Time Thursday August 22nd at 13:00 Venue Haugesund Public Library
Photo: Grethe Nygaard
Europa Distribution and New Nordic Films invite you to this open panel dedicated to the practical strategies built by independent film publishers and distributors from various countries across the globe to promote Nordic films in their respective territories. Through concrete examples, distributors from all over Europe and beyond will speak about their role as a promoter, curator and talent-builder in the film industry. They will focus on Nordic films through case studies on internationally released Fallen Leaves by renowned director Aki Kaurismäki.
Join us for a rich discussion on the cirulation of Nordic films in various countries across the globe!
Panelists:
Laura Čadek Plačková
AEROFILMS S.R.O.
Laura Čadek Plačková is a marketing professional at Aerofilms, a Prague-based independent distribution company with a network of six affiliated arthouse cinemas across the country. In her role, she leads marketing campaigns and develops communication strategies for films released in theaters, ensuring each project reaches its potential audience. With a background in marketing, she previously spearheaded communication for the Žižkovská Noc music festival and has worked in various communications agencies.
Albert Yao
SWALLOW WINGS FILMS
Albert Yao is an acquisition, sales and marketing professional at Swallow Wings Films, a Taiwan-based independent distribution company. In his role, he leads the acquisition, sales and marketing for films released in cinema. He is one of programmer sfor World Ethnic Film Festival in Taiwan, and also one of producers for the film Snow in Midsummer premiered in 2023 Venice Film Festival.
Anne Marte Nygaard
ARTHAUS
Anne Marte Nygaard is the head of distribution at Arthaus - the art film foundation, a distribution company in Oslo. She presents the films to the film exhibitors and helps them find the best solution for programming quality films in their cinema.
Petri Kemppinen
Petri Kemppinen is working internationally with financing and development, policies and training, advising among others artists and producers on career, individual project and company development. He has over 30 years of experience in various roles in journalism, publishing and the audiovisual sector. Petri works through his own consulting enterprise P1 Kemppinen and production company Good Hand Production. Previously he has been CEO of Aurora Studios and Senior Advisor at Finnish Impact Film Fund (2021-2023) and CEO of the pan-Nordic funding body Nordisk Film & TV Fond in Oslo (2013-2019). He has also served at the Finnish Film Foundation, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, publishing house Hard & Pet and Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.
In collaboration with Europa Distribution.
Europa Distribution is the international association of independent film publishers and distributors, created in 2006. With more than 115 leading independent film distributors representing 31 countries in Europe and beyond, it acts as a network and a think tank, and serves as the voice of the sector. For over 15 years, Europa Distribution has been creating new bridges for its members to share knowledge, experience and ideas.
Europa Distribution at New Nordic Films 2023. Photo: Grethe Nygaard
Through dedicated brainstorming, training sessions and informal gatherings, the Network constantly works to enhance the circulation of information and know-how and to improve the curation, promotion and distribution of independent films. Besides offering an insight on the world of independent film distribution to other sectors of the film industry, through its open panels Europa Distribution also aims at helping its members to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of the constantly evolving Audio-visual sector.
The association also acts as the voice of the sector and regularly exchanges, in its capacity as a recognised spokesperson for independent film distribution, with the main European associations and bodies involved in the audio-visual sector, to ensure that the priorities and concerns of its members are taken into consideration.
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