EFP Producers on the Move 2010: FNE Snapshots
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ICELAND: David Oskar Olafsson
Iceland's David Oskar Olafsson works as a freelance producer as well as helming his own company, Mystery Island (
www.mystery.is) and has extensive experience working with such masters as Clint Eastwood on Flags of Our Fathers and Eli Roth on Hostel 2.
As an EFP Producer on the Move he will be in Cannes as the head of Mystery Island a Reykjavik based production outfit he founded with fellow producers Arni Filippusson and Hreinn Beck.
Contact: Mystery Island Tel: +354 696 7642
DENMARK: Christian Rank
Christian Rank cut his teeth on docs and Danish TV productions most notably the Danish crime series "Those Who Kill". He is currently working for the Copenhagen based Miso Film (
www.misofilm.dk) He will be in Cannes talking about his new "Filmforum" project that he is developing with his colleague Caroline Blanco. The project will select six of the most talented Danish scriptwriters and help them to develop original screenplays that will be presented later this year.
Contact: Miso Films Tel+45 33 337 337
UNITED KINGDOM: Isabelle Stead
Leeds based Isabelle Stead spent five years working in film production in Los Angeles before returning to her native UK to found the UK-Dutch production outfit Human Film (
www.humanfilm.co.uk)
Her work includes a number of films about Iraq including Iraq: War, Love, God and Madness which was screened in both Sundance and the Berlinale.
She is now in preparation on two feature film projects, a feature film to be shot in Yorkshire and The Train Station which will shoot in the Middle East next year.
Contact: Human Film Tel +44 113 243 8880
FINLAND: Annika SucksdorffAnnika Sucksdorff has focused on developing international coproductions since becoming a partner in Helsinki-filmi (
www.helsinkifilmi.fi) in 2006. The Helsinki based production has recently done coproductions with Sweden, Ireland, Germany, Estonia and the UK. Sucksdorff credits her participation in the EAVE producers programme as an important springboard for her international production activities.
She is currently working Anna Maria Joakimsdottir Hutri's Lydia and Peter Lindholm's Where Once We Walked
Contact: Helsinki-Filmi Oy Tel: +358 9 7740 300
GREECE: Yorgos TsourgiannisUndeterred by the current financial crisis Tsourgiannis will be in Cannes as a Producer on the Move. Tsourgiannis is head of film production at Boo Productions (
www.booproductions.gr). He is currently working on three films that are in preparation for 2010 and 2011.
Tsourgiannis attended the MEDIA Programme's EMAM Masters in Audiovisual Management in Rome and has worked extensively in both film and TV production.
His credits as a producer include Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth which won the Grand Prix in Un Certain Regard last year in Cannes. Current productions in preparation include Babis Makridis's first feature L and Michalis Konstantatos's Luton.
Contact: Boo Productions Tel: +30 210 6100 730
NORWAY: Asle VatnAsle Vatn began his career at the Norwegian Film Institute and one of his greatest strengths has been his international outlook and his ability to put together international coproductions. Since founding his own production company, Friland (
www.friland.biz) nearly ten years ago together with Christian Fredrik Martin he has coproduced films with Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Belgium and France.
Friland has a development agreement in place with independent distributor Sandrew Metronome and has received development funding from the Norwegian Film Institute and the MEDIA Programme and has so far released four features. Vatn is currently working on Jens Lien's Theory and Practice and Morten Tyldum's Headhunters.
Contact: Friland AS Tel: +47 22 17 47 00
SWITZERLAND: Anne WalserWalser is a partner in the Swiss production outfit, C-FILMS (
www.c-films.ch) where she has worked for over ten years. Her experience includes all aspects of production from production manager and line producer to finance and script development. She currently specializes in international coproductions and her credits include Marcello, Marcello which screened in Locarno FF last year.
Currently in development is the Swiss-Italian-Romanian coproduction Il Diavolo Sulle Colline, based on the novel by Cesare Pavese.
Contact: C-Films AG Tel: +41 44 253 6555
SPAIN: Alvaro AlonsoProducer Alvaro Alonso will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of his Seville based production company Jaleo Films (
www.jaleofilms.com) in Cannes this year as a Producer on the Move. Alonso cut his teeth as a producer of shorts with his successful Letra M production company. After completing the Media Business School's MEGA programme he set up Jaleo Films and went on to also produce features and documentaries.
In development are six feature projects - three English language feature projects and three Spanish projects by Spanish directors.
Contact: Jaleo Films, S.L. Tel: +34 954 310 770
MACEDONIA: Vladimir Anastasov
Skopje based Vladimir Anastasov is known as both a festival director and a film producer. He is cofounder of the Skopje Film Festival and has served as executive director of Macedonia's Manaki Brothers International Film Festival.
As a producer he has many years of experience in documentaries, short films and feature films.
