Alberto Barbera (Italy): born in Biella in 1950. After graduating in Modern Literature with a thesis on the History and Criticism of Film, he began his collaboration with the AIACE (the Italian association of Friends of Art-House Films) of Turin, for which he served as president from 1977 to 1989. From 1980 to 1983 he was the film critic for the daily newspaper “La Gazzetta del Popolo” and since 1982 has been a member of the Order of Journalists, on the list of publicists. He has collaborated with many magazines, and has curated or participated in many radio and television shows for RAI. In 1982 he began his collaboration with the Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani (now the Torino Film Festival), first as a press agent, then as the Secretary General and member of the Selection Committee, from 1984 to 1988. From 1989 to 1998, he served as Director. From December 1998 to April 2002 he was the Director of the Venice International Film Festival. From 2002 to 2006, he was the co-director of “RING! Festival of Film Critics” in Alexandria. Since June 2004 he has been the Director of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin. Since 2008, he has been President of the Advisory Board of TorinoFilmLab. Since 2012 he is again the Director of the Venice International Film Festival.
Academic Team
Savina Neirotti
Jane Williams
Michel Reilhac
Amy Dotson
Joana Vicente
Head of Programme
Savina Neirotti (Italy): born in Genova, she graduated in Philosophy in Torino and went on to study Aesthetics at the University of Pennsylvania. After returning to Italy, she became Head of the Press and Communication Office of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, where she was also in charge of the Educational Department. In the same years, she became one of the owners of Scuola Holden in Torino – a school for storytellers – ideated by novelist Alessandro Baricco. She has been Director of Scuola Holden’s Master in Narration Techniques, supervising all the school activities, focusing on the international contacts. In the same years she has written articles and interviews on narration and classical music, book reviews and film reviews for Italian and international newspapers. She has ideated and directed Script&Pitch Workshops since 2005, and TorinoFilmLab since 2008. TorinoFilmlab is an international Lab that includes 5 training courses, a co-production event and a funding system. It develops around 40 projects a year. She is now Head of Programme of Biennale College – Cinema.
Head of Studies
Jane Williams (UK): Jane Williams set up Dubai International Film Festival’s Industry Office in 2006 which became the Dubai Film Market in 2009. She has played a leading role in the development of a number of initiatives to support filmmakers in the Arab region including: the establishment of the Dubai Film Connection the only co-production platform in the Middle East; Interchange a training and development programme bringing Arab and European filmmakers together to work on 10 projects for the international market organised in collaboration with TorinoFilmLab, EAVE and the Media Mundus. Jane comes from a background of training and development and in the UK worked for a number of organisations and companies including the BFI and NFTS. In 1998 she moved to Amsterdam to become Head of Training at the Maurits Binger Film Institute in Holland. Since 2002 she has been working as a freelance consultant for a number of funding organizations and international festivals. She has worked for the Cinemart and Hubert Bals Fund at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Balkan Fund, Thessaloniki International Film Festival Greece, the Industry Office at the BAFICI in Buenos Aries and Taormina Film Festival Sicilie, Italy. She is an expert for the European Commission and currently consults for the Royal Film Commission in Jordan.
Michel Reilhac (France): executive director of ARTE France Cinema for more than 10 years, until November 2012. Director of several organizations, tv producer, producer-curator-author of participative events, he’s also a filmmaker. Among his films: the documentary film All alike?, To Be a Man for Canal +, Kenya Islands for Arte, The Good Old Naughty Days. Since 2000, he has started his own production company, Melange: his first film production, a first short by Licia Eminenti, Intimisto, has been selected for the official competition as the opening film at Venice Biennale in 2001. Among his film productions: Cry Woman by Liu Bing Jian, L’Intrus by Claire Denis and 7 days, 7 nights by Joel Cano.
Project assistant
Valentina Bellomo (Italy): graduated in 2007 in “Economy and Management of Arts and Cultural Activities” at Cà Foscari University (Venice) and in 2008 a Master Degree in “Cultural Management: Strategic Planning”. Has worked for several years as a production secretary for the official web tv and web radio of the Music Festival “Rototom Sunsplash” both in Italy and in Spain. Between 2008 /2009 she worked for the organization of “RIFF – Roma Independent Film Festival”. Since 2010 has worked in film production including “The Tourist”, “Effie Gray” and “The Best Offer”; continues to build on this experience working for tv series and commercials. In May 2013 joins the Biennale College – Cinema team as project assistant.
