Luke has over a decade’s exper­i­ence as a script edit­or and devel­op­ment exec­ut­ive, hav­ing worked on dra­mas for ITV, Mam­moth Screen, Sky, and the BBC before join­ing Big Light in 2015 on The Man in the High Castle. Since March 2016, he has worked on script devel­op­ment and in the writers’ room of Ransom, a …

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Ben has just fin­ished writ­ing and exec­ut­ive pro­du­cing Young Wal­lander, the show he cre­ated for Yel­low­bird and Net­flix about the form­at­ive exper­i­ences of the icon­ic detect­ive Kurt Wal­lander. Before that, Ben wrote and exec­ut­ive pro­duced Dev­ils, star­ring Patrick Demp­sey for Lux Vide and Sky Italia, a con­spir­acy thrill­er set in the world of high fin­ance. …

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Since 1990, Nic­ola Lusuardi has been work­ing as a play­wright for sev­er­al pro­duc­tion com­pan­ies and as a screen­writer, story edit­or and super­visor for tele­vi­sion net­works RAI, MEDIASET, SKY (In treat­ment Itali­an ver­sion, Barabba, Il segreto di Thomas, La Mon­aca di Monza). He also works as a script con­sult­ant and tutor at the Torino­­FilmLab-Inter­­change and Bien­nale …

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Award-win­n­ing writer-pro­­du­cer Frank Spot­nitz began his 20+ year career with The X‑Files, serving as  exec­ut­ive pro­du­cer and writ­ing or co-writ­ing more than 40 epis­odes of the sem­in­al sci­ence-fic­­tion  series. Spot­nitz has been no less pro­lif­ic in recent years, cre­at­ing and exec­ut­ive pro­du­cing Amazon’s  award-win­n­ing The Man in the High Castle, now in its fourth sea­son. …

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Born in Par­is, Cyril first stud­ied film­mak­ing at the Sor­bonne, then at UCLA. He then learnt hands-on pro­duc­tion on the sets of Tim Burton’s Edward Scis­sorhands and Laurence Kazdan’s pro­duced film Dizzi­ness. His career in screen­writ­ing and devel­op­ment began at com­pan­ies like Pan­dora, Arte, Canal Plus, Equi­noxe and Tele Images. After a few years as …

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Jef­frey Bell is a showrun­ner, writer, dir­ect­or and exec­ut­ive pro­du­cer. He began his tele­vi­sion career writ­ing for The X‑Files. He was showrun­ner on sev­er­al net­work series includ­ing Ali­as and Day Break for ABC and Harper’s Island for CBS. He was co-cre­at­or and showrun­ner of the ABC-pro­­duced series The Pro­tect­or and a con­sult­ing pro­du­cer on the …

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Fol­low­ing his stud­ies of Inter­na­tion­al Eco­nom­ics at the Maastricht Uni­ver­sity, Jan Ben­nemann star­ted his career in TV as dram­at­urge and assist­ant dir­ect­or. In 2003 he went on to work as pro­du­cer and since then has pro­duced over 100 hours of seri­al­ized prime­time TV drama for the Ger­man and the inter­na­tion­al mar­ket. Work­ing for Ger­man prodco’s …

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Dav­id Bian­culli has been the TV crit­ic for Nation­al Pub­lic Radio’s Fresh Air, where he also appears as occa­sion­al guest host, since 1987. He has worked as a TV crit­ic for news­pa­pers in Flor­ida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, most recently for the New York Daily News from 1993–2007. Cur­rently, he is edit­or and colum­nist …

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Olivi­er Bib­as is an exec­ut­ive pro­du­cer and Co-Man­a­ging Dir­ect­or of Atlantique Pro­duc­tions, a sub­si­di­ary of Lagardère Stu­di­os. Since 2011, he has over­seen devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of numer­ous inter­na­tion­al TV series, includ­ing Mid­night Sun, Bor­gia, Jo and Trans­port­er – The Series. He star­ted his career at CANAL+ in 1995 where he held vari­ous pos­i­tions in busi­ness …

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Maria has been telling audi­ovisu­al stor­ies for over 15 years. Her pro­fes­sion­al path has lead her through Ger­man TV fic­tion, inde­pend­ent film pro­duc­tion, the pub­lish­ing world, inter­na­tion­al co-pro­­duc­­tions and con­tent for VOD plat­forms. Since 2011, Maria man­aged devel­op­ment and inter­na­tion­al co-pro­­duc­­tions for the Span­ish pro­duc­tion com­pany Pla­no a Pla­no. In 2017, Maria became part of …

