The event supported by the MEDIA Programme and the European Film Promotion member organisations, will be celebrating the Producers on the Move's tenth anniversary. The five Nordic producers have been selected by the national film institutes. "The Producers on the Move" is a great opportunity to meet like-minded European colleagues, to discuss our own projects and perhaps also pick up other European projects," said Potalivo. The former child actor, who graduated from the Danish Film School's production department in 2007, has recently been with M&M. Among the projects he has worked on are The Lost Treasure of the Knight Templar III and the 2009 Academy Award nominated short film The Pig. His biggest international project to date, At World's End by Tomas Villum Jensen is currently in post-production. The Danish/German/Australian co-production was supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
Matti Halonen has worked within the Finnish film industry since the 1990s as production manager, liner producer and producer since 2004. In 2006, he joined FS Film Oy to set up the company's Finnish production arm. His credits for FS include the romantic comedy 8 Days to Premiere that sold over 45,000 tickets in Finland last year, and the coming of age film Choir Boys by Olli Saarela, set to start shooting next winter.
Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottír entered the Icelandic film industry in 1996 as managing director of the Reykjavik Film Festival. Her various positions over the last ten years include production assistant at the Icelandic Film Corporation, buyer for Icelandic public broadcaster RUV, and head of international relations for the Icelandic Film Centre. In 2007, she produced Valdís Óskarsdóttir's festival hit Country Wedding, and set up Spellbound Productions in 2009 with Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Their first project together Mamma Gogo, supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, is in post-production.
Yngve Sæther produced several shorts and music videos before joining Motlys in 2001. He was head of development on Hans Petter Moland's Comrade Pedersen, and his first feature film production was the acclaimed directorial debut of Stian Kristiansen, The Man Who Loved Yngve, and Norway's 2008 Nordic Council Film Prize nomination. Sæther has six feature films in development, including the new film by Kristiansen, Kiss Me, you Fuckin Moron!
Erik Hemmendorff set up Plattform Production in 2002, with filmmaker and friend from Göteborg University of Film and Photography Ruben Östlund. Their Göteborg-based company has been hailed at home and internationally for their innovative work within Swedish cinema. Their feature film Involuntary was selected last year at Cannes' Un Certain Regard and has been sold to over 16 territories. Hemmendorff has also produced Patrik Eriksson's mobile phone feature An extraordinary Study in Human Degradation. He will use the Producer on the Move platform to present Östlund's new project Play and Axel Danielson's Twin Brothers