BLS INCONTRI #5

BLS FILM CONFERENCEINCONTRI #5

April 22–24, 2015 Parkhotel Holzner, Oberbozen, South Tyrol

Business LocationSüdtirol – Alto Adige AGDompassage 1539100 Bozen – ItalienT +39 0471 066 600F +39 0471 062 [email protected]

INCONTRI #5BLS FILM CONFERENCE

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WELCOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

GREETING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

AGENDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

PARTICIPANTS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

PARTICIPANTS ITALY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

PARTICIPANTS GERMANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

PARTICIPANTS AUSTRIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

PARTICIPANTS SWITZERLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

IMPRINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

WELCOME

The year 2015 represents a little anniversary for INCONTRI: Already for the fifth time, around 80 people from the Italian, German, Austrian and Swiss film and television industries are meeting in South Tyrol in order to engage in dialogue that transcends borders. While at the beginning our agenda revolved almost exclusively around the “classic” co-production topics, this focus has been broadened in an ongoing way.

This broadening now wears a new name statement: so what was previously known as BLS's INCONTRI Co-Production Meeting has this year, for the first time, become the BLS Film Conference. Within an exclusive setting, INCONTRI continues to build bridges between the Italian and the German-speaking industries. Decision-makers and promising newcomers come together here to compare notes about the current production environment and distribution conditions in their respective countries, and to inspire one another towards a future that exists on many channels and platforms and is increasingly digital.

Assessing the audience and their viewing habits seems to be more important than ever, as small and specific a particular viewer group may be. Large viewing groups like – and this is something all of our industries have in common – comedies and crime stories. So these two genres have a prominent place in the program of this yearʼs INCONTRI. While on Day 1 the comic preferences of Italian, German, Austrian and Swiss audiences are compared using topical examples and the question of a potential cross-Alpine comedy will be raised. Day 2 broaches the subject of a genre that has provided momentum recently, particularly on the international series market: Italian crime.

DEAR GUESTS OF INCONTRI #5,

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CHRISTIANA WERTZHead of BLS Film Fund & Commission

GABRIELE BRUNNENMEYERConference Coordinator INCONTRI #5

BERNHARD STAMPFERConference Coordinator INCONTRI #5

Impetus for greater collaboration between the Italian and German film industry could soon originate out of an initiative that was launched by Germanyʼs FFA and Italyʼs MiBACT and that we welcome very warmly in the bilingual region of South Tyrol. So in addition to the already long-existing and very attractive Italian Tax Credit system for film production, the co-development fund that has been newly created by both countries could potentially boost the number of projects produced jointly. As a local film fund, we are pleased that South Tyrolean production companies in particular play a major role in this process of rapprochement.

INCONTRI is thus still not a classic co-production market, another large media conference. INCONTRI want to remain comparatively small and deliberately bring together a limited number of selected industry representatives who are interested in each other's markets and are therefore also relevant partners. In addition to a concentrated current and practically oriented exchange of content, the human encounter – which, as we all know, is the basis for fruitful collaboration – should not be forgotten.

With this in mind, we wish you an insightful yet relaxing stay in South Tyrol.

This fifth occurrence of our film conference allows us to look back upon four successful meetings, the participants of which have contributed significantly to our nascent film location. Producers, broadcasting representatives, film-funding experts and representatives of digital platforms as well, more recently, come from Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, making INCONTRI an exclusive meeting point amongst colleagues.

Figures, festival successes and the emergence of start-up companies evince the fact that there has been much progress for the film location South Tyrol over the last four years. We can count a total of 119 subsidized film projects with 1,416 shooting days and a territorial effect of 31.3 million euro. Last year, South Tyrol’s Film Fund supported a total of 24 film projects with grant monies equaling 5 million euro. Among the funded projects was Til Schweigerʼs hit film Honig im Kopf, which has now been seen by more than 6 million cinemagoers in Germany. The international production Everest, directed by Balthasar Kormákur with Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin and Jason Clarke in the lead roles, was shot here in February of 2014. The Italian hit series Un passo dal cielo filmed in the Upper Pusteria Valley last summer for the third time, and an average of 7 million viewers watched it for the third season. Part of the recently released German theatrical feature Elser − Er hätte die Welt verändert (13 Minutes) was shot in South Tyrol as well. Munich’s Lucky Bird Pictures combined BLS funding with the Italian tax credit for this project.

We were particularly pleased about the presence of three BLS-funded films at this yearʼs Berlinale: Virgin Giurata by Laura Bispuri was shown in competition and Elser was shown out of competition. Simon Jaquemet’s Chrieg was a guest of Perspektive Deutsches Kino. Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure made the pre-selection for the Best Foreign Film category at the 2015 Oscars. Earlier this year, eight-time LOLA-Award winner Das finstere Tal was awarded a further eight categories of the Austrian Film Award.

DEAR INCONTRI #5 PARTICIPANTS,

GREETING

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The new film by Giuseppe Tornatore is also currently in production in South Tyrol: The Correspondence, with Jeremy Irons and Olga Kurylenko in the lead roles. Also in production is the first film of Matthias Lang: together with Munich-based Sparkling Pictures, he’s shooting the well-known South Tyrolean legend King Laurin, a project in which many South Tyrolean film professionals are involved.

All of these productions have a positive effect on South Tyrol as a film location as well as on the province’s economy. More and more local companies and service providers, in fact, are now working in the film industry − even those whose core activity is not within this sector. We are also seeing an increase in the number of local film professionals.

Thanks to these developments, we look towards 2015 with every confidence. In this year’s first round of funding, six new projects received subsidies; the submission deadlines for the next calls are in May and September. In addition to INCONTRI, further BLS events for professionals include the RACCONTI Script Lab, the PLACES location tour and the CAMPUS training initiative.

We wish you now an inspiring INCONTRI #5. We hope that you take the opportunity to meet with one another, and also to attend the Bolzano Film Festival, which is now celebrating filmmakers from Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the 29th time.

ARNO KOMPATSCHERProvince Governor of South Tyrol

ULRICH STOFNERDirector of BLS

HELGA THALER AUSSERHOFERBLS President

AGENDADAY 1 WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL 2015

18:00 – 20:00 ARRIVAL

19:00 – 20:00 SUNSET COCKTAIL

20:00 – 22:30 WELCOME DINNER

DAY 2 THURSDAY, 23 APRIL 201507:45 – 09:00 BREAKFAST

09:15 – 09:30 THE OPENING

With Ulrich Stofner (BLS, Director) and Christiana Wertz (BLS, Head of Film Fund & Commission)

09:30 – 10:00 DEVELOPMENT OF THE EUROPEAN MARKETPLACE

An outlook by Jan Mojto (Beta Film)

10:00 – 11:15 PRODUCING FOR EUROPEAN AUDIENCES

Give the audience what it wants: That’s how the latest slogan for cinema and TV productions goes. The panel will explore how this idea is reflected in European film and TV productions, from a distribution perspective, by asking: Do co-productions guarantee a wider audience or are they just a necessary evil for putting together financing? How important are the customs of each individual country? Does funding that focuses on stars, big names or successful boilerplates support the creative process or restrict creative freedom? A quest for answers regarding how best to sell films and reach audiences.A discussion with representatives of production companies, TV stations, sales and distribution companies from Italy and the German-speaking countries, moderated by Roberto Olla (Eurimages).Panelists: Alfonso Cometti (RTI/Mediaset), Danny Krausz (Dor Film), Stefano Massenzi (Lucky Red), Jan Mojto (Beta Film) and Wolfgang Müller (Barry Films).

11:15 – 11:45 COFFEE BREAK

11:45 – 13:00 SIDE BY SIDE: PRODUCING HISTORY

A comparison of two productions – both of which deal with historical subjects and national identity. The films aspire to a theatrical release and have big names attached; their budgets are comparable. The first one, Elser – Er hätte die Welt verändert (13 Minutes) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and produced by Oliver Schündler (Lucky Bird Pictures), is a German production. The second film is the mainly Italian co-production Bianco (The Long Way Down), from director Daniele Vicari and produced by Francesco Virga (Mir Cinematografica). The two respective case studies will take a look behind the scenes, discuss the film’s genesis, analyze its financing strategies and examine its viability on the marketplace, both at home and abroad. An insight into the strategies of two exemplary producers, one in Italy and one in Germany, for films in which South Tyrol was involved.The respective producers will present the two case studies, hosted by Cornelia Hammelmann (DFFF) and Christiana Wertz (BLS).

13:00 – 14:30 NETWORKING LUNCH

14:30 – 16:00 LOL – LAUGH OUT LOUD ACROSS THE ALPS

Everybody needs to laugh sometimes. Each nation has its own humor, though, and only a few comedies are able to transcend borders. The panel will introduce local tastes by showing successful samples of current cinema and TV productions and by exploring cultural differences. Let’s find out what makes Italians, Austrians, Germans and the Swiss laugh, and whether there is a chance for common laughter across the Alps. A panel on comedic films moderated by Peter Dinges (FFA).Panelists: Christian Becker (Rat Pack Filmproduktion), Marco Chimenz (Cattleya), Klaus Lintschinger (ORF) and Daniel Waser (Zürcher Filmstiftung).

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16:30 – 18:30 OUTDOOR ACTIVITY

19:30 – 20:15 A GUIDE THROUGH THE VOD JUNGLE

A fireside chat with Nicolà Allieta (Under the Milky Way)Nicolà Allieta heads Italian and Southeast Asian operations at Under the Milky Way, a service company dedicated to the distribution and marketing of digital films. In this role, he engages with primary rightsholders, including producers, theatrical distributors and international sales agents, in order to enable content aggregation for the leading Video on Demand platforms. In a conversation with Bernie Stampfer (International Film Partners), Nicolà Allieta will talk about the emergence of new distribution channels, their respective business models and ways that independent producers can harness these new opportunities for their feature films, documentaries and TV programs.

20:30 – 23:00 DINNER

23:00 NIGHTCAP

FRIDAY, 24 APRIL 2015

07:45 – 09:00 BREAKFAST

09:00 – 09:15 THE HOUSE OF CARDS: WHICH CARDS CAN EUROPE PLAY?

An introduction by Bernhard Stampfer (International Film Partners)

09:15 – 10:45 CONTENT STRATEGIES AND AUDIENCE REACH

PANEL I: THE STREAMING PLATFORMS

There is much talk about the digital-content strategies of global players like Netflix, Amazon and Google. There are also many European streaming platforms that distribute local films and television programs. What are the respective strategies for distribution and for investment into original content? Does the battle for an audience leave room for niche players? What do these particular viewers want? The panel, moderated by Bernie Stampfer, will address these questions in an in-depth way.Panelists: Marcus Ammon (Sky Germany), Simon Assmann (Elvira Filmproduktion), Anke Beining-Wellhausen (Teleclub), Marc Gabizon (Wild Bunch Germany) and Gianluca Guzzo (My Movies Italia).

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10:45 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 12:30 PANEL II: BEST PRACTICE

1) Imagine and live the future: Case study Wiedemann & Berg Television and PalomarMeet Eva Stadler representing Wiedemann & Berg Television, a very successful German production company, and Nicola Serra, CEO of one of Italy’s most vibrant production companies and well known for Commissario Montalbano. Both companies operate on the forefront of innovate TV formats and distribution. Eva Stadler will give insight into the dramedy Add A Friend, produced for TNT Germany and the first in-house production of a German pay-TV channel, as well as into the company’s future strategy. Leading Palomar into the digital future, Nicola Serra will not only lay out some of his creative visions but also explain the company’s tie-ins with the world of Pulsemedia, described as the leading live-streaming portal in Italy.

2) Turning Reality into Fiction: Italy’s Way to Global SuccessIt was possibly the successful adaptation of Giancarlo De Cataldo’s novel Romanzo Criminale that sparked a new trend in Italian TV series production back in 2008. Whilst “Nordic Noir” aka “ScandiCrime” has dominated the European series market, Sky Italia has taken the lead to propel – what Variety calls – “Italian Immorality” to worldwide attention and success: Gomorrah – the series has sold to more than 60 territories and even made it to the US via Weinstein & Co. – ZeroZeroZero, another best-selling novel adaption from Roberto Saviano’s pen is already making big waves even though still at development stage. The production company at the very center of that success story: Cattleya.

Listen to Marco Chimenz, a partner in Cattleya since 1999, who manages all of the company’s international relations and development activities. This panel, moderated by Bernie Stampfer (International Film Partners) will summarize the key questions of the day: Which cards can European players play? Can local mean global?

12:30-13:00 FURTHER STEPS AND STRATEGIES – AN OUTLOOK

Panelists: Roberto Amoroso (Sky Italia), Marco Chimenz (Cattleya), Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu (Amour Fou), Manfred Hattendorf (SWR). Additional panelists to be confirmed.

13:00 – 15:00 FAREWELL LUNCH

15:00 THE END

ITALY Nicola Allieta Under The Milky Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Nicola De Angelis Dap Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Giovanna Arata Zazen Film & TV Productions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Tommaso Arrighi Mood Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Manuela Cacciamani Onemore Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Carlotta Calori Indigo Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Marco Chimenz Cattleya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Alfonso Cometti Mediaset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Carlo Cresto-Dina Tempesta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Ferdinand Dohna Dog’s Life / Beta Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Wolfgang Fliri ammira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Gianluca Guzzo MYmovies.it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Benedetto Habib Indiana Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Patrick Kofler helios – sustainable films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Valeria Licurgo Fandango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Stefano Massenzi Lucky Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Traudi Messini Mediaart Production Coop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Philipp Moravetz Echo Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Roberto Olla Eurimages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Gregorio Paonessa Vivo film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Andreas Pichler Echo Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Martin Rattini helios – sustainable films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Nicola Serra Palomar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Cecilia Valmarana Rai Cinema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Francesco Virga MIR Cinematografica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Christiana Wertz BLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Michele Zatta Rai Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Roberto Amoroso Sky Italia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

PARTICIPANTS

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GERMANY Marcus Ammon Sky Deutschland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Simon Assmann Elvira Filmproduktion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Christian Becker Rat Pack Filmproduktion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Wolfgang Behr Aventin Filmproduktion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Annie Brunner Roxy Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Philipp Budweg Lieblingsfilm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Cornelius Conrad Bayerischer Rundfunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Peter Dinges German Federal Film Board (FFA). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Benny Drechsel Rohfilm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Andreas Eicher IRIS Productions Deutschland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57Wolfgang Feindt ZDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Marc Gabizon Wild Bunch Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Malte Grunert Amusement Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Cornelia Hammelmann German Federal Film Fund / DFFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Manfred Hattendorf Südwestrundfunk (SWR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Jan s. Kaiser Bavaria Fernsehproduktion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Phillipp Kreuzer Grisella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Michael Lehmann Studio Hamburg Produktion Gruppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Jan Mojto Beta Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Wolfgang Müller Barry Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Klaus Schaefer FilmFernsehFonds Bayern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Manfred Schmidt Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Oliver Schündler Lucky Bird Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Mark von Seydlitz Made in Munich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Eva Stadler Wiedemann & Berg Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Claudia Steffen Pandora Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Gabriele M. Walther Caligari Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Jakob D. Weydemann Weydemann Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

AUSTRIA A. Dumreicher-Ivanceanu Amour Fou Vienna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Michael Frenschkowski Terra Mater Factual Studios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Helmut Grasser Allegro Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Veit Heiduschka Wega-Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81Michael Katz Wega-Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Alexander Koschier SK-Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Danny Krausz Dor Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Klaus Lintschinger ORF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Jakob Pochlatko Epo-Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

SWITZERLANDAnke Beining-Wellhausen Teleclub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Gabriella de Gara Bucciarelli RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Elena Pedrazzoli Peacock Film. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Andres Pfaeffli Ventura Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Tiziana Soudani Amka Films Productions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Pascal TrAEchslin Cineworx Filmproduktion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Anne Walser C-Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Daniel Waser Zürcher Filmstiftung. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

TEAMGabriele Brunnenmeyer Conference Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Bernhard Stampfer Conference Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Barbara Weithaler Project Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Eva von Ingram Harpf Project Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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ITALYPARTICIPANTS

At national level, film funding is provided by the Italian State Ministry of Cultural Affairs & Activities (MiBACT) through its Fondo Unico dello Spettacolo (FUS).

Reference Funding is granted based on the economic success of a previous project, while Project Funding is provided for the production of feature films, debuts or second features, short films and the support of screenplays.

In order to receive support, the production company must fulfil a set of formal requirements: the company must be represented in Italy by at least one branch office and must be registered in a MiBACT director; the project must also be recognized as an Italian production.

Moreover, a combined tax credit and tax shelter system has existed for production companies and investors in Italy since 2008 for theatrical release films. The tax shelter system was repealed in 2012. In 2014 the Italian government elaborated a new law regarding the tax credit, which allows tax rebates for TV series, documentaries, animated films and web formats as well. This new regulation will be brought into effect in 2015.

The tax credit is interesting for producers who do not have a registered office in Italy, who are not producing a film with an Italian certificate of origin, and who are not intending to participate in a co-production with an Italian partner.