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As Exec­ut­ive Pro­du­cer with DR TV (Dan­ish Broad­cast­ing Corp.) Sven Clausen became a three time Emmy win­ner for the drama series Unit One (2002), The Eagle (2005), and The Pro­tect­ors (2009). After retir­ing as pro­du­cer Sven worked through­out 2013 as Head of Fic­tion at the com­mer­cial Dan­ish TV2 and is now a con­sult­ant with major …

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Born in Lon­don, Ellis is a screen­writer, cur­rently liv­ing in Ber­lin where he is Head of Screen­writ­ing at the DFFB. He began teach­ing at the Lon­don Film School, where he developed the Writer’s Gym, a series of cre­at­ive writ­ing work­shops for screen­writers, dir­ect­ors and pro­du­cers.  He has held the work­shop inter­na­tion­ally at the AFI Con­ser­vat­ory; …

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Piod­or Gust­afs­son has more than twenty-five years of exper­i­ence in film, TV and advert­ising. Since Septem­ber 2012, Piod­or has run his and Tomas Alfredson’s pro­duc­tion com­pany Anoth­er Park Film. Peter joined SVT in Octo­ber 2009 and was a mem­ber of the Pro­gram­ming Board until August 2012. At SVT he was Head of Pro­gram­ming and Com­mis­sion­ing …

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Kirsten Itter­sha­gen was born and raised in Ham­burg, Ger­many. After gradu­at­ing her stud­ies of Soci­ology, Cul­tur­al Stud­ies, Polit­ics and Psy­cho­logy at the Uni­ver­sity of Ham­burg, she began work­ing in advert­ising and brand man­age­ment but dreamed of a career in the TV Industry. In 2005 she decided to make the leap of faith. Kirsten Itter­sha­gen moved …

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Domi­n­ique gradu­ated from French lead­ing movie school LA FEMIS with a major in Screen­writ­ing. For ten years, she worked as Dir­ect­or of French Drama and Co-Pro­­duc­­tions at the Canal+ Créa­tion Ori­ginale (Ori­gin­al Pro­gram­ming) Depart­ment, where she played a pivotal role in their series’ devel­op­ment. In 2016, Domi­n­ique was appoin­ted Exec­ut­ive Cre­at­ive VP of Stu­di­ocanal TV …

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Sarah Lin­ton is a Devel­op­ment Exec­ut­ive at Kudos. Pri­or to this, Sarah worked as Script Edit­or on the first series of dra­mat­ic thrill­er Killing Eve. Pro­duced by Sid Gentle Films and writ­ten by Fleabag cre­at­or Phoebe Wall­er-Bridge for BBC Amer­ica. Pri­or to Killing Eve, Sarah script edited sev­er­al dra­mas includ­ing ITV’s The Hal­cy­on (Left Bank …

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Steve was Con­sult­ing Pro­du­cer on all three series of Neil Jordan’s series The Bor­gi­as for Show­time Net­works, and pro­duced four series of RTE’s award win­ning Dub­lin gang­ster series Love/Hate. He was formerly Head of Devel­op­ment at Ray Winstone’s Size 9 Pro­duc­tions and worked as a script edit­or at the BBC on Silent Wit­ness. He is …

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Born in 1966, Sonia Moy­er­soen first com­pleted a law degree and stud­ied theatre before becom­ing an act­ress. Since 1994, she has developed around a hun­dred TV movies, in the capa­city of Head of Devel­op­ment at GMT Pro­duc­tions: includ­ing Monte-Cristo, Balzac, Les Mis­ér­ables, Aime ton père by Jac­ob Ber­ger. Since 2007, she has super­vised and acted …

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Mag­gie Murphy is an inde­pend­ent Exec­ut­ive Pro­du­cer for Shaft­es­bury U.S. and foun­ded the company’s Los Angeles-based divi­sion focused on devel­op­ment for the U.S., Cana­dian, and inter­na­tion­al mar­kets. She has a new pro­ject in devel­op­ment at CBC in Canada with Katie Ford (Miss Con­geni­al­ity) writ­ing. Her most recent pro­du­cing cred­it is the drama series Houdini&Doyle , …

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As a Ber­­lin-based coach, train­er and facil­it­at­or, Mayte is an expert in design­ing, plan­ning and sup­port­ing human devel­op­ment pro­cesses for groups and indi­vidu­als. Her work focusses on pur­­pose- and val­ues­driv­en lead­er­ship, col­lect­ive ideation and storytelling. Besides a uni­ver­sity degree in Fine Arts, Per­form­at­ive Arts, Philo­sophy and Cul­tur­al Man­age­ment, she holds cer­ti­fic­ates in Sys­tem­ic Coach­ing, Gen­er­at­ive …

