INCONTRI #6 Booklet

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INCONTRI #6 IDM FILM CONFERENCE



INCONTRI #6 IDM FILM CONFERENCE April 13 - 15, 2016 Parkhotel Holzner, Oberbozen, South Tyrol

IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Siemensstr./Via Siemens 19 I-39100 Bozen/Bolzano T +39 0471 094200 film.project@idm-suedtirol.com www.bls.info/film-location


CONTENT


WELCOME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 GREETING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 AGENDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 PARTICIPANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 IMPRINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102


WELCOME DEAR GUESTS OF INCONTRI #6, We are happy to welcome you atop the Renon Plateau. The very first mountain inn was established up here around the year 1200. In order to reach this elevation of 1,200 meters, many of you probably rode the world's longest one-track cableway, which is about four kilometers or 2.5 miles in length. You can see that you're in a place where tradition and modernity are brought together in a harmonious way. Can we say the same about our industry today? Disruption has never been more intense since the invention of television. Countless digital business models involving audiovisual content that didn't exist a couple of years ago are currently challenging the industry’s traditional players. Should we take the likes of Reed Hastings and Jeff Bezos literally in assuming that linear TV will soon be wiped out, and that consumption of films will be on demand rather than at a place called the cinema? "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed," is what William Gibson, the famous writer who coined the term cyberspace, stated in the early 1990s. The quote couldn't be truer today. While House of Cards and Transparent evoke global storms of enthusiasm, Der Bergdoktor and Un posto al sole still draw in millions of viewers. While cord-cutters and cord-nevers propel the rise of OTT services, their most coveted series creators love to reference their storytelling to good old novels. Chances are that producers don't need to jettison everything they've done and learned so far. Some basic virtues shall remain. Sooner or later those virtues must, however, be implemented into a new framework, applied to a new grammar and


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located where tomorrow's consumers are. That takes effort, commitment and guts. It's INCONTRI's mission to help you along in taking the next step on this path. We want to spark an intense dialogue between forward-thinking producers and top executives of digital, on-demand platforms. We want to inspire you by means of enlightening keynote talks and exciting current case studies. We want to examine how cinema, television and VoD are becoming more and more intertwined, defining tomorrow's content production industry. Which new forms of storytelling, which new kinds of partnerships and production models will evolve? Which are the opportunities that digital platforms can offer both larger and smaller production houses? How do traditional funding partners such as broadcasters or sponsors keep up with the digitization of the industry? What types of content are global players such as Netflix or Sky seeking? What will be the future potential of web and TV series? In this process, we think of INCONTRI as a sort of drive belt. It's up to you to turn the wheel and hit the accelerator. We've conceived INCONTRI as a high-level think-tank event for you to engage in the conversation and to enrich the outcome with your own experience, your own thoughts and questions. This is reflected in our slogan: Four countries. Two languages. One summit. We encourage you to allow INCONTRI and South Tyrol's mountain air to refresh your mind.

CHRISTIANA WERTZ

GABRIELE BRUNNENMEYER

TORSTEN ZARGES

Head of Film Fund & Commission IDM SĂźdtirol - Alto Adige

Program Coordinator INCONTRI #6

Program Coordinator INCONTRI #6


GREETING DEAR INCONTRI #6 PARTICIPANTS, For the sixth time now, producers and representatives of film, television, funding bodies, distribution and VoD mainly from Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland are meeting in South Tyrol at this international film conference for the purpose of exchanging multinational dialogue. This year, however, it is not Business Location Südtirol (BLS) that has invited you to this meeting, but rather IDM Südtirol. Since the first of January BLS has formed part of this new organization, which unites the four companies that had previously worked separately in support of various sectors of South Tyrol’s economy. But even though our name has changed, what has remained exactly the same is the enthusiasm and conviction with which we, though now called IDM, continue to actively spur on South Tyrol’s development as a film location. Of course the numerous initiatives that have always helped us further our mandate will likewise continue, ranging from our tried-and-true programs such as INCONTRI and RACCONTI for the development of series concepts all the way to brand new initiatives such as FINAL TOUCH and RACCONTI Local Plus. Since the creation of the film-funding program, a new economic sector has established itself in South Tyrol and is now thriving. Numbers clearly evince this: at this point in time, around 500 service providers and film professionals are working in the sector, striking confirmation that South Tyrol’s film and creative industries are rapidly growing. A total of 148 film projects have received funding, for which a total of 550 shooting days have taken place here. Last year some prestigious projects filmed in South Tyrol, including the family comedy Burg Schreckenstein by Ralf Huettner and the drama La Corrispondenza (Correspondence) by Giuseppe Tornatore, with Jeremy Irons and Olga Kurylenko in the lead roles. Meanwhile young local director Matthias Lang and his team found wonderful locations around Bolzano,


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Appiano, Sand in Taufers and the Sella Pass for their fantasy fairytale, König Laurin, and South Tyrolean craftsman reproduced a medieval village on the Latemar Massif for Monte (Mountain), Iranian director and screenwriter Amir Naderi’s latest film. In 2015, we were especially pleased to witness the success of several movies that were filmed in South Tyrol and supported by our film fund: Everest, directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and Josh Brolin, opened the Venice Film Festival; Oliver Hirschbiegel’s drama, Elser, about the would-be Hitler assassin Georg Elser, was nominated for seven categories of the Deutscher Filmpreis; the Swiss feature Chrieg won the Max Ophüls Prize in two main categories; Vergine Giurata, the directorial debut of Laura Bispuri, was selected for numerous festivals throughout the world; and the children's book adaptation Maikäfer flieg!, by Mirjam Unger, opening this year's Diagonale in Graz. During these days, the 30th Bolzano Film Festival Bozen, into which the INCONTRI Film Conference is integrated, brings European auteur cinema to Bolzano. Among the approximately 80 films that will flicker across the big screen, six films had received financial support from South Tyrol’s film fund; these will be shown in the Made in Südtirol Alto Adige series. Amongst these is the film that will open the festival: Fräulein, which originated in South Tyrol and was subsequently filmed here as well. The idea for this comedy, by Caterina Carone, came out of the first RACCONTI Script Lab. Now we hope that you will experience inspiring encounters and fruitful exchanges with colleagues during the course of INCONTRI #6.

ARNO KOMPATSCHER

HANSJÖRG PRAST

HUBERT HOFER

Governor of South Tyrol & Minister of Economy

Director, IDM

Director of Development Department, IDM


AGENDA DAY 1 WEDNESDAY, 13 APRIL, 2016 18:00 – 20:00 ARRIVAL 19:00 – 20:00

SUNSET COCKTAIL

20:00 – 22:30

WELCOME DINNER

DAY 2 THURSDAY, 14 APRIL, 2016 08:00 – 09:00 BREAKFAST 09:00 – 09:15 OPENING With Hubert Hofer, Director Development, IDM and Christiana Wertz, Head of the Film Fund & Commission, IDM 09:15 – 10:00

THE BRIGHT FUTURE OF ON-DEMAND PROGRAMMING – AND WHAT EUROPE'S PRODUCERS CAN CONTRIBUTE TO IT

Keynote talk with Brian Pearson, Director of Local Originals, Netflix Netflix has recently announced the "birth of a global television network". Operating in 190 countries, the former DVD rental company has become the epitome of subscription video on demand (SVoD). 2016 will see Netflix’ biggest output of original content so far with 31 seasons of new or returning series, two dozen movies and documentaries and 30 children’s series. With Cattleya’s Suburra, Federation Entertainment’s Marseille, Left Bank Pictures’ The Crown or Wiedemann & Berg’s Dark, local European productions are becoming more and more important for the global streamer. As director of local originals, Brian Pearson looks after new projects for EMEA and Asia. In a conversation with Torsten Zarges (Zarges ctc), he will talk about what it means to push the VoD landscape forward, which constellations and partnerships Netflix is looking for in Europe and which requirements high-quality content should meet in order to catch his interest.


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10:00 – 10:30

CINEMA GOES SERIAL: SUBURRA

Case study with Marco Chimenz, CEO of Cattleya The first commission of an Italian Netflix original series came even sooner than Netflix' official launch in Italy. Based on its feature film Suburra (dir. Stefano Sollina), Cattleya develops a 10-episode organized crime series set on the Roman coast for the global network. Suburra will premiere worldwide on Netflix while RAI will air the series after the debut on Netflix in Italy. As Italy´s leading independent film and television producer, the Rome-based Cattleya has produced over 60 feature films, including several high-profile pictures in English for worldwide releases, and a dozen television series. Using the example of Suburra, Marco Chimenz will talk about the steps from cinema to series, the cooperation with SVoD and public television, the international attraction of local Italian stories and about how this fits in Cattleya’s company strategy. Matthijs Wouter Knol (EFM) will host the conversation. 10:30 – 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 11:45

PREMIUM CONTENT ACROSS THE CONTINENT – THE PAN-EUROPEAN SKY EXPERIENCE

Keynote talk with Nils Hartmann, Director of Original Productions, Sky Italia and Marcus Ammon, Senior Vice President Film, Sky Deutschland Sky Italia is the first media company in Italy operating on different broadcasting platforms with different business models and a 4.7-million-subscriber base. With 4.5 million customers Sky Deutschland is the pay-TV market leader in Germany and Austria. Both are part of Sky plc, Europe’s leading entertainment group. Sky's exclusive programs are broadcast to 21.5 million customers in five countries, who watch them whenever and wherever they want. In a conversation with Matthijs Wouter Knol, Nils Hartmann and Marcus Ammon will talk about their strategies in regard to their national and international productions, the cooperation within the Sky Group as well as the challenge to co-produce series with prominent film directors, either as international co-productions or with new partners, as exemplified by The Young Pope and Berlin Babylon. The talk will be followed by two recent and intriguing case studies from Sky, which illustrate the potential of partnerships between Pay TV and cinema producers.


11:45 – 12:30

SEX, CRIME AND HORROR IN THE WOODS – CINEMA MEETS VOD

With Manuela Cacciamani, CEO of One More Pictures and Jakob D. Weydemann, Producer & Founder of Weydemann Bros. Case Study In fondo al bosco Genre movies, especially horror and thriller: that's what the Rome-based young and energetic production company One More Pictures stands for. The thriller In fondo al bosco, the second film of Stefano Lodovichi, is a current adaption based on the traditional Krampus legend, and was developed in collaboration with Sky Cinema and brought into cinemas by Notorious Pictures. Producer Manuela Cacciamani will talk about working as independent production company with Italy's largest Pay TV company. Case Study Sex & Crime Emerging talents need their platforms. The dark comedy Sex & Crime is director Paul Florian Müller's feature debut, produced by Berlin- and Cologne-based Weydemann Bros. in cooperation with Sky Deutschland. The Pay-TV network supported the project from the get-go; it was also supported by public film funding and recently released in cinema. After its theatrical run, Sex & Crime will air on Sky. In this case study, producer Jakob Weydemann will explain how they came together with Sky, how their cooperation works and what it means to bring conventional and new players in line. 12:30 – 14:00

NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00 – 14:30

A FORCE OF ITS OWN: INSIDE THE DRIVING POWER OF SUPERFILM

Conversation with John Lueftner, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Superfilm It takes some guts to call your company Superfilm, but John Lueftner and David Schalko have proven their choice justified all along the way by an output of ambitious, edgy films and television series which apparently can only come from them. The likes of Braunschlag, Aufschneider – Carve the Joint or Altes Geld – Old Money have created massive waves way beyond the Austrian market, not least on VoD platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and Sky Go. How has Superfilm implemented its magic formula, enabling it to rise in international esteem with such locally rooted content? John Lueftner talks with Torsten Zarges about the company’s strategy of developing, financing, producing and distributing a very unique kind of product.


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14:30 – 16:00

TRANSITION TIME – PRODUCING FOR THE FUTURE

Industry panel with Carlotta Calori, Producer, Indigo Film Christian Granderath, Head of Drama Department, NDR Klaus Lintschinger, Managing Editor Drama, ORF Jörg Winger, Managing Director & Producer, UFA Fiction An industry in transition: On the one hand, traditional financing and exploitation models still show some strength and resilience; on the other hand, new digital players have been rapidly establishing their own ecosystem. And the producers? What's in it for them? Where will the new partnerships and production models lead them? Can they even combine serving old and new markets simultaneously? Hosted by Matthijs Wouter Knol, leading industry experts will discuss chances and challenges for content producers by focusing on their experience within the INCONTRI markets. 16:30 – 18:30

OUTDOOR ACTIVITY

19:30 – 20:15

STORYTELLING GOES MULTI-SCREEN: TURNING VIEWERS INTO FANS

Fireside chat with Isabell Buchner, Consultant Strategy & Concepts, ComingNext.TV The playing field of audiovisual entertainment is changing in many ways. Choice is growing exponentially and viewers adapt to this new reality faster than the industry does. Brand new opportunities arise from the massive growth of digital distribution channels and mobile devices as well as from changing advertiser needs. In a predinner conversation with Isabell Buchner, we address how multi-screen strategies can enhance both storytelling and monetization, how producers should gear up for a world of algorithm-based content discovery and how to turn passive viewers into engaged fans. The chat will be hosted by Torsten Zarges. 20:30 – 23:00 DINNER


DAY 3 FRIDAY, 15 APRIL, 2016 08:00 – 09:00 BREAKFAST 09:00 – 09:45

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PRODUCTION: ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME – BUT WHAT ABOUT THE NEW PATH TO CAPE TOWN?

Conversation with Annette Reeker, Founder & Managing Director, all-in-production "At first, many people didn’t believe I was serious", says Annette Reeker who created and produced her first international high-end series, Cape Town, without any broadcaster or film fund involved. The star-studded crime thriller, shot in South Africa and budgeted at a million euros per episode, was entirely financed by private capital. As we speak, principal shooting for season 2 is under way in Cape Town. At INCONTRI, writer, producer and showrunner Annette Reeker will discuss in a conversation with Torsten Zarges her unique financing and production model, the synergies between creative endeavor and entrepreneurial guts, plus what it means to confront a traditional market with an unprecedented approach. 09:45 – 11:00

FOLLOW THE USER AND GET BEYOND – STRATEGIES FOR PREMIUM ONLINE CONTENT AND WEB SERIES. A KEYNOTE AND TWO CASE STUDIES.

Keynote with Dr. Georg Ramme, Digital Video Expert The business of online video and multi-channel networks has increasingly attracted traditional players from the television industry. Hear from one of the pioneers how producers can find their way into successfully developing and marketing premium online content, how to create the stars of tomorrow and which mistakes to avoid.

Case study Lucie Marshall with Tanya Neufeldt, Actress/Writer/Blogger and Claudia Lehmann, Managing Director, maz&movie Actress, blogger and best-selling author Tanya Neufeldt has turned her alter ego Lucie Marshall, a modern mom mastering the balancing act between family and job, into a web series heroine. The 8-episode format, co-produced by Neufeldt and Claudia Lehmann, features high-profile talent both on and off camera and has been funded by major brand partners. Neufeldt and Lehmann will share an in-depth view into the creative and economic details of Lucie Marshall.