2014MOST SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL

FILM/BOX OFFICE TAKE

UN BOSS IN SALOTTO € 12.3 MM

(1.8 MM ADMISSIONS)

MOST SUCCESSFUL INTERNATIONAL FILM

MALEFICENT € 14.06 MM

(2.1 MM ADMISSIONS)

Sources: MiBACT, ANICA, Cinetel

17060.8 MM

1,063 / 3,256

YES

FACTS 2014

€ 6.02AVERAGE PRICE OF A CINEMA TICKET

574.8 MM

TURNOVER FOR CINEMA TICKETS SOLD

ITALIAN FEATURE FILMS PRODUCED IN 2014

POPULATION

91.4 MM

NUMBER OF CINEMA ADMISSIONS IN 2014

NUMBER OF CINEMAS/SCREENS

TAX INCENTIVES AVAILABLE (CINEMA & TV)

Of course, an Italian production or co-production may also apply for the tax credit. The incentives include tax breaks for local producers (20%), foreign productions (25%) and financial investors (40%).

Since the system is quite complex, it is recommended that foreign producers work with an Italian executive producer who is familiar with the rules and regulations.

Regional funding programs and/or film commissions can be found in almost every Italian region. The regional funds include BLS Südtirol · Alto Adige, Trentino Film Commission (TFC), Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund, Apulia Film Fund, Lazio’s Regional Law for Cinema and Audiovisual Media and FIP (Film Investimenti Piemonte) to name the largest.


Under The Milky Way24 rue Louis Blanc

75010 ParisFrance

[email protected]

www.underthemilkyway.com

SHORT CV Nicola Allieta heads Italian and South East Asian operations at Under The Milky Way, a service company dedicated to digital film distribution and marketing. In his role, he engages with rights holders including producers, theatrical distributors and international sales agents, in the Italian and South East Asian film market, to enable content aggregation for the leading Video on Demand platforms. A graduate of ESCP Europe’s Master in Management, Allieta previously worked in the international home entertainment department of StudioCanal at BMS Finance in London, where he gained valuable insight into the dynamics of the film financing industry.

COMPANY PROFILEUnder The Milky Way International (UMW) is a digital distribution company. The company has been listed as an official iTunes film provider since June 2010. UMW therefore aggregates content from producers, distributors, and independent rights-holders that are not directly working with global digital platforms such as iTunes, Google Play, Sony Playstation and Netflix. Under The Milky Way is present on four continents, and currently covers a total of 110 countries available for movie releases on local VoD platforms. UMW is based in Paris but also has regional offices in Los Angeles, New York, Milan, Brussels, Vienna, Sydney, Copenhagen, London and Madrid. In addition to rights aggregation, Under The Milky Way develops software solutions for social media marketing and has several projects underway to maximize cross-border digital distribution through a network of professionals.

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I am interested to learn how our digital distribution activities are perceived from other professionals and executives who work in the traditional landscape. I would be eager to share my first-hand knowledge of the rapidly evolving digital area. While I see myself on the frontlines of some of these trends, I am committed to ensuring that the creative industry achieves a new sustainable business model bolstered by new digital distribution and financing methods.

COUNTRYFrance

POSITIONHead of Italy

FAVORITE FILM 2014Relatos salvajes

NICOLA ALLIETA Under The Milky Way

SHORT CV Currently Vice President of International Co-Productions and Development Department for De DAP ITALY, Nicola joined the company in 2000, developing and launching DAP’s post production branch, Post In Europe. Since then, he has worked on countless projects, undertaking numerous strategic roles, ranging from Story Editor to Post-Production Manager to Executive Producer. As of 2005, he also manages DAP’ Development Department and is currently seeking new partners and projects for international co-productions.

COMPANY PROFILEDAP ITALY Srl was created in 2000 by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis. Currently, DAP ITALY is one of the leading audiovisual production companies in Europe, with established expertise its expertise in editorial development, international funding and co-production, post-production, and product placement. Its success has been definitively established by, among others, successful productions such as The Games Maker (selected at the Sundance Film Festival 2014); Titanic Blood and Steel (awarded Best European Production at the Monte Carlo Tv Festival in 2012); Aurelio Zen (BBC One); Incantesimo (10 part series) and Elisa di Rivombrosa (3 part series). In the last years, DAP ITALY has successfully partnered with several foreign producers to provide service production in Italy. In this role, DAP ITALY facilitated Italian tax credit from the Italian Ministry of Culture and provided post production and other cultural services. From 2011, DAP ITALY has focused on the production of feature films. A new entity under the De Angelis umbrella, FABULA PICTURES (formerly DE ANGELIS MEDIA) will continue the production of media intended for television.

FILMOGRAPHY – UNO, ANZI DUE, 2015 – THE GAMES MAKER, 2014 – NON AVERE PAURA – UN AMICIZIA CON PAPA WOJTYLA, 2014 – LA MOSSA DEL PINGUINO, 2014 – TITANIC: BLOOD AND STEEL, 2012

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONVP of International Co-Productions and Development

FAVORITE FILM 2014Interstellar

DAP ITALY SrlVia Flaminia 99900189 RomeItalynicoladeangelis@deangelisgroup.comwww.deangelisgroup.com

NICOLA DE ANGELIS Dap Italy

Participants Italy | INCONTRI #5 | 19

SHORT CV Giovanna Arata started her career during the early days that saw the birth of Italian commercial free TV, when she worked as journalist, author, copywriter and television producer. In 1999 she became the head of international co-production at Mediaset, executive producing major miniseries with some of the most important drama producers worldwide. She left the company in 2006, to start her producing independently. She currently works as a producer for Sky Italia, specifically focusing on high-end international productions. She works with other major Italian production companies to develop and produce movies and series for both the domestic and international market.

COMPANY PROFILEFunded in 2007 the company focuses mainly on the production of movies and series suitable for the international market, most of them conceived, written and shot in English and funded in co-production with mainly European countries.Zazen acts as a consultant company for Sky scripted productions and for other major Italian producers in the development of series and movies to be expanded onto the international market.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONOwner, CEO

FAVORITE FILM 2014Grand Budapest Hotel

Zazen Film & TV Productions

Via Strobel 820133 Milan

[email protected]

GIOVANNA ARATA Zazen Film & TV Productions


SHORT CV Tommaso Arrighi was born in Florence (Italy) in 1975. He began his career as a production assistant on Zeffirelli’s Tea with Mussolini and on the HBO tv-series Rome. He graduated in film production from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2004 he founded his own company, Mood Film, and began producing short films and documentaries. He has produced three feature films, the documentary Hit the Road, Nonna by D. Chiarini, the drama Aquadro by S. Lodovichi and, as coproducer, the mockumentary El Hombre Que Quiso Ser Segundo by R. Alòs. He teaches film production at IED and Tracce in Rome.

COMPANY PROFILEMood Film is an Italian independent production company. It develops and produces feature films and documentaries looking at the new talented directors with an European view. Mood Film has produced three features: in 2014, as co-producer, the mockumentary El Hombre Que Quiso Ser Segundo; in 2013 the drama Aquadro; in 2011 the documentary Hit The Road, Nonna which premiered at the Venice Film Festival 2011 — Venice Days and won the ArcipelagoFF, Visioni Italiane, GenovaFF 2012, Audience Award at Festival dei Popoli 2011, Special Mention at the Silver Ribbon 2012 and in official selection at the Krakow FF, Thessaloniki DF, Sofia IFF, Bellaria FF 2012. In ten years of activities it also produced six awarded live-action shorts, winning 100 awards all over the world. Mood Film is now developing and financing three features.

FILMOGRAPHY – EL HOMBRE QUE QUISO SER SEGUNDO, 2014 – THE ALCHEMISTS OF SILENT CINEMA, 2014 – AQUADRO, 2013 – AMMORE, 2013 – HIT THE ROAD, NONNA, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Networking and fantastic landscapes!

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONOwner, Head of Productions

FAVORITE FILM 2014Mommy, Interstellar

MOOD FILM Srl Via Pietro Borsieri 2500195 Romewww.moodfilm.com

TOMMASO ARRIGHI Mood Film

SHORT CV Manuela Cacciamani, executive vice president of Axed Group S.p.a., owner of OnemorePictures S.r.l., and Direct2Brain managing director, has worked in the film industry since the early days of her career. Before founding OnemorePictures, Manuela acquired valuable experience on important sets, working with directors such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Terry Gilliam and Abel Ferrara. She worked on dozens of commercials, videos and short films until she had gained deeper knowledge in the field of digital effects and animation. Combining her knowledge of traditional cinema with that of the digital world, based on creativity and technical innovation, she became in 2015 a shareholder and CEO of Direct2Brain S.r.l., a VFX and animation studio, thus finding the perfect blend between creativity and technology. Since 1997 Direct2Brain S.r.l. has produced digital effects for the world of television, film, and advertising, winning numerous awards. Manuela is also a lecturing professor for the Crossmedia College at the Scuola Holden.

COMPANY PROFILEOnemore Pictures is a production company that was founded in 2006 and is now unique in Italy. Onemoreʼs challenge is that of combining the extraordinary heritage of the Italian film tradition with the utmost in cutting-edge technology in computer graphics and visual-effects, in order to create a new form of expression for traditional cinema. Professionals of the seventh art as well as talented computer graphic artists work together at Onemore on a new form of cinema, allowing them to produce material compatible with the most modern digital technologies, while staying within a limited budget compatible with the current Italian and international market.

FILMOGRAPHY – ÖTZI, 2016 – KRAMPUS, 2015 – UN’ALTRA STORIA, 2014 – NEVERLAKE, 2013 – FAIRYTALE, 2012

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONCEO,

Executive Producer

Onemore Pictures SrlVia Cola di Rienzo 28

00192 [email protected]

www.onemorepictures.it

MANUELA CACCIAMANI Onemore Pictures


SHORT CV Carlotta Calori is a partner of the Rome based company Indigo Film S.r.l.. Amongst other things she is in charge of its international sector. Previously she worked for Orbit, a satellite pay-TV company, as a producer of documentaries and cinema programmes and as a senior producer of its cinema channels, responsible for their launch and on-air branding. She also worked for Film-alpha, where she supervised the production of films and TV series. She graduated in Economics and Philosophy at Bristol University in the UK, has a Master’s in Film and TV Management and attended the Rome Film School.

COMPANY PROFILEIndigo Film, founded in 1999 by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori produces feature films and documentaries. Indigo’s activity include the international co-production This Must be The Place, by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Sean Penn, Il Divo by Paolo Sorrentino, winner of the Jury Prize and the Prix Vulcan at Cannes and Sorrentino’s previous films The Consequences of Love, The Family Friend and One Man Up. Other main productions include The Girl By the Lake by Andrea Molaioli (David di Donatello Award), The Double Hour by Giuseppe Capotondi, The Jewel by Andrea Molaioli and Kryptonite! by Ivan Cotroneo. In 2013 the company produced The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino, winning the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 2014 Academy Awards as well as at the Golden Globes.

FILMOGRAPHY – YOUTH, 2015 – THE INVISIBLE BOY, 2014

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONPartner, Producer

INDIGO FILM SrlVia Torino 135 00184 [email protected]

CARLOTTA CALORI Indigo Film

SHORT CV Marco Chimenz, a partner in Cattleya since 1999 and its president since 2013, is actively involved in the company’s strategic and main creative decisions. His main focus is on developing international relations and activities for both film and television. He oversees the legal, business affairs and marketing departments.

COMPANY PROFILECattleya is Italy’s leading independent film and television producer. The company has produced over 60 feature films, including several high-profile pictures in English for worldwide releases, and a dozen television series. With the creation of think|cattleya in 2009, Cattleya also established itself in the advertising field and is now behind several of the most prestigious Italian campaigns.

FILMOGRAPHY – SUBURRA, 2015 – SI ACCETTANO MIRACOLI, 2015 – GOMORRAH – THE SERIES, 2014 – THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE WORLD, 2014

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Cattleya is interested in developing co-production projects with German-speaking countries for cinema and television.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONPresident

FAVORITE FILM 2014Birdman

Cattleya SrlPiazzale

Valerio Massimo 7/800162 Rome

[email protected] www.cattleya.it

MARCO CHIMENZ Cattleya


SHORT CV Degree in performing arts from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Bologna. At Mediaset since 1990, he has been responsible for editorial marketing and fiction production. He also founded Mediaset’s course for young fiction writers. As story editor, producer and head of fiction production, he has worked on dozens of hours of fiction programming: soap operas, sit coms, prime time drama series, TV movies, mini-series ...

COMPANY PROFILEMediaset is the largest Italian commercial broadcaster in the country.

FILMOGRAPHY – SQUADRA MOBILE, 2014–2015 – GIULIETTA E ROMEO, 2014 – LE TRE ROSE DI EVA, 2012–2015 – CENTOVETRINE, 2000–2015 – L’ONORE E IL RISPETTO, 2006–2012

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I am expecting stimulating meetings with professionals of varying ages and from different cultures and backgrounds. Always on the lookout for good ideas and possible co-productions.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONHead of Fiction Production (RTI-Mediaset)

FAVORITE FILM 2014Birdman, Le Meraviglie

MEDIASET SpaVia Paleocapa 3Milanalfonso.cometti@ mediaset.itwww.mediaset.it

ALFONSO COMETTI Mediaset

SHORT CV Carlo Cresto-Dina is a film producer based in London and working between Italy and the UK. In 1999 he started the documentary and short film section of Fandango Films in Rome under which he produced a string of award winning feature documentaries and debut films including I For India (2004) by Sandhya Suri. Other titles include Calle 54 (2001) by Fernando Trueba, Super 8 Stories (2002) by Emir Kusturica and the international hit Tickets (2005) directed by Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami and Ermanno Olmi. In 2009 Carlo Cresto-Dina founded Tempesta, a new film production company based in London and Bologna. Carlo Cresto-Dina has been a visiting professor of film production at Princeton University, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

COMPANY PROFILETempesta is an award-winning production company, specialising in Arthouse films for international distribution, as well as the development of digital initiatives. The company is based in both Italy and the UK, and is headed by its founder, Carlo Cresto-Dina. Tempesta aims to find and nurture new talent, growing with its authors, and striving to tell stories in ever-different forms. Tempesta produced Alice Rohrwacher’s acclaimed debut feature, Corpo Celeste (2012) and continues to support her work with her latest film, Le Meraviglie (2014), winning the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2014. Tempesta also produced L’Intervallo.

FILMOGRAPHY – LE MERAVIGLIE, 2014 – L’ INTERVALLO, 2012 – CORPO CELESTE, 2010

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I was invited by BLS and I am happy to contribute to the meetings and learn from other European professionals.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONCEO, Producer

FAVORITE FILM 2014If not Le Meraviglie,

then Boyhood.

Tempesta SrlVia Broccaindosso 20

40125 Bolognacarlo.cresto-dina@

tempestafilm.euwww.tempestafilm.it

CARLO CRESTO-DINA Tempesta


SHORT CV Ferdinand Dohna was born in Hamburg in 1969, and earned his PhD in archeology in 1996. He subsequently worked as a story editor for LuxVide, and then joined Kirch Media as a producer in 2002. Since then, he has continues to work as a producer, first at EOS and then at Beta Film. In 2011, he founded the Rome-based production company Dog’s Life.

COMPANY PROFILEFounded in 1959, Beta Film GmbH is one of the world’s leading international distributors of television-license rights, with customers in over 165 countries. Beta Film has been part of Jan Mojto’s group of companies since 2004. Over the years, Beta has built up a global network of contacts, from the U.S. and Latin America to Asia and Europe. Its expertise enables its employees to respond flexibly to the cultural idiosyncrasies and national customs of every country. Beta also works with partners from all areas of the media industry, from public and private broadcasters to special-interest channels, from theatrical and video distributors to organizers of major film festivals. The company’s aim is to offer its customers a comprehensive range of high-quality productions. Dog’s Life is an Italian production company founded by Carlo Macchitella and Ferdinand Dohna with the participation of Beta Film.

FILMOGRAPHY – MAXIMILIAN, 2015 – BORGIA, 2011-2014 – REX, 2007-2014

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Meet a lot of people!

COUNTRYItaly, Germany

POSITIONHead of Production and Coproduction

FAVORITE FILM 2014Happy Valley

Dog’s Life SrlVia G. Avezzana 5100195 RomaItalywww.dogs-life.tv

Beta Film GmbHGrünwalder Weg 28d82041 OberhachingGermanyferdinand.dohna@ betafilm.comwww.betafilm.com

FERDINAND DOHNA Dog’s Life / Beta Film

SHORT CV Wolfgang Fliri studied business informatics in Vienna. Back in South Tyrol he worked as the director of the major local Internet marketing company. Soon he found that moving pictures are becoming more and more important for the communication on the Internet and devoted himself to the film industry. Since 2013 he has been the producer and CEO of the film production company ammira.

COMPANY PROFILEHeadquartered in Merano, South Tyrol, ammira is a production company founded in 2013. The company members have a great deal of experience in the creation of documentaries and image films. Drawing on longstanding experience in the post-production industry, ammira offers 360° service on top of a broad spectrum of technical expertise, such as editing, DCP certified color grading in a 200-m2 screening room, VFX, compositing and 3D.

