Bruno Chatelin
Digital pioneer and entrepreneur Bruno Chatelin is a marketer and film distributor who has launched more than 200 films over the past 30 years. His experience spans film making, production, training, studio management, distribution, marketing and online resources. He is a co-founder of filmfestivals.com, one of the international industry’s largest web portals, which has 192,000 subscribers on over 830,000 unique visitors across the globe each year.
Anne Sanchez
Anne Sanchez is Associate Managing Director of the Mercredi agency in Paris. Founded in 1993 to handle the theatrical marketing of films in France, specializing in media partnerships and tie-ins, it is now widely regarded as France’s leading agency for film. Anne has has worked on more than 800 films during her time with Mercredi, giving her unrivalled expertise and experience in buying, marketing and promoting films.
Olivier Doyen
Olivier Doyen’s career was built at some of the world’s leading film distribution companies such as Gaumont Buena Vista International and Europacorp, where he was responsible for a wide range of marketing, PR, media management and talent relationships.
He founded his promotional agency, Full Frame, in 2010 and has since worked on a wide variety of titles for leading names such as Disney, Maurice Barthelemy, KWET and Paramount Pictures.
Michel Burstein
Michel Burstein is a seasoned communications professional who launched his communication, marketing and PR agency Bossa Nova in 1992. The agency not only works with an eclectic range of local and international film creators, distributors, festivals and associations but manages strategic communications for video, music, television and multimedia. Michel has worked with the ‘who’s who’ of film to launch several hundred films in France and at festivals including Cannes, Berlin, London, Venice and Deauville and markets including AFM and MIFED
Sonia Mariaulle
Few professionals are more expert in the art of film trailers than Sonia Mariaulle. After graduating from le Pantheon la Sorbonne she has built a career in film communication and trailers, culminating in her current role as head of her own agency, Sonia Tout Court, founded in 2001 to specialise in creating customised and highly- targeted audiovisual projects for the film communications, advertising, consulting and audiovisual production industries. She has overseen the production of nearly 600 trailers representing more than 400 films.
MORAD KERTOBI
Morad Kertobi heads the Short Film Department at CNC (Direction de la Création, des Territoires et des Publics) his key missions : manage the various subsidies granted to short film producers and coordinate with the different players in the industry: authors, producers, syndicates, schools, broadcasters (theatres, festivals, networks distributors…)
Patrice Carré
Patrice Carré is a director, a journalist, TV and producing columnist, within his company Le Retour en Avant. Since 1998 he writes regularly for the weekly Le Film Français. In charge of the sections : short films, Benelux and technical industries.
From 1999 till June, 2013, he was an editor-in-chief and a presenter of the weekly show Cinécourt, broadcasted on Ciné + Club (Canal + Group), dedicated to the short movies of the whole world, buying 80 short films a year and directing numerous subjects on diverse festivals and film. He was a part of the selection committee of the Critic's Week (Cannes Film Festival) from 2004 till 2007. He shot his first short film of fiction, The woman who saw the bear in spring, 2002, then his 2nd movie, Zoé, it is not the right moment ! During summer, 2010. His 3rd short film The 5th District, produced by Kazak Productions in 2013 was pre-purchased by France 3. He produced and realized 10 documentaries on the young cinema worldwide whole : Belgium, Quebec, Greece, Turkey, Arabic countries etc. He develops at the moment a collection of documentaries on the theme of the Borders worldwide as well as the bibles of two series of fiction : La Réserve and Captain Touré, police series taking place in Ivory Coast
Nicolas Brigaud Robert
Nicolas co founded FilmDistributiona Paris based International Sales Company
Nicolas Brigaud-Robert is CEO and a member of the board of directors of FILMS DISTRIBUTION, a film export company based in Paris which sold over 300 movies internationally since its beginning in 1997. Despite being a strictly independent group, the company has been nominated seven times at the Oscars and its movies have been awarded in all the great festival across the world (Cannes, Berlin, Venise…). Moreover, Nicolas Brigaud-Robert is also the founder and main shareholder of FILMS BOUTIQUE, a film export company based in Berlin, BE FOR FILMS, a film export company based in Bruxelles and FILM TALENTS, a leading talent agency representing directors and writers in France. Lastly, he is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (IEP de Paris) and holds a Ph. D. in Sociology, he specializes in the study of cultural industries and teaches socio-economics at the universities of Paris 1 (Sorbonne) and Paris 8 (Saint-Denis).
Pascal Luneau
Pascal Luneau is one of the most recognized acting coaches in France (Marion Cotillard…)
« I cannot tell you what we will do together: all depends on the movie, your desires, your wishes! I prefer not to foresee, not to anticipate, not be overly intrusive! I have no precise method : I have to adapt to the artistic project as well as I can, not the opposite! »
Marc Esposito
Le Coeur des Hommes,Writer, Director
Marc founded Studio Magazine the cult and classy film monthly magazine in France which he sold and went on to a very successful writing and directing career.
His trilogy, Le Coeur des homes trilogy was extremely successfull, he shot the last episode in Bali and will share his vision of what matches Indonesia and France.
