EAVE announces 4 new National Representatives
Press release
EAVE is proud to announce 4 new appointments as EAVE country ambassadors. With great film industry experience and careers, those 4 players in the international film industry have been selected to become part of the EAVE NationalRepresentatives' Network.
BULGARIA : Magdelena Ilieva, Little Wing
Magdelena studied film directing in Bulgaria and NYU. Her company Little Wing Productions has (co)produced several shorts and a feature, and is currently developing the feature MONEY FOR A FUNERAL (Berlinale Talent Project Market 2016) while co-producing EAVE project SIREN’S CALL – in prep, produced by EAVE alumna Emine Yildirim of Giyotin Films, Turkey.
CANADA : Félize Frappier, Max Films Media
After having worked in world sales, Félize Frappier made the leap into producing with Guy Édoin’s feature débutWetlands (2011 Venice Critics’ Week, TIFF, Pusan). She then produced Another House by Mathieu Roy (Audience Prize and Best Actor at 2013 Montréal WFF), Mathieu Denis’ Corbo (2014 TIFF, Canada’s Top Ten, Berlin) and Guy Édoin's Ville-Marie (L’Atelier 2014, TIFF, Rome Film Fest, Tallinn, Goa, Santa Barbara, Miami, Dublin). She is developing projects with up-and-coming Québec directors, including Myriam Verreault and Sophie Deraspe.
SLOVAK REPUBLIC : Alexandra Strelková, National Cinematographic Centre
Alexandra was actively involved with film festivals (Bratislava IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF) before joining the Slovak Film Institute in 2005 as the head of the National Cinematographic Centre, responsible for international relations of the Institute and the promotion and visibility of Slovak cinema (both archive and recent) and audiovisual industry. She is the representative of the Slovak Film Institute in European Film Promotion.
TURKEY : Gülin Üstün, Meetings on the Bridge / GU-FILM
Gülin established GU-FILM for production and consultancy for project development and marketing. After giving production service to several international films she realized a co-production with Belgium. Since 2006 she has been part of the advisory board of Meetings on the Bridge. In 2010 she became the head of this section. She is a script advisor and also the cinema programming manager at Soho House ?stanbul.
The 4 new National Representatives are joining the other 31 players of the European film industry who have been selected from the EAVE network to represent and promote EAVE in their respective countries.
Find the complete list of EAVE ambassadors on our website.
Page published 7 June 2016.