FILMOGRAPHY – PIXNERS BACKSTAGE, 2015 (executive production) – LAST EXIT, 2014 (service production) – HEIMAT SÜDTIROL – KANONIKUS MICHAEL GAMPER, 2013 (post-production)

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5We are looking for co-production partners for our upcoming projects. Additionally we offer post-production services that fully qualify as Local Spend under the BLS Film Fund scheme.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONProducer, CEO

FAVORITE FILM 2014There are several.

Hard to say.

ammira GmbHRennstallweg 8


www.ammirafilm.com

WOLFGANG FLIRI ammira


MYmovies.itVia de’ Vecchietti 650123 [email protected]

GIANLUCA GUZZO MYmovies.it

SHORT CV Gianluca Guzzo studied classical ballet in France and computer engineering at Milan Politecnico. His career began as professional dancer. He developed a great aesthetic sense and a talent for understanding trends and style. In 2000 he founded MYmovies.it, one of the most important Italian internet and multimedia enterprises. In 2010 he launched MYMOVIESLIVE, an innovative film-streaming platform for social entertainment.

COMPANY PROFILEOnline since 2000, MYmovies.it is Italy’s most important film website. In 2010 it launched the streaming platform MYMOVIESLIVE which revolutionizes the concept of watching a movie online and offers the same “theatre” experience of “collective” viewing a film. MYMOVIESLIVE releases a selection of unreleased movies awarded at the most important film festivals and online previews of the best theatrical and home video releases. It also supports the new schemes participating in the experiments of simultaneous releases (day-and-date, direct-to-VOD). MYmovies.it provides content for La Repubblica, ANSA, SKY, Yahoo and many other online publishers. In 2013 the website was acquired by L’Espresso Group, one of Italy's major multimedia companies.

FILMOGRAPHY Among the most important releases on MYMOVIESLIVE:

– WINTER SLEEP, 2014 – WELCOME TO NEW YORK, 2014 – SNOWDEN’S GREAT ESCAPE (streaming premiere), 2014

MYmovies.it is the Italian distributor of the following films: – DIOR AND I, 2015 – ALTMAN, 2014

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5To get in touch with others producers, sales and distribution companies from Italy and Europe and to analyse new distribution channels for multimedia content, in particular through the VOD model.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONAD, Founder of MYmovies.it

FAVORITE FILM 2014Her

SHORT CV After earning a degree in economics from Bocconi University, I worked for 12 years in Italian and international banks and finance companies. Together with MB Ventures Capital Fund, I founded My-TV in 2000, which became one of Italy’s most interesting web-television companies. In 2009 I became a partner of Indiana Production, together with Fabrizio Donvito and Marco Cohenas, and currently am the company’s CFO.

COMPANY PROFILEFounded in 2005, Indiana is a multimedia company with offices in Milan, Rome, LA and Berlin. Having produced hundreds of commercials, it is now working on several projects for the Italian and international markets. We also launched Il Capitale Umano, an Italian-French co-production, which was chosen by Anica as the Italian candidate for Best Foreign Film at the 2015 Academy Awards. Our 2013 Romeo & Juliet was presented at the Rome Film Festival and released in American cinemas. Paolo Virzì’s La prima Cosa Bella was also chosen as the Italian candidate for Best Foreign Film at the 2011 Academy Awards.

FILMOGRAPHY – IL NOME DEL FIGLIO, 2015 – NESSUNO SI SALVA DA SOLO, 2015 – IL CAPITALE UMANO, 2014 – ITALY IN A DAY, 2014 – LA PRIMA COSA BELLA, 2010

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Last year’s experience was great and very constructive for all of us who work in the film and television industry. I couldn’t miss this second opportunity to meet other production companies, brainstorm and exchange points of view regarding our job, our mission. BLS confirms, once again, its commitment to promoting intercultural exchange in the film business, helping professionals all over Europe to get in touch with one another, with the aim of working together and sharing experiences.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONPartner

FAVORITE FILM 2014Il Capitale Umano

Indiana Production Company Srl

Via Argelati 3320143 Milan

b.habib@ indianaproduction.com

www.indianaproduction.com

BENEDETTO HABIB Indiana Production


SHORT CV Patrick Kofler has grown up speaking German and Italian in Bressanone, South Tyrol. He is father of three children and husband to their mother. Patrick is a passionate alpinist, choosing to climb mountains also to develop a clearer view and focus for his profession. He is owner and CEO of helios sustainable communication and owner and producer in helios sustainable films, has so far produced 18 documentaries and is beginning to produce movies.

COMPANY PROFILEhelios – sustainable films is a film production company based in Bolzano – South Tyrol. The company is the film branch of helios, a marketing and film company on track since 2001. helios produces films ranging from documentaries to movies, that go beyond mere entertainment. Human, social, ecological and philosophical issues are always part of helios’ films.

FILMOGRAPHY In development/in production:

– CLASH! – BECOMING ME – KALOGHERO – PERSEVERANCE

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONProducer

helios – sustainable films GmbHVia Dante 20a39100 [email protected]

PATRICK KOFLER helios – sustainable films

SHORT CV After many years in production, working as a line producer, Valeria Licurgo started working for Fandango in 2003, supervising all productions, co-productions and international deals.

COMPANY PROFILEOwned by producer Domenico Procacci, Fandango is a production and distribution company. Recent titles include Matteo Garrone’s Reality, The Fifth Wheel by Giovanni Veronesi and Nanni Moretti’s Habemus Papam. Other titles include Cannes 2008 Grand Prix winner and Golden Globe nominee Gomorrah, and Ferzan Ozpetek’s delicious Loose Cannons as well as Daniele Vicari’s politically explosive Diaz. Fandango also has an extensive portfolio, including titles such as The Consequences of Love, Quiet Chaos, Remember Me and Dear Diary. In 2014 we will present several titles by international award-winning directors, one of which is A Woman as a Friend. In 2015 El Guri was premiered at the Berlinale Generation 2015.

FILMOGRAPHY – REALITY, 2012 – HABEMUS PAPAM, 2011 – DIAZ, 2012 – CAOS CALMO, 2008 – GOMORRAH, 2008

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Co-production

COUNTRY Italy

POSITIONProduction Supervisor

FAVORITE FILM 2014Boyhood

FANDANGO Srl.Viale Gorizia 19


www.fandango.it

VALERIA LICURGO Fandango


SHORT CV After earning his degree in Economics and Business Administration and specializing in Audiovisual Management, Stefano worked for Medusa’s acquisitions department for two years. Since 2000 he has worked for Lucky Red, where he takes care of project selection, development and acquisition, fund raising, film financing and of all legal aspects connected to production and distribution. He has been involved in the acquisition of over 250 films and in the financing, production and co-production of over 30 projects.

COMPANY PROFILECreated in 1987, Lucky Red has distributed and produced some of the finest feature films by directors from all over the world such as Paolo Sorrentino, Joel & Ethan Coen, Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, Alexander Payne, Tim Burton, Stephen Frears, Abdellatif Kechiche, Sofia Coppola, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alejandro Amenabar, Lars Von Trier, Patrice Leconte, Wong Kar Way, Michel Ocelot, Park Chan Wook, Michael Haneke, Peter Mullan, Luc Jacquet, Francois Ozon, Gurinder Chadha, Hayao Miyazaki, Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Agnes Jaoui, Jacques Perrin, Robert Altman, Frank Oz, Atom Egoyan just to name a few. Since 2005 the company has been distributing all the new Studio Ghibli productions and successfully released the catalogue titles such as Totoro, Porco Rosso and Laputa: Castle in the Sky.

FILMOGRAPHY – IO E LEI, 2015 – IL NOME DEL FIGLIO, 2014 – THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, 2011 – LA PRIMA LINEA, 2009 – IL DIVO, 2008

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONHead of Acquisitions, Production and Business Affairs

FAVORITE FILM 2014Interstellar, American Hustle, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Relatos Salvajes, Nebraska, Ida, The Tale of Pricess Kaguya

LUCKY RED Srl.Via Chinotto 1600195 [email protected]

STEFANO MASSENZI Lucky Red

TRAUDI MESSINI Mediaart Production Coop

Mediaart Production CoopDantestr. 28


www.mediaart.tv

SHORT CV Traudi Messini was born in 1954 in Mannheim (Germany). Before starting her career in TV she studied history of art at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and achieved the degree of a Master of Arts. After 17 years in which she wrote and directed more than 120 TV magazines, reports and films she became a founding member of the cooperative Mediaart Production Coop in 1999 and went on as a producer and director for radio and TV programs. From 2001 on Mrs Messini worked as an executive producer for the monthly TV Magazine “Frauenmagazin dF” for “RAI Südtirol”.

COMPANY PROFILEMediaart Production Coop was founded in 1999, initially as an alliance of three freelance journalists who recognized the advantages of an agile cooperative as a modern instrument of corporate governance. As a coop, Mediaart can address the technical and substantive challenges of a wide array of local and international clientele in the most advantageous way. Mediaart Production Coop’s lean corporate structure allows it to customize its work to each individual project using the personnel best suited for each specific task.

FILMOGRAPHY Artist portraits of:

– WALTER PICHLER – OSWALD OBERHUBER – MATTEO THUN – FRANZ PICHLER

In pre-production: – EVA SCHLÄFT

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Just in the process of starting to produce my first international cinema feature film (as a Co-producer), I am interested to make as many contacts as possible and learn from experienced international cinema film producers.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONProducer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Her,

Im Labyrinth des Schweigens


PHILIPP MORAVETZ Echo Film

SHORT CV Philipp started his career as a production assistant in Munich. He went on to study film production at the Centro Sperimentale, the national film school in Rome and finalised his studies with a Certificate in Producing at UCLA in the US. In 2012 he co-founded Echo Film, a production company based in Bozen, South Tyrol. He worked as Line Producer and Production coordinator on several feature films, shot in South Tyrol. Currently he is developing 3 feature films related with stories set in his home region, using the knowledge and experience he gained during his studies and professional career.

COMPANY PROFILEWe are four South Tyroleans with a lot of work experience as producers, production managers and directors between us. In January 2012 we established ECHO FILM GmbH, based in Bozen/Bolzano, to make local and international films with young established directors and to offer our local knowledge as a service provider for the co-production of international projects.

FILMOGRAPHY As executive and service producer:

– CHRIEG, 2015 – CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, 2014 – FORCE MAJEURE, 2014 – FUORI MIRA, 2014

In development: – THREE PEAKS

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I am very interested in getting to know new people from the european business, meeting other producers to be able to create a professional network between South Tyrol and other european countries.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONProducer

FAVORITE FILM 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel

Echo Film SrlBahnhofsallee 339100 [email protected]

SHORT CV An Italian national, Roberto Olla has a law degree in public law and a Ph.D. in European law (thesis in audiovisual and media law). He joined Eurimages in January 2002 as a project manager dealing mainly with support for feature films. In 2008, he became the head of Eurimages. Before this, Roberto was a researcher in media law at the European University Institute of Florence, worked in the distribution department of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union and was a legal adviser on audiovisual matters to the European Commission in Brussels. Roberto participates as a legal expert in several European training initiatives in the film sector.

COMPANY PROFILEActive since 1989, Eurimages was established as a cultural support fund of the Council of Europe. It currently includes 36 of the 47 member states of the Strasbourg-based organization. Eurimages promotes the European audiovisual industry by providing financial support to feature films, animations and documentaries produced in Europe. In doing so, it encourages co-operation between professionals established in different European countries. Eurimages has four support schemes: cinema co-production, theatrical distribution, exhibition and digital equipment for cinema theatres.

COUNTRYFrance

POSITIONExecutive Director

Eurimages Conseil de l’Europe

Bâtiment AgoraAllée des Droits de

l’Homme67075 Strasbourg

[email protected]/Eurimages

ROBERTO OLLA Eurimages


SHORT CV Gregorio Paonessa worked in the world of photography for twenty years before becoming a partner at Donzelli Publishing House in 1997, where he served as marketing director. He established Vivo film in 2004 together with Marta Donzelli, and serves as managing director for the independent film production and distribution company. In 2009, the annual report of the Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo acknowledged Vivo film as being Italy’s largest documentary film production company.

COMPANY PROFILEVivo film, founded in 2004 by Gregorio Paonessa and Marta Donzelli, is an independent production company of award-winning art-house films. In 2007, Vivo film’s Il mio paese won the David di Donatello Award and Imatra was awarded the Pardo d’Oro – Special Jury Prize at Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present competition. In 2010 Le quattro volte was premiered in Cannes Director’s Fortnight Section and won the Europa Cinemas Label Award. In April 2013, Alberi, a cinematic installation in loop, premiered at the prestigious V/W Dome of MoMA PS1. The same year Via Castellana Bandiera premiered in Competition at the Venice Film Festival. Vergine giurata had its world premiere in Competition at the 2015 Berlinale.

FILMOGRAPHY – VERGINE GIURATA, 2015 – VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA, 2013 – LE QUATTRO VOLTE, 2010 – IMATRA, 2007 – IL MIO PAESE, 2006

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I attended BLS’s INCONTRI last year. In the same year, we shot in Bolzano for three weeks during our last production, Vergine Giurata, thanks to the BLS Film Fund. We appreciate how hard BLS works and, based on last year’s experience, I think these are going to be three more days of interesting and useful panels and meetings.

COUNTRYItaly


FAVORITE FILM 2014Hungry Hearts,White God

Vivo film SrlVia Giovanni Antonelli 4100197 Romagregoriopaonessa@ vivofilm.itwww.vivofilm.it

GREGORIO PAONESSA Vivo film

SHORT CV Andreas Pichler was born in 1967 in Bolzano, and studied and worked for many years in Berlin and Bologna. He made videos and dance films before entering the world of documentary filmmaking. His award-winning films have been shown at many festivals and on European TV stations. His latest film The Venice Syndrome was released theatrically in several countries. Today he works as a director and writer in Italy, Germany and Austria and as a producer for Echo Film in Bolzano. He is a co-founder and long-time president of the FAS (Film Association of South Tyrol), and teaches at Filmuniversität Babelsberg and the University of Venice.

COMPANY PROFILEWe are four South Tyroleans with a lot of work experience as producers, production managers and directors between us. In January 2012 we established ECHO FILM GmbH, based in Bozen/Bolzano, to make local and international films with young established directors and to offer our local knowledge as a service provider for the co-production of international projects.

FILMOGRAPHY As executive and service producer:

– CHRIEG, 2015 – CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, 2014 – FORCE MAJEURE, 2014 – FUORI MIRA, 2014

In development: – THREE PEAKS

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONProducer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Force Majeure

Echo Film GmbHBahnhofsallee 3


ANDREAS PICHLER Echo Film


SHORT CV Martin Rattini (born 1975 in Southtyrol) graduated from the Kolleg für Fotografie in Vienna in 1998 and achieved a diploma as cinematographer from ZeLIG Film-school in Bolzano in 2001. In the same year he was co-founder of helios, sustainable communication and has since then been working as photographer and cinematographer/filmmaker shooting documentaries and commercials with an emphasis on social and environmental issues. Together with his longstanding partners he recently founded helios, sustainable films which is co-/producing documentaries and fiction. He is passionate about analog photography and an enthusiastic RC-plane pilot.

COMPANY PROFILEhelios – sustainable films is a film production company based in Bolzano – South Tyrol. The company is the film branch of helios, a marketing and film company on track since 2001. helios produces films ranging from documentaries to movies, that go beyond mere entertainment. Human, social, ecological and philosophical issues are always part of helios’ films.

FILMOGRAPHY In development/production:

– CLASH! – BECOMING ME – KALOGHERO – PERSEVERANCE

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Contacts, projects, knowhow & knowledge

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONProducer

helios – sustainable films GmbHVia Dante 20a39100 [email protected]

MARTIN RATTINI helios – sustainable films

SHORT CV Nicola Serra has been the CEO of Palomar since 2010. He has worked on many productions, with his main 2014 projects as film producer being: Il Giovane Favoloso and the TV-series Braccialetti Rossi – Red Band Society. The former, directed by Mario Martone, follows Leopardi’s autobiography and literary career. Presented in Competition at the Venice Film Festival as well as at the TIFF, London Film Festival and many others, it was a great success in Italy and abroad. Braccialetti Rossi is a TV-series about friendship, values and life; it is a modern tale about the power found in sharing. Its heroes are six youngsters who are thrown together in a hospital by destiny, and who create a group – a secret society of sorts. Steven Spielberg has adapted the same format for the American Market.

COMPANY PROFILEPalomar, founded by Carlo Degli Esposti in 1986, is one of the oldest Italian television and cinema production companies; it is a market leader in Italy in the drama sector for the main TV networks. Since its inception, Palomar has worked across the range in television and cinema, producing dramas, docudramas, movies, informational programs and entertainment. So far, more than 100 productions have been completed and distributed, providing some of the most successful prime-time TV dramas of the last ten years.

