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Source: ACE Network

The 35th Ace Producers selection

EXCLUSIVE: Incendies producer Kim McCraw and Jumbo producer Anais Bertrand are among the 18 independent producers selected for the 35th edition of the ACE Producers’ annual workshop programme.

The producers will attend three workshops throughout 2025 and 2026, developing the projects with which they applied. All producers will join the ACE Network at the conclusion of the programme.

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Canadian producer McCraw is selected with Ivan Grbovic’s Heart’s Exil, which she will produce for micro-scope. McCraw’s credits include Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies, which was nominated for the best foreign language film Oscar in 2011; and Philippe Falardeau’s My Salinger Year, which opened Berlin Film Festival in 2020.

Bertrand is participating with Dian Weys’ Bergies. Bertrand’s French company Insolence Productions has previously made features including Zoe Wittock’s Jumbo, about a woman who falls in love with an amusement park ride, which debuted at Sundance 2020.

The 18 producers on the scheme hail from 15 territories, with two each from France, Germany and the Czech Republic.

The first workshop will run in Leiden in the Netherlands in mid-October, with the second in Warsaw in November.

Jacobine van de Vloed, head of studies at ACE, said the programme received a record number of applications this year. “Each producer adds something unique to the ACE Network, and we look forward to the collaborations and exchanges that the coming year will bring,” said van der Vloed.

ACE Producers 35th edition participants

Anais Bertrand – Insolence Productions (Fr) with Bergies, dir. Dian Weys

Ioanna Bolomyti – Atalante Productions (Gr) with Sunbruise, dir. Stavros Markoulakis

Vanessa Ciszewski – Luftkind (Ger) with Minzi Monster

Agnieszka Dzeidzic – Koi Studio (Pol) with We Have No Chances, dir. Marta Karwowska

Emilia Fort – Avalon (Sp) with Basarda, dir. Salvador Sunyer

Lixi Frank – Panama Film (Austria) with Ice Cream, dir. Patric Chiha

Sebastien Haguenauer – 10:15 Productions (Fr) with Paz, dir. Guillaume de Fontenay

Elisa Heene – Mirage (Bel) with L’Invention du Sauvage, dir. Fien Troch

Anda Ionescu – Tangaj Production (Rom) with Agatha Candy, dir. Andrei Tanase

Veselka Kiryakova – Red Carpet (Bul) with Magdalena, dir. Dimitar Kutmanov

Kirill Krasovski – Blue Monticola Film (Ger) with Little Explosions, dir. Vladimir Beck

Vladimir Lhotak – Hausboot (Czech) with The Northern Star, dir. Elea Gobbe-Mevellec

Kim McCraw – micro-scope (Can) with Heart’s Exil, dir. Ivan Grbovic

Kristyna Michalek Kvetova – Cinemotif Films (Czech) with Nora, dir. Martin Krejci

Rikke Tambo Andersen – Tambo Film (Den) with The Devils’ Film, dir. Thora Lorentzen

Si En Tan – Momo Film Co (Sing) with Other People’s Dreams, dir. Daniel Hui

Flaminio Zadra – Dorje Film (It) with Moldovan Story, dir. Giuseppe Gagliardi

Flavia Zanon – Close Up Films (Switz) with Sunlash, dir. Carmen Jaquier

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