Jumpgate

Jumpgate is an annual summit taking place in the scope of Nebulae and aimed at European producers from different backgrounds and levels of experience when it comes to non-fiction film production. The main goal is to share professional experiences, inspire new ideas, practices and projects, and facilitate encounters, so as to foster co-productions and collaboration opportunities. In 2023, 20 producers—10 seniors and 10 emerging—will participate at the invitation of Doclisboa and Nebulae.

Jumpgate is organised in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

With the support

Moderator

Iva Plemić Divjak

Produced the first ten editions of the Magnificent Seven – European Feature Documentary Film Festival in Belgrade and the award-winning documentaries Cinema Komunisto (2010), 4 Years in 10 Minutes (2018), Merry Christmas, Yiwu (2020) and Another Spring (2022), among others. Member of DokSerbia and European Women’s Audiovisual Network. Alumna of Eurodoc and Emerging Producers. Serbian representative in the Eurimages management board from 2016 to 2021.

Horopter Films (Serbia)

Senior producers

Ana Pinhão Moura

APM is the acronym of its founder, Ana Pinhão Moura, but also represents the desire and commitment to carry out several ‘actions per minute’ in the field of fiction and documentary, in its own name, or involved in international co-productions, always seeking to create the best conditions for directors, experienced (João Mário Grilo, Tiago Guedes, Ivo Ferreira, etc.) or taking their first steps (Flávio Gonçalves, Ana Mariz, etc.), to explore new paths.

APM (Portugal)

Beli Martinez

Beli Martínez (A Guarda, 1980) has a PhD in audiovisual communication. She is a producer at Filmika Galaika, a Galician company specialising in auteur cinema that has produced the latest works by Eloy Enciso, Jessica Sarah Rinland, Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, among others. She combines audiovisual production with teaching in the Audiovisual Communication Department at the University of Vigo.

Filmika Galaika (Spain)

Caroline Kirberg

Has specialised in the production of hybrid films on the border to the arts. With pong film, she produces interdisciplinary and innovatively conceived documentary and fiction films, in which the filmmakers’ aesthetic and political positions are formed and expressed. Under her label Kirberg Motors, she also produces the audio-visual works of artists like Clemens von Wedemeyer, Dani Gal, Stephan Geene, Assaf Gruber, Volker Sattel and Clarissa Thieme.

pong (Germany)

Donato Rotunno

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 at the main international film festivals. Some of its most famous co-productions include Blanquita (Venice, 2022) Streams (Locarno 2021), Fire Will Come (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2019), A Wedding (Toronto 2016) and Fratricide (Silver Leopard, Locarno 2005).

Tarantula (Luxembourg)

Françoise Hoste

We have chosen to produce author and arthouse films, mainly documentary films and fiction films. We intend to produce our projects, which are often fragile by nature, in adequate financial conditions. Our main goal is to help the author to translate his personal view on the world in a unique imagery, and to make his ideas visible in the form of a true cinema project. Since 1987, we produced more than 100 films that have toured the world of festivals.

Cobra Films (Belgium)

Johannes Rosenberger

Producer of creative documentaries since 1992, co-founder and CEO of Navigator Film, co-founder of dok.at, co-founder and associate of Autlook Filmsales, member of the Austrian Chamber for Film and Music, chairman of the executive board of the Diagonale film festival, member of the European Film Academy, lecturer and expert in international documentary co-productions and project development. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Navigator Film (Austria)

Pedro Fernandes Duarte

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 fulfil all of his creative potential. It wishes to materialize films that translate and enlarge the human spirit, under a firm belief that cinema can change the world.

Primeira Idade (Portugal)

Paolo Maria Spina

Has been involved in several European arthouse co-productions, both fiction films and documentaries, with his production company, Revolver in Rome, since 2002. In the case of documentary, among others, he co-produced Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer (Venice, 2019), Napoleon, the Exile of the Eagle (for RAI, 2020), Timekeeper (2022) and My Mohammed Is Different.
Studied history of medieval art at the Bologna University and film with Ermanno Olmi.

Revolver Film (Italy)

Thomas Ordonneau

Started in the movie industry working in film shootings and then in movie theatres. Founded Shellac, Shellac Sud and Shellac exploitation to combine production, distribution, DVD edition, VoD and theatrical exhibition, in order to develop new talents and to support a particular cinematographic form. Among many others, has produced and distributed films by Régis Sauder, Alessandro Comodin, Miguel Gomes, João Nicolau, Damien Manivel and Emilie Aussel.

