Category: ACE Team
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.
Nathalie Scholten
FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Nathalie Scholten is the Finance and Development Director at ACE Producers, taking on the role in January 2023.
Nathalie has worked for several international film festivals such as IDFA and Cinekid and as a project manager at the Netherlands Film Fund. Recently she worked as a finance director for art festivals. She studied Audio Visual media at the HKU and Work- and Organizational Psychology at the VU in Amsterdam.
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.
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.
Isabel Allen
OFFICE MANAGER & TEAM ASSISTANT
After having worked as the Office Manager in a Dutch production company, Isabel joined ACE Producers in June 2024. She has a bachelor’s in Ancient History with Film Studies from the University of Liverpool and a master’s in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam.