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Joel Autio Karolina Brobäck Maria Eriksson Kira Richards Hansen Filmmaker Filmmaker Fimmaker Filmmaker Joel graduated from Turku Arts Brobäck is a Swedish visual artist. She Maria Eriksson has hit the ground Kira studied directing in England at Academy Film School in 2014. studied Animation & Experimental running as a filmmaker. She The Arts Institute of Bournemouth Film and began working with Atmo graduated from Stockholm Academy and has a MA in film studies from in 2008 with Tarik Saleh’s Metropia. of Dramatic Arts with her successful the University of Copenhagen. She She has also been assistant director to short film Annalyn, which has been directed the short film Damn Girl, Tarik Saleh and Stefan Constantinescu. screened at many festivals all over winner of 8 Awards including Best Seat 26D is her directing debut. the world and won numerous prizes. Short Film at BUFF 2013. Even G. Benestad Maria brings grit, honesty and flavour to her films with She is currently in post-production with a new short Filmmaker Jens Dahl spellbinding performances and moving stories dealing film called Recognition. Her film Wayward premiered at Even studied cinematography at the Filmmaker with sexuality, love, family and friendship. CPH:PIX 2014. Oslo Film and Television Academy. For more than 15 years, Jens He made his first feature-length Dahl has been one of the key Yrsa Roca Fannberg August B. Hanssen documentary All About My Father in screenwriters in Denmark. He Filmmaker Filmmaker 2002. The film was screened at more co-wrote the screenplay for Nicolas Yrsa has a degree in Fine Arts from August has co-directed three than 100 film festivals and received Winding Refn’s Pusher, which was London’s Chelsea College of Art and films with long time collaborator national and international acclaim. a milestone film that introduced an a MA in Creative Documentaries Even Benestad. Amongst these He has also directed Natural Born Star and Pushwagner entirely new kind of authenticity in from Barcelona’s iDEC. As well as are Pushwagner and Club 7. He is (with August B. Hanssen). He is currently working as Danish filmmaking. 2 Girls 1 Cake marks Dahl’s debut as making documentaries she uses currently directing the documentary commissioning editor at the Norwegian Film Institute. a director. a variety of media in her practice. film Ida’s Diary, which is set for Salóme is her first documentary film. release in 2015. Emilie Blichfeldt Anna Eborn Filmmaker Filmmaker Cille Hannibal Beate Hofseth Emilie Blichfeld’s is a director from Anna’s debut film Pine Ridge Filmmaker Filmmaker Norway. Her exam project How premiered at the Venice International Cille started her career studying Beate has degrees from Volda Do You Like My Hair?, at Nordland Film Festival in 2013. It won the journalism at the Danish School of University College and NISS in Oslo. College of Art and Film, won the Dragon Award at Gothenburg Media and Journalism. In 2009 she Since 2002 she has worked with Critics Award at The Norwegian international Film Festival in 2014 got accepted to the National Film film and television. She has directed Short Film Festival 2014. She has and has been in competition at many School of Denmark, she graduated several documentaries for NRK and also directed Blacksmith, Theory of international film festivals. Anna was as a documentary director in 2013. TV2. She is a part of the production Colour and Dub World. part of the international jury at HotDocs 2014. Since graduating she has worked company FRI FILM, which focuses on on a film project for the magazine Politiken and with the documentaries for TV and radio. Clara Bodén Karin Ekberg production of the documentary Palestine Marathon. Filmmaker Filmmaker Elsa Maria Jakobsdóttir Clara is a director and a producer Karin Ekberg is the director of the Jannicke Stendal Hansen Filmmaker at Vapen och Dramatik AB/AS. She feature-length documentary A Filmmaker Elsa Maria has an extensive has served as director, producer and Separation. During Nordisk Panorama Jannicke Stendal Hansen is a background in television and cinematographer on several films she will also present a work-in-progress Norwegian writer, actress and journalism at the Icelandic National including Apt. + Car + all I have and of two coming films. Karin has studied filmmaker. She has lived in Norway, Broadcasting Service. She has been own, I’m leaving on Wednesday, No sex film at Stockholms dramatiska högskola, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden. doing stand-up. She is studying just understand and Maybe tomorrow. Valand Academi Film and Birkagårdens She holds a bachelors degree from to become a film director at the folkhögskola. Karin works part time with communications Copenhagen Business School, and National Film School of Denmark. and web at Film Stockholm/Filmbasen and is a board has since studied acting at Nordiska Megaphone is her first short film based on fiction. member of Oberoende filmares förbund. Teaterskolan, film- and theater theory at Umeå University and directing at Nordland College of Art and Film.

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Christian Sønderby Jepsen Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen Berit Madsen Göran Hugo Olsson Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker Christian graduated from the Daniel hails from a family of Berit has graduated from the film Göran is one of Sweden’s leading National Danish Film School in 2007. filmmakers and has known that he school Ateliers Varan in Paris. She filmmakers internationally. His His films include Blood Ties, which wants to direct since he was thirteen has also studied at the Danish School previous film The Black Power premiered at Danish cinemas in years old. He has worked in the of Media and Journalism. Berits Mixtape 1967-1975 became a huge 2013 and has been viewed by more Danish film industry and studied films, which include The Artist From hit at festivals, in theatres and on TV. than 500 000 people, The Will and at the American Film Institute Sharjah, have been screened at film He is the founder of the successful Side by Side. His films have been Conservatory, from which he festivals across the world. Sepideh is TV-series Ikon and has, since 1999, awarded several prizes at international film festivals. graduated in 2013. Berit’s first feature documentary. been a member of the Editorial board of Ikon South Africa. Previous films include Am I Black Enough For You Pernille Bervald Joergensen Jukka Kärkkainen Gunhild Westhagen Magnor and Fuck You Fuck You Very Much. Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker Pernille Bervald Joergensen is 27 Jukka Kärkkainen has been making Director and DOP Gunhild Hlynur Pálmason years old and was born and raised award-winning documentary films Westhagen Magnor studied at Filmmaker in Hadsund. She graduated from since 2003. Aside from filmmaking Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Hlynur is an Icelandic artist and the Danish School of Media and Jukka has been working as a Her two recent documentary series filmmaker. He lives in Copenhagen, Journalism in 2013. She co-directed construction worker. He is the co- were both nominated for Best Denmark with his wife and three Blood Ties with Christian Sønderby founder of the production company Documentary Series in Norway. children. Jepsen. Mouka Filmi. Previous works includes numerous audience favourites, like Thaifjord 1, Rabbit King, Wings Antti Jääskeläinen Sini Liimatainen under Water, Norwegian Wood and The Day of The Dead. Filmmaker Filmmaker Antti has been studying film editing Sini Liimatainen lives and works Maria K. Mononen Kari Pieskä for five years at ELO Helsinki Film in Helsinki, Finland. She has been Filmmaker Filmmaker School. He started his career making working as a writer, cinematographer Maria K. Mononen is a filmmaker Kari Pieskä is a filmmaker from skateboard films with his friends. He and director of creative from Finland. She graduated from Finland. He graduated from has edited several short films before documentaries and experimental Helsinki’s ELO Film School in 2012 Turku Arts Academy in 2012. His making his own film The Fast of the short films since 2003. Her most (directing discipline). Her film My graduation film Viis varpaista has Forest. recent work deals with questions Heart My Bad won first prize in been selected for screenings at over of differentiation and the well being of an individual. Nordisk Panorama’s New Nordic thirty film festivals around the world. Torill Kove Her works have been shown internationally at film- and Voices competition in 2010. She is Kari has recently been working on an Filmmaker media art festivals and exhibitions. currently working on her first feature film. animated series for children. Torill Kove is an award-winning director, animator, illustrator and Alexander Lind Johannes Stjärne Nilsson Lauri-Matti Parppei author. Born in 1958 in Hamar, Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker Norway, Kove moved to Canada in Alexander is a director. He studied Swedish director/producer Johannes Lauri is a filmmaker, a graphic 1982. Her 1999 directorial debut at the National Film School of Stjärne Nilsson has written and designer and a musician from Finland. for the NFB, My Grandmother Denmark and received international directed some twenty shorts and Ironed the King’s Shirts, received an recognition for his graduation documentaries and the feature length Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short. film Carl and Niels, which was film Sound of Noise. His films have Her next film for the NFB, The Danish Poet won the selected for the film festival IDFA in reached a wide international audience Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 2006 as well Amsterdam. He is currently working with multiple premieres in Cannes and as a Genie Award. Kove made her feature film debut in on his first feature documentary film, about how two 70 international awards. The short Music for one apartment... 2013 with Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins. brothers cope with a parent’s psychosis. was awarded Best Film at Nordisk Panorama in 2001.

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Jörundur Ragnarsson Lovisa Sirén Miia Tervo Hallvar Witzø Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker Jörundur Ragnarsson studied acting Lovisa Sirén is a director who lives Miia’s films are poetic, multi-layered Hallvar was born and raised in at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Stockholm. In 2012 Lovisa Sirén collages that combine animation, Tøndelag, sometimes called Norway’s and graduated with a B.F.A. degree graduated from The Art School in archive material and live action to tell Texas. He writes and directs in 2006. He worked as an actor and Stockholm. Her graduation film stories that digs beneath the surface. short movies, commercials and is screenwriter for six years in Iceland Himalaya was her first own short film Tervo’s films The Seal and Little developing his first feature film. His before applying for the Film M.F.A. and it won the best film award at the Snow Animal were both awarded Tuba Atlantic was nominated for an program at Columbia University. November Festival in Trollhättan internationally and nationally and Academy Award in 2012 and his Yes, He founded two independent theatre companies. 2013. Her film Pussy have the power won Swedish short screened at around 40 festivals worldwide. Little Snow We Love got a Short Film Special Distinction in Cannes. Hjónabandssæla is his film-directing debut but he has film award Startsladden at Gothenburg International Animal was also nominated for the European Film Award won numerous awards for his acting and writing. Film Festival 2014. / Best Short Film in 2011. Anna Zackrisson Filmmaker Hamy Ramezan Sakaris Stórá Simon Tillaas Anna has directed a lot of shorts Filmmaker Filmmaker Filmmaker for different production companies. Hamy Ramezan is a Finnish-Iranian Director and Writer of the short film Simon is a graduated director who She has directed two TV-series film director and screenwriter. He Vetrarmorgun. He has been working has also studied film and philosophy for Swedish Television. Before she has studied film in England and as a filmmaker in the Faroe Islands in Sweden. started directing she worked as graduated in 2007. His short film since 2011. He is currently looking for an assistant director and a casting Over the Fence was a worldwide co-producers for an upcoming project. director. festival hit and has been screened at more than 40 international festivals Susann Østigaard earning eight prizes. He’s newest co-directed film Listen Virpi Suutari Joern Utkilen Filmmaker had its premiere in Cannes. Hamy Ramezan is currently Filmmaker Filmmaker Susann has a degree from working on two feature films. Virpi Suutari is a writer and a Joern graduated from both the Lillehammer and Volda University director. Suutari’s work includes Edinburgh College of Art and Screen College. She has been working as Åsa Sandzén documentaries like Sin, The Idle Academy Scotland. He gained a a cinematographer and a director Filmmaker Ones and Auf Wiedersehen BAFTA Scotland nomination for since 2002. She has made several Åsa Sandzén’s first animation short Finnland. Suutari’s films have won his controversial film Little Red documentaries for Norwegian Dildoman was screened at film awards and been screened at Hoodie. Joern was in 2012 awarded television and radio. Light Fly, Fly festivals world wide as part of the several international film festivals. the “Underground Spirit Award” at High is her first feature-length film. She is part of the project Dirty Diaries, for which she Retrospectives of her films have been organized in the Palic European Film Festival. Joern is currently in production company FRI FILM. was executive producer. She was Århus, Rennes, Linz and at the Tampere Film Festival. production with what will be his first documentary film, first assistant director and additional Suutari is a member of European Film Academy and has about Norwegian cult-musician Arvid Sletta. camera on the award winning received a five-year tenure as honorary arts professor. Belleville Baby. Her film Still Born was awarded the Anders Walter Tempo New Doc award. Vera Sölvadóttir Filmmaker Filmmaker Anders was born in 1978 in Aarhus, Vera Sölvadóttir graduated from the Denmark. He is an illustrator, a comic Directing and Writing Department of book artist and director of four short the Sorbonne University in 2006. She films including Helium, which was has worked on various films in France awarded an Academy Award in the and her home country Iceland. In 2013 category “Best live action short”. she founded the production company Wonderfilms. She’s currently directing and hosting the cultural TV-show Devil’s Island.

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Ahmed Abdullahi Shamarke Binyusuf Alexandra Dahlström Nevin Eronde Filmmaker Scriptwriter / Filmmaker / Story Director Composer / Sound Artist Ahmed Abdullahi was born in Alexandra Dahlström made her Nevin Eronde is a composer & sound Somalia and now lives and works in screen debut at the age of twelve – artist based in Copenhagen. After Sweden. He started making films in a role for which she was awarded working as a freelance audio designer in his late 20’s. His first film was a Swedish Guldbagge for Best in the computer games industry since “Farax”. He is a student at Stockholm Actress (Lukas Moodysson’s Fucking 2007, she has now turned towards Academy of Dramatic Arts 2011. His Åmål). In 2007 she made her debut the digital art game scene. thesis film was Salaam. as a director and won the 1km Film Scholarship at the Stockholm International Film Festival. Niels Pagh Andersen Nuka Bisgaard Patricia Finneran Editor Performance artist / Eskimo Diva Mads Damsbo Consultant / Story Matters Niels Pagh Andersen is a film editor Nuka is founder of Gay Pride Nuuk. Producer / Makropol Patricia Finneran founded Story from Denmark. He has edited Mads Damsbo works in the cross- Matters 2012, a strategic consulting more than 250 films including fire between living images and online firm working at the intersection of The Look of Silence, The Act user-experiences. His work began storytelling and social change. of Killing, The German Secret, at the National Gallery of Denmark Betrayal, Prostitution Behind the and has from there developed into a Veil, Palme, American Vagabond, quest to push the limits of what this Everlasting Moments and Twin Brothers – 53 Scenes in new storytelling platform can do. Chronological Order. One of the founders of the company Makropol. Christian Gesell Cecilie Bolvinkel Head of Sales & DISTRIBUTION Cihan Arikan Network COORDINATOR Naeimeh Doostdar Christian Gesell is Head of Sales Project Coordinator At EDN Cecilie is in charge of the Journalist and Distribution at Interfilm Berlin. Cihan is Project Coordinator of EDN membership base and the EDN Naeimeh Doostdar started working He and his team provide short films Project LiQa’ at Verdandi Malmö. Financing Guide. She is furthermore as a journalist in High School. She has for cinematic exhibition in Germany Project LiQa’ strive to build the producer of different workshops worked for well-known newspapers and license shorts worldwide to TV solidarity and social support groups and events – among others Crossing in Iran, such as Hamshahri and Jame stations, DVD labels, trains/buses/ for LGTBQ migrants, asylum seekers Borders and Twelve for the Future Jam. She has been awarded national airlines, VoD platforms, mobile and undocumented people in for young Nordic talent. prizes in the field of journalism and operators, etc.. Southern Sweden. He is also a board been imprisoned for her journalistic member of RFSL Malmö. Lene Børglum activities and had to leave her country. Helene Granqvist Producer / Space Rocket Nation Producer / Head of WIFT-Sweden David Aronowitsch Borglum and Nicolas Winding Fredrik Elg Helene Granqvist started Good Director / Story Refn found Space Rocket Nation Project manager / ICORN City Malmö World Film & Post Production in David Aronowitsch studied film in January 2008. Space Rocket Fredrik Elg initiated the ICORN 2000. She produces documentaries, directing between 1988-92 at Nation mainly aims to produce highly shelter system for persecuted shorts and feature films. In 2011 she the Polish National Film School in artistic and edgy feature films for writers in Malmö in 2010 and was started her new company DoDream. Lodz. Has done shorter and longer an international audience as well the coordinator for Malmö’s first She is also head of WIFT Sweden. documentary films for the last 10 as to build up a new generation of guest writer, Parvin Ardalan. He years. He started the production edgy, artistic Scandinavian directors, both for fiction and was later employed by the National company Story AB in 1997 together documentaries, and help them reach the international Arts Council as a project manager with five other filmmakers. audience. promoting Swedish safe havens for artists at risk.

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Annika Gustafson Lamin Daniel Jadama Sophia Josephson Jenni Koski Executive Director / BoostHbg Filmmaker / DJ Filmmaker Producer/Finnish WIFT Annika Gustafson is the executive Lamin Daniel Jadama is a director Sophia Josephson is a Swedish Jenni is a creative producer and a director of BoostHbg, a ground associated with the production filmmaker and film pedagogue. screenwriter. She is also Vice Chair of breaking development and funding company Story AB. He is one of She has studied at Biskops-Arnö the Finnish branch of WIFT (Women incubator for innovative media and the directors of the documentary Documentary Film School and in Film and Television). film in Helsingborg, Sweden. In 2010 series Fonko. He is also radio DJ and Documentary Film Production at she produced the Financing Forum producer at Swedish National Radio. Luleå University. Her films explore for Kids Content before joining life in northern Sweden from a BoostHbg as the Nordic countries’ first Transmedia Tobias Janson variety of angles. Camilla Larsson Commissioner. Producer / CEO / Story Journalist / Filmkritiker / Save Your Tobias a producer and the CEO at Fred Joubaud Darlings produktion Jing Haase Story, a Production Company that General Manager / Ouat Media Camilla Larsson is a film journalist, Market Manager / Nordisk Panorama produces creative documentaries Fred oversees all aspects of festival programmer and frequent Jing Haase is Nordisk Panorama’s for cinema and television. Many of acquisitions, sales and operations moderator. Market Manager. She promotes all Story’s productions have won awards for Ouat Media. He was Head of registered films internationally and and been acclaimed internationally. Acquisitions and Sales at Premium provides advice on international Films in France and a line producer distribution of shorts and docs. Jing Johan Knattrup Jensen for more than 20 short films at Paris- also works with programming and Director based Stellaire Productions. He has Ritva Leino has served on panels. Johan Knattrup Jensen is a Danish represented three Academy Award-winning short films. Head of Multiplatform / YLE director and writer, known for Gaden YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Andrea Hasselager (2003), Verdenssøn (2012) and Road Tasneem Khalil Company is the national public Game DESIGNER to Paradise (2011). Editor / Publisher / Journalist service broadcasting company with Andrea Hasselager is an artist, Tasneem Khalil is the editor and duties laid down by law. YLE operates game designer, producer, educator publisher of Independent World four national television channels and working in the fields of experimental Report. In 2008, Swedish PEN 12 radio channels and a huge on-line games and art. She has a degree as Ove Rishøj Jensen conferred him with an honorary service. YLE is the main purveyor and a Copywriter for Advertising from Film Consultant and Web Editor / EDN membership for his work in defence producer of domestic culture Miami Ad School and a Diploma from Ove Rishøj Jensen holds a master of freedom of expression. He is also a the IT-University of Cph in games degree in film studies with additional member of Swedish PEN’s Writers in Marianne Levy-Leblond and was a resident at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol. studying of cultural journalism and Prison Committee. Editor / France humanistic computer informatics. Marianne Lévy-Leblond is Helena Ingelsten Alongside working for EDN Ove Johanna Koljonen responsible for the coordination of Editor / SVT is also working for the Swedish Writer / Media Analyst / web and transmedia productions As editor at SVT Short Film Helena production company Auto Images Rundfunk Media AB within the Arte France Web Ingelsten manages acquisitions, as Outreach Producer and is a board member of Doc Johanna Koljonen is a writer, Department. Prior to this, works as a reporter and publishes Lounge broadcaster, media analyst and Marianne worked as a documentary and blogs at the SVT Short Film moderator. Founding partner Commissioning Editor at Arte website. of Rundfunk Media AB, which France for 10 years. She holds a Master’s degree in makes cultural programming and econometrics. documentaries for the public service networks on TV and radio. She consults in and teaches transmedia design and the future of the screen media.