Community Manager
Gabriele Capolino (Italy): he graduates at the University of Padova in Performing Arts and Entertainment Multimedia Production in 2012 with a thesis about the contemporary American indie cinema. From 2006 he has been web editor and film critic for Cineblog.it, one of the most famous italian movie webzines, for which he is also press correspondent at international festivals such as Venice and Cannes. Today he is the Community Manager of Biennale College – Cinema.
Pitching Trainer
Stefano Tealdi (Italy): born in South Africa in 1955, he graduated in Architecture and was head of audiovisual production at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy. He established Stefilm with others in 1985 where, to date, he develops, produces and at times directs, documentary features and series. Stefilm’s internationally acclaimed films include Leonardo, the man behind the shroud? (Silver Screen Award 2002), Porto Marghera – Venice (59th Venice Film Festival), Rice Girls (60th Venice Film Festival, MOMA fortnight 2003), Citizen Berlusconi (nominated Grimme Award – Germany 2004), Monstar United (IDFA 2009), Vinylmania (Official film Record Store Day 2012) and Char, No man’s land (Berlinale Forum 2013). EAVE graduate in 1992, he is the director of the annual Italian workshop Documentary in Europe and chaired the European Documentary Network EDN. He teaches at universities and master classes and tutors for EDN – European Documentary Network, Esodoc, Med Film Factory, Scuola Holden, Films de 3 Continents, Zelig Film School.
Group Leaders
Gino Ventriglia (Italy): story editor and script consultant both for cinema and television; he’s a tutor for TorinoFilmLab as well for other international development programs. He won a Fulbright Fellowship, and got a 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. He has written screenplays for cinema and television, like the script for Arrivederci amore, ciao by Michaele Soavi. He lives in Rome.
Amy Dotson (USA): Deputy Director of IFP (Independent Feature Project), the oldest not-for-profit membership and advocacy organization of independent filmmakers in the U.S., founded in New York in 1979. Amy is also an independent film producer: she produced Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, a documentary film by documentario di Bradley Beesley, who premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival 2009; her last film production, I Used to Be Darker by the internationally renowned director Matt Porterfield, will premiere at Sundance 2013.
Producer Consultants
Violeta Bava (Argentina): born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2002 she received a double degree in Theory, Aesthetics and History of Cinema & Drama at Buenos Aires University (UBA).She is Programmer of the Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI) and Co-director of BAL, a leading co- production market for Latin American films.She teaches Cinema Aesthetics and Ethics at Centro de Investigación Cinematográfica (Buenos Aires). She has worked at the programming team of Bratislava International Film Festival and has collaborated during three editions with Locarno International Film Festival at the Open Doors Programme. Since 2012 is the Latin American delegate for Venice International Film Festival and has recently become regional Consultant for Doha Film Institute.Founder of Ruda Cine, production company of the feature film Abrir puertas y ventanas, winner of the Pardo d’Oro for Best Film, Pardo d’Argento for Best Actress and FIPRESCI Award at Locarno Film Festival 2011, among many other awards.
Titus Kreyenberg (Germany): Titus Kreyenberg was an executive producer for film and television for many years before he founded his own production company unafilm in 2004. unafilm produces feature films: straight forward and artistically challenging, fiction and documentary, national and international. The company’s films compete in internationally acknowledged film festivals around the world, Cannes, Berlinale, Toronto, IDFA, San Sebastian among them. The German-Swiss coproduction “Colours in the Dark” achieved a major success in German cinemas, “Heli” a coproduction with Mexico premiered in competition at Cannes Film Festival in 2013 to win the Best Directors award. The Cologne and Berlin–based unafilm is an active member of ACE, the German Producers Alliance, AG DOK and the European Film Academy.
Scott Macaulay (USA): he’s a New York-based producer and the Editor-in-Chief of Filmmaker magazine, the leading American magazine devoted to independent film. As a producer, along with his partner Robin O’Hara and his production company Forensic Films, Macaulay has produced or executive-produced many award-winning features. Among his film productions: Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy by Harmony Korine, Long Way Home by Peter Sollett, and Saving Face by Alice Wu. As a company, Forensic Films has been involved as a co-producer in several European productions, including Olivier Assayas’ Demonlover and Clean. As the founding editor of Filmmaker magazine, Macaulay directs the editorial content of each issue as well special issues and sections such as the annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film”. He is also currently co-editor of FilmInFocus, Focus Feature’s site for movie lovers.