Shellac Films (France)

Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo

Finnish production company, founded in 2020 by producer Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo. It collaborates with artists and directors, typically working on non-fiction artist films, gallery installations and media arts. In 2021-2023, it participated in a national media art history production. Recently, Poike Productio was granted the EcoCompass certificate for its commitment to environmental sustainability.

Poike Productio (Finland)

Emerging producers

André Guiomar

Established in 2019, in Porto, it focuses on the production of fiction and documentary short and feature films. Comprises a group of film directors, technicians and producers, promoting dialogue and collaborative interventions in every production as a fundamental principle. In its short existence, it presented its films in festivals such as Berlinale, Sheffield Doc/Fest and Doclisboa, and obtained awards at Zinebi, Curtas Vila do Conde and Porto/Post/Doc.

Olhar de Ulisses (Portugal)

Catarina de Sousa

Film production company focused on cinema and contemporary art film. Founded in 2021 by Catarina de Sousa and Isadora Neves Marques, it reflects their work experience in places such as Lisbon, São Paulo and New York. It aims at building disciplinary and geographical bridges and to show its productions at festivals and in commercial theatres, as well as in museums and art institutions, developing films driven by singular visions of our times.

Foi Bonita a Festa (Portugal)

Elisa Sepulveda

Film producer focused on director-driven films and worldwide content. She was selected at main industry events such as Talents, Rotterdam Lab and Torino Film Lab. She founded the Paris-based production company Fulgurance, and she strongly collaborates with Kidam. She has produced Soy niño by Lorena Zilleruelo (broadcasted by France Télévisions), Notas para una película, by Ignacio Agüero (Mar del Plata, Jeonju) and Cuarto de Hora (Tribeca).

Fulgurance Film (France)

Maarten D’Hollander

Master’s degree in communication and film studies. Started working in production at Off World in 2009, and became freelance in 2014. In recent years, launched Krater Films and worked in the production of films by Eva Cools, and Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth, among others. Is developing several fiction and documentary projects with international ambitions. Will present Let the Sea Take Away All Evil, Better than Gold and El huevo de la serpiente! at Doclisboa.

Krater Films (Belgium)

Manon Bovenkerk

She founded near/by film in 2018 and is actively involved in the conceptual and formal development of the projects. Her aim is to support filmmakers, using forms of cinema that cross genres and formats, with the objective of developing modes of production that nurture the process of artistic filmmaking. She worked as a mentor at the Master of Film at the Netherlands Film Academy and is currently an advisor for the Flanders Audiovisual Fund.

near/by Film (The Netherlands)

Margot Mecca

Margot Mecca is a freelance producer (Eurodoc and TorinoFilmLab alumna), working on the creative development and production of documentary and fiction films; she is based in Barcelona and collaborates with different production companies in Italy and abroad. She is also a programmer and a researcher.

Malfe Film (Italy)

Mariangela Mondolo-Burghard

Co-founder and development producer at 59 en Conserva, Madrid-based Documentary Film, Contemporary Cinema & other Living Film Forms production lab. The company produces arthouse documentary and hybrid films with a strong commitment to the subjects, society and cinema as an art form. Its films screened at Berlinale, Yamagata, Doclisboa, Amsterdam and Documenta Madrid, among other festivals, and have been awarded and theatrically released.

59 en Conserva (Spain)

Tamara Babun

Graduated in film, TV and theatre production at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. After a decade of extensive experience, started her own production company, Wolfgang&Dolly, in 2017, with a desire to produce creative audio-visual works that tackle socially relevant topics and safeguard hope for the audience. Took part in the Emerging Producers, LIM Development Angels, Screen Leaders, Ex Oriente Film, Eurodoc, Sarajevo Talent Campus and IDFA Academy.

Wolfgang&Dolly (Croatia)

Zlata Yefimenko

Has a master’s degree in cinematography from Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. Member of the expert council at the Ukrainian State Film Agency in 2021-22. Participated in the Producers Network at the Marché du Film (Cannes International Film Festival) and ZagrebDox Pro: Dox of War 2023. Founder of the production company EF Pictures, has worked in many documentaries and fiction films and music videos.

EF Pictures (Ukraine)