Producers Connect

<div style="background-color: #f1f0f8; padding-bottom: 30px;"><p class="desc" style="padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 30px;">The Inaugural Producers Connect aims to generate interests, forge connectivity and steer international exchange of producers, directors and financiers worldwide for exploring collaborations, identifying co-production opportunities, fostering the sharing of creative ideas, and crystallizing ideas into film projects.</p><p class="desc">The 4-day programme consists of a panel discussion, fireside chats, workshops, group business matching sessions, and networking events. To view the full programme of Producers Connect, please click <a href="https://hkfilmart.hktdc.com/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Programme_info_1-4_OP_V2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong style="color: #4e2f91;"><u>here</u></strong></a></p></div>

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Head of Red Sea Fund</div>Red Sea Fund

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Emad_Eskandar-1.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Emad Eskandar</span>Head of Red Sea Fund<br />Red Sea Fund</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Emad Eskander is a Saudi storyteller/filmmaker. A marketing graduate from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals and started his professional career as a creative conceptualizer in ad agencies. He then gained valuable experience in multiple multinational companies such as Unilever and P&amp;G. His passion for films in Saudi and the region prompted him to leave the corporate world for a more creative role in local up-and-coming film agencies. In 2019, he founded his own conceptualizing and writing studio “Blue Bus Entertainment”, in his first year the studio was able to make huge strides in the local and regional film industry. Currently working as The Head of Red Sea Fund.</p>

Emad Eskandar

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">General Manager, International Content Development Centre</div>Alibaba Pictures

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Eric_Lin.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Eric Lin</span>General Manager, International Content Development Centre<br />Alibaba Pictures</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">With over 20 years of experience in film development and production, Eric Lin is currently the General Manager of Alibaba Pictures’ International Content Development Centre. He is also a veteran scriptwriter of such works as director Dante Lam’s action blockbusters “Operation Mekong” and “Operation Red Sea”, which were nominated for Best Screenplay at the 17th Huabiao Film Awards and the 34th Hundred Flowers Film Awards. As production executive, he was involved in Tsui Hark’s “Flying Swords of Dragon Gate” and “The Taking of Tiger Mountain”, Ann Hui’s “A Simple Life”, and the “Overheard” trilogy helmed by Alan Mak &amp; Felix Chong.</p>

Eric Lin

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Executive Producer</div>Gullane

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Gabriela_Tocchio-1.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Gabriela Tocchio</span>Executive Producer<br />Gullane</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Gabriela Tocchio believes in cinema as a transformative force for the economy and society. She has over 20 years of experience in communication and audiovisual production. She is a publicist with a specialization in Executive Production in the USA, an MBA in Marketing from USP and training in Entertainment Financing from UCLA. She began her career at Folha de S. Paulo and worked at Giusti/Loducca, where she honed her expertise in communications. She led strategic projects at Família Schurmann and Repense, combining creativity and social impact. For the last 10 years at Gullane, she has focused on the financing and structuring of feature films and documentaries, supporting national and international co-productions, distribution, pre-sales and fundraising. Her work builds bridges between art, innovation and market and strengthens the global audiovisual industry.</p>

Gabriela Tocchio

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Head of Int'l Film Production</div>CJ ENM

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Justin_Kim-2.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Justin Kim</span>Head of Int'l Film Production<br />CJ ENM</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Justin Kim is currently the Head of Int’l Film Production at CJ ENM and, also the General Director at CJ HK Entertainment Vietnam. He joined CJ ENM in 2010 was responsible for Int’l Sales of CJ ENM’s highly acclaimed films such as Snowpiercer by director Bong Joon-ho and The Handmaiden by director Park Chan-wook.<br /><br />He joined Int’l Film Production from 2017 and has actively produced more than 20 Int’l language films especially from South-East Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand) and Turkiye. In Vietnam, he recently produced consecutive record-breaking local films; MAI and The House of No Man (Nha Ba Nu) which became all-time Box Office No. 1 and No. 2 respectively along with the current Box Office sweeping film The Ancestral Home. In Indonesia, he produced most of CJ ENM’s strong IP based remake films such as Bebas (Sunny), and My Annoying Brother along with multiple horror hits including Dreadout, Impetigore and Jailangkung Sandekala to name a few.<br /><br />He strongly believes in genuine power of the original story from Asian creators and his lifetime mission has been spreading wonderful Asian films to Int’l audiences as far as he could.</p>

Justin Kim

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Producer</div>LES PETITES LUMIERES (FRANCE)<br>China Blue Films