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Donna Sharpe is co-writ­ing TROM, a Dan­ish political/crime thrill­er series (6 x 54 for Viaplay Nor­d­ic, ZDF and the BBC, sched­uled to shoot sum­mer 2020). Pri­or to his, she co-wrote all six epis­odes of Ber­­lin-set espi­on­age drama WEST OF LIBERTY (6 x 45 for ZDF and SVT, 2019), as well as the pilot for Sea­son 2 (in devel­op­ment). …

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Johnath­an Young is a pro­du­cer and exec­ut­ive pro­du­cer with a long his­tory in the tele­vi­sion industry. He joined HBO Europe as an Exec­ut­ive Pro­du­cer in 2014, and was respons­ible for Mamon in the Czech Repub­lic and Pakt in Poland in 2015, and Pakt2 and Valea Muta in Romania in 2016. In Janu­ary 2017 he became …

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Klaus Zimmermann’s career star­ted in 1993 at the Ger­man com­pany Kirch­Gruppe. For two years, he worked in Munich along­side the company’s Dir­ect­or of Pro­duc­tion and Dis­tri­bu­tion, Jan Mojto. He was suc­cess­ively in charge of mar­ket­ing, inter­na­tion­al dis­tri­bu­tion and inter­na­tion­al pro­duc­tions. In this capa­city, he par­ti­cip­ated in pro­duc­tion of anim­a­tion films, fea­ture films, tele­vi­sion series and …

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Piod­or Gust­afs­son has more than twenty-five years of exper­i­ence in film, TV and advert­ising. Since Septem­ber 2012, Piod­or has run his and Tomas Alfredson’s pro­duc­tion com­pany Anoth­er Park Film. Peter joined SVT in Octo­ber 2009 and was a mem­ber of the Pro­gram­ming Board until August 2012. At SVT he was Head of Pro­gram­ming and Com­mis­sion­ing …

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Han­no Hack­fort was born in Pader­born in 1970. After jobs as Assist­ent Dir­ect­or and musi­cian on sev­er­al theatre pro­duc­tions, he star­ted work­ing as Boomop­er­at­or and Sound Engin­eer on vari­ous TV and fea­ture films in Ger­many and abroad. At the same time, he star­ted dir­ect­ing his own short films and in 2002 he  shot his fea­ture …

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Kirsten Itter­sha­gen was born and raised in Ham­burg, Ger­many. After gradu­at­ing her stud­ies of Soci­ology, Cul­tur­al Stud­ies, Polit­ics and Psy­cho­logy at the Uni­ver­sity of Ham­burg, she began work­ing in advert­ising and brand man­age­ment but dreamed of a career in the TV Industry. In 2005 she decided to make the leap of faith. Kirsten Itter­sha­gen moved …

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Bob Kon­rad was born in Heidel­berg in 1968 and stud­ied at the UdK Ber­lin. Since 1993 he has writ­ten and dir­ec­ted numer­ous radio plays, radio play series and radio com­edy for pub­lic broad­casters. He found his way to tele­vi­sion in 2000 through an anim­a­tion series. His first fea­ture film Bess­er als Schule fol­lowed. Since then he …

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Richard Kropf was born in West Ber­lin in 1979. He began his career as an act­or and trained at the Lee Stras­berg Insti­tute in New York before writ­ing the short film Bum Bum in 2005, which he co-dir­ec­ted with Mar­cus Schuster. Kropf then focused on screen­writ­ing and was co-head writer of the SAT1 series Der …

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Sarah Lin­ton is a Devel­op­ment Exec­ut­ive at Kudos. Pri­or to this, Sarah worked as Script Edit­or on the first series of dra­mat­ic thrill­er Killing Eve. Pro­duced by Sid Gentle Films and writ­ten by Fleabag cre­at­or Phoebe Wall­er-Bridge for BBC Amer­ica. Pri­or to Killing Eve, Sarah script edited sev­er­al dra­mas includ­ing ITV’s The Hal­cy­on (Left Bank …

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Steve was Con­sult­ing Pro­du­cer on all three series of Neil Jordan’s series The Bor­gi­as for Show­time Net­works, and pro­duced four series of RTE’s award win­ning Dub­lin gang­ster series Love/Hate. He was formerly Head of Devel­op­ment at Ray Winstone’s Size 9 Pro­duc­tions and worked as a script edit­or at the BBC on Silent Wit­ness. He is …

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Donna Sharpe is co-writ­ing TROM, a Dan­ish political/crime thrill­er series (6 x 54 for Viaplay Nor­d­ic, ZDF and the BBC, sched­uled to shoot sum­mer 2020). Pri­or to his, she co-wrote all six epis­odes of Ber­­lin-set espi­on­age drama WEST OF LIBERTY (6 x 45 for ZDF and SVT, 2019), as well as the pilot for Sea­son 2 (in devel­op­ment). …

