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Christina Demetriou, Founder / Oyster Films / Germany: After studying communications and cultural studies in London, Christina began her film career as the festival manager at Coproduction Office in Berlin. She has also worked as a press officer for m-appeal. In 2021, she founded the boutique sales agency Oyster Films, focused on the intersection of cinema and art. The Oyster catalogue includes Miryam Charles’ debut CETTE MAISON, named one of Sight & Sound’s 50 Best Films of 2022, and Ayoung Kim’s XR film DELIVERY DANCER’S SPHERE, which won a Prix Ars Electronica award and was acquired by the TATE Collection. www.oyster-films.info
Ethan Cross, Sales & Acquisitions Executive / Film Seekers / UK: Ethan graduated from Birkbeck, University of London, with an MA in Film and Screen Media with Film Programming and Curation, during which he also interned for a number of sales and distribution companies including Altitude, Alliance Media Partners and Film Seekers. Ethan then joined Film Seekers on a permanent basis as a Sales and Marketing Assistant and over the last 3 years has worked his way up to Sales & Acquisitions Executive, handling sales in several territories, acquisitions strategy and festival campaigns.
Fola Amuludun, Coordinator / WME Independent / UK: Fola Amuludun is based in the London office of WME Independent, a division of William Morris Endeavor that handles domestic and international film packaging, film financing consulting services and sales across multiple platforms. In her current role, Fola has worked with the team on titles including Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, starring Riz Ahmed, Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, John Carney’s Flora and Son, and Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness. Fola started her career in theatre working for Cheek by Jowl, an international touring company. Fola is a graduate from the University of Cambridge where she received a BA Hons in English Literature
Imogen Sutton, International Sales Coordinator / Autlook / Austria: Imogen runs the Festival Department at Autlook, one of the leading sales agents for feature documentaries, hybrids and doc series. As well as managing international premiere strategy, she oversees educational sales and acquisitions. Imogen holds a BA Hons in American Studies (History, Politics & Film), having studied at the University of Leicester and California State University, Long Beach.
Josephine Weyreuther, International Acquisitions & Co-Production / TOBIS Film / Germany: After studying Film and Television Production at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Josephine has worked in the German production landscape for companies such as AMA Film, Schiwago Film, Real Film, Dark Ways, or Turbine Studios Germany. In 2022, she joined the International Acquisitions and Co-Productions department at TOBIS, focusing on acquiring international titles for German-language theatrical distribution and co-production. She is an alumnus of the master class Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris.
Margot Hervée, Head of Sales & Acquisitions / Totem Films / France: Margot Hervée graduated from Sciences Po Bordeaux with a Masters Degree in IP Law and holds an MA in Film Studies from University College London. After working on the successful launch of the SVOD platform Tënk, she joined arthouse streamer MUBI where she grew to lead licensing operations for premiums/exclusives. In 2023, she joined Totem Films as Head of Sales and Acquisitions where she acquires feature-length films and oversees sales globally. [email protected] / https://www.totem-films.com/
Natalia Dąbrowska, Festivals | Sales LATAM & Baltics / New Europe Film Sales / Poland: In 2018 Natalia joined New Europe Film Sales, a boutique sales company based in Warsaw, where she manages festival strategies. She’s worked on films like Lamb, Corpus Christi, and recently Julie Keeps Quiet and Frewaka. In addition to her festival role, Natalia oversees sales in Latin America and the Baltic countries. She holds a BA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warsaw and has completed the EAVE Puentes workshop.
Sofia Kurdoglu, Sales Executive / Intramovies / Italy: Sofia Kurdoglu started her career in the Film Industry at Fandango Sales, one of the most important independent producers in Italy, after graduating from the LUISS Business School Film Production Programme. She spent two years in Rome as a Festival and Sales Coordinator before making the jump to the big Studio Business, moving to London and working with ITV Global Distribution (now ITV Global Partnerships) as a Contract Coordinator for Italy and Iberia, which lead to a promotion as Sales Executive for the CEE region. But missing the hussel and bussel of the indie sector, she moved back to Italy in late 2023 to start working with Intramovies, one of the oldest and most established sales agency in Italy. Now she is the sales executive for English and Spanish speaking territories, as well as CEE.
