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Selected Films (all documentaries)<br />

New Hands 2014/15 (in production),<br />

by Örn Marinó Arnarsson, Thorkell Hardarson<br />

Trend Beacons 2014 (in production),<br />

by Örn Marinó Arnarsson, Thorkell Hardarson<br />

<strong>The</strong> North Atlantic Miracle 2011,<br />

by Örn Marinó Arnarsson, Thorkell Hardarson,<br />

Arnar Thorisson<br />

Feathered Cocaine 2010,<br />

by Thorkell Hardarson, Örn Marinó Arnarsson<br />

Selected Films<br />

Zurich<br />

by Sacha Polak (in financing)<br />

Leones 2012,<br />

by Jasmin Lopez<br />

Taking Chances 2011,<br />

by Nicole van Kilsdonk<br />

(through Lemming Film)<br />

My Joy 2010,<br />

by Sergei Loznitsa<br />

(through Lemming Film)<br />

Selected Films<br />

Red Spider 2014,<br />

by Marcin Koszałka (in production)<br />

Kebab & Horoscope 2014,<br />

by Grzegorz Jaroszuk (in production)<br />

In <strong>The</strong> Name Of 2013,<br />

by Małgośka Szumowska<br />

Baby Blues 2012,<br />

by Kasia Rosłaniec<br />

Selected Films<br />

as writer/director/producer<br />

(in development)<br />

Bernarda – Frogs With No Tongues<br />

Dad‘s Record<br />

as director / co-producer<br />

My Dog Killer (Môj pes Killer) 2013<br />

as director<br />

Foxes (Líštičky) 2009<br />

Selected Films<br />

For This Is My Body<br />

by Paule Muret (in development)<br />

Body<br />

by Halima Ouardiri (in development)<br />

In Art We Trust<br />

by Benoît Rossel (documentary, shooting<br />

starts in July 2013)<br />

Aisheen, Still Alive In Gaza 2010,<br />

by Nicolas Wadimoff<br />

(documentary, through Akka Films)<br />

Thorkell Hardarson is one half of<br />

the Markell Brothers with director Örn<br />

Marinó Arnarson. <strong>The</strong>y started out with<br />

rockumentaries such as Punk In Iceland<br />

and then turned to the issues of geopolitics<br />

and terrorism for Feathered Cocaine about<br />

the true location of Osama bin Laden. Since<br />

then, they made <strong>The</strong> North Atlantic Miracle<br />

about the lifespan of the Atlantic Salmon and<br />

are now working on two new projects Trend<br />

Beacons and New Hands.<br />

Marleen Slot founded Viking Film in 2011,<br />

having already completed the co-production<br />

Leones and preparing several other films<br />

like Zurich from director Sacha Polak and<br />

Gabriel Mascaro‘s Bull Down!. She worked<br />

as a producer at Lemming Film for many<br />

years with such productions as Mischa<br />

Kamp‘s Tony 10, Nicole van Kilsdonk‘s Taking<br />

Chances, Meral Uslu‘s Snackbar and Hans<br />

van Nuffelen‘s Oxygen, which won the<br />

European Film Academy Discovery Award.<br />

Agnieszka Kurzydło has been working in<br />

the film industry since 1992 and managed<br />

Zentropa International Poland which<br />

was launched in 2008 and co-produced<br />

Antichrist and Elles, among others. In 2011,<br />

she established her own company Mental<br />

Disorder 4 and has produced such films as<br />

Kasia Rosłaniec‘s Baby Blues and Małgośka<br />

Szumowska‘s In <strong>The</strong> Name Of. She is now<br />

preparing films by Marcin Koszałka and<br />

Grzegorz Jaroszuk.<br />

A graduate from Prague‘s FAMU and the UK‘s<br />

NFTS, Mira Fornay‘s debut feature Foxes<br />

premiered in the International Film Critics‘<br />

Week Venice IFF 2009. She not only wrote and<br />

directed, but also co-produced her second<br />

feature My Dog Killer which won the Hivos<br />

