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Mychael Danna

Mychael Danna is an Academy Award-winning film composer recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music. His works include the Oscar and Golden Globe-winning score for Ang Lee’s LIFE OF PI.

Born in Canada in 1958, Danna studied music composition at the University of Toronto, where he first discovered world music, a genre that would go on to influence his later work. After composing for, among others, school theatre groups, Danna gave his film music debut in 1987. He has since scored more than 100 movies and series and scooped countless awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy for the soundtrack to Ang Lee’s directorial masterpiece LIFE OF PI (2012). Prior to this, he attracted international attention for his work on such films as LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006), THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE (2009) and MONEYBALL (2011). Danna has worked with such renowned directors as Terry Gilliam, Atom Egoyan, Joel Schumacher and Denzel Washington, and further enjoys a long-standing collaborative relationship with his brother Jeff Danna, who is also a composer: the two most recently worked together to score the animation film ONWARD (2020) from the house of Disney Pixar.

Photo: Muriel Hilti

Diego Baldenweg

Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns including Carlsberg, Mastercard, Sony & Dove and for over 20 films like the world bestselling children’s book adaptation The Little Witch starring Karoline Herfurth, Til Schweiger’s Head Full of Honey starring Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon & Emily Mortimer, and the Oscar nominated La Femme et le TGV starring Jane Birkin. Most recently they composed the music to the TV series The Unlisted (Netflix / ABC) and Itch (ABC / BBC).

They are members of the World Soundtrack Academy, Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts, European Film Academy, Swiss Film Academy, Art Directors Club Switzerland & Europe. Swiss Media Composers Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.

Photo: Muriel Hilti

Lionel Baldenweg

Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns including Carlsberg, Mastercard, Sony & Dove and for over 20 films like the world bestselling children’s book adaptation The Little Witch starring Karoline Herfurth, Til Schweiger’s Head Full of Honey starring Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon & Emily Mortimer, and the Oscar nominated La Femme et le TGV starring Jane Birkin. Most recently they composed the music to the TV series The Unlisted (Netflix / ABC) and Itch (ABC / BBC).

They are members of the World Soundtrack Academy, Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts, European Film Academy, Swiss Film Academy, Art Directors Club Switzerland & Europe. Swiss Media Composers Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.

Photo: Muriel Hilti

Nora Baldenweg

Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg, also known as GREAT GARBO, are a multi award winning composer team. The three Swiss/Australian siblings have composed music for over 300 international TV campaigns including Carlsberg, Mastercard, Sony & Dove and for over 20 films like the world bestselling children’s book adaptation The Little Witch starring Karoline Herfurth, Til Schweiger’s Head Full of Honey starring Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon & Emily Mortimer, and the Oscar nominated La Femme et le TGV starring Jane Birkin. Most recently they composed the music to the TV series The Unlisted (Netflix / ABC) and Itch (ABC / BBC).

They are members of the World Soundtrack Academy, Australian Academy of Cinema & TV Arts, European Film Academy, Swiss Film Academy, Art Directors Club Switzerland & Europe. Swiss Media Composers Association and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers.

Andreas Banz

Andreas Banz was born in Berlin, Germany in 1978 and grew up there. After high school and community service, he studied Film Production at Konrad Wolf Film University in Babelsberg and Documentary Film in Cuba. Since 2011 Andreas Banz is a managing partner and executive producer at Kundschafter Filmproduktion in Berlin, where he has produced, amongst others, the feature films “Eltern” (2013), “Kundschafter des Friedens” (2015) and “TKKG” (2019), as well as the series “Eichwald, MdB”(2014/2018), “Big Dating” (2019) and “The Billion Dollar Code” (2021).

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Mario Batkovic

Mario Batkovic is a composer, represented for film and game scores by soundtrack music associates (Los Angeles). He is signed to Invada Records (UK) as a solo accordion artist, a label founded by Geoff Barrow (Portishead).

His debut solo album received widespread critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone Magazine listing it in the top 10 avant-garde albums of 2017. Batkovic tours consistently, playing festivals such as bushfire (South Africa), Supersonic (UK), Le Guess Who (NL) and the Montreux Jazz Festival.

He is currently recording a new album. This will be released in 2021, on Invada Records (UK).

Batkovic’s mission is to explore the sonic possibilities of the accordion, without effects or loops, rather through a mutualist symbiotic relationship between man and instrument. Challenging, hypnotic, and grandiose; Batkovic’s single-handed symphonic vision is certainly unique.

