The Worst Person In The World producer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar and Carla Fotea of Romania’s microFILM are among 18 independent producers selected for the 34th edition of ACE Producers’ annual workshop programme.
The producers will attend three workshops throughout 2024 and 2025, developing the projects with which they applied. At the conclusion of the programme they will join the ACE Network.
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Ottmar, producer at Norway’s Eye Eye Pictures, is participating with Stefan Faldbakken’s Slave. Ottmar is currently in production on Worst Person director Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, and produced Cannes 2024 title Armand.
Fotea participates with The Price Of Gold, a coming-of-age autobiographical drama from Eugen Jebeleanu about a competitive dancer in post-Communist Romania coming to terms with his queerness. Fotea was executive producer on Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and production manager on Jude’s I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians.
French producer Julie Billy of June Films is participating with Expectation, the feature directorial debut of actress Clemence Poesy. The first ACE workshop, which is supported by the Netherlands Film Fund, is dedicated to content creation and will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, in early October. It is followed by workshops on financing strategies in Warsaw in November, supported by the Polish Film Institute; and on business strategies, in Sud-Tirol in Italy in 2025, followed by the ACE Annual Reunion in Zagreb, Croatia.“With each of these experienced independent producers and their individual expertise and know-how, the ACE Network will grow stronger, providing a solid basis for successful European co-productions,” said Jacobine van de Vloed, director and head of studies at ACE.ACE 34 producers
Nicolas Alavanos – Filmiki Productions (Gr) with
Yuri
, dir. John Gripeos
Anna Marie Aslanoglu – istos film – (Tur) 100 Turkish Lira, dir. Nazli Elif Durlu
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar – Eye Eye Pictures (Nor) with Slave, dir. Stefan Faldbakken
Julie Billy – June Films (Fr) with Expectation, dir. Clemence Poesy
Miljenka Cogelja – Pipser (Cro) with Suspicious Area, dir. Filip Peruzovic
Tania El Khoury – Les films de l’Altai (Fr) with Tide, dir. Hussen Ibraheem
Carla Fotea – microFILM (Rom) with The Price of Gold, dir. Eugen Jebeleanu
Verena Grafe-Hoft – Junafilm (Ger) with The Uninvited Guest (working title), dir. Julia Drache
Olivier Guerpillon – Fox in the Snow Films (Swe) with CAR:Y, dir. tbc
Janne Heltnes – The Global Ensemble Drama, Nor – First aid for Killers(working title), dir. Bobbie Peers
Kamilla Hodol – Elation Pictures (UK) with Weightlessness, dir. Simon Cartwright
Fanny-Laure Malo – La Boite a Fanny (Can) with Suzanne Falling, dir. Philippe Grenier
Layla meijman – Studio Ruba (Neth), with What’s Wrong With Sylvester, dir. Zara Dwinger
Heather Millard – Compass Films (Ice) with Shitballs, dir. Alfrun Ornolfsdottir
Marek Novak – Xova Film (Cze) with Dead Mountain, dir. Cristina Grosan
Janiposo – It’s Alive Films, Finland with Memory Lanes dir. Teemu Nikki
Vanya Rainova – Portokal (Bul) with MXIV, dir. Yordan Petkov
AlbaSotorra SL – AlbaSotorra SL – AlbaSotorra SL SL (Sp), with To live in a Shout, dir. Diana Toucedo
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