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Jacobine van der Vloed
DIRECTOR & HEAD OF STUDIES
Jacobine van der Vloed is the Director & Head of Studies at Amsterdam-based ACE Producers, taking on the role in January 2017.
Before that she worked for over ten years for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (CineMart & Hubert Bals Fund), as well as in many other capacities within the industry. In the four years before joining ACE Producers she co-founded the Art:Film initiative, worked as a teacher at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, was a talent agent for directors and screenwriters at Henneman Agency, and consulted for several markets and festivals. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Cultural History from the University of Utrecht in 2002.
Al Williams
SPECIALS MANAGER
Al worked at ACE Producers between 2013 and 2015 before going on to Rome where she coordinated a section of the first MIA Co-production Market. After working as a translator of scripts from French, Italian and Spanish to English, she returned to ACE as Producers Liaison and Head of Communications. She became ACE’s Specials Manager in 2020. A graduate of the University of York, Al did a Masters in Arts Management in Venice.
Maegene Fabias
EVENTS & SPRINGBOARD MANAGER
Maegene has worked as a coordinator for several international film festivals such as IFFR (CineMart), NFF (Holland Film Meeting), and Cinekid. Prior to starting at ACE Producers, she worked as a talent agent at Henneman Agency and The Birds Management, as well as a match-maker for several film festivals. She studied International Marketing & Management in Rotterdam.
MIA 2017 – CO-PRODUCTION MARKET & PITCHING FORUM
ACE Producers partner, the MIA Co-production Market & Pitching Forum 2017 takes place in Rome from October 19 to 23, 2017.
MIA is widely recognised as an effective market platform where the international industry finds real opportunities for partnering and financing projects in development.
The MIA Co-production Market & Pitching Forum 2017 consists of:
1) Dedicated Pitching sessions designed to find the right financial partners through co-production deals or presale agreements.
2) Pre-scheduled meetings with industry professionals set for the Co-Production Market participants, according to interest and upon request.
The projects for each specific session are chosen by selected Key Industry Professionals with the goal to find the next big content in Cinema, Drama Series and Doc&Factual. The Key Industry Members entitled to define the selection will be announced by July for each of the three segments. Projects’ selection is announced by September 2017.
During MIA, the selected projects are presented by their Producers to an audience of potential financial partners, including broadcasters, producers, distributors, private and public funds, in the specific Pitching sessions and one-to-one pre-scheduled meetings with industry professionals, according to each section’s specific needs and format.
MIA CINEMA : Devoted to about 15 international long feature film (fiction or documentary) co-production projects in development stage. Eligible projects will be competing for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award of 20.000 euros.
You can download the rules and regulations here.
For further information you can contact coproduction@miamarket.it or visit the website www.miamarket.it
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
ACE PRODUCERS’ FILMS AWARDED AT TRIBECA
Best International Narrative
“Son of Sofia” by Elina Psykou
Produced by Giorgos Karnavas (ACE GR) and co-produced by Borislav Chouchkov (ACE BU)
Best International Screenplay
“Ice Mother” by Bohdan Sláma
Produced by Pavel Strnad (ACE CZ)
CROSSROADS – CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Crossroads Co-production Forum (November 7–11) of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival is announcing its Call for Entries.
Registration deadline is July 31st 2017.
Crossroads specialises in discovering emerging talents from the Balkan and Mediterranean regions as well as the Visegrad countries. The application is open to experienced producers and directors as well as first timers.
For more information click here