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Grigory Libergal Kathleen McInnis Tue Steen Müller Gréta Ólafsdóttir Producer Programmer, Strategist for Filmmakers Film Consultant Film Consultant / Icelandic Film Centre Grigory Libergal has produced / See-Through Films, LLC Tue Steen Müller has worked with Gréta Ólafsdóttir is a Icelandic over 20 films. In 2006 he was part Kathleen McInnis programs for the short and documentary films for award winning documentary of reviving the documentary part ShortCuts section at the Toronto more than 20 years at the Danish director and producer living in New of the Moscow International Film International Film Festival. She was Film Board . Co-founder of Balticum York. Togehter with Susan Muska Festival, which led to the creation of the Festival Director at 2014 Palm Film- and TV-Festival, Filmkontakt she directed and produced the a weekly Saturday show on national Springs International ShortFest, Nord and Documentary of the EU. documentary Edie & Thea: A Very TV channel Kultura. North America’s largest Short He has given documentary courses Long Engagement, that has won 24 Film Festival and Market. Through and seminars in more than 40 countries. From 1996 until Audience and Jury awards. She is also an instructors at Pernilla Lonhage her company she offers filmmakers help with festival 2005 director of EDN. The Parsons School of Design. Filmmaker / Producer / Illustrator strategies and more. Pernilla is an illustrator, filmmaker Marie Schmidt Olesen and transmedia producer. Her Åse Meyer Filmmaker Commissioning Editor / Danish Film projects explore the combination of Short Film Consultant / NFI Andrei Nekrasov is a Russian-born film, Institute different techniques and art forms Åse Meyer has worked at TV and theatre director and writer Marie Schmidt Olesen worked as an to create new ways of telling stories Norsk filmutvikling and who has worked with award-winning producer in Scotland and engage audiences. Kulturdepartementet and been in and been awarded and presented at and as company director of Autonomi charge of Sørnorsk filmsenter. Åse important film festivals such as Cannes Ltd. and its offspring Diversity Films CIC also worked for Norwegian Film Film Festival and Sundance. before joining the Danish Film Institute Institute as advisor for short film & as a commissioning editor with their Joona Louhivuori documentary and as programmer for Sydney Neter scheme New Danish Screen in 2012. Short Film Commissioner / The Finnish Film fra sør. Managing Director / SND Film Film Foundation SND Films is an international sales Göran Hugo Olsson Film commissioner, short films, TV Luke Moody agent, selling award winning short Director / Story drama series Film and Distribution Manager / films, tv-movies and (feature) Göran Hugo Olsson is one of Sweden’s BRITDOC Foundation documentaires. Exclusive agents for leading filmmakers internationally. Luke Moody is the Film and all of Bill Plympton’s animated shorts His previous film “The Black Power Distribution Manager på Channel outside the USA and various other Mixtape 1967-1975” became a 4 BRITDOC Foundation where he filmmakers & animators like Paul huge hit worldwide. Founder of the used to work as a Grants Officer. He Driessen, Michael Dudok De Wit and many others. sucessfull TV-series Ikon. Olsson has been a producer and editor at has also worked as Commission Sensate Journal. Lisa Nyed Consultant at the Swedish Film Institute, 2000-02. Lars Lovén Programme manager / Film i Skåne / Filmmaker / Producer / JOURNALIST Dögg Mosesdottir Nordisk Panorama Rumi Ono Lars Lovén is one of the directors of President, / WIFT Lisa Nyed is Commissioner for Head of Acquisitions & Programming / the documentary film series Fonko. Dögg Mósesdóttir has for the past Screening and Distribution at the TV MAN UNION, INC He is producer of Radio Brazzaville, 3 years been the president of the regional resource and co-production Rumi Ono joined TV MAN UNION, for Swedish radio, with Lamin Daniel Icelandic branch WIFT. She is a writer centre Film i Skåne in South Sweden, INC. in 1996 after majoring in media Jadama. He is also a freelance and director and the founder of The giving counselling to projects and education at graduate school in the journalist and music critic. Northern Wave International Film co-producing film festivals and University of Wisconsin. Festival in Iceland. events in the region. She initiated Along with acquisition and M:DOX documentary meeting in Malmö and was Festival programming of international films Director for Nordisk Panorama in 2008. Since last year for Japanese TV, she has been also Programme Manager of Nordisk Panorama. producing documentary programs.

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Mikael Opstrup Gabriela Pichler Mai Damgaard Rasmussen Mubasher Saeed Head of Studies / EDN Filmmaker CEO, Project Manager / Filmselvskab, Sociologist Mikael Opstrup is a dedicated Gabriela is a director and a Doc Lounge Aarhus Mubasher has been working with documentarist since 1977. From scriptwriter. She has been highly Mai Damgaard Rasmussen is LGBT-issues and issues concerning 2002 - 2008 he was a co-owner and praised for her feature debut Eat from Denmark. She is CEO of sexuality and human rights for several producer at Final Cut Productions in Sleep Die, which has won multiple Filmselvskab and project manager years. He is currently associated with Copenhagen. Board member of EDN national and international awards. for Doc Lounge Aarhus. In 2013 RFSL. He is a sociologist by training - European Documentary Network Her short films include Tova & she started the Doc Lounge and a development professional by - 2005-09, in 2008-09 as Chairman. Tess – King & Queen of the World, Family Series, which aim to engage practice. He has worked mainly in From January 2011, Head of Studies of EDN. Scratches and Boredom. the whole family in exploring Pakistan and South Asia before moving to Sweden. documentaries. She has a Masters of Arts in Societal Sir Alan Parker Elise Pietarila History and Cognitive Semiotics. Director Executive Producer, Commissioner Gitte Hansen Schnyder Sir Alan Parker is a multiply / Docventures / Gimmeyawallet Ltd, NANNA FRANK RASMUSSEN Deputy Director / First awarded film director, producer M.Soc.Sc FILM CRITIC / Board Member WIFT/DK Hand Films and screenwriter since the first Elise Pietarila is from Finland. She Nanna Frank Rasmussen is a film Gitte Hansen Schnyder has worked feature Bugsy Malone. Founder of serves as executive producer for the critic at the Danish daily newspaper in Switzerland with international film the Directors Guild of Great Britain documentary film and transmedia Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten and a financing, distribution and executive and President of the European project Docventures. She is also board member of WIFT/DK. production during the past 13 years. Federation of Film Directors (FERA). a cinematographer and a social After a period with mainly feature scientist that thinks documentaries, film distribution, Gitte joined First Hand Films in 2002, Stephanie Pereira through smart engagement with where she today is Deputy Director. International Partnerships Lead audiences, can save the future of public broadcasting. Kickstarter Jose F Rodriguez Jay Seipel Stephanie Pereira is responsible Romen Podzyhun Manager, Documentary Programming, Project Manager / for initiating and maintaining CEO TFI / Tribeca Film Institute Malmö Queer Film Festival partnerships with Kickstarter Romen Podzyhun operates five Tribeca Film Institute® champions Jay has worked with cinema projects outside of the USA. television channels in Canada and storytellers to be catalysts for change in Germany and Sweden and is two online services: Movieola in their communities and around currently project manager of Malmö (worldwide) & Ctackle (for Sony in the world. We identify a diverse and Queer Filmfestival. Jay holds a PhD Canada) exceptional group of filmmakers and in Cultural Gender Studies with focus media artists and empower them with on film, representation of gender and Anna Persson funding and other resources to fully migration. Director / Producer / Story Oscar Raby realize their stories and connect with audiences. Anna Persson is a Swedish film Multimedia ARTIST Cinzia Spironello director and producer. Oscar Raby is a multimedia artist Naome Ruzindana CEO / Other Voices looking into the contemporary Human Rights ADVOCATE Cinzia Spironello is responsible for and future ways of storytelling. Naome Ruzindana is a Uganda-born sales and acquisitions of short films His graduating work, the human rights activist and founding at the Spanish Sales Agency Some immersive documentary Assent, member of the Coalition of African Like it Short. Cinzia was born in Italy has been awarded and included Lesbians and Horizon Community and graduated from University of in Documentary and New Media Association (HOCA), a Rwanda Padova. She has been working for festivals in Australia, Canada, USA, Mexico and the UK. LGBTI organization. MECAL International Short Film Festival and the Padova Vintage Festival.

