Talent manager at Casarotto Ramsay Associates Limited in London, Rob Kraitt has wide ranging experience representing writing and directing talent; and selling books for film & television adaptation. He has participated on panels and masterclasses for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain and the International Screenwriter’s Festival amongst others. He was also part of the BFI’s delegation to Shanghai and Beijing in 2015. Rob started his career as a script editor and consultant for many top film production companies in the UK including Working Title, Focus, Pathé Productions, Miramax and Ruby Films as well as the European Media Development Agency. Prior to joining Casarotto in February 2011, he was Head of Media and Associate Director of A P Watt Literary Film & Television Agency.

Dr. Christian Franckenstein (Jahrgang 1963) ist seit 6. Oktober 2014 Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Bavaria Film GmbH.

Er kam von der MME Moviement AG, wo er seit 2004 dem Vorstand der MME Moviement AG angehörte und seit 2010 als dessen Sprecher bzw. Vorsitzender.

1999 hatte Christian Franckenstein die moviement GmbH, München, mitgegründet, die unter seiner Leitung zu einer der führenden unabhängigen Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaften in Deutschland ausgebaut wurde. Im Jahre 2007 gelang mit dem Einstieg der All3Media als Mehrheitsgesellschafter die wichtige Anbindung an einen internationalen Partner und Formatlieferanten.

Der gebürtige Westfale Christan Franckenstein studierte nach einer kaufmännischen Ausbildung Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der European Business School. Nach verschiedenen Funktionen bei mittelständischen Beteiligungsgesellschaften und seiner Promotion gründete er 1997 mit Partnern die erfolgreichen NOVAMEDIA– Fonds, eine Beteiligungsgesellschaft für Film- und Fernsehfinanzierung.

Christian Franckenstein ist seit ihrer Gründung im Jahre 2008 Vorstandsmitglied der Allianz Deutscher Produzenten und war zwischen 2005 und 2014 Aufsichtsratsmitglied und ab 2008 Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der Studio Babelsberg AG.

Er lebt mit seiner Familie mit drei Kindern seit 1992 in München.

Helena Mackenzie is the Head of Inward Investment & Business Development at Film London. She delivers key industry events such as the London Screenings and the Production Finance Market, helping producers to raise finances for their feature film productions. She originates in & outbound bespoke programmes to encourage and facilitate international co-productions with London-based producers and oversees the emergence of new film studios in the British capital.

Adrian is a Programme Advisor to the BFI London Film Festival; Venice Film Festival and Noir in Fest, Milan; Founding Director of Shots in the Dark Festival, Nottingham and Curator of the annual Cinema Made In Italy programme, London.

Adrian is a recognised authority in various film/TV and literature subjects (Hollywood, crime and mystery and Italian Cinema amongst others) and regularly lectures, writes broadcasts and curates programmes on them. In 2012, Adrian received an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts and was appointed Visiting Professor of Film & Media at Norwich University of the Arts.

In 2016, Adrian wrote and coproduced the BBC Arena Documentary Shakespeare on Screen . In 2014, Adrian received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for Services to Film. Most recently, Adrian has led the BFC’s work to develop the COVID-19 Production Guidance for Film and High-end TV drama, as part of the BFI’s wider COVID-19 Screen Sector Recovery Task Force.

Unanimously regarded as one of Britain's finest directors, Stephen Frears has always embraced a wide variety of styles, themes and genres. He worked almost exclusively for the small screen in the first 15 years of his career, with programs such as One Fine Day by Alan Bennett and Three Men In A Boat by Tom Stoppard. Stephen’s more recent TV work includes Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight for HBO and Channel 4’s The Deal starring Michael Sheen and David Morrissey. In the mid-1980s he turned to the cinema, shooting The Hit (1984), starring Terence Stamp, John Hurt and Tim Roth. The following year he made My Beautiful Laundrette for Channel 4, which crossed over to big-screen audiences and altered the course of his career. After directing its companion piece Sammy And Rosie Get Laid and the Joe Orton biopic Prick Up Your Ears, he began working in Hollywood, with Dangerous Liaisons and the Grifters (for which he was Oscar®-nominated) among his most notable titles.