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Case study Io credo che lassù with Carlo Cresto-Dina, Producer & Founder and Valeria Jamonte, Producer, Tempesta Italian production company Tempesta has developed the interactive game/web series Io credo che lassù that is available through pubcaster Rai's online portal RAY. It’s a basic concept: Teenage girls use words, images or videos to react to certain questions. These answers are collected and sampled into a song. Unique, unprecedented stories and lyrics are the results. The collected stories are the base for the series. Carlo Cresto-Dina explains the idea behind the series and answers the question and explains why he started to produce for the web in addition to his feature films. The talks will be led by Matthijs Wouter Knol. 11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00

READY OR NOT, HERE WE COME… - THE NEXT STEPS

Think-tank session with Petter Braathen, Founder and Partner, Phoenix Consulting INCONTRI participants are not just a passive audience – they engage in the conversation based on their own experience and with their own potential questions. In order to sum up this high-level gathering and to share as much intel as possible, top management coach Petter Braathen will host an intense think-tank session. When the audiovisual ecosystem around us is changing so rapidly and so profoundly as we have noted once more during our conference, which will be tomorrow's pillars of a producer's solid business? Let's consider the bottom line together and debate how to brace ourselves for the future, which starts right after our return home from INCONTRI. 13:00 – 14:30

FAREWELL LUNCH


PARTICIPANTS Simon Amberger Neue Super / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcus Ammon Sky Deutschland / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giovanna Arata Freelance Producer / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sabine Arnold ndf / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tommaso Arrighi Mood Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boris Ausserer Lucky Bird Pictures / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oliver Bachert Beta Film / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katharina Bogensberger Allegro Film / Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Born Catpics / Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petter Braathen Phoenix Consulting / Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annie Brunner Roxy Film / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Isabell Buchner ComingNext.TV / Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Philipp Budweg Lieblingsfilm / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manuela Cacciamani One More Pictures / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlotta Calori Indigo Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marco Chimenz Cattleya / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marc Conrad Conrad Film / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlo Cresto-Dina Tempesta / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Denk SĂźddeutsche Zeitung / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Dinges German Federal Film Fund / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ferdinand Dohna Beta Film / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marta Donzelli Vivo Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu Amour Fou / Austria/Luxembourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexander Ebner Ebner Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria Ebner Ebner Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andreas Eicher Freelance Producer / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wolfgang Fliri Ammira / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ludovica Fonda Mediaset / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RenĂŠ Frotscher Mafilm / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iole Giannattasio MiBACT / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian Granderath NDR / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilfried Gufler Albolina Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cornelia Hammelmann German Federal Film Fund / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nils Hartmann Sky Italia / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Veit Heiduschka Wega Film / Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valeria Jamonte Tempesta / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henning Kamm Detailfilm/Zentropa / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roland Keller Filmecho / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick Kofler helios - sustainable films / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gabriele Kranzelbinder KGB / Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Jan Krüger Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion / Germany 56 Gianluca Lazzaroni Greif Productions / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Alexandra Lebret European Producers Club / France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Claudia Lehmann Maz&Movie / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Michael Lehmann Studio Hamburg Produktion Gruppe / Germany . . . 60 Klaus Lintschinger ORF / Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 John Lueftner Superfilm / Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Susanne Mann Zischlermann Filmproduktion / Germany . . . . . . . . . . 63 Stefano Massenzi Lucky Red Italia / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Traudi Messini Mediaart / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Philipp Moravetz Echo Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Ronald Mühlfellner Bavaria Fernsehproduktion / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Tanya Neufeldt Lucie Marshall / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Oliver Neumann Freibeuter Film / Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Arturo Paglia Paco Cinematografica / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Brian Pearson Netflix / USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Giannandrea Pecorelli Aurora TV / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Federico Pedroni Rai Cinema / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Andreas Pichler Echo Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Giovanni Pompili Kino Produzioni / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Georg Ramme Digital Video Expert / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Martin Rattini helios - sustainable films / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Annette Reeker all-in-production / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Catia Rossi True Colors / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Marcus Roth TV 60 / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Klaus Schaefer Bavarian Film & Television Fund / Germany . . . . . . . 81 Manfred Schmidt Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung / Germany . . . . . . 82 Dario Schoch CognitoFilms / Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Bernie Stampfer International Film Partners / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Francesco Virga MIR Cinematografica / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Anne Walser C-Films / Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Gabriele Walther Caligari Film / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Anita Wasser Turnus Film / Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Christiana Wertz IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Jakob Weydeman Weydeman Bros. / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Maja Wieser Benedetti Echo Film / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Jörg Winger UFA Fiction / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Matthijs Wouter Knol EFM / Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Iris Zappe-Heller Austrian Film Institute / Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Michele Zatta Rai Fiction / Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95


SIMON AMBERGER NEUESUPER SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer, Partner

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Ex Machina

After his studies of law in Passau, Berlin and London Simon Amberger worked on various positions in the film and media industry. From 2008 to 2012 he studied production at the Munich Academy of Television and Film. In 2010 he founded the NEUESUPER together with Korbinian Dufter and Rafael Parente. In 2012 the NEUESUPER partners founded the KAZOU together with animation director Jan Lachauer to produce apps, games and animation projects. Simon Amberger was selected one of Screen International’s Future Leaders: Producers during the Cannes Film Festival 2015 and is a Trans-Atlantic-Partners-Alumni.

COMPANY PROFILE NEUESUPER is a Munich based production company founded in 2010 by Simon Amberger, Korbinian Dufter and Rafael Parente, alumni of the University of Television and Film Munich. Apart from development of high concept TV series for the national and international market, they focus on development and production of feature films with an appeal to an international audience.

FILMOGRAPHY Hindafing (in pre-production) 303 (in postproduction) Blockbustaz, 2016

Ada, 2014 Eastalgia, 2012

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI

NEUESUPER Produktions GmbH & Co KG Kyreinstr.2 81371 Munich Germany simon@neuesuper.de www.neuesuper.de

NEUESUPER started out with a feature film background, but suddenly finds itself in the middle of a huge content demand regarding innovative serialized formats by TV stations and platforms. I see INCONTRI as a platform to reach out to new national and international partners financing-, production- and especially creative-wise. I believe that creating successful film and TV content in Germany increasingly becomes a European undertaking and that strong and long-lasting partnerships will be needed even more in the future. As our subsidiary company KAZOU produces apps, games and animation I am also highly interested in new storytelling formats like Transmedia and Virtual Reality.


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MARCUS AMMON Sky Deutschland SHORT CV Marcus Ammon is SVP Film & Entertainment 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. Recently Sky DE started to produce and co-produce original content, among others Babylon Berlin and 100 Code as well as movies such as Sex & Crime, Berlin Falling and Nirgendwo. 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 PROFILE With 4.5 million customers and annual revenues in the amount of approximately 1.8 billion Euros, Sky is the pay-TV market leader in Germany and Austria. The program offering at Sky includes live sport, films, series, kids’ channels and documentaries. Sky Deutschland with its headquarter in Unterföhring near Munich is part of Sky plc, Europe’s leading entertainment group. 21.5 million customers in five countries are watching the exclusive Sky programs whenever and wherever they want.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION SVP Film & Entertainment

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Star Wars The Missing, Game of Thrones

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI INCONTRI is meanwhile almost like coming home for me: nice and experienced colleagues in a beautiful surrounding, efficient meetings and a relaxed atmosphere for deepening relationships and making new friends. Thanks to IDM for the fantastic organization and for another highly anticipated event!

Sky Deutschland Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG Medienallee 26 85774 Unterföhring Germany marcus.ammon@sky.de www.sky.de


GIOVANNA ARATA Zazen Film & TV Productions SHORT CV

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Owner, CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Room

Zazen Film & TV Productions Via Strobel 8 20133 Milan Italy gio.arat@gmail.com

Giovanna Arata started her career in the early days of free Italian commercial TV, when she worked as a journalist, author, copywriter and television producer. In 1999 she became the head of international co-production at Mediaset, where she acted as the executive producer for major miniseries with some of the most important producers of drama worldwide. She left the company in 2006, to begin her career as an independent producer. She currently works as a producer for Sky Italia, specifically focusing on highend 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 PROFILE Having received funding 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 for the most part in co-production with 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.


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SABINA ARNOLD ndF: neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft SHORT CV Since 2004 editor at ARD Degeto, before producer/head of production in several film companies such as Annabelle Film, Made in Munich, Material Entertainment/New Line Cinema. Hobbies: Cello, Horse riding, Tennis.

COMPANY PROFILE The company neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft (ndF) is one of the leading independent German film companies and was founded nearly 70 years ago. With a wide range of productions, such as series, tv-movies, feature films, documentaries, international coproductions and commercial productions, ndF is a very popular partner for the German broadcasters and distributors.

COUNTRY

FILMOGRAPHY

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015

Der Island-Krimi, 2015 Alles Klara, 2012 - 2016 Die Bergretter, 2009 - 2015 Der Bulle von Tölz, 1995 - 2009

Germany

POSITION Producer

Modern family

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Very interesting topics for the film production industry of “today/ tomorrow”, interesting network opportunity, learning more about IDM and co-production possibilities.

ndF: neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft mbH Kanalstr.7 85774 Unterföhring Germany sabina.arnold@ndf.de www.ndf.de


TOMMASO ARRIGHI Mood Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Owner, Head of Production

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Lobster Transparent

Tommaso Arrighi was born in Florence (Italy) in 1975. He started working with masters such as Franco Zeffirelli and Mario Monicelli and on Exorcist: the Beginning and the HBO TV series Rome. Later he graduated in film production at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2005 he founded his own independent production company Mood Film. Beside his own productions with Mood Film he was also executive producer of the feature film Mountain by Amir Naderi and the documentary Nessuno mi troverà by Egidio Eronico. He is an alumni of the TorinoFilmLab and EP2C and he teaches production elements at the IED. He is a member of EFA, ACE and Anica.

COMPANY PROFILE Mood Film is an independent Italian company established in 2004 by the producer Tommaso Arrighi. Its productions and projects has been selected at training workshps among which Cinéfondation La Résidence, TorinoFilmLab, and at several co-production markets like Berlinale, NCN, Nordic Co-production Market. Mood Film is now developing and financing the second feature film by Duccio Chiarini (Short Skin), a feature film by Stefano Lodovichi (Aquadro, In fondo al bosco) and two more feature films, all of them are international co-productions.

FILMOGRAPHY The Alchemists of Silent Cinema, 2016 El hombre que quiso ser segundo, 2015 Aquadro, 2013 Hit the road nonna, 2011

MOOD FILM Srl Via A. Bafile 2 00195 Roma Italy tommaso.arrighi@ moodfilm.com www.moodfilm.com

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI A great opportunity for networking, to exchange points of view and to learn more about the future of Cinema and TV series.in Germany increasingly becomes a European undertaking and that strong and long-lasting partnerships will be needed even more in the future. As our subsidiary company KAZOU produces apps, games and animation I am also highly interested in new storytelling formats like Transmedia and Virtual Reality.


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BORIS AUSSERER Lucky Bird Pictures SHORT CV Born in Annecy (France), Boris Ausserer graduated from the Munich Film School in 1998, having augmented his studies with a number of periods abroad, including time spent in Cambridge, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. He started working for MTM Filmproduktion, but was soon hired as junior producer by the Bavaria Film Group. Only a year later, in 2000, he was appointed producer for international coproductions at Bavaria Media Television. From 2003, he was Deputy Head of International Co-Production, a position he retained until leaving Bavaria Media Television for Lucky Bird Pictures. In 2008, Boris Ausserer became a producer at Lucky Bird Pictures, producing international co-productions.

COMPANY PROFILE

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer

Lucky Bird Pictures originated in an MBO at the German venture of the Scandinavian Yellow Bird Group (Mankell’s Wallander, Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy). Among the projects created recently by the company, which has its headquarters in Munich, are Mankell’s best-selling thriller The Chinese Man, a comedy based on a format from Canal+ set in the world of porn for Sat.1, a comedy with Wolfgang Stumph and Edgar Selge for ZDF, an international TV event Little Lady and, in the realm of feature films, Ghosthunters (Warner Bros) and 13 Minutes (Elser). Lucky Bird’s TV and cinema productions are distributed worldwide with considerable success and shown in the UK, Canada and the USA in movie theaters and/or on TV and in home entertainment. The company’s core competence consists of high-value TV and cinema productions with international finance. In 2015 the producers Boris Ausserer and Oliver Schündler were honored with the Producers’ Prize for Best Film at the Bavarian Film Awards.

FILMOGRAPHY Elser (13 Minutes), 2015 Little Lady, 2012 Sex Sells!, 2011 The Chinese Man, 2011

Lucky Bird Pictures GmbH Grillparzerstr. 3 81675 Munich Germany ba@luckybirdpictures.de www.luckybirdpictures.de


OLIVER BACHERT Beta Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION SVP of International Productions and Acquisitions, International Marketing

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Inside Out Privately: Youth

Oliver N. Bachert, as SVP of Acquisitions and Sales of Beta Film is responsible for Beta Film’s production and acquisition activities in North America. Furthermore he overseas key European markets, such as Italy. His areas of responsibility include the creative packaging of projects, as well as the financing. Opportunities for co-production and co-financing are currently among Beta Film’s main strategic focuses. He has been with Beta Film since spring 2002. Prior to this, he was production executive in KirchGroup’s production division, as well as within the joint venture with Italy’s Mediaset - Epislon / Evision. He joined KirchGroup in 1998.

COMPANY PROFILE Founded in 1959, Beta Film Ltd is one of the world's leading international distributors of TV license rights with customers in over 165 countries. Beta Film later expanded its radius of activity by founding Beta Cinema, which distributes theatrical films. Beta Film has been part of Jan Mojto's company group since 2004. Over the years, Beta has built up a global network of contacts. Beta's unique program catalogue comprises over 15,000 hours of 4,000 titles in every available format and genre – from exciting action series, moving TV movies and attention-grabbing mini-series to internationally acclaimed feature films, engrossing documentaries and unforgettable classics.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Identifying new insights, perspectives and trends for 2016 and beyond in a private, selected and focused environment

Beta Film Ltd Gruenwalder Weg 28d 82041 Oberhaching/Munich Germany obachert@betafilm.com www.betafilm.com


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KATHARINA BOGENSBERGER Allegro Film SHORT CV Katharina Bogensberger was born in 1961 in Vienna, Austria. After graduating from the University of Vienna, she worked from 1984 in various positions (production assistant, location manager, line producer) for national and international film production companies. In 2003, she joined Vienna Film Fund as deputy managing director for one year. Since May 2004, she has been line producing over 25 films at Allegro Film. In 2009, she became managing partner of Allegro Film.

COUNTRY Austria

COMPANY PROFILE Founded by Helmut Grasser in 1989, Allegro Film is now one of the leading film production companies in Austria. Helmut Grasser has shared the role of Managing Director with Katharina Bogensberger since 2009. In keeping with its mission “exceptional quality for a wide audience”, Allegro Film has, since its inception, produced over 60 feature films and documentaries for both the big and small screen. Allegro Film productions have also won numerous awards, including the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival with Ulrich Seidl’s Dog Days, and the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival with Florian Flicker’s Hold Up.

POSITION Managing Director

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Life Eternal

FILMOGRAPHY Gruber is leaving, 2015 Dark Valley, 2014 The Station, 2013 More Than Honey, 2012 We Feed The World, 2005

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI After attending INCONTRI in 2014, I am looking forward to meeting new colleagues and partners from the film industry and taking part in networking activities.