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Cecilie Stranger-Thorsen Tove Torbiörnsson Femke van Velzen & Ilsevan Velzen Karen Winther CEO/ Stranger Director of Film/Society / Filmmakes Filmmaker Cecilie holds an MA in media Swedish Film Institute Ilse and Femke van Velzen are Karen Winther is a documentary studies and has worked with media Tove Torbiörnsson has made a internationally recognized, award- filmmaker. She graduated from NTFS strategy and production in all number of documentaries. Between winning filmmakers. The twin sisters (The National Film and Television the Scandinavian countries since 2003 and 2005, Tove was a board expose injustice giving a voice to School, UK) in 2012. Her graduation 1988. Passionate about the Nordic member of the Swedish Arts oppressed people. They worked in film, The Betrayal, has won traditions of storytelling and the Grants Committee, providing the Congo for eight years making international awards including IDFA, democratic potential of the Internet, funding for shorts, documentaries Fighting the Silence, about the Grierson and The Best New Nordic her driving force is to help spread Nordic stories globally. and experimental films. She was consequences for rape victims, and Weapon of War. Voice at the 2012 Nordisk Panorama Film Festival. Documentary Film Commissioner at the Swedish Film Lene Stæhr Institute between 2006 and 2010. Sari Volanen Orna Yarmut Director / Carla Filmagentur Commissioning Editor / YLE Founding Director / CoPro Lene Stæhr is a Danish artist and Ingebjörg Torgersen Sari Volanen is commissioning editor Experience in the Media field director educated at Det Kongelige Filmmaker/Norwegian WIFT for short films at Yle. She is in charge includes research, content editing Danske Kunstakademi. Ingebjørg Torgersen is a Norwegian of the open-end strand New Cinema, and independent production works, filmmaker and contemporary artist. screening short films in a weekly slot. teaching. Yarmut is founding director She has worked in film since 1985. The films in the strand are acquired of CoPro- Israeli Documentary She graduated from the National through co-productions, prebuys Marketing Foundation that has Film School of Denmark in 1991. She and acquisitions. become a revolutionizing and is Chairperson of Women in Film and fundamental factor in the documentary Industry. Virpi Suutari Television, Norway (WIFT-Norway). Stine Wangler Director Sales and Acquisitions / Ari Ylä-Anttila Virpi Suutari is a writer and a Claudia Rodriguez Valencia KurzFilmAgentur, Hamburg Commissioning Editor of Factual director, whose works typically Head of the International Area The sales department of Programmes YLE explore the boundary between fact RTVC señalcolombia KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg holds Ari Ylä-Anttila is from Finland and and fiction. Suutari’s work includes Claudia Rodríguez Valencia is the full worldwide rights of nearly 250 is commissioning editor for Finnish the documentaries like Sin (1996), International Representative of high quality short films and works TV-channel YLE. Starting out as a The idle ones (2001), Along the road the Public Network RTVC Señal- together with TV buyers, VoD and news journalist he has since worked little child ( 2005) – co-directed with Colombia, in charge of distribution, internet platforms, non-commercial as reporter, producer and presenter Susanna Helke co-productions and international institutions and theatrical distributor. at YLE TV1 current affairs desk and agreements. head in house for the TV-channel’s documentaries and Miles Rotendo Tanhira Peggy Weil factual programmes. Journalist / ACTIVIST Digital Media Artist & DESIGNER Miles Rutendo Tanhira is a Nicole van Schaik Peggy Weil is a digital media artist and Yahia Zaied Journalist, a LGBT rights and media European Outreach Director / BRITDOC designer based in Los Angeles. She Project coordinator / Board Member activist, a human rights defender, a As the European Outreach Director at BRITDOC, teaches at UCS’s School of Cinematic SQI-Skåne feminist and a Pacifist. Miles is from Nicole focuses on building new and Arts and is artist liaison to LACMA’s Art Yahia has worked with feminist Zimbabwe but lives in Sweden. He exciting relationships with European + Tech Lab Talks. She has developed organizations in Egypt. He’s an works at RFSL. partners. She works with foundations, and produced many Immersive advocate of Nubian cultural and philanthropists, brands, governmental Journalism projects including Gone political issues and strives to fight agencies, NGOs and other media who Gitmo, Walljumpers and The IPSRESS Project. the marginalization Nubians have are interested in using independent suffered for decades. He is a Board documentary film as a tool for social member of SQI-Skåne. or environmental change.

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Ana Alexieva Vittoria Fiumi Milena Kaneva Eleonora Veninova Project manager/producer producer/director producer/director producer/director Ana Alexieva has degrees in Media, Vittoria graduated from the University Milena has studied acting at the Eleonora graduated from California Social and Gender Studies from of Manchester with a degree in Visual Bulgaria’s Sofia Theatre and Film State University Northridge. She the Ruhr University in Bochum, Anthropology. She has directed and Academy. She has worked as a has written and directed two short Germany and a degree in New produced documentaries for different journalist and a producer for news films and written several scripts for Media and Digital Culture from NGOs. She has worked for Fandango agency WTN and as a freelancer, feature films. Her film Hairs won the the University of Utrecht. She is SRL before she started her own covering many of the world’s hot Gold Remi Award at the Wordfest project manager for the Balkan company Fiumi Film. Her most recent spots. She has interviewed Nobel Houston Festival in 2014. After Documentary Centre. She is a fellow of the Friedrich documentary Nermina’s World has been shown at festivals Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2000 she produced working for production companies in Los Angeles and Ebert Foundation. Ana is also part of the Bulgarian and has been awarded prizes. and co-directed the award-winning documentary The Addis Ababa she now resides in Skopje, Macedonia production company AGITPROP. Initiation, about genital mutilation in Africa. working on the documentary On My Own Feet. Ada-Maria Ichim Cristina Badea Producer/director Silvia Poeta Paccati Marija Ratković Vidaković Producer Ada-Maria Ichim has over twenty director Production coordinator/producer Cristina Badea is a producer and years of experience working with Silvia has studied cinema in Turin and Marija has a BA in Film, TV and the owner of Adenium Film. She has broadcasting and film. She has Milano. Her creative documentary stage production and an MA in held different management positions produced and directed her own short San Martino (ITA, 69’) has been Performing Arts Production. She at CME, one of the largest media films and been in charge of projects shown at film festivals like Trento has also studied cinematography, companies in Eastern Europe. In for Disney, Discovery Channel, Film Festival, ViaEmilia Docfest and drama and journalism. Marija works 2012 she started her own production Hallmark and HBO. Bansko Film Fest. at the Croatian Film Association as company that has produced several film production coordinator/executive and TV projects e.g. Flavours Collection by Igor Cobileansky. Barbara Jukopila Luigi Pepe producer and Manager of Festival Programs. Producer Producer Martichka Bozhilova Barabara Jukopila has a BA in Film, Luigi has a degree in Sociology Producer TV and Theatre Production and a and has attended the ZeLIG Martichka is founder and director MA in Production of Audiovisual documentary film school. He has of the Balkan Documentary and Multimedia Projects from the edited and directed films that have Centre that works to strengthen Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. been shown at several festivals. In the documentary scene in the She has produced the feature film 2010 he started his own production Balkans. Martichka also works Fleke as well as several short films. company Jump Cut. He has as a producer at the production Barbara has also worked as Program Coordinator of the produced the feature film Small Homeland. company AGITPROP. Films that she Child Rights Film Festival organized by UNICEF Croatia. has produced have been awarded in Cannes, Berlin and Matija Radeljak Toronto and at Tribeca and Sundance. Forbes named her producer/director as one of the seven most influential creative visionaries Matija has his own production in Bulgaria. company Aning Film. Since 2008 he has produced several films. He has been working with filmmaking workshops for children, crowd funding campaigns, distribution platforms and Internet based storytelling experiments. He likes to serve as mentor for motivated filmmakers.