Returning closer to home, he directed The Snapper and The Van, two Irish films based on Roddy Doyle stories and, after a second spell of making American films (The Hi-Lo Country and High Fidelity), based himself largely in Britain. Frears showed his versatility with two vastly different movies – Dirty Pretty Things, a realistic account of immigrant life in London, and Mrs Henderson Presents, a nostalgic backstage comedy-drama. For his 2006 film The Queen he was again nominated for an Oscar. His subsequent films included Cheri and Tamara Drewe. He followed these with Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, which won a BAFTA and was nominated for three others, along with three Golden Globe and four Oscar nominations; The Program, which starred Ben Foster as seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong; and Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, which received various accolades including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Picture and an Oscar nomination for Streep. Frears followed this with Victoria & Abdul, which starred Judi Dench, who received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.

Frears’ return to TV was with the acclaimed three-part BBC television series A Very English Scandal, which won Stephen a BAFTA for Best Director. He followed this up with an Emmy win for Nick Hornby’s short form series State Of The Union - starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd; and most recently directed QUIZ for ITV – James Graham’s TV adaptation of his play, starring Michael Sheen and Matthew Macfadyen.

Oliver Schütte studied film and theater in Berlin. He has been a screenwriter for film and television since 1986. He won the German Film Prize in 1988 for his first screenplay, "Koan". Since 1990, he has been working as a Script Consultant. From 1995 until 2008 he was the director of the Master School Drehbuch, an institution for advanced education of screenwriters, script consultants and producers. In 1997, he co-founded the "Script House" development agency in Berlin which he left in 2001.

Today he works as a writer, script consultant and as a lecturer in Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland and USA.

Since 2014 he is also the managing director of the filmproduction „tellfilm Deutschland“.

Oliver Schütte is a founding member of the German Film Academy.

Adrian is a Programme Advisor to the BFI London Film Festival; Venice Film Festival and Noir in Fest, Milan; Founding Director of Shots in the Dark Festival, Nottingham and Curator of the annual Cinema Made In Italy programme, London.

Adrian is a recognised authority in various film/TV and literature subjects (Hollywood, crime and mystery and Italian Cinema amongst others) and regularly lectures, writes broadcasts and curates programmes on them. In 2012, Adrian received an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts and was appointed Visiting Professor of Film & Media at Norwich University of the Arts.

In 2016, Adrian wrote and coproduced the BBC Arena Documentary Shakespeare on Screen . In 2014, Adrian received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for Services to Film. Most recently, Adrian has led the BFC’s work to develop the COVID-19 Production Guidance for Film and High-end TV drama, as part of the BFI’s wider COVID-19 Screen Sector Recovery Task Force.

Cameron Kostopoulos is an award-winning director, filmmaker, and XR pioneer. The overlap between his alternative writing & directing and technical VFX skills frees him to create dreamt worlds, fading memories, and deeply intimate experiences.

​In May 2022, he graduated Summa Cum Laude from USC's School of Cinematic Arts, with a BFA in Film & Television Production and a minor in Future Cinema. Currently, he is studying under Nonny de la Peña and Mary Matheson at ASU’s Narrative & Emerging Media Program.

Cameron’s work has been awarded by many world-class festivals and organizations. His XR experience “Body of Mine” won the Special Jury Award at SXSW, while his student short film “A Mother’s Soliloquy” was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the Student Academy Awards, and won him many regional and national awards for Best Director.

With a multidisciplinary approach to filmmaking, his work blends poetic cinema with narrative storytelling, relying on emotional realism to explore the inner human psyche. He has worked with leading LGBTQ+ organizations to create and promote stories about queer identity, including The National AIDS Memorial and The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and has collaborated with queer artists including Jason A. Rodriguez, co-star of the FX series POSE, to bring underrepresented characters to the screen.

