EFP announces the 2024 Producers on the Move line-up

by Cineuropa

30/04/2024 - 20 selected European producers are participating in the promotion and networking platform before and during the Cannes Film Festival

EFP announces the 2024 Producers on the Move line-up

Twenty emerging producers from across Europe have been selected to take part in European Film Promotion (EFP) promotion and networking platform Producers on the Move before and during the Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May). EFP’s platform is not only celebrating its 25th anniversary, but will also be casting a spotlight on the numerous collaborations which have developed between around 500 participants from 37 European countries during this quarter century.

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The exclusive group will take part in a tailor-made programme to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences and help create new professional networks. The Pre-Festival online programme, which starts today and runs until 3 May, includes 1:1 speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. The producers will then meet in person during the Cannes Film Festival from 16 to 20 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.

The selected participants have already been behind a number of award-winning films: Lina Flint produced The Guilty [+see also:
film review
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interview: Gustav Möller
film profile], which won Sundance’s Audience Award and was shortlisted for the Oscars. French producer Delphine Schmit was also successful with Love According to Dalva [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuelle Nicot
interview: Emmanuelle Nicot, Julie Esp…
film profile], which triumphed at Belgium's 2024 Magritte Awards, and Our Mothers [+see also:
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interview: Cesar Diaz
film profile], which won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes. Other prize-winners are Katharina Posch (Soldier Jane [+see also:
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interview: Daniel Hoesl
film profile], Tiger Award at IFFR), Sara Nassim (Lamb [+see also:
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interview: Valdimar Jóhannsson
film profile], Un Certain Regard's Prize of Originality at Cannes and European Film Award for Visual Effects), Ireland’s Evan Horan (Oddity, Midnighter Audience Award at SXSW), Elisa Heene from Belgium (Holly [+see also:
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interview: Fien Troch
film profile], Bisato d’Oro for Best Actress in Venice's Competition), Bulgaria’s Kalin Kalinov (Because I Love Bad Weather, Audience Award in Sofia), Tonia Mishiali from Cyprus (Pause [+see also:
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interview: Tonia Mishiali
film profile], East of the West entry at Karlovy Vary and FIPRESCI Prize in Thessaloniki) and Kristýna Michálek Květová (Arved, three Czech Lion Awards).

Some producers have tended to concentrate on the production of animated films or documentaries such as Germany’s Fabian Driehorst, whose credits include award-winning animated film Sultana’s Dream [+see also:
film review
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interview: Isabel Herguera
film profile]; Maria Kontogianni from Greece whose work-in-progress Nine Lives Left by Zacharias Mavroeidis received an award at the 2023 CEE Animation Forum; Giedrė Žickytė from Lithuania who was both producer and director of her documentaries, including The Jump [+see also:
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film profile]; Norway’s Anita Rehoff Larsen who produced such award-winning documentaries as Gunda [+see also:
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film profile]. Other participants have also been involved in producing series for TV and streaming platforms such as Wanda Adamík Hrycová with the historical TV series The Slavs [+see also:
interview: Wanda Adamík Hrycová
series profile].

The line-up also includes producers who continue long-standing collaborations with ”their“ directors, work with renowned talents or focus on debuts such as Tibor Keser from Croatia who produced El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia [+see also:
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film profile]; Luxembourg’s Katarzyna Ozga who was involved in Blind at Heart; North Macedonia's Angela Nestorovska who co-produced Greece's Oscar submission Behind the Haystacks [+see also:
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film profile]; Dragana Jovović who produced The Load [+see also:
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interview: Ognjen Glavonić
film profile]; Portugal’s Isabel Machado who co-produced The Last Bath [+see also:
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film profile]; Swedish producer Eva Åkergren who recently co-produced Holy Spider [+see also:
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interview: Ali Abbasi
interview: Ali Abbasi
interview: Zar Amir Ebrahimi
film profile], Unruly [+see also:
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film profile] and Sons [+see also:
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film profile], together with Denmark’s Lina Flint, and is now in preproduction on her third collaboration with Amanda Kernell with The Curse – A Love Story.