Audiovisual Women participants 2025

Source: EPI

Audiovisual Women participants 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Flanders Audiovisual Fund director Karla Puttemans and Polish Producers Alliance managing director Marzena Cieslik are among the 15 participants selected for Audiovisual Women, the fourth annual female leadership programme of the Erich Pommer Institut (EPI).

Also selected are Spanish producer María Esparcia of Contracorriente Producciones, Anny Tubbs of the UK’s First Move Productions and An Ooost of Belgium’s Cassette for timescapes.

The Audiovisual Women programme is aimed at female mid- to senior-level managers working in the audiovisual sector.

Participants receive 1:1 business coaching and a variety of onsite and online learning sessions. The programme focuses on topics such as leadership and entrepreneurship, innovation and change management as well as communication and self-marketing.

Audiovisual Women 2025 participants

  • Christine Ajayi-Scheuring, ARRI / Dreamland Pictures (Austria)
  • Marzena Cieslik, Polish Producers Alliance (KIPA) (Poland)
  • Polett Dus, Pi Productions (Hungary)
  • María Esparcia, Contracorriente Producciones SLU (Stellarum Films) (Spain)
  • Rita Garcia, No Murphy Films (Portugal)
  • Anna Huth, Audiovisual Institute (Poland)
  • Elina Jekabsone, All Media Latvia (Latvia)
  • Lauma Kaudzite, Riga International Film Festival (Latvia)
  • Katerina Maleckova, Bez předsudků z.s. (Czech Republic)
  • An Oost, Cassette for timescapes (Belgium)
  • Karla Puttemans, Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) (Belgium)
  • Anny Tubbs, First Move Productions (UK/France/Belgium)
  • Charlotte Voillequin, Alphapanda (France/Germany)
  • Laura Walde, Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte (SKKG) (Switzerland)
  • Tetiana Yershova, Kraken Films / Malta Film Service (Ukraine/Malta)

Audiovisual Women is funded by Creative Europe – MEDIA and FFF Bayern. Partners of the programme are FOCAL, Vlanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), EAVE – European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, EWA - European Women’s Audiovisual Network, and Women in Film & Television International (WIFTI).

“For the past four years, Audiovisual Women has successfully trained European media professionals and helped the selected media managers advance their careers through new insights, key skills, and strengthened individual capacities. Its main goal is to promote a more diverse, inclusive, and gender-equal European media industry — and thereby support its longterm sustainability”, said Gabriela Seidel-Hollaender, project manager international training at EPI.

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