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Hayet Benkara
Hayet Benkara is a Toronto-based Film Advisor. She worked 6 years as the Manager of the Sales Office, the unofficial market, at the Toronto International Film Festival. She is still involved with TIFF as a Consultant at the Filmmakers Lounge. She also worked as a Match-Maker and Industry Liaison for many festivals such as Cannes (Producers Network), Berlin (the Co-production market), IFFR (CineMart), the Dubai International Film Festival, expecion n corto (Mexico) and most recently the Abu Dhabi Film festival. Over the years, Hayet Benkara has developped a very stong international network and a good knowlegde of the international market place. She advises young and more established filmmakers and producers on Development, Production, Co-production, Distribution and Marketing.
Consulting specialty: Production, Sales, Acquisition and Marketing, Film Festivals.
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Mary Davies
Film acquisitions consultant for Japanese pay TV channel Cinefil-Imagica since 1996, acquiring over 200 features from around the world. Industry consultant to Edinburgh International Film Festival, overseeing EIFF’s industry services, 1997 — 2009. Industry consultant at Dubai International Film Festival since 2008, and International Film Festival Rotterdam since 2000. Buyers and Sellers facilitator, BFI London Film Festival 2010 and 2011. Withoutabox.com account executive for Europe, Middle East and Africa 1995 — 2011. Former world sales agent with Jane Balfour Films and BFI Production in the UK, working with directors such as Tom Tykwer, D.A. Pennebaker, Derek Jarman and Terence Davies. Experience of independent film includes festivals, development, production and distribution. In 2011 worked as UK project director on funding for Cross Channel Film Lab, script development workshops linking screenwriters in France and the UK with researchers in the fields of visual effects and stereo 3D. Also working as script and development consultant in the UK.
Consulting specialty: Festivals, Sales, Development, Production and Distribution.
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Marina Kožul
Marina Kožul worked for Croatian Radiotelevision as a screenwriter, and from 2002 to 2004 she was engaged on a monthly-based TV show Videodrome, which broadcasted international experimental film and video. She is one of the co- founders of the Croatian non-profit organization, 25 FPS Association for Audio- Visual Research (2004) in Zagreb, whose activities include media education and publishing, and its main project is 25 FPS – International Experimental Film and Video Festival where she works as one of the programmers and producers. She has curated programs for several festivals, art cinemas in Zagreb and other Croatian cities, as well as promoting Croatian experimental film, video and animation within European and international film and media events.
Consulting specialty: Experimental Films, Animation Films, Festivals, Shorts.
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Jannie Langbroek
Jannie Langbroek was a buyer and commissioning editor for VPRO, one of the Dutch TV stations, both for documentary and fiction. Also for VPRO she was in charge of Lola Moviola, a strand of dramas for young directors, and responsible for various talkshows. She is part of the selection committee for Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ), member of the board of the Jan Vrijman Fund and member of the CineMart and HBF selection committees at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and involved with the Movies That Matter Foundation. She has been working for the Industry Office at Buenos Aires Festival and for The Dubai Film Festival.
Consulting specialty: Television, Film Markets and Festivals, Documentary.
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Aneta Lesnikovska
Aneta Lesnikovska is a producer, director, transmedia story architect and script doctor. She is also an associate professor of digital film at Institute of Arts ArtEZ in The Netherlands; and at the MA graduates department of The Dutch National Film School as guest teacher transmedia development and production. A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and Cooper Union, department film and media, in New York, she is actively involved in the European media art scene. She had numerous expositions of her video and new media installations. Among others, her work was exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art. Her mockumentary Does it hurt? First Balkan Dogma was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus and got nominated for a Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007. The film has more than 550.000 views on YouTube IFFR channel. She was a script doctor at the talent campus at Sarajevo Film Festival 2010 and established the Mediazoo transmedia hub in collaboration with Dominique van Ratingen (Media Desk Netherland). In April 2011 she finished her specialization at the Binger Film Lab within the Company! Program for talented and upcoming producers. The next projects in the pipeline are the transmedia project LOUD for 2012/2013 (NL/MKD/D) and Bite Me 2013/2014 (DE/NL).
Consulting Specialty: transmedia development/production; DIY marketing and distribution; development; production.
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