Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale. Hosted by international TV Expert Max Goldbart, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

This episode tackles aspects such as a way more competitive market, a content focus shift to Asia, an increasingly difficult customer acquisition to the question of skills shortage and sustainability, creative input and AI on the horizon.

Ioanina Pavel: I’ve been a development and creative producer for HBO for the better part of my thirties, having worked on both returning series and event miniseries, drama and reality TV in Romania. It’s been an immersive and infinitely gratifying process for me, a long-time TV buff, the joy of working in storytelling is why I can’t stop grinning most of the time. No show has at once challenged and reaffirmed my daily sense of joy quite like Spy/Master has over these past years, and I’m stoked that it’s landed in such auspicious company.

Oliver N. Bachert, Chief Distribution Officer of Beta Film, oversees the company’s sales and acquisition activities. Furthermore, he is responsible for all business affairs in Italy, UK and North America. Bachert has been with Beta since 2002. Prior to this, he was production executive in KirchGroup’s production division, as well as at Epislon / Evision, a joint venture of KirchGroup and Italy’s Mediaset. He joined KirchGroup in 1998 after studying business administration and communication in Munich and Venice.

Guy Bisson has been a leading entertainment market analyst with a specialisation in the global television business for the past 30 years. He is a regular speaker and moderator at many of the world’s leading entertainment business conferences, a frequent media commentator in print and broadcast and author of numerous reports and research articles on the business and strategy of the global television industry. Guy is co-founder of Ampere Analysis, a London-based analyst house focused on the entertainment and content business, which draws on title-level movie and TV analysis, consumer research and market forecasting to create a holistic outlook for the future of the industry. Guy previously led the television research practice at both Screen Digest and IHS.

Max Goldbart is International TV Editor at Deadline, covering the global TV sector with a focus on Europe and the UK. He writes breaking news and features about all facets of the industry and also pens the weekly International Insider newsletter, along with editing magazines for major TV markets. He was previously at UK TV trade Broadcast, where he specialized on the BBC and rose from Reporter to Chief Reporter during a four-year stint.

This podcast episode has been developed in collaboration with DEADLINE.

The Berlinale’s European Film Market is the first international film market of the year, where the film industry starts its business. Industry Insights - The EFM Podcast puts a spotlight on highly topical and trendsetting industry issues, thereby creating a compass for the forthcoming film year. The year-round podcast is produced in cooperation with Goethe-Institut and co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA.

Kick off your EFM day with this short morning coffee companion: our daily EFM Morning Brief. 10 minutes to keep you up to speed with the latest news – today provided by our guest correspondent Thomas Schultze from Blickpunkt:Film, followed by our "what's on for today" to help you navigate our EFM Industry Sessions and spot highlights and tips for the day. Make sure to tune into our EFM Morning Brief to stay on top of all the essentials and get the latest EFM buzz, hosted by Wendy Mitchell.

EFM Morning Brief is part of the year-round podcast series Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale - hosted by industry analyst Johanna Koljonen and curator-producer Nadia Denton, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

Kick off your EFM day with this short morning coffee companion: our daily EFM Morning Brief. 10 minutes to keep you up to speed with the latest news – today provided by our guest correspondent Eric Kohn from IndieWire, followed by our "what's on for today" to help you navigate our EFM Industry Sessions and spot highlights and tips for the day. Make sure to tune into our EFM Morning Brief to stay on top of all the essentials and get the latest EFM buzz, hosted by Wendy Mitchell.

EFM Morning Brief is part of the year-round podcast series Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale - hosted by industry analyst Johanna Koljonen and curator-producer Nadia Denton, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

Kick off your EFM day with this short morning coffee companion: our daily EFM Morning Brief. 10 minutes to keep you up to speed with the latest news – today provided by our guest correspondent Manori Ravindran from Variety, followed by our "what's on for today" to help you navigate our EFM Industry Sessions and spot highlights and tips for the day. Make sure to tune into our EFM Morning Brief to stay on top of all the essentials and get the latest EFM buzz, hosted by Wendy Mitchell.

EFM Morning Brief is part of the year-round podcast series Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale - hosted by industry analyst Johanna Koljonen and curator-producer Nadia Denton, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

Kick off your EFM day with this short morning coffee companion: our daily EFM Morning Brief. 10 minutes to keep you up to speed with the latest news – today provided by our guest correspondent Scott Roxborough from The Hollywood Reporter, followed by our "what's on for today" to help you navigate our EFM Industry Sessions and spot highlights and tips for the day. Make sure to tune into our EFM Morning Brief to stay on top of all the essentials and get the latest EFM buzz, hosted by Wendy Mitchell.

