NPM one-to-one 2018

You can request meetings with the international market professionals and Nordic film institute representatives below. The list will be updated continuously.

To request a meeting, send an email to Market Coordinator, Karina Bernauer, before Wednesday 27 August 2018.

Please specify your arrival/departure 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. If the available time for a Decision Maker is not suitable, let us know and we will try to accommodate you as best as possible.

Market Professionals 2018

Sharon Badal
VP Filmmaker Relations and Shorts Programming

Time available: Saturday 22 September from 15.00 to 16.00

Tribeca Film Festival
The mission of the festival is “to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience.” The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan.

The festival now draws an estimated three million people each year.

Harry Vaughn
Programmer

Time available: Monday 24 September, 16:30 – 18:00

Sundance Film Festival
The Independent Feature Film Competition is open to independently produced dramatic and documentary feature-length films. In order to be eligible for Competition, entries must be U.S. premieres, have at least 50% U.S. financing, and must have been completed after October 2001. The running time for dramatic features must be no less than 70 minutes, and documentary features must be no less than 50 minutes. Dramatic films under 70 minutes in length and documentary films less than 50 minutes are eligible for participation in the Shorts Program, Frontier, and Native Forum.

Axel Behrens
Sales and Acquisitions

Time available: Sunday 23 September, 14:00 – 17:00 and Monday 24 September, 17:00 – 18:00

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.

Miguel Dias
Director

Time available: Sunday 23 September, 11:00-13:00

Curtas Vila do Conde IFF
Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, created in 1993, is one of the most important cinematographic and cultural events in Portugal dedicated to short-films and annually produced in July, in the city Vila do Conde.

Sarah Dombrink
interfilm Berlin Short Film Distribution & Sales

Time available: Sunday 23 September from 09:00 – 10:00 and 15:00 – 16:00, Monday 24 September from 09:00 – 10:00

interfilm Berlin Short Film Distribution & Sales
interfilm’s internationally operating short film sales and distribution agency has been established in 1999, offering an ever-expanding catalogue of internationally successful and outstanding short films to cinemas, TV, internet, educational, closed-circuit and other media worldwide. interfilm Berlin also hosts the Academy Award© qualifying interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival, one of the biggest festivals for short film, operating since 1982.

Natacha Seweryn
Programmer

Time available: Monday 24 September, 09:00 to 13:00

Premiers Plans – Festival d’Angers
Since 1989, the Premiers Plans Film Festival takes place each year in the city of Angers, France. Through the years, the Festival has become a major meeting of European cinematographic creation, as numerous directors such as Fatih Akin, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Joachim Lafosse, Matteo Garrone, Arnaud Desplechin, Xavier Beauvois, Nick Park, Cristi Puiu, Paolo Sorrentino and Thomas Vinterberg were originally discovered in Angers with the screening of their first films. Each year, the Official Selection presents 80 european first films divided in five competitive sections.

Enrico Vannucci
Short Film Advisor

Time available: 22 – 24 September from 11:00

Venice International Film Festival
The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.

Jacopo Chessa
Managing Director

Time available: Saturday 22 September, 12:00 – 13:00 and Sunday 24 September, 11:00-12:00

Torino Short Film Market
The Torino Short Film Market is a meeting place for professionals in the world of short films and digital content. It boasts an international flavor (400 accredited participants from 36 countries in 2017), a broad range of profiles, a series of meetings planned and overseen by the TSFM, and a friendly atmosphere.

Flora Roever
Head of DOK.forum Marketplace

Time available: Sunday 23 September from 15:00 – 17:00 and Monday 24 September from 13.00 to 18.00

DOK.fest Munich
DOK.fest Munich has developed into one of Europe’s largest documentary film festivals. Every year in May the festival presents the most interesting and relevant international documentaries on a big screen. DOK.fest accompanies the filmographies of outstanding filmmakers, supports directors from so-called „low production countries“, works on a widespread impact of artistic documentary films and initiates sustainable relationships between established filmmakers and newcomers.

Adele Kohout
Deputy Managing Director/Programmer

Marija Milovanovic
International Cooperation & Program Selection

Time available: Saturday 22 September, 12:00 – 13:00

Vienna Independent Shorts
Every year at the end of May/beginning of June, the festival is all about international short films with a maximum length of 30 minutes, always capturing experiences in and outside of the cinema, presenting the new and old in a lively way, showing connections within. Maximum length is 30 min.

Anne Gaschütz
Festival Coordinator & Programmer

Time available: Sunday 23 September from 13:00 – 18:00 and Monday 24 September from 13.00 to 14.30

FILMFEST DRESDEN – International Short Film Festival
One of the most important and best endowed European short film festivals. It focuses on short fiction and animation films. Next to its competitions and extensive special programmes, it offers events and workshops for media professionals.The primary focus of the six day festival in Dresden is its International Competition and National Competition. Fictional and animated shorts up to a maximum of 30 minutes compete here in various categories for the highly coveted Golden Horsemen. FILMFEST DRESDEN is one of the best endowed short film festivals in Europe with prizes and awards worth €66,000.
In addition to the competition sections, the festival week provides an extensive range of special programmes with documentaries and experimental films, a children’s programme, retrospectives and numerous country-based programmes as well as an industry programme with panel discussions, master classes and workshops.

Radka Weiserová
Programmer

Time available: Saturday 22 September from 09.00 to 13.00

Prague Short Film Festival
The festival is organized by Film Servis Karlovy Vary, organizer of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
The best and most inspiring short films from all over the world head towards the Czech capital again, where they will be presented at the Prague Short Films Festival.

Nordic Film Institute Representatives

Anne Marie Kürstein
Festival Manager, Documentary films
Danish Film Institute

Suvi Paavola
Documentary Film Promotion
Finnish Film Foundation

Otto Suuronen
Short Film Promotion
Finnish Film Foundation

Christof Wehmeier
Festival Manager
Icelandic Film Centre

Toril Simonsen
Head of International Relations/Documentary films
Norwegian Film Institute

Arna Marie Bersaas
Senior Advisor, Short Films
Norwegian Film Institute

Sara Rüster
Festival Manager, Shorts and Docs
Swedish Film Institute

Time available: Saturday 22 September, 15:00-16:00, Monday 24 September, 14:00 – 17:00

Jing Haase
Festival Manager, Shorts and Docs
Swedish Film Institute

Time available: Saturday 22 September, anytime.

Maria Razakamboly
Festival Manager, Shorts and Docs
Swedish Film Institute