Moving into the future, he is continuing to explore the intersection of technology and intimacy, while writing and directing live-action films and XR experiences.

Joshua Gundlach is a story teller. A 2021 graduate from Kunsthochschule Kassel, he centers his art around Judaism, queerness and disability. He primarily works with making games, illustrations and textile art.

Katarzyna Perlak is a Polish-born artist, based in London who employs video, performance, textiles, sculpture, and installation in her works.

Perlak studied Philosophy in Poland and Fine Art Media in the UK.

She was part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 and shows in the UK and internationally.

Through her work Perlak explores how crafts, heritage and traditions can be revisited and re-imagined from contemporary feminist, queer and diasporic, migrant perspectives. She engages 'affective truths' such as myths, tales, dreams, desires, collective memories, and seeks to problematize how history is written and traditions are represented.

By questioning who tradition belongs to and who it overlooks, her work encourages audiences to consider and experience multiple, overlapping and contesting historical narratives rather than as a single, fixed entity.

Laura is a screenwriter and playwright whose first feature film LAPWING was released in cinemas in 2021 (Bulldog Distribution). The film, featuring Hannah Douglas, Emmett J Scanlan and Sebastian de Souza, was selected for the BIFA To Watch List November 2021 and received critical acclaim. Previously, her award-winning short films GOING COUNTRY, PENNYWORT and INSIDE have been funded by BFI Network and BBC New Creatives, winning awards at film festivals across the world. A member of BIFA Springboard, BAFTA Crew, and a Finalist in the Women of the Future Arts and Culture Awards, Laura is currently developing feature and television projects. As a playwright, she has had over 50 plays produced nationally and internationally and runs Fury Theatre. Laura is represented by Rob Kraitt at Casarotto Ramsay.

Oliver Schütte studied film and theater in Berlin. He has been a screenwriter for film and television since 1986. He won the German Film Prize in 1988 for his first screenplay, "Koan". Since 1990, he has been working as a Script Consultant. From 1995 until 2008 he was the director of the Master School Drehbuch, an institution for advanced education of screenwriters, script consultants and producers. In 1997, he co-founded the "Script House" development agency in Berlin which he left in 2001.

Today he works as a writer, script consultant and as a lecturer in Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland and USA.

Since 2014 he is also the managing director of the filmproduction „tellfilm Deutschland“.

Oliver Schütte is a founding member of the German Film Academy.

Daniel specialises in the computational production and analysis of visual culture. His research combines critical frameworks in the history and theories of cinema, television, and photography, with advanced technical practice in creative and scientific computing, including applied machine learning technologies.

He has worked extensively in interdisciplinary design and creative industries, in Mexico and in the UK, with cultural institutions such as The British Council, and the BBC. He was senior research fellow at the Cultural Analytics Open Lab in Estonia, and is now Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, where he is also part of the Computational Humanities Group, and research fellow at the Creative AI Lab, in partnership with the Serpentine Gallery.

It is said Hidéo Snes is otherworldly, different. A creature, so deranged, strange, and twisted, its presence remains in constant flux. A tentacled elder-god, a multi-breasted space-vixen, a many-faced, utterly fiendish beast. Hidéo Snes is not one, but many. Not one thought that echoes through the void, but a chorus. A frightful symphony of ideas. Fundamentally questioning the idea of artistic production processes, Hidéo Snes establishes a neomodern continuum, wherein the fractured self is being mirrored in equally distorted selves. Hidéo SNES works with artificial intelligence and conducts artistic research into its racist, misogynist and queerphobic aspects. SNES’ works have been presented at Mumok (Vienna, AT) and Kiasma (Helsinki, FI), and have been part of exhibitions on four continents.

Wolfgang M. Schmitt is a film critic and author. He runs the ideology-critical YouTube channel "Die Filmanalyse", and also co-hosts the zeitgeist podcast "Die Neuen Zwanziger" ("The New Twenties)" and the economics podcast "Wohlstand für Alle" ("Prosperity for All"). In spring 2021, together with Ole Nymoen, he published the non-fiction book " Influencer. Die Ideologie der Werbekörper" ("Influencers: The Ideology of Advertising Figures").

