PRODUCERS LAB TORONTO 24 producers from Europe and Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival® – part one
Gregory Athanasiou Minus Pictures, Athens, Greece phone +30 210- 3641 652 cell +30 697- 4895 390
minuspictures@yahoo.com www.minuspictures.com
Muniré Armstrong YN Films Toronto, Canada phone +1 416- 686 5588 cell +1 416- 903 2650
munire@ynfilms.com www.ynfilms.com
After working in the telecommunications sector as an engineer and manager for a decade, Muniré Armstrong decided to work in the film industry. She has produced two feature films, many award-winning short films and documentaries, her most recent co- production White As Snow premiering at last year‘s Chicago Film Festival. Muniré was selected for OMDC Mentorship Program at HotDocs (2011) and Telefilm Mentorship Program (2010). She also helped to establish a successful corporate video production company and produced numerous projects for a broad range of customers including such multinational corporations as Coca-Cola and Pfizer between 2003-2006.
Mariano Vanhoof Fobic Films Ghent, Belgium phone +32 9- 329 0052 cell +32 486 534 793
mariano@fobicfilms.com www.fobicfilms.com
Gregory Athanasiou had worked in film, theatre, opera and advertising in Germany and Greece before setting up his Athens-based production company Minus Pictures in 2004 to focus on cutting edge arthouse feature films by young filmmakers. With degrees in Philosophy and Physics, and courses in Linguistics, Ethnology and Psychoanalysis, he had also studied acting based on the Lee Strasberg method and attended workshops for story editing, management and legal issues, and film financing. To date, Gregory has produced four feature films by Costas Zapas and is now developing a new feature based on the novel ‘Frankenstein‘ by Mary Shelley.
Film in development Frankenstein: A Death Odyssey Selected Films The Rebellion of Red Maria, 2011 director: Costas Zapas, Greece Minor Freedoms, 2008 director: Costas Zapas, Greece/Denmark The Last Porn Movie, 2006 director: Costas Zapas, Greece Uncut Family, 2004 director: Costas Zapas, Greece
Film in development Yasemin: In Between Selected Films White As Snow, 2010 director: Selim Guneş, Turkey/Greece (co-produced) Tasha Diamant’s Human Body Project, 2010 (documentary) director: Tasha Diamant, Canada The Wind, 2009 director: Didem Erayda, Turkey/UK The Kitty, 2009 (short) director: Didem Erayda, Turkey The Visit, 2004 (short) director: Didem Erayda, Turkey The Toy Factory, 2003 (short) directors: Muniré Armstrong & Didem Erayda, Turkey
Félize Frappier Max Films Montreal, Canada phone +1 514- 282 8444 ext. 233
felize.frappier@
maxfilms.ca www.maxfilms.ca
Film in development Winnipeg director: Geoffrey Enthoven, Belgium /Canada Selected Films Come As You Are, 2011, director: Geoffrey Enthoven, Belgium Happy Together, 2008, director: Geoffrey Enthoven, Belgium The Only One, 2006, director: Geoffrey Enthoven, Belgium A Message From Outer Space 2004 (short), directors: Raf Reyntjens & Roel Mondelears, Belgium Children Of Love, 2001, director: Geoffrey Enthoven, Belgium
Mariano Vanhoof founded Fobic Films with Geoffrey Enthoven in 1999 after they had met at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts KASK in Ghent during their studies of Audiovisual Arts. They had already pooled their directing and producing skills to realise Geoffrey‘s final project at KASK, The Undertaker. They have since worked together on four feature films, with the latest Come As You Are invited to competition in Montreal this year. Mariano also works as a freelance executive producer, handling several national and international television series and feature films, including the German remake of Studio 100‘s “House Of Anubis” for MTV/Nickelodeon.
Associated EFP members: Baltic Films, British Council, Cinecittà Luce – Filmitalia, Czech Film Center, Flanders Image, Greek Film Centre, ICAA/Spain, Irish Film Board, Magyar Filmunió/Hungary, Romanian Film Promotion, Swiss Films
Félize Frappier had operated within the distribution sector as a sales agent for Max Films International since 2003 before taking the step into production last year to produce Guy Édoin’s first feature film, Wetlands, which is opening the Canada First! section at TIFF 2011 and had its world premiere in Venice Critics’ Week. Félize has participated in the EAVE Workshops as well as various other professional training sessions such as Strategic Partners, Rotterdam Lab, and the Cannes Producers Network. She is currently in development on Édoin’s second feature which will be an adaptation of Jean-Simon DesRochers‘ novel ‘Heat Wave Of The Poor.’
Film in development Heat Wave Of The Poor (WT), 2013 director: Guy Édoin, Canada Selected Films The Grand Seduction, 2012 (in pre-production) director: Ken Scott produced by Roger Frappier, Canada Liverpool, 2012 (in pre-production) director: Manon Briand produced by Luc Vandal, Canada Wetlands, 2011 directed by Guy Édoin, Canada
European Film Promotion Friedensallee 14-16, 22765 Hamburg, Germany
info@efp-online.com www.efp-online.com
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