Jumpgate - Inspiring European producers

With over 30 years of experience in the audio-visual sector, Graziella is currently a lecturer, producer, consultant and senior expert for development and co-production funds in Italy and abroad. She founded and directed Maia Workshops, the EU training programme for emerging producers, as well as countless other training and networking initiatives throughout Europe. She sits on the Board of the European Film Academy since 2018.

Pong-Berlin (Germany)

Has specialized in the production of hybrid films on the border to the arts. Next to being pong film’s head producer, she produces with well-known artists like Clemens von Wedemeyer, Dani Gal, Assaf Gruber, Volker Sattel and Clarissa Thieme under her label Kirberg Motors. pong film produces interdisciplinary and innovatively conceived documentary and fiction films, in which the filmmakers’ aesthetic and political positions are formed and expressed.

CDP Productions (France)

Catherine Dussart established Les Productions Dussart in 1992 and CDP in 1994. She has since produced almost 100 films in more than 15 countries.
Her last productions a include Everything Will Be OK, by Rithy Panh (Silver Bear, Berlinale 2022), Once Upon a Time in Calcutta, by Aditya Vikram Sengupta (Horizons, Venice 2021), Laila in Haifa, by Amos Gitai (Official Competition, Venice 2020), and Irradiated, by Rithy Panh (Best  Documentary,
Berlinale 2020).

Tarantula (Luxemburg)

Tarantula Luxembourg is a well-established production company with more than twenty-five years of international co-production experience, bold artistic choices and a regular presence in the main international film festivals including Cannes, Toronto, Venice and Locarno. Some of its most famous co-productions include Fire Will Come (Cannes – Un Certain Regard, 2019), A Wedding (Toronto, 2016) and Fratricide (Locarno, Silver Leopard, 2005).

Uma Pedra no Sapato (Portugal)

Film and TV director and producer since 2000. Studied business management and has a postgraduate degree in cinema and TV. In 2008, started a production company to produce cinematic projects, Uma Pedra no Sapato, and TV content under the label Vende-se Filmes. Co-directed several documentaries with João Miller Guerra, which were selected and awarded at Cinéma du Réel and Dok Leipzig, among others. Member of EAVE, Eurodoc and Emerging Producers.

C.R.I.M. Produções (Portugal)

A recognized haven for innovative filmmaking, C.R.I.M. is based in Lisbon and produces short and feature-length fiction films, creative documentaries, television programs and visual arts projects. We are looking for challenging ideas, inspiring contents and touching stories. With more than 15 years of experience, we have co-produced with France, Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia, Norway, Cape Verde and Brazil.

Horopter Films (Serbia)

Started producing documentaries with the award-winning Cinema Komunisto (2010). Has produced the Magnificent Seven – European Feature Documentary Film Festival in Belgrade for 7 years and joined Horopter Films in 2017, producing films such as 4 Years in 10 Minutes and Merry Christmas, Yiwu. Member of the European Women’s Audiovisual Network and alumna of Eurodoc and Emerging Producers. Has represented Serbia in the Eurimages management board since 2016.

Eddie Saeta (Spain)

Filmmaker and producer. Directed Familystrip, Blow Horn, Falling Star and Love Me Not. Founder of the production company Eddie Saeta, with which he has won more than 120 international awards, including the Palme d’Or at Cannes for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Worked with Manoel de Oliveira, Albert Serra, Lisandro Alonso, Naomi Kawase, Marc Recha and José Luis Guerín, among others prestigious filmmakers.

Primeira Idade (Portugal)

Film production company founded in Portugal in 2014 and born out of the need to provide each film with its own unique mode of production. It aims at finding a new approach to filmmaking in what concerns rights, hierarchies, conduct and the conditions necessary for each worker to achieve his best possible performance. It wishes to materialize films that translate and enlarge the human spirit, under a firm belief that cinema can change the world.

