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Filmmakers with a film in NPM Online, Closed Market Screening or attending the festival with an accreditation can request 15-minute meetings with the international market professionals and Nordic film institute representatives below. The list will be updated continuously. Availability is only for stakeholders attending the on site festival.
To request a meeting, send an email to Yuting Ni as soon as possible.
Please specify your arrival/departure and the order of wishes, if there is more than one Market Professional you’d like to book a meeting with. In order to match you accordingly, make sure to include details on the project/topic you’d like to have a meeting about. If the available time for a Stakeholder is not suitable, let us know and we will try to accommodate you if possible.
Market Professionals 2025
Karen McMullen
Senior Programmer, Features and Shorts
Time available:
Sunday 21 Sept, 10.00-12.00
Monday 22 Sept, 14.00 – 15.00
DOC NYC
Taking place in New York, the festival celebrates documentary filmmaking by connecting artists and audiences through powerful stories and diverse voices.
Jéssica Pestana
Programmer
Time available:
Sunday 21 Sept, 11.30 – 12.15 and 15.30 – 16.30
Indie Lisboa
The IndieLisboa International Film Festival mainly shows works that are outside the radar of regular film distribution, shaped by dominant production and exhibition. Every year, screening more than two hundred films, IndieLisboa attracts audiences and film professionals from around the world, giving them the opportunity to discover recent films by emerging talents and rediscover renowned authors. The festival’s sections also include thematic programmes that promote debate on relevant issues, with the aim of presenting a conceptually and geographically diverse selection.
Alina Götzlich
Project Lead DOK.forum Marketplace
Sunday 21 Sept, 10.00-12.00
DOK.fest München
As Germany’s largest documentary film festival they present the highlights of current documentary filmmaking at DOK.fest, the festival in May, and throughout the year – on the big screen in the cinema and on the digital screen @home.
Jasper Hokken
Short Documentary Film Programmer
Time available:
Friday 19 Sept, 15.00-18.00
Saturday 20 Sept, 15.30-18.00
Sunday 21 Sept, 10.00-12.00
IDFA
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is the world’s largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sydney Neter
Managing Director
Time available:
Sunday, 21 Sept, 10.30-12.00
SND Films
SND Films is an international sales agent founded by Sydney Neter in 1994, selling award winning short films, tv-movies and wonderful documentaires.
Madison Egan
Short Film Programmer
Time available:
Sunday 21 Sept, 15.45-17.00
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Enterprises. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming.
Eroll Bilibani
Head of DokuLab
Dokufest
DokuFest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival, is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Each year the festival fills the cinemas and improvised screening venues around historic center of Prizren with a selection of more than 200 hand-picked films from around the world. Founded in 2002. DokuFest grew and expanded into the most important documentary and short film festival in Southeast Europe and from 2019 is a BAFTA qualifying festival for short films.
Sigrid Hadenius
Festival Director
Time available:
Sunday 21 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Uppsala Film Festival
The Uppsala International Short Film Festival is Sweden’s premier festival for short films, having both the national recognition of the Swedish Film Institute and international renown. Founded in 1982, the festival presents more than 200 short films every year.
Anne Gaschütz
Festival Director at Filmfest Dresden / Short Film Programmer at Locarno Film Festival
Time available:
Saturday 20 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Sunday 21 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Filmfest Dresden
Dresden festival presents the best short films from around the world and attracts more than 20,000 visitors, including around 500 accredited guests. Since 1989, our festival has understood itself as a forum for political discourse and intercultural exchange.
Locarno Film Festival
Locarno Film Festival was born in the aftermath of the Second World War. It offered a stage for revival, freedom of art and expression for talents from all over the world eager to tell stories in new, different ways. Since its inception, Locarno has been home to the most daring, avant-garde, irreverent and innovative forms of films – screened in their uncut, uncensored versions.
Radka Weiserová
Festival Manager and Programmer
Time available:
Saturday 20 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Sunday 21 Sept, 16.00-17.30
Pragueshorts Film Festival
The Pragueshorts Film Festival is a competitive festival of short films. Its aim is to contribute to the development and promotion of artistic short films and their production.
