EFP svela i Producers on the Move 2019

di Cineuropa

24/04/2019 - 20 produttori europei sono stati selezionati per prendere parte alla 20ma edizione della piattaforma di networking durante il 72° Festival di Cannes

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The EFP (European Film Promotion) has picked 20 producers each year for the 20th anniversary edition of its high-profile networking platform at the Cannes Film Festival, Producers on the Move. Thanks to the financial support of the Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the EFP member organisations, the network of 38 European film promotion institutions has chosen professionals based on their already acclaimed work and first international co-productions, to promote them to the international film industry.

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Eurimages executive director Roberto Olla, a long-term partner of EFP’s initiative, said: “We have been working with European Film Promotion as part of their initiatives in Cannes and Toronto for several years now. We both share the same ambition for increased co-operation amongst film professionals in Europe and beyond. Although we walk different paths, our collaboration has come about as a means of achieving this!”.

In two decades, 400 producers have taken part in the tailor-made event in order to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences, and create new professional networks. Many of them have become long-standing production partners like Labina Mitevska (North Macedonia) and Zdenka Gold (Croatia), who met in 2013, returned to the Cannes Film Festival with Sieranevada [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Cristi Puiu
scheda film] along with fellow participant Anca Puiu in 2016, and celebrated the premiere of God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Labina Mitevska
intervista: Teona Strugar Mitevska
scheda film] at this year's Berlinale. As a matter of fact, four former Producers on the Move will have their films premiering in this year's Cannes Official Selection: Janine Jackowski (Germany 2009) and Dan Wechsler (Switzerland 2011) co-produced Corneliu Porumboiu's The Whistlers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Corneliu Porumboiu
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intervista: Ira Sachs
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intervista: Nicolas Bedos
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intervista: Oliver Laxe
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intervista: Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobbe…
scheda film] by Zabou Breitman and Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec.