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Probst, the president and founder of Berlin’s Efm, received the Women’s International Film & Television Showcase’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Hayek the Animation Award 2015 for producing The Prophet.

Other honourees announced earlier this month in the 2015 Wifts included:

Romola Garai for the Barbara Tipple Best Actress Award;

White God’s Hungarian producers Viktoria Petrányi and Eszter Gyárfás for The Otilia Animal Advocacy Award;

Maggie Rodford, UK, for The Music Award; and

Mai Masri, Palestine, for The Jury Award in recognition of 3000 Nights.

For the full list of winners click here.

Some 24 film producers from across Europe took part in Efp’s networking platform Producers on the Move.

Carefully selected by the European Film Promotion’s member organisations, 24 film producers took part in this year’s Producers on the Move at Cannes (May 17-19).

Now in its 15th year, Efp’s networking platform spotlights emerging European producers and includes working sessions and various opportunities for discussions on future projects.

The 24 producers of this year’s platform, seen in the photo above, are:

from left: Mathias Rubin, Récifilms (France), Teréz Hollo-Klausen, Anna Kron Film (Norway), Olivia Musini, Cinemaundici (Italy), Henning Kamm, Detailfilm (Germany), Marta Velasco, Áralan Films (Spain), Árni Filippusson, Mystery (Iceland), Eva Jakobsen, Nimbus Film (Denmark), John Keville, Sp Films (Ireland), Eszter Gyárfás, Proton Cinema (Hungary), Tristan Goligher, The Bureau Film Company (United Kingdom), Maya Vitkova, Viktoria Films (Bulgaria), Mark Lwoff, Bufo (Finland), Petter Lindblad, Snowcloud Films (Sweden), Tomáš Hrubỳ, Nutprodukce (Czech Republic), Konstantin Kontovrakis, Heretic (Greece...

Exclusive: Leading art house sales outfit The Match Factory has revealed details of its packed Cannes slate.

Among the titles the Cologne-based company is presenting on the Croisette are three films in Official Selection.

Alice Rohrwacher ́s second feature, Le Meraviglie is screening in Competition.The film’s cast includes Monica Bellucci.

Rohrwacher, whose Corpo Celeste screened in the Directors’ Fortnight in 2011, worked on the new feature with her regular producer, Carlo Cresto-Dina (Tempesta) in co-production with Switzerland (Amka Films Productions) and Germany (Pola Pandora).

The Match Factory is also handling Snow in Paradise, the first feature film by renowned UK editor, Andrew Hulme. The film is screening in Un Certain Regard.

The film is based on the true story of Martin Askew who grew up in a crime-riddled east end of London in a culture of violence.

The sales outfit is also representing Cannes regular Kornél Mundruczó’s White God, which will play...

Based on their outstanding careers forged on international co-productions, 24 up-and-coming players in the European film industry have been selected to take part in European Film Promotion's (Efp) networking platform Producers on the Move. Now in its 15th year, Efp spotlights emerging European producers at the Cannes Film Festival from May 17-19 and helps them embark on successful cooperation with their similarly ambitious Producers on the Move colleagues from all over Europe.

The programas been financially supported by the Media Program (2007-2013) of the European Union and the participating Efp member organizations who each made a careful selection of their national participants according to specific criteria.

The schedule of Producers on the Move includes working sessions, one-to-one speed-dating meetings and various opportunities to exchange knowledge and follow up discussions on future projects. In addition, Efp will be teaming up with the European cultural channel Arte and the pan-European co-production fund Eurimages for Producers on the Move. For the first time, Eurimages has prepared a case study exclusively for Efp's program to be discussed under the direction of Eurimages Executive Director Roberto Olla.

He points out the importance of programs such as Producers on the Move:

“This is the 4th consecutive year that Eurimages is involved with this initiative which perfectly marries our objectives of encouraging co-operation between producers so as to stimulate cinematographic co-productions and of promoting their international distribution. Further to the success of the collaboration at the Cannes Festival, the Eurimages Fund has strengthened its partnership with European Film Promotion through other initiatives which also seek to unite professionals from the European film industry in order to participate in its development on an international level.”

Looking back at previous editions, Efp's programme results each year in several new trans-national co-productions and gives the producers a higher profile in Cannes. For 2013, almost all of the participants are still in contact with one another and 17 co-productions are in development.

One recent success story is the coming-of-age feature The Word, directed by Anna Kazejak and co-produced by two Producers on the Move from 2011, Lukasz Dzieciol(Opus Film, Poland) and Jesper Morthorst (Sf Film Production, Denmark). The film was released in Poland in March after its premiere at the Berlinale in the Generation sidebar.

Currently in post is Dirk Ohm - The Illusionist That Disappeared, directed by Bobbie Peers. The producer Maria Ekerhovd (Mer Film As, Norway), joined forces for this film with her Producers on the Move colleague from 2011, Gian-Piero Ringel (Neue Road Movies, Germany) and the 2010 Producers on the Move, Lizette Jonjic (Migma Film, Sweden). Norway has scheduled the release for September 2014. Ekerhovd and Ringel also worked together for two further projects: Every Thing Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders and the six episodes for Cathedrals of Culture which have been presented at this year’s Berlinale.