Script Consultants
Marietta Von Hauswolf von Baumgarten (Sweden): script consultant and screen writer connected to Binger Filmlab, TorinoFilmLab, Generation Campus/screenwriters Lab Moscow, as well as to various independent film companies and programmes. She is head of MotherofSons (MOS), development/film/production/art/ company based in Stockholm. She is a member of the Swedish Drama Union since 1997 and citizen of the NSK State since 1999, and minister of K.R.E.V since 1996. Marietta is also working as screenwriter for short and feature films and TV within this company: she wrote ‘Call Girl’,which won the Fipresci award in Toronto 2012. Call Girl was also (among others) in official competition of the Turin Film Festival 2012 and the Buenos Aires Film Festival 2013.
Anita Voorham (The Netherlands): has worked as a writer, script-editor and a producer on several comedy and drama series for independent production companies between 1995 and 2005. She currently works as a script-editor for the Dutch public broadcasting company NTR, as a script advisor/tutor for TorinoFilmlab and the Binger Filmlab and as a script advisor for several independent producers. Among his works as a script editor: Little Sister Katia by Mijke de Jong, and Life In One Day by Mark de Cloe. As a scriptwriter, Anita worked for the popular, award-winning drama series Gooische Vrouwen, which has sold to many countries including the UK, France and Germany.
Giacomo Durzi (Italy): As a screenwriter he wrote several TV movies and TV series for Italian TV and has been working for the main production companies such as Tao Due (Distretto di polizia, RIS), Grundy-Freemantle Italy (Liberi di giocare, La nuova squadra) Cattleya, Publispei (I Cesaroni), and Magnolia (Camera cafè, Vicky tv). Recently, he wrote the Italian adaptation of the series In treatment (Wildside for Sky Cinema), and currently writing a new tv series, Sicilia Connection (Tao Due for Mediaset). As an editorial and script consultant, he worked for NBC Universal Italy and Fox International Channels, launching new channels, selecting and developing the productions for Fox Life and History Channel. He worked as head writer and script consultant for Mediavivere-Endemol Italy and the Italian company Itc Movie, developing new formats for TV series, and for the german production company Tandem Communications. As a director, he wrote and directed several documentaries for italian and european broadcasters such as RAI, The History Channel, NBC Universal Network, CHANNEL 4 and MTV. His last film SB I knew him well, has been world premiered in competition at the 2012 Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma, selected in many other international film festivals and released in theatres and tv in Europe. As a producer, he produced short films, documentaries and features such as L’estate di mio fratello by Pietro Reggiani (in competition in many international festivals, won several prizes such as the Jury Prize at the Tribeca Festival in 2005), and Non pensarci by Gianni Zanasi, in competition at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. He has teached screenwriting and mentored students at the DFFB (Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie Berlin), at the IFS (Internationsl Filmschule Koln), and he’s tutor and teacher for the development project Racconti Script Lab by the BLS (Business Locations Sudtirol-Bolzano Film commission). He is a member of the “Associazione 100Autori” board, the Italian guild for screenwriters, italian delegate of FERA (Federation of European Film Directors), and of the executive board of “Giornate degli Autori-Venice Days” of the Venice International Film Festival.
Experts
Martin Boege (Mexico): Martin Boege is committed to the idea of a different world, with cinematographic language and images as the tools necessary to change it. That is why his work invites us to see beauty as a terrible yet generous element of reality, and to deeply reflect on sensitive topics such as justice, equality, ecology, and the stories of characters that represent man’s battle to be human. Born into a family of anthropologists, Martin used his camera to record his parents’ field work since he was very young. This life experience later flourished as his visual world was built through his great interest in documentaries, social topics, travel, and the insatiable search for identity and belonging. His academic and professional careers are marked by great mentors like Vilmos Zsigmond and Lázló Kovács (with whom he studied in Hungary), as much as by the experience of filming with Felipe Cazals and Carlos Carrera. He also admits an aesthetic influence from German film expressionism, as well as a careful study of the works by Robby Müller, Christopher Doyle, Gregg Toland, and of course, Gabriel Figueroa. For Martin, the photographic concept one must develop from a script implies a creative dialogue around the story and its references, and a profound study of the plot – the characters and spaces where everything takes place. Light, form, texture, and color are narrative elements that he renders into the intelligent fabric which will become the film – the soul of a story.