Allegro Filmproduktion Ltd Krummgasse 1A 1030 Vienna Austria office@allegrofilm.at www.allegrofilm.at


SARAH BORN Catpics SHORT CV

COUNTRY Switzerland

POSITION Executive Producer, Co-CEO, Partner

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Dheephan

Sarah Born (*1982/Hamburg) grew up in Germany and Spain. She studied cultural sciences at ‘Europa Universität Viadrina’ in Frankfurt an der Oder and in Granada. In 2004 she interned as a producer’s assistant at Niko Film Berlin. From 2007–2011 she worked in the sales and acquisition department for First Hand Films in Zurich, a leading international sales agent for documentaries and feature films. She participated in the EURODOC Programme for European documentary film producers. Since 2001 she has been working in Switzerland for different independent production companies. In May 2012 she joined Catpics as a producer, in September 2014 she became a partner and CO-CEO of the Catpics Ltd. Her hobbies are travelling, cooking, yoga, hiking, reading and gardening. She also imports wine from La Rioja/Spain to Switzerland.

COMPANY PROFILE In 1984 Catpics Ltd. was founded 1984 in Zurich as an independent film production company. In 1991 Journey of Hope by Xavier Koller won the Academy Award for „Best Foreign Language Film”. The company produces feature films and creative documentaries by directors such as Xavier Koller (Black Tanner, Journey of Hope, Gripsholm), Léa Pool (Desire in Motion, Emporte-moi), Friedrich Kappeler (Varlin, Mani Matter – Why are you so sad?), Ulrike Koch (The Saltmen of Tibet, Asshak – Tales from the Sahara). Sarah Born joined the company in 2013, since 2014 she is a share-holder and Co-CEO of the company.

FILMOGRAPHY School of champions (pre-production) To Make a Comedy is no Fun – Jiri Menzel, 2016 Die Herbstzeitlosen (Late Bloomers), 2006 Emporte-Moi, 1999 Catpics Ltd Webereistr. 71 8134 Adlisiwl Switzerland sarah.born@catpics.ch www.catpics.ch

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Always curious in learning more about new developments on the audio-visual market the INCONTRI #6 is the perfect platform to broaden my knowledge and network, especially when it comes to high-end drama series.


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PETTER BRAATHEN Phoenix Consulting SHORT CV Petter Braathen is the Managing Partner for Phoenix Consulting Ltd. Mr. Braathen facilitates strategic visioning, organizational change, and leadership development for global companies in various industries. Mr. Braathen holds a Master of Science in Control & Electrical Engineering from Norwegian University for Science and Technology, and from University of Washington. He further holds a Master of Science in Strategy and International Business from the Norwegian School of Management. Mr. Braathen is currently completing a Ph.D. at the University of Brussels, in the interdisciplinary program, focusing on complexity theory applied to strategic management and organizational theory. Mr. Braathen has previously worked with renowned global consulting firms with Strategy and Change Management. He also holds extensive experience in the media industry working both as a publisher, and with business development in a pan-European media corporation.

COUNTRY Norway

POSITION Partner

Phoenix Consulting Ltd Thereses Gate 1 0358 Oslo Norway petter@like-phoenix.com


ANNIE BRUNNER Roxy Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Youth

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 PROFILE Roxy Film was founded in the 1950s by Luggi Waldleitner in Munich. In 2001 today's 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 awardwinning feature films for theatrical release in addition to TV movies.

FILMOGRAPHY Burg Schreckenstein, 2016 Luis Trenker – Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit, 2015 Hirngespinster, 2015 Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland, 2011 Sommer in Orange, 2011

Roxy Film GmbH Friedrichstr. 17 80801 Munich Germany annie.brunner@roxyfilm.de www.roxyfilm.de


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ISABELL BUCHNER ComingNext.TV SHORT CV After successfully finishing her master’s degree in Media and Business at the University of Rotterdam in 2015, Isabell started working as a strategic consultant at ComingNext.TV, where she focuses on media transformations and its impact on media markets. Isabell has a background in editorial broadcasting and in-depth knowledge of digital marketing communications and new media developments. Previous positions in Germany, Malaysia, USA, the UK and the Netherlands provided her with thorough experience, both on the creative side as well as on the executive side.

COUNTRY The Netherlands

COMPANY PROFILE

POSITION

ComingNext.TV is a boutique consultancy for multiscreen concepts, business planning and implementation. We support broadcasters, advertisers and production teams worldwide in strategy definition, concept creation and project execution. Our multidisciplinary and multinational team has a unique approach for creating actionable plans. By bringing global best practices to local teams, we maximise the changes of success for projects. ComingNext.TV is part of the Ex Machina Group, who built more than 70 broadcaster apps in 14 territories.

Consultant Strategy & Concepts

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Spotlight (secretly Star Wars)

FILMOGRAPHY Worked with: Channel 4, Red Bull Media, Microsoft, NBC, StarCom Mediavest Group

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I am very much looking forward to being actively part of INCONTRI, discussing the potential of the different markets, hearing about new developments in the on-demand world and having exciting talks with experts of the industry. ComingNext.TV Rokin 75 1012KL Amsterdam The Netherlands comingnext.tv Isabell@comingnext.tv


PHILIPP BUDWEG Lieblingsfilm SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer, CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer

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 Fl端gelfleisch and Merle, Budweg cooperated with Kinderfilm GmbH on Johannes Schmid's debut feature film Bl旦de M端tze!. Philipp Budweg became a member of the German and the European Film Academies in 2012.

COMPANY PROFILE LIEBLINGSFILM 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. Rosenm端ller, 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 Alpenbrennen (pre-production) Agnes, 2014 Saphirblau, 2013 Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten, 2013 Wintertochter, 2011

LIEBLINGSFILM GmbH Damenstiftstr. 7 80331 Munich Germany philipp.budweg@ lieblingsfilm.biz www.lieblingsfilm.biz

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI The exchange between colleagues from Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany is one of a kind at INCONTRI. It is a fact that the most influential decision makers in the film industry are gathered there. Therefore, it is a chance to communicate with them, colleagues and others. Another great motivation are the panels in which new topics and issues are addressed. The panels always encourage me to discuss these matters.


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MANUELA CACCIAMANI One More Pictures SHORT CV Manuela Cacciamani, apart from being the majority owner of One More, also covers the role of Executive Vice President of Axed Group S.p.a., CEO of Direct2Brain, and is Executive Producer of One More Pictures. She developed a rich skill set through her work on on many international film sets. In New York at Cappa Productions and at Miramax, she was able to understand how digital was becoming important throughout the entire production pipeline. Back in Italy, she joined one of the most innovative VFX and animation companies, Direct2Brain. Within three years she became a partner and CEO. In 2006, she founded One More Pictures, but soon learned that she needed a partner, therefore she decided in 2009 to become part of AXED Group together with Direct2Brain.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION CEO , Producer

COMPANY PROFILE Thread, Tradition and Technology: the model of the 3Ts is at the core of One More Pictures’ work. Thread: a well-made screenplay is the key to conveying emotions. Tradition: Italian cinema has a great history which we can and must take as an example. Technology: the future is here: a new, expressive richness compatible with authorial cinema. One More produces audiovisual content for films and television. Our involvement ranges from editorial development to broadcasting in a range of fields: full-length films, short films, Italian and international advertising campaigns, video advertisements and institutional commercials. Thanks to the participation of One More in Direct2Brain, a company specialized in digital visual effects and post-production, we are experimenting with new transmedia solutions.

FILMOGRAPHY Pip Fischer (pre-production) Dare to disagree, 2016 Deep in the wood, 2015

Neverlake, 2013 Fairytale, 2012

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I’ve been a BLS/IDM guest for some years now and I’m glad to participate again this time because I’ve always found the programme so useful and interesting.

One More Pictures Srl Via Cola di Rienzo 28 00192 Rome Italy mcacciamani@onemore.it www.onemore.it


CARLOTTA CALORI Indigo Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION

Carlotta Calori is a partner of the Rome based company Indigo Film. Previously she worked for Orbit, a satellite pay-TV company, as a producer of documentaries and cinema programmes and as a senior producer of the cinema channels. She graduated with a degree in Economics and Philosophy from Bristol University in the UK, and has a Master’s degree in Film and TV Management from ANICA. She also attended the prestigious Italian national film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental Cinematography Centre) in Rome. Her responsibilities include managing Indigo’s international co-productions and running an International Coproduction and European Film Funds course at CSC as well as some workshops at LUISS Business School in Rome.

Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Carol

COMPANY PROFILE Indigo Film, founded in 1999 by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima and Carlotta Calori produces feature films and documentaries. Indigo’s work includes the international co-production This Must Be the Place, by Paolo Sorrentino 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. In 2013 the company produced The Great Beauty by Paolo Sorrentino, winning the Oscar © and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Feature at the Academy Awards 2014. Indigo’s more recent productions include Paolo Sorrentino’s last film, Youth.

FILMOGRAPHY Youth, 2015 The Wait , 2015 Me, Myself and Her, 2015 Indigo Film Srl Via Torino 135 00184 Rome Italy carlotta@indigofilm.it www.indigofilm.it

The Invisible Boy, 2014 The Great Beauty, 2013

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I am looking forward to meeting potential partners or coproducers and to learning about the latest trends and issues in the neighbouring participating countries. Networking and the exchange of ideas and views can help us understand how to deal with a changing audiovisual landscape.


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MARCO CHIMENZ Cattleya SHORT CV Marco Chimenz is the President of Cattleya. He is actively involved in the company’s strategic and main creative decisions. His principal focus is on developing international relations and activities for both film and television. Marco Chimenz is also the President of the European Producers Club, an association of influential independent film producers from fifteen countries across Europe.

COMPANY PROFILE Cattleya 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 Gomorrah - The Series (second season), 2016 Un paese quasi perfetto, 2016 Suburra, 2015 Tutto può succedere, 2015 - 2016

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Big Short

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

Cattleya Srl Piazzale Valerio Massimo 7/8 00162 Rome Italy marco@cattleya.it www.cattleya.it


MARC CONRAD Conrad Film SHORT CV Marc Conrad was born in Luxembourg, worked many years as programme director for the RTL Group and founded his own production company CONRADFILM in 2010. He successfully produces theatrical and TV-productions. Hobbies: Golf, reading, traveling

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION

COMPANY PROFILE CONRADFILM is a film production company located in Cologne, Germany. It was founded by the producer Marc Conrad. Resent productions are the TV-Event Das Programm (Hidden Identity) and Macho Man.

CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Youth

FILMOGRAPHY Das Programm, 2015 Macho Man, 2015 Halbe Br端der, 2014 Die Dienstagsfrauen, 2010 Das Experiment, 2001

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Learn about new TV series and Media; Inspiring conversations.

CONRADFILM GmbH & Co.KG Feuerbachstr. 23 50933 Cologna Germany marc.conrad@bavaria-film.de www.conradfilm.tv


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CARLO CRESTO-DINA Tempesta Film SHORT CV From 1998 to 2003, Carlo Cresto-Dina founded and directed the documentary and short film sector of the production company Fandango. From his city of residence, London, he produced films by Emir Kusturica, Fernando Trueba, along with many feature-length documentaries by young authors that have been both presented and awarded at major festivals in Europe. He created and produced the film Tickets directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach and Ermanno Olmi. He created and directed the series Real Cinema and Clouds by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Publisher. He founded tempesta in 2009.

COUNTRY Italy & UK

COMPANY PROFILE

POSITION

tempesta, Italy and UK based production company, was founded by Carlo Cresto-Dina in 2009 to produce films, TV and cross-media projects by young European authors for international distribution. Amongst others, tempesta produced Alice Rohrwachers’ The Wonders which won the Jury Grand Prix at Cannes 2014. Since 2012 tempesta has successfully branched out into interactive projects, sophisticated crowd-interaction games that generate film and TV content. Along with features, tempesta is currently working on tv series, with several projects in development.

CEO, Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Room House of Cards

FILMOGRAPHY Fräulein, 2016 Asino Vola, 2015 Le Meraviglie, 2014 L'intervallo, 2012 Corpo Celeste, 2011

Tempesta Srl Via G. Carducci 4 00187 Rome Italy 40 Langham Street London W1W 7AS UK carlo.cresto-dina@ tempestafilm.eu www.tempestafilm.it


DAVID DENK Süddeutsche Zeitung SHORT CV

COUNTRY

Born 1981 in Dusseldorf, studied Journalism and Theater studies in Leipzig and Budapest. From 2008 he was responsible for the media page of taz – die tageszeitung in Berlin, in 2011 he additionally became head of the society department tazzwei. In 2014 he joined the media desk team of Süddeutsche Zeitung. He published two books: Der Hobbyist (2014), Vertrauen Sie mir, ich tu’s ja auch (2015, collaboration with Antoine Monot Jr.). He lives in Munich and Berlin. Hobbies: reading, watching TV, travelling, his Vespa.

Germany

POSITION Member of the media desk team

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Bloodline The Good Wife (Season 6)

Süddeutsche Zeitung Hultschiner Straße 8 81677 Munich Germany david.denk@sueddeutsche.de www.sueddeutsche.de

COMPANY PROFILE Süddeutsche Zeitung, founded 1945, also known as SZ, Germany's largest broadsheet newspaper, publishes articles of international interest.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I am looking forward to meet interesting tv producers and winning insights in their work and current discussions in this sector.


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PETER DINGES German Federal Film Board (FFA) SHORT CV Since 1st of April 2004 Peter Dinges is CEO of the German Federal Film Board (FFA). Peter 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, a non-profit organization which promotes cinema and media literacy for children and adolescents. In September 2014, the members of the pan-European network EFAD (European Film Agency Directors) - a circuit of the national public film funding institutions in Europa - elected him Chairman of the Board (President). In 2008 Peter Dinges was awarded by the French Ambassador the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” for his commitment to promote and foster the cooperation between the film industries of France and Germany. In addition he was also appointed Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in May 2014 by the French Minister of Culture. In February 2016 he was also decorated by the Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel with the Order “Chevalier dans l' ordre de la Couronne de Chêne” for his dedication to continuously improve the bilateral and intercultural relations in film.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Ewige Jugend

COMPANY PROFILE The 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 FFA‘s 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.

German Federal Film Board (FFA) Große Präsidentenstr. 9 10178 Berlin Germany dinges@ffa.de www.ffa.de


FERDINAND DOHNA Beta Film 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 BetaFilm.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Head of Production and Co-production

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Big Short Mr. Robot

COMPANY PROFILE Founded in 1959, BetaFilm GmbH is one of the world's leading international distributors of TV license rights with customers in over 165 countries. BetaFilm has been part of Jan Mojto's company group 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, theatrical and video distributors and organizers of major film festivals. The company's aim is to offer its customers a comprehensive range of high-quality productions.