EFM Morning Brief is part of the year-round podcast series Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale - hosted by industry analyst Johanna Koljonen and curator-producer Nadia Denton, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

Kick off your EFM day with this short morning coffee companion: our daily EFM Morning Brief. 10 minutes to keep you up to speed with the latest news – today provided by our guest correspondent Louise Tutt from Screen International, followed by our "what's on for today" to help you navigate our EFM Industry Sessions and spot highlights and tips for the day. Make sure to tune into our EFM Morning Brief to stay on top of all the essentials and get the latest EFM buzz, hosted by Wendy Mitchell.

EFM Morning Brief is part of the year-round podcast series Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale - hosted by industry analyst Johanna Koljonen and curator-producer Nadia Denton, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale. Hosted by industry analyst Johanna Koljonen, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

In this episode, Linda Beath, Petri Kemppinen and Fredrik af Malmborg, three hand-picked international experts share their insights on strategies how to finance a feature film or TV Series in this fast changing financing landscape.

Linda Beath works with producers to find funding for projects ranging from features to documentaries to animated films to primetime television dramas. She trains producers and other industry practitioners and consults for public funders on policy issues. Linda Beath set up Ideal Filmworks in Canada 30 years ago to raise development and production financing. The company was later incorporated in Italy, adding business and strategic planning to its core business.

Fredrik af Malmborg is the CEO of Eccho Rights, a development, investment and distribution company with offices in Stockholm, London, Istanbul, Madrid and Seoul with 40 employees and strong annual growth. The mission is to support producers in developing top TV series and to help them retain and grow the value of IP. Eccho is since 2022 part of Night Train Media, a venture-backed by investor Serafin.

Petri Kemppinen has over 30 years of experience in the audio-visual sector, journalism, and publishing. CEO at Aurora Studios since August 2021, he has through his career worked internationally with financing, production, and development, in several roles within film and TV. Prior to Aurora Studios, Kemppinen worked as an independent consultant in his company P1 Kemppinen and between 2013 to 2019 as CEO of the pan-Nordic funding body Nordisk Film & TV Fond in Oslo. His past employers include The Finnish Film Foundation and YLE The Finnish Broadcasting Company.

Johanna Koljonen is a media analyst, broadcaster, and experience designer based in Sweden. She is co-founder of boutique consulting firm Participation Design Agency, and the author of the Göteborg Film Festival’s annual Nostradamus Report.

This podcast episode has been developed in collaboration with the Nostradamus Project of the Göteborg Film Festival.

The Berlinale’s European Film Market is the first international film market of the year, where the film industry starts its business. Industry Insights - The EFM Podcast puts a spotlight on highly topical and trendsetting industry issues, thereby creating a compass for the forthcoming film year. The year-round podcast is produced in cooperation with Goethe-Institut and co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA.

Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale. Hosted by strategist, conference curator, moderator & speaker AC Coppens, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

In this episode, an international group of forward thinkers will put their entrepreneurial instincts on display as we take a look at the new realities and unfolding opportunities for “smart producing” coming out of the intersecting worlds of tech and media. Join EFM Startups Alumni Maria Tanjala, Fiona Gillies, Max Hermans and Alex Serdiuk who discuss the innovative production tools they have developed and honed and the creative ways technology can be used to empower the future of film production.

Maria Tanjala, Co-founder, FilmChain

Maria Tanjala is a UK-based producer and entrepreneur, passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to the creative industries.

Fiona Gillies – Co-founder and CEO, SMASH

Fiona Gillies is an independent film producer and co-founder of My SMASH Media.

Alex Serdiuk, Co-founder and CEO, Respeecher

Alex Serdiuk co-founded Respeecher in 2018. Respeecher is an Emmy-award winning voice cloning company, enabling one person to speak in the voice of another particular person (speech-to-speech voice conversion). A primary focus of the company is the democratization of the technology to allow sound professionals and creators worldwide have access to the tool. Respeecher is the only synthetic speech tech used in Hollywood studio movies, including in the Star Wars universe, creating the voice of young Luke Skywalker in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and Darth Vader in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.

Max Hermans, Co-founder and COO, TheGreenShot

Max is a self-made entrepreneur who started his own company in 2012 focusing on organising events and promoting artists. In 2016 his career took a turn towards the film industry as he worked as a supervising location manager and production coordinator on many international productions across Europe. From his hands-on experience, he lived through wastefulness on productions which was the impetus to create a new solution involving crews in making productions greener.

