European Film Promotion (EFP) and its member organisations are delighted to announce the 2022 line-up for EFP PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE. Twenty of the most promising, up-and-coming European producers have been selected to take part in EFP's high-profile hybrid promotion and networking platform before and during the Festival de Cannes (May 17 - 28, 2022).
These are the 20 producers from 20 different countries who have been selected for the programme from the nominations submitted by the EFP member organisations: Johannes Schubert (Austria), Maarten Schmidt (Belgium), Katya Trichkova (Bulgaria), Janine Teerling (Cyprus), Vladimír Lhoták (Czech Republic), Evelin Penttilä (Estonia), Judith Lou Lévy (France), Ketie Danelia (Georgia), Alexander Wadouh (Germany), Ioanna Bolomyti (Greece), Jessie Fisk (Ireland), Alessandro Amato (Italy), Derk-Jan Warrink (The Netherlands), Marija Dimitrova (North Macedonia), Andrea Berentsen Ottmar (Norway), Kuba Kosma (Poland), Diana Păroiu (Romania), Jakub Viktorín (Slovak Republic), Felipe Lage Coro (Spain) and Stefan Eichenberger (Switzerland).
This exclusive group will take part in a tailor-made hybrid programme in order to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences and help create new professional networks. The Pre-Festival online programme, which started yesterday and runs until 5 May, includes 1:1 speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. Producers will then meet personally during the Festival de Cannes from 19 to 23 May and take part in a five-day on-site programme including case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign via the international trade magazines.
Some of the selected producers will be presenting their films at this year's Festival de Cannes such as Janine Teerling, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar and Diana Păroiu whose dramas Mediterranean Fever by Maha Haj, Sick Of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli and All the People I’ll Never Be by Davy Chou are screening in Un Certain Regard. Meanwhile, Derk-Jan Warring’s co-production of The Woodcutter Story by Mikko Myllylahti will be presented in the Critics’ Week at Cannes. Other participants of this year’s Producers on the Move programme have already been involved in the production of films by multi-award-winning and renowned directors: Jakub Viktorín co-produced Agnieszka Holland‘s Spoor and Sergei Loznitsa's State Funeral, while Katya Trichkova was involved in three films by Stephan Komanderev, and Evelin Penttilä produced Hit Big by J-P Valkeapää.
Some of the producers also focus on debut films: for example, Ioanna Bolomyti produced Sonia Kenterman’s multi-award-winning Tailor and Assiminia Proedrou’s debut Behind The Haystacks, while Alessandro Amato was behind Maura Delpero’s award-winning first feature Maternal. Meanwhile, Felipe Lage Coro is now developing Feyrouz Serhal’s debut feature I Am Here But You Can‘t See Me.
The line-up also includes producers of award-winning films such as Vladimir Lhoták whose animated film Even Mice Belong in Heaven by Jan Jan Bubeníček and Denisa Grimmová received nominations at the 2021 European Film Awards and 2022 Césars and was also named Best Animation Film at the Shanghai Film Festival in 2021. In addition, Judith Lou Lévy took home the Jury Prize last year for Nadav Lapid’s Cannes competition title Ahed‘s Knee, while Marija Dimitrova’s co-production of Dina Duma’s drama Sisterhood was awarded the Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary’s 2021 edition and Ketie Danelia, one of the producers involved in Levin Akin's multi-award-winning 2019 film And Then We Danced, saw her co-production of Elene Naveriani’s Wet Sand win Best Actor honours in Locarno last August. Other prize-winners are: Kuba Kosma (Fears, Golden Lion for Best Film, Polish Film Festival 2021), Johannes Schubert (Dear Future Children, Hot Docs Audience Award, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2021), Maarten Schmidt (Breathless, Flemish Film and Television Prize/Ensors 2019; Audience Award, MOOOV Film Festival 2018), Jessie Fisk (Song of Granite, Irish entry for the Best Foreign Language 2018), Stefan Eichenberger (Parvaneh/Short Film Oscar nomination 2015) and Alexander Wadouh (A Coffee in Berlin, 6 German Film Awards 2013).
EFP PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE is made possible thanks to the support of Creative Europe – the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Eurimages, Festival Scope, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Maan Rental and TheGreenShot, as well as the participating national film promotion institutes from the Producers on the Move’s countries, EFP’s member organisations: AFC - Austrian Films, Bulgarian National Film Center, Cinecittà (Italy), Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth of Cyprus, Czech Film Center, Estonian Film Institute, Flanders Image, Georgian National Film Center, German Films, Greek Film Centre, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales / ICAA (Spain), North Macedonia Film Agency, Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, Romanian Film Development, Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann, SEE NL (The Netherlands), Slovak Film Institute, SWISS FILMS and Unifrance. The main media partner is Variety, with Cineuropa as an additional media partner.
dispàrte
Italy
Alessandro Amato studied Production at the Gian Maria Volonté School of Film Art in Rome and co-founded dispàrte with Luigi Chimienti. His production of Maura Delpero’s award-winning debut Maternal premiered in competition at Locarno in 2019, and he is now completing postproduction on Niccolò Falsetti’s punk comedy Margini. Alessandro is now seeking financing for new projects by Mo Scarpelli and Sergio Castro San Martin as well as Giulio Mastromauro's Paradiso which was selected for EAVE's 2022 workshop.
