Amy Dotson – Producer tutor

Amy Dotson is the Director of PAM CUT, Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow, and inaugural curator of film & new media at the museum. Dotson is also the creative vision behind the museum’s latest project, The Tomorrow Theater, which showcases cinema, media arts and immersive storytelling in all its many forms from local and international artists not content to be contained to a single medium. For thirteen years, she was the Deputy Director & Head of Programming for IFP, guiding and supporting over 10,000 artists and debut features including Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, Dee Rees’ Pariah, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You, Daniel Destin Cretton’s Short Term 12, and Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me. Her responsibilities included the financial and creative oversight of all domestic and international programming, partnerships and memberships for the organization’s signature programs. She oversaw the yearly selection of over 150 fiction & non-fiction projects and managed 18 international partners in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and Canada, creating custom programming for their producers, showrunners and filmmakers throughout the year. She also managed the talent and juries for the Gotham Awards, which kicks off US cinema awards season each year and was one of three key staff leaders to help secure, create and launch the Made in NY Media Center by IFP, a 22,000 square foot talent incubator for creators at the intersection of story and tech in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Michel Kammoun – Script tutor

Michel Kammoun studied filmmaking in Paris after engineering studies in Beirut. His short films have participated in prestigious international festivals and have been widely broadcasted. His 2 debut feature film FALAFEL won top international awards, participated in major film festivals worldwide and earned international acclaim. His second feature film BEIRUT HOLD’EM is being showcased globally. He is currently working on his third feature film THE BROHER. Michel teaches Cinema and collaborates with international institutions. He is currently a tutor at La Biennale di Venezia’s College Cinema and Head of Script Development at the Red Sea Lodge.

Mmabatho Kau – Script tutor

Mmabatho Kau holds a Master of Science in Media Management (Stirling University, Scotland) as well as a Journalism and Media Studies degree (Rhodes University, South Africa). In her 20-year strong creative journey, Mmabatho has worked as a producer, broadcaster, development executive as well as a script consultant. Roles that have harnessed her love for story and helping writers find their voice as storytellers. Her catalogue of work, as a script consultant, ranges from novel adaptations to politically potent films brought to life through titles such Kalushi: The Solomon Mahlangu Story. She worked on the Netflix hit, “Big Nunu’s little Heist” as well as Cattleya Killer (Amazon Prime, Philippines). Mmabatho’s also worked as a consultant on the award-winning Lesotho based film This is not a Burial, it’s a Resurrection (Biennale College Cinema, Visionary Award winner Sundance). In 2017 she was invited to co-mentor in REALNESS, a Pan African writing residency. She also has mentored on the Canal+ Poland Series Lab (2021), The Philippines (Full Circle Lab 2019-2023), Maisha Producers Lab (Uganda 2019), Jumpstart PRODUIRE AU SUD (South Africa 2019 and 2020), For Film’s Sake- Attagirl Lab (Australia 2020 and 2022), The Pro Series Lab (Kenya 2020), BoostNL (Netherlands Film Festival/IFFR 2020-2023), Dramatic Producer’s Lab (Ethiopia 2019), EAVE Access Canada 2022/23. In 2023 she was invited to mentor at Lock X Full Circle Lab (feature film programme, Indonesia). In 2024 Mmabatho was selected as a Development Executive for Netflix Indonesia’s Growth Creative Programme.

Gino Ventriglia – Group leader

Story editor and script consultant for cinema and television; he’s a tutor for TorinoFilmLab as well for other international development programs. He won a Fulbright Fellowship, and got the Master of Fine Arts in Directing and Scriptwriting at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He teaches drama writing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Italian National School of Cinema, and at Anica Academy. He has written screenplays for cinema and television. He lives in Rome.

Flaminio Zadra – Producer tutor

Flaminio has produced and coproduced numerous feature films, documentaries and short films by international authors, including Fatih Akin, Etgar Keret, Pablo Trapero, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Zhangke Jia, Hany Abu-Assad and Jafar Panahi. His films have received awards at major international festivals, including the Golden Palm for the Best Film Script at the Film Festival of Cannes in 2008 for the film The Edge of Heaven, the Special Prize of the Jury of the Film Festival of Venice in 2010 for the film Soul Kitchen and the Golden Globe in 2017 for the film In the Fade. Currently the Flaminio Zadra is coproducing several international projects. Between this, Fortress by Jessica Woodworth and Rheingold by Fatih Akin (both currently in postproduction), Los Impactados by Lucia Puenzo.