breakfast 2024

Breakfasts 2024

A moment of exchange between professionals – the opportunity to pitch your film and your future projects to international decision-makers. 

The Breakfasts are an unmissable event to develop your network. 

Session 1 | Sunday 19 May – 9:00 @Terrasse du Festival, hosted by The Five Nordics 

With: FLAVIO ARMONE – Lights On, OLIVIER BERLEMONT – Origine Films, BENOÎT BLANCHARD – Annecy Film Festival (MIFA), RUBEN CORRAL – ZINEBI Int’l Festival of Documentary & Short Films Bilbao, YVETTE DE LOS SANTOS – Feelsales, ANNA DEMIANENKO – CineSud, ELENA DIESBACH – HFF München | Munich Film Up!, PER FIKSE – Minimalen Short Film Festival, ALEXANDRA GRAMATKE – Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg, SARAH HOCH – Guanajuato Int’l Film Festival, TARA KARAJICA – PÖFF Shorts, ALICE KHAROUBI – Red Sea Int’l Film Festival, PUIYEE LEONG – Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, ALEX LOPRIENO – WeShort, KYRYLO MARIKUTSA – Kyiv Int’l Short Film Festival, DAVID NUGENT – Hamptons Int’l Film Festival, NATACHA SEWERYN – FIFIB, LÉA ALIA TRIBOULET – Salaud Morisset, BEN VANDENDAELE – Radiator IP Sales | FilmConnector, CARLA VULPIANI – La Biennale – Venice Int’l Film Festival, ANIA WÓJTOWICZ – Doha Film Institute 

  

Session 2 | Monday 20 May – 9:00 @Terrasse du Festival, hosted by CineSud 

With:  AGUSTI ARGELICH – FILMETS Badalona, FANNY BARROT – Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival & Market, ZAHRA BENASRI – Hors du bocal, AURÉLIE CHESNÉ – France Télévisions, AILTON FRANCO JR. – Curta Cinema – Rio de Janeiro Int’l Short Film Festival, PARISA GHASEMI – Linz Int’l Short Film Festival, OANA GHERA – Bucharest Int’l Experimental Film Festival, LUISA GIULIANI – IDM Film Commission Südtirol, ANNA HENCKEL-DONNERSMARCK – Berlinale Shorts, DELPHINE JEANNERET – Int’l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, HÉLÈNE LAMBERT – FIFF Namur, NATHALIE LEBEL – L’Agence du Court Métrage, ANDREW MOHSEN – El Gouna Film Festival, SONA MORGENTHALOVA – MIDPOINT Institute, GUEVARA NAMER – DOK Leipzig, SYDNEY NETER – SND Films, NIKOLAJ NIKITIN – T-Port, EMILIE POIRIER – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, NINA RODRIGUEZ – Guanajuato Int’l Film Festival, MAYA SFAKIANAKI – Leiden Shorts | Anafi Int’l Film Festival 

  

Session 3 | Wednesday 22 May – 9:00 @Terrasse du Festival, hosted by Catalan Films 

With: JASON ANDERSON – TIFF, GRÉGORY AUDERMATTE – Arte France, JUSTINE BAILLARGEON – h264, SIMONE BARDONI – Concorto Film Festival | Lights On, ANAÏS COLPIN – Manifest, INGA DIEV – Ouat Media, ANNE GASCHÜTZ – Filmfest Dresden | Locarno Film Festival, LUCE GROSJEAN – Miyu Distribution, PHILIP ILSON – London Short Film Festival, NICOLAS KHABBAZ – Beirut Shorts, STEFAN LAUDYN & MACIEJ BARTCZAK – Warsaw Film Festival, JULIE MARNAY – European Short Pitch, MANON NAMMOUR – Batroun Mediterranean Film Festival, QUERALT PONS SERRA – MoreThan Films, LAURENCE REYMOND – Unifrance, JULIE ROUSSON – Clermont-Ferrand Int’l Short Film Festival & Market, CÉLINE ROUSTAN – Short of the Week | SXSW | Palm Springs ShortFest, YANNIS SAKARIDIS – Drama Int’l Short Film Festival, LEO SOESANTO – Riga Int’l Film Festival, GALINA TAGAMLITZKA – IN THE PALACE Int’l Short Film Festival, HEIDI ZWICKER – Sundance Film Festival 

  

  

An opportunity for directors and producers to meet with key industry decision-makers. Festival programmers, distributors, industry platforms, broadcasters and buyers from all around the world gathered at the same place.  

 

Find more info about the professionals attending the Breakfasts on the webpage: 

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