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Natacha-2.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Natacha Devillers</span>Producer<br />LES PETITES LUMIERES (FRANCE)<br />China Blue Films</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Natacha Devillers is a seasoned French film producer with over 25 years’ experience, including almost 20 years with China and 5 in Indonesia as well as several with Turkey, who has overseen over 30 feature films as producer or executive producer, focusing mainly on coproductions between Asia and Europe. Recently she produced “Pekingman: The Last Secrets of Humankind” for 10.7/France Television and CCTV, as well as a France-China coproduction “Moon the Panda” with Gaumont &amp; Mai Juin.</p>

Natacha Devillers

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Managing Director, Producer</div>Momo Film Co

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/TAN_SI_EN.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Tan Si En</span>Managing Director, Producer<br />Momo Film Co</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Tan Si En is a film and television producer and the founder of Momo Film Co.<br /><br />A distinguished alumnus of Berlinale Talents and Rotterdam Lab, Si En has produced a number of acclaimed films. Notably, Don't Cry, Butterfly by Dương Diệu Linh won both the Grand Prix and the Most Innovative Film Award at the Venice Critics Week in 2024. Dreaming &amp; Dying by Nelson Yeo claimed two prestigious Golden Leopards at the Locarno Film Festival in 2023, while Wet Season by Anthony Chen premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019, where it was part of the Platform Competition. Wet Season was later selected as Singapore’s official submission for the Academy Awards in 2021, earning 12 international awards, including the prestigious Golden Horse Awards.<br /><br />Si En’s latest co-productions include The Year of the Everlasting Storm (Cannes 2021), Arnold Is a Model Student by Sorayos Prapapan (Locarno 2022), Andragogy by Wregas Bhanuteja (Toronto 2023), Some Nights I Feel Like Walking by Petersen Vargas (Tallinn Black Nights 2024), and This City Is A Battlefield by Mouly Surya (Rotterdam 2025).<br /><br />Si En was the assistant producer of POP AYE by Kirsten Tan, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2017 and the VPRO Big Screen Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam.<br /><br />Currently, Si En is developing and producing a slate of award-winning projects, including Red Butterfly alongside Studiocanal, Levitating by Wregas Bhanuteja and A Useful Ghost by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, among others.<br /><br />In addition to their production work, Si En has led initiatives such as the Objectifs Short Film Incubator and the Momo Distribution Grant.<br /><br />Si En’s contributions to the industry have been featured in major publications including Screendaily, Variety, Tatler, and Channel News Asia. In 2020, they were named one of The Straits Times' 30 Under 30 – The Arts. In 2021, they received the Youth Inspiration Award from the National Youth Council and Scape. In 2023, Si En was recognized by Tatler's GenT as one of the Leaders of Tomorrow, and in 2024, they were honored with the Young Artist Award, Singapore's highest accolade for art practitioners aged 35 and under.</p>

Tan Si En

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Producer / Curator</div>mylab

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Lorna_Tee.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Lorna Tee</span>Producer / Curator<br />mylab</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Lorna Tee is a film producer &amp; curator, dividing her time between Asia &amp; Europe. She has over 20 years of experience in the media &amp; entertainment industry with key positions in Focus Films, Variety, Irresistible Films, Berlinale, CinemAsia FIlm Festival Amsterdam and International Film Festival &amp; Awards Macao plus has served as jury and advisors at major international film festivals &amp; film markets globally. She is producing with her Malaysian company Paperheart, and with Amsterdam-based company, An Original Picture, focusing on director driven films made for an international audience. She is the founder/ curator of mylab, (a development &amp; training programme), the international acquisitions advisor for Barunson E&amp;A (South Korea), the Market Advisor for JAFF Market and the secretary-general of the Asian Film Alliance Network (AFAN).</p>

(Moderator) Lorna Tee

International Coproduction: Balancing Risks and Rewards

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Head of International Relations</div>British Film Institute

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Agnieszka_Moody-2.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Agnieszka Moody</span>Head of International Relations<br />British Film Institute</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Agnieszka Moody is the Head of International Relations at the British Film Institute. She looks after international and industrial policy, strategy and engagement, developing and nurturing international relationships and opening opportunities for UK-based screen professionals in the international marketplace. With nearly 30 years’ experience, Agnieszka has extensive international network and in-depth understanding of international screen business and culture. She is currently working on the implementation of the international segment of the BFI’s new ten-year strategy (2023-2033), and revisions of UK’s co-production treaties with Australia and Canada. <br /><br />Previously, Agnieszka was the Director of Creative Europe Desk UK, a promotion and information office of the European Union’s funding programme Creative Europe, where she helped hundreds of British companies secure funding for their projects from the EU and organised a range of industry events and conferences promoting co-production and wider international cooperation. <br /><br />In 2018, Agnieszka was seconded from the BFI to Creative Scotland where, as Interim Director of Screen, she supported the launch and the first six-months roll out of Screen Scotland, a partnership of several public agencies to promote the development of screen sector in Scotland. A graduate of the Film Production Department of the renowned Polish National Film and Television School in Lodz, she has worked on several feature films including Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List.</p>

Agnieszka Moody

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">International Co-production Fund Manager - UK Global Screen Fund</div>British Film Institute

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Attica_DAKHIL.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Attica Dakhil</span>International Co-production Fund Manager - UK Global Screen Fund<br />British Film Institute</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Attica currently works at the British Film Institute for the UK Global Screen Fund managing the International Co-production strand. She joined the BFI International team in October 2017 and has worked and coordinated the activities across co-production, export and the international funds. She previously worked in the International and UK Acquisitions and Production departments at StudioCanal in London and in Paris. She is bilingual in German and Italian and fluent in English and French. She has a BA from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and an MA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Cologne, Germany.</p>

Attica Dakhil

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Director</div>S11 Partners Limited

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Cora_Yim.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Cora Yim</span>Director<br />S11 Partners Limited</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Co-founder and CEO of S11 Partners and a veteran in Chinese Film &amp; TV, Cora YIM worked in few major international studios including FOX Networks Group, Media Asia Group and Golden Harvest Entertainment. As Head of Chinese Content &amp; Programming at FOX, Cora coproduced ‘Trading Floor’ original miniseries with Andy Lau, and ‘Stained’ TV series for Tencent Pictures. Her credits also include ‘SARA’ ‘More than Blue’ ‘29+1’ ‘Memory Eclipse’. Her recent works include ‘Taiwan Crime Stories’ a TV series co-produced with Imagine Entertainment and Calfilms for Disney+ which garnered awards and recognition internationally, a 2023 HAF winning IDP Hong Kong film project ‘The Marriage Drive’. <br /><br />After the FOX Creative Lab for Taiwan held in 2018, Cora also set up EMERGE program for new creative talents with TAICCA and Imagine Entertainment in 2022-2023. In 2024, she launched Emerge 2.0, a program to select six film projects in Taiwan and Singapore for a special proposal session for international buyers at the Marché du Film in Cannes. In recent 60th Golden Horse FPP, her upcoming Taiwanese original series project ‘The Fixers’ won Catchplay International Spotlight Award.</p>

Cora Yim

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Vice President</div>International Short Drama Association

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Jin_Wang.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Jin Wang</span>Vice President<br />International Short Drama Association</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Jin Wang has served as a judge for the International Emmy Award for Best TV Drama (Europe). She is the secretary of the Short Drama Working Committee of the China Television Drama Production Industry Association and the director of the Film and Television Center at China Broadcasting Audio-Video Publishing House. She participated in planning the Chinese section at the Toronto International Film Festival. As a planner, she has worked on TV dramas such as "The Affairs of Our Family," "Live a Better Life," "Big Family," "My Gorgeous Mom," "Moving Forward to Happiness," "Here Comes the Police Dog," and "Separation at the Next Stop." She was also a co-producer of the films "Lost and Found" and "Karst."</p>

Jin Wang

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">CEO</div>Medialink

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Lovinia_Chiu.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Lovinia Chiu</span>CEO<br />Medialink</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Ms Chiu Siu Yin, Lovinia is the founder, the chairman of the Board, the chief executive officer, the executive Director of Medialink Group Limited. She is a creative, energetic, wise and farsighted entrepreneur who has more than 36 years of experiences in media and entertainment industry.<br /><br />Ms Chiu started her career in content distribution in August 1988. With her visionary and strong entrepreneurship, she established Medialink in 1994. Medialink is the first of its kind company, distributing third party intellectual property or licensing materials recognized and capable to be listed on the main board of Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 21 May 2019.</p>

Lovinia Chiu

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Producer</div>KawanKawan Media

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Yulia_Evina_Bhara-1.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Yulia Evina Bhara</span>Producer<br />KawanKawan Media</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Yulia Evina Bhara is a producer and the founder of KawanKawan Media, a production company based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She has produced among others: Solo, Solitude (2016) by Yosep Anggi Noen, The Science of Fictions (2019) by Yosep Anggi Noen, You and I (2020) by Fanny Chotimah, Whether The Weather Is Fine by Carlo Francisco Manatad (2021), Stone Turtle by Woo Ming Jin (2022), Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak (2022), Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell Eu (2023), Dreaming &amp; Dying by Nelson Yeo (2023), Last Shadow At The First Light by Nicole Midori Woodford (2023), 24 Hours With Gaspar by Yosep Anggi Noen (2023), Don’t Cry, Butterfly by Linh Duong Dieu (2024), and Tale of the Land by Loeloe Hendra (2024). She was chosen as one of Variety Internationals’s Impactful Women in 2023.</p>