Adrian is a Programme Advisor to the BFI London Film Festival; Venice Film Festival and Noir in Fest, Milan; Founding Director of Shots in the Dark Festival, Nottingham and Curator of the annual Cinema Made In Italy programme, London.

Adrian is a recognised authority in various film/TV and literature subjects (Hollywood, crime and mystery and Italian Cinema amongst others) and regularly lectures, writes broadcasts and curates programmes on them. In 2012, Adrian received an Honorary Doctorate in the Arts and was appointed Visiting Professor of Film & Media at Norwich University of the Arts.

In 2016, Adrian wrote and coproduced the BBC Arena Documentary Shakespeare on Screen . In 2014, Adrian received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia and in 2017 was awarded an OBE for Services to Film. Most recently, Adrian has led the BFC’s work to develop the COVID-19 Production Guidance for Film and High-end TV drama, as part of the BFI’s wider COVID-19 Screen Sector Recovery Task Force.

Marcus John Henry Brown is a performance artist based in Munich. He moved to Germany in 1993 having studied Art & Social context at Dartington College of Arts.

Marcus splits his time between performance art, mentoring young creatives, teaching business professionals the dark art of public speaking and creating exciting virtual event experiences for commercial clients and brands.

He has created a series of critically acclaimed performances examining the relationships between and impact of technology, culture and commerce on society. He calls them Presenterventions.

Daniel specialises in the computational production and analysis of visual culture. His research combines critical frameworks in the history and theories of cinema, television, and photography, with advanced technical practice in creative and scientific computing, including applied machine learning technologies.

He has worked extensively in interdisciplinary design and creative industries, in Mexico and in the UK, with cultural institutions such as The British Council, and the BBC. He was senior research fellow at the Cultural Analytics Open Lab in Estonia, and is now Lecturer in Digital Culture and Creative Computing in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, where he is also part of the Computational Humanities Group, and research fellow at the Creative AI Lab, in partnership with the Serpentine Gallery.

Stephan Busch is a sound engineer, recording studio owner and operator. In 1993 he completed his training as a sound engineer at SAE Frankfurt and has been working for film and sound production studios in Frankfurt since 1995.

Specializing in voice recordings and dialogue editing, music and film mixes for industry, trade fair and training films as well as language programs, he is a service provider for national and international customers, including TV stations such as ARD, arte, ZDF, 3sat, Hessischer Rundfunk or publishers such as Hoffmann and Campe, Saga Egmont Denmark, lagato Verlag and telc languages international. In the "Buch- und Medienpraxis", an education program of the Goethe University Frankfurt, he supervises the technical content of the audio journalism course offered.

Guido Hettinger has been a lawyer and founding partner of the law firm Brehm & v. Moers since 1997. At the Frankfurt office he is responsible for copyright and media law as well as for information technology law both advisory and conflict resolution. Guido Hettinger advises producers of well-known TV programmes and series as well as producers of cinema movies and computer games on financing and legal structuring for their productions and on rights clearing and distribution. In addition, he advises portal operators and providers of social media channels on all questions of copyright and media law as well as data protection law.

Guido Hettinger is an honorary board member of the Freunde und Förderer des deutschen Filmerbes e.V. (Friends and Sponsors of German Film Heritage) and of two film political interest groups in the State of Hesse. He regularly gives lectures on legal issues of film and computer game production and is a lecturer at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences.

Daniel Gebhardt is a Philosopher and Photographer who experienced the recent rise of NFTs and Crypto from the fashion industry's perspective. As a lecturer and trainer for intercultural communication and marketing at AMD, Berlin, he observed global innovative trends and markets critically and differentiated. Daniel Gebhardt also advises companies and brands from various industries (finance, pharmaceuticals, fashion) on questions of innovation and change communication.