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Abdi Ali, Acquisitions and Development, Bankside Film, UK: Graduate from Regents University London - Film Screen. Abdi started his film career as a Sales Team Assistant at Mister Smith Entertainment, Film and Literary Assistant at Michelle Kass Associates and Development Team Assistant at Wildgaze Films. Throughout his career Abdi had a long and a keen interest in the acquisitions and development side of the film industry and joined Bankside Films as Acquisitions and Development assistant in the summer of 2020. [email protected] | www.bankside-films.com
Fanny Gavelle, Sales Manager / The Festival Agency / France: Fanny Gavelle joined TFA in January 2020. She’s become Sales Manager and Business Development Coordinator. Within the company, she handles new acquisition of films and develops their international festival strategy. She is the point person for European, North American, African, and Asian festivals and she also has a focus on genre films internationally. She also coordinates activities for one-off unique projects undertaken by the company. [email protected] | https://www.thefestivalagency.com/
Marcin Łuczaj, Head of Acquisitions / New Europe Film Sales / Poland: Marcin Łuczaj – grew up in the countryside in the Eastern Poland, graduate of film studies at University of Lodz and cultural studies at University of Warsaw. He works in New Europe Film Sales dealing with acquiring new projects and coordinating their development, financing and co-production overseeing such projects like LAMB, MEDUSA DELUXE, CORPUS CHRISTI, GODLAND or THE DISCIPLE. Selected as one of the Future Leaders 2021 by Screen International. He has been cooperating with many co-production markets for years, working as a selectionner and consultant for Cinemart at Rotterdam Film Festival, Torino Film Lab Script Lab or When East Meets West. He is an expert of the Hubert Bals Fund and teaches co-production and sales at workshops such as TorinoFilmLab, EAVE and MIDPOINT. From 2020 to 2022, he was a creative consultant for Anton.Corp in London, where he was responsible for European co-production and their financing. He’s been involved with a number of projects whether as financing consultant or executive producer bringing collaborators and financiers to projects. [email protected] | https://neweuropefilmsales.com/
Martina Moudrá, Producer / Sales Manager Freelance: Martina Moudrá is producer, sales manager and public_local relations manager with main focus on film sales. For ten years she worked as Associate Producer to Director and Producer Jan Sverak who runs his own company Biograf Jan Sverak. Martina was in charge of every development and release of the company - feature films, experimental short films, live broadcast or theatre show dealing mainly with financing, completing, distribution, public_local relations and sales. She collaborated with technological film distribution start-up Artinii and was a film grant’s consultant to various producers too. [email protected]
Minh Nguyen, Acquisitions Executive / SquareOne Entertainment / Germany: Minh was born and raised in Hanau and started his career as Production Intern at Neuesuper. He discovered Sales & Distribution through internships and part-time work at K5 International, Plaion Pictures, Film Constellation, and Maxdome. After graduation, he worked in Sales at eOneGermany, Rocket Science, and The Playmaker before joining SquareOne as Acquisitions Executive in 2019. He is an alumnus of Atelier Ludwigs-Paris and CICAE Art Cinema. [email protected]
Stephan Henz, DCM Film Distribution (Acquistions) & Arthouse Kinos (Head of Programming) / Switzerland: I started my career in the film industry with an internship at the ZFF which developed into a five-year engagement. With DCM, I had the chance to get to know the distribution part of the film industry. Two years ago, DCM decided to invest in the cinema chain "Arthouse Kinos" which presented me with the exciting chance to become the head of programming for the five cinemas while continuing to work for DCM in acquisitions.
Vito Marchiano, Sales Manager / Rushlake Media / Germany: Rushlake Media creates, develops and scales streaming brands worldwide. Based on the own proprietary streaming technology, as well as on third-party platforms we address the content needs of specific target groups or niche audiences more efficiently and enable rapid deployment and profitable monetization. [email protected] | www.rushlake-media.com
Yi Hu, GFM Film Sales / Sales Manager: Yi was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. She previously worked for Wes Anderson’s stop motion film ISLE OF DOGS, where she also contributed in making origami in the art department. Before joining the GFM team she studied MA Filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London. Yi currently works as Sales Manager at GFM Animation and GFM Film Sales in London.
