Eurimages has appointed Elise Jalladeau as executive director, succeeding Susan Newman-Baudais, who is retiring.
Jalladeau takes up her new role at the Council of Europe’s cultural film fund on October 1, 2026.
Jalladeau is presently the general director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. She also has wide experience as a producer, with particular expertise in co-production.
She will lead a 29-person international team running the fund from its offices in Strasbourg.
Eurimages has an annual budget of around €27.5m. Its main remit is to support film co-productions via a mix of grants and loans. It also has support schemes for exhibition, film marketing and audience development, and the promotion of co-production. The fund has supported more than 2,600 international co-productions since launching in 1989.
Jalladeau said: “It is an honour and a privilege for me to join Eurimages, a unique institution that has championed the values of the Council of Europe for almost 40 years. Co-production is a funding and circulation tool, but also a precious lever for co-operation: today Eurimages brings together 40 member states who, united around these values, help shape the future of moving images and foster an independent audiovisual ecosystem based on sustainability, diversity and creativity”.
Newman-Baudais leaves the role she started in 2022, having first joined Eurimages in 2012 as a project manager, before becoming head of its co-production programme.
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