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Joanna Szymańska

Joanna Szymańska is a Warsaw-based film producer, founder of Shipsboy, and co-host of The Sideletters — a business podcast on the European audiovisual market. Her credits include Operation Hyacinth (Netflix Original), the family franchise Detective Bruno, and Red Path — an international co-production awarded at the Warsaw Film Festival and Red Sea IFF. A graduate of Berlinale Talents, EAVE, and ACE, she serves as Chairwoman of the Producers Guild of Poland and is a former Deputy Chair of the European Film Academy Board. She is currently completing her PhD at the Łódź Film School and lectures at universities in Poland and abroad.

Niki Théron

As a Senior Manager International Projects & Films at Frankfurter Buchmesse, I oversee international cooperations and book-to-screen partnerships and events on behalf of the largest book fair worldwide. I am a Books at Berlinale and Book-to-Screen at KVIFF jury member, a European Film Academy and French-German Film Academy member and an EAVE Future Partners’ alumna. Born and raised in France, I have lived in Germany for more than two decades and travel Europe for my work – bringing book and film lovers together.

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