PRODUCTION VALUE 2011 — The fifth edition of the European Scheduling and Budgeting workshop took place in Lindingö (Sweden) from 8 to 15 January.
It gathered 30 professionals coming from 17 European countries.
Out of the 47 applications coming from Juniors of 21 countries, 12 young professionals from 10 countries had been selected:
Junior Assistant Directors
- Karolina Koltun, Poland
- Daniel Malmèn, Sweden
- Igor Godina, Slovenia
- Olaf Westra, The Netherlands
- Roger Schweizer, Switzerland
- Andrius Brazas, Lithuania
Junior Line Producers
- Malini Ahlberg, Sweden
- Essi Suomela, Finland
- Viola Fuegen, Germany
- Malcom Scerri Ferrante, Malta
- Monique Marnette, Belgium
- Sebastian Schelenz, Belgium
For this edition, the following Seniors led the scheduling and budgeting process of 6 film projects in development and financing:
- Alberto Mangiante, Senior Assistant Director, Italy — new! (“Baaria” — “The Tourist”)
- Stuart Renfrew, Senior Assistant Director, UK — returning from 2008 & 2009 & 2010! (All the last Stephen Frears’ films — “Bridget Jones’ Diary”)
- Laura Fattori, Senior Line Producer, returning from 2008 (“Gangs of New York” — “Kundun”)
- Kaare Storemyr, Senior Line Producer, Norway — returning from 2009 & 2010! (“Aberdeen” — “I am Dina”)
- Jose Luis Escolar, Senior Line Producer, Spain — returning from 2007 & 2009! (“Agora” — “Knight and Day”)
- Frank Schlegel, VFX Consultant, Germany — returning from 2010 (“Speed Racer” — “V for Vendetta”)
6 European production companies brought their film project to the workshop. All the Producers and some Directors joined Lindingö in the last 2 days to discuss the results of the Juniors and the Seniors:
- MARY’S RIDE (Oko Film, Switzerland — Producer Andrea Staka)
- THE PORNOGRAPHER (Paradox, Norway — Producers Finn Gjerdrum & Stein Kvae)
- THE MISSISSIPPI SISTERS (Lex Filmed Entertainment, UK — Producer Sacha Hecks)
- A FISTFUL OF DEAD (Gazpacho Films, Spain — Writers & Producers Rico Torres & David de Bartolome)
- THE STEEL SPRING (St-Paul, Sweden — Producers Mathilde Dedye & Fredrik Heinig & Director Henry Moore Selder)
- OUT OF THE SHADOW (Propeller Film, Germany — Producer Felix Blum)
Production Value 2011 was proposed by
FOCAL
Norvegian Film Development
Austrian Film Institute
Swedish Film Institute
with the support of
The MEDIA Programme
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