PRODUCTION VALUE went back to Retz / Austria from January 4 to 12, 2014!
For the 2014 edition, 12 young professionals from 10 countries (out of the 57 applications from 21 countries) were selected (6 women and 6 men):
Junior Assistant Directors:
- Barbara Skawran, Germany
- Rasa Rimkuté, Lithuania
- Sonja Lévy, Switzerland
- Frida Hvenmark, Sweden
- Tobias Reiner, Sweden
- Oscar de Grado, Spain
Junior Line Producers:
- Linda Mester, Hungary
- Malin Söderlund, Sweden
- David Canelo, UK / Spain
- Olivier Abrassart, Belgium
- Pål Røed, Norway
- Michiel Bartels, Netherlands
The following Seniors led the scheduling and budgeting process of 6 film projects in development and financing:
- Scott Kirby, Senior Assistant Director, Germany – returning from 2009 (V for Vendetta)
- Stuart Renfrew, Senior Assistant Director, UK – returning from 2008 & 2009 & 2010 & 2011 & 2012 & 2013 (The Queen)
- Kaare Storemyr, Senior Line Producer, Norway – returning from 2009 & 2010 & 2011 & 2012 & 2013 (Kon Tiki)
- Marco Valerio Pugini, Senior Line Producer, Italy – returning from 2009 & 2010 & 2012 & 2013 (TV series Rome)
- Michael Schwarz, Senior Line Producer, Germany – returning from 2008 & 2010 (TV series Borgia)
- Frank Schlegel, VFX Supervisor, Germany – returning from 2010 & 2011 & 2012 (Space Rider)
- Hans van Helden, Post-production Supervisor, Netherlands/Belgium, returning from 2013
6 European production companies brought their film project to the 2014 edition of the workshop. 7 Producers and 3 Directors joined the workshop for the last 2 days to discuss the results of the Juniors and the Seniors:
- SAINT-EXUPERY – THE REVELATION (Les Films du Repère, France — Writers- Producers Arnaud Le Roch & Olivier Lambert)
- THE LION WOMAN (FilmKameraTene, Norway – Producer Marcus Brodersen)
- THE LAST ENTRY (Tornasol Films, Spain – Director Adolfo Martinez Perez)
- THE INSTIGATORS (Deal productions, Luxemburg – Producer Alexandra Hoesdorff, Line Producer Jean-Claude Schlim)
- PRISONERS’ DILEMMA (The Content Providers, UK – Producer Rebecca G. Knapp, Writer-Director Mark Anthony Galluzzo)
- THE LAST BACHELOR (Lex Filmed Entertainment, UK – Producer Tracey Adam, Director Katrina Syran)
Production Value is a training initiative organized by FOCAL (Switzerland) in coproduction with the Austrian Film Institute (Vienna), the Norwegian Film Institute (Oslo) and the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm), with the support of MEDIA TRAINING, a program of the European Union. Swiss filmmaker Denis Rabaglia was Head of Studies for the 8th year, assisted by Swiss filmmaker Hannah Lichtenstein.
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