The following producers were selected by the Efp member organizations:

Viktoria

Director: Maya Vitkova

Producer: Maya Vitkova

Viktoria Films, Bulgaria

selected by Bulgarian National Film Centre

Gangster of Love

Director: Nebojša Slijepcevic

Producer: Vanja Jambrović

Restart, Croatia

selected by Croation Audiovisual Centre

Burning Bush

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Producer: Tomáš Hrubỳ

Nutprodukce, Czech Republic

selected by Czech Film Center

Antboy

Director: Ask Hasselbalch

Producer: Eva Jakobsen

Nimbus Film, Denmark

selected by Danish Film Institute

Concrete Night

Director: Pirjo Honkasalo

Producer: Mark Lwoff

Bufo, Finland

selected by Finnish Film Foundation

Möbius

Director: Eric Rochant

Producer: Mathias Rubin

Récifilms, France

selected by UniFrance films

Brides

Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili

Producer: Tinatin Kajrishvili

Gemini, Georgia

selected by Georgian National Film Center

The Special Need

Director: Carlo Zoratti

Producer: Henning Kamm

Detailfilm, Germany

selected by German Films

Standing Aside, Watching

Director: Yorgos Servetas

Producer: Konstantin Kontovrakis

Heretic Creative Producer, Greece

selected by Greek Film Centre

Land of Storms

Director: Adam Csaszi

Producer: Eszter Gyárfás

Proton Cinema, Hungary

selected by Magyar Filmunió/ Hungarian National Film Fund

Metalhead

Director: Ragnar Bragason

Producer: Árni Filippusson

Mystery, Iceland

selected by Icelandic Fim Centre

You're Ugly Too

Director: Mark Noonan

Producer: John Keville

Sp Films, Ireland

selected by Irish Film Board

Black Souls

Director: Francesco Munzi

Producer: Olivia Musini

Cinemaundici, Italy

selected by Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Monument to Michael Jackson

Director: Darko Lungulov

Co-Producer: Ognen Antov

Dream Factory Macedonia, Fyr of Macedonia

selected by Macedonian Film Agency

The Ascent

Director: Nemanja Becanovic

Producer: Ivan Djurović

Artikulacija Production, Montenegro

selected by Ministry of Culture of Montenegro

Totally True Love

Director: Anne Sewitsky

Producer: Teréz Hollo-Klausen

Anna Kron Film, Norway

selected by Norwegian Film Institute

Fuck for Forest

Director: Michal Marczak

Producer: Mikołaj Pokromski

Pokromski Studio, Poland

selected by Polish Film Institute

Collider

Director: Jason Butler

Producer: Nuno Bernardo

beActive Entertainment, Portugal

selected by Ica I.P. / Portugal

Slovakia 2.0

Director: Iveta Grófová, Juraj Herz, Martin Šulík, Miro Jelok, Mišo Suchý, Ondrej Rudavský, Peter Kerekes, Peter Krištúfek, Viera Cákanyová, Zuzana Liová

Producer: Mátyás Prikler

MPhilms, Slovak Republic

selected by Slovak Film Institute

The Extraordinary Tale

Director: José F. Ortuño, Laura Alvea

Producer: Marta Velasco

Áralan Films, Spain

selected by Icaa / Spain

Beyond Beyond

Director: Esben Toft Jacobsen

Producer: Petter Lindblad

Snowcloud Films, Sweden

selected by Swedish Film Institute

Ate Ver La Luz

Director: Basil da Cunha

Producer: Elodie Brunner

Box Productions, Switzerland

selected by Swiss Films

Secrets of War

Director: Dennis Bots

Producer: David Bijker

Bijker Film & TV, The Netherlands

selected by Eye International

Weekend

Director: Andrew Haigh

Producer: Tristan Goligher

The Bureau Film Company, United Kingdom

selected by British Council...

UK’s Tristan Goligher and Germany’s Henning Kamm among upcoming European producers set to be showcased at Cannes.Scroll down for the full list

European Film Promotion (Efp) has selected 24 emerging young European producers for the 15th edition of its Producers on the Move networking initiative, which will be held during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival from May 17-19.

The 2014 selection includes the The Bureau Film Company’s Tristan Goligher, who is currently in production on Andrew Haigh’s new feature 45 Years, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay and sold internationally by The Match Factory.

Also on the list is Hamberg-based Henning Kamm, who had two co-productions at this year’s Berlinale – Karim Ainouz’s Praia do Futuro and Kutlug Ataman’s The Lamb - and is now working on new films by Mohammad Rasoulof, Stéphane Robelin and Lili Horvath.

Georgian producer-director Tinatin Kajrishvili has also been selected. Kajrishvili’s feature debut Brides had its premiere...

White God

Director: Kornél Mundruczó

Writers: Kornél Mundruczó, Kata Weber, Viktoria Petranyi

Producers: Viktória Petrányi, Eszter Gyárfás

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Zsofia Psotta, Sandor Zsoter, Lili Horvath

It was the Hungarian filmmaker’s fifth feature, 2008’s Delta, which won the Fipresci award at Cannes that really started our interest in the filmmaker. While his 2010 followup, Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project never received a Us release date, we’re happy to see that he’s got another title finished and set for release this year. Mundruczo stated that he wanted to make an auteur film that reaches a broader audience, which is perhaps why this title may not premiere at a film festival.

Gist: A sentimental adventure film, when 12-year-old Lili’s father takes her pet dog away from her, the girl runs away from home in search of her dog.

Release Date: Scheduled for release in March, 2014, we...