EDN Chairman C. Cay Wesnigk, Director, Author, Producer, CEO of ONLINEFILM AG, Germany

C. Cay Wesnigk studied visual communication at the University of Arts in Hamburg. 1987 he founded the C. Cay Wesnigk Filmproduktion. Since then he has written, directed and produced several feature length and short films. Most of Wesnigk's films have been shown and some even awarded on festivals all over the world.

In 1995/96 Wesnigk worked freelance with an advertising agency specializing in new media and Internet where he was responsible for the development and production of Internet and multimedia presentations. Following this he decided to bring his new gained knowledge back to the film industry. In 2000, together with 120 other producers, directors and authors he founded the OnlineFILM AG as a public company to use digital technologies for the distribution of audiovisual content. He has worked as CEO of OnlineFILM since then. After riding the ups and downs of the dotcom crash, finally in 2007 the project Onlinefilm.org, a European web project to make it possible for filmmakers to very easily upload and offer there films for sale over the internet, was awarded a grant as a MEDIA pilot project and is now a functioning portal with +250 films online. As a European project, www.onlinefilm.org has partnered with production companies and dedicated individuals in countries such as Greece, Italy, Austria, Ireland, Slovenia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Wesnigk is also Vice President of AG DOK, Germany's largest community of independent producers with 800 members. And chairman of the board of VG Bild-Kunst, the German collecting agency for creative Artists and Producers of films www.bild-kunst.de.
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Raffaele Brunetti, Director, Producer & CEO B&B Film, Italy

Raffaele Brunetti has been a documentary-film director and producer since 1987. He founded B&B Film, a production house based in Rome. The company develops and produces creative documentary films through co-production and broadcast agreements, ranging from social issues, to History, to environment. Raffaele Brunetti’s documentaries have been broadcast in more than 160 countries and have been awarded at several international film festivals. His latest film, Hair India, was selected for the official competition of IDFA (The Netherlands, 2008), Festival dei Popoli (Italy, 2008), Full Frame Film Festival (USA, 2009), Hot Docs (Canada, 2009), Prix Italia (Italy, 2009), as well as for other major film festivals and won the Ondas Award as best International Programme (Spain, 2009).

He is a member of the Foreign Press Association in Italy and he’s in the board of  Doc/it (Italian Documentary Association). He is director of the “Italian Doc Screenings”, Italian documentary showcase.

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Alexandre Cornu, Producer, Les Films du Tambour de Soie, France
Since 1987, I have been producing short films and creative documentaries, around one hundred, treating most of all topics related to Art and Culture. Artist portraits and films related to great exhibitions in co-production with several museums like Orsay, Louvre, Rodin, Centre Georges Pompidou, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Art museums of Marseille, Nantes and Grenoble.
Since ten years now, we've been opening up our production to topics concerning society and have been encouraging the emergence of new authors.
I have been involved in several international co-productions like Novela at the Santa Casa, selected this week in Doc Lisboa - International competition. I've always a lot of pleasure to take part in EDN Workshops, as participant or tutor more often, a lot of pleasure to discuss with my collegues, to share some information and advises when I'm tutoring for La Fémis or Eurodoc.
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Joan Gonzalez, producer & Head of DocsBarcelona, Parallel40, Spain

I am manager of Parallel40 since 1996, when it was founded, and I have been working in the audiovisual field for 30 years.

I have always been interested in the concrete facts of the present, in producing documentaries; and in a long term, I am interested in generating advantageous conditions for the development documentaries, a human activity that I always felt very related to democracy.

I have been film editor, director and producer. Since Parallel40 was created I have worked as a documentary executive producer. Some of those films have been selected and awarded at Berlin Film Festival, INPUT, IDFA, Sundance. I am an active supporter and member of FC Barcelona.

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Ivana Miloševič, Independent Director & Head of Program at Institute of Documentary Film, Czech Republic

Ivana Miloševič graduated in humanities from the Charles University and in documentary film direction at FAMU in Prague. Her creative professional experience includes direction of documentary films mainly on social and political topics. Her recently completed feature doc “Never Been Better” covers the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, and her hour-length doc “Damas de Blanco,” focuses on unofficial dissident women movement in Cuba.

Ivana has been with the Institute of Documentary Films since 2003. Within IDF, Ivana is responsible for the Ex Oriente Film workshop, East European Forum as well as supervision of East Silver documentary film market and partner involvements in the Burmese workshop “The Art of Documentary” run by the Yangon Film School . For the last three years, Ivana is an external teacher at FAMU Prague Film Academy, and two years ago she became a mother with her son, Thor.

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Kees Ryninks, Director & Producer, The Netherlands

Kees Ryninks started working in documentaries as a free-lance sound recordist. From 1977 he was a student in direction and production at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, England. After graduation in 1981 Ryninks worked as cameraman, independent producer and director for BBC, Channel Four and ITV. From 1990 he started to focus more on producing documentaries, six of which won major awards in Europe and America. In 1997 he moved back to The Netherlands and founded his own company Ryninks Films; productions include the award-winning films Romance de Valentía, Silent Witness, The Hunt, Lágrimas Negras, A Cry from the Grave and Two Loves.

Between 2001 and 2007 Ryninks was Head of Documentaries at the Netherlands Film Fund. In 2002 he initiated DocuZone; a project in which ten art-house cinemas were equipped with a digital set-up for weekly showing of documentaries. Within the 3 years of this experiment more than 70 Dutch and international documentary titles were released in those ten cinemas. In 2004 the DocuZone concept was expanded into CinemaNet Europe, a digital cinema network in 175 cinemas across 8 European countries. The initiative was awarded several MEDIA grants and run between 2004 and 2006. Its existence guaranteed more than 30 documentaries a pan-European release next to 120 domestically released digital films.

Kees Ryninks has been a regular tutor and panel member for pitching workshops in Barcelona, Bardonecchia, Lisbon, Buenos Aires and Santiago, amongst others. In March 2009 he started working as a free lance Producer & Director.

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Serge Tréfaut, Director & Producer, Portugal
Sérgio Tréfaut was born in Brazil in 1965. He has an MA in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University and began his career as a journalist in Lisbon. He is an experienced documentary producer-director with some awarded titles: Alcibiade (1992), Outro País/Another Country (1999), Fleurette (2002), Lisboetas/Lisboners (2004). His films were distributed or broadcasted in more than 30 countries. His last film, Lisboners, about immigration was a true national political event and became the documentary with the largest audience ever in Portugal. He is presently president of Apordoc (the Portuguese Documentary Association) and director of Doclisboa - International Documentary Film Festival.
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