Since 2002 he has helmed his own production company Sektor Film (
www.sektor.com.mk) which is best known internationally for the short film Bugs which screened in competition at the Berlinale. His international credits include Juanita Wilson's feature As If I'm Not There, an Irish Swedish coproduction.
Contact: Sektor Film Tel: +389 2 3296 619
ITALY: Simone Bachini
Simone Bachini founded his Bologna based production company Aranciafilm (
www.aranciafilm.com) together with film director Giorgio Diritti and Mario Brenta in 2003. His partnership with Diritti has been a central feature of his career.
Simone's credits include both features and documentaries including coproducer of documentary With My Own Eyes and Diritti's debut feature The Wind Blows Round.
Bachini also co-wrote Diritti's second feature The Man Who Will Come.
Bachini will be in Cannes looking to forge relationships for future European coproductions which he believes is necessary for the development of the Italian film industry and that he would like to see more of.
Contact: Aranciafilm Srl Tel: +39 051 656 9657
FRANCE: Lauranne Bourrachot
Paris based Lauranne Bourrachot has nearly 20 years of experience working in film and television production with a special emphasis on international coproductions. She has been with Chic Films (
www.chic-films.com) since it was created in 2002 and among its many successful projects is Jacques Audiard's The Prophet which Chic coproduced as well as developed the script.
New projects that Bourachot will be bringing to Cannes include Mika Kaurismaki's Malandor and new projects by Frederic Jardin, Stephen Bradley and Eytan Fox.
Contact: Chic Films Tel: +33 1 7500 1240
GERMANY: Oliver Damian
Producer Oliver Damian founded Berlin and Frankfurt based 27 Films Production (
www.27films.biz) five years ago after many years as managing director and member of the board of Egoli Tossell Film in Berlin. Damian has extensive experience working in international coproduction. He has often looked east for his coproductions and has worked with Russian-Georgian director Nana Djordjadze on 27 Missing Kisses and her film The Rainbowmaker. He also worked on Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark and he is currently working on developing Shanghai Blues a by Sergei Ashkenazy about jazz musician Olge Lundstrem.
Oliver Damian is member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the ACE Network (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen), EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and founding member of EMPA (European Motion Picture Producers' Association).
Contact: 27 Films Production Tel: +49 30 847 116 60
PORTUGAL: Joao Figueiras
Busy Joao Figueiras is both a director and producer and he is currently preparing his feature directorial debut The Castaway as well as a number of projects for his Lisbon based production outfit Blackmaria (
www.blackmaria.pt) Figueiras has produced a number of internationally successful shorts including China, China by Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata, which screening in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight in 2007 in Cannes. His is currently preparing a documentary Last Time I Saw Macau by the same team. Figueiras's feature credits include Pedro Caldas's Civil War.
Contact: Blackmaria Tel: +351 21 886 3822
IRELAND: Katie HollyKatie Holly like many of this year's Producers on the Move is a graduate of the EAVE producer training programme. Her production credits include short films, television and three feature films. She is co-owner of Dublin based Blinder Films (
www.blinderfilms.com) together with Kieron J. Walsh.
Holly produced the feature One Hundred Mornings that won the Special Jury prize at Slamdance Film Festival this year and she is currently working on developing the horror film Citadel as a coproduction with Sigma Films which is due to shoot later this year.
Contact: Blinder Films Tel: +353 1 667 8066
SWEDEN: Lizette Jonjic
Lizette Jonjic is co-owner of the Stockholm/Gothenburg-based production company Migma Film AB. (
www.migmafilm.se). She is a graduate of the EAVE training programme and has many years of experience in film production as a production manager and producer. She has been working since 2005 with director Hakon Liu, and last year produced Liu's first feature film, Miss Kicki shot in Taiwan. The film has received awards at festivals in Pusan, Mannheim-Heidelberg and Stockholm.
Jonjic is currently working on developing a number of projects including Hakon Liu's next feature with the working title Kill Me, Fuck Me, Hug Me, which is set in the north of Sweden.
Contact: Migma Film Tel:+46-7091700 10
SERBIA: Jelena Mitrovic
Belgrade based Jelena Mitrovic made her debut as a producer with Srdan Golubovic's The Trap which won more than 20 international festival awards and was shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. In 2007 she received the Discovery Award at FilmFestival Cottbus for her achievement in the field of production. She also worked as a coproducer on Damjan Kozole's Slovenian Girl another international festival hit.
Jelena is already hard at work on her next collaboration with Srdan Golubovic and will be participating in Cannes Film Festival's Atelier this year with his new project Circles.
Contact: Bas Celik Tel: +381 11 303 4441
www.bascelik.net
Bulgaria's Kamen Kalev won international attention with his first film as both director and producer, Eastern Plays. 
Slovak producer Silvia Panakova was selected by the Slovak Film Institute for the European Film Promotions' "Producers on the Move" for her first feature film, My Husband's Women, directed by Ivan Vojnar.