Laura Bell

The weaving together of stories and sound has always fascinated Laura and has been an obsession since a very young age. As music supervisor, drawing on skills and networks fostered from over a decade of working in the music industry, she now navigates the complexity of researching and selecting songs, licensing soundtracks, managing live-music scenes and developing filmscores.

Having headed up Sync for BMG Talpa Music in The Netherlands and as Managing Director for BMG Production Music for Benelux and Germany, Laura has successfully researched, placed and licensed music for brands such as Heineken, Ferrero Rocher and UEFA as well as film and television productions in Europe, U.K and the U.S. Sharing her experience has been a wonderful part of this journey, at the Netherlands Film Festival, Buma In Motion Conference, Amsterdam Dance Festival and Reeperbahn Festival. 

In Australia, Laura spent many hours in the office and studio at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as Executive Producer & Manager of ABC Classics and Jazz, recording and releasing award-winning albums via Universal Music. Laura has graduated with first class honours at the Sydney Conservatorium and studied at The Hague Royal Conservatoire, in addition to completing a Master of Management from the Australian Institute of Music, based in the Sydney Opera House boardroom.

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Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka

What role does music play in film? How can sound enhance a visual experience? And when does the plot need a moment of silence to really take effect? From cinema to series, the composer Volker Bertelmann has imbued numerous productions with his special brand of empathetic and suspenseful sound. One of the best examples of his nuanced work is in Garth Davis' drama "Lion" (2016), whose film score, written together with the composer Dustin O’Halloran, was nominated for an Oscar.

Bertelmann draws from a large artistic reservoir for his film compositions. He has been creating experimental soundscapes in his studio in Düsseldorf for many years under the pseudonym Hauschka. Sometimes he prepares his grand piano with foreign objects, sometimes he builds electronically distorted sound structures, and sometimes he explores the puristic beauty of the piano. His is an innovative oeuvre that has led to numerous collaborations, for example with violinist Hilary Hahn.

Uwe Bossenz

Uwe Bossenz is a freelance film composer and sound designer. He lives and works in Berlin. Music already played a major role in his childhood and youth, he learned various instruments, sang in choirs and played in bands.
In 2001 he first came into contact with film sound and worked on the soundtracks of animated films. From 2003 he studied sound at the Filmuniversity "Konrad Wolf" in Babelsberg.
Since then he has worked as a film composer, sound recordist, sound editor and sound designer. In these professional fields, he has worked on a variety of major and minor motion pictures. Feature films, documentaries, short films, art films, sound installations, museum films and commercials can be found in his portfolio.
With the feature film "The River Used To Be A Man" he won several sound design awards in 2014. In recent years he has concentrated more and more on composing film music. Some of his work is also available as Original Sound Tracks, like the ambient score for the True Crime Series “Höllental” or the piano score for the feature film “Ohne Dich”. With his friend and studio colleague Anton Feist he worked on a lot of films and scores over the last 15 years.

Basil Böhni

Basil Böhni graduated in March 2011 with a Major in Media Science from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zurich. During his career, Basil Böhni has worked for a range of organizations gaining extensive experience in communications, digital marketing, cultural administration, event management, and journalism.

During and right after his studies, he worked as a journalist for the Neue Luzerner Zeitung (today, the Luzerner Zeitung; the local newspaper of Lucerne) in the departments of culture and local affairs. His career then took him to the Alfred Escher Foundation in Zurich as a research assistant. From September 2013 to December 2016, he worked for various departments at Credit Suisse where he was responsible for communications and project coordination tasks. During this time, he also contributed to multiple publications. From January 2017 to June 2018, he was Digital Project Manager for BlueGlass Interactive in Zurich. In addition, since January 2017, he has been responsible for the online and offline communications for the City Light Concerts in Lucerne.

Valerie Dobbelaere

Valerie Dobbelaere studied Iberian linguistics & literature as well as Peace Studies and ConflictResolution at the Ghent University in Belgium. In 2007 Valerie started working at the guest office of Film Fest Gent, where she, between 2010 and 2019,coordinates the music and sound projects (concert productions, masterclasses, compositioncontest, the annual World Soundtrack Awards, album recording, industry events, internationalcollaborations,..)and loves establishing the necessary platform to both established and young & upcoming film (music) talent. Valerie has worked with several renowned composers such as Howard Shore, Hans Zimmer, Elliot Goldenthal, James Newton Howard, Alberto Iglesