NPM one-to-one 2014
You can request meetings with the international market professionals and Nordic film institute representatives below. The list will be updated continuously with more names to come.
To request a meeting, send an email to Maria Stoianova before Friday 12 September 2014.
Please specify the preferred date and/or time you wish to have the meeting(s) and the order of wishes, if there is more than one Market Professional you'd like to book a meeting with. In order to match you accordingly, make sure to include details on the project/topic you'd like to have a meeting about.
Market Professionals 2014
Andrea Hock
Director TV Sales
Autlook Filmsales
Autlook Filmsales is a worldwide sales agent for powerful, daring and acclaimed docs. We select around 25 TV-documentaries a year and up to 6 docs with worldwide theatrical potential. Autlook is a full-service sales agent, 5 people strong, handling festivals, TV-, theatrical-, educational-, DVD- and digital sales worldwide.
Georg Gruber
Managing Director
Magnetfilm
As a true independent, Magnetfilm has established itself as a 'boutique operation" specialized in the distribution of award-winning, critically acclaimed German and international titles. magnetfilm has years of expirience in acquiring premium content and longstanding relationsships with buyers across the globe. We cover licensing across every platform and to all media worldwide.
Diego Mas Trelles
International Programmer
Documenta Madrid
The festival was born for the purpose of strengthening and disseminating the documentary genre, in so far as it understood to be a reflection of the social, cultural, economic, artistic, environmental, and other realities that exist in the world.
Our understanding of the documentary is based on a dual commitment. Firstly, a commitment to aesthetics, which shows how present day documentary filmmaking breaks new ground in its language and form, thus distancing itself for the most part from the standardized norms. Secondly, we are convinced that non-fiction work makes us all more aware of the need to change the world in order to improve it. Our most intimate calling, our dream, is that by opening some windows to the world in each screening, we make an audience member aware of an issue, and thereby make that person reflect on it, make the issue his/her own, and perhaps then... do something about it.
Mallory Lance
Programming Operations Manager & Associate Programmer
Tribeca Film Festival
The Festival's mission is to help filmmakers reach the broadest possible audience, enable the international film community and general public to experience the power of cinema and promote New York City as a major filmmaking center. Tribeca Film Festival is well known for being a diverse international film festival that supports emerging and established directors. The Festival has screened over 1400 films from over 80 countries since its first festival in 2002. Since its founding, it has attracted an international audience of more than 4 million attendees and has generated an estimated 0 million in economic activity for New York City.
Kathleen McInnis
Film Festival Strategist / Publicist
Palm Spring International Film Festival
The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is one of the largest film festivals in North America, welcoming 135,000 attendees each year for its lineup of new and celebrated international features and documentaries. The Festival is also known for its annual Black Tie Awards Gala, honoring the best achievements of the filmic year by a celebrated list of talents.
See-Through Films, LLC
SEE-THROUGH FILMS is the film publicity & consulting company founded in 1992 by Kathleen McInnis. The company reflects her dedication to, and passion for, the art and craft of cinema. It offers personalized publicity services and support to filmmakers and clients so they may navigate the festival experience to their greatest possible advantage.
Luciano Barisone
Artistic Director
Visions du Réel
The festival aims to promote cinematographic and videographic works of independent creation, coming under the different documentary genres. Visions du Réel is committed to giving priority to films which, through their form and aesthetic qualities, provide personal and unusual descriptions and interpretations of past and present realities of the world. The films presented in International Competition form the subject of daily discussions conducted by specialists. DOC OUTLOOK - INTERNATIONAL MARKET is an international professionals' meeting point for the film-industry. It aims to foster networks for co-productions, sales and promotion, to stimulate ideas, curiosity and courage and to open new doors.
Sydney Neter
Managing Director
SND Films
SND Films is an international sales agent founded by Sydney Neter in 1994, selling award winning short films, tv-movies and wonderful documentaires. Even though you can’t say we’re specialized in one specific genre, we have been told that we have tasteful and well produced programs.
Jose Rodriguez
Manager, Documentary Programming, TFI
Tribeca Film Institute
Tribeca Film Institute® champions storytellers to be catalysts for change in their communities and around the world. Each year, we identify a diverse and exceptional group of filmmakers and media artists and empower them with funding and other resources to fully realize their stories and connect with audiences. Through hands-on training and exposure to socially relevant films, their educational programming helps young people gain the media skills necessary to be productive global citizens and creative individuals.
Andreas Bühlmann
Programmer (Special Programs)
International Short Film Festival Winterthur
The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur is Switzerland's most important short film festival. The festival enjoys an excellent reputation among filmmakers, the industry and audiences alike.The festival takes place each year in November and attracts an average of 16,000 spectators for our national and international competitions, as well as 650 participants from the film industry.
Stine Wangler
Sales and Acquisitions
KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg
The KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg (KFA) is an association which has devoted itself to promoting and improving the public awareness of short films. It operates a theatrical distribution service for short film, negotiates worldwide licensing rights, maintains a short film database linked to an extensive video archive, sets up training and education courses and organizes film-related projects with national and international co-partners. Every year the Agency also hosts and runs the Hamburg International Short Film Festival.