The host AC Coppens is a strategist, conference curator, host, moderator & speaker. They founded THE CATALYSTS, an agency for innovative & creative players working at the crossing of Digital Tech, Film/XR, Music/Sound, Design & Culture, to turn conferences into sites of knowledge exchange and co-creation.

The Berlinale’s European Film Market is the first international film market of the year, where the film industry starts its business. Industry Insights - The EFM Podcast puts a spotlight on highly topical and trendsetting industry issues, thereby creating a compass for the forthcoming film year. The year-round podcast is produced in cooperation with Goethe-Institut and co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA.

Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale. Hosted by Curator and Impact Producer Nadia Denton, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

In this episode, guest speaker Helene Granqvist dives deep into the subject of Sustainability. Explaining the limits of our current system, she shows how discovering our impact can lead to new possibilities. In this context, she reflects on the role of leaders and collaboration, and highlights the importance of the creative industry on building a sustainable future.

Helene Granqvist is a prizewinning producer who has worked with film and television for more than 30 years, with films represented at festivals - like Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. She also works as an international pitch coach and is since 2018 the president for Women in Film & Television International.

The host Nadia Denton is a film industry specialist with over a decade of experience as a Curator, Impact Producer and Author. Her focus has been on cinema of the African diaspora, she specialises in Nigerian Cinema and is author of two books The Black British Filmmakers Guide to Success and The Nigerian Filmmaker’s Guide to Success: Beyond Nollywood. Nadia is also an official V&A African Heritage Tour Guide.

This podcast episode has been developed in partnership with Industry@Tallinn and Baltic Event.

The Berlinale’s European Film Market is the first international film market of the year, where the film industry starts its business. Industry Insights - The EFM Podcast puts a spotlight on highly topical and trendsetting industry issues, thereby creating a compass for the forthcoming film year. The year-round podcast is produced in cooperation with Goethe-Institut and co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA.

Industry Insights – The EFM Podcast is presented by the European Film Market of the Berlinale. Hosted by industry analyst Johanna Koljonen, it delves deep into the rapidly evolving film industry.

In this episode guest speakers Isona Admetlla, Valeria Richter and Paola Wink explain what audience design, audience development and audience strategy mean to them. They share their experience with Audience Development Strategy and demonstrate how it can become an essential tool throughout the development and distribution of a film, making the whole process more creative, efficient and sustainable.

Scriptwriter and coach Valeria Richter works internationally since 2006, where she writes and consults on feature films/TV series, develops lab/script concepts, and specialises in pitch coaching. She has headed 50+ workshops since she in 2008 was part of creating renowned training outfit, TorinoFilmLab (TFL) where she created the outreach approach, Audience Design in 2011, writing a free e-book on this strategic concept in 2018. She premiered an 8-part TV drama series Next of Kin as head writer/creator in Finland 2022 (on Elisa Viihde Viaplay). With Helene Granqvist, she runs a sustainability, inclusion and leadership focused project lab and network concept, New Nordic Narratives, through their joint outfit, Nordic Factory.

Paola Wink is a CEO and producer at Vulcana Cinema (Brazil). She produced features such as El Empleado y El Patrón premiered at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes, Castanha and Rifle, both premiered at Berlinale Forum. She's a member of EAVE.

Isona Admetlla is a Sociologist and Cultural Manager. Lecturer and Audience Design Consultant. Born in Barcelona, she is based in Berlin since 2001 and is the coordinator of the Berlinale-World Cinema Fund. Additionally she works for festivals, funds, universities and training initiatives and her areas of expertise include audience design strategies, evaluation of feature film and documentary projects as well pitch training and project development in the form of lectures, workshops, master classes or tailor-made programmes mostly in Europe and Latin America. She is also EAVE and TorinoFilmLab Alumni.

The host Johanna Koljonen is a media analyst, broadcaster, and experience designer based in Sweden. She is co-founder of boutique consulting firm Participation Design Agency, and the author of the Göteborg Film Festival’s annual Nostradamus Report.

This podcast episode has been developed in partnership with the World Cinema Fund.

The Berlinale’s European Film Market is the first international film market of the year, where the film industry starts its business. Industry Insights - The EFM Podcast puts a spotlight on highly topical and trendsetting industry issues, thereby creating a compass for the forthcoming film year. The year-round podcast is produced in cooperation with Goethe-Institut and co-funded by Creative Europe MEDIA.