INDUSTRY DAY SPEAKERS

Ananda Pellerin

Since taking on the role of programming director at “Nowness” her focus has been on audiences: how to engage them, how to work with directors and foster relationships with their viewers through their films, and how to develop the best practice in online content creation to further the industry. “Nowness” wants to show that Internet is both a medium and a platform. Role of Ananda spans from editorial, social media, programming to daily operational functions. Her ambition is to set a high bar for online content and give filmmakers a forum to explore new ways on how to look at creative possibilities of online platforms.
 

Joanna Solecka

Marketing strategist and Torino Film Lab expert in the Audience Design field. Creative producer for shorts and documentaries. Lecturer at the international training workshops for fiction and documentary filmmakers.
Joanna works for Alphapanda, founded by Mathias Noschis - a film marketing agency based in London, Berlin and Warsaw. She brings to Alphapanda her expertise in international PR and is the Head of Alphapanda's Polish branch, covering the Eastern European market.
Before joining Alphapanda, Joanna worked for more than 10 years as the Head of PR, Festivals & Sales at Wajda Studio and Wajda School in Warsaw where she developed promotion and distribution strategies for shorts, features and documentaries. Solecka was in charge of two Oscar campaigns: Rabbit a la Berlin (Documentary Short Subject Oscar® 2009 nominee) and Joanna (Documentary Short Subject Oscar® 2015 nominee).

Participation of Joanna Solecka is supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Latvia.

Lars Henrik Gass

Studied Literary Studies, Theatre Studies and Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin. His dissertation on the French writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras was published under the title "Das ortlose Kino. Über Marguerite Duras" in 2001. In 1996/97 he was head of the European Institute of Documentary Film in Mülheim/Ruhr and editor of the series "Texts for the Documentary Cinema" and of the "DOX - Documentary Film Quarterly". He has served as the director of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen since 1997. Author of numerous articles and essays on cinema, photography and cultural politics. Various lectureships in Film and Cultural Management. Co-editor of "Provokation der Wirklichkeit. Das Oberhausener Manifest und die Folgen" (2012) and author of "Film und Kunst nach dem Kino" (2012).

The panelists of Industry day also include the jury of 2ANNAS - Jemma Desai, Wim Vanacker, Eroll Bilibani and Katarzyna Gondek.