Samm Haillay (UK): he founded independent production company Third with Duane Hopkins in 2001. Third was granted a BFI Vision Award in 2013. He produced Hopkins’ multi-award winning short films and feature debut Better Things, which premiered to critical acclaim at International Critics Week, Cannes in 2008. Samm also produced Hopkins’ multi-channel film installations series Sunday. Hopkins’ latest feature Bypass premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2014. As well as producing all of Hopkins’ film and galley work Samm produces also a number of other talented directors work through Third including the BAFTA winning Esther May Campbell, renowned critic and writer Mark Cousins, Joseph Bull and Luke Seomore debut Blood Cells,that also premiered in Venice 2014. In 2013 Samm’s work on Peter Snowden’s The Uprising, a self-funded documentary culminated in it winning best international film at Jihlava Documentary Festival. On top of a muscular development slate of feature films Samm’s short film productions have won over 45 awards inc. Berlin, Venice, Edinburgh, and Chicago. In 2010 he co-produced Gillian Wearing’s feature debut Self Made. Samm sat on the jury in Berlin 2010 to award the Golden Bear for best short film. He is a group leader for EAVE and The Biennale College Cinema, a board member of Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival and a patron of the Underwire Film Festival. Samm is also an Associate Senior Lecturer in Film Production at Teesside University, designing and writing modules for L4, L5 & L6. He is a module leader for L4 and supervises group work in L5 & L6. Samm is an external examiner at the University of Cumbria and delivers the training for Creative England’s ishorts scheme.
Mathilde Henrot (France): born in 1975, with a diploma from HEC business school, INALCO (B.A. in Chinese), Paris X (B.A in Philosophy) and Paris II (LLM in Literary and Artistic Copyright Law), Mathilde Henrot worked 8 years for MK2 where she was Director of Sales, also handling acquisitions for international sales. In 2010, together with Alessandro Raja, she founded Festival Scope, the benchmark online service for film professionals allowing them to watch on demand films from more than 80 of the most prestigious international film festivals. She founded also Maharaja Films, production company which line up includes: The Strife of Love in a Dream directed by Camille Henrot, Directors’ Fortnight 2011, Smugglers’ Songs directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Jean Vigo Prize 2011, Locarno Official Competition 2011 and as French co-producer Alps directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Venice Official Competition 2011 -Best Screenplay. Since 2012 she also programs for the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia) and in 2013 for the 2morrow Film Festival (Russia).
Katie Mustard (USA): an honors graduate of USC film school, has worked as a Producer and Line Producer for the past twelve years and has overseen the production of 29 feature films. Her first short film, Swallow, premiered at Sundance in 2003 and was distributed by HBO. In 2005, she produced the very successful short In the Morning, which premiered at Sundance and went on to win festivals across the world. Katie’s most recent short film, Eve, premiered at the 2008 Venice Film Festival and was directed by Natalie Portman, starring Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, and Olivia Thirlby. As a feature producer, Katie has overseen production of numerous films, including The Missing Person (Michael Shannon & Amy Ryan), Made in China (winner Best Festure at SXSW Film Festival 2009), The Greatest (Pierce Brosnan & Susan Sarandon), and The Son of No One (Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, & Channing Tatum). In 2010, her film Night Catches Us, premiered at Sundance (starring Kerry Washington and Anthony Mackie), which she co-produced and went onto be nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. In January of 2011, Katie had her eighth film premiere at the Sundance Film Festival with Restless City which appeared in theaters in April 2012. Most recently, Katie premiered The Devil Inside which top’d the box office scales as the largest grossing genre film of its time. This year, she produced A Case of You starring Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long, Sam Rockwell, Brendan Fraser & Vince Vaughn and Growing Up and Other Lies with Josh Lawson, Adam Brody, and Amber Tamblyn.
