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Petra Mandova
Business development executive of Mandy
Petra Mandova
Business development executive of Mandy
Petra has been working in the film industry for over eight years, managing film industry events and curating programs in the UK and Europe. She joined The Mandy Network team in 2018 as a business development executive.
The Mandy Network is the world’s #1 jobs platform for film & TV professionals, with over a 2.7million members globally. We help emerging and established candidates find their next exciting job in the industry. With jobs from directors to producers and VFX artists to runners listed, our platform can be your ticket to success.
Caroline Cooper Charles
Head of Creative of Screen Yorkshire
Caroline Cooper Charles
Head of Creative of Screen Yorkshire
Caroline’s 20 year career within the film industry has evolved from running her first production company with acclaimed music video director Dawn Shadforth to her most recent role as Head of Creative at Screen Yorkshire. Along this journey she has spent time as Talent Development Executive for Scottish Film Talent Network, Head of Film at Creative England, Head of Creative Development at Warp X, managed the UK Film Council’s nationwide short film programme through her company Lifesize Pictures and spent a year as Director of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival.
At Screen Yorkshire Caroline is a member of the senior management team where she is responsible for the company’s talent development programmes and managing the Yorkshire Content Fund. Caroline is the first port of call for producers wanting to access the fund, she negotiates the terms of the funding deals and has creative oversight of the projects Screen Yorkshire invests in. She also oversees the work of the Film Office team.
Caroline has particular expertise in identifying and cultivating new and evolving voices and is passionate about championing talent based outside of London.
Tine Klint
Founder of LevelK
Tine Klint
Founder of LevelK
LevelK is handling international sales and aggregation, and is specialized in rights optimization that are reflected through innovative approach to cross-platform/cross-country distribution combining theatrical and traditional means – alongside digital distribution and marketing.
Since 1999 Tine Klint worked with world-wide sales & distribution and supported breaking mainly Nordic and Australian talent into world markets. She has dedicated the majority of her professional life to independent cinema, specializing in sales, new- and social media and film financing. She has lectured as an expert at international seminars about new media, the digital shift, sales & distribution of independent films, documentaries and family entertainment.
Cathy Wigley
Business owner,& executive producer
Cathy Wigley
Business owner,& executive producer
Business owner, executive producer, full time multi-tasker and mum-of-two. After a successful and varied career working in TV, producing and directing programmes for broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and Discovery, Cathy set up her own film production company in 2015, offering high quality content creation for corporate clients.
Over the last six years Demarcation Films have made films for a range of global blue-chip companies and brands including Carlsberg, Pandora Jewellery, SAB Miller, Cobham, 1664 Blanc, and AB-InBev.
Belinda Bonan
Screenwriter, Director, and Producer
Belinda Bonan
Screenwriter, Director, and Producer
Belinda Bonan has a degree in Economics and Audiovisual Communication, and a diploma in Advanced Character Animation Studies from the Animation Mentor School. Since 2011, she has worked as a 3D animator in various TV series, such as “Desafío Champions Sendokai” (season 1 and 2), and she has also taught 3D animation in two schools in Barcelona. In 2015, she joins Most Wanted Studio, where she does writing, directing, and producing tasks.
Her first animated short film, “Back in Fashion” (8′, 2017), has won 3 awards and 19 selections in international film festivals, among which the following stand out: Festival de Cine de Málaga, el Monstra – Lisbon Animated Film Festival and Shorts México. Her second animated short film, “Me, a Monster?” (6′, 2019), has premiered in March 2020 and has already won 3 awards and achieved more than 70 selections in international film festivals, among which the following stand out: Mecal PRO, Dokufest, Sarajevo Film Festival, Imaginaria, Shorts México, Zlín Film Festival, Sapporo International Short Film Festival, FILMETS Badalona, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival and Baixada Animada.
She is currently working on her third short film “Codi Ictus”, an experimental animated documentary has also started writing her first feature film script, and is developing her first animated TV series.
Camilla Wett Jessen
Business and Life Coach
Camilla Wett Jessen
Business and Life Coach
Camilla is a business & life coach, entrepreneur, and the founder and creator of Camila Wett Coaching. She is passionate about supporting women in creating careers that are full of meaning, personal choices, and happiness.
She used to work as a successful consultant and partner at big international corporations. She was healthy BUT she was not happy… This pushed her into a life crisis, where she had to change her own mindset as it was stopping her from living her true purpose and dreams.
Since then and every day since, She has been working on her mindset on a daily basis to support her instead of stopping her, and to strengthen her instead of terrifying her. She uses her mindset as an asset, not random chaos of thoughts.
Delia Guerra
CEO and founder of Movibeta
Delia Guerra
CEO y fundadora de Movibeta
Lover of the sea and resident in Madrid. After years dedicated to the administration and the economy, he came to film distribution, almost by accident and found his place.