Alessandro Amato
Italy
Oslo Pictures
Norway
Before joining Oslo Pictures in 2018, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar had produced over 30 short films, music videos and documentaries. She was one of the producers on Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated The Worst Person In The World and Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick Of Myself premiering in Un Certain Regard in 2022. Andrea is currently in postproduction on the documentary Chirag & Magdi and raising financing for Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s debut feature Armand.
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Norway
Argonauts Productions
Greece
Ioanna Bolomyti joined the team of Argonauts Productions SA in 2006 and was the producer for Sonia Liza Kenterman’s multi-award-winning first feature Tailor, Nefeli Sarri’s documentary Behind The Wall and Asimina Proedrou’s debut Behind The Haystacks. In 2021, Ioanna launched her own company Atalante SA and has new projects by Zacharias Mavroeidis and co-directors Leda Vartzioti and Dimitris Tsakaleas in development.
Ioanna Bolomyti
Greece
Takes Film
Georgia
Ketie Danelia had worked, among other things, as a project manager at the Georgian National Film Center (GNFC) before co-founding her production company Takes Film in 2015. She has served as a co-producer on Levan Akin’s multi-award-winning second feature And Then We Danced and Elene Naveriani’s Locarno 2021 prize winner Wet Sand. Ketie is now in preproduction on a new feature by Naveriani and seeking financing for a film project by Papuna Mosidze.
Ketie Danelia
Georgia
List Production
Republic of North Macedonia
Marija Dimitrova entered the film industry in 2013, initially working as a producer of short films. In 2016, she established her own company List Production and produced Dina Duma’s debut feature Sisterhood which won the Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary in 2021. She is currently preparing her second feature film, Goran Stolevski’s Housekeeping For Beginners, and has new projects by Igor Ivanov and Dora Sustic in development.
Marija Dimitrova
Republic of North Macedonia
Contrast Film GmbH
Switzerland
Stefan Eichenberger co-founded Contrast Film with Ivan Madeo and Urs Frey in 2014 and has been responsible for several award-winning films including the Oscar nominated short Parvaneh, the documentary Unknown Territory, and the anthology film Wonderland. He is now in preproduction on the TV series Davos, to be directed by Jan-Eric Mack and Anca Lazarescu, and seeking financing for new features by Matthias von Gunten and Christine Repond.
Stefan Eichenberger
Switzerland
Feline Films Ltd
Ireland
Jessie Fisk's first feature narrative as lead producer was Pat Collins’ Song of Granite, which premiered at SXSW (2017) and was chosen as Ireland’s foreign language Oscar entry. In 2018 Jessie launched Feline Films with Nathalie Biancheri. Their Irish-Polish co-production, Wolf, by Biancheri premiered in Toronto last year. Jessie is now working on the development of new feature projects by Biancheri and Mark Noonan.
Jessie Fisk
Ireland
Serce
Poland
A graduate from Łodz Film School, Kuba Kosma is the founder and CEO of the Warsaw-based production outfit Serce. He has worked with director Łukasz Ronduda on A Heart of Love and the Golden Lions winner All Our Fears and is currently shooting Kuba Michalczuk’s Ryfka and Kim Hee–Jung’s Korean–Polish co-production Where Do You Want To Go. His development slate includes Ronduda’s Luigi, Julia Kolberger’s Beautiful, and Tadeusz Sliwa’s Enthusiasts.
Kuba Kosma
Poland
Les Films du Bal
France
Judith Lou Lévy had worked with such filmmakers as Bertrand Bonello and Dominique Lancelot before establishing her production company Les Films du Bal in 2011 and subsequently being joined by Eve Robin from 2016. Since then, the company’s productions have included Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop’s debut feature Atlantique, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2019, and Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee which was awarded the Jury Prize in Cannes in 2021.
Judith Lou Lévy
France
Zeitun Films
Spain
Felipe Lage Coro founded Zeitun Films in 2010 and saw his first production, Oliver Laxe’s You Are All Captains, invited toCannes’ Directors’ Fortnight that year. He subsequently produced Laxe’s Mimosas and Lois Patiño’s Red Moon Tide and co-producedLebanese director Eliane Raheb’s Miguel’s War. Felipe’s development slate includes Feyrouz Serhal’s debutfeature I Am Here But You Can’t See Meand Eloy Domínguez Serén’s second feature Wild Is The Wind.
Felipe Lage Coro
Spain
Hausboot
Czech Republic
Vladimír Lhoták graduated from Prague’s FAMU and founded his company Hausboot in 2015 with a focus on animation and creative documentaries. Most recently, he produced French filmmaker Joël Farges’ portrait Jiří Trnka – A Long Lost Friend and the award-winning stop-motion animation feature Even Mice Belong in Heaven. He is now developing the animation feature Timeless with the directors of Even Mice.. and Jiří Barta’s hotly anticipated Golem.