Yulia Evina Bhara

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<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Executive Director &amp; Co-founder</div>Trinity Film CineAsia

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Cedric_Behrel.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Cedric Berhel</span>Executive Director &amp; Co-founder<br />Trinity Film CineAsia</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Cedric co-founded and is Managing Director of Trinity, an all-right film distributor dedicated to bringing outstanding cinema and the best Chinese film to UK audiences. Prior to setting up Trinity, Cedric gained a BA with Honours in Philosophy from the Sorbonne-Paris University and competed the MA Filmmaking programme at the London Film School. <br /><br />An independent distributor since 2006, Trinity has released iconic movies over the years such as Denis Villeneuve’s intersectional debut, Academy Award nominated INCENDIES, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s JACK GOES BOATING, Paolo Sorrentino’s THIS MUST BE THE PLACE starring Sean Penn, Ulrich Seidl’s Import Export, Graham Chapman’s animated biopic A LIAR’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, and Gaspar Noé’s ENTER THE VOID. <br /><br />The Cine Asia label, acquired in 2015, represents the largest catalogue of Chinese films in the UK, including the IP MAN franchise and many films featuring key Asian film luminaries such as Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen and Chow Yun Fat. In the last 18 months, Trinity has had great success releasing the most prominent Chinese films in cinemas, including YOUTH, DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 2, and WOLF WARRIOR 2, which is the highest-grossing film in China to date.</p>

Cedric Berhel

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">CEO</div>Orisa produzioni

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Cristiano_Bortone-1.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Cristiano Bortone</span>CEO<br />Orisa produzioni</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">Bortone is known in the industry as a director, writer, producer and animator of several film initiatives. After attending the University of Southern California (USC), in 1991 he graduated from New York University in film and television. Among the films he directed, RED LIKE THE SKY (2006) Italian film award and Best film at more than 25 int. film festivals; COFFEE (2016) first official co-pro between Italy, Belgium and China, Special event at Venice days and nominated at the China Media awards; MY PLACE IS HERE (2024) Best director and Best female actress at the Bif&amp;st and Italian Film Critics Award.<br /><br />Bortone is also an appreciated producer. In 1998 he founded the Italian company Orisa Produzioni and in 2010 the Chinese one Yiyi Pictures. He produced both art house and more commercial movies. He was nominated twice as Best Italian producer. Among his productions the Sino-Italian-German romantic comedy THE ITALIAN RECIPE 遇见你之后 (2022) co-produced with Kaixin Mahua. He has been consultant of Creative Europe and has taught at different institutions including the Beijing Film Academy. He is co-founder and Managing director of the Euro-Asian producers association Bridging Visions.</p>

Cristiano Bortone

<div class="text-level-caption text-font-bold line-limit-2 mt-1">Producer</div>Yiyi Pictures

<div style="display: inline-block;"><img style="max-width: 200px; width: 90%; border-radius: 100px;" src="/conference/hkfilmart/wp-content/uploads/sites/111/2025/03/Fan_Zhang-1.jpg" /></div><div style="display: inline-block;"><span class="text-level-body theme-text text-font-bold line-limit-2 StandLogo_title__1142i">Fan Zhang</span>Producer<br />Yiyi Pictures</div><p style="padding-top: 20px;">ZHANG Fan, producer of Yiyi Pictures, China office manager of Asian-European producers association Bridging the Dragon.<br /><br />In 2018, she joined Sino-European producers’ association Bridging the Dragon (BTD) as well as started to work as independent producer. Her current film as producer, Living the Land (2025, p.k.a The Wind Is Unstoppable), is selected by 75th Berlinale Competition and won Silver Bear for Best Director (Huo Meng). She produced the first official China-Italy co-production feature The Italian Recipe (2022) with biggest Chinese comedy house FunAge Pictures. Together with Lianray Pictures, supervised by Leste Chen, she produced feature film User Not Found, which is expected to release in 2025.<br /><br />Being the official partner of EFM and Marché du Film, she (representing Bridging the Dragon) also curated multiple Sino-European events and panels. She works as consulting producer for major Chinese film production companies, acquiring international IPs and remakes.</p>

Fan Zhang

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