The 14th edition of the Rotterdam Lab kicks off tomorrow as part of CineMart.

The Lab is for emerging producers, who are nominated by international training bodies and funding agencies that are partners on the scheme. This year there are 57 producers participating.

This year’s new partners are Curious Film, One Fine Day Workshop, Tribeca Film Institute and Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival.

In addition to case studies, panels, speed-dating, talks and networking, the Lab allows producers to present their companies and projects. Expert speakers include Marleen Slot of Viking Film in the Netherlands, Steven Markovitz of South Africa’s Big World Cinema, Ido Abram of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Katriel Schory of the Israel Film Fund, and Diana Elbaum of Entre Chien et Loup, among others.

The participants are:

  • Jaime Barrios, Colombia
  • Eva Blondiau, Germany
  • Rosan Boersma, Netherlands
  • Nicholas Bruckman, US
  • Liz Burke, Australia
  • Jessica Caldwell, US
  • Diana Camargo, Colombia
  • Gilles Chanial, Luxembourg
  • Sarah Cook, New Zealand
  • Isabel de la Serna, Belgium
  • Isabel Delpierre, Belgium
  • Inicia Valerie, Spain
  • Nandita Dutta, India
  • Julianne Forde, UK
  • Edwin Goldman, Netherlands
  • Gal Greenspan, Israel
  • Eszter Gyárfás, Hungary
  • Casey Herbert, UK
  • Jaap Hermans, Netherlands
  • Karolina Hernández, Costa Rica
  • Rachel Higgins, Australia
  • Daniel van Hoogstraten, Brazil
  • Amira Kaadan, Lebanon
  • David Kaplan, US
  • Kathryn Kennedy, UK
  • Spencer Kiernan, US
  • Caroline Kirberg, Germany
  • Jacob Oliver Krarup, Denmark
  • Sari Lempiäinen, Finland
  • Yanick Létourneau, Canada
  • Andy Maas, UK
  • Camilla Malmberg, Sweden
  • Mikel Mas Bilbao, Spain
  • Innis Moore, UK
  • Sophie Neave, UK
  • Robert Nyanzi, Uganda
  • Karen O’Hare, UK
  • Caroline Oliveira, US
  • Hanne Phlypo, Belgium
  • Aleksis Pillai, Finland
  • Brett Potter, US
  • Premilla Puri Makh, UK
  • Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal
  • Ann Carolin Renninger, Germany
  • Toiz Rodriquez, Mexico
  • Hillel Roseman, Israel
  • Adriana Rosique, Mexico
  • Michelle Sahayan, UK
  • Kate Separovich, Australia
  • Alexandre Sivolella, Brazil
  • El Habib Tsaki, Algeria
  • Emilie Upczak, Trinidad & Tobago
  • Ivy Vanhaecke, Belgium
  • Phaedra Vokali, Greece
  • Kevina Wanyela, Kenya
  • Haydn Wazelle, Canada
  • Tony Whalen, Shore Road
  • Hanna Zimmermann, Germany

Rotterdam Lab runs Jan 25-29 and its partners organisations are: Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE); Catalan Films & TV; Cinergia of Costa Rica; Creative Skillset; Curious Film of New Zealand; Danish Film Institute; Doha Film Insitute; Edinburgh International Film Festival; European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAvE); Film I Vast; Film- und Medienstiftung NRW; Finnish Film Foundation; Flanders Audiovisual Fund; Guanajuato International Film Festival; Independent Filmmaker Project; Irish Film Board; Israel Film Fund; MDA/Singapore Film Commission; Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg; Netherlands Film Fund; One Fine Day Workshop of Kenya; Proimagenes Colombia; Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Culture; Screen Australia; Sundance Institute; Telefilm Canada; Tribeca Film Institute; Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival; and Wallonie Bruxelles Images.