Since 2009, he has directed Movibeta, a registration platform for film festivals, helping directors, producers and distributors to make the registration process for their works easier. And to make it easier for festivals to select the best work.
It is surprising how the distribution becomes “choked” in many respects. During this livestream I will give you some tricks to approach this part of creation with realism, rigor and efficiency.
Olga Skalska
Psychologist, Coach, and facilitator
Olga Skalska
Psychologist, Coach, and facilitator
She is passionate about healing through body, mind & spirit integration, and her mission is to destigmatize mental health and empower people through self-leadership.
Emma Balcazar
Film director
Emma Balcazar
Film director
She has 20 years’ experience in training and working with actors on an elite level. She has taught film acting both at the National Film School of Denmark and The Danish National School of Performing Arts. In January 2020 she left her position as an associate professor in film acting to establish The Nordic Film Acting Institute, where she trains actors in movie work through the Balcazar teknik®.
Emma Balcázar has written and directed both fiction and documentaries and her films have been nominated for several awards among these The Robert Award for the best featurette (The Danish equivalent of the Oscars).
Other than N.F.A.I. Emma is the founder & director of Potenta. Potenta is a socioeconomic film production company that, with the motto ‘art for everybody’, focuses on creating a bridge between art, society, and the business world. Potenta produces and develops high-quality art content with the focus on the artist.
Jewels Carter
Career Coach, Trainer and Communicator
Jewels Carter
Career Coach, Trainer and Communicator
Jewels was the shy schoolgirl, with the words stuck in her throat, when she began what was to become an award-winning sales career.
Twenty-years coaching experience, after training with one of the UK’s most prominent coaching trainers, Fifteen-years corporate experience as a sales trainer, accountant and department head, ten-years as a public speaker and eight-years as a business owner.
Personally, Jewels was born in the UK, where she met her husband Steve. They were surprised and happy to welcome their son Dylan into the world after finding out he was due to arrive three weeks earlier. Before Dylan was a year old, she had married Steve and moved to Copenhagen where she now lives.
Melanie Smith
Founder of Art Escape Studios & Cafe
Melanie Smith
Founder of Art Escape Studios & Cafe
Newfoundlander living in Denmark. In 2017, she began the journey of creating Art Escape Studios by launching her first international art retreat: Art Escape- A Danish Destination.
Previous to this, she owned her own art studio and school for more than a decade, in St. John’s, NL Canada.
Her background lies in both visual and culinary arts.
With much success on the retreat, she began to focus full time on the development of, what is known today as, Art Escape Studios & Cafe.
In 2019, Smith founded an all female arts collective known as the AES Collective- boasting 11 female artists working in various disciplines.
Smith continues to develop programmes aimed at stimulating creative development for the artists within the Collective and community at large.
Lou Stokes
Stylist and Confident Coach
Lou Stokes
Estilista y Confidence Coach
I dedicate a large part of my time to helping women gain confidence in themselves, transforming their mentality and their style, making them become the magnetic women they always wanted to be.
My passion is for women to see themselves as their own icon, a cornerstone of my She’s Magnetic program.
When I’m not helping my clients with their style and image, you can find me organizing a retreat, waiting for my next flight at the airport, or on my yoga mat.
Lian Henriksen
SRT and Reiki teacher
Lian Henriksen
SRT and Reiki teacher
‘The Silver Crone from Denmark’ Silver because Lian is 75 and Crone because she has lived life and willing to share her experiences with women who seek her guidance. Denmark because she has lived there for the last 35 years.
Ever since her cancer in 1998, she has been interested in the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection. But In 2003, she went from a financially successful businesswoman to personal and business bankruptcy. This was a very dark period for her.
Today, almost 18 years after, she is enjoying prosperity in all aspects of her life including the financial one.
Charlotte Moutray
Director and founder of cool communication
Charlotte Moutray
Director and founder of cool communication
Her passion for teaching was born in 2011 in New York. Years later she decided to move to Madrid because of her interest in the Spanish language, where she worked in different highly reputed academies and ended up in love with the country and its culture.
Her international experiences working in different countries and schools, with very diverse students, made her have interest in alternative education methods, realizing that there is no one-size-fits-all learning style.
This led her to work in a Montessori school (Rennes, France) and specialize in Neurolinguistic Programming. Motivated by sharing her knowledge and passion for languages, she founded COOL Communication in 2020.
Lian Henriksen
SRT and Reiki teacher
Lian Henriksen
SRT and Reiki teacher
‘The Silver Crone from Denmark’ Silver because Lian is 75 and Crone because she has lived life and willing to share her experiences with women who seek her guidance. Denmark because she has lived there for the last 35 years.
Ever since her cancer in 1998, she has been interested in the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection. But In 2003, she went from a financially successful businesswoman to personal and business bankruptcy. This was a very dark period for her.
Today, almost 18 years after, she is enjoying prosperity in all aspects of her life including the financial one.