Month: May 2017

Cinekid Junior Co-Production Market Open for Submissions

The Junior Co-production Market is a single, integrated co-production market during the Cinekid festival that enables financiers, broadcasters and professionals to assess new and innovative children’s film and television projects.

The Call for Entry for this year’s Junior Co-production Market is now open. To find out more please click here to go the to their website.

The submission deadline is 15 June 2017.

Every year over 200 industry professionals visit the Junior Co-production Market. 50% of the professionals in attendance are producers, the other 50% are financiers looking to find new productions they’re keen to participate in. Aside from the one-to-one meetings there are many industry drinks, lunch and dinner opportunities to network and meet the financiers that you are looking for. The market is part of Cinekid for Professionals, a four day industry event for children’s media professionals and a partner of ACE Producers.

The Junior Co-production Market will take place on 26 & 27 October 2017.

THE SQUARE WINS PALME D’OR

Produced by Swedish ACE producer Erik Hemmendorff and co-produced by Danish ACE producer Katja Adomeit, “The Square” took the top prize at the closing ceremony of the 70th Cannes Film Festival. The jury, headed by this year’s president Pedro Almodóvar, awarded director Ruben Östlund the Palme d’Or for his art-world satire, which the jury commended for its blackly comedic take on political correctness.

Producer Erik Hemmendorff came through the ACE 21 workshops with Östlund’s last film “Force Majeure” which won the Jury Prize at Un Certain Regard in Cannes in 2014. Katja Adomeit, who co-produced “Force Majeure” as well as the “The Square”, attended the ACE 24 workshops in 2014.

ACE Films in Cannes 2017

Official Selection – In Competition

“Jupiter’s Moon” by Kornél Mundruczó
produced by Viktória Petrányi (ACE HU)

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer” by Yorgos Lanthimos
produced by Ed Guiney (ACE IE)

“The Square” by Ruben Östlund
produced by Erik Hemmendorff (ACE SE)
co-produced by Katja Adomeit (ACE DK)

Official Selection – Special Screenings

“Carré 35” by Eric Caravaca
co-produced by Nicole Gerhards (ACE DE)

“Demons in Paradise” by Jude Ratnam
produced by Julie Paratian (ACE FR)

Un Certain Regard

“After the War” by Annarita Zambrano
produced by Tom Dercourt (ACE FR), Emanuele Nespeca (ACE IT) & Mario Mazzarotto (ACE IT)
executive producer Simone Bachini (ACE IT)

“Out” by Gyorgy Kristof
produced by Ferenc Pusztai (ACE HU)

“The Nature of Time” by Karim Moussaoui
produced by David Thion (ACE FR)
co-produced by Nicole Gerhards (ACE DE)

“Western” by Valeska Grisebach,
produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE DE) & Janine Jackowski (ACE DE)
co-produced by Borislav Chouchkov (ACE BU)

La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

“I Am Not A Witch” by Rungano Nyoni
produced by Juliette Grandmont (ACE FR)
co-produced by Titus Kreyenberg (ACE DE)

“Nothingwood” by Sonia Kronlund
produced by Laurent Lavolé (ACE FR)

“Ôtez-moi d’un doute” by Carine Tardieu
produced by Antoine Rein (ACE FR)

La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – Shorts

“Copa-Loca” by Christos Massalas
co-produced by Giorgos Karnavas (ACE GR)

La Semaine de la Critique

“Los Perros” by Marcela Said
produced by Tom Dercourt (ACE FR)

ACID

“Avant La Fin De L’été” by Mayam Goormaghtigh
produced by Mani Mortazavi (ACE FR)

“Belinda” by Marie Dumora
produced by Laurent Lavolé (ACE FR)

“Sans Adieu” by Christophe Agou
produced by Aurélie Bordier (ACE FR)

ACE PRODUCERS CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

ACE Producers is now accepting applications for the ACE 27 session.

Every year ACE selects between 16 and 20 experienced film producers, each with a project in development that is suitable for co-production and aimed at the international market, to take part in ACE’s annual programme of advanced training and then join the ACE Network.

The deadline is the 12th of June.

To discuss your application please contact Al Williams at alwilliams@ace-producers.com

For all information on the upcoming programme and details on how to apply please go to our workshops page

Thijs van der Laak

EVENTS PRODUCER, COMMUNICATIONS & PRODUCERS LIAISON

Thijs joined ACE Producers in March 2023 as Events Producer. Before that, he was the coordinator of Cinekid for Professionals at Cinekid Festival for more than 6 years, where he managed their talent development programmes for writers and directors, amongst other things. In various freelance roles, he also worked for International Film Festival Rotterdam & CineMart, Netherlands Film Festival and Go Short.