Bruno Chatelin

Bruno Chatelin started his professional career in the biggest international advertising agencies such as Publicis, DMM Masius and JWT, where he cooperated with e.g. Unilever, Mars Foods and Mastercard. In 1985 he went into film distribution on behalf of Sony, which he left after ten years, so as to create a fusion of 20th Century Fox with UGC in France. After the fusion, he quickly situated the company on the second place on the market, by releasing over 200 titles. In 1995 he was proclaimed, by the Film Français, one of the leading figures in the branch.

Bruno Chatelin is the creator of the FilmFestivals.com website which is a regular partner of the festivals in Cannes, Locarno, Toronto and Venice, and he also a supporter almost 4000 other film events in the whole world. He also established the Major Buzz Factory consulting company specializing in internet marketing for the film and music branches, and Emotion Film Factory devoted to film production. Apart from that, Bruno Chatelin is a juror at multiple festivals in the whole world, and an expert at countless branch conferences. He is also a board member of the European Film Academy.

Angela Bosch

Presently she is a producer for Cinètica Produccions (After the Mist). Angela Bosch worked on the international sales departments of the two most relevant Spanish production companies of the 90’s, at Lolafilms and Sogepaq International. Also she leaded the contents direction of Cosmopolitan TV in Madrid. She became Director of Catalan Films & TV, a public international platform for the promotion, distribution and coproduction of all Audiovisual in Cataluña, from 2003 to 2011. She collaborates yearly with the Official School of Ciemna of Catalunya and Bande à Part (a private school of cinema in Barcelona) and advises on international distribution and coproduction for independent producers as a free lance. She is member of the committee organization team of Film Forum Zadar, Albacete International Film Festival in Spain and Festival del Cinema Spagnolo di Roma.

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Joanna Kos-Krauze

Joanna Kos-Krauze was born in 1972. She is a screenwriter and director as well as the President of the Union of Polish Filmmakers and was the president of the Writers Section of the Artistic Council for Feature-Length Debuts in the Andrzej Munk Film Studio, a member of the Artistic Council of the Film Festival in Gdynia as well as an expert at the Polish Film Institute. She lectures at Collegium Civitas and Has co-directed films such as the award-winning Saviour Square (2006), Papusza (2012), and Ptaki śpiewają w Kigali (The Birds Sing in Kigali) (2013).

Laurence Boyce

Laurence Boyce is a film journalist and film programmer. He is the Baltic Correspondent for “Cineuropa“ and is regular contributor to “Screen International“, “Little White Lies“, “Moviescope“, “The Baltic Times“, “Eesti Ekspress“ and many others. He is also the Head of Programme at the “Sleepwalkers” Short and Student Film Festival in Tallinn as well as being an advisor for Leeds International Film Festival's 'Short Film City' which is an Academy Award qualifying festival. He is a member of FIPRESCI, the London Critics Circle and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). He currently spends his time divided between Estonia and the UK.

Tomasz Wasilewski

Scriptwriter and director, born in 1980 in Torun. He gratuated from The National Film School in Lodz. He worked as assistant director at different theaters plays and films and cooperated with the international co-productions (Antichrist by Lars von Trier and The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man by Per Fly). His full-length feature debut In a Bedroom had world premiere in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2012, and is one of the most often presented Polish films at the international film festivals. His second feature film Floating Skyscrapers had it’s world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City 2013 and won the East of the West competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2013 as well Audience Award at International Competition New Horizons in Wrocław, Poland.