Erica Barbiani
Script Tutor
Italy

Erica Barbiani is a story editor, an author, and a film producer. Since 2003, she has been producing documentary films for her company Videomante, based in Italy. Among the films in progress, Wishing on a Star, by director Peter Kerekes, co-produced with Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and Taiwan, and Fiume o Morte! by director Igor Bezinović, co-produced with Croatia and Slovenia. As the author of three novels, Erica is familiar with the ups and downs of the creative process and enjoys accompanying other authors on this thrilling journey.

Anna Ciennik
Script Tutor
France / Poland

After graduating from the production department of La Fémis in 2010, Polish-born, French-educated, Anna Ciennik worked in various capacities for the French Film Academy Les César and Les Films d’Ici, as well as Les Films de Pierre and Kazak Productions, among others. She later joined Paris Coproduction Village and Les Arcs European Film Festival as the manager of their European Industry events. In parallel, she started working as a script consultant both as a freelancer and for labs and residencies including Cannes Film Festival's La Résidence, Locarno Residency, San Sebastián's Ikusmira Berriak, BoostNL (Holland Film Meetings & IFFR's Cinemart), Open Doors Hub, Lab & Consultancy (Locarno).

Mikko Myllylahti
Script Tutor
Finland

Mikko Myllylahti is a Finnish filmmaker and poet. He graduated from Aalto University Helsinki in 2012. 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 at Cannes 2016 and was also the Finnish entry for the Academy Awards. Mikko’s directorial debut The Woodcutter Story, produced by Aamu Film Company and set in his native Lapland premiered at the Cannes Critics’ Week 2022 and won the GAN Foundation Award for French distribution. Mikko’s short films include Love in Vain (Locarno 2009) and The Tiger (Cannes Critics’ Week 2018). His four collections of poetry have won prizes and gained critical acclaim.

Jennifer Sabbah-Immagine
Production Consultant
France

Jennifer Sabbah-Immagine is a Strategic Consultant, co-founder of Scale & Scope, an agency providing consultancies to international professionals and tailor-made monitoring of international co-productions. Active in the film industry for 20 years, she is a member of EAVE since 2009. She has worked in the UK and US and in France at Arsam International and KinoElektron among others, overseeing large-scale and noteworthy co-productions. Since 2008, she has produced, with Jihan El Tahri within Big Sister, talents from African countries and the MENA region such as Mariner of the Mountains by Karim Aïnouz (Official Selection, Cannes 2021).

Cǎtalin Christuţiu
Editing Consultant
Romania

Cătălin Cristuțiu has worked as an editor on over 80 feature films, shorts and TV series. He has edited all the works of Radu Jude including the features Aferim! (Berlinale, Silver Bear Best Director 2015), and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, winner of the Golden Bear 2021. Other notable works include California Dreamin’ Endless (Cristian Nemescu, Prix Un Certain Regard 2007), If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Florin Şerban, Berlinale, Silver Bear 2010), and the short Blue Boy by Manuel Abramovich (Berlinale, Silver Bear Jury Prize 2019). In recent years, he has been focusing on films that use editing as a central means of artistic expression. Cristuțiu also works as an editing advisor.

Wim Vanacker
Pitching Consultant
Belgium / France

Wim Vanacker is a consultant, creative advisor, programmer, curator and tutor for many workshops, film festivals and projects in development. He is a member of the Selection Committee for the Official Short Film Competition of the Cannes Film Festival, he works as an editorial Consultant for the First Cut Lab and he is the curator and editorial consultant of the Works-in-Progress Showcase as part of the Red Sea Souk in the context of the Red Sea International Film Festival.

Flavio Armone
Distribution Consultant
Italy

Flavio Armone is the co-founder of Lights On, an international sales agency based in Torino (Italy). Lights On’s line-up is primarily focused on short films, but the catalogue includes some selected feature films such as Red Moon Tide by Lois Patiño (Berlinale Forum 2020), Mammalia by Sebastian Mihăilescu (Berlinale Forum 2023) and Dreaming & Dying by Nelson Yeo, winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival 2023. The short films distributed by Lights On have premiered in some of the most prestigious festivals worldwide: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes' Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight, Sundance Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Venice Film Festival.