EFP announces the 2023 Producers on the Move line-up

by Cineuropa

03/05/2023 - 20 selected European producers are participating in the promotion and networking platform before and during the Cannes Film Festival

EFP announces the 2023 Producers on the Move line-up

Twenty of the most dynamic 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 (16-27 May).

They will all 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 started yesterday and runs until 4 May, includes 1:1 speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. The producers will then meet during the Festival de Cannes from 18 to 22 May and take part in a programme spread over five days, which will include case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign via the international trade magazines.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Three of the selected producers will be presenting their films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: Dutch producer Erik Glijnis co-produced Lost in the Night [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Amat Escalante
film profile] by Amat Escalante which is screening in Cannes Premiere. Julie Esparbes’ The (Ex)perience of Love [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni
film profile] by Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni will be screened in the Critics Week, while Juraj Krasnohorský’s animated short Electra by Daria Kashcheeva will be premiering in the La Cinef selection.

Other participants of this year’s line-up have already been behind a number of award-winning films: Miljenka Čogelja produced Juraj Lerotić’s Safe Place [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Juraj Lerotić
film profile] whose tally of prizes includes three awards at the Locarno Film Festival and two awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival as well as being Croatia’s candidate for the 95th Oscars. Gentian Koçi’s own films as producer and director, Daybreak [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Gentian Koçi
film profile] and A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Gentian Koçi
film profile], were both Albania’s Oscar entry in 2018 and 2023 respectively. Other prize-winners are David Bohun from Austria (Sandra Wollner's The Trouble With Being Born [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sandra Wollner
film profile], Special Jury Award at the 2020 Berlinale; Sebastian Brameshuber's Movements of a Nearby Mountain [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Sebastian Brameshuber
film profile], Grand Prix at the 2019 Cinema du Reel), Germany’s Silvana Santamaria (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk's Pamfir [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
interview: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
film profile], Directors' Fortnight selection and EFA nominee; Scythian Deer/Grand Prix at the 2022 Molodist International Film Festival) and Romania’s Radu Stancu (Clare Weiskopf and Nicolas van Hamelryck's Alis [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Crystal Bear and Teddy Award at the 2022 Berlinale; Mihai Mincan's To the North [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mihai Mincan
film profile]; Venice's Orizzonti selection).

Some of the producers have concentrated on the production of documentaries such as Emile Hertling Péronard from Denmark, who produced Lin Alluna’s feature-length documentary Twice Colonized [+see also:
film review
interview: Lin Alluna
interview: Lin Alluna
film profile], which premiered at Sundance; Czech producer Alice Tabery whose credits include the films Traces of a Landscape [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Petr Záruba and Reconstruction of Occupation [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Jan Šikl; and Greece’s Vicky Miha who produced Gregoris Rentis' hybrid documentary Dogwatch [+see also:
film review
film profile]; or Elisa Fernanda Pirir whose production of Luis Alejandro Vero’s Calls From Moscow [+see also:
trailer
film profile] screened at this year’s Berlinale.

In addition to creative documentaries, animation and feature films, Dominiks Jarmakovičs from Latvia has also been producing films for younger audiences like Jaak Kilmi’s Christmas in the Jungle and The Sleeping Beast [+see also:
film review
film profile] and is now raising the finance for Signe Baumane’s animated feature Karmic Knot.

Some producers from this year’s selection were also creatively involved in their own productions, including Stelana Kliris from Cyprus, who wrote, directed and produced The Islander, and Ireland’s Kathryn Kennedy who wrote the screenplays for the psychological horror feature Púca (Pooka) and the satire My Mother, She Wrote, and co-write the scripted animated series The Thin Place with Anthony Murphy.

The line-up also includes producers who continue long-standing collaborations with "their" directors, discover new talents in their respective countries or focus on debuts such as Júlia Berkes from Hungary (Gábor Reisz's For Some Inexplicable Reason [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], Bad Poems [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] and Explanation for Everything, in post-production; Hajni Kis' Wild Roots [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] and Ich bin Marika, in post-production), Kosovo’s Valon Bajgora (Blerta Basholli's Hive [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Blerta Basholli
interview: Yllka Gashi
film profile], and Era, in post-production), Sweden-based Julia Gebauer (The Swedish Connection by Thérèse Ahlbeck and Marcus A Olsson, in post-production), Finland’s Emilia Haukka (The Woodcutter Story [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mykko Myllylahti
film profile] by Mikko Myllylahti) and Vanya Rainova from Bulgaria (January [+see also:
film review
film profile] by Andrey Paounov)