Experts

Organisation: Pluto Film Distribution Network (Germany)
Position: Managing Director & Acquisitions
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Daniela Cölle received her PhD at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. After her studies, she worked as a film curator and journalist, as a project manager for e-learning programs on film, theatre, and dance, and worked on several independent film productions. Subsequently, she was the CEO of the Filmtopia distribution company and the Eurimages Deputy Representative for the Slovak Republic. From 2008 until 2017 she was an artistic and executive director of the 4 Elements FF in Slovakia. In 2016, she joined international sales agency Pluto Film and in 2022 became the managing director and head of acquisitions. She is also a consultant for several professional training programs, script advisor and member of European Film Academy.

Organisation: Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
Position: Programmer
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Jesse Cumming is a curator, writer, and researcher. He is an Associate Curator for the Wavelengths section at Toronto International Film Festival. He has also served as a programmer with Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and as a consultant with the Berlinale Forum and Open City Documentary Festival. Independently, he has curated, co-curated, and presented programmes with the Museum of Modern Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Tallinn Photomonth Biennial, Anthology Film Archives, the ICA London, and more. His writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, The Brooklyn Rail, MUBI Notebook, Filmmaker Magazine, Hyperallergic, Canadian Art, Another Gaze, C Magazine, Berlin Art Link, and more. He was formerly a Media Lecturer with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Cairo Campus.

Organisation: Tornasol Producciones (Spain-Uruguay)
Position: Productora / Producer
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She is a Producer and Executive Producer, born in Uruguay. She graduated from the EMAD and studied Cinema at the EICTV (Cuba). Her first film as a producer was Pablo Dotto's debut film "The Airship", the first Uruguayan film to participate in the 1994 Cannes International Film Festival Critics' Week.  Her credits include more than 150 films as a producer and executive producer, among others: "The Secret in Their Eyes" by Juan José Campanella, winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, "The Last Circus" (Silver Lion at Venice 2010), "Tetro" by Francis Ford Coppola and "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" by Terry Gilliam. In 2017 the series "Cuatro estaciones en la Habana" received the Platinum Award for Best Ibero-American miniseries. Between 2019 and 2021 she worked as an executive producer in the documentary miniseries "Who killed María Marta?" and "The Photographer and the Postman: The Crime of Cabezas" both on Netflix. In 2021 she premiered the series "Ana Tramel. El juego". The series "Detective Touré" started to be broadcast on RTVE this year.

She is currently working on several feature films and series projects.

Organisation: DOK.forum Marketplace München (Alemania/ Germany)
Position: Responsable de industria / Head of Industry 
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Born in Spain, Susana is industry programmer at international film festivals and markets. Head of DOK.forum Marketplace München since September 2023, she lived for 13 years in Montreal, Canada, where she worked in multiple film organisations and festivals, including the direction of the FNC Forum at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal and the direction of the Forum RIDM (Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal). She regularly participates as a jury member and industry expert, giving feedback on film projects at various stages of development, and as a consultant on festival and market strategy