Vladimir Lhoták
Czech Republic
Visual Walkabout
Romania
Diana Păroiu entered the film industry in 2014 and has produced with Ada Solomon at microFILM such films as Ștefan Constantinescu’s Man and Dog, Mona Nicoară & Dana Bunescu’s The Distance Between Me and Me and Sebastian Mihăilescu’s Mammalia. In 2021, she launched her own company Visual Walkabout and is now looking to develop the high-end series And Then We Took Berlin and the feature The Complete Adventures of the Two Strangers by the Romanian Berlin-based playwright and screenwriter Peca Ștefan as international co-productions.
Diana Păroiu
Romania
Stellar Film
Estonia
Evelin Penttilä began working in the film industry in 2007 and founded her Tallinn-based production company Stellar Film in 2015 with Mihkel Ulk’s drama Zero Point which became the first Baltic feature to be sold to Netflix. She has since produced features by Jaak Kilmi (The Sleeping Beast) and co-produced JP Valkeapää (Hit Big) and has new projects by German Golub and Vallo Toomla in her development slate.
Evelin Penttilä
Estonia
Storyhouse
Belgium
Maarten Schmidt founded his production company Storyhouse in 2013 and focuses on youth content, bold investigative documentaries and true story fiction. His productions were awarded at festivals such as Tribeca and Hotdocs, his recent successes include Breathless and Yaren and the Sun. Maarten is now seeking financing for a new youth animation series by Mariana Cadenas and two feature length documentaries by Quentin Noirfalisse, Friedrich Moser and Guido Verelst as well as a developed script for a teen fiction film by writer Johan Vandevelde.
Maarten Schmidt
Belgium
Schubert
Austria
After graduating from the NFTS and the Film University Babelsberg, Johannes Schubert has worked in Austria, Germany and the UK. His producer credits include the Hot Docs Audience Award winner Dear Future Children and the European Film Award-nominated short Kontener. Johannes is to be one of the producers on Jessica Hausner’s second English-language film Club Zero. His slate includes upcoming titles by Abu Bakr Shawky, Markus Schleinzer and Franz Böhm.
Johannes Schubert
Austria
AMP Filmworks Ltd
Cyprus
Dutch-born Janine Teerling joined Nicosia-based AMP Filmworks in 2012 and has produced such films as Marios Piperides’ Tribeca 2018 winner Smuggling Hendrix and Petros Charalambous’ Patchwork. She also co-produced Maha Haj’s Mediterranean Feverwhich will premiere in this year’s Un Certain Regard at Cannes. Janine is currently in postproduction on Michale Boganim’s Tel Aviv - Beirut and Kyros Papavassiliou's Embryo Larva Butterfly and new projects by Piperides and Camille Vidal-Naquet in development.
Janine Teerling
Cyprus
nutprodukcia
Slovak Republic
Jakub Viktorín founded nutprodukcia with two Czech partners in 2015 and his first project was the coproduction of Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor. He also served as a co-producer on Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral and produced the mini-series Suspicion. Jakub is in postproduction on the animation feature Tony, Shelly and the Spirit and Michal Blaško’s drama Victim, and now in preproduction for Zuzana Kirchnerová’s feature debut Caravan.
Jakub Viktorín
Slovak Republic
Contrast Films
Blugaria
After graduating in Law and Film and TV Direction, Katya Trichkova founded her company Contrast Films in 2013 and has since produced three features by acclaimed director Stephan Komanderev and documentarian Svetoslav Draganov’s fiction debut Humble as well as collaborating with HBO Europe on Petya Nakova’s documentary Silent Legacy. She is now seeking financing for Konstantin Bojanov’s next feature, the art heist movie Gambit.
Katya Trichkova
Blugaria
Chromosom Film GmbH
Germany
After graduating from Berlin’s dffb in 2006, Alexander Wadouh worked at Essential Filmproduktion and also founded his own company Chromosom Film. His first feature film co-production, Jan-Ole Gerster’s A Coffee In Berlin, won six German Film Awards in 2013. He has since produced films by Florian Hoffmann and York-Fabian Raabe and is now seeking financing for new features by Hoffmann, Lucie Loose and Gabrielle Brady as international co-productions.
Alexander Wadouh
Germany
Keplerfilm
The Netherlands
A graduate from the Dutch Film Academy, Derk-Jan Warrink launched Amsterdam-based Keplerfilm with longtime friend Koji Nelissen in 2016. He has co-produced such award-winning films as Alejandro Landes’ Monos and Omar El Zohairy’s Feathers. He also co-produced Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story which will premiere at the 61st Semaine de la Critique at Cannes. Derk-Jan will release Fleur van der Meulen’s debut feature Pink Moon in Tribeca in June 2022 and is in postproduction on Michiel ten Horn’s family film Hotel Sinestra.
Derk-Jan Warrink
The Netherlands