FILMOGRAPHY – BRACCIALETTI ROSSI 2, 2015 – IL GIOVANE FAVOLOSO, 2014 – IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO, 2013 – L’INTREPIDO, 2013 – IL GIOVANE MONTALBANO, 2012

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Participating in INCONTRI #5 is an experience that generates a sort of added value for Palomar, especially when the experience becomes a means for exploration and for shared discussion about topical themes in our industry, together with highly qualified international speakers.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONChief Executive Officer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Il Giovane Favoloso,

Relatos salvajes

Palomar S.p.a.Strada Guglielmo Imperiali

di Francavilla 400135 Rome

nicola.serra@ palomaronline.com

www.palomaronline.com

NICOLA SERRA Palomar


SHORT CV After having worked in production with directors such as Bellocchio, Losey, Monicelli, Cecilia Valmarana began working at Gaumont Italy. In 1985 she joined Rai, first as assistente alla regia, then as a programmista regista at Rai Uno, and later was co-opted in macrostructures, which deals with film and fiction. After a brief period in rights purchasing she went back to production in 1998. She has been part of Rai Cinema since the birth of the company and is currently the head of production and coproduction.

COMPANY PROFILERai Cinema is a subsidiary company of Rai, born with the specific aim of strengthening the Italian film industry. The duty of investing in the Italian cinema production, required by law, has been transformed over time into an opportunity for cultural development of the industry. Rai Cinema offers creative, production and financial contributions to independent producers who wish to complete film projects. High-quality film production is supported by film purchasing on international markets. To ensure visibility for its titles, Rai Cinema has been active in film distribution and home video through its subsidiary 01 distribution, which has gained an important role in the world of film distribution in Italy, ensuring previously unknown support to the new Italian cinema. Rai Cinema’s commitment to acquisition of audiovisual products in Italy and abroad is very important to ensuring that Rai channels have good coverage for films, TV movies, series and animation.

FILMOGRAPHY – LATIN LOVER, 2015 – MIA MADRE, 2015 – IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI, 2015 – IL RAGAZZO INVISIBILE, 2014 – SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE 2006

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONHead of Production and Coproduction

RAI CINEMAPiazza Adriana 1200193 Romececilia.valmarana@ raicinema.itwww.raicinema.it

CECILIA VALMARANA Rai Cinema

MIR Cinematografica Srl.Fabbrica del Vapore Via G. Procaccini 5


www.mircinema.com

SHORT CV Francesco Virga founded the Milan-based MIR Cinematografica in 2005. He is a member of DOC/IT – the association of Italian documentary producers since its establishment. Virga is also a member of the European network ACE Producers and of ANICA, the Italian association of cinema producers.

COMPANY PROFILEThe Milan-based MIR produces feature films and creative documentaries in association with national and foreign partners such as key producers, TV networks and international film funds. It is currently producing Bianco, the new feature by Daniele Vicari (2012 Berlinale Panorama Audience Award with Diaz: Donʼt clean up this blood) an Italian-French coproduction with Aeternam Films (FR); and The School for the Unemployed, by Paolo Vari (Fame Chimica), an Italian-German-Swiss coproduction with Dschoint Ventschr (CH) and Komplizen Film (DE).

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONSenior Producer, Founder

FAVORITE FILM 2014Boyhood,

Anime Nere

FRANCESCO VIRGA MIR Cinematografica


BLS · Business Location Südtirol Alto AdigeDompassage – Via Passaggio Duomo 1539100 [email protected]

SHORT CV Christiana Wertz, born in Cologne in 1978, studied German philology, history and business administration in Cologne and Oxford. After working for the Goethe Institute in San Francisco, the German Films Service + Marketing in Munich and FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, she was tasked with building up BLS’s Film Fund & Commission in October 2009 and has headed the department since that time. She is thus responsible for film funding, location development, promoting South Tyrol as a shooting location, and the film commission itself.

COMPANY PROFILEBLS, South Tyrol’s film-funding program, has operated as a financing and service partner for film and television productions since 2011. Every year, it makes funds totaling € 5 million available for production and development funding. Subsidies are not contingent upon the location of the applicant production company. One criterion for the awarding of funds, however, is the economic territorial effect: it must be at least 150% of the requested funding. In addition to film support in this narrower sense, BLS’s mandate also includes the following areas of responsibility: production and location services for projects that will be filmed in South Tyrol, promotion of South Tyrol as a film location both at home and abroad, and the development of South Tyrol as a film location from a professional point of view. As part of this last area of responsibility, BLS has already been able to settle several film-service providers in South Tyrol and has implemented a variety of education and training initiatives for local filmmakers.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONHead of Film Fund & Commission

FAVORITE FILM 2014Film: Das Labyrinth des Schweigens,Series: The Legacy

CHRISTIANA WERTZ BLS

Sky ItaliaVia Monte Penice 7 Via G. Procaccini 5

20138 Milan [email protected]

www.sky.it

SHORT CV Roberto Amoroso is the Creative Director of Original Productions for Sky Cinema. The TV-series 1992, worldwide sensation Gomorrah, as well as RomanzoCriminale (sold in more than 60 countries) and the Italian version of In Treatment have been developed under his direction, as well as many other TV-movies and mini-series. He has worked as the creative director for Sky’s movie channels since the company was launched in 2003, defining the network’s brand and identity. He previously lived in the United States, where he worked at the Sundance Channel. His television work has been honoured on numerous occasions. Awards include: 6 Gold Promax Awards, 10 Silver Promax Awards, 2 Silver Telly Awards, 7 Bronze Telly Awards, 1 D & AD Award.

COMPANY PROFILESky Italia, founded on 31 July 2003, offers a model of entertainment that is unique within the landscape of Italian television: it has revolutionized television viewing, combining the best in programming and events, both national and international, with the most innovative of technologies. There are 4.76 million Italian families who have chosen to subscribe to Sky, and its television audience exceeds 15 million viewers.

FILMOGRAPHY – 1992, 2015 – GOMORRAH – THE SERIES, 2014 – AMORE OGGI, 2014 – ROMANZOCRIMINALE, 2008

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONHead of Fiction,

Creative Services

FAVORITE FILM 2014Storie Pazzesche

ROBERTO AMOROSO Sky Italia

Rai FictionViale Giuseppe Mazzini 14 00195 [email protected] [email protected] www.rai.it

SHORT CV Former editor and head writer, I became an executive some years ago. But my mother is still of the idea that I should have gone into cooking. Nevertheless, I have contributed to the creation of the first and most important soap in Italy (Un posto al sole), which was a milestone for industrial fiction in Italy. Now I deal with the editorial and productive process of TV-movies, mini-series and serials.

COMPANY PROFILERai is Italy’s national public broadcaster and the country’s biggest audiovisual and cultural company.

MOTIVATION TO PARTICIPATE IN INCONTRI #5 INCONTRI represents an important opportunity to know interesting colleagues and possible coproduction partners from an area that is very meaningful for someone, like me, who grew up between Italy and Germany.

COUNTRYItaly

POSITIONRai Fiction executive

MICHELE ZATTA Rai Fiction

GERMANYPARTICIPANTS

Reflecting Germany’s political system, the German film-funding system is organized on a federal level and on a regional/state level.

The federal system is divided into the FFA (Filmförderungsanstalt – German Federal Film Board) and the BKM (Federal Ministry of Culture). The FFA is geared towards strengthening the film industry according to economic principles, while the BKM focuses on the cultural aspects of films.

In 2007, a new fund for the film industry was launched by the Federal Government: the DFFF (German Federal Film Fund). Originally established for three years, the DFFF was then extended for another three years until the end of 2012. Meanwhile the German government agreed to a unlimited extension with a budget of € 50 million for 2015. The German Federal Film Board (FFA) in Berlin is responsible for the execution of the DFFF.

Up to 20% of the approved production costs spent in Germany may be funded. Not only major productions benefit from the DFFF, but funding has also gone to small and medium-sized projects.

The DFFF aims at improving the conditions for the film industry, preserving as well as enhancing the international competitiveness of film-related companies, and at providing sustainable impulses for Germany as a film production hub as well as achieving other economic effects.

MOST SUCCESSFUL NATIONAL FILM/BOX OFFICE TAKE

THE PHYSICIAN € 31.3 MM

(2.6 MM ADMISSIONS)


THE HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

€ 64.9 MM (6 MM ADMISSIONS)


2014

149 / 6580.5 MM

1,630 / 4,637

NONE

€ 350 MM

FACTS 2014


121,7 MM

26.7%


MARKET SHARE OF NATIONAL FILMS

DOMESTIC FILMS RELEASED /CO-PRODUCTIONS

POPULATION

1.51

AVERAGE NUMBER OF CINEMA VISITS PER CAPITA

NUMBER OF CINEMAS /SCREENS

TAX INCENTIVES AVAILABLE

PUBLIC FILM FUNDING AVAILABLE

On the regional/state level, almost every federal state has its own film fund. These regional funds include Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFörderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), and Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg (MFG) and Nordmedia, to name the largest. In order to access the regional funds, producers are required to generate a specific “economic effect” in the respective region. All German film funds support the development, production and distribution of films.

Another partner for German producers is television. The two public channels, ARD and ZDF, as well as the private broadcasters are involved in the co-financing of German feature films. They also contribute to the financing of the FFA’s project funding program.

International producers are recommended to find a German partner in order to access the subsidy programmes. To be officially registered as a German film, a film must have a certain percentage of German financing. In those cases where the co-production is between countries with an existing treaty, German financial participation must amount to at least 20%. Sources: FFA, SPIO 2014

FURTHER INFORMATIONFFA (German Federal Film Board)Große Präsidentenstr. 910178 BerlinGermanyPhone +49-30-27 57 70Fax +49-30-27 57 71 [email protected]

SHORT CV Marcus Ammon is SVP Film at Sky Deutschland. He is responsible for the set-up, positioning and expansion of the Sky film- and TV series channels as well as for entertainment formats on the platform. Among other projects, he led the launch of the channels Sky 3D and Sky Atlantic HD and is currently preparing Sky’s entry into Original Production. Ammon has more than 15 years of experience. Between 2003 and 2009 he was the Managing Director of MGM Networks Deutschland GmbH; before that, he was the Program Director at Universal Studios Networks Germany GmbH (now: NBC Universal), heading up content acquisition and program planning for Universals Pay TV channels 13th Street and Studio Universal.

COMPANY PROFILESky Deutschland is the leading pay-TV provider in Germany and Austria with more than 4.1 million subscribers and annual revenues amounting to approximately 1.7 billion euro. The Sky platform comprises more than 80 exclusive channels, almost all of which are also available in HD. The program portfolio of Sky includes live sports, together with the only German 24/7 sports news channel Sky Sport News HD, feature films, series, childrenʼs programs, and documentaries. Sky Go, the leading online TV in Germany, provides access to Sky programming via mobile devices and PCs. Moreover, the online media library Snap by Sky offers thousands of titles – among them blockbusters, classic films, complete series box sets and childrenʼs programs.

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Professional network

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONSVP Film

FAVORITE FILM 2014The Grand Budapest

Hotel

Sky Deutschland Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG

Medienallee 2685774 Unterföhring,

[email protected]

www.sky.de

MARCUS AMMON Sky Deutschland

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SHORT CV Simon studied directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. During his studies he spent time in Los Angeles working for New Line Cinema and Scott Free Productions. When he returned to Germany he started work as a producer on one of the most successful daily soaps on German television Sturm der Liebe. In 2009 Simon founded Elvira Filmproduktion. Starting in 2011 he was responsible for Gate Film productions The Other Wife, Unknown Heart and Valentine’s Kiss that have been successfully sold in over 80 territories by TM International, the world sales unit of German media powerhouse TMG. In 2012 Simon also founded Elvira Filmproduktion.

COMPANY PROFILEElvira Filmproduktion develops and coproduces feature films as well as series and movies for TV networks and other non-linear platforms. It is founded and owned by Producer Simon Assmann.

FILMOGRAPHY Projects in development:

– BLENDER – THE OTHER WORLD – FAMILY TREE – DER GARTEN DES UHRMACHERS – AUCH UNTER KÜHEN GIBT ES ZICKEN

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5My motivation to participate at INCONTRI #5 is to exchange thoughts and ideas with people in the industry in a relaxed atmosphere. I’m looking forward to discuss latest trends in the TV-market and the outlook on productions of high-end story telling in collaboration with non-linear platforms.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProducer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Das Attentat – Sarajevo 1914,Boyhood

Elvira FilmproduktionElvira Str.1480636 Munichsimon.assmann@ elvira-film.dewww.elvira-film.de

SIMON ASSMANN Elvira Filmproduktion

SHORT CV Founder and managing director Christian Becker was born in Krefeld, Germany. After studying business, he entered HFF Munich Film School in 1994, where he produced more than 15 short films and commercials. His If it donʼt fit, use a bigger hammer, directed by Peter Thorwarth, earned a foreign Student Academy Award Nomination. As a former partner and managing director of INDIGO FILMPRODUKTION and BECKER & HÄBERLE FILMPRODUKTION, he cultivated and expanded his network over the years, assembling a highly motivated creative team. Christian Becker has led more than 30 productions and won many awards including the German Film Award (Lola Award).

COMPANY PROFILERAT PACK serves theatrical audiences and produces TV movies and international TV event films. Founder and managing director Christian Becker has had a potent network of directors and writers since film school. Kristina Strohm, meanwhile, serves as financial director while Gero Worstbrock contributes wide-ranging experience in film financing. This creative pool – overseen by producers Benjamin Munz, Martin Richter and Martin Zimmermann with the help of line producers Oliver Nommsen and Johanna Paulke and head of development Doris Seisenberger as well as Darina Seng – there is an ongoing exchange of ideas and development of new projects in a think-tank atmosphere.

FILMOGRAPHY – FACK JU GÖHTE (SUCK ME SHAKESPEARE), 2013 – DIE WELLE (THE WAVE), 2008 – WICKIE UND DIE STARKEN MÄNNER (WICKIE THE VIKING), 2009

– HUI BUH DAS SCHLOSSGESPENST (HUI BUH THE GOOFY GHOST), 2006

– BANG BOOM BANG, 1999

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONManaging Director,

Producer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Serial (Bad) Weddings,

The Physician

Rat Pack Filmproduktion GmbH

Beethovenplatz 2 80336 Munich

christian.becker@ ratpack-film.de

www.ratpack-film.de

CHRISTIAN BECKER Rat Pack Filmproduktion


SHORT CV Wolfgang Behr started his career as a manager of business administration at Tandem Communications in Munich. After being producer / shareholder at Neue Bioskop Film from 2007 onward, in 2014 Wolfgang Behr founded Aventin together with Bernd Schloetterer (Palatin Media). He finished his master’s degree at GSBA Zurich / SUNY Albany (2001), attended the Media Mega program in 2005 and is an Alumni of Michael Kuhn’s outstanding Inside Pictures program.

COMPANY PROFILEBernd Schloetterer (Palatin Media) and Wolfgang Behr founded Aventin in 2014. The company focuses upon the packaging, financing and production of international feature films and TV productions.

FILMOGRAPHY The company is newly founded – no filmography yet.Filmography of Wolfgang Behr:

– JACK, 2014 – CHALET GIRL, 2011 – FÖHNLAGE, 2011 – DER GROSSE KATER, 2010

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I have heard many very interesting things about this program, and was delighted to be invited for 2015.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONManaging Director, Producer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,Nightcrawler

Aventin Filmproduktion GmbHHolzstr. 2880469 [email protected]

WOLFGANG BEHR Aventin Filmproduktion

SHORT CV Annie Brunner was born in 1969 in Bruneck, Italy and studied German literature and language as well as theater studies. She worked as a set designer and dramatic advisor for different theaters, and from 1994 to 1997 she was a freelance set designer for film and television. Between 1997 and 2001 she was head lector and dramatic advisor for German productions at KirchMedia and responsible for German co-productions there (THE TUNNEL). Since 2001 she has been the managing director of Roxy Film, and since 2003 managing partner. Both of her first two feature films Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot and Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland won the Silver Lola.

COMPANY PROFILERoxy Film was founded in the 1950s by Luggi Waldleitner in Munich. In 2001 todayʼs producers Dr. Andreas Richter, Annie Brunner and Ursula Woerner revived the company and gave new life to Roxy Film. To date Roxy Film has produced several successful and award-winning feature films for theatrical release in addition to TV movies.

FILMOGRAPHY – LUIS TRENKER – DER SCHMALE GRAT DER WAHRHEIT, 2015 – HIRNGESPINSTER (FLIGHTS OF FANCY), 2015 – ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND (ALMANYA), 2011

– SOMMER IN ORANGE (SUMMER IN ORANGE), 2011 – WER FRÜHER STIRBT IST LÄNGER TOT (GRAVE DECISIONS), 2006

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProducer

Roxy Film GmbHFriedrichstr. 1780801 Munich

[email protected]

ANNIE BRUNNER Roxy Film


SHORT CV After graduating from the LMU Munich with an MA in German Studies and Art History, he founded the film production company schlicht und ergreifend together with Johannes Schmid. He received the VGF stipend for young producers and won the VGF-Award for Best New Producer at the Bavarian Film Awards in 2004 for Aus der Tiefe des Raumes. After producing the short films Flügelfleisch and Merle, Budweg cooperated with Kinderfilm GmbH on Johannes Schmidʼs debut feature film Blöde Mütze! Philipp Budweg became a member of the German and the European Film Academies in 2012.