Tiger Award at the 2013 Rotterdam International<br />

Film Festival. Mira‘s company Mirafox is currently<br />

developing three new projects for her, including<br />

the drama Bernarda – Frogs With No Tongues<br />

and the absurd drama Cook, F**k, Kill.<br />

A graduate from the film school INSAS in<br />

Brussels in 1999, Joëlle Bertossa worked on<br />

several films as a first director‘s assistant before<br />

being hired by Nicolas Wadimoff at Akka Films<br />

in 2003 where she produced such films as<br />

his Aisheen, Still Alive In Gaza. Last year,<br />

Joëlle founded Geneva-based Close Up Films,<br />

completed Michele Pennetta‘s documentary<br />

Mal Della Luna and is currently developing<br />

international co-productions with France,<br />

Germany and Canada.<br />

Thorkell Hardarson<br />

Iceland<br />

Markell Productions<br />

Langholtsvegur 171<br />

IS – 104 Reykjavik<br />

phone +354 777 0842 / +354 777 8340<br />

cell +49 176 7546 2751<br />

email falkasaga@gmail.com<br />

http://digitusdei.info<br />

Marleen Slot<br />

<strong>The</strong> Netherlands<br />

Viking Film<br />

Lindengracht 17<br />

NL – 1015 KB Amsterdam<br />

phone +31 20 625 4788<br />

email marleen@vikingfilm.nl<br />

www.vikingfilm.nl<br />

Agnieszka Kurzydło<br />

Poland<br />

MD4 Sp. z o.o.<br />

ul. Narbutta 25 A<br />

PL – 02-536 Warsaw<br />

phone +48 22 646 55 93<br />

fax +48 22 646 34 80<br />

email agnieszka@md4.eu<br />

www.md4.eu<br />

Mira Fornay<br />

Slovak Republic<br />

Mirafox<br />

Majakovskeho 19<br />

SK – 902 01 Pezinok<br />

cell SK +421 910 176 857<br />

cell CZ +420 603 745 519<br />

email mira.fornay@mirafox.sk<br />

www.mirafox.sk<br />

Joëlle Bertossa<br />

Switzerland<br />

Close Up Films<br />

20 rue du Clos<br />

CH – 1207 Geneva<br />

cell +41 78 665 0512<br />

email joelle@closeupfilms.ch<br />

www.closeupfilms.ch<br />

* part two on May 19<br />

*part three on May 20<br />

Estonia, Kiur Aarma<br />

Hungary, Andrea Taschler<br />

Ireland, Conor Barry<br />

Republic of Kosovo**, Valon Jakupaj<br />

Luxembourg, Gilles Chanial<br />

EFP contact in Cannes +49 160 440 9595<br />

Montenegro, Sehad Čekić<br />

Norway, Hans-Jørgen Osnes<br />

Romania, Anca Puiu<br />

Spain, Maria Zamora<br />

United Kingdom, Andrea Cornwell<br />

**This designation is without prejudice to position on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.<br />

Belgium, Anton Iffland Stettner<br />

Bulgaria, Konstantin Bojanov<br />

Croatia, Zdenka Gold<br />

Denmark, Mikael Chr. Rieks<br />

France, Mathieu Robinet<br />

Italy, Viola Prestieri<br />

FYR of Macedonia, Labina Mitevska<br />

Portugal, João Matos<br />

Sweden, Erika Wasserman<br />

www.efp-online.com<br />

Associated EFP members: Baltic Films, British Council, Bulgarian National Film Centre, Croation Audiovisual Centre, Czech Film Center, Danish Film Institute, EYE International /<br />

Netherlands, Film Fund Luxembourg, Finnish Film Foundation, Georgian National Film Center, German Films, Greek Film Centre, ICA I.P. / Portugal, ICAA / Spain, Icelandic Fim Centre, Irish<br />

Film Board, Istituto Luce Cinecittà / Italy, Kosova Cinematography Center, Macedonian Film Fund, Magyar Filmunió / Hungarian National Film Fund, Ministry of Culture of Montenegro,<br />

Norwegian Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, Romanian Film Promotion, Slovak Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Swiss Films, Unifrance films, Wallonie Bruxelles Images

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