FILMOGRAPHY The Same Sky (pre-production) Maximilian, 2014

Beta Film GmbH Gr端nwalder Weg 28 d 82041 Oberhaching Germany ferdinand.dohna@betafilm.com www.betafilm.com


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MARTA DONZELLI Vivo Film SHORT CV Marta Donzelli was born in Turin in 1975. She lives and works in Rome. After a graduate degree, she finished her PhD in Philosophy in 2004, with a thesis of Edmund Husserl. The same year, with Gregorio Paonessa, she established Vivo film, an independent film production company. She is currently Member of the Editorial Board at Donzelli Publishing House. With Vivo film she produced more than 30 titles, selected and awarded by the most prestigious festivals worldwide. In 2011 she was Italy’s “Producer on the Move” at Cannes Film Festival; together with Gregorio Paonessa for Le Quattro volte she was awarded the “Ciak d’Oro” as Best Producer and was nominated as Best Producer for the David di Donatello Awards. In 2011 she was awarded with the TLF Postproduction for Beirut, I love you by Gigi Roccati.

COMPANY PROFILE Established at the beginning of 2004 by Gregorio Paonessa and Marta Donzelli, Vivo film is an independent film production company. With a catalogue of more than 30 titles, selected and awarded by the most prestigious festivals worldwide, our output covers feature films, documentaries, art installations.Vivo film productions include works by Laura Bispuri, Guido Chiesa, JeanLouis Comolli, Emma Dante, Michelangelo Frammartino, Jennifer Fox, Chiara Malta, Masbedo, Pippo Mezzapesa, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Nelo Risi, Corso Salani, Daniele Vicari. Vivo film is currently involved in the production of Children of the Night, the first feature film by Andrea De Sica.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Producer, Founder

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Son of Saul

FILMOGRAPHY Vergine giurata, 2015 Via Castellana Bandiera, 2013 Le Quattro volte, 2010

Imatra, 2007 Il mio paese, 2006

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI To enlarge and enhance our international network, to find partners, co-producers and financiers to our future projects.

Vivo Film Via Giovanni Antonelli 41 00197 Roma Italy martadonzelli@vivofilm.it www.vivofilm.it


ALEXANDER DUMREICHER-IVANCEANU Amour Fou Vienna Luxembourg SHORT CV

COUNTRY Austria Luxembourg

POSITION Producer, Managing Director

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 El abrazo de la serpiente

In 1989 Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu began working as an independent film critic for Austria's public radio station ORF and several newspapers and film magazines. From 1992 onwards, he worked as a film distributor for Polyfilm Verleih and as a curator for cinemas 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 DumreicherIvanceanu founded the production company Minotaurus Film Luxembourg. Since 2001 Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu has been managing director of AMOUR FOU in Vienna and Luxembourg. He lives and works in Luxembourg and Vienna.

COMPANY PROFILE AMOUR FOU creates artistically exceptional feature, documentary and short films for the international market with international and, most frequently, European partners. Throughout the process AMOUR FOU stands for vision and pushing boundaries, whether in regard to 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 The Night of a 1000 Hours, 2016 Amour Fou, 2014 Fever, 2014 The Notebook, 2013 Hannah Arendt, 2012

AMOUR FOU Vienna / Luxembourg GmbH Lindengasse 32 1070 Vienna Austria ivanceanu@amourfoufilm.com www.amourfoufilm.com

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI INCONTRI is always a good opportunity to meet fellow producers from Europe, to get to know the latest trends and approaches in film production and to drive projects forward.


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ALEXANDER EBNER Ebner Film SHORT CV After finishing school Alexander Ebner went to London to attend the BA Menswear Fashion Course at Central Saint Martins. He quickly found out that the fashion world was not quite right for him, so he came back to his hometown Bolzano and started working as a video editor at the production company Ebner Film. He also composes music for documentaries and image films.

COMPANY PROFILE The main emphasis of the company is on news reports, documentaries as well as educational films commissioned by TV channels and public entities such as the ORF, ZDF, ARD, Arte, 3Sat, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Rai. Today Ebner Film’s portfolio also includes adverts and company presentations. The team comprises seven permanent employees, specialized in video recordings and post production. Shots on track dollies, steady cam shots and crane shots belong to our program. With the entry of Alexander Ebner, the company also focuses on the audio production with its own production of commissioned film music.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Video Editor, Music Composer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Straight Outta Compton

FILMOGRAPHY Hallo Ciao Maroc - Jugendaustausch Südtirol-Marokko, 2015 Andrian - Geschichten unter dem Gantkofel, 2015 Das Wesentliche ist das Denken - Bioweinbau in Südtirol, 2015

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI New inputs. Exchange ideas with people.

Ebner Film GmbH Innsbruckerstr. 23 39100 Bozen Italy info@ebneralexander.com www.ebnerfilm.com


VICTORIA EBNER Ebner Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY

Victoria Ebner did her Undergraduate degree in ‘Economics and Management of Arts, Culture and Communication’ at the Bocconi University in Milan and after that she finished her master degree in London. She then continued working in Milan for the art Magazine Flash Art and another independent Magazine. After two years at Milan she went to Nurnberg to work in Marketing for an international furniture company and came back then to South Tyrol. Since May 2015 she joined the production company Ebner Film.

Italy

POSITION Production Administration, Marketing

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Joy Fargo, Gomorrah, 1992, Narcos

COMPANY PROFILE The main emphasis of the company is on news reports, documentaries as well as educational films commissioned by TV channels and public entities such as the ORF, ZDF, ARD, Arte, 3Sat, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Rai. Today Ebner Film’s portfolio also includes adverts and company presentations. The team comprises seven permanent employees, specialized in video recordings and post production. Shots on track dollies, steady cam shots and crane shots belong to our program. With the entry of Alexander Ebner, the company also focuses on the audio production with its own production of commissioned film music.

FILMOGRAPHY Hallo Ciao Maroc - Jugendaustausch Südtirol-Marokko, 2015 Andrian - Geschichten unter dem Gantkofel, 2015 Das Wesentliche ist das Denken - Bioweinbau in Südtirol, 2015

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI

Ebner Film GmbH Innsbruckerstr. 23 39100 Bozen Italy victoria.ebner@ebnerfilm.com www.ebnerfilm.com

Curious to get to know and see new ways of distribution, like Netflix. Since we usually work with local TV channels I am also interested of hearing people’s perspectives and needs outside of South Tyrol as well as the way of working from other international production companies.


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ANDREAS EICHER SHORT CV Andreas Eicher 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. From August 2013 to December 2015, Andreas Eicher has headed IRIS Productions Deutschland GmbH.

COUNTRY Germany

FILMOGRAPHY

POSITION

Sex & Crime (co-producer), 2016 Uns geht es gut, 2015 Colonia Dignidad (co-producer), 2015 Dark side of the moon (co-producer), 2015

Producer

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI To intensify and extend my international network and learn about recent trends and topics of our business.

Andreas Eicher Neue Steinmetzstr. 4 10827 Berlin Germany mail@andreaseicher.de


WOLFGANG FLIRI Ammira 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.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Producer, Partner

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 La Famille Bélier

COMPANY PROFILE Headquartered 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, Season 2, 2015 (executive production) Pixners Backstage, Season 1, 2015 (executive production) Last Exit, 2014 (service production) Heimat Südtirol – Kanonikus Michael Gamper, 2013 (executive production)

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI We are looking for co-production partners for our upcoming projects.

Ammira GmbH Rennstallweg 8 39012 Meran Italy wolfgang@ammirafilm.com www.ammirafilm.com


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LUDOVICA FONDA RTI – Mediaset Group SHORT CV Graduated in Cinema and consultant to Film and Contemporary Art Festivals, in 2001 Ludovica Fonda joined Mediaset Group and served as Head of Short Films, Drama Producer, Head of International Research & Development for Drama Department, then Head of International TV Observatory, and since May 2013 Head of Drama Co-productions.

COMPANY PROFILE Mediaset Group is a leading integrated multimedia company in Europe, the first commercial broadcaster in Italy and the major shareholder of Spanish conglomerate Mediaset España. The group produces TV and cinema originals and delivers content over multiple platforms, such as free to air, digital terrestrial and the Internet.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Head of International Drama

FILMOGRAPHY Antimafia Squad, 2009 – 2015 Tuscan Passion, 2012 - 2015 Crime Infiltration, 2013 Camorra Connection, 2012 A Matter of Respect, 2012

RTI – Mediaset Group Viale Europa 44/46/48 20093 Cologno Monzese Italy ludovica.fonda@mediaset.it www.mediaset.it


RENÉ FROTSCHER Mafilm & Sundayfilm SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Whiplash

Rene studied Film and Television Production at the HFF " Konrad Wolf " Postdam and Writing for Film and Audiovisual Media at the Vancouver Film School. Since then he has worked as a freelance producer. Among others he produced the international and national award-winning feature Combat Girls (German Film Award in Bronze 2012) for Mafilm and Summer Solstice (best Polish feature film in 2016 at the Camera Image Festival ) for Sundayfilm. He also produced Land on Water, which won the Golden Pigeon at the DocFilmfest Leipzig in 2015.

COMPANY PROFILE Martens-Film and Television Production was founded in 1992 and produces feature films, television programmes and social ads. The company also offers production services for feature films and TVfilm productions for national and international partners. Sundayfilm Ltd produces fiction and non-fiction films for cinema and television release. The company was found in Halle (Saxony-Anhalt) in 2010.

FILMOGRAPHY Summer Solstice, 2015 Land on Water, 2014 Fly Away, 2011 Combat Girls, 2011

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I hope to find strong partners for future productions. Mafilm Ltd & Sundayfilm Ltd Sudermannstraße 101 12623 Berlin Schulstraße 10 06108 Halle rene@mafilm.de rene@sundayfilm.de www.mafilm.de www.sundayfilm.de


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IOLE MARIA GIANNATTASIO Mibact SHORT CV Iole Giannattasio is the coordinator of the research unit within Directorate General Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. She’s also the Italian national representative at Eurimages, European Cinema Support Fund as for the European Audiovisual Observatory and EFARN – European Film Agencies Research Network. She furthermore works as collaborator of the Film Magazine 8 ½ - numeri visioni e prospettive del cinema italiano, by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà in cooperation with ANICA and DG Cinema - MiBACT. Iole Giannattasio published several publications on audiovisual film industries and markets and was a member of the team established by DG Cinema for the administration of the tax incentives for film industry.

COMPANY PROFILE Italian Directorate-General Cinema is in charge of public functions and duties related to the Film Industry within the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. The statutory mandate entails the promotion, the development, the protection and the dissemination of Italian Cinema, aiming to consolidate its paramount role in creating and preserving national and local cultural identity. The main activities are: promoting and coordinating initiatives to spread European films in Italy and abroad; providing financial support to film production, distribution and exhibition and promotion of film culture. Both direct support (through grants) and indirect support (through fiscal incentives) are provided. Fiscal incentives are also intended to works for TV and the Web. Directorate-General Cinema supervises the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Istituto Luce - Cinecittà and the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI To discuss opportunities for co-production with Italy, funding system, and strategies for internationalization

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Research Unit Coordinator

MiBACT (Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo) Direzione Generale Cinema Piazza Santa Croce in Gerusalemme 9/a 00185 Rome Italy iolemaria.giannattasio@ beniculturali.it www.cinema.beniculturali.it


CHRISTIAN GRANDERATH Norddeutscher Rundfunk SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Head of Drama Department

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Tatort “Verbrannt” Mad Men

Christian Granderath, born 1959, studied History and German in Munich and graduated with a master thesis on „Film and Politics in the Weimar Republic“. From 1989-1995 he was Editor for TV fiction and documentaries at the public broadcasting service Südwestfunk Baden-Baden. From 1996-2010 he worked as film producer for production companies Dom Film, Ufa, Colonia Media and Teamworx in Cologne. Since September 2010 Christian Granderath is the Head of TV Fiction Department of NDR Hamburg. His films have won numerous national and international awards.

COMPANY PROFILE Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; Northern German Broadcasting) is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR transmits for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. NDR is a member of the ARD consortium. NDR currently provides a number of services on its own or in cooperation with other broadcasters.

FILMOGRAPHY Tatort "Verbrannt", 2015 Homevideo, 2011 Der freie Wille, 2006 Wut, 2006 Der Totmacher, 1995

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI to learn

Norddeutscher Rundfunk Hugh-Greene-Weg 1 22529 Hamburg Germany c.granderath@ndr.de www.ndr.de


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WILFRIED GUFLER Albolina Film SHORT CV Wilfried Gufler, born 1969 in South Tyrol, studied Business Administration in Trento. Afterwards he worked as a music producer for 10 years. In 2012, as the manager of Edition Raetia, he cofounded Albolina Film Ltd, which has since supervised eleven service productions, including the motion pictures The Silent Mountain, 13 Minutes, The Night of a Thousand Hours, and three episodes of the TV series Bozen Krimi. With Albolina Film he is now into producing the documentary Das versunkene Dorf. Gufler’s hobbies include singing and playing guitar.

COUNTRY Italy

COMPANY PROFILE

POSITION

Albolina Film Ltd, based in Bolzano, is a film production and service company. It is a subsidiary company of Edition Raetia Ltd, which has published successful books for over twenty years. The company’s main focus is the organisational, legal, administrative and fiscal side of film production. In addition, Albolina Film provides consulting services chiefly with regard to financing: the optimisation of budgets, obtaining film subsidies through the Italian government, Italy's tax credit system, and regional grants and contributions. Other main areas include operational management and international consulting work.

General Manager

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Mockingjay Part 2

FILMOGRAPHY Das versunkene Dorf, 2016 Lafnetscha, 2012

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I would like to exchange experiences and ideas with other colleagues and expand my business network. Albolina Film Ltd Weintraubengasse 23 39100 Bozen Italy wilfried.gufler@raetia.com www.albolina.org


CORNELIA HAMMELMANN German Federal Film Fund / DFFF SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Project Director

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer

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 PROFILE The 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.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI INCONTRI is an intense, very focussed and inspiring event with first class professionals who are highly motivated in doing coproductions. Participating at INCONTRI, I can be sure to catch up with the latest trends and topics in our industry which are particularly relevant in the partner countries Italy, Austria or Switzerland. German Federal Film Fund / DFFF GroĂ&#x;e Präsidentenstr. 9 10178 Berlin Germany hammelmann@ffa.de www.dfff-ffa.de


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NILS HARTMANN Sky Italia SHORT CV Nils Hartmann was born in Hannover in 1967. He grew up in Milan, lived in Rome, London and Cairo, he fluently speaks German, Italian and English. He has been working for 25 years in Television Production. He started as Promo Producer at Orbit Network Rome. He launched the movie channel Studio Universal as Creative Manager. In 2003 he launched SKY ITALIA in the role of Creative Director. He then moved into the position of Director of Original Productions and produced TV series such as: Romanzo Criminale, Gomorrah and 1992. He is also Executive Producer of X Factor, Masterchef Italia and Italia’s Got Talent.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION

COMPANY PROFILE Sky Italia is the first media company in Italy. It is part of Sky plc, Europe’s leading entertainment company with 21 million customers across five countries: Italy, Germany, Austria, the UK and Ireland. Established in 2003, Sky Italia operates on different broadcasting platforms with different business models and has a 4.7-million-subscriber base. The pay subscription offer - which is the company’s core business available via satellite and on Telecom Italia’s broadband and ultra-broadband networks – features the best viewing experience ever - thanks to My Sky HD, Sky on Demand and Sky Go – and the broadest range of exclusive content: from Sky’s home-grown productions to the best film titles, all the way to sport, news, entertainment, TV series and kids programs. 150 among thematic and pay per view channels. The streaming service Sky Online offers a selection of the platform’s film, entertainment and sport content.

Director of Original Productions

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Gomorrah

FILMOGRAPHY The young Pope, 2016 1992, 2015

Gomorrah , 2014 Romanzo Criminale, 2008 - 2010

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI It’s a very useful and interesting international overview

Sky Italia SRL Via Monte Penice 7 20138 Milan Italy nils.hartmann@skytv.it www.sky.it


VEIT HEIDUSCHKA Wega Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY Austria

POSITION Managing Director

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Hateful Eight

Prof. Dr. Veit Heiduschka founded WEGA-Film in 1980. The company's 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 PROFILE The Viennese film production company WEGA-Film was founded in 1980 by Dr. Veit Heiduschka. Between the company's breakthrough film in 1986, the comic thriller Müller's Büro directed by Niki List, and its Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film for Amour (directed by Michael Haneke) in 2013, WEGA-FILM has produced more than 50 feature films, over 20 TV movies and upwards of 20 documentary films in the past thirty years. With its broad spectrum of documentary and feature films, WEGA-Film is one of Austria's most prominent film production companies today.

FILMOGRAPHY Risse im Beton, 2014 Amour, 2013 Kuma, 2012 Das weiße Band, 2009 Die Klavierspielerin, 2001 WEGAFilmproduktionsges.m.b.H. Hägelingasse 13 1140 Vienna Austria office@wega-film.at www.wega-film.at

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Exchange of thoughts and ideas with producers from Italy, Switzerland and Germany.


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VALERIA JAMONTE Tempesta SHORT CV A Master's degree in Communication studies and a certificate in Digital Marketing by Google, from 2010 to 2013 she was Digital Marketing Strategist and Content Manager for the Italian leading textbook publisher Zanichelli Editore. She has been the Head of Digital for the film production company tempesta since 2013, focusing both on product development and project management, and working on experimental interactive storytelling projects.

COMPANY PROFILE tempesta, Italy and UK based production company, was founded by Carlo Cresto-Dina in 2009 to produce films, TV and cross-media projects by young European authors for international distribution. Amongst others, tempesta produced Alice Rohrwachers’ The Wonders which won the Jury Grand Prix at Cannes 2014. Since 2012 tempesta has successfully branched out into interactive projects, sophisticated crowd-interaction games that generate film and TV content. Along with features, tempesta is currently working on tv series, with several projects in development.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Head of Digital

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Son of Saul Narcos

FILMOGRAPHY Fräulein, 2016 Asino Vola, 2015 Le Meraviglie, 2014 L'intervallo, 2012 Corpo Celeste, 2011

Tempesta Srl Via G. Carducci 4 00187 Rome Italy valeria.jamonte@ tempestafilm.eu www.tempestafilm.it


HENNING KAMM Detailfilm/Zentropa SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer, Co-Owner

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Ex Machina

Henning majored in Applied Cultural Studies and is an alumni of Masterclass Ludwigsburg Paris. In 2007 he and his partner Fabian Gasmia founded DETAiLFILM. Their films have since been shown at the Berlinale, Sundance, Karlovy Vary, Venice, Locarno, SXSW and have won numerous awards. Henning was Germany’s ‘Producer on the Move‘ 2014, is an EAVE alumni and a member of the European Film Academy. Since January 2015 Henning is partner and managing director of the newly founded production outfit Zentropa Hamburg GmbH. Henning loves running and reading to his kids.

COMPANY PROFILE DETAiLFILM tells original, moving stories for an international audience. Stories that touch people, win over audiences and convince juries. They have been told at festivals worldwide, including the Berlinale, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, SXSW, and have won awards like two Crystal Globes at the Karlovy Vary, the Golden Dove at the DokLeipzig, an Audience Award at the SXSW, Golden Oranges at the Antalya and the German female Oscar, the LOLA. In 2015 DETAiLFILM opened up Zentropa Hamburg, a joint venture with Danish powerhouse Zentropa. DETAiLFILM is a member of the European Producers Club as well as the German and the European Film Academy.

FILMOGRAPHY L’avenir, 2016 Kuzu – The Lamb, 2014 Praia Do Futuro, 2014 The Special Need, 2013 Sharqiya, 2012 DETAILFILM GmbH/ Zentropa Hamburg GmbH Eppendorfer Weg 57a 20259 Hamburg Germany kamm@detailfilm.de www.detailfilm.de

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI The feedback from friends and colleagues about the programme in previous years has been so positive that I became intrigued and wanted to experience the atmosphere and exchange for myself.


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ROLAND KELLER Filmecho/Filmwoche SHORT CV I write for over 30 years for various newspapers and magazines about entertainment business, new media/online business and economy.

COMPANY PROFILE Filmecho/Filmwoche is the oldest German-speaking magazine for the film and media industry.

COUNTRY Germany

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Information and impulses.

POSITION Author, Journalist

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Birdman

Filmecho/Filmwoche Perfallstr. 1 81675 Munich Germany rok@rolandkeller.de www.filmecho.de


PATRICK KOFLER helios - sustainable films SHORT CV

COUNTRY

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.

Italy

POSITION SVP Film & Entertainment

COMPANY PROFILE helios - 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 Alpenbrennen, 2016 Perseverance, 2016 Breath and teeth, 2015 Becoming me (pre-production)

helios - sustainable films GmbH Via Dante 20a 39100 Bolzano Italy pkofler@helios.bz www.helios.bz


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GABRIELE KRANZELBINDER KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production SHORT CV Gabriele Kranzelbinder was born in 1968. She studied law in Vienna, Paris and Rome. In 1994 she started to organise film, theatre and art projects. She collaborated on numerous film productions within Austria and Italy. Before she co-founded Amour Fou in 2001 she managed the Kinova, a festival of European films in Wels (Austria), and produced numerous short films. During her time at Amour Fou she produced various feature, documentary and experimental films, often with international partners. Since 2007 Gabriele Kranzelbinder has been the owner of KGP.

COUNTRY Austria

COMPANY PROFILE

POSITION

KGP is a production company based in Vienna that focuses on the production of high quality and author-driven feature, TV and documentary films for the international market. KGP has extensive experience in international co-production, executive production and is a strong partner for international companies who want to shoot in Austria. KPG supports both storytelling and artistic visions and cannot be wedged into the corset of genres and formats. KGP sees itself as a partner for creatives, funders and commissioners.

Producer, Partner

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Carol

FILMOGRAPHY Maikäfer Flieg, 2016 Bad Luck, 2015 We Come As Friends, 2014 Shirley-Visions Of Reality, 2013 Universalove, 2008

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI To exchange ideas with other industry professionals and to develop new incentives.

KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH Seidengasse 15/3/19 1070 Vienna Austria welcome@kgp.co.at www.kgp.co.at


JAN KRÜGER Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION CEO, Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Victoria, Sicaro Deutschland 83

Jan Krüger was born in 1981 in Oldenburg and studied at the HFF Potsdam. He began working as a freelance producer in 2003 and in 2011 he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize. Since 2010 Jan Krüger has been partner and managing director of Berlin-based Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion. His film Jack celebrated its highly acclaimed world premiere in the official competition at Berlinale 2014 and was nominated at the 2015 German Film Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director) and won the Silver Lola for Best Picture. He is currently producing the new comedy feature Monkey King by Oliver Rihs and the feature documentary Growth by Florian Opitz. He is a member of the Producers’ Network, Atelier Cinema d'Europe (ACE) and the German Film Academy.

COMPANY PROFILE Port au Prince brings together people united by a single passion - film! We love watching films and hearing stories, but even more than that we love developing and producing them ourselves. At the heart of our work are people. Thatʼs how, with the founding of our company, the idea for a “Creative Factory” was also born: this was to provide individuals from the film industry with a platform for the animated exchange of ideas as well as for positive collaboration. Having room for creativity and quick decision-making processes is deeply important to us. This, together with our approach to the production process, is what distinguishes our projects.

FILMOGRAPHY Iceman – Rache (pre-production) Shepherds And Butchers, 2016 The Dark Side Of The Moon, 2016 Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion Ltd Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44a 10999 Berlin Germany JK@port-prince.de www.port-prince.de

Jack, 2014 Journey To Jah, 2013

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI As a producer of a movie on Ötzi it is important for me to meet delegates in his hometown. I am also drawn by the high quality of the speakers and attendees of the programme.


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GIANLUCA LAZZARONI Greif Productions SHORT CV Gianluca Lazzaroni moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to earn a BBA at AIU and MFA in Film-TV Production at UCLA. He started his career as a production assistant for producer Scott Rudin at Paramount and than he worked for producer Gianni Nunnari at Cecchi Gori Pictures US office in the development and production of several acclaimed international films. In 2000 he funded Luminex Films to produce Hotel California, Undercover Angel and several documentaries. After many years abroad he moved to London working in equity film finance serving companies like Winchester Films, Cobalt Media, Natural Nylon, Miramax Films. After 20 years of experience in the industry he funded with Jean Gontier Greif Produktion in Bolzano where he is responsible for developing and producing documentaries and feature films.

COMPANY PROFILE Greif was founded in 2013 by Jean Gontier and Gianluca Lazzaroni to develop and produce feature films, television-movies and documentaries. The first company credit was in 2014 with the television program Urban Sax for the ARTE TV Network broadcasted in 34 countries. Greif is currently developing two feature films Adam’s Apples, the italian remake of the original danish film of Anders Thomas Jensen and the holocaust film Mauthausen both in co-production with Austria and Germany. A Viking on the Croisette and La Dolce VI.A are the two feature documentaries in coproduction with France and Germany.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION CEO, Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Hail, Cesar!

FILMOGRAPHY Adam’s Apples (in development) Mauthausen (in development)

Greif Produktion Srl Via Medola 21 39100 Bolzano Italy gl@greifproduktion.it www.greifproduktion.it


ALEXANDRA LEBRET European Producers Club SHORT CV

COUNTRY France

POSITION Managing Director

A graduate in Economics (pre-phd), marketing at ESSEC, France, and at UniversitĂ di Bocconi, Italy, Alexandra Lebret has dedicated her career to the cinema industry. After working for 7 years on the international development of UGC multiplexes in France, Spain, and Italy, Alexandra cofounded the Parisian cultural weekly Zurban, and cofounded Liberafilms.com, one of the first VoD sites in France (in 2000). In 2002, she was named Secretary-General of the European Producers Club and assumed responsibility for all of the EPC's activities. She has brought renewed momentum to the association by developing international coproduction assistance and exploring new foreign markets. This has resulted in the creation of numerous coproduction forums, cooperation forums (outside Europe), round tables and conferences open to the public. Since June 2014, she leads both the EPC and her activity as a producer in the company Mare Nostrum Productions.

COMPANY PROFILE The European Producers Club (EPC) is an association of 100 influential independent film producers from all over Europe. Founded in 1993 within the framework of the GATS negotiations, we act as a network, a think tank and as a lobby. Our mission is to keep our members up to date with the latest developments in the film industry in Europe and across the world; we encourage collaboration, joint financing and coproduction across countries; we also lobby on a political level to protect and further the interests of the European industry and European producers. To this end, we have become expert in the organization of events that bring together film professionals from around the world.

THE EUROPEAN PRODUCERS CLUB 42 rue du Faubourg du Temple 75011 Paris France alexandra@ europeanproducersclub.org www.europeanproducersclub.org


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CLAUDIA LEHMANN Maz&Movie SHORT CV I started working in journalism when I was seventeen, working for the local newspaper based in my hometown Brunswig. Whilst studying media / film and politics in Hamburg I worked as an editor and reporter for RTL Nord and presented the weekly broadcast cinema show Film ab!. After my studies I relocated to Cologne to work for RTL as head of the entertainment department. Later on I presented and directed the broadcast cinema show Exklusiv Kino. In 1999 I founded my own company maz&movie located in Cologne. Since 2003 maz&movie´s headquarter is located in Berlin. In addition to my work as managing director I also work as a media coach for actors and present press conferences and film events. I am interested in film, music, politics, art and travel.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION CEO, Owner

COMPANY PROFILE maz&movie has been in the market for 17 years now. Located in Berlin, the full-service media and production agency develops and distributes high-class moving image content for all platforms such as documentaries, TV specials, web series, image clips, branded content, behind the scenes material, viral spots for TV as well as social media. This involves taking on the whole production process from finding the idea and developing a concept through to preproduction, filming, editing and post-production. The company employs 22 permanent employees and a numerous amount of freelancers at locations in Berlin, Cologne, Munich and Los Angeles

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Spotlight The Revenant Inside Out Where to invade next The brand new testament

FILMOGRAPHY Lucie Marshall, 2016 Songs, die die Welt bewegten, 2015 Diesel & Paul Walker - Eine Freundschaft auf Leben und Tod, 2015

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I am more than delighted to present our web series Lucie Marshall together with Tanya Neufeldt as a case study and to be able to discuss together with top-class conference attendees the opportunities and conditions of independent web productions. I expect great impulses for further work from networking and exchanging in the beautiful region of South Tyrol.

maz&movie GmbH Klosterstrasse 64 10435 Berlin Germany claudia.lehmann@ maz-movie.de www.maz-movie.de


MICHAEL LEHMANN Studio Hamburg Produktion Gruppe SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Chairman of the Board of Directors

Michael Lehmann took over as chairman of the board of directors of Studio Hamburg Produktion GmbH in 2009. With his appointment as chairman he began the restructuring process that resulted in Studio Hamburg Production Group and its operating subsidiaries, Letterbox Filmproduktion , Real Film Berlin, Nordfilm, Riverside Entertainment and Doclights. Through involvement with Amalia Film, Ulmen Television and Ulmen Film, ECO Media TV-Produktion and Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion as well as through the strategic partnership with ZDF Enterprises, Michael Lehmann succeeded in building Studio Hamburg Production Group into a media company with a broad production portfolio.

COMPANY PROFILE The Studio Hamburg Production Group is a subsidiary of Studio Hamburg Ltd. 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: Letterbox Filmproduktion , Real Film Berlin, Nordfilm, Doclights and Riverside Entertainment who all function as independent players in the market. Its production portfolio spans all programming areas of the TV and film world: from long-standing series to miniseries and television movies to theatrical films, from suspenseful documentaries to entertaining television variety shows, the company produces content for all major German broadcasters. In addition, it’s affiliated with the production companies Amalia Film, Ulmen Television and Ulmen Film and ECO Media TV-Produktion and, through Doclights Ltd, with Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion, whose programme portfolio is demonstrative of the range of additional high quality TV production.

Studio Hamburg Production Group Ltd Jenfelder Allee 80 22039 Hamburg mlehmann@ studio-hamburg.de www.studio-hamburgproduktion.de

FILMOGRAPHY Simpel, 2016 Die Stadt und die Macht, 2015 Heil, 2014 Night Train to Lisbon, 2013 Der Tote im Eis, 2013


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KLAUS LINTSCHINGER ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Corporation SHORT CV Ph.D. in Media Arts from the University of Vienna, 11 years in Los Angeles as a producer and screenwriter. Joined the film production department of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) in 2000. Promoted to Head of TV Features in 2002, responsible for more than a hundred feature films and series productions, among them numerous co-productions with German, Italian, Swiss, British and French broadcasters. Screenwriter of the international miniseries The Crown Prince. His productions have won national and international awards, including the Grimme Award, the German Television Award, the Bambi, the Fipa d’Or, the Shanghai TV Award as well as the International Emmy Award. He is a member of the faculty of the Vienna Film Academy and the Linz University of the Arts.

COUNTRY Austria

POSITION Head of Feature Films

COMPANY PROFILE The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) is Austria’s largest media provider, operating four national television and nine regional radio channels, as well as a comprehensive range of websites. Being a public service radio and television company, ORF is not profitoriented, and invests all revenue – half of which comes from radio and TV licence fees, the rest from advertising and other income. ORF TV channels ORFeins and ORF 2 broadcast a rich variety of programmes. ORF III is a special-interest channel for information and culture. ORF Sport Plus is a special-interest channel for sports.

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Spotlight

FILMOGRAPHY Die Kinder der Villa Emma, 2016 Landkrimi, 2014 - 2015 Maximilian – Das Spiel von Macht und Liebe, 2015 Kleine Große Stimme, 2015 Altes Geld, 2014

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I’ve learned to value INCONTRI for it’s balance of informal setting and a high level of professional participation. Add Southern Tyrol in the Springtime and the event becomes a inevitability.

ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Würzburggasse 30 1136 Vienna Austria klaus.lintschinger@orf.at www.orf.at


JOHN LUEFTNER Superfilm SHORT CV

COUNTRY Austria

POSITION Managing Director

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road

SUPERFILM Filmproduktions GmbH Zieglergasse 1 1070 Wien Austria john.lueftner@superfilm.at www.superfilm.at

John Lueftner, executive producer and managing partner of SUPERFILM, was born in 1969. Lueftner founded SUPERFILM together with David Schalko in 2006. For his former work as TVC producer he won numerous national and international advertising awards. He received the Austrian Television Award (the Golden Romy) for Most Innovative Program Concept („NoNameProgram“) together with David Schalko and Fred Schreiber in 2003 and for Producer of the Year in 2004. He was also a finalist at the New York Television Festival for Kupetzky in 2005 and for Heaven with Josef Hader in 2006. For his SUPERFILM productions he received the Austrian Television Award (Romy) several times (Best Documentary for Das Wunder von Wien – The Miracle of Vienna, 2009; Special price of the Jury for Braunschlag, 2013). John Lueftner is Vice President of the Association of Austrian Filmproducers.

COMPANY PROFILE SUPERFILM Filmproduktions GmbH, based in Vienna, was founded by John Lueftner and David Schalko in 2006. The output to date includes many productions for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), mostly black comedies and satires that have received numerous national and international awards. Among these is the late-night talk show Welcome Austria (Willkommen Österreich), which is SUPERFILM’s backbone for already more than nine years. Other notable productions for the ORF include Aufschneider – Carve the Joint, Braunschlag, and Old Money, all of them written and directed by David Schalko. Among the other productions are three movies for the Tatort series, as well as European co-productions for cinema (Sennentuntschi, One Way Trip 3D) and TV (The Team). SUPERFILM is and will always stay an Indy and try to keep up its promise of high quality productions implicitly stated in its company name. SUPERFILM is currently also the only climate-neutral film production company in Austria.

FILMOGRAPHY Tatort “The Art of War”, 2015 Old Money, 2014 Braunschlag, 2012

Aufschneider 2010 Welcome Austria, 2007 - 2016


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SUSANNE MANN Zischlermann Filmproduktion SHORT CV Studies at the German Film- and Television Academy of Berlin, Germany. Several years of joyful snd enslaving freelancing as assistance and production coordinator in national and international feature film productions before making films with no budget, but high energy. Besides her studies Susanne Mann works for commercials and international image film campaigns. She got nominated for the German Film Award and the European Film Award. Her diploma film is Oh Boy by Jan-Ole Gerster, for which she takes over the production management won 6 German Film Awards. In 2009 she founds her company zischlermann filmproduction Gmbh with her associate Paul Zischler, which produces feature films as well as documentaries in and for an international market.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION CEO, Producer

COMPANY PROFILE zischlermann filmproduktion GmbH is a company based in Berlin und Saxony. It was founded in 2009 by Susanne Mann and Paul Zischler to produce features and feature documentaries with international partners for an international market. Besides the development of our own features and documentaries, we also offer our services for other companies as Executive Producers, Service Producers or Line producers. Our latest inhouse-productions are the German-Australian feature Elixir by director Brodie Higgs, the German-Austrian feature The Eremites by Ronny Trocker (in postproduction) and the Land of the Free by Moritz Laube.

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Victoria Braunschlag (produced in 2012, but I discovered it 2015)

FILMOGRAPHY The Eremites (in postproduction) Sex&Crimes, 2016 Elixir, 2015

War of Lies, 2014 Codename Pirate, 2014

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Sharing experiences from inside and outside my own planet with other dedicated producers and professionals. Talking about South Tyrol: fantastic food and loads of fresh air are also great points on the list worth being mentioned.

zischlermann filmproduktion GmbH Kottbusser Damm 73 10967 Berlin Germany susanne@zischlermann.com www.zischlermann.com


STEFANO MASSENZI Lucky Red Italia SHORT CV

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Head Of Acquisitions, Production and Business Affairs

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Birdman Suburra Fury Mustang Whiplash Foxcatcher

Following the completion of his degree in Economics and Business Administration, in which he specialised in Audiovisual Management, Stefano worked for two years for the acquisitions department at Medusa before moving to Lucky Red in 2000. His responsible for project selection, development and acquisition, fund raising, film financing and for all of the legal aspects of 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 PROFILE Founded in 1987 Lucky Red has been distributing and producing 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. Some its recent successful releases include Totoro, Porco Rosso and Laputa: Castle in the Sky

FILMOGRAPHY The Little Prince, 2015 Io e Lei, 2015 An Italian Name, 2015 This Must Be The Place, 2011 Il Divo, 2008 Lucky Red Srl Via Chinotto 16 00195 Rome Italy s.massenzi@luckyred.it www.luckyred.it

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI When I attended for the first time in 2015 I was very pleased to have the opportunity to meet some of the most interesting people in the film industry in a relaxed atmosphere. It’s a must now!


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TRAUDI MESSINI Mediaart Production Coop 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.

COUNTRY Italy

COMPANY PROFILE

POSITION

Mediaart 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.

Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Steve Jobs 13 Minutes 24 Weeks

FILMOGRAPHY Artist portraits of: Walter Pichler Oswald Oberhuber Matteo Thun Franz Pichler Eva schläft (pre-production)

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Intriguing discussions, the latest industry news, highly qualified speakers: not only stimulating and enriching, but also useful in practice.

Mediaart Production Coop Dantestr. 28 39100 Bozen Italy messini@mediaart.tv www.mediaart.tv


PHILIPP MORAVETZ Echo Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Big Short

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 finished 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 set in his home region, using the knowledge and experience he gained during his studies and professional career.

COMPANY PROFILE ECHO Film develops and produces films, documentaries and TV series for the international market. It also acts as the service producer for Italian and Alpine film productions. In early 2012 Karl (Baumi) Baumgartner, Philipp Moravetz, Andreas Pichler and Georg Tschurtschenthaler established ECHO Film in Bolzano. Sadly, our partner Karl Baumgartner passed away in 2014. In the meantime, the experienced line-producer Maja Wieser has joined us and become our partner. Every partner has brought their own extensive experience in the international film business to the company, as well as contacts and expertise.

FILMOGRAPHY Three Peaks (in development) Iceman – Rache (pre-production) Showtime (in development) Force Majeure, 2013 (executive production) Chrieg, 2013 (executive production)

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI ECHO Film GmbH Bahnhofsallee 3 39100 Bozen Italy www.echo-film.it moravetz@echo-film.it

I am very interested in getting to know new people from the European industry, thereby creating a professional network between South Tyrol and other European countries.


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RONALD MÜHLFELLNER Bavaria Fernsehproduktion SHORT CV After studying philosophy, logistics and theatrical sciences and completing his qualification in law, Ronald Mühlfellner worked from 1988 as a literary manager, producer, writer and a member of the management for the film and television production company Satel in Vienna. In 1994 he became managing director of the production company Modern Media. Since 1996 he is a producer at Bavaria Film GmbH and developed a huge amount of movies for TV and cinema as well as TV series. Ronald hobbies are tennis, biking and playing the piano.

COUNTRY Germany

COMPANY PROFILE

POSITION

The Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH, a subsidiary of Bavaria Film GmbH and ZDF Enterprises GmbH, produces all kinds of fictional content such as daily and weekly series to TV movies and event movies. Thereby it is one of the few production companies in Germany with such a broad spectrum. Every year the Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH produces round about 16.000 broadcasting minutes, like the well known series Sturm der Liebe or Inga Lindström.

Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Birdman

FILMOGRAPHY Tatort "Echolot", 2016 Tatort "Klingelingeling", 2015 Tatort: "Der hundertste Affe", 2015 Antonio im Wunderland, 2015 Inga Lindström, 2003 - 2016

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI The film industry changes rapidly in the current days and old structures are coming to an end. That is why we have to look for different ways and partners right now. That is why I participate. To discuss possibilities and threats, chances and risks - to find the best way into the future of film.

Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH Bavariafilmplatz 7 82031 Geiselgasteig Germany ronald.muehlfellner@ bavaria-film.de www.bavariafernsehproduktion.de


TANYA NEUFELDT Lucie Marshall SHORT CV Tanya Neufeldt grew up in France, Germany and the U.S. In 1997, she graduated from acting school in Berlin with a scholarship for Musical Theater. She played roles in TV series' including Hinter Gittern and Die Wache before starting her blog, Lucie Marshall. Tanya Neufeldt is married and lives with her family in Berlin.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Actress, Author, Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Birdman (even if it’s from 2014)

COMPANY PROFILE Lucie Marshall was created by the actress and author Tanya Neufeldt. The Blog Lucie Marshall – How my boobs became food was launched in September 2012. The stories revolve around the madness of motherhood, fashion and travel and it quickly developed the reputation of the „Sex and the City for mothers”. The Lucie Marshall columns have featured in high profile magazines such as taz.dietageszeitung and freundin. Random House/Goldmann published the first Lucie Marshall book in September 2014, with the second book to come out in June 2016. Lucie’s web series has been online since March 2016.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Having created one of the first web series in Germany, the INCONTRI is the perfect place to be inspired and exchange thoughts with minds that think alike.

Lucie Marshall Waldenserstr. 2 – 4, Aufgang E, Office 26 10551 Berlin Germany tanya@tanyaneufeldt.com www.luciemarshall.com


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OLIVER NEUMANN Freibeuter Film SHORT CV Oliver Neumann studied at the film faculty of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Since 1998 he has edited over 30 feature films for theatrical release before starting his career as a producer. In 2007, he founded FreibeuterFilm. Member of ACE, Member of EAVE, Board Member of Dok.at., Board Member of the Austrian producers Association AAFP, Member of the Austrian Film Academy, Member of the European Film Academy.

COMPANY PROFILE In 2007 FreibeuterFilm was founded by film editor and producer Oliver Neumann, directors Sudabeh Mortezai and Sebastian Meise, and production manager Sabine Moser. Their intention was to create a platform for innovative, personal projects in the areas of creative documentaries and fiction film. FreibeuterFilm values a creative atmosphere for production, one in which the filmmaker and his or her story is brought to the fore and their work is supported by a flexible environment.

COUNTRY Austria

POSITION CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Lobster

FILMOGRAPHY Macondo, 2014 High Performance, 2014 My Fathers, My Mother And Me, 2012 Still Life, 2011 In The Bazar Of Sexes, 2009

FreibeuterFilm Ltd Ziegelofengasse 37/1/9 1050 Vienna Austria oliver@freibeuterfilm.at www.freibeuterfilm.at


ARTURO PAGLIA Paco Cinematografica SHORT CV

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION

After beginning his career as an actor, Arturo Paglia founded Paco Cinematografica together with his wife Isabella Cocuzza in 2003. His production of Carmine Amoroso's Cover Boy received two Donatello nominations and was followed by Rocco Papaleo's box office success Basilicata Coast to Coast, Giuseppe Tornatore's international project The Best Offer, which won six David di Donatellos in 2013, and Papaleo's second feature film A Small Southern Enterprise. Following work on Tornatore's new feature Correspondence, Arturo is now working on Giorgio Diritti's film noir drama Lubo and Giovanni Veronesi’s comedy No Country for the Young. Arturo was nominated Italian ‘Producer on the Move’ at the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival.

Executive Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Non essere cattivo

COMPANY PROFILE Paco Cinematografica is an independent production company established in 2003 by Isabella Cocuzza and Arturo Paglia. The drama First Light by Vincenzo Marra recently won the Pasinetti Award for Best Film at Venice Days 2015. Paco nurtures connections with the most valued screenwriters, directors and talents and aims to keep working on projects intended for the international market.

FILMOGRAPHY Correspondence, 2016 First Light, 2015 A Small Southern Enterprise, 2013 The Best Offer, 2013 Basilicata Coast to Coast, 2010

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Paco Cinematografica Srl Piazza Rondanini 29 00186 Rome Italy arturo.paglia@ pacocinematografica.it www.pacocinematografica.it

Paco Cinematografica’s aim is to keep working on projects intended for the international market and INCONTRI will be a great opportunity to get together with foreign companies and discuss possible co-productions between Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.


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BRIAN PEARSON Netflix SHORT CV Brian is in charge of Netflix’s Business Development efforts for International Netflix Original Series across Europe the Middle East and India. He’s been with Netflix for 5 years and is based out of Beverly Hills. Prior to his current role Brian was in charge of global licensing with Fox and Disney and was the content lead for Netflix’s launch in Australia and New Zealand. In his free time he enjoys surfing.

COMPANY PROFILE Netflix is the world’s leading internet television network with over 75 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of tv shows and movies per day, including original series, documentaries and feature films. Members can watch as much as they want anytime, anywhere, on nearly any internetconnected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching all without commercials or commitments.

FILMOGRAPHY Netflix’s growing slate of International Originals includes Marseille, Suburra and Dark in Europe as well as Club de Cuervos, 3%, and Ingobernable in Latin America and Perfect Bones in Japan.

COUNTRY USA

POSITION Director of International Originals

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Mustang Narcos, Deutschland 83

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Sharing our strategy and spending time with some of the best producers in Europe.

Netflix 335 North Maple Drive, suite 353 90210 Beverly Hills, CA USA brpearson@netflix.com www.netflix.com


GIANNANDREA PECORELLI Aurora TV SHORT CV

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Chief Executive Officer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Le Nout Nouveau Testement Mustang Much Loved

Giannandrea has extensive experience in TV series development, having previously worked as Head of RCS Film and TV Production and Coproduction Department (with La Piovra 5 and 6, L’Atlantide, Queen Margot), as Head of Fiction at the broadcasting company RAI (Don Matteo, A Doctor in the Family), as Head of Development for Sony Television Italy and as production manager for Endemol Italy (fictional projects including Provaci Ancora Prof and Le tre rose di Eva). With his company, Aurora Film, he has produced many successful feature films such as The Red Violin with Samuel Jackson and Greta Scacchi and Night Before the Exams, one of the biggest critical and box office successes of recent years. Giannandrea has many hobbies, including, of course, going to the cinema, football (he is a Lazio supporter) and theatre.