Mike S. Ryan (USA): as producer, he has been responsible for a remarkable group of films in the last ten years, most made under $3 million. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit “Producer of the Year” Award, and was one of Variety’s 2007 “10 Producers to Watch.” His films have garnered nominations and prizes from the Academy Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and many more. JUNEBUG, starring Amy Adams, made its international premiere at Cannes in 2005 and went on to be one of the lowest-budgeted feature films ever nominated for an Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, 2005). Other credits include Todd Solondz’s PALINDROMES and LIFE DURING WARTIME; Kelly Reichardt’s OLD JOY(winner, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006) and her MEEK’S CUTOFF starring Michelle Williams; Ira Sach’s 40 SHADES OF BLUE(winner, Sundance Film Festival 06); Hal Hartley’s FAY GRIM, starring Parker Posey and Jeff Goldblum; LAKE CITY, starring Sissy Spacek (premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2008), Ilya Chaiken’s LIBERTY KID(Winner of HBO’s Latino Film Festival in 2007 and in competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival); Bela Tarr’s final film, TURIN HORSE, winner at Berlin and in competition at the Toronto, Telluride and New York Film Festivals. He just completed LAST WEEKEND, starring Patricia Clarkson and Zachary Booth. His most recent films are ABOUT SUNNY (Toronto ’11), nominated for a Spirit Award for best actress and now on VOD and Netflix, THE COMEDY, a drama, starring comedian Tim Heidecker, in competition at Sundance and Rotterdam 2012 and theatrically released earlier this year to critical acclaim, and BETWEEN US, starring Julia Stiles and Taye Diggs, released last year. He is in post-production on the Sundance lab feature FREE IN DEED, starring David Harewood and Edwina Findley and on THE MISSING GIRL, starring Robert Longstreet and Sonja Sohn. Mike is a New York City native and NYU Tisch School of the Arts graduate. He has taught workshops and given lectures at universities and festivals including Columbia, Yale, NYU, Bard, the San Francisco Film Society, and he is a Producer Leader at the Venice Biennale College.
Mary Stephen (Hong Kong): Born in Hong Kong, Mary Stephen attended the Chinese-language True Light School in Hong Kong before finishing her studies in Canada. She graduated in Communication Arts at Loyola College (to become Concordia University, Montreal) and went on to Paris to pursue her studies, where she still lives. She collaborated with French New Wave director Eric Rohmer for more than 25 years editing and co-composing music, from being assistant to his then-editor Cécile Décugis (Cécile’s credits included the legendary « Breathless » by Godard and films by Truffaut) to editing Rohmer’s films from « Winter’s Tale » (1991) to his last feature « The Romance of Astrea and Celadon » (2007). In the past decade Mary has been working with independent filmmakers and producers in various countries, France, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Turkey, Australia and Canada, editing, associate-producing and coaching narrative drama and documentaries, such as « Majority » by Seren Yüce (Lion of the Future, Venice 2010 ; Best Film, Mumbaï) – his 2nd feature « Silence » now in editing, coproduced in France; « Umbrella » and « 1428 » (Orizzonti Doc Award, Venice 2009 ) by Du Haibin and with his new feature « A Young Patriot » now in post-production in France ; « Flowing Stories » by Jessey Tsang Tsui Shan (Documentary Competition HKIFF); « Dot 2 Dot » by Amos Why, (Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival) ; « Do Not Forget Me Istanbul » : collective film consisting of 6 shorts made in Istanbul, by Hany Abou-Assad (director of « Paradise Now », and « Omar») from Palestine and other award-winning Balkans filmmakers : Aida Begic from Bosnia, Stefan Arsenijevic from Serbia, Stergios Niziris from Greece, Eric Nazarian from Armenia, etc ; « Last Train Home » by Lixin Fan (Joris Ivans Award, IDFA 2009 ; DGA Award ; Sundance) ; « Blind Mountain » by Li Yang (« Un Certain Regard », Cannes) ; « Wild Grass of Qingdao » by Yang Lina ; « My Marlon and Brando » (Best New Narrative Filmmaker, Tribeca) by Hüseyin Karabey, etc. She has also edited short films (e.g., Joan Chen’s web movie « Shanghaï Strangers », Ann Hui’s « The Headmaster » in a collection of shorts to be released 2015) and coached animation and experimental projects. Mary continues her own filmmaking (« Vision from the edge : Breyten Breytenbach painting the lines ») as well as guest-lectures and participates in juries/workshops/symposiums/universities and film schools on several continents. Mary Stephen is a Canadian citizen and resides in Paris with her three grown-up artist children and an ever-growing extended family : Julien Chheng, animation filmmaker ; Julie Stephen Chheng, paper and digital book designer ; and Jonathan Stephen Chheng, architect.
