Nordic Producers On The Move 2012

Signe Leick Jensen started her production career at Nimbus Film in 1996 where she held various positions such as production coordinator and production manager on films like Festen and It's All About Love. She then worked at Zentropa where she worked on Lars von Trier's Manderlay and The Boss of it All, following this she returned to Nimbus to produce The Experiment and the Danish Oscar-shortlisted film Superclásico. In March 2011 she joined the established producer and former Nimbus Film colleague Morten Kaufmann to set up Toolbox Film. She has just finished the production of Bille August's new Danish language film Marie Krøyer for SF Film Production.

Liisa Penttilä has worked as producer since 2001, co-producing Lars Von Trier's Dogville and Hendrik Handloegten's Summer Window among others.  In 2001, in partnership with Zentropa, she set up Edith Film where she works as executive producer. Her credits include Saara Saarela's Twisted Roots (2009) and Aku Louhimies' Naked Harbour, still playing on Finnish screens (over 93,000 admissions). Penttilä's upcoming production Pizza Desperata by Simo Halinen will be released this autumn. She comes to Cannes with Louhimies' boxing project Ultimate Fight and Juha Lehtola's tragicomedy Boy Upside Down.

Arnar Knútsson founded Filmus Productions in 1999. He first focused on TV commercials and co-production of documentaries and TV shows for local and international clients such as the BBC, and HBO. His first feature film Black's Game by Óskar Thór Axelsson produced with Zik Zak Filmworks has become the second biggest grossing film in Iceland. Knútsson has completed the documentary Winterhouse about a group of British soldiers stationed on Iceland in the Second World War. He is currently developing the TV series Anna Stands up for Denmark and Axelsson's second feature The Gold Crash.

Brede Hovland worked over five years in Los Angeles at Spyglass Entertainment, Touchstone/Walt Disney Pictures and Motion Blur before moving back to Norway. He joined Motlys - one of Norway's leading production houses - in2006. His credits include several award-winning productions such as Rune Denstad Langlo's North, the TV series Buzz Aldrin and Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's Tribeca winner Turn Me On, Goddammit. Hovland is currently working on Hanne Myren's Jealousy and Langlo's Chasing the Wind.

Sandra Harms had her first production experiences at Memfis Film (2006-2007) then at Breidablick Film (2007-2009). Her short film Spending the Night was selected for Berlin's competition in 2008 and the feature film Starring Maja, co-produced with Ireland, was three times nominated at Sweden's Guldbagge awards. She joined Sonet Film in 2010 where she has been working as main producer on Karzan Kader's feature debut Bekas, a Swedish-Finnish-Iraqi co-production ready for release this autumn. She is going to discuss in Cannes Maria Nygren's feature debut The Things You Cannot See set to shoot in September 2012.