COMPANY PROFILE Aurora TV is a production company focused on fiction series production, founded in 2013 by Giannandrea Pecorelli and Ambra Banijay Italia. Despite being a young company, Aurora TV has already positioned itself among the leading production companies in Italy, developing programmes for the country’s most important channels, such as RAI and Mediaset’s Canale 5. Aurora TV is specialised in developing and producing high-quality, low-budget, long-form series that respond to broadcasters’ needs.

FILMOGRAPHY Il Paradiso delle Signore, 2015-2016 Matrimoni e altre follie, 2015

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Aurora TV Via Pasubio 4 00195 Rome Italy aurora.film@yahoo.it ambrabanijay.tv/chi-siamo/ affiliate/aurora-tv

The success of the entertainment industry is based on relationships of mutual trust. INCONTRI is one of the most important opportunities to engage in dialogue with European producers and broadcasters. I’m certain that the programme will provide opportunities to meet representatives from some of the leading production companies.


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FEDERICO PEDRONI Rai Cinema SHORT CV Pedroni was born in Rome in 1969 and has a degree in Italian Literature. He works at Rai Cinema and has sat on the Torino Film Festival’s selection committee since 2007. He writes film reviews for CineforumWeb, Cineforum, Duels.it, FilmIdee, Panoramiques/ Panoramiche, Quaderni del CSCI and Eidos Cinema. Pedroni worked for Rai Radio3 (Hollywood Party) and wrote articles on the subject of film for various magazines and journals. He edited the Feltrinelli anthologies of critical essays about Mike Leigh and Aki Kaurismaki, and translated Paul Newman. A life for Dalai Editore. He also edited, together with Emiliano Morreale, the Italian version of The Story of Film by Mark Cousins for Bim Distribuzione.

COMPANY PROFILE Rai Cinema is a Rai Group Company established with the specific purpose of strengthening the Italian cinematographic industry. Over time the obligation to invest in Italian cinema productions, originally provided for by the law, became an opportunity for developing the cultural industry of the country. Rai Cinema offers creative and financial support to independent producers who intend to implement projects in the field of cinema. With a view to ensuring the maximum visibility to its own titles, Rai Cinema operates within the film distribution and home video sector through 01 Distribution that, in just a few years, has achieved an important position in the domestic film distribution. Just as important is Rai Cinema's commitment with respect to the acquisition of audio-visual products both in Italy and abroad, to ensure that the Rai Networks meet all their programming requirements in terms of films, TVmovies, TV-series and cartoons.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Programmer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Inside Out The Knick (second season)

Rai Cinema Piazza Adriana 12 00193 Rome Italy federico.pedroni@raicinema.it www.raicinema.rai.it


ANDREAS PICHLER Echo Film SHORT CV Winner of the Grimme-prize, Andreas Pichler has been making numerous films in the field of cinema and television documentary as a director and producer since the 1990s. Many of his projects have won awards and have been shown in many countries on television and in cinemas. For the last 3 years he has also been the creative producer of fiction films and TV series.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Victoria

COMPANY PROFILE ECHO Film develops and produces films, documentaries and TV series for the international market. It also acts as the service producer for Italian and Alpine film productions. In early 2012 Karl (Baumi) Baumgartner, Philipp Moravetz, Andreas Pichler and Georg Tschurtschenthaler established ECHO Film in Bolzano. Sadly, our partner Karl Baumgartner passed away in 2014. In the meantime, the experienced line-producer Maja Wieser has joined us and become our partner. Every partner has brought their own extensive experience in the international film business to the company, as well as contacts and expertise.

FILMOGRAPHY Three Peaks (pre-production) Zweitland (in development) Iceman - Rache (pre-production) In My Room, 2016 Clouds of Sils Maria, 2014 (executive production) Force Majeure, 2014 (executive production)

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI To meet people, make connections and enjoy the international atmosphere. ECHO Film GmbH Bahnhofsallee 3 39100 Bozen Italy pichler@echofilm.it www.echo-film.it


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GIOVANNI POMPILI Kino Produzioni SHORT CV Giovanni has been working in development and production since 2002, during which time he has produced of over 20 documentaries and shorts in Italy and the UK. He also has experience in directing (2011 Ilaria Alpi Award) and this has helped him to understand the practical and artistic needs of a production. As CEO of Kino Produzioni his interest lies films which merges fiction with reality. He is part of EAVE, Eurodoc, Berlinale Talents and the Producers’ Network. Five years ago he founded a small theatre/bistrot in Rome, Il Kino, together with 50 other professionals. This has provided him with a valuable insight into distribution. He has worked for fair trade organisations and NGOs and always promotes enviromental and CSR initatives. He has two children: Pietro, 5 and Brando, 4.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION CEO, Executive Producer

COMPANY PROFILE Founded in 2005 Kino Produzioni is an independent production company based in Rome. Within its first few years, the company produced more than 30 documentaries for RAI. Following a change of management in 2011, it now focuses on cinematic projects, new ways of storytelling and supporting first time directors. Kino’s projects explore universal stories, searching for narrative forms that are new, experimental and enjoyable at the same time. Besides its own projects Kino has produced advertisements and music videos and acts as a line producer for international productions filmed in Italy.

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Boyhood Don’t be Bad Embrace of the Serpent Fargo (second season)

FILMOGRAPHY O Homem Da Casa (in development) The Biggest Dream (post-production) Sole (in development) Terra Da Fraternidade, 2014 Kentannos (in production)

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I’m happy and honoured to be invited to INCONTRI this year. I think it is one of the most interesting and immersive events in the audiovisual sector. After working with partners in France, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Argentina I would like to expand my network to German-speaking countries.

KINO PRODUZIONI Via Giovanni Antonelli 49 00197 Rome Italy giovanni@kinoproduzioni.it www.kinoproduzioni.it


GEORG RAMME Digital Video Expert SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

CONTACT dr.georg.ramme@ googlemail.com

Dr. Georg Ramme was born in 1974. He studied Business Economics and Media Sciences and has a doctorate in the latter. He is an award winning producer of digital formats and branded entertainment. Before joining Endemol in 2009, Dr. Georg Ramme was Manager of Digital TV and executive producer at MME Moviement AG and All3Media. He then opened the first Endemol beyond office - the digital video subsidiary by Endemol Shine Group – in Germany. In addition, he was responsible for worldwide strategy including the growth of Endemol Beyond’s business as a global producer and distributor of digital video and branded content across owned & operated and managed channels.


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MARTIN RATTINI helios - sustainable films 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 com-munication 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 PROFILE helios - 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 docu-mentaries to movies, that go beyond mere entertainment. Human, social, ecological and philosophical issues are always part of helios' films.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Lampedusa im Winter Game of Thrones

FILMOGRAPHY Alpenbrennen, 2016 Perseverance, 2016 Breath and teeth, 2015 Becoming me (pre-production)

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Like every year, INCONTRI is an ideal platform for networking with international colleagues and to expand the existing contacts. Also the exchange of know-how and updates about the film business are reasons why I participate at INCONTRI.

helios - sustainable films GmbH Via Dante 20a 39100 Bolzano Italy mrattini@helios.bz www.helios.bz


ANNETTE REEKER all-in-production SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Manager director, showrunner, writer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Martian

Born in 1956 in Rheine, Reeker studied Philosophy, Biology and Theology at the University of Münster. She has worked as a teacher, journalist, academic assistant in the German Parliament, author, producer, script writer and director and showrunner for entertainment and fictional programmes and documentaries. She lives in Munich and has one son. She loves reading, films and her family.

COMPANY PROFILE all-in-production has adapted so far six of the crime novels of Nele Neuhaus named Taunus for the ZDF channel. The production company is increasingly expanding its field of activity from national to international productions. Further international fiction projects are currently in development. One ambitious international project is the TV miniseries Cape Town, based on the crime novel Dead Before Dying by Deon Meyer – who is something of a South African Henning Mankell. His crime novels enjoy worldwide success. The first season – directed by Peter Ladkani and starring Trond Espen Seim and Boris Kodjoe – was filmed in Cape Town from March until May 2015. The second season is set to be filmed in 2016.

FILMOGRAPHY Taunus, 2016 Cape Town, 2015 Visus, 2011 Switch, 2007 Sex & More, 2005

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI all-in-production GmbH Clemensstr. 48 80803 Munich Germany annette.reeker@ all-in-production.de www.all-in-production.de

Exchange of experience for development, financing and producing.


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CATIA ROSSI True Colors SHORT CV After 15 years in Rai as Sales Executive for Rai Com’s Cinema lineup, last October Catia Rossi joined a new sales company, TRUE COLOURS GLORIOUS FILMS, co-founded by Lucky Red and Indigo Film, as Managing Director and Head of International Sales. She attended the most important film festivals and markets in the world (EFM, Cannes, Toronto, American Film Market, Asian Film Market), where she sold some of the biggest international successes of Italian films abroad: The Best Youth by Marco Tullio Giordana, Caesar must die by Taviani Brothers, Viva la Libertà by Roberto Andò e Black Souls by Francesco Munzi. Kickboxing is her hobby.

COMPANY PROFILE True Colours is the name of a new shade in the palette of international sales companies. The new company was established in a partnership between Italian powerhouses Lucky Red distribution and Indigo Film production whose credits include Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, with the aim of bringing the best of Italian and international arthouse cinema worldwide.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Managing Director, Head of International Sales

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Spotlight

FILMOGRAPHY The Confessions, 2016 One Kiss, 2015 Me, Myself and Her, 2015 Solo, 2015 Burning Love, 2015

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI My contribution will provide an international point of view to the young producers. TRUE COLOURS GLORIOUS FILMS Via Caposile 00195 Rome Italy catia@truecolours.it www.truecolours.it


MARCUS ROTH TV 60 SHORT CV

COUNTRY

Born in the late 60ies close to Siegen, raised in Munich. After spending time working in the US, I moved to Hamburg, finishing University with a Degree in Econimocs and Political Science. Afterwards I started working in the film industry in Hamburg as a freelancer. Returned to Munich in the late 1990s, started producing. Father of three, with a love of storytelling, film and music. Constantly working on mastering the electric guitar and singing along to it in different bands.

Germany

POSITION Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Has to be Star Wars - The Force Awakens, reconnecting me to my childhood-fascination with Star Wars, being shot with lots of practical effects and on film stock.

COMPANY PROFILE tv60film is an independent production company which has been producing film, tv, series since 1960. tv60film has always been and will continue to be a small boutique operation trying to bring together quality and success. With the first multi-platform fictional series in pre-production and several Co-Productions planned, we will expand our focus in the future.

FILMOGRAPHY Prinzessin Maleen, 2015 Mßnchen Mord, 2014 - 2016 Das Duo, 2002 – 2012 Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage, 2005 Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt, 2002

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI

TV60Filmproduktion GmbH Rambergstr. 3-5 80799 Munich Germany mr@tv60film.de www.tv60film.de

The markets and platforms are changing, there are new dynamics and new forms of cross-platform storytelling emerging right now. The challenge is to create quality content for complex audiences and find new models for creating revenues alongside. I hope to meet inspirational people, build connections across platforms and countries, work on networking and enjoy the beauty of South Tyrol.


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KLAUS SCHAEFER The Bavarian Film & Television Fund / FFF Bayern SHORT CV Managing Director of the Bavarian Film & Television Fund (FFF Bayern). Member of the board of directors of the International Film Festival of Munich. Honorary professor of the University of Television and Film Munich. After his degrees in law and business studies, Professor Schaefer completed a Ph.D. in law in 1981. He started his professional career in a Munich based law firm. He has also worked in 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, Professor Schaefer co-founded the Bavarian Film & Television Fund as managing director and took over its presidency in 2000.

COMPANY PROFILE The Bavarian Film & Television Fund has been responsible for film funding in Bavaria since 1996. The Fund aims to develop the film funding system, both in terms of quality as well as quantity. With the use of this funding, Bavaria can consolidate and develop its already outstanding position as a film location. In the Bavarian Film & Television Fund the film industry has gained a partner who can give them comprehensive advice, monitoring and funding. In addition to its funding activities, the Bavarian Film & Television Fund provides extensive consultation and information for the film and television branches.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Managing Director, CEO

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 All films funded by the Bavarian Film & Television Fund

The Bavarian Film & Television Fund / FFF Bayern Ltd SonnenstraĂ&#x;e 21 80331 Munich Germany assistenz. geschaeftsfuehrung@fffbayern.de www.fff-bayern.de


MANFRED SCHMIDT Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION CEO

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 PROFILE Mitteldeutsche 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.

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH Hainstr. 17-19 04109 Leipzig Germany manfred.schmidt@ mdm-online.de www.mdm-online.de


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DARIO SCHOCH CognitoFilms SHORT CV After having graduated in journalism and contemporary history, Dario Schoch then took on a master degree in film production. Dario worked as a junior producer for Hugofilm Productions and as a commissioning editor for Swiss National Television SRF. He founded in 2012 with his partner Rajko Jazbec their own production company CognitoFilms. Dario lived in Spain, Sweden, India and Switzerland. In his spare time he loves sailing catamarans, scuba diving and being in the remote forests in Sweden.

COUNTRY Switzerland

COMPANY PROFILE CognitoFilms is a Swiss production company that puts a strong emphasis on international feature film co-productions. We also produce documentaries with special human interests that are edgy and provoking. CognitoFilms is producing films for cinema and television. We are looking for co-productions as majority and also minority producers. In our current project line-up we have coproductions with Germany, Austria and Albania. We are looking into projects in German, English and French language. CognitoFilms was founded in 2012 in Zurich.

POSITION Producer, Managing Director

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Jinx – The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

FILMOGRAPHY Goliath, 2016 Ma Na Sapna – A Mother’s Dream, 2014 Tempo Girl, 2013 Lothar, 2013 Mosquito, 2012

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI INCONTRI gives a unique possibility to strengthen the ties with producers and film industry professionals from our neighboring countries. And I am especially looking forward to the think tank about today´s and tomorrow´s strategies on releasing digital content through cinema, television and digital platforms.

CognitoFilms Ltd Talstr. 39 8001 Zurich Switzerland dario@cognitofilms.ch www.cognito-films.ch


BERNIE STAMPFER International Film Partners SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer, Partner

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 The Revenant

Bernie Stampfer is a graduate of the University of Constance (M.A. Law, Sociology and Political Science) and the Munich Film School. He launched Salinas Film Productions Ltd. in 1980, produced some 30 films, then joined Media Park AG/Media Equity Associates AG (Zurich, London) in 1987 where he was responsible for corporate and project finance in Eastern Europe. He 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. Since 1988, Bernie has been lecturing at many institutions including EAVE and the Erich Pommer Institute. He is a member of the European and German Film Academy.

COMPANY PROFILE International Film Partners is one of Europe’s leading film financing brokers and co-production consultancies. Our relationships with Europe’s top media financing companies and production service providers enable us to act as a one-stop shop for producers, studios, and financiers. We are able to provide management and support at every step of a film’s creation, from managing subsidies and financial engineering to physical production.

FILMOGRAPHY Au nom de ma fille, 2015 Liebe in Zeiten des Krieges, 2011 Sztalin menyasszonya, 1991 Laurin, 1989 Kiebich und Dutz, 1987

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI International Film Partners Bavariafilmplatz 7 82031 Geiselgasteig Germany bernie.stampfer@ film-partners.com www.film-partners.com

Having attended INCONTRI for the last two years I can’t think of a better place to foster business relationships with the attending participants, in particular with those from Italy, in a relaxed albeit very focused environment.