Lorna Tee (Malaysia): she is a well-known personality in the Asian film scene. In 2005 she managed the marketing and distribution at Focus Films Hong Kong, and also worked alongside Chinese superstar, Andy Lau on his international business. After that, she managed the Asian office for Variety as their Business Development Manager, creating sales and marketing opportunities for the publication. She then ventured to set up and be the general manager of the Asian investment fund Irresistible Films, working alongside top producer Bill Kong (Edko Films) and Avex Entertainment (Japan). She was the producer for the very first Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong which was the first awards ceremony to bring all the filmmaking talents in Asia under roof. Currently, she is working with leading production company October Pictures (Hong Kong) and manages her own production company Paperheart (Malaysia) to produce films across Asia. Tee is also the Asian Representative of BACKUP Media Group, a leading French film and television financing agency and fund. Tee has worked as a board member to CINEMART (Rotterdam IFF), Asian Film Market (Busan IFF), Shanghai Coproduction Market, Asian Film Awards and has worked with Doha Film Institute as a script reader and Berlinale as a member of the selection committee. She has been invited to be a jury member at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Hong Kong, Jeonju, Barcelona, Mexico, Durban, Sydney, and other film festivals. In addition, she has presented at panels and forums in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, India, China, Slovakia, Netherlands, France, Malaysia, Indonesia, Italy, Australia, France and Japan. Her producing credits include “Beautiful Washing Machine”, “The Shoe Fairy”, “Rain Dogs”, “Crazy Stone”, “Love Story”, “I’ll Call You”, “My Mother is a Bellydancer”, “At the end of Daybreak”, “Lover’s Discourse”, “Come Rain, Come Shine” and “Postcards from the Zoo”.
Helle Ulsteen (Sweden): Kamoli Films is run by award-winning ACE producer of the 2007 International Emmy®Award Nominee Smiling in a War Zone Helle Ulsteen, who has produced a number of prize winning films for the international film world and markets – many in association with Lars Von Trier & Dogme 95. With films such as The Exhibited and The Purified capturing the brotherhood of Lars Von Trier (The Idiots) and Thomas Vinterberg (Festen). And Helle Ulsteen has produced highly interactive Art such as Psychomobile #1: World Clock, Lars von Trier’s innovative live-installation with 56 characters/actors improvising for two months in 19 rooms and controlled by living ants live-linked from New Mexico US into a Copenhagen Art Museum to artists like Peter Greenaway and his 100 Objects. Helle is currently in production with Sin Titulo – filming in Denmark and Argentina by the Cannes acclaimed Director Lisandro Alonso, starring Viggo Mortensen as the protagonist Gunner Blixen. A Co-Production between Kamoli Films Denmark, Perceval Pictures US, 4L Argentina, Carlos Reygada’s MantarrayaProducciones Mexico, Ilse Hughan, Fortuna Films Holland, Les Films du Worzo, France. And she recently won a 35.000 euro development prize at Stockholm Film festival with the new project Wasted together with Swedish writer & director Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten, who won the Fipresci Prize 2012 in Toronto with her film Call Girl. Kamoli Films is aiming at international Co-productions, Joint Ventures and innovative business models in the Film & Transmedia Bizz and has close partners in all Scandinavia, Europe and the US. And she is currently opening a brand new innovative Oeresund Agency & Fun Film Funding company Scandinavian Lovers together with her Swedish Partner Helena Danielsson. Kamoli Films has received various support from EU-MEDIA. All her films carry strong A-Records from most prestigious Film Festivals as sales ranking figures between 40-100 Countries – US market included – where she has sold to HBO, PBS, Sundance Channel and worked with various US Distributors such as Oscilloscope Pictures amongst others. 5 of her new film projects are being supported by The Danish Film Institute. And two New Talent Slate projects have been 2012 selected for the prestigious TorinoFilmLab, for the Framework and the Script & Pitch.
Joana Vicente (USA): producing partner with Jason Kliot, together they have worked on over 40 feature films by such acclaimed directors as Jim Jarmusch, Brian De Palma, Steven Soderbergh, Miguel Arteta, Hal Hartley, Nicole Holofcener, Alex Gibney, and Todd Solondz. Together with Marc Cuban and Todd Wagner, Vicente & Kliot launched the pioneering digital production companies Blow Up Pictures and HDNetFilms, which ushered in a new era of digital filmmaking that radically transformed the landscape of American independent film production and distribution.