cannes film festival …turning 30www.coe.int/eurimages MEDIA Programme of the European Union Creative Europe Support Programme for Europe’s Cultural and Creative Sectors 2014–2020 www.ec.europa.eu/culture/ creative-europe MAD_145-11_EURIMAGES_CANNES_PUBLICATION_16x12cm_040419_MR.indd 1 04/04/2019 17:37 °efp producers on the move 16 – 20 May 2019 at the cannes film festival europe! welcome 5 on the move films. for 20 years When we started PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE talent. in 2000, we presented a group of 17 producers via the international trades at the Cannes °efp president Film Festival. Apart from serving as a showcase Martin Schweighofer of participating producers, PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE, in the course of 20 years, has spirit. developed into a five-day programme, offering opportunities and events to get to know one another and network in a professional environment. We are proud that films by former participants have travelled the world to international °efp managing director film festivals and won numerous awards. We Sonja Heinen are delighted about the large number of co-productions between producers who met in Cannes as part of the programme. Promoting outstanding producers from the whole of Europe would not be possible without the ongoing support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme. We would also like to thank Eurimages for their loyal support. PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE 5 welcome °efp team in Cannes 6 schedule of the events For the 2019 edition, we are thrilled to present Jo Mühlberger 7 success story to you a new group of Europe’s 20 most [email protected] 8 producers' profiles promising producers. We wish them all the best for their creative journey! Nikolas Samalekos 30 about efp – initiatives promoting [email protected] european films and talent worldwide Martin Schweighofer and Sonja Heinen contact 40 partners and imprint May 2019 [email protected] schedule success 7 of events story thu, 16th may 8 pm welcome dinner PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE fri, 17th may 10 am – 1 pm round table meeting The PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE introduce their current project(s) to their peers 2 pm – 5 pm 1 : 1 speed meeting between the producers and selected sales agents Zorica Nusheva and Stefan Vujisic in God Exists, Her Name 6 pm – 8 pm PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE alumni cocktail is Petrunya by Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia and France 2019) sat, 18th may 10.30 am – 12.30 pm Arte round table God exists, her name is Petrunya Labina Mitevska 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm meet the PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE Sisters and Brother There are many co-productions as a result Mitevski Production (North Macedonia) of PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE, such as Teona sun, 19th may Strugar Mitevska's God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya which premiered in the Berlinale's 10 am – 12.30 pm case study Competition this year. This is a co-production in co-operation with Eurimages between Labina Mitevska and Zdenka Gold, among others. Both met during the programme in 2013 where they also made contact with mon, 20th may the Romanian producer Anca Puiu. Three years Zdenka Gold Spiritus Movens 1 pm – 2.30 pm private lunch later, their first co-production, Cristi Puiu's Production for this years’ PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE Sieranevada, premiered in competition in Cannes. (Croatia) producers' 09 profiles 10 Belgium Hendrik Verthé 20 The Netherlands Joram Willink A Team Productions BIND 11 Croatia Anita Juka 21 Norway Dyveke Bjørkly Graver 4Film Oslo Pictures 12 Denmark Nina Bisgaard 22 Poland Małgorzata Staroń Meta Film Staron-Film 13 France Grégoire Debailly 23 Portugal João Viana Geko Films Papaveronoir 14 Germany Eva Blondiau 24 Serbia Mila Turajlić Color of May Dribbling Pictures 15 Hungary Julianna Ugrin 25 Slovenia Rok Biček Éclipse Film Cvinger Film 16 Iceland Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir 26 Spain Carles Torras Pegasus Pictures Zabriskie Films 17 Ireland Cormac Fox 27 Sweden Jon Nohrstedt Vico Films SF Studios 18 Italy Nadia Trevisan 28 Switzerland Sereina Gabathuler Nefertiti Film Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion 19 Latvia Inese Boka-Grūbe 29 United Kingdom Emily Morgan Mistrus Media Quiddity Films Hendrik Belgium Anita Croatia 11 Verthé Juka Hendrik Verthé founded A Team Productions Anita Juka set up her own production com pany together with Kobe Van Steenberghe in 2009, 4Film in 2003 to produce feature films, and has produced short films, documentaries docu mentaries, shorts and TV series. She has and feature films with a focus on reaching produced multiple award-winning documentaries wide audiences. His latest productions include by her sister Ivona Juka (Facing The Day), Branko co-directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's Schmidt (Bad Blue Boys) and Mladen Santrić Black (2016) and Gangsta (2018) and Sven (Blue Rose