Vivo Film (Italy)

Vivo Film, established in Rome in 2004 by Gregorio Paonessa and Marta Donzelli, is an independent production company with a catalogue of over 50 titles, presented and awarded at prestigious festivals worldwide. It is currently post-producing Superluna, by Federico Bondi, and pre-producing For the Love of a Woman, by Guido Chiesa. Serena Alfieri, graduated in cinema studies at the Roma Tre University, is the delegate producer since 2013.

4.30 Studio (Poland)

4.30 Studio is a young production company with grand ambitions. Based in Katowice, its greatest asset being the people who form it. Anna Mazerant (marketing and business strategist, implementing projects for big companies such as ING, TVP, IKEA and others) and Łukasz Kowalski (film director, author of TV programmes with 12 years of experience and many prestigious awards) have collaborated connected by their common passion: the film.

Luna Film (Romania)

Her career in the film industry started in 2011, and two years later she established the production house Luna Film in Bucharest, Romania. She produced the documentary features Too Close (Sarajevo Festival, 2022), Teach (best documentary at Jihlava Festival in 2019) and I Am Hercules, co-produced The Son, and was the executive producer of Charleston and Palace for the People. Irina is an alumna of EAVE Producers Workshop, PUENTES and Berlinale Talents.

Tasio (Spain)

Javi Tasio is an independent film and sound producer. He promotes projects that blur the line between reality and fiction, with a natural tendency towards new languages through sound experimentation, formats and narrative. He combines this activity with his other facets as a curator and graphic designer. He is part of the project Esto no es una poesía, the group Paciencia and the collective BRBR.

Panama Film (Austria)

Lixi Frank and David Bohun founded Panama Film in 2018. Its co-production Movements of a Nearby Mountain, by Sebastian Brameshuber, won the Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel 2019. Sandra Wollner’s The Trouble with Being Born won the Special Jury Award at the Berlinale Encounters Competition 2020 and four Austrian Film Awards, including Best Feature. Currently it is in the post-production stag of the documentary film Stams, by Bernhard Braunstein.

Opyo Doc (Georgia)

Documentary filmmaker from Georgia. Founded OpyoDoc in 2014 and started producing her own documentaries. OpyoDoc aims to produce author-driven documentaries and to make a strong filmmaking network in the Caucasus. From the start, it collaborated with European partners and has finished 3 feature films co-produced with France. From 2016, it has developed the film field in Caucasus by organising workshops, master classes and film clubs for young people.

BAM BAM Cinema (Portugal)

Film production company focused on the production of authorial projects, formed in 2018 and based in Porto. Co-founded by Portuguese directors spread across the world, it brings together scriptwriting, directing, production and editing professionals. It is responsible for films such as Rock Bottom Riser, by Fern Silva (Encounters Special Mention – Berlinale ’21), and Périphérique Nord, by Paulo Carneiro, which premiered at Visions du Réel ’22.

Marni Films (Greece)

Independent film production company based in Athens and founded in 2011. Develops and produces short and feature-length films and documentaries by emerging and promising talents whose work can spark the interest of international audiences with high quality and unique storytelling. In 2006, one of its first fictions, Suntan, premiered at Rotterdam International Film Festival and SXSW, while Afterlov was awarded Locarno’s Young Directors prize.

Don Quichotte Films (France)

Paris-based film production company created by two friends, Yannick Beauquis and Quentin Brayer, who met at La Fémis. Since 2015, they have produced short and medium-length fiction, documentary and hybrid films, adapting artistically to each project, each author. Their first feature films will come out in 2023.

(Sweden)

Has a degree in law and a master’s degree in film and TV production. Has produced multiple award-winning documentary features and TV series, including Scheme Birds, best documentary at Tribeca 2019, and Pray Obey Kill (2021) for HBO Max. A Sundance alumna, Reid has produced for ARTE, HBO Max, Channel 4 and SVT. For the last two years, has worked in house at HBO in the local original production department.

Fade In (Croatia)

Since 2016 she has worked as a producer for Fade In (Zagreb), which emerged in 2000 as a platform for young authors wishing to act through socially engaging film and video. In 20 years, Fade In became the leading production company in the field of documentary film with more than a hundred remarkable authors, won three best producer awards, and participated in over 300 national and international festivals, winning many honourable mentions and awards.