MAGAZINE - Berlinale Talent Campus - Top-IX

INDEX OF EXPERTSPHOBA, MONIQUE (p.51) Congolese director, she made TWO LITTLETRICKS AND THEN THEY WERE GONE about the 1996 presidentialcampaign in Benin. Her filmography includes the video ANNA FROMBENIN and a documentary UN RÊVE D’INDEPÉNDENCE.POLLEY, SARAH (p.51) Canadian actress, singer and film director, she hasstarred in such films as THE SWEET HEREAFTER, GUINEVERE and THEADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. AWAY FROM HER, her featurefilm debut is in the 2007 Berlinale Panorama.PREKOP, GABY (p.16) Long-time script-editor for legendary Hungariandirector István Szabó, associate producer of SUNSHINE and MEET-ING VENUS, she is currently script advisor and board member ofSOURCES 2.QUINN, EILEEN (p.46) Head of drama, IWC Media Ltd, she is a partner atThe Script Factory where she also functions as a trainer for pitch workshops.She has co-authored the book “The Pitch“, a guide to pitchingstories within the film and TV industry in Britain and beyond.RABARTS, MARTEN (p.16) Artistic director, Binger Filmlab, he entered thefilm industry as an assistant editor on the Oscar winning short MOL-LY‘S PILGRIM. He is a producer, screenwriter, script editor, and wasresponsible for the Binger Partnership in the production/trainingincentive “Project 10 – real stories from a free South Africa“.RAHEB, ELIANE (p.45) Director and scriptwriter of the two short filmsTHE LAST SCREENING and MEETING, she has been organising theFilm Festival for Beirut DC since 1999. She has also directed two documentaries:SUICIDE and SO NEAR YET SO FAR.RODENKIRCHEN, FRANZ (p.16) Head of the dramaturgy department of theBerlin-based Script House, script editor, tutor and writer; he is oneof three script editors of the CineLink co-production market at theSarajevo Film Festival, he has worked as a script consultant on thefilms SUZHOU RIVER, HOTEL and GRBAVICA.ROOS, FRED (p.55) Co-producer of APOCALYPSE NOW and THE GOD-FATHER parts II and III, he was the executive producer of LOST INTRANSLATION and is currently working on STREET OF DREAMS andYOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH.ROSENTHAL, LIZ (p.32, 49, 54, 58) Programme director of Global DigitalDistribution Summit, she is the founder of “Earthly Delights Films”.She set up and ran the UK office of “Next Wave Films” and has lecturedat EAVE and BAFTA, amongst others.ROY, RAJENDRA (p.55) Director of programming at the HamptonsInternational Film Festival, he is also the Film and Media Arts ProgramManager at the Guggenheim where he has organised seasonal filmexhibitions and programmes in New York as well as at the museum‘sother facilities overseas.SALLES, WALTER (p.28, 41) Brazilian director of the famed CENTRAL STA-TION and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, he co-produced CITY OF GOD.His first Hollywood venture is the thriller DARK WATERS. His latestfilm ON THE ROAD is currently in production.SALMAN, EYAS (p.51) Co-director and editor of the documentary THEEDGE OF HOPE, for which he received the Katrin Cartlidge Foundationaward, his other films include BED AND BREAKFAST and DIS-PLACED.SCHIPPER, SEBASTIAN (p.47) German actor and director, he made twoshort films before his feature directorial debut GIGANTIC and mostrecently EIN FREUND VON MIR. His acting credits include MAJA, WIN-TERSLEEPERS and RUN LOLA RUN.SCHULZE, MATTHIAS (p.41) Running his own business as camera/steadicamoperator/2nd unit DoP, he has worked for tv productions, advertisingcompanies and motion pictures.SHARMA, RAKESH (p.51) Director of the hard-hitting documentary FI-NAL SOLUTION (2003), he won the Wolfgang Staudte & Special JuryAward (Netpac) at the Berlinale 2004. AFTERSHOCKS: THE ROUGHGUIDE TO DEMOCRACY (2002), his previous film, won 10 internationalawards. Sharma uses novel campaigns like “Pirate and Circulate”to distribute his films.SHIRI, KEITH (p.32) Director, “Africa at the Pictures”, an organisationthat exists to enhance the exhibition and distribution of African filmin the UK and Europe, Shiri has made an outstanding contribution tothe promotion and understanding of African cinema. He is a memberof the jury for the Berlinale World Cinema Fund.SIEGEL, MARC (p.45) Film scholar, artist and activist, he is a part-timelecturer at the Seminar for Film Studies, Freie Universität Berlin andalso runs a performance co-op in Berlin called “Cheap Klub”.SILDOS, RIINA (p.50) Co-founder of the Tallinn International Film Festival– the Black Nights Film Festival, her film, MAT THE CAT, was a localbox-office success and LOTTE FROM GADGETVILLE premieres at theGeneration section of the 2007 Berlinale. She is one of the foundersand organisers of BALTIC EVENT Co-production Market.SMITH, IAIN (p.42) Producer of more than a dozen feature films, includingSEVEN YEARS IN TIBET and ALEXANDER, his latest productionCHILDREN OF MEN was released in 2006.SOBELMAN, PATRICK (p.45) French producer of Agat Films, he producedTHE LATEST MITTERAND, which ran in the Berlinale Competition in2005. His most recent films, both produced in 2006, are THE PREMO-NITION and The RIGHT OF THE WEAKEST.SPECK, WIELAND (p.50) Former actor, director, professor of film studiesand art-house cinema manager, he has been the head of the Berlinale’sPanorama section since 1992.66BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS #5