EFP announces the 2022 Producers on the Move line-up

by Cineuropa

04/05/2022 - 20 selected European producers will participate in the hybrid promotion and networking platform before and during the Cannes Film Festival

EFP announces the 2022 Producers on the Move line-up

European Film Promotion (EFP) and its member organisations have announced the 2022 line-up for EFP Producers on the Move. Twenty of the most promising, up-and-coming European producers have been selected to take part in EFP’s high-profile hybrid promotion and networking platform before and during the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May).

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This exclusive group will take part in a tailor-made hybrid programme in order to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences and help create new professional networks. The pre-festival online programme, which started yesterday and runs until 5 May, includes 1:1 speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. Producers will then meet personally during the Cannes Film Festival from 19 to 23 May and take part in a five-day on-site programme including case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign via the international trade magazines.

Some of the selected producers will be presenting their films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival such as Janine Teerling, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar and Diana Păroiu whose dramas Mediterranean Fever [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Maha Haj, Sick Of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli and Return to Seoul [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Davy Chou
film profile] by Davy Chou are screening in Un Certain Regard. Meanwhile, Derk-Jan Warring’s co-production of The Woodcutter Story [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mykko Myllylahti
film profile] by Mikko Myllylahti will be presented in the Critics’ Week. Other participants of this year’s Producers on the Move programme have already been involved in the production of films by multi-award-winning and renowned directors: Jakub Viktorín co-produced Agnieszka Holland's Spoor [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Agnieszka Holland
interview: Zofia Wichlacz
film profile] and Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral [+see also:
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trailer
film profile], while Katya Trichkova was involved in three films by Stephan Komandarev, and Evelin Penttilä produced the upcoming Hit Big [+see also:
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interview: J-P Valkeapää
film profile] by J-P Valkeapää.

Some of the producers also focus on debut films: for example, Ioanna Bolomyti produced Sonia Kenterman’s multi-award-winning Tailor [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sonia Liza Kenterman
film profile] and Assiminia Proedrou’s upcoming debut Behind The Haystacks, while Alessandro Amato was behind Maura Delpero’s award-winning first feature Maternal [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maura Delpero
film profile]. Meanwhile, Felipe Lage Coro, who worked on Óliver Laxe's Mimosas [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Oliver Laxe
film profile], is now developing Feyrouz Serhal’s debut feature I Am Here But You Can't See Me.

The line-up also includes producers of award-winning films such as Vladimir Lhoták (animated film Even Mice Belong in Heaven [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Jan Bubeníček and Denisa Grimmová), Judith Lou Lévy (Nadav Lapid’s Cannes competition title Ahed's Knee [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Nadav Lapid
film profile]), Marija Dimitrova (Dina Duma’s Sisterhood [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Dina Duma, Antonia Belazelk…
film profile], awarded at Karlovy Vary), Ketie Danelia (Levin Akin’s multi-award-winning film And Then We Danced [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Levan Akin
interview: Levan Gelbakhiani
film profile], Elene Naveriani’s Wet Sand [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Elene Naveriani
film profile]), Kuba Kosma (Lukasz Gutt and Łukasz Ronduda's Fears [+see also:
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trailer
film profile]), Johannes Schubert (Franz Böhm's Dear Future Children [+see also:
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trailer
film profile]), Maarten Schmidt (Daniel Lambo's Breathless [+see also:
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film profile]), Jessie Fisk (Pat Collins' Song of Granite [+see also:
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trailer
film profile]), Stefan Eichenberger (Talkhon Hamzavi's short film Parvaneh, nominated for an Oscar) and Alexander Wadouh (Jan Ole Gerster's Oh Boy [+see also:
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interview: Jan Ole Gerster
film profile]).