Christian Gesell
Head of Sales & Distribution
Interfilm Berlin Management GmbH
Having made a name for itself on the international film scene in the early eighties, interfilm Berlin and the festival it organises has been dedicated to the short film format ever since. The International Sales department was initiated by interfilm in 1999 for the purpose of furthering short film recognition. Now licensing an ever-expanding catalogue of internationally successful and outstanding short films for exploitation on TV, DVD, Internet, mobile phones, closed-circuit and other media.
Hana Kulhánková
Festival Director
One World - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
One World is the largest human rights film festival in the world that attracts more than 100,000 viewers annually. One World presents documentary films on social, political, media, environmental and human rights issues and believes that film is a powerful medium that fosters mutual understanding between cultures, heightens public awareness about human rights and promotes global responsibility. One World also offers numerous debates, screenings for elementary and high schools, special program for film professionals called East Doc Platform (organized by Institute of Documentary Film), new media and cross platform events, as well as outreach activities for active public including distribution of documentary films and assistance to emerging film festivals abroad.
Joona Louhivuori
Film Commissioner, Short films
Finnish Film Foundation
The Finnish Film Foundation's task is to support and develop Finnish film production, distribution and exhibition. The Foundation grants film production support, exhibition and distribution support and support for international activities. On the grounds of a contract made with the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Foundation grants support for international film festivals held in Finland which also have national significance.
Sophie-Luise Werner
Sales & Acquisitions
Interfilm Berlin
Initially founded in 1982 as a short film festival, interfilm has grown to become an internationally active, interdisciplinary point of call for the short film medium. Interfilm initiatied their sales department in 1999 for the purpose of furthering short film recognition. Now licensing an ever-expanding catalogue of internationally successful and outstanding short films for exploitation on TV, DVD, Internet, mobile phones, closed-circuit and other media.
Stephanie Pereira
International Partnerships Lead
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more. Friends, fans, and inspired strangers have pledged Billion to projects on Kickstarter, funding everything from homemade postcards to Oscar-winning documentarie.
Ulla Simonen
Artistic Director
DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
DocPoint is the first Finnish film festival dedicated solely to documentary films. It offers both a national and an international selection of the best brand new movies and celebrated classics. Also, a wide range of seminars, lectures and workshops is organised.
Anna Svensson
Commissioning Editor (Umeå)
SVT
Sveriges Television (SVT) is the Swedish public service broadcaster with the widest range of programming in Sweden. SVT operates a total of eight channels, including the two main channels SVT1 and SVT2, a children's channel, an educational and an international channel.
Agneta Mogren
Festival Director
Tempo Documentary Festival
Tempo Documentary Festival is the largest festival of its kind in Sweden. Founded in 1998, Tempo has since the start presented creative documentaries from all over the world, which would otherwise not reach the Swedish audience. Tempo has established a unique forum for the presentation of documentary work across traditional boundaries – Film, radio, photography and transmedia as well as more experimental forms of expression.
Melissa Lindgren
Program director
Tempo Documentary Festival
Tempo Documentary Festival is the largest festival of its kind in Sweden. Founded in 1998, Tempo has since the start presented creative documentaries from all over the world, which would otherwise not reach the Swedish audience. Tempo has established a unique forum for the presentation of documentary work across traditional boundaries – Film, radio, photography and transmedia as well as more experimental forms of expression.
Sari Volanen
Commissioning Editor
YLE TV1
YLE is Finland's national public service broadcasting company. TV1 is the oldest of Yle's channels. It services as the main news, current affairs and factual journalism channel of Yle with also a number of documentaries, drama, cultural and educational programmes being shown.
Anaïs Desrieux
Head of Programming Department
Cinéma du Réel
The aim of the Festival is to promote ethnological and sociological documentary cinema. It presents an international selection and competition of 20 to 25 recent and previously unreleased films, a French competition The festival will be followed by the Overview of Ethnographic Films. Films selected will be shown either during the Festival or at the Overview. Films submitted must be full-length or short sociological or ethnographical documentaries with cinematographic qualities and emphasizing filmmaker's point of view. Works may be made on 35 mm, 16 mm or video, and must not have been submitted for selection for a previous Cinéma du Réel festival, or for the Overview. To be eligible for prizes in the international competition, films must not have been released commercially in France, must not have been broadcast on any of the French television channels and must not have been awarded a prize at an international festival in France.
Gréta Ólafsdóttir
Short Film & Documentary Consultant
Icelandic Film Centre
The role of the Icelandic Film Centre is to fund Icelandic films and promote them abroad. Additionally, and crucial to the development of new generations of filmmakers, the Icelandic Film Centre is also enthusiastic about nurturing film culture in Iceland by supporting local film festivals, seminars and workshops where foreign and local professionals collaborate in both film and television.
Nordic Film Institute Representatives
Anne Marie Kürstein
Festival Manager, short & documentary films
Otto Suuronen
Short and Documentary Film Promotion, Assistant
Christof Wehmeier
Festival Manager
Toril Simonsen
Head of International Relations/Short and documentary films
Theo Tsappos
Festival Manager/Short films
Sara Yamashita Rüster
Festival Manager/Documentaries