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FRANCESCO VIRGA MIR Cinematografica 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 PROFILE

COUNTRY

The 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, an Italian-French coproduction with Aeternam Films (FR); and The School for the Unemployed, by Paolo Vari an Italian-German-Swiss coproduction with Dschoint Ventschr (CH) and Komplizen Film (DE).

Italy

FILMOGRAPHY

POSITION Head of production

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 El Club

Bianco (pre-production) L'Amico (Brotherhood), 2016 I ponti di Sarajevo (The Bridges of Sarajevo), 2014 Tutto parla di te, 2013

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI Strengthen the networking among producers. Developing coproduction with German speaking countries on specific project.

MIR Cinematografica Srl Corso San Gottardo 8 20136 Milano Italy f.virga@mircinema.com www.mircinema.com


ANNE WALSER C-Films SHORT CV In 1999 Anne Walser began her career as a production manager and line producer. In 2005 she became a partner of C-Films plc where she has worked extensively on scriptwriting and material development in addition to her responsibilities in the realm of film financing and release. When she finds the time she enjoys reading, yoga and some peace and quiet whilst sailing.

COUNTRY Switzerland

POSITION Producer, Executive Team Member

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Youth

COMPANY PROFILE C-Films plc is a Zürich-based company which develops and releases feature, television, and documentary films as well as television series for both the national and international market. In Germany the company is represented by its subsidiary firm C-Films (Germany) Ltd. Since it was founded in 1999 the company has received numerous awards, including the International Emmy Award and the European Film Prize. The team is led by producers and partners Peter Reichenbach and Anne Walser, and the company’s managing director, Roland Stebler. Benjamin Seikel is the managing director of C-Films (Germany) Ltd.

FILMOGRAPHY Lina, 2016 Youth, 2015 The Chef, 2014

Grüningers Fall, 2014 Night Train to Lisbon, 2013

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI

C-Films AG Hallenstr. 10 8008 Zürich Switzerland walser@c-films.com www.c-films.com

I find exchanging ideas with other filmmakers to be a very enriching experience for my career. In the present day, digitalization is an issue which is simply unavoidable and it is one which opens up many interesting questions, which I hope to be able to discuss. Aside from our various feature and television films we have already produced over 19 series. Is it sensible to focus more on these genres in the future, since companies such as Netflix and Sky are promoting them so extensively? How does the filmmaking industry in Switzerland compare to Italy, Germany and Austria? I hope that INCONTRI will provide plenty of opportunity for exciting discussion and informative input as well for making new contacts.


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GABRIELE WALTHER Caligari Film- und Fernsehproduktion SHORT CV Gabriele M. Walther is the owner and managing director of Caligari Film- und Fernsehproduktions 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 German Producer’s Alliance Film & Television.

COMPANY PROFILE

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Managing Director

After 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 Film 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, an educational layer and focus on family entertainment.

FILMOGRAPHY Coconut – the little dragon (tv series), 2015 Herman, the Apache. A German among Indians, 2015 Coconut – the little dragon (feature film), 2014 Life upside down, 2014 Knight Rusty, 2013

Caligari Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH Reisingerstr. 5 80337 Munich Germany g.walther@caligari-film.de www.caligari-film.de


ANITA WASSER Turnus Film SHORT CV

COUNTRY Switzerland

POSITION

Since 1986 Anita Wasser works in the film industry. She was Head of Programme of the Arthouse cinemas Riff Raff in Zurich and Bourbaki in Luzern for 10 years. From 2002 to 2005 she worked as managing director at Media Desk Switzerland. She was as well member and president of the Zurich Filmcommission Board for five years. From 2006 to 2015 Anita Wasser worked as a producer at the well-known production company C-Films in Zurich. From 2010 to 2014 she was also Member of the Film Commission from the Federal Office of Culture. Since 2014 Anita works part time as an university lecturer in Creative Producing and Co-productions at the Master of Arts in Film in Zurich. In July 2015 Anita Wasser joined Turnus Film together with Michael Steiger as main producers and partners.

Producer, Partner

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Star Wars The Missing, Game of Thrones

COMPANY PROFILE Turnus Film AG is an independent film production company based in Zurich, Switzerland. Hans Syz, producer and cameraman founded Turnus Film in 1959. He turned the company into a leading Swiss firm in producing international commercials. These days Turnus Film produces solely national and international features, TV movies and documentaries for an arthouse as well as for an upscale mainstream audience. In July 2015 Michael Steiger and Anita Wasser joined Turnus Film as main partners and producers. Before taking that opportunity they both worked for many years as producers at C-FILMS, known for various awards and box office hits like: Nighttrain to Lisbon, Youth, I’am the Keeper, The Foster Boy, Tatort, Die Akte Grüninger, Upload.

FILMOGRAPHY Charlotte, 2016 Tatort “Freitod”, 2016 I am the Keeper, 2014 Turnus Film AG Badenerstr. 141 8004 Zurich Switzerland wasser@turnusfilm.com www.turnusfilm.com

Dinu, 2013 Sennentuntschi, 2010

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI It is a great opportunity to meet different producers and people from the industry in a pleasant environment of a three day conference in Oberbozen. INCONTRI offers also the possibility to discuss and enhance skills for future challenges in film producing within the fast digital evolution in filmmaking.


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CHRISTIANA WERTZ IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige 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 South Tyrol’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.

COUNTRY Italy

COMPANY PROFILE

POSITION

South Tyrol’s film funding program has operated as a financing and service partner for film and television productions since 2011. Founded as a department of the BLS Business Location Südtirol Alto Adige, the Film Fund & Commission is now a part of the newly created South Tyrolean organization IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige, whose areas of responsibility include the promotion of film in the province, among others. Every year the film fund makes 5 million Euro available for production and development funding. One criterion for the awarding of funds is the economic territorial effect: it must be at least 150% of the requested funding. In addition to film support in this narrower sense, IDM’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.

Head of Film Fund & Commission

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Victoria Die Erbschaft (The Legacy)

IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Siemensstr./Via Siemens 19 39100 Bozen/Bolzano Italy christiana.wertz@idmsuedtirol.com www.bls.info/film-location


JAKOB D. WEYDEMANN Weydeman Bros. SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer, Founder

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 alumni of: Reykjavík TalentLab, Sarajevo Young Producers Programme, Documentary Campus Masterschool, ESoDoc and the International Film School (ifs) in Cologne 'International Producing Class'. Jakob is winner of the Gerd-Ruge-Grant for documentary filmmakers and member of the European Film Academy. He enjoys sailing and a good glass of red wine.

COMPANY PROFILE Weydemann 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 Sex & Crime, 2016 Bikers of the Burbs (Vorstadtrocker), 2015 Los Ángeles, 2014 Drifter, 2014 Silencio en la tierra de los sueños, 2014

Weydemann Bros. GmbH Klarastr. 6 50823 Köln Germany jakob@weydemannbros.com www.weydemannbros.com

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI INCONTRI has been a great experience in the last years, with a very unique atmosphere perfect for establishing very valuable contacts. INCONTRI already let 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.


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MAJA WIESER BENEDETTI Echo Film SHORT CV Maja Wieser Benedetti was born in Belgium and worked first as a cutter for documentaries before joining the production department. She workes since 2000 as production manager and joined in 2013 Echo Film, working as producer.

COMPANY PROFILE At the beginnig of 2012 Karl (Baumi) Baumgartner, Philipp Moravetz, Andreas Pichler and Georg Tschurtschenthaler established ECHO Film Ltd in Bolzano/Italy. Unfortunately, our partner Karl Baumgartner passed away in 2014. In the meanwhile, the experienced line-producer Maja Wieser joint us and became our partner. Every partner contributed with his own long-standing experience in international film-business, with his own contacts and know-how. ECHO Film developes and produces movies and documentary films for the international market, moreover it works as serviceproducer for Italian and Alps Region´s filmproductions.

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Producer, Line producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Victoria

FILMOGRAPHY In My Room (in preparation) Revenge (in preparation) Three Peaks (in preparation) Zweitland (in development) Clouds of Sils Maria, 2014 (service production)

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI INCONTRI offers always a good possibility of making new contacts, having time to talk to colleagues and producers.

Echo Film GmbH Bahnhofsallee 3 39100 Bozen Italy maja@echo-film.it www.echo-film.it


JÖRG WINGER UFA Fiction SHORT CV

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Producer

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Fargo

Jörg Winger, creator and executive producer of Deutschland 83, has produced more than 300 episodes of multi-award-nominated primetime series Soko Leipzig (ZDF), including 14 feature-length episodes set in locations such as Moscow, Istanbul and Santo Domingo and a crossover episode with UK series The Bill (ITV). Winger won an international Google/YouTube pitch with his crime channel Trigger. He sold the online series Serial Killers to RTL Crime, making it the first YouTube series to be sold to a German pay-television broadcaster. A new drama series based on Sebastian Fitzek’s thriller Das Joshua-Profil is currently in development. Fitzek is one of the most popular German thriller authors at home and abroad. Winger regularly gives lectures on the development and production of television series at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg.

COMPANY PROFILE UFA Fiction unifies the fiction labels teamWorx, Phoenix Film and UFA Fernsehproduktion. As part of the company’s reorientation, all production activities in series, TV-Movies, Movie-Events and Cinema had been brought together under the roof of one company. Members of the Board of UFA Fiction are Nico Hofmann (Chairman of the Board), Joachim Kosack and Markus Brunnemann. Additional producers are Steffi Ackermann, Benjamin Benedict, Alicia Remirez, Daniel van den Berg, Jörg Winger and Tommy Wosch.

FILMOGRAPHY Deutschland 83, 2015 Soko Leipzig, 2001 - 2015 The Bill, 2008

Ufa Fiction Ltd Dianastraße 21 14482 Potsdam Germany joerg.winger@ufa.de www.ufa-fiction.de


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MATTHIJS WOUTER KNOL Berlin International Film Festival / European Film Market SHORT CV Dutch-born Matthijs Wouter Knol is director of the European Film Market. He studied contemporary history in Leiden and Rome and worked between 2001-2006 at Head of Development for Pieter van Huystee Film, a renowned and internationally award-winning production company in Amsterdam, focusing on creative development, financing and international co-production of documentaries. In 2007, Matthijs set up the Industry Office of the world’s largest documentary film festival IDFA, connecting the co-production and sales markets, and well as the IDFAcademy training programme. From 2008 to 2014 he was programme manager of Berlinale Talents. In 2012, he was one of the initiators of the Berlinale Residency and was appointed EFM director in 2014. Matthijs is the son of a poet and a painter, and therefore can’t help frequenting galleries and museum exhibitions. He is a fervent traveller, is fascinated by photography and urban architecture and wouldn’t turn down a chance to sing karaoke.

COMPANY PROFILE 543 exhibitors, 9,230 professionals from 110 countries, including 1,623 international buyers and 1,124 screenings of 784 films: The European Film Market (EFM) is one of the most important international film industry gatherings. Film buyers and sellers, producers, distributors and financiers as well as representatives of the global TV, Home Entertainment and New Media market get up-to-date on the latest productions and developments in the global film scene, negotiate film rights and make or foster business network. Since 2015, the EFM hosts the “Drama Series Days”, focusing on financing, co-production and sales of high-quality and cinematic drama and documentary series from all over the world, in cooperation with the Berlinale Co-Production Market and the Berlinale Talents summit programme.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI I love to meet new people. And to rediscover people I thought I knew.

COUNTRY Germany

POSITION Director European Film Market

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Youth, Carol, The Look of Silence House of Cards, Man Men (7 season)

Berlin International Film Festival / European Film Market Potsdamer Str. 5 10785 Berlin Germany knol@berlinale.de www.efm-berlinale.de


IRIS ZAPPE-HELLER Austrian Film Institute SHORT CV

COUNTRY Austria

POSITION Deputy to the director

FAVORITE MOVIE AND/OR TV SERIES 2015 Vergine Giurata

After obtaining her degree at the Vienna University, philosophical faculty, in French and Spanish and the Master Class in Advertisement and Sales at the Vienna University of Economics she went on to have her first working experience within the print medias before joining the Austrian Film Institute in 1993. Beginning as Coordinator of the MEDIA Desk Austria, Iris Zappe-Heller took over the Austrian representation at the Board of Eurimages and at the MEDIA Committee in 1997. She left the Institute in 2000 and in 2002 for maternity leave. Back at the Institute she took over the Institute's representation at the Board of Eurimages. On the national level she is consulting producers during applications and assisting the selection committees. In July 2011 she became deputy to the director of the filminstitute. Since 2014 gender questions are within her responsibility.

COMPANY PROFILE The Austrian Film Institute (Ă–sterreichisches Filminstitut) is a national film funding agency which supports cinema productions as a cultural product as well as the Austrian film business and thus contributes to strengthening the Austrian film industry and the creative and artistic qualities of Austrian film to ensure its domestic and international success. It is a legal entity under public law and its registered office is located in Vienna. The financial year of the Austrian Film Institute is the calendar year.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI INCONTRI are always a highlight concerning topics, experts, networking in very nice atmosphere.

Austrian Film Institute Spittelberggasse 3 1070 Vienna Austria Iris.zappe-heller@ filminstitut.at www.filminstitut.at


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MICHELE ZATTA Rai Fiction 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 PROFILE Rai is Italy’s national public broadcaster and the country’s biggest audiovisual and cultural company.

MOTIVATION FOR ATTENDING INCONTRI

COUNTRY Italy

POSITION Rai Fiction Executive

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.

Rai Fiction Viale Giuseppe Mazzini 14 00195 Rome Italy michele.zatta@rai.it www.rai.it


TEAM GABRIELE BRUNNENMEYER PROGRAM COORDINATOR

CONTACT g-brunnenmeyer@ t-online.de

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 young talent film fund Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film as a free lanced project and script advisor. Furthermore Gabriele is working as consultant for script development, packaging and project presentation for Berlin and Sarajevo Talents, Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize, HFF M체nchen, Sam Spiegel School and others. Since 2013 she is acting as the program coordinator for the IDM Film Conference INCONTRI.

TORSTEN ZARGES PROGRAM COORDINATOR

CONTACT zarges@zarges-ctc.de

Torsten Zarges is managing partner of Zarges|creative talent connection, a media consulting and event conception agency based in Cologne/Germany that he founded in 2004. Also, since 2013, he writes as a chief reporter for DWDL.de, Germany's leading website for television industry news. After starting out as a local reporter at "Westf채lische Rundschau" in Dortmund/Germany, Torsten studied journalism and political sciences, followed by a television and radio traineeship at public broadcaster WDR. He then worked freelance on several WDR shows and, from 1998 to 2013, as a correspondent for media trade journal "kressreport". Since 2004, Torsten is a regular jury member of Germany's most prestigious television award, "Grimme-Preis"; since 2012, he is the jury president of the German Radio Award. In 2015, he set up and curated a competition for international television and web series at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.


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BARBARA WEITHALER PROJECT COORDINATOR

CONTACT

barbara.weithaler@idm-suedtirol.com Phone: +39 338 7980179

EVA VON INGRAM HARPF PROJECT ASSISTANCE

CONTACT

film.project@idm-suedtirol.com Phone: +39 320 0423744


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