Sarah Dombrink
Acquisition Manager and Programmer
Time available:
Sunday, 21 Sept 16:00-17:30
Interfilm Berlin Short Film Distribution & Sales
Interfilm’s internationally operating short film sales and distribution agency has been established in 1999, offering an ever-expanding catalogue of internationally successful and outstanding short films to cinemas, TV, internet, educational, closed-circuit and other media worldwide. interfilm Berlin also hosts the Academy Award© qualifying interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival, one of the biggest festivals for short film, operating since 1982.
Jukka-Pekka Laakso
Festival Director
Time available:
Sunday, 21 Sept 16:00-17:30
Tampere Film Festival
Tampere Film Festival is an international short film festival, the largest one in the Nordics, and among the Oscar®, BAFTA and European Short Film – Prix Vimeo qualifying film festivals. The festival screens roughly 400 films in more than 100 screenings, and in addition to short films, the festival showcases feature-length documentaries, silent films, and occasionally feature-length fiction films.
Line Klungseth Johansen
Festival Programmer
Time available:
Sunday, 21 Sept 16:00-17:30
Minimalen Short Film Festival
Minimalen is an annual, independent film event, covering new productions from Norway, Scandinavia and the rest of the world. Over six days of January, Minimalen screens approx. 250 shorts, roughly divided in two sections: New Norwegian, Nordic and International shorts in seven competitions, and retrospectives and focus programmes.
Mara Gourd-Mercado
Head of CPH:DOX Industry & Training
Time available:
Monday 21 Sept, 14.30-16.00
CPH:DOX
CPH:DOX, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is a Danish film festival focused on documentary films, held annually in Copenhagen, Denmark. The CPH:INDUSTRY platform, launched in 2007, comprises an umbrella of B2B activities for film professionals, that reflect CPH:DOX’s strong focus on creative crossovers between film, journalism, art, science, new technology and social change.
Massimo Benvegnu
Artistic Director
Biografilm
Since 2005, for ten days in June, Biografilm has been offering an enthusiastic audience the best of documentary works and quality fiction of Italian and international production, with a special focus on the enhancement of female and emerging talents.
Jenny Luukkonen
Co-production Executive – Talent & Documentary
Time available:
Saturday 20 Sept, 15.30-16.30
Sunday 21 Sept, 15.30-16.00
Film i Väst
Film i Väst is Scandinavia’s leading co-producer of Swedish and international feature films, drama series, documentaries and shorts, with over 1,600 co-productions since its inception in 1992.
Klara Nilsson Grunning
Film Consultant – Documentary, fiction, games
Time available:
Saturday 20 Sept, 15.30-17.00
Sunday 21 Sept, 15.30-17.00
Vestnorsk Filmsenter
VNFS is a publically funded regional Norwegian film fund script, development, production and co-production of fiction, documentary, series and games.
Jan Daae
Film Consultant
Time available:
Saturday 20 Sept, 14.00-15.30
Sunday 21 Sept, 15.30-17.00
Boost Hbg
BoostHbg is a 3-year initiative (starting 2009) based in Helsingborg that nurtures exceptional emerging talent within the moving image industry in Skåne. Boost is a pioneering program that aims to develop new storytelling techniques in close cooperation with the various branches, industry professionals and rising trends.
Nordic Film Institute Representatives
Mira Bach Hansen
Festival Manager, Documentary films
Danish Film Institute
Elisabeth Aalmo
Advisor, Documentary films
Norwegian Film Institute
Arna Marie Bersaas
Senior Advisor, Short Films
Norwegian Film Institute
Sara Rüster
Festival Advisor, Documentary films
The Swedish Film Institute
Josefina Mothander
Festival Manager, Short Films
The Swedish Film Institute
Otto Suuronen
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Short Films
Finnish Film Foundation
Suvi Railo
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Documentary Films
Finnish Film Foundation