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Buyers & Commissioning Editors Sales Agents & Dist

Axel Arnö / SVT / Sweden Inka Achte / Taskovski Films / UK Linn Aronsen / Verdens Gang / Norway Robin Brinster / Illumina Films / Netherlands Erkki Astala / Yle / Finland Kim Christiansen / DR / Denmark Anders Bruus / DR / Denmark Elsa Cojnby / FilmCentrum / Sweden Charlotte Hellström / SVT / Sweden Heino Deckert / Deckert Distribution / Germany Mette Hoffmann Meyer / DR / Denmark Oscar Eriksson / Folkets Bio / Sweden Helena Ingelsten / SVT /Sweden Kim Foss / Camera Film / Denmark Alexey Layfurov / 24_DOC / Christian Gesell / Interfilm Berlin / Germany Ritva Leino / Yle / Finland Georg Gruber / Magnet Film / Germany Marianne Levy-Leblond / ARTE /France Maëlle Guenegues / CAT&Docs / France Charlotte Gry Madsen / SVT /Sweden Gitte Hansen / First Hand Films / Switzerland Philippe Muller / ARTE G.E.I.E / France Andrea Hock / Autlook Filmsales / Austria Hera Ólafsdóttir / RÚV /Island Patrick Hurley / Dogwoof / UK Rumi Ono / TV Man Union / Japan Fred Joubaud / Ouat Media / Canada Emelie Persson / SVT / Sweden Stefan Kloos / Rise and Shine World Sales / Germany Romen Podzyhun / Channel Zero /Canada Patrizia Mancini / Wide House / France Daniel Pynnönen / UR /Sweden Katrina Mathsson / Folkets Bio /Sweden Ralf Quibeldey / NDR / Germany Josephine Michau / DOX:BIO / Denmark Lars Säfström / SVT Malmö / Sweden Heather Millard / Spier Films / Iceland Shanida Scotland / BBC / UK Sydney Neter / SND / Netherlands Anna Svensson / SVT Umeå / Sweden Johan Nyberg / Diagonalfilm / Sweden Beate Thalberg / ORF /Austria Nina Rahm / FilmCentrum / Sweden Anders Thomsen / DR / Denmark Marlene Schiött Rasmussen / DOX:BIO / Denmark Tore Tomter / NRK /Norway Jan Rofekamp / Films Transit / Canada Claudia Rodríguez Valencia / Señal Colombia / Colombia Cinzia Spironello / Other Voices / Italy Sari Volanen / Yle / Finland Mette Vorm / DR Sales / Denmark Jenny Westergård / Yle / Finland Lena Wallfelt / FilmCentrum / Sweden Chris White / POV / USA Stine Wangler / KurzfilmAgentur Hamburg / Germany Natalie Windhorst / VPRO / Netherlands Sophie-Luise Werner / Interfilm Berlin / Germany Ari Ylä-Anttila / Yle / Finland Andreas Wildfang / Eyzmedia / Germany Robert Zuber / HRT / Croatia

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Funds & Other Festivals

Ana Alexieva / Balkan Documentary Center / Bulgaria Juhani Alanen / Tampere Film Festival / Finland Even G. Benestad / Norwegian Film Institute / Norway Luciano Barisone / Visions du Réel / Switzerland Jesper Bergom-Larsson / Nordnorsk Filmsenter / Norway Dilcia Barrera / Sundance Film Festival / USA Martichka Bozhilova / Balkan Documentary Center / Bulgaria Iris Brey / Semaine de la Critique / France Lill Casslind / Film i Västerbotten / Sweden Andreas Bühlmann / Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur / Switzerland Sigve Endresen / Filmkraft Rogaland / Norway Charlotte Cook / Hot Docs / Canada Anne Marie Sörhman Fermelin / Film Stockholm / Sweden Irem Couchouron / Sunny Side of the Doc / France Klara Grunning-Harris / Danish Film Insitute / Denmark Hussain Currimbhoy / Sheffield Doc/Fest / UK Annika Gustafson / BoostHbg / Sweden Anaïs Desrieux / Cinéma du Réel / France Petri Kemppinen / Nordisk Film & TV Fond / Norway Daniella Eversby / CPH:DOX / Denmark Elina Kivihalme / The Finnish Film Foundation / Finland Florence Girot / FIPA - Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels / France Kaarel Kuurmaa / Estonian Film Institute / Estonia Laurent Guerrier / Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival / France Cecilia Lidin / The Swedish Film Institute / Sweden Lene Juliussen / The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad / Norway Karolina Lidin / Nordisk Film & TV Fond / Norway Samir Karahoda / Dokufest / Kosovo Joona Louhivuori / The Finnish Film Foundation / Finland Hana Kulhankova / One World – International Human Rights Film Festival / Czech Republic Åse Meyer / Norwegian Film Institute / Norway Mallory Lance / Tribeca Film Festival / USA Luke Moody / The Brit Doc Foundation / UK Jenny Leask / Edinburgh International Film Festival / UK Gréta Ólafsdóttir / Icelandic Film Centre / Iceland Victoria Leshchenko / Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival / Ukraine Marie Schmidt Olesen / Danish Film Institute / Denmark Grigoriy Libergal / Moscow International Film Festival / Russia Sirel Peensaar / Filmpool Nord / Sweden Artur Liebhart / Planete Doc Review /Poland Kjersti Helen Rasmussen / Vestnorsk Filmsenter / Norway Melissa Lindgren / TEMPO Dokumentärfestival / Sweden Sanja Ravlic / Croatian Audiovisual Center / Croatia Kathleen McInnis / Palm Springs International Film Festival / USA Jose F. Rodriguez / Tribeca Film Institute / USA Agneta Mogren / TEMPO Dokumentärfestival / Sweden Juha Samola / AVEK / Finland Christoffer Olofsson / Uppsala International Short Film Festival / Sweden Nicole van Schaik / The Brit Doc Foundation / UK Barbara Orlicz-Szczypula / Krakow Film Festival / Poland Martin Schlüter / Icelandic Film Centre / Iceland Karen Rais-Nordentoft / Aarhus Film Festival / Denmark KriStine Ann Skaret / Norwegian Film Institute / Norway Rada Sesic / Sarajevo Film Festival / Bosnia and Herzegovina Lars Skorpen / Vestnorsk Filmsenter / Norway Magali Simard / Toronto Film Festival / Canada Hanna Sohlberg / Film i Skåne / Sweden Ulla Simonen / DocPoint / Finland Arne Sommer / Filmförderung Hamburg-Schleswig Holstein / Germany Diego Mas Trelles / Documenta Madrid / Spain Joakim Strand / Film i Skåne / Sweden Miguel Valverde / Indie Lisboa / Portugal Stine Tveten / Vestnorsk Filmsenter / Norway Enrico Vannucci / La Biennale di Venezia / Italy Orna Yarmut / CoPro / Israel Mirja Hildbrand Wester / Göteborg International Film Festival / Sweden Reinhard Wolf / Oberhausen Short Film Festival / Germany Tobias Åkesson / Göteborg International Film Festival / Sweden

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