COMPANY PROFILELIEBLINGSFILM GMBH regards itself as a classic independent film production company with a focus on high quality feature films for the national as well as the international market. Besides developing their own film projects, the company also specialises in adapting existing literature for the big screen. Lieblingsfilm was initially founded under the name schlicht und ergreifend Film GmbH by the producers Thomas Blieninger and Philipp Budweg and the directors Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Stefan Betz as well as Johannes Schmid in 2008. Producer Robert Marciniak joined in 2010 and a year later the company was re-named LIEBLINGSFILM GMBH.

FILMOGRAPHY – AGNES, 2014 – SAPHIRBLAU, 2013 – RICO, OSKAR UND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN, 2013 – RUBINROT, 2012 – WINTERTOCHTER, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Aside from our participation with our project Alpenbrennen (children’s film in coproduction with helios, Bozen) we have various film projects in development for which we are hoping to find potential partners at INCONTRI. On a personally side I enjoy visiting South Tyrol in the springtime and meeting people at the festival.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProducer, CEO

FAVORITE FILM 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Boxtrolls

LIEBLINGSFILM GmbHMüllerstr. 3580469 [email protected]

PHILIPP BUDWEG Lieblingsfilm

SHORT CV Cornelius Conrad was born in 1979. After graduating from high school in 1998 and working for Bavaria International Film Sales, he studied film and television at Munich Film School. After graduating in 2004, he started working as a writer and producer on a number of feature films, TV shows and documentaries. He currently works as executive producer (commissioning editor) for children’s films at Bayerischer Rundfunk. BR is a member of ARD.

COMPANY PROFILEBayerischer Rundfunk (BR) is Bavaria’s public broadcasting service. It has around eight million viewers and listeners per day in Germany, and is one of Europe’s most respected broadcast institutions. It has ten radio and two television stations, two internationally renowned symphony orchestras and a celebrated chorus. BR makes a significant contribution to the ARD network, which consists of nine regional public broadcasters and the external service Deutsche Welle. We provide a broad range of exceptional productions for the five main ARD TV channels: Das Erste; the cultural channels ARTE and 3sat; KiKA, the advert-free children’s channel; and the current affairs and documentary channel PHOENIX. ARD also operates three digital TV channels. BR is renowned for its outstanding feature films and high-quality documentaries.

FILMOGRAPHY – LANDAUER – DER PRÄSIDENT, 2014 – ZEIT DER KANNIBALEN, 2014 – DIE SCHWARZEN BRÜDER, 2013 – LAUF JUNGE LAUF, 2013 – GOLD, 2013

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Networking opportunities

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONEditor

FAVORITE FILM 2014Lego Movie

Bayerischer RundfunkFloriansmühlstr. 60


www.br.de

CORNELIUS CONRAD Bayerischer Rundfunk


SHORT CV Peter Dinges has been CEO of the German Federal Film Board (FFA) since 1 April 2004. Dinges is a member of the advisory board of German Films, the national information and advisory center for the promotion of German films worldwide, as well as a member of the general assembly of Vision Kino. In September 2014, he was elected Chairman of the Board for the pan-European network EFAD (European Film Agency Directors). In 2008 Peter Dinges was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for his commitment to promote and foster the cooperation between the French and German film industries. He was also appointed Officier de lʼOrdre des Arts et des Lettres in May 2014 by the French Minister of Culture.

COMPANY PROFILEThe German Federal Film Board (FFA) supports the structure of the German film industry and the creative and artistic quality of German films. The FFA is an institution incorporated under public law. It carries out its business according to the law laid out for the promotion of German Cinema – Filmförderungsgesetz (FFG). The FFAʼs duties include enforcing measures to promote German cinema and to improve the structure of the German film industry, supporting the national economic affairs of the film industry in Germany. Further duties include improving the foundations for the distribution and market-driven exploitation of the German cinema at home, as well as its economic and cultural position abroad. Furthermore, the FFA has been appointed to support the cooperation between the film industry and television providers with the goal of strengthening German cinema and to work towards an alignment and coordination of film support offered by the Federal Government and regional states.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONCEO

FAVORITE FILM 2014Phoenix

German Federal Film Board (FFA)Große Präsidentenstr. 910178 [email protected]

PETER DINGES German Federal Film Board (FFA)

SHORT CV Benny grew up in Munich where he did not finish his education as a sculptor and stonemason. Afterwards he was working for the Bavarian State Opera and at a nice little cinema which showed only Italian and French Films from the 50s to late 70s that nobody wanted to see (apart from him and a bunch of people who today all work in the German cinema industry). In 1997 Benny came to Berlin to work as a post-production supervisor and soon as an associate producer for documentary films and debut films. In 2002 he left Berlin for Barcelona, but soon came back to found Rohfilm with his former colleague and dear friend Karsten Stöter in 2005.

COMPANY PROFILERohfilm is a German independent production company with offices in Berlin and Leipzig. Founded in 2005 by Benny Drechsel and Karsten Stöter, we develop and finance feature films for international cinema audiences. Our focus is on stories with strong cinematic conviction as well as finding and fostering filmmakers with distinctive talent from all over the world.

FILMOGRAPHY – LUNCHBOX, 2013 – MY SWEET PEPPER LAND, 2013 – FAR END OF THE MILKYWAY, 2012 – LORE, 2012, – THE RIVER USED TO BE A MAN, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Rohfilm is happy to participate in this year’s INCONTRI, as we also think it is important to foster dialogue as regards co-productions between Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Rohfilm and the South Tyrolean company Echo Film are co-producing the feature film Three Peaks by Jan Zabeil which is supposed to be shot in South Tyrol. Therefore concrete financing and production models are really interesting to us not only for this very moment but also for the future.

COUNTRYGermany


FAVORITE FILM 2014The Tribe

Rohfilm GmbHEisenbahnstr. 99


www.rohfilm.de

BENNY DRECHSEL Rohfilm


SHORT CV Andreas Eicher (born 1965) has been working as a producer since 1996. With his former company box! Film he produced several feature films for cinema and television as CEO and shareholder, among them Female2 Seeks Happy End (2002), Adam & Eva (2003), Piazza Delle Cinque Lune (“Five Moons Plaza”, 2003), Nothing But Ghosts (2007) and Muzika (2008). Since January 2010, he has been working as a producer at cine plus Filmproduktion. Since August 2013, Andreas Eicher has headed IRIS Productions Deutschland GmbH which has now relocated to Berlin in 2014.

COMPANY PROFILEFounded by Nicolas Steil in 1986, the IRIS Group is an international group of production and distribution companies based in Luxembourg, Belgium, France, England and Germany. IRIS Productions Deutschland GmbH was founded in Munich in 2011 with the goal of initiating international co-productions on a European level. As a result, the IRIS Group could participate in the two mainly German feature films Colonia Dignidad by Florian Gallenberger and Die dunkle Seite des Mondes by Stefan Rick. The focus going forward will be European co-productions mid-sized budgets. IRIS Productions Deutschland GmbH will also participate as co-producer in small international projects that are in tune with the groupʼs overall strategy and have above-average assessment potential.

FILMOGRAPHY – THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, 2016 – COLONIA, 2015

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5To intensify and extend my international network and learn about recent trends and topics of our business.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProducer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Jack

IRIS Productions Deutschland GmbHKottbusser Damm 7310967 [email protected]

ANDREAS EICHER IRIS Productions Deutschland

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Anstalt des

öffentlichen RechtsZDF-Straße 155127 Mainz

[email protected]

WOLFGANG FEINDT ZDF

SHORT CV Wolfgang Feindt has a masterʼs degree in theatre studies from the University of Giessen and a masterʼs in cultural management from the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg. Following his studies he worked in the theatre, and then he went on to edit scripts covering all genres for many production companies, in particular for the department for international co-productions, Ufa Film, Hamburg. Since 1996 he has worked as executive editor for ZDF. He is responsible for German series, TV dramas, special events and mainly international co-productions.

COMPANY PROFILEZDF is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by all the federal states of Germany (Bundesländer) in 1963.

FILMOGRAPHY – JUSSI ADLER OLSON, 2015 – THE TEAM, 2015 – ANNE HOLT, 2014 – ARNE DAHL, 2014 – KOMMISSAR BECK, 1998–2009

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONHead of Series

and International Coproductions


SHORT CV In 1994 Marc Gabizon became senior vice president of TELEPOOL (Europäisches Fernsehprogrammkontor GmbH). He immediately took over the Acquisitions & Sales department, before being appointed in 1998 as authorized signatory and member of the management board of TELEPOOL GmbH responsible in for co-productions and co-financing. Under his management the company acquired the German-language rights for many successful and interesting films. These include the Oscar-winning film Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamkakkuschi), in association with Universum Film, which was a great success with cinema-goers in 2003 and the Sven Unterwaldt film Seven Dwarves − Men Alone in the Wood with Otto Waalkes, Mirko Nontschew, Heinz Hoenig and Markus Maria Profitlich. When Wild Bunch Germany was established in 2009 as a subsidiary of Wild Bunch S.A. Paris for theatrical distribution and all rights acquisitions of feature films for German-speaking Europe, Marc Gabizon became its Managing Director.

COMPANY PROFILEIn April 2009, Wild Bunch Germany was established as a subsidiary of Wild Bunch S.A. Paris for all-rights acquisition and distribution of feature films for German-speaking Europe. Wild Bunch SA has been an established distributor in the international independent sector for many years now. In addition to Germany (Wild Bunch Germany) and France (Wild Bunch Distribution, Wild Side), the company also has distributor branches in Italy (BIM) and Spain (VERTIGO).

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONManaging Director

FAVORITE FILM 2014Mommy

MARC GABIZON Wild Bunch Germany

WILD BUNCH GERMANY GMBHHolzstr. 3080469 Munichmgabizon@ wildbunch-germany.dewww.wildbunch-germany.de

SHORT CV Malte Grunert was born in 1967 in Berlin. After attending law school at the FU in Berlin, he began working in the industry in the field of documentaries in Munich. For many years Malte produced television at various companies including Bavaria Film and CLT UFA. From 2006 until 2009, he was head of the feature division at Studio Hamburg. After leaving Studio Hamburg he founded Amusement Park in 2009.

COMPANY PROFILEAMUSEMENT PARK FILMS was founded in 2009 by Malte Grunert. The company is based in Berlin and Hamburg and creates quality projects with commercial appeal for an international audience. AMUSEMENT PARK FILMS makes films in both English and German and is focused on mid-budget features. The current development slate includes new projects from directors David Mackenzie (Hallam Foe) and Lone Scherfig (Riot Club, An Education, One Day) as well as writers Purvis & Wade (Casino Royale, Skyfall). Also in development are several TV series.

FILMOGRAPHY – UNTER DEM SAND (LAND OF MINE), 2015 – MR. TURNER, 2014 (co-producer) – A MOST WANTED MAN, 2014 – PERFECT SENSE, 2011 – CRY OF THE OWL, 2009

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Good word of mouth from previous participants.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProducer, Owner

FAVORITE FILM 2014Force Majeure

AMUSEMENT PARK FILMS GMBH

Allende Platz 320146 Hamburg

[email protected]

www.amusementpark -films.com

MALTE GRUNERT Amusement Park


SHORT CV Since February 1st, 2012, Cornelia Hammelmann is the Project Director of the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF). From July 2000 to January 2012, she has been the Managing Director of MEDIA Desk Germany, the main German information office to the MEDIA Programme of the European Union. After her professional education as a trilingual European Secretary and Foreign language correspondent, she started her career in 1987 as a film and TV production assistant, worked free-lance for several TV and cinema productions in Germany and abroad, and for five years for a German-American film rights acquisition and sales company in Hamburg.

COMPANY PROFILEThe DFFF is a film-funding scheme, established in 2007 on the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) with an annual budget of 50 million Euros. The fund aims at improving the frame conditions for the film industry, at preserving as well as enhancing the international competitiveness of film industry related companies, and at providing sustainable impulses for the film production location Germany as well as achieving other economic effects. All film producers with a business location or place of residence in Germany can apply if they provide an equity ratio of at least 5 percent of the total production costs and fulfil all the eligibility criteria. Funding will be granted if the German spend amounts to at least 25 percent of the total production costs. Up to 20 percent of the approved production costs spent in Germany can be funded. For international co-productions, the applicant must provide an equity ratio of at least 20 percent of the production costs.

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Invitation as a speaker and very positive experience with previous events. Incontri is the ideal meeting for producers from the German and the Italian speaking countries to discuss projects and exchange best practice. As a funder it’s useful to observe the trends, problems and possible solutions for co-productions between these countries, even more so, now that there is a German-Italian co-development fund in place!

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProject Director

FAVORITE FILM 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel, Of Horses and Men

German Federal Film Fund / DFFFGroße Präsidentenstr. 910178 [email protected]

CORNELIA HAMMELMANN German Federal Film Fund / DFFF

SHORT CV Dr. Manfred Hattendorf studied German and French literature in addition to theaters studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. After graduating he worked and studied abroad in Belfast, Northern Ireland and France. Dr. Hattendorf has worked as film critic for various newspapers and for filmdienst, as well as for publications about documentary films. He has been working for SWR since 1993, and co-produces with Arte in various capacities. As Head of Drama he is currently responsible for SWR’s Tatort productions, TV fiction films (including debut productions) and cinema co-productions. Hattendorf is currently chairman of the Haus des Dokumentarfilms in Stuttgart.

COMPANY PROFILESWR (Southwest Broadcasting) is Germany’s second largest regional public broadcasting corporation and forms part of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (commonly known as ARD): a strong alliance of the nine regional public broadcasters together with Deutsche Welle. In addition to the Tatort shows from the southwest, SWR produces programs like Verstehen Sie Spaß? and Report Mainz as well as big films like Rommel and George. In addition, SWR brings content to other member organizations of ARD, 3sat, Arte, Phoenix, KI.KA.

FILMOGRAPHY – ELSER, 2015 – TAG DER WAHRHEIT, 2015 – EIN OFFENER KRIEG, 2014 – LACONIA, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I’m looking forward to sharing my experiences with international fiction co-producers and with the other INCONTRI participants. INCONTRI offers a good opportunity to discuss current media trends and to get in contact with interesting co-production partners from different European countries.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONHead of Drama


Citizen Four

SüdwestrundfunkHans-Bredow-Str.


www.swr.de

MANFRED HATTENDORF Südwestrundfunk (SWR)


SHORT CV Jan S. Kaiser studied economics, focusing on marketing, organiza-tion, sociology and human resources. In 1992 he joined the German film company ndF: in Munich, as a production manager; he became the general production manager there in 1999. In August 2002, Kaiser moved into the same position for the Bavaria Film Gruppe and held general power of represenation there since 2002. In 2004, he became the CEO of Bavaria Pictures GmbH, and has since then built it into a network for national and international film co-produc-tions. In February 2007, Jan S. Kaiser also became CEO of Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH.

COMPANY PROFILEBavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH, a subsidiary of Bavaria Film GmbH and ZDF Enterprises GmbH, is one of Germanyʼs largest production companies. Its portfolio includes all fictional formats, ranging from daily and weekly shows to series all the way to television films, events and international co-productions. Bavaria Fernsehproduktionʼs annual production output is around 17,000 minutes of airtime, including the successful formats Sturm der Liebe, Die Rosenheim-Cops, SOKO Stuttgart and Inga Lindström. Its Cologne subsidiary is responsible for, among other things, the Tatort productions Köln, Münster and Dortmund.

FILMOGRAPHY – MR. MORGAN’S LAST LOVE, 2013 – LUDWIG II, 2012 – HOTEL LUX, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5INCONTRI offers the opportunity to meet together and talk not only with producer colleagues and filmmakers but also with clients and film-funding entities. Discussion about the challenges facing the film industry under constantly changing conditions is of great value. At the same time, it is about exploring the possibilities of collaboration across national borders.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONCEO

FAVORITE FILM 2014Miss Sixty

Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbHBavariafilmplatz 782031 Grü[email protected] (Assistant)www.bavaria-film.de

JAN S. KAISER Bavaria Fernsehproduktion

SHORT CV Philipp Kreuzer is producer, lawyer and film school graduate. He was part of Bavaria Film Group for 10 years in different functions including CEO of Bavaria Media Italia, VP International and Co-Production of Bavaria Media and Deputy Managing Director of Bavaria Pictures. Prior to this he was project manager at Eurimages and worked in equity film finance. He produced feature films and TV productions out of Germany and Italy.

COMPANY PROFILENew company Munich-based production company of feature films and TV for the national and international market.

FILMOGRAPHY – COW ON THE RUN (in development) – HEIRS OF THE NIGHT (in development) – THE HAPPY PRINCE (in pre-production)

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Networking and exchange with producers, distributors, funders and broadcasters from the German-speaking and Italian audio-visual sector.

