Agora Market Manual 2010

51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualCrossroads JuryCLAIRE LAUNAYAfter more than three years as the assistant to ARTE France’s Head of Projects, Claire Launay, joined in 2002 the ARTE subsidiary forCinema co-production. Trained at the Conservatoire d’Ecriture Audiovisuelle, she now coordinates for ARTE France Cinéma and ARTECofinova the group of readers and the process of pre-selection of projects with Michel Reilhac and Rémi Burah. Since 2009, she alsoparticipated for ARTE in several co-production forums in European Film Festivals.GABOR GREINERAfter his studies of Cultural Management in Vienna, Birmingham and Chicago, Gabor worked as a journalist and film critic at Austria’slargest web-based cultural magazine, cycamp. In 2003, he moved to Brussels to take charge of the distribution support departmentof the MEDIA program at the European Commission’s Film Fund, which was created to support the European audiovisual sector. In2009, Gabor became acquisitions executive at the international sales agent, The Match Factory, specializing in edgy art house filmsfrom all over the world. The Match Factory has won several prestigious prizes for its small, hand-picked catalogue: the Golden Palmin Cannes in 2010, the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2009 and 2010 and four Academy Award nominations in the Best Foreign Languagecategory. In August 2010, Gabor moved to Berlin to take over acquisitions of the French-German sales company, Films Boutique.DIONYSSIS SAMIOTISDionyssis graduated from Law School in Athens and took his Master’s in Commercial & Corporate Law from the University of London,focusing on intellectual property rights. His filmography as a producer includes over 25 feature films, most of them on the top 10 inthe Greek box office and some of which were awarded in various film festivals such as Dangerous Cooking 2010, A Touch of Spice 2003,Beware of Greeks a Greek-Australian co-production 2000, From The Edge Of The City 1998 and more. He has also been associateproducer in Costa Gavras’ film Eden Is West and co-producer/production coordinator in a number of international co-productions suchas O Jerusalem by Ellie Chouraqui, Fugitive Pieces by Jeremy Podeswa, and producer of several feature documentaries. Other activitiesinclude his selection as Producer on the Move in Cannes 2005 and his participation in European Films Crossing Borders in Berlin 2005.He is Secretary General of the Association of Greek Independent Producers and member of both European and Greek Film Academy.Since January 2007, he has an exclusive output deal with ODEON s.a, one of the biggest distributors in Greece.Works in Progress JuryJULIETTE SCHRAMECKAfter a Master’s degree in Law and studiesat the Paris Institute of Political Science, Juliettestarted a course in La Fémis, a Frenchfilm school. She joined in 2005 the Frenchproduction and distribution company LesFilms du Losange. Since 2007, she is part ofMK2’s international department where sheis now Head of International Sales & Acquisitions.KONSTANTINA STAVRIANOUShe was born in Athens. Before studyingComputer Graphics Animation, she tookcourses of Business Administration. In 1999co-founded Graal.S.A. She works in Post Productionsince 2003.KAREL OCHBorn in 1974 in Czech Republic, Karel Och studiedlaw and graduated in film theory and historyat Prague's Charles Univesity. Since 2001, hehas worked for the Karlovy Vary InternationalFilm Festival as a member of the selection committee.He is a member of FIPRESCI and haspublished in various dailies and magazines suchas Lidove noviny, Cinepur, Cinema and Iluminace.He curated tributes and retrospectives toSam Peckinpah, John Huston and Michael Powell& Emeric Pressburger, among others. In 2009he was appointed senior programmer and in2010 program director of the Karlovy Vary IFF.11