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Sabine Stey­er-Viol­­et is a screen­writer (Oth­er Par­ents, TNT Series) and cre­at­ive pro­du­cer (Unortho­dox, cre­ated by Anna Wing­er, Net­flix) and works some­times as a music super­visor (Bad Banks, ZDF/Arte) too. She stud­ied visu­al com­mu­nic­a­tion with Wim Wenders and Gerd Roscher at the Hoch­schule für bildende Kün­ste Ham­burg. She com­pleted a fea­ture length doc­u­ment­ary, vari­ous doc­u­ment­ary con­tri­bu­tions for Arte, 3sat and ZDF …

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Ben is an award-win­n­ing Devel­op­ment Pro­du­cer with extens­ive exper­i­ence in scrip­ted TV and Radio for the UK and Inter­na­tion­al mar­kets. He has a strong track record of devel­op­ing, script edit­ing and pro­du­cing high qual­ity com­edy and drama with both emer­ging and estab­lished tal­ent. Ben strongly believes that the best time to start a new job …

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Klaus Zimmermann’s career star­ted in 1993 at the Ger­man com­pany Kirch­Gruppe. For two years, he worked in Munich along­side the company’s Dir­ect­or of Pro­duc­tion and Dis­tri­bu­tion, Jan Mojto. He was suc­cess­ively in charge of mar­ket­ing, inter­na­tion­al dis­tri­bu­tion and inter­na­tion­al pro­duc­tions. In this capa­city, he par­ti­cip­ated in pro­duc­tion of anim­a­tion films, fea­ture films, tele­vi­sion series and …

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Ms. Chan­ning Dun­gey has been Pres­id­ent of ABC Prime­time Enter­tain­ment since Feb­ru­ary 17, 2016. Ms. Dun­gey served as Seni­or Vice Pres­id­ent of Drama at ABC Prime­time Enter­tain­ment since June 2009. She served as Seni­or Vice Pres­id­ent of Drama Devel­op­ment at Touch­stone Tele­vi­sion Pro­duc­tions, LLC (formerly ABC Tele­vi­sion Stu­dio) and also served as its Vice Pres­id­ent …

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Tom Fontana has writ­ten and pro­duced such ground break­ing tele­vi­sion series as St. Else­where, Hom­icide: Life On The Street, Oz, The Phil­an­throp­ist, and Cop­per. He recently fin­ished film­ing Bor­gia for Net­flix and Canal+. He has received, among oth­ers, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers’ Guild Awards, four Tele­vi­sion Crit­ics Asso­ci­ation Awards, the Cable …

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Win­ner of the BAFTA for Best Inter­na­tion­al Series, 2012 Jeppe Gjer­vig Gram was born 1976 in Odense, Den­mark. After uni­ver­sity stud­ies, he worked for 6 years as a drama series con­sult­ant for Dan­ish net­work TV 2, deal­ing with acquis­i­tion of inter­na­tion­al series as well as com­mis­sion­ing of ori­gin­al Dan­ish series, before enrolling in the screen­writ­ing …

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Jed Mer­curio is one of the few UK script-writers to work as an Amer­­ic­an-style showrun­ner. His most recent cred­it, Line of Duty, is the most watched BBC2 drama series in the mul­tichan­nel era. His oth­er cred­its include Lady Chatterley’s Lov­er, Crit­ic­al, Strike Back, Bod­ies, The Grim­leys, Invasion:Earth and Car­di­ac Arrest. Line of Duty and Bod­ies …

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  Abi Morgan’s plays include SKINNED and SLEEPING AROUND (Paines Plough); TINY DYNAMITE (Tra­verse); TENDER (Hamp­stead); SPLENDOUR and FUGEE (Nation­al Theatre), LOVESONG (Frantic Assembly) and 27 (NTS) and The MISTRESS CONTRACT (Roy­al Court) . Her tele­vi­sion work includes MY FRAGILE HEART, MURDER, SEX TRAFFIC, TSUNAMI – THE AFTERMATH, WHITE GIRL, ROYAL WEDDING, BIRDSONG and THE …

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Anna Wing­er is the cre­at­or of the acclaimed TV series  Deutsch­land 83 and Deutsch­land 86. Her nov­el This Must Be the Place is pub­lished by River­head Pen­guin.Her essays have appeared in The NewYork Times Magazine, Con­dé Nast Trav­el­er and the Frank­furter Allge­meine Zei­tung. Her work for Deutsch­land 83 has been awar­ded with an Inter­na­tion­al Emmy …

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