COUNTRYGermany



GRISELLA PRODUKTIONS GMBH (WT)

Holzstr. 2880805 Munich

[email protected]

PHILLIPP KREUZER Grisella


SHORT CV Michael Lehmann took over as Chairperson of the Management Board of Studio Hamburg Produktion GmbH in 2009, having previously been managing director for three years. Through its participation in agenda media and Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion as well as through the strategic partnership with ZDF Enterprises, Michael Lehmann succeeded in creating a broad production portfolio for Studio Hamburg Produktion Gruppe, which reaches across all essential programming segments of the television and film industry. As Chairperson of the Management Board, Mr. Lehmann is also responsible for the company’s subsidiaries, Studio Hamburg FilmProduktion and Real Film Berlin.

COMPANY PROFILEThe Studio Hamburg Produktion Gruppe is a subsidiary of Studio Hamburg GmbH. Creatively and commercially it is one of the market leaders on the German production landscape for film and television. It operates as a holding company with five operating subsidiaries: Studio Hamburg FilmProduktion, Real Film Berlin, Nordfilm, Doclights and Riverside Entertainment which all function as independent players in the market. Its production portfolio reaches across all programming segments in the TV and film worlds: The company produces a wide variety of television programmes for all major German broadcasters. In addition, it’s affiliated with the production companies Agenda Media and through Doclights GmbH, with Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion, whose program portfolio expands the spectrum of additional high quality TV production.

FILMOGRAPHY – HEIL, 2014 – NACHT ZUG NACH LISSABON (NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON), 2013

– DER TOTE IM EIS, 2013 – DIE SCHULD DER ERBEN, 2012 – ES IST NICHT VORBEI, 2011

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONChairman of the Management Board

Studio Hamburg Produktion Gruppe GmbHJenfelder Allee 8022039 Hamburgmlehmann@ studio-hamburg.dewww.studio-hamburg-produktion.de

MICHAEL LEHMANN Studio Hamburg Produktion Gruppe

SHORT CV Jan Mojto is the director of Beta Film, one of the leading international film distributors. Until 2002 Mojto was responsible for program business of the Kirch Gruppe, was president of ACT (Association of Commercial Television in Europe) for many years and represented the company on various supervisory boards of leading European media companies. In 2003 Mojto founded EOS Entertainment, which laid the foundation stone for his current group of companies: it includes Beta Film, Beta Cinema, Kineos, Unitel, Classica as well as varying participant companies.

COMPANY PROFILEThe core of Jan Mojto’s corporate group is Beta Film which, in addition to producing and coproducing national and international film and TV productions, handles more than 15,000 hours of programming, making it one of the world’s largest distributors for television, HV and new media. While the Beta Cinema portfolio comprises many Academy Award-nominated and -winning films, Kineos is responsible for licensing German-language rights to 12,000 titles. In the classical-music domain, Unitel is the global leader in the production of audiovisual music recordings, with a film stock of around 1,500 productions. The broadcaster Classica is available on 30 pay-TV platforms around the world. The corporate group also has stakes in many national and international production companies as well as special interest channels.

FILMOGRAPHY – SHADES OF GUILT, 2014 – 1992, 2014 – GOMORRAH I + II, 2014 – GENERATION WAR, 2013 – DER TURM, 2012

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONCEO

Beta Film GmbHGrünwalder Weg 28d


JAN MOJTO Beta Film


SHORT CV Dr. Wolfgang Mueller has been Managing Director and Producer of Barry Films since 2007. From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the supervisory board of Senator Entertainment AG, one of the leading German film producers and distributors. In his role as an Executive VP at Atlantic Streamline Entertainment in Los Angeles, he oversaw day-to-day business operations of the production company. Dr. Mueller founded the Berlin office of the law firm Sasse&Partner. He holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cologne and studied law at the Universities of Giessen, Madrid, Mexico D.F., Hamburg and Bonn where he holds a M.A. in Law.

COMPANY PROFILEBarry Films is an internationally active production company based in Berlin, Los Angeles and Zurich, producing high concept films and TV formats for the worldwide market. It is led by Benito Mueller, Monika Weibel, and Wolfgang Mueller, a team with a wide experience in film development, financing, physical production and marketing/distribution.

FILMOGRAPHY – LIFE, 2015 – WALTER, 2014 – THE WHISTLEBLOWER, 2011 – THE BAD INTENSIONS, 2011 – WHEN PIGS HAVE WINGS, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Make new contacts and learn new things.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONManager, Producer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Birdman, Interstellar

BARRY FILMS GMBHKanzowstr. 410439 [email protected]

WOLFGANG MÜLLER Barry Films

SHORT CV After his degrees in law and business studies, Prof. Dr. Schaefer completed a Ph.D. in law in 1981. He started his professional career in a Munich based law firm. His further professional stations include the Bavarian Ministry of Culture (1981-1984), the Bavarian Representation in Bonn (1984-1987) and the Bavarian State Chancellery (1987-89: Head of Department for Principal Matters of Arts & Science; 1989-95 Head of Department for Media Policy & Media Law). In 1996, Dr. Schaefer co-founded the Bavarian Film and Television Fund (FilmFernsehFonds Bayern) as managing director and took over its presidency in 2000. He is a member of the board of directors of the International Filmfestival of Munich and honorary professor of the University of Television and Film Munich.

COMPANY PROFILESince 1996, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern is responsible for film funding in Bavaria. The Free State of Bavaria, the BLM (Bavarian regulatory authority for commercial broadcasting), the public television broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk and ZDF, and the private broadcasters RTL and ProSiebenSat1 are all shareholders. Applications can be made with the FFF in the following areas: Screenplay, Project development, Movie production, TV film production, Sales and distribution, Up and coming filmmakers (first films, graduation project films, other), Film theaters and Games.

COUNTRYGermany


FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbHSonnenstr. 21

80331 Munichfilmfoerderung@

fff-bayern.dewww.fff-bayern.de

KLAUS SCHAEFER FilmFernsehFonds Bayern


SHORT CV Since 1998 Manfred Schmidt has been executive director of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM). From 1969 to 1981 he was a member of the Berlin “Maxim Gorki” theatre. This was followed by a 7-year period of freelance work as an author and dramatic adviser. In this time Manfred Schmidt took correspondence courses at the Leipzig Institute for Literature. In 1988 he started working as a script analyst and author at DEFA studios for documentary films; from 1990 to 1992 he was the deputy chief editor at this studio. Before being appointed to CEO of MDM he worked from 1992 to 1998 as deputy programme director of the culture and science department at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) broadcasting station. Manfred Schmidt is a member of the European Film Academy, Kuratorium Förderverein Deutscher Kinderfilm e.V., Kuratorium junger deutscher Film, Member of the GOLDEN SPARROW foundation, a board member of CineRegio and a member of the advisory board of Script EAST.

COMPANY PROFILEMitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM) awards funding to promising film and media projects realised in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Funding schemes are available for all phases, starting from idea development through to production and distribution. To be eligible, production companies must spend at least the amount of the funds awarded in the region of Mitteldeutschland. In general, the funds must be paid back unless the project revenues fall short of a certain minimum.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONCEO

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbHHainstraße 17-1904109 Leipzigmanfred.schmidt@ mdm-online.dewww.mdm-online.de

MANFRED SCHMIDT Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

SHORT CV Oliver Schündler worked as a director’s assistant and dramatic advisor for a wide variety of theatre and television projects before joining the Bavaria Film Group in 1994. He subsequently produced TV movies and series, accounted for the entire range of international co-productions from the Bavaria Film Group from 2000 forward. He later managed worldwide TV rights and was responsible for top-quality international event co-productions. In 2004, he became managing director of Bavaria Media Italia in Rome and co-managing director of German United Distributors in 2005. He has been owner, managing director and producer of Lucky Bird Pictures since 2008. Oliver Schündler was awarded with the Bavarian Film Award as producer for the best picture in 2015 (Elser/13 Minutes)

COMPANY PROFILEWe are passionate about movies because they so wonderfully combine all the arts imaginable. We collaborate with some of the finest authors and novelists, such as Henning Mankell and Cornelia Funke, and also work with such renown scriptwriters as Fred and Léonie Breinersdorfer, Holger Karsten Schmidt, Daniel Speck, and many others. Together with interesting and gifted directors, actors, crew, and talented people in other media sectors, it is our goal to turn great stories into remarkable and entertaining films. Lucky Bird Pictures is a film and TV production company that was originally part of Yellow Bird Pictures, founded in 2008 in Munich as a German subsidiary of Yellow Bird Sweden. After a buyout, managing director Oliver Schündler took over the company in 2012.

FILMOGRAPHY – GESPENSTERJÄGER (GHOSTHUNTERS – ON ICY TRAILS), 2015 – ELSER (13 MINUTES), 2015 – DIE KLEINE LADY (LITTLE LADY), 2012 – DER CHINESE (THE CHINESE MAN), 2011 – AUSGERECHNET SEX (SEX SELLS!), 2011

COUNTRYGermany


Producer


Hotel

Lucky Bird Pictures GmbH

Grillparzerstr. 381675 Munich

[email protected]

OLIVER SCHÜNDLER Lucky Bird Pictures


SHORT CV Mark von Seydlitz, born in Düsseldorf in 1961, studied marketing, finance and economics. He started in the film business in 1988 at FCB, Los Angeles. In 1991 he founded MADE IN MUNCH Film Production for television commercials, TV movies and films. Since 1993 Mark von Seydlitz worked as a director for commercials and TV movies in addition to producing. He has shot films all over the world.

COMPANY PROFILEMade in Munich Film Production is a production company for film and TV formats. Since 1991 we have created different productions all over the world. Ten people in Munich are eager to develop and tell fascinating stories about all kinds of human matters.

FILMOGRAPHY – DIE HUMMEL, 2010 – DORA HELDT (several episodes) – LA DOLCE RITA, 2005 – ROULA, 1995

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5We are in pre-production for the film Villa Paradiso (writers: Fred Breinersdorfer / Katja Röder) which will be shot mainly in Italy.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONCEO

FAVORITE FILM 2014Nebraska

Made in Munich Movies GmbHTürkenstr. 9580799 Munichseydlitz@ madeinmunich.comwww.madeinmunich.com

MARK VON SEYDLITZ Made in Munich

SHORT CV During her studies of production and media economics at the University for Televisison and Film Munich, Prof. Dr. Eva Stadler worked as line producer for the film Schule (2000), produced many award-winning short films and was awarded a scholarship in Hollywood. Afterwards she supervised various films for the Bavaria Filmverleih- und Produktions-GmbH, such as Kammerflimmern (2004) and Der Froschkönig (2008). She produced the feature documentary Keep Surfing (2009). Eva Stadler completed her PhD at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam in 2007. She is a full-time professor of media economics at the Media Hochschule in Stuttgart. She works as a freelance executive producer for Wiedemann & Berg and supervised the pay TV-series Add A Friend.

COMPANY PROFILEQuirin Berg and Max Wiedemann founded Wiedemann & Berg Television in 2010. The company, representing high-quality fictional television projects, is a joint venture with the endemol group. Max and Quirin are the sole partners and CEOs of the company, which produces solely feature films for the big screen. Wiedemann & Berg Television has produced numerous films and series for all large German stations, from a telenovela to the first exclusively German-produced pay-TV series, from historical event films to large-scale trilogies, and from debut films to establishing a brand new Tatort Team.

FILMOGRAPHY – TANNBACH, 2015 – DIE SPIEGELAFFÄRE, 2014 – FRAUENHERZEN, 2014 – ADD A FRIEND, 2012 – TATORT (several)

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5European context, the panel discussion themes and the case studies.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONFreelance Producer,

Professor


Hotel,Die geliebten Schwestern

Wiedemann & Berg Television GmbH & Co KG

Akademiestr. 7 D 80799 Munich

[email protected] [email protected]

EVA STADLER Wiedemann & Berg Television


SHORT CV Claudia Steffen joined PANDORA FILM Produktion in Cologne (Germany) in 1998, became a partner in 2005 and as of 2012 is also a managing director. Her work as producer consists of films with stories and filmmakers from all around the globe. In addition, she collaborated with partners to establish Terz Film in 2007 for quality TV movies, documentaries and feature films. From 1994 until 1998 she worked for Gemini Films and specialized in the management of international co-productions. Claudia Steffen regularly gives workshops on international film production. She is member of ACE – Atelier du Cinéma Européen and the German Film Academy.

COMPANY PROFILEPANDORA FILM was founded in 1981 and established itself as a leading distribution company of international arthouse movies. In 1997 PANDORA FILM Produktion was founded as production division based in Cologne. Its aim is ongoing collaboration with writers and directors who develop their own, unmistakable cinematic language. Pandora Film Produktionʼs catalogue includes more than 100 films.

FILMOGRAPHY – LOSE MY SELF, 2014 – DOS DISPAROS, 2014 – THE CUT, 2014 – 3 HEARTS, 2014 – EL CINCO, 2014

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5To make new contacts, meet fellow producers and filmmakers and become familiar with new projects that are currently in development.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProducer, Managing Director

FAVORITE FILM 2014Birdman,Nymphomaniac,White God

PANDORA FILM Produktion GmbHBalthasarstr. 79–8150670 Cologneclaudia.steffen@ pandorafilm.comwww.pandorafilm.com

CLAUDIA STEFFEN Pandora Film

SHORT CV Gabriele M. Walther is the owner and managing director of Caligari Film GmbH and its affiliated companies. After completing her degree at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) in 1985, she produced, Roland Emmerich’s first full length feature film. She founded her first business together with the director Ulrich Edel. With the formation of Caligari Film in 1986 Gabriele M. Walther followed up her entrepreneurial career. In 2007 Walther received the prize for Bavarian businesswoman of the year. In 2009 she became a member of the executive board of the section animation in the German Producers Alliance Film & Television.

COMPANY PROFILEAfter graduating from Film School together with Roland Emmerich and producing his first movie, Gabriele M. Walther founded CALIGARI Film in 1986. Located in Munich. CALIGARI Film works with a competent and creative staff situated around the world. A large number of productions and co-productions in the fields of animation, documentaries, live-action and comedy have firmly established CALIGARI in the national and international television and motion picture market. CALIGARI has the know-how as well as experience in development, production and financing. The company creates characters and formats, appropriate for use in all media, conceived and developed with an action/comedy emphasis and an educational layer.

FILMOGRAPHY – POWERPOINT MARRIAGE, 2014 – KNIGHT RUSTY , TV series, 2013/2014 – KNIGHT RUSTY, feature film, 2013 – TERRA X – THE POWER OF THE SEASONS, 2012/2013 – HELL, 2011

COUNTRYGermany


Caligari Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH

Reisingerstr. 580337 Munich

[email protected]

GABRIELE M. WALTHER Caligari Film


SHORT CV Jakob D. Weydemann was born in Hamburg, Germany, and lived in Milan, Italy, where he carried out his civilian service. He studied political sciences and film directing at the CECC in Barcelona, Spain. He is an alumni of the Reykjavík TalentLab; Sarajevo Young Producers Programme; Documentary Campus Masterschool; ESoDoc and the International Film School (ifs) in Cologne ʻInternational Producing Class.̓ Jakob is winner of the Gerd-Ruge-Grant for documentary filmmakers and a member of the European Film Academy.

COMPANY PROFILEWeydemann Bros. produces films for the national and international market. We have a vision of a narrative cinema that is both entertaining and political. For us film is always a critical look at the world and the times we live in. Weydemann Bros. is based in Berlin and Cologne, Germany. We are alumni of the AV Gründerzentrum Cologne and the Berlinale Talent Campus, Sarajevo Talent Campus, Rotterdam Lab, IDFAcademy and Cannes Producers Network, as well as the MEDIA programs EsoDoc, Documentary Campus Masterschool, ep2c and EAVE Producers Workshop. Jonas and Jakob D. Weydemann are members of the European Film Academy and Jonas Weydemann is the German national coordinator for EAVE.

FILMOGRAPHY – LOS ANGELES, 2014 – DRIFTER, 2014 – SILENCE IN DREAMLAND (SILENCIO EN LA TIERRA DE LOS SUENOS), 2013

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5INCONTRI has been a great experience in the last years, with a very unique atmosphere perfect for establishing very valuable contacts. INCONTRI already lead to important involvements in our productions by contacts made here in the beautiful setting of Bolzano, as well as a coproduction with the South Tyrol based company helios.

COUNTRYGermany

POSITIONProducer, Founder of the Company

Weydemann Bros. GmbHNußbaumerstr. 5150825 Colognejakob@ weydemannbros.comwww.weydemannbros.com

JAKOB D. WEYDEMANN Weydemann Bros.

AUSTRIAPARTICIPANTS

As with the case of Germany and Switzerland, the Austrian film funding system is organized on a federal level and on a regional/state level.

Five funding bodies operate on a national level: the Film Department of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture (BMUKK) allocates funding for feature films according to cultural and artistic criteria, while the Austrian Film Institute (Österreichisches Filminstitut/ÖFI) awards support on the basis of cultural and economic criteria.

