PRODUCTION VALUE WENT TO THE ALPS from January 12 to 20, 2013 !
For our 7th edition, Production Value happened into the heart of the Swiss Alps, at the foot of the highest European mountains, to the town of Sierre in the Canton of Valais. The workshop took place at the Château Mercier, a beautiful and entirely restored manor at the exclusive disposal of the Workshop's European film professionals.
For the 2013 edition, 12 young professionals from 9 countries (out of the 52 applications from 19 countries) were selected (7 women and 5 men):
Junior Assistant Directors:
- Laura Mihartescu, Germany
- Christine Rogoll, Germany
- Julija Mickenaite, Lithuania
- Lucie Dolezalova, Czech Republic
- Nacho F. de Tejada, Spain
- René Jonkers, Netherlands
Junior Line Producers:
- Gabi Lins, Germany
- Man Chiu Leung Carlson, Sweden
- Anneli Lepp, Estonia
- Kaspar Kaljas, Estonia
- Einar Loftesnes, Norway
- Gottlieb Pallendorf, Austria
The following Seniors led the scheduling and budgeting process of 6 film projects in development and financing:
- Daniela Forn, Senior Assistant Director, Spain – returning from 2010 (“The Impossible”)
- Stuart Renfrew, Senior Assistant Director, UK – returning from 2008 & 2009 & 2010 & 2011 & 2012 (“The Queen”)
- Kaare Storemyr, Senior Line Producer, Norway – returning from 2009 & 2010 & 2011 & 2012 (“Kon Tiki”)
- Marco Valerio Pugini, Senior Line Producer, Italy – returning from 2009 & 2010 & 2012 (TV series “Rome”)
- Oliver Lüer, Senior Line Producer, Germany – NEW (“ The Ghost Writer“)
- Felix Bergès, VFX Supervisor, Germany – NEW (“The Impossible”)
- Hans van Helden, Post-production Supervisor, Netherlands/Belgium
6 European production companies brought their film project to the 2013 edition of the workshop. 8 Producers and 3 Directors will join the workshop for the last 2 days to discuss the results of the Juniors and the Seniors:
- VIVLING (Crude Fiction / Media Classics, UK — Writer-Producer Sameera Steward)
- THE GIRL KING (Anagram Produktion, Sweden – Producer Charlotte Most and Director Mika Kaurismäki)
- DOG (Caravel Productions, Switzerland – Producer Caroline Velan & Writer-Director Jacob Berger)
- THE WATCHMAKER’S EYES (Ibarretxe & Co / Karbo Vantas Entertainment, Spain – Producer Eduardo Carneros & Director Aitor Zabaleta Alberdi)
- ALTER EGO (Lex Filmed Entertainment, UK – Producers Tracey Adam & Sascha Hecks)
- THE LAST KING (Paradox, Norway – Line producer Henrik J. Henriksen)
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 7th year.
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