All Future Leaders articles – Page 3
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Anja Fröhner (Switzerland)
Fröhner is head of programme and guests at Zürich Film Festival.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Gu Pengyuan (China)
In his role as Head of Programme at FIFF, he helped discover Lan Tian’s Southern Afternoon.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Viknesh Kobinathan (Singapore)
Kobinathan is film programmer is Singapore’s Asian Film Archive.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Chris Kumar (UK)
Kumar is film programmer and programme coordinator at the Glasgow Film Festival.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Dorota Lech (Canada)
“The audience at TIFF is very curious and very adventurous.”
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Pony Ma (Taiwan)
She has worked with fellow programmer Hung Jianluen to curate the entire Taipei Film Festival selection of around 130 films between just the two of them.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Hind Mezaina (UAE)
One of her career highlights was creating a film programme titled Bayn Al Khaleej at Nyuad Art Gallery which showed films from the Gulf region.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Vanja Milena Munjin Paiva (Chile, Portugal)
After joining the festival’s team in 2019, she created Tramas at Chile’s FICValdivia.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Hanna Reifgerst (Germany)
“There is nothing better than the pure joy and awe of a young audience.”
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: K.J. Relth-Miller (US)
She is in thrall to the wonders of 70mm projections, nitrate prints and curating esoteric film series
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Francis Román (US)
Rejecting films is the toughest part of Roman’s job at SXSW.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Pedro Emilio Segura Bernal (Mexico and Iceland)
Bernal works for Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival and Reykjavik International Film Festival.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Kimberley Sheehan (UK)
She’s curating a programme at BFI Southbank this summer called Discomfort Movies, which examines films that trigger fear, stress and anxiety
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Paul Struthers (Australia)
He hunts outside typical channels for new discovers, with Letterboxd a favourite haunt.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Carmen Thompson (UK)
Thompson curates for festivals across the UK, Middle East and Africa from her home in Scotland
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Thong Kay Wee (Singapore)
On his radar are smaller festivals such as FIDMarseille, Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films, First International Film Festival, IndieLisboa and Jeonju.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Andrea Voges (South Africa)
Voges worked at the Durban International Film Festival in programme administration from 2010-14 before returning in 2023 in her current post.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Elsa Charbit (France)
She championed Weston Razooli’s ’Riddle Of Fire’ and Pham Thien An’s ’Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell’ in last year’s Quinzaine selection
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2023: How streamers are bringing change to talent representation in Latin America
The profile of the talent manager or agent is less established in Latin America than it is in other markets.