Garden). Anita has also served as Huybrecht's U-235 (2019). Hendrik is now wor- a co-producer for feature films by such directors king with Sahim Omar Kalifa on developing as Zrinko Ogresta (Here) and Damjan Kozole Hendrik Verthé the feature Baghdad Messi. (Slovenian Girl). In 2015, she produced Ivona's Anita Juka phone +32 497 464 180 cell +385 91 2512803 [email protected] fiction feature debutYou Carry Me which [email protected] selected films was the first film from the Balkan region to be acquired by Netflix. Anita is now developing "Ambitious projects with "As a child, I was always Baghdad Messi entertaining and touching new film projects by Ivona and the documentary playing at building some in development stories are what drew filmmaker Silvio Mirošnicenko. new worlds. Film production by Sahim Omar Kalifa me to cinema: the power is a perfect job because, Belgium, Iraq, Germany, of the big screen to amaze with every new project, we selected films The Netherlands, and move audiences." are able to explore and France create new worlds." Lambs in Wolfskin / The Weight of Man in financing, 2019/2020 U-235 2019 nominated by nominated by by Ivona Juka by Sven Huybrechts Flanders Image Croatian Audiovisual Centre Belgium, The Netherlands, Croatia Malta The Atmosphere contact contact Yummy 2019 in development, 2020 A Team Productions 4Film d.o.o. by Lars Damoiseaux by Ivona Juka Schipstraat 60 Antuna Bauera 6 Belgium B – 9550 Herzele Croatia HR – 10 000 Zagreb www.ateamproductions.be phone +385 1 4828 774 You Carry Me 2015 [email protected] by Ivona Juka www.4film.hr Croatia Nina Denmark Grégoire France 13 Bisgaard Debailly Nina Bisgaard started working as a producer Grégoire graduated from La Fémis film and executive producer at Meta Film in 2012 school in Paris in 2005. At Geko Films, on such local Danish films asFlow and Summer he has produced such films as Samuel of '92 and was also appointed Head of Inter - Collardey's Greenland-set documentary national Financing and Co-Productions for A Polar Year and Jean-Bernard Marlin's TV series at SAM Productions from 2015. Her Shéhérazade which premiered at Cannes' production of Ali Abbasi’s Border won the Semaine de la Critique sidebar in 2018 and Grand Prix at Un Certain Regard in Cannes in won the César for Best Debut in 2019. 2018. She was an executive producer on Meta Grégoire has become famous in the Cannes Nina Bisgaard Grégoire Debailly Film's first Swedish language featureAniara cell +45 61 30 50 81 community for his gorgeous mushroom cell +33 6 17 71 46 51 as well as Meta Film London’s first feature,The [email protected] risottos, and he also has a black belt in [email protected] Wife, with Glenn Close garnering an Oscar creative Catholicism. "I wanted to be a photographer nomination for her performance in 2019. Her "I studied Scandinavian Literature and Film at more than anything else. current development slate includes feature selected films university. Luckily, I did an But I thought cinema was more projects by Jan Troell, Jeppe Ronde and Daniel fun when I saw a film crew internship at Meta Film and 2018 having a break in a bar. Kragh-Jacobsen. found out that it was the Shéhérazade by Jean-Bernard Marlin most perfect job for me to France nominated by selected films become a producer." Unifrance A Polar Year (Une année Polaire), 2018 How to Date a Feminist nominated by by Samuel Collardey in development/financing, 2021 Danish Film Institute by tba France United Kingdom, Denmark contact contact Border (Gräns), 2018 Meta Film Geko Films by Ali Abbasi Lille Strandstræde 20c, 2 336 rue Saint-Honoré Sweden, Denmark DK – 1254 Copenhagen FR – 75001 Paris [email protected] phone +33 1 40 15 16 87 The Wife 2018 www.metafilm.dk [email protected] by Björn Runge United Kingdom, Sweden Eva Germany Julianna Hungary 15 Blondiau Ugrin Eva Blondiau graduated from the ifs inter- Julianna Ugrin founded her own Buda pest- national film school in Cologne in 2012 with her based independent production company production of Elmar Imanov's The Swing of Éclipse Film in 2011. Since then, she has con- the Coffin Maker. Her partner's diploma film was centrated on the development and pro - invited to more than 100 festivals and won over duction of creative documentaries such as 40 awards, including the Student Oscar. In Hot Men Cold Dictatorships (2015), Train 2013, they founded their production company To Adulthood (2015), A Woman Captured Color Of May and produced their next short, (2017) and Easy Lessons (2018). A graduate Torn, which premiered in the Directors' of the EURODOC and EAVE training Eva Blondiau Julianna Ugrin Fortnight at Cannes in 2014. Since then, they cell +49 178 31 95 751 programmes, Julianna has been teaching cell +36 20 212 86 36 have co- produced Iosep ’Soso’ Bliadze's short [email protected] Documentary Filmmaking at the University [email protected] Three Steps and Veronika Glasunowa and of Theatre and Film Arts since 2013 and "Because I like and need Lukasz Lakomy's feature documentary Long "I always admired my father is the organiser of the DunaDOCK Master Heribert Blondiau and the work art, because I believe in Echo as well as Boris Khlebnikov's Arrhythmia.