A panel of internationally recognised producers discuss what they’ve learned from making films during the pandemic, and if there have been any positive outcomes from the process.
Presented by Documentary Campus
Speakers
- Ada Solomon, Producer, Hi Film Productions and Micro Film, Romania
- Elizabeth Karlsen, Producer, Number 9 Films, UK
- Adis Đapo, Producer, SCCA/pro.ba, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Moderated by
- Paula Alvarez Vaccaro, Producer, Pinball London, UK
Ada Solomon
Ada Solomon is a Romanian producer. She has produced more than 60 titles, such as Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude, 2021, Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival), I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (Jude, 2018, Grand Prix Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival), Aferim! (Jude, 2015, Silver Bear at Berlin), Child’s Pose (Calin Netzer, 2013, Golden Bear at Berlin) and executive produced Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann. She has worked with leading Romanian filmmakers including Jude, Cristian Nemescu, Ivana Mladenovic, Adrian Sitaru and Alexandru Solomon. She has co-produced films with more than fifteen countries and was involved in the debuts of Belgian Marta Bergman; Italians Chiara Malta, Federico Bondi and Adriano Valerio; Serbian Ivana Mladenovic; Swedish-Romanian Ștefan Constantinescu; and accomplished directors like Tomasz Wasilewski and Slobodan Sijan. Solomon is Deputy Chair of the European Film Academy, Executive President of EWA Network, EAVE RO coordinator, an ACE board member, a founding member of Alliance of Film Producers Ro, and the 2013 winner of the Prix Eurimages of the EFA Awards.
Elizabeth Karlsen
Internationally renowned award-winning producer Elizabeth Karlsen co-founded the leading independent UK-based production company Number 9 Films in 2002 with partner Stephen Woolley. In 2019, she and Woolley jointly received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Karlsen has produced some of the most celebrated independent films in the United States and Europe, among them Todd Haynes’s Carol, which was nominated for six Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards and nine BAFTAs; Mark Herman’s Little Voice, which won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award, six further Golden Globes and six BAFTAs; Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game, winner of an Academy Award and a BAFTA, and a nominee for six further Academy Awards; Made in Dagenham, which was nominated for three BAFTAs; Phyllis Nagy’s Mrs Harris, which was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes and a PGA Award; and Wash Westmoreland’s Colette, which was nominated for four BIFA’s and an Independent Spirit Award). Other work includes On Chesil Beach, written by Ian McEwan and directed by Dominic Cooke, and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth (nominated for an Academy Award and the winner of three European Film Awards). Karlsen’s work with Woolley has garnered a total of fifty-two BAFTA nominations and wins and twenty Academy Award nominations and wins. Her most recent feature, Mothering Sunday, written by Alice Birch, directed by Eva Husson and starring Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Sope Dirisu, Colin Firth and Olivia Colman, was selected for the 2021 Festival de Cannes and is scheduled for international release later this year. She and Woolley are currently in production on Living, scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro, directed by Oliver Hermanus and starring Bill Nighy, Aimee-Lou Wood and Alex Sharp.
Adis Đapo
Adis studied literature and art history at the University of Sarajevo. He started working in film production straight out of high school as a member Sarajevo based SCCA/pro.ba. His producing credits include Aida Begić’s CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO (Cannes 2012 – Un Certain Regard Jury Distinction), Danis Tanović’s AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER (Berlinale 2013 – Jury Grand Prix) and DEATH IN SARAJEVO (Berlinale 2016 – Jury Grand Prix). More recently he produced Nermin Hamzagic's FULL MOON (Nominated for European Discovery 2020) and Igor Drljaca's THE WHITE FOTRESS (Berlinale 2021). He is a member of the European Film Academy and EAVE network.
Paula Alvarez Vaccaro
An award-winning producer and scriptwriter, Paula Alvarez Vaccaro began her career as a journalist in Argentina and has over twenty-five years’ experience working in film, television, radio and print media on three continents. Pinball London, the company she founded in London in 2009, has worked with directors from more than fifteen countries and has won more than thirty awards at A-list festivals worldwide. She is a member of BAFTA, the Writers Guild of Great Britain, the European Film Academy and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network. She is currently on her third mandate as Vice-President of the European Producers Club and is one of the founders of the Anti-Racism Taskforce for European Film.