For its 9th edition, PRODUCTION VALUE visited Finland
from 10 to 18 January 2015!
Homeland of our new partner, the FINNISH FILM FOUNDATION
For the 2015 edition, 12 young professionals from 11 countries (out of the 57 applications from 22 countries) were selected (3 women and 9 men):
Junior Assistant Directors:
- Iiris Juutilainen, Finland
- René Bosman, Germany
- Frieder Wallis, Netherlands
- Yan-Eryl Mer, France
- Luis Moreno Bernardo, Spain
- Daniel Chilla, Sweden
Junior Line Producers:
- Michela Pini, Switzerland
- Monika Sakalauskaite, Lithuania
- Magnus Ramsdalen, Norway
- Claude Witz, Switzerland
- Wim Goossens, Belgium
- Ivan D’Ambrosio, Italy
The following Seniors led the scheduling and budgeting process of 6 film projects in development and financing:
- Alberto Mangiante, Senior Assistant Director (“From Rome with Love”, “The Tourist”)
- Stuart Renfrew, Senior Assistant Director, UK – (“The Queen”, “Pride”)
- Mathias Schwerbrock, Senior Line Producer, Germany – (“The Voices” – “The Fifth Estate”)
- Udo Happel, Senior Line Producer, Germany (“La marque des anges”, “Mary, Queen of Scots”)
- Jose Luis Escolar, Senior Line Producer (“Agora”, The Libertador”)
- Frank Schlegel, VFX Supervisor, Germany – (“The Grand Hotel Budapest”)
- Hans van Helden, Post-production Supervisor, Netherlands/Belgium
6 European production companies brought their film project to the 2015 edition of the workshop. 10 Producers joined the workshop for the last 2 days to discuss the results of the Juniors and the Seniors:
- THE CHILDREN OF THE ICE (Mood Films, Italy — Producer Tommaso Arrighi)
- AIRLOCK (Savage Films, Ireland – Producers John Keville & Conor Barry)
- THE FAHRENHEIT CHILDREN (Sodalite Films – Producers Nicola Clayton & Sara Janasz)
- KAFKA (Cecchi Gori Pictures, Los Angeles – Producer Ulrik Bolt Jorgensen)
- HELEN BALLARD AND THE FALL CREEK TEN (Mag Film, UK – Producer-Writer-Director Mark Anthony Galluzzo and Writer-Producer Steve Chatterton)
- BERLIN BALAGAN (OneTwoFilms, Germany – Producer Jamila Wenske & producer Sol Bondy)
Production Value is a training initiative organized by FOCAL RESOURCE (Netherlands) in coproduction with the Austrian Film Institute (Vienna), the Norwegian Film Institute (Oslo), the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm) and the Finnish Film Foundation (Helsinki), with the support of CREATIVE EUROPE, a program of the European Union. Swiss filmmakers Denis Rabaglia was Head of Studies for the 9th year and Hannah Lichtenstein was General Coordinator.
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