אורחי התעשייה

Dganit Atias-Gigi, Head of Drama, yes 

Dganit is the Head of Drama and original Productions at YES Satellite TV.  In the last 8 years she was in charge of many productions, among them “Shtisel”, “Fauda”’ “My Successful Sisters” and more.  She was Head of the Children’s Channel as well as script editor and developed the content of very many TV series and programs.  

Agathe Berman, Pitchologist 

Pitch expert - with Coproduction forum of SeriesMania Lille, RdV Doc and Rdv BI@rritz with Unifrance TV Division, Haifa Film Festival, MIA Rome, Cine Ventana Madrid, Balkan Film Market of Tirana, Odessa Film Festival, as well as Craative Europe & EWA. She conducts pitching training for the Documentary Workshop and the Series Department of La Femis, French National Film School. Within the art foundation school – Atelier de Sèvres – she trains students for the writing and oral exams of the French and international art colleges. She has produced over sixty films, as an associate partner of Films d’Ici and Legato Films. Her credits include multi-awarded productions directed by Cédric Klapisch, Richard Copans, Louise Hémon, Gilles Bannier, Christophe Honoré. Since 2018, with her own company – Agathe Berman Studio – besides her pitchology activity, she has been developing art&society-oriented documentaries, series, exhibitions and provided textual expertise; working with filmmakers such as Louise Hémon, Cyril Brody, Maxence Stamatiadis, Gisèle Vienne, with networks such as Arte and France Television. She steps in as artistic adviser for staged creation, performances, video documents with artists such as Kader Belarbi, stage director Jacques Vincey and performer artist Steven Cohen. (Torino Film Lab)

Maria Feldman is an Award-Winning television series Producer and Creator with over 20 years of experience in the field of international productions. Prior to establishing MASHA, she co-founded Tender Productions. The company produced numerous successful TV series, including Prisoners of War and Fauda. During her years at Tender, Maria co-created the critically-acclaimed Israeli series False Flag. After premiering at the Berlinale Special Series and winning the Grand Prize at Series Mania 2015, False Flag was acquired by Canal Plus, Hulu, and Fox International Channels and is currently being remade by Apple under the title Suspicion, starring Uma Thurman. Maria also served as a producer of the Israeli filming of season 2 of Homeland. In 2016, Feldman founded her own production company MASHA, which specializes in international television productions. Most recently, Feldman is the Co-creator and Executive Producer of the upcoming major series from Hulu/Arte No Man’s Land, a co-production between the US, France, Belgium, and Israel. Feldman’s global experiences have taken her on location across the world, filming series in: United States, Israel, France, Belgium, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria, Morocco, Tanzania, and China. She is fluent in English, Hebrew, and Russian.

Evgeny Gusyatinskiy, Rotterdam International Film Festival

Evgeny Gusyatinskiy (1983, Moscow) is a film curator, festival programmer, film critic, and lecturer. He is a member of the selection committee of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), where he is focused on programming feature films from Eastern Europe, Russia, CIS countries, Israel, and Greece. Since 2022 he is based in Tel Aviv. Missing:

Yuval Horowitz, Head of Development, Keshet

Elena Podolska, Antipode

Was born in Ukraine. Graduated Kharkov State University. 1998 – 2003 - Seance magazine (St. Peterburg, Russia) - The Head of the Moscow office. 2003 – 2004 - Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) - Curator of unique Russian program within of Year of Russia in Germany (with Ulrike Stiefelmayer), 74 films including the silent movies in the German Film Museum 2003 – 2012 (Moscow) - Amfest, IndieVid - Curator of American independent Film Festivals. 2013  -  2022, spring- Antipode Sales & Distribution (Moscow, Russia) – One of the founders and CEO of the independent sales company. 2022, spring - present –Antipode  Sales International  (Israel) – fouder & CEO.

An independent international sales company based in Moscow was created in 2013. in March 2022, immediately after the start of the war in Ukraine, the company relocated to Israel (Haifa). We are seeking vivid and  bold features and documentary projects  from all over the world for worlwide sales and festival distributon. We are huge funs of our firm believers in their potential, which gives us energy and inspiration to promote them. In our business practices, we respect world traditions and transparency.  

Alice Rathert, The Post Republic Germany

Alice Rathert is a producer at Post Republic’s Berlin studio. She oversees post production for both picture and sound on projects of various scales and budgets, both theatrical and high-end episodic. As a VFX producer she also managed visual effects for feature films and episodic on behalf of the studio's VFX arm AUTOMATIK vfx. As a producer/vfx producer she has worked on projects like Unorthodox (directed by Maria Schrader), Undine (directed by Christian Petzold), Love Trilogy: Naked/Chained/Reborn (directed by Yaron Shani) and The Operative (directed by Yuval Adler).

Mariëtte Rissenbeek 

Managing Director of the Berlin International Film Festival. She pursued her academic journey by studying German Language and Literature, Theatre Studies, and Sociology at both the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht and the Freie Universität Berlin. Her professional journey began in 1986 when she joined Tobis Film, a film distribution company. In 1995, she transitioned into film production, becoming a producer at Ziegler Film. During her time there, she successfully produced various film formats. In 1998, she founded her own production company in Hamburg, collaborating with Mika Kaurismäki. In 2000, she joined the Munich-based production company Hofmann & Voges. Further contributing to the film industry, in 2003 she assumed responsibility for international festival relationships and public relations at German Films, an organization dedicated to the global promotion of German cinema. Her significant role continued to evolve as she became Deputy Managing Director of German Films in 2006, and ultimately, she ascended to the position of Managing Director in 2011.

Chaim Sharir, Drama Team

Chaim SHARIR is one of the top film and television producers in Israel.  In recent years he has been concentrating on producing scripted series for broadcasters in Israel and around the world as part of his co-owned company, Drama Team, mostly co-productions with producers and streamers from all over the world. Among his productions: Hostages, Blackspace, Jerusalem, The Girl From Oslo, 30 Shekels Per Hour, Milluim, Restoration, The Ballade Of The Weeping Spring, Circus Palestina.

Guillaume de Seille 

French film producer with an impressive background. After writing and directing two award-winning short films, he dedicated nearly a decade to Canal+ channel's film department. During his tenure, he was commissioning editor in the channel's short film division and later served as an artistic producer for France 2, a renowned French public broadcaster. Since 2000, he has been an independent film producer. Throughout his career, he has produced and co-produced over 60 non-French art-house feature films, often in collaboration with Arizona Films. These films have actively participated in major film festivals worldwide and have received wide releases in France. Noteworthy titles among the films he has been involved with include: "Hesitation Wound" by Selman Nacar (Turkey, 2023); "Cold as Marble" by Asif Rustamov (Azerbaijan, 2022), recipient of the Director's Award at "The Black Nights of Tallinn"; "Herd Immunity" by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan, 2021); "Sughra's Sons" by Ilgar Najaf (Azerbaijan, 2021); "Kerr" by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu (Turkey, 2021), winner of the Director's Award at the Antalya Film Festival; "Between Two Dawns" by Selman Nacar (Turkey, 2021); "Yellow Cat" by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan, 2020); "A Dark, Dark Man" by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan, 2019); "Oleg" by Juris Kursietis (Latvia, 2019), and more.

Harold Valentin, Producer, Mother Production 

Harold has a diploma in engineering and political sciences (IEP Paris). He was 5 years counsellor to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997-2002), then spent 3 years at CNC (Centre national pour la Cinématographie). He run the contemporary fiction Department at France 2 during five years (launching of tv shows such as “fais pas ci, fais pas ça” - nine seasons, “Aicha” – 3 seasons, about an arab family in suburbian Paris, etc).

He created Mother production in 2011 together with Aurélien Larger. His first productions where a feature film («Lou!) and the TV séries «Dix pour Cent» - “Call my Agent!” (4 seasons). He also produced other hit tv show such as “La Garçonne” (mini- series in Paris 1920 with a cross dressing heroin, distributed by eOne), a cop show (“Under law and Grace”), and has two new shows, one in post production for a broadcast and an other one in

preparation for a platform. Mother production won the best pitch award at series mania for “Purple”, and an International Emmy Award for season 4 of “Call my agent!”. He also was a founding member of the Board of the “collectif 50/50”, an action group for parity and diversity in cinema and tv, is member of the board of the main tv producer Union (USPA), and is since last year co-director of Femis TV Departement.

YASMINE TALLY MK2

After studying management of cultural institutions at Sciences Po Lille, Yasmine Talli started her career at ARTE France Cinéma, (the subsidiary of the European TV channel ARTE in charge of film coproductions). She stayed there 2,5 years occupying different positions: first production assistant, then business affairs junior and finally feature length projects coordinator. She worked on coproductions like THE WHISTLERS by Corneliu Porumboiu, COLD WAR by Pawel Pawlikowski, WILD GOOSE LAKE by Diao Yinan, THE SQUARE by Ruben Ostlund, TITANE by Julia Ducournau among many others. After that Yasmine worked for a year for the SOFICA Cofinova - a French private financing company for independent cinema based on tax incentives - as cinema investment manager and financed films like HAPPENING by Audrey Diwan, THE RESTLESS by Joachim Lafosse, or PARIS 13TH by Jacques Audiard. She joined mk2 Films as acquisitions manager in 2021, working both on titles to acquire for international sales and on coproductions.