Talents Circles: Building on Common Ground

Name: Talents Circles: Building on Common Ground
Start: 2020-02-23 10:00:00
Location: HAU2

Time: Feb 23rd 2020
Location: HAU2
Guests: moderated by AC Coppens

Hosted by Robert Bosch Stiftung and The Royal Film Commission Jordan.

Focusing on teams working in the Arab World and in East Africa, this Circle event invites filmmakers and guests to help you find the right partners for your projects. The focus on audience development this year brings producers, distributors and financiers from several international institutions together: representatives from the World Cinema Fund, Docu Box (The East African Documentary Film Fund), TorinoFilmLab and International Media Support Copenhagen discuss funding and collaborative possibilities, while the head of the Royal Film Commission Jordan provides advice on how to facilitate productions in the region.

Philipp Hoffmann (Founder/ Managing Director, Rushlake Media) and Cindy Mbae (Acquisitions Manager, Rushlake Media)
Irit Neidhardt (Producer, Distributor)
Vincenzo Bugno, Isona Admetlla Font (World Cinema Fund) and Daniele Segre, Angelica Cantisani (TorinoFilmLab)
Rasmus Steen, Henrik Underbjerg (International Media Support Copenhagen) and Njonjo Kiroga, Mudamba Mudamba (Docu Box)
Thibaut Bracq and Ali Hajji (Atlas Workshop / Marrakech International Film Festival)
Dana Alawneh (NAAS Network of Arab Alternative Screens) and Talal Afifi (Sudan Film Factory)

AC Coppens

AC Coppens is a strategist, conference curator, speaker and the founder of The Catalysts, a boutique agency for innovative and creative players working at the intersection of digital technologies, film, immersive media, design, music and sound. They advise and mentor teams on marketing and strategic planning, business and audience development. The multidisciplinary agency also turns conferences into sites of knowledge exchange and co-creation.