Anna Ciennik
Script Tutor
France / Poland

Polish-born, French-educated, Anna Ciennik likes to look at the world from different perspectives. After graduating from la fémis French film school in 2010 from the production department, Anna’s interest for international independent production led her to join Paris’ Coproduction Village and Les Arcs European Film Festival as manager of the European Industry events. Between 2017 and 2021, she curated five editions of its co-production markets. In parallel, Anna started her work as a script consultant. She participates in various labs such as Open Doors, BoostNL, TFL, Plot and European Short Pitch. She is a member of the Collectif 5050 and a bit of a wine and language geek.

Zsuzsanna Kiràly
Script Tutor
Germany / Austria

Zsuzsanna Kiràly studied Communication Science in Vienna and Berlin. From 2009 to 2020 she has worked with Komplizen Film as Head of Development. In 2011, she joined the editorial team of Revolver, Zeitschrift für Film. She is jury member of the funding bodies of Südtiroler Filmförderung and World Cinema Fund. Since 2015, Zsuzsanna has been producing experimental fiction and documentary films with her own production company Flaneur Films. These titles include Take What You Can Carry by Matt Porterfield, Phantasiesätze and Afterwater by Dane Komljen, Outside Noise by Ted Fendt, Two Minutes to Midnight by Yael  Bartana and A Flower in the Mouth by Éric Baudelaire.

Mikko Myllylahti
Script Tutor
Finland

Mikko Myllylahti is a film director, screenwriter and poet from Lapland, Finland. He graduated from Aalto University Helsinki in 2012 and has worked as a freelance writer and director since. His four collections of poetry have won prizes and gained critical acclaim. Mikko’s short films include Love in Vain (Locarno IFF 2009) and The Tiger (Cannes Critics’ Week 2018). His first feature script was Juho Kuosmanen’s debut The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, which won the Prix Un Certain Regard in Cannes 2016. His directorial debut The Woodcutter Story, a dark existential comedy produced by Aamu Filmcompany and set in his native Lapland is currently in post-production.

Cătalin Cristuțiu
Editing Consultant
Romania

Cătalin Cristuțiu is a Bucharest-based film editor, working mainly on Romanian films. His first projects were with director Cristian Nemescu, starting with the internationally acclaimed medium-length Marilena From P7 and continuing with the feature California Dreamn’ (Endless) (Prix Un Certain Regard, 2007). He also teamed up with director Radu Jude starting with Radu’s first widely acclaimed The Tube With a Hat and continuing for all his later projects to date, including Aferim! (2015 Silver Bear for Best Direction at Berlinale) and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021 Golden Bear). His many credits include If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (directed by Florin Serban, awarded at Berlinale 2009 with The Alfred Bauer Prize and Jury Grand Prix).

Wouter Jansen
Distribution Consultant
Austria

Wouter was the head of programming at Go Short - International Film Festival for 10 years. In 2013 he started sales and festival distribution company Some Shorts, which changed to Square Eyes in 2019: with it, he represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, collaborating closely with the filmmakers. This has resulted in a small catalogue of films premiering and winning awards at festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, Berlin, Locarno and Clermont-Ferrand. Wouter has been giving lectures at Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy as well as moderating and leading workshops at festivals like IDFA, Locarno, Winterthur, VIS Vienna Shorts and others.

Siniša Juričić
Production Consultant
Croatia

Born in 1965 in Zagreb. He graduated in production from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 2009. He founded Nukleus Film in 2009, and Nukleus Film Slovenia in 2012. He has produced films nationally and internationally, with the most acclaimed awards being the France 4 Visionary Award for Ilian Metev’s Sofia’s Last Ambulance (Cannes Critics’ Week 2012), and the Grand Prix for the same film at the KVIFF. His credits include among others Velvet Terrorists (FEDEORA Award, KVIFF 2013), The Chicken (Cannes Critics’ Week 2014), Full Contact (TIFF Platform 2015) and Chris the Swiss (Cannes Critics’ Week 2018). He is a member of the European Film Academy and the production networks of EAVE, ACE and Inside Pictures.

Massimiliano Nardulli
Pitching Trainer
Italy

Born in Rome in 1976, he worked as curator, programmer and artistic director for several festivals around Europe (Brest, Winterthur, Lakino, Amérique Latine Biarritz, NexT, Timishort, !f Istanbul, ShorTs, etc.). He is one of the creators and curators of LIM | Less is More (France), of Torino Short Film Market (Italy) and of Word-Frame, a lab for storytelling and scriptwriting for Italian and European short films. He is a member of Académie des Arts et Technique du Cinéma – César (France) and Gopo Award (Romania), and sat on the board of Breizh Film Fund. He has worked as script advisor, associate producer and composer for several international projects. In 2019 he won the two main Romanian cinematographic awards (Gopo and UCIN) for his soundtrack of the film Charleston.