Funds are also provided on an annual basis for the production of feature films, including newcomer and innovative projects, as part of an agreement between the ÖFI and public broadcaster ORF in the Film/Television Agreement. In addition, television productions have been supported since 2004 by the FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA.

In September 2010, Austriaʼs Federal Ministry for Economics, Family and Youth followed Germanyʼs successful DFFF model and created its own film production incentive scheme Filmstandort Austria (Film Location Austria – FISA).

On a regional level, there are 14 funding institutions in Austria: film funding is administered in each of the federal states (Länder) by the arts departments, and support is also forthcoming from the economic departments in Upper Austria and Salzburg.


THE DARK VALLEY 154,721 ADMISSONS



622,043 ADMISSIONS

Sources: Statistik Austria,

Filmwirtschaftsbericht 2014 – Facts & Figures 2013

2014

578.5 MILLION

136 / 548

NONE

€ 77.46 MILLION

FACTS 2014


15.84 MILLION

3.2%

NUMBER OF CINEMA ADMISSIONS IN 2013*


DOMESTIC FILMS RELEASED IN 2013*

POPULATION

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The states of Styria, Tyrol and Vienna have institutions specialized in supporting their respective regionsʼ film industry and infrastructure: CineStyria Filmcommission & Fonds, Cine Tirol Film Commission (which celebrates its 15th anniversary this year), and the largest regional funder, the Vienna Film Fund.

Austriaʼs public broadcaster ORF is an important partner for the domestic film industry, both through the formal framework of the Film/Television Agreement as well as the commissioned TV productions and film/TV co-productions.

*Numbers for 2014 are not yet available

Sources: Statistik Austria, Filmwirtschaftsbericht 2014 – Facts & Figures 2013

FURTHER INFORMATIONÖsterreichisches Filminstitut Spittelberggasse 3A-1070 ViennaPhone +43-1-526 97 30 Fax +43-1-526 97 30 [email protected]

SHORT CV In 1989 Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu started to work as an independent film critic for Austriaʼs public radio station ORF and for several newspapers and film magazines. From 1992 on, he worked as a film distributor for Polyfilm Verleih and as a curator for movie theatres and film festivals in Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France. From 1994-2004 he was co-managing director of the Munich-based distribution company Danube Entertainment. In 1995 Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu founded the production company Minotaurus Film Luxembourg. Dumreicher-Ivanceanu has been managing director of Amour Fou Film in Vienna and Luxembourg Since 2001. He lives and works in Luxembourg and Vienna.

COMPANY PROFILEAMOUR FOU produces artistically exceptional features, documentaries and short films for the international market together with international, mostly European partners. Throughout the process AMOUR FOU has a visionary approach and strives to push the envelope, whether in terms of aesthetics, production or distribution strategies. The focus is on European independent auteur cinema and the distinctive style of the directors who work with AMOUR FOU.

FILMOGRAPHY – AMOUR FOU, 2014 – NAKED OPERA, 2013 – HANNAH ARENDT, 2012

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5INCONTRI is always a good opportunity to meet fellow producers from Europe, to get to know the newest trends and approaches to film production and to help drive projects forward.

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONProducer,

Managing Director

FAVORITE FILM 2014Mommy

AMOUR FOU Vienna Lindengasse 32

1070 Viennaivanceanu@

amourfoufilm.comwww.amourfoufilm.com

ALEXANDER DUMREICHER-IVANCEANU Amour Fou Vienna

Participants Austria | INCONTRI #5 | 79

SHORT CV As Producer & Line Producer Cinema, Michael is in charge of all production and financial reporting for the Cinema department. Michael holds a Diploma in Business Administration. In his “Berlin-years” Michael was co-founder, shareholder and General Manager of three German production companies. His last position was Producer and Head of Production with Berlin based Akkord Film, where he – among other tasks – oversaw their slate of international TV-Mini-Series and line-produced an animated Feature Film. Michael benefits from 15 years of experience, shooting in more than 15 countries around the world and producing & line producing numerous German & international Feature Films and TV-Productions.

COMPANY PROFILETerra Mater Factual Studiosʼ (TMFS) commitment to the highest production values results in premium factual programming for TV and theatre release. Our core genres are wildlife and nature, science and history presented in blue-chip primetime series and specials. We also bring together a wide array of genres and styles to create exciting new factual and entertainment formats. And in our large cinematic projects the borders between fiction and ‘faction’ become seamless and sometimes dissolve at all resulting in a different take on feature film production. TMFS collaborates with the best producers, cameramen and directors worldwide and uses the latest cutting-edge equipment to realize its cinematic dreams.

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I am looking forward to meet new people and professionals, furthermore I am looking forward to hear interesting speakers and taking part in interesting panels. We shot our last movie in South Tirol and it was a great experience, so I am happy to come back.

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONProducer & Line Producer


Terra Mater Factual Studios GmbHWambachergasse 21130 [email protected]

MICHAEL FRENSCHKOWSKI Terra Mater Factual Studios

SHORT CV Helmut Grasser founded Allegro Film in Vienna in 1989. In 1993, he won the Prix Europa for Best TV Movie for Election Campaigners. He was a member of the Selection Committee of the Austrian Film Institute for many years. Since 1998, he has been the official speaker of the Executive Board of Austrian Producerʼs Association. He became a member of the European Film Academy in 2002. In 2013, he took on the position of chairman of Film Austria. Since the foundation of Allegro Film, Helmut Grasser has produced more than 50 feature films and TV movies.

COMPANY PROFILEAllegro Film’s line-up includes the two most successful documentaries ever produced in Austria: We Feed the World and Let’s Make Money (winner of the German Documentary Award 2009). Our latest documentary More Than Honey was met with great acclaim worldwide and received numerous awards, making it Switzerland’s most successful documentary of all time. With Dead In 3 Days and Dead In 3 Days – The Sequel, directed by Andreas Prochaska, Allegro Film has also produced two very successful genre movies. The Alpine Western The Dark Valley won 8 awards at the German Film Awards 2014. Awards for Allegro Film productions include the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival (Dog Days by Ulrich Seidl) and the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival for Florian Flicker’s Hold Up. The TV drama Half A Life by Nikolaus Leytner won the German Television Award in 2009 in several categories and the Grimme Television Award for Best Director.

FILMOGRAPHY – GRUBER IS LEAVING, 2015 – THE DARK VALLEY, 2013 – ENERGIZED, 2013 – MORE THAN HONEY, 2012 – WE FEED THE WORLD, 2005

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONProducer,

General Manager

FAVORITE FILM 2014The Dark Valley

Allegro FilmproduktionsgesmbH

Krummgasse 1A/91030 Vienna

[email protected]

HELMUT GRASSER Allegro Film


SHORT CV Prof. Dr. Veit Heiduschka founded WEGA-Film in 1980. The companyʼs breakthrough came in 1985 with the comic thriller Müllers Büro, directed by Niki List. In the 1980s, Heiduschka began working with director Michael Haneke. So far, WEGA-Film has produced ten of his feature films, including The Piano Teacher, Caché, The White Ribbon and Amour. In total, Heiduschka has produced about 50 feature films with international contributors and well-known directors. He is honorary president of Film Austria – the Austrian association of creative producers, a member of the European Film Academy and a member of the Academy for Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

COMPANY PROFILEThe Viennese film production company WEGA-Film was founded in 1980 by Dr. Veit Heiduschka. Between the companyʼs breakthrough in terms of success in 1986 with the comic thriller Müllerʼs Büro, directed by Niki List, and the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Picture for Foreign Language Film for the Film Amour (Director Michael Haneke) in 2013 WEGA-Film has produced over 50 feature films, over 20 TV movies and over 20 documentary films in the past thirty years. With its broad spectrum of documentary and feature films, WEGA-Film is one of Austriaʼs most prominent film production companies today.

FILMOGRAPHY – RISSE IM BETON, 2014 – AMOUR, 2013 – KUMA, 2012 – DAS WEISSE BAND, 2009 – DIE KLAVIERSPIELERIN, 2001

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Exchange of thoughts and ideas with producers from Italy, Switzerland and Germany.

COUNTRYAustria


FAVORITE FILM 2014Die geliebten Schwestern

WEGA-Filmproduktions-ges.m.b.H.Hägelingasse 131140 [email protected]

VEIT HEIDUSCHKA Wega-Film

SHORT CV Mag. Michael Katz studied from 1980 to 1987 political economics and graduated in 1987 as mag.soc.rer.oec. at the University of Vienna. From 1982 to 1986 he did several feature films and a TV serial as a freelancer (supervising accountant). He joined WEGA-Film on January 1987. Since 1987 he helped to produce more than 50 feature films as production manager, executive producer supervising producer and since 2007 as producer. Since 2008 he is co-owner of WEGA-Film. Katz is responsible for script development, financing and production of feature films and TV features. In May 2009 he established the company WEGA-film Istanbul, a Turkish service production and distribution company.

COMPANY PROFILEThe Viennese film production company WEGA-Film was founded in 1980 by Dr. Veit Heiduschka. Between the companyʼs breakthrough in terms of success in 1986 with the comic thriller Müllerʼs Büro, directed by Niki List, and the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Picture for Foreign Language Film for the Film Amour (Director Michael Haneke) in 2013 WEGA-Film has produced over 50 feature films, over 20 TV movies and over 20 documentary films in the past thirty years. With its broad spectrum of documentary and feature films, WEGA-Film is one of Austriaʼs most prominent film production companies today.

FILMOGRAPHY – RISSE IM BETON, 2014 – AMOUR, 2013 – KUMA, 2012 – DAS WEISSE BAND, 2009 – DIE KLAVIERSPIELERIN, 2001

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5To meet filmmakers from different countries and learn about possible collaboration and co-productions.

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONProducer,

Co-owner of WEGA-Film


WEGA-Filmproduktions-ges.m.b.H.

Hägelingasse 131140 Vienna

michael.katz@ wega-film.at

www.wega-film.at

MICHAEL KATZ Wega-Film


SHORT CV Alexander Koschier started working in the film industry in 1995. Since 2010, he has been working as a line producer for SK-Film and is in charge of development and executive production.

COMPANY PROFILESK-Film, founded in 1990, is an international film and TV production company. Its first feature film, Ilona & Kurti, was produced in its founding year. A second company, namely SK-Film- und Fernsehproduktionsges.m.b.H & Co. KG, was founded in Vienna in 1995 with a view to expanding the business. Ever since, SK-Film has accompanied numerous feature and TV films as producer, co-producer or executive producer. Furthermore, the company managed to expand beyond its local boundaries via transnational co-productions, thereby encountering new partners and experiencing new business angles. For more than 20 years, SK-Film stands for passionate and quality film production.

FILMOGRAPHY – CUBAN LIES, 2012 – THE SPY, 2012 – FRIENDS FOREVER, 2012 – CINDERELLA, 2010 – WONDERFUL AND LOVED BY ALL, 2009

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Getting to know possible new projects and partners for the future.

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONLine Producer, Executive Producer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Can’t single out one, but my favourites include Interstellar, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Out of the Furnace and Under The Skin

SK-Film- und Fernseh-produktionsges.m.b.H. & Co. KGSalzachstrasse 15 A5026 [email protected]

ALEXANDER KOSCHIER SK-Film

SHORT CV Danny Krausz is the managing director, producer and head of the national and international feature-film department of DOR FILM. He holds the professorship for film production at the MDW Vienna (University for Music and Performing Arts).

COMPANY PROFILEDanny Krausz and Milan Dor founded DOR FILM in 1988. Danny Krausz and Kurt Stocker have run the company jointly since 1995. Productions include feature films and documentaries as well as TV movies and series. A staff of 20 and three subsidiaries − DOR FILM-WEST in Munich, DOR FILM KÖLN in Cologne and ZAP, the Centre for Audio-Visual Post-Production in Vienna − help ensure international orientation and post-production capacity. Dor Film has pursued one common goal over the years: providing full support for creative partners not only during the production, but also during the development and distribution process. Seven out of the ten most popular Austrian films since 1982 are DOR FILM productions. Furthermore, DOR FILM is known as a developer for new talent, with a quarter of the feature films directed by first time directors.

FILMOGRAPHY – DAS EWIGE LEBEN, 2015 – SARAJEVO, 2014 – THE LAST OF THE UNJUST, 2013 – THE DEVIL’S VIOLINIST, 2013 – YOUR BEAUTY IS WORTH NOTHING, 2012

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONProducer

Dor Filmproduktion GmbHBergsteiggasse 36


www.dor-film.at

DANNY KRAUSZ Dor Film


SHORT CV Dr. Klaus Lintschinger has a Ph.D. in media arts. He worked for 11 years in L.A. as a producer and screenwriter, and joined ORFʼs film-production department in 2000. Promoted to head of TV features in 2002, he is responsible for more than 100 features and series, including co-productions with German, Italian, Swiss, British and French broadcasters. He wrote the international mini-series The Crown Prince, and his productions have won numerous awards like the Grimme Award, German Television Award, Bambi, Fipa d’Or, Shanghai TV Award and International Emmy Award. He teaches at the Vienna Film Academy and in Linz. He plays guitar and tennis … though never at the same time.

COMPANY PROFILEThe Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) is Austria’s largest media provider, operating four television stations, nine radio channels and an array of websites. Being a public service company, ORF is not profit-oriented. ORF’s main headquarters and studios are in Vienna. It has regional studios in all nine states and maintains a worldwide network of correspondents who contribute in all three media. The ORF eins and ORF 2 channels have a rich variety of programs including current news, in-depth information, documentaries, TV magazines, reports, talk shows, movies and series. ORF III is a special-interest channel for information and culture, while ORF Sport Plus focuses on sports. ORF’s websites post the countryʼs most coveted online news.

FILMOGRAPHY – THE TEAM, 2015 – DIE AUSLÖSCHUNG, 2013 – DAS WUNDER VON KÄRNTEN (A DAY FOR A MIRACLE), 2012 – BRAUNSCHLAG, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I’ve learned to value INCONTRI for its balance of informal setting and high level of professional participation. Add South Tyrol in the springtime and the event becomes an inevitability.

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONHead of Feature Films

FAVORITE FILM 2014Timbuktu

ORF – Austrian Broadcasting CorporationWürzburggasse 301136 [email protected]

KLAUS LINTSCHINGER ORF

SHORT CV Jakob Pochlatko was born in 1984, and attended Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz. He joined epo-film in 2011 as a junior producer.

COMPANY PROFILEDr. Erich Pochlatko founded epo-film as an Austrian production company in 1954. In 1969, Dieter Pochlatko became a shareholder. In 1978, Dieter Pochlatko became the managing director of epo-film, which now had its headquarters in Graz and a professional production facility in Vienna. From 1990 forward, all productions were being handled at our office in Vienna, in 1995 the headquarters was moved to Vienna. In 2002, a branch office opened in Klagenfurt. epo-film is a privately owned independent film production company. epo-film is a top-tier production company providing international high-profile content for cinema and TV broadcasting, producing features, TV movies, nature and documentary films, corporate films, as well as commercials and TV spots. This diversification provides a continuous course of business . epo-film’s expertise in configurating and funding projects through European subsidies makes us a valuable partner for co-productions.

FILMOGRAPHY – JACK, 2015 – SUPERWELT, 2014 – UNTER BLINDEN – DAS EXTREME LEBEN DES ANDY HOLZER, 2014

– ATMEN, 2011 – VIELLEICHT IN EINEM ANDEREN LEBEN, 2010

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONJunior Producer


Epo-Filmproduktions-ges.m.b.h.

Edelsinnstr. 581120 Vienna

jakob.pochlatko@ epofilm.com

www.epofilm.com

JAKOB POCHLATKO Epo-Film

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COMPANY PROFILExxx

FILMOGRAPHY – XX

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5xx

COUNTRYAustria

POSITIONxx

FAVORITE FILM 2014xx

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NICOLA DE ANGELIS DAP ITALY


SWITZERLANDPARTICIPANTS

Switzerland has been a federal state since 1848 and has a federal structure with three different political levels: the confederation, the cantons and the communes. This is also reflected in the nationʼs public film-funding which is organised on a national and regional level.

The Federal Department of the Interior (EDI) is home to the Federal Office of Culture (Bundesamt für Kultur/BAK) whose Film Department has an annual budget of CHF 26.8 million (2014) to support diverse measures including project development, production, distribution and cinema digitization as well as CHF 16 million (2014) for contributing to the promotion of film culture (Swiss Films, film festivals, film publications, etc.).

In 2004, Switzerlandʼs first regional fund, the Zurich Film Foundation (Zürcher Filmstiftung), was launched. With an annual budget of CHF 9 million, the Film Foundation focuses on assisting script development, production and distribution of cinema films – fiction, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental films – as well as on supporting projects in co-production with foreign partners, and, only in special cases, TV movies

In addition, the cantons – such as Berne and Aargau – have established film-funding programs to strengthen regional identity and guarantee cultural diversity. Fond Regio Films supports independent production in the cantons of Geneva, Vaud and Fribourg and the cities of Geneva and Lausanne. To be eligible for Swiss public funding, a film co-produced between Switzerland and another country must be officially recognized as a Swiss film. Films officially co-produced with Switzerland have access to the film funding administered by BAK.


ACHTUNG, FERTIG, WK! 174,171 ADMISSONS



518,806 ADMISSIONS

Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, BAK (2013)

2014

828 MILLION

272 / 533

NONE

€ 52 MM

FACTS 2014


13.7 MM

8.72%



DOMESTIC FILMS RELEASED IN 2013

POPULATION

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Succès cinéma is a funding programme based on a filmʼs success in the cinema: for each ticket bought in a Swiss cinema, the Swiss screenwriter, director, producer, distributor and cinema-owner receive a bonus, which must be reinvested in a future film project. Public broadcaster SRG SSR undertakes its obligations to the Swiss film industry through the Audiovisual Pact, which was first signed in 1996 and now has an annual budget of CHF 22.3 million for the period from 2012 to 2015.

One of its key aims is to support diverse, independent audiovisual production on the basis of solid, professional structures. Apart from providing selective and automatic funding for film and TV production, the Pact has expanded its remit this year to also include the support of multimedia projects and the introduction of the performance-related funding category, Succès Artistique, in order to recognize films of particular artistic value. Swiss films that are invited to participate in major national and international festivals and that also win awards at these events will benefit additionally from this new way of promoting the arts.

Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, BAK (2013)

FURTHER INFORMATIONSwiss FilmsNeugasse 68031 ZurichSwitzerlandPhone +41-43-211 40 50Fax +41-43-211 40 [email protected]

SHORT CV Dr. Anke Beining-Wellhausen joined Teleclub in 2011 as COO/Pro-gram Director, MD of Film & Entertainment and CAO responsible for pay TV, VOD platform, product marketing, content acquisitions and co-productions. She was an executive board member of The Walt Disney Company in Munich for ten years. Earlier achievements: implementing Kinowelt’s international co-production and distribu-tion network; organizing Senator Film’s IPO. As a lawyer specializing in copyright, media and entertainment law, she holds a PhD and has been admitted to the Bar in Munich and New York.

COMPANY PROFILETELECLUB AG, is Switzerland’s leading digital platform for subscrip-tion TV. It is also the only Swiss broadcaster with its own pay TV channels, broadcasting in French and German. Its exclusive cinema channels TELECLUB CINEMA, TELECLUB STAR and TELECLUB PRIME offer more than 360 TV premieres and 500 international and national box-office hits annually, as well as its own talk formats. The TELECLUB SPORT CHANNELS show more than 5,000 live sporting events every year. Teleclub on Demand is Switzerland’s prime VOD platform and exclusive to Swisscom TV. Its video flat-rate Teleclub Play offers unlimited access to TV series, films, childrenʼs programs, documentaries as well as a sports archive for a monthly fee.

FILMOGRAPHY – DER GOALIE BIN IG (I’LL BE THE GOALIE), 2014 – SCHWEIZER HELDEN (UNLIKELY HEROES), 2014 – NIGHTTRAIN TO LISBON (NACHTZUG NACH LISSABON), 2013 – DIE HERBSTZEITLOSEN (LATE BLOOMERS), 2006

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Discuss new formats for digital content production and exploitation with a special focus on the Alpine region. Seek and evaluate oppor-tunities for international co-productions and co-financing arrange-ments together with Switzerland. Get in touch with media experts and share best practice and experiences. Learn more about BLS and its film-selection process (just saw Elser – what a strong movie).

COUNTRYSwitzerland

POSITIONServing as advisor

to BLS on co-productions for Teleclub AG

FAVORITE FILM 2014Nightcrawler,

The Grand Budapest Hotel

TELECLUB AGLöwenstr. 118001 Zurich

[email protected]

ANKE BEINING-WELLHAUSEN Teleclub

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SHORT CV Gabriella de Gara (1974) studied English language and literature, cinema, and English and American History at the University of Zurich. Afterwards she worked in film distribution in Zurich. She joined RSI in 2004 and has since 2008 worked in the drama production department. Since 2012 she has been in charge of the TV and Radio Drama department. She is married and has two children. She likes cooking, reading, sports and of course cinema.

COMPANY PROFILERSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera is based in Lugano and is aimed at the Swiss Italian-speaking audience, thereby contributing to the construction of a Swiss identity and strengthening national cohesion. By means of two TV channels (LA 1 and LA 2), three radio networks (Rete Uno, Rete Due, Rete Tre) and a strong web presence (RSI.ch), RSI promotes Italian language and culture through the production and broadcasting of high quality programmes that meet the needs of the audience. RSI is mainly addressed to the Swiss-Italian audience, but also to the approximately 600,000 Italian speakers to the north of the Alps and a significant part of the Italian audience residing near the borders, which has always shown an interest in Swiss radio and TV programmes.

FILMOGRAPHY – LE MERAVIGLIE, 2014 – LA BUCA, 2014 – VERGINE GIURATA, 2014 – FUORI MIRA, 2013 – ORO VERDE, 2013

COUNTRYSwitzerland

POSITIONHead of Production for Fiction, Head of Drama

RSI Radiotelevisione SvizzeraVia Canevascini6903 [email protected]

GABRIELLA DE GARA BUCCIARELLI RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera

SHORT CV In 1985 Elena Pedrazzoli graduated in Romance languages at the University of Zurich and started as a production assistant at Peacock Film. In 1991 she became joint proprietor of Peacock AG. Since 1994 the company has shifted its focus more and more towards independent productions: fiction, documentaries, TV films and shorts, and last year a feature animation was also produced. For over fifteen years Peacock Film has regularly entered into smaller co-productions with Belgium, France, Italy.

COMPANY PROFILERolando Colla and Peter Indergand founded Peacock Film in 1984 with the aim of producing films and videos. In the early years, Peacock Film produced mainly commissioned and advertising films. In 1994 Colla made his first medium-length fiction film Jagdzeit, which won five international awards. From then on, Rolando Colla and Elena Pedrazzoli’s work shifted decisively in the direction of independent film production, with fewer commissioned and advertising films being produced. In the past few years Peacock Ltd produced half a dozen commissioned works, two full-length television films and a diverse number of short films. For a number of years Elena Pedrazzoli has also produced or coproduced films with external, independent directors from Switzerland and abroad.

FILMOGRAPHY – UNTER DER HAUT, 2015 – IL VENDITORE DI MEDICINE, 2013 – GIOCHI D’ESTATE, 2011 – 7 DAYS, 2010 – L’AUTRE MOITIE,̓ 2007

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5Having participated in last year’s INCONTRI, I believe it is a very good platform through which I can meet interesting people. The round-tables and discussions were a real inspiration to me. And, last but not least, the friendly and intimate atmosphere also meant that I went away with a very positive memory of the incontri.

COUNTRYSwitzerland


Producer

FAVORITE FILM 2014Boyhood

Peacock AGMuehlebachstr. 113


www.peaock.ch

ELENA PEDRAZZOLI Peacock Film


SHORT CV Andres Pfaeffli was born in Zurich, Switzerland and graduated from the University of Zurich and Geneva with a degree in History and Romanistic Studies. In 1979 he started working in the world of film, first as a distributor then as a director and producer. In 1991 he became one of the first Swiss producers to take part in the Media Programme EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs).

COMPANY PROFILEventura film produces both feature films and documentaries primarily in collaboration with European partners. Since its inception in 1991, the main aim of the company has been to focus on films that explore and cross new boundaries in form and content. Over the years ventura has co-produced feature films and creative documentaries by innovative and courageous directors with European partners. Many have premiered at key international film festivals − Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Sundance, Amsterdam, Locarno, etc. − and have received nominations and awards from Swiss, Italian, French, German and European Academies.

FILMOGRAPHY – THEY CHASED ME THROUGH ARIZONA, 2014 – FUORI MIRA, 2014 – VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA, 2013 – DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN, 2013 – IL COMANDANTE E LA CICOGNA, 2012

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5New project to be shot in South Tyrol.

COUNTRYSwitzerland

POSITIONPresident

Ventura Film SAAl Castello6866 [email protected]

ANDRES PFAEFFLI Ventura Film

SHORT CV Tiziana Soudani-Cerutti has been working in production since 1973. In 1987 she founded Amka Films. From 1992 to 1995 she was a coordinator of the Montecinemaverità Foundation and helped promote African cinema, working simultaneously as assistant to the Director of the International Film Festival, Locarno. From 2000 to 2002 she was head of production for 143 documentary films for EXPO.02 (Swiss National Exhibition) for the project ONOMA. Since 2002 she is a production teacher at CISA in Lugano. She is an expert for the Federal Office of Culture and also for the BLS. She was honoured with the Cinema Ticino Award for Best Producer at the Locarno Film Festival 2013.

COMPANY PROFILETiziana Soudani is in charge of production for Amka Films Productions SA. She founded Amka Films in 1988 and has since been committed to producing independent works mainly in Europe but also in Africa and elsewhere. Amka Films has produced and coproduced fiction films, among them Vodka Lemon winner of the Controcorrente competition at the 2003 Venice Film Festival and winner of 9 David di Donatello Pane e Tulipani (Bread and Tulips) and many other documentaries, films and TV-movies. Amka Films is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Swiss GARP (Groupe Auteurs Réalisateurs Producteurs) and of ACE (Atelier Cinéma Européen).

FILMOGRAPHY – LE MERAVIGLIE, 2014 – ORO VERDE, 2014 – HERITAGES, 2013 – ASMAHAN, 2013

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5I took part in INCONTRI #3 in 2013 and I am very much interested in pursuing this experience further by participating again this year. My wish is to meet other producers, to get to know their projects and to let others know ours.

COUNTRYSwitzerland

POSITIONCEO

FAVORITE FILM 2014There are a lot …

The last one I saw was Mommy

AMKA FILMS PRODUCTIONS SA

Via Sole 26942 Savosa

[email protected]

TIZIANA SOUDANI Amka Films Productions


Cineworx Filmproduktion GmbHWeinbergstr. 528006 Zurichtraechslin@cineworxfilmproduktion.chwww.cineworxfilmpro-duktion.ch

SHORT CV Pascal Traechslin was born in Basel and studied Journalism and Science of Communication in Fribourg as well as Philosophy, Art History and Sociology in Basel. In 1994 he did his first steps into the film business as a member of the board in the oldest film club of Switzerland Le Bon Film and the local cinema Stadtkino Basel, followed by work as a film journalist. Between 1998 and 2003 Traechslin was Head of Distribution for Fama Film AG Zürich: He was responsible for acquiring and releasing films. In December 2003 he co-founded artworx gmbh, a company for exhibition concepts, art education and communication and cineworx gmbh, a distribution company. In December 2004 Pascal Traechslin founded cineworx filmproduktion gmbh, the film production department of cineworx.

COMPANY PROFILEThe Swiss production company cineworx filmproduktion, headed by producer Pascal Trächslin, focuses on the development and implementation of long feature films and documentaries with potential theatrical exploitation opportunities on the national or international TV or arthouse market. The company was founded in December 2004 as an independent sister company of the film distribution cineworx gmbh.

FILMOGRAPHY – EL TIEMPO NUBLADO, 2014 – DER KRÖSUS VON LUZERN, 2013 – CHARLYS COMEBACK, 2010 – MADONNAS, 2007 – ZEIT DES ABSCHIEDS, 2006

MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATING IN INCONTRI #5To meet other producers and discuss current issues. To find possible coproduction partners for projects in development.To find a project to get on board as a minority co-producer.

COUNTRYSwitzerland


FAVORITE FILM 2014Leviathan

PASCAL TRAECHSLIN Cineworx Filmproduktion

SHORT CV Anne Walser was born in France and completed her Matura in Zurich. Following editorial jobs and production work in TV, journalistic freelance activity, and production management of various advertising campaigns and corporate films, in late 1999 she joined C-FILMS AG as production manager and executive producer. Since 2005, Anne Walser has worked as a producer and in addition to the financing and the realization of projects, she also works intensively with general material development and scripts. In 2006, she joined the C-FILMS management team, and became a partner in 2007.

COMPANY PROFILEBased in Zurich, C-FILMS AG develops and produces of theatrical films, TV movies, series and documentaries on a national and international level. Our German subsidiary C-Films (Deutschland) GmbH is based in Hamburg. The company’s films have won prestigious national and international awards, including three Swiss Film Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor (Azzurro, Rascals on the Road, I Am the Keeper), various audience awards and honors at international festivals (Golden Leopard, International Film Festival Locarno 2000 for Azzurro), the German Film Award for the co-production Das wahre Leben, awards in various categories at the German Television Award as well as the International Emmy Award for the co-production In the Name of God and The Manns – Novel of a Century. Rascals on the Road, Grounding – The Last Days of the Swissair, The Foster Boy, Night Train to Lisbon and I Am the Keeper rank amongst the biggest box-office successes in recent Swiss film history.

FILMOGRAPHY – LA GIOVINEZZA, 2015 – DER KOCH, 2014 – AKTE GRÜNINGER, 2014 – DER GOALIE BIN IG, 2014 – NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON, 2013

COUNTRYSwitzerland

POSITIONProducer, Manager


The Theory of Everything

C-Films AGHallenstr. 108008 Zurich

[email protected]

ANNE WALSER C-Films


SHORT CV Daniel Waser is the managing director of Zürcher Filmstiftung since April 2005. After a five-year period as journalist for a daily newspaper, Daniel Waser graduated in law at the University of Berne in 1992 and worked for several years at the criminal court. Later on he owned a small cinema, he was the managing director of the arthouse-group Quinnie Cinemas in Berne (with 9 screens) and for five years he was the general secretary of the Swiss Journalist Federation. After a postgraduate study in project management Daniel Waser was elected as the first managing director in December 2004 to build up the new Filmstiftung.

COMPANY PROFILEThe Zürcher Filmstiftung was founded in November 2004 – after a convincing “Yes for the cinema” in a vote by the people of Zurich. Our founding-members are the Canton of Zurich, the City of Zurich and all other municipalities in the Canton. Itʼs the first regional Fund in Switzerland and we are committed to supporting writers, directors, producers and distributors. Our target is to support film business on a high professional level. With an annual business volume of about 10 million Euros we finance projects and we support filmmakers in all their needs. Our focus is in assisting script development, production and distribution of cinema films – fiction, documentaries, shorts, animations, experimentals – and transmedia projects. We also support projects in co-production with foreign partners. Nevertheless, the film foundation does not limit itself to the support of projects, but tries to strengthen the exchange between the people involved with complementary offers.

COUNTRYSwitzerland


FAVORITE FILM 2014Der Kreis,Chrieg

Zürcher FilmstiftungNeugasse 108005 [email protected]

DANIEL WASER Zürcher Filmstiftung

International Film Partnersbernie.stampfer@ film-partners.comT.: +49 152 57049355

g-brunnenmeyer@ t-online.deT: +49 171 2038687

Bernhard Stampfer launched SalinasFilm in 1980 and produced some 30 films (War Zone, The Bachelor, Helsinki Napoli), he then joined Media Park AG/Media Equity Associates AG in 1987 before moving to Bravo Studios SpA in Milan, Italy in 1991 where he was responsible for development and project finance. Bernie Stampfer returned to London in 1994 to join the European Script Fund Ltd. as Head of Project and Company Monitoring/Financial Engineering. Bernie was also a director of Rough Magic Ltd.. In January 2000 he continued his career at Deutsche Bank AG as Vice President and Head of the Expert Team Telecommunication, Media and Technology in the Corporate and Investment Banking division. Bernie left Deutsche Bank in 2012 with mandates of his own; in 2014 he joined IFP Entertainment GmbH/International Film Partners (Munich). Since 1988, Bernie has been lecturing at EAVE, EMAM Rome, Media Business School/MEGA, Bauhaus University Weimar, ILS University Vienna and many other institutions. He served as project analyst for the Swiss Teleproduction Fund, the Zurich Film Foundation, Swiss National Film Fund (BAK) and is a member of the European and German Film Academy. He has also been serving as the conference coordinator for INCONTRI since 2014.

Having worked as a journalist, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer was in charge of the MEDIA Antenna Berlin-Brandenburg, acting as an artistic adviser for the MEDIA training initiative Moonstone International as well as an artistic director for Connecting Cottbus till the end of 2010. From 2013 till December 2014 she was the head of studies for the MEDIA supported training program Maia Workshops. Since 2005 she is working for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film as a free lanced project and script advisor. Furthermore she is working as consultant for script development, packaging and project presentation for Berlinale and Sarajevo Talents, Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize and others. Since 2013 she is also acting as the conference coordinator for the BLS Film Conference INCONTRI.

CONTACT

CONTACT

BERNHARD STAMPFER CONFERENCE COORDINATOR

GABRIELE BRUNNENMEYER CONFERENCE COORDINATOR

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BARBARA WEITHALER PROJECT COORDINATOR

EVA VON INGRAM HARPF PROJECT ASSISTANCE

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BLS Südtirol Alto [email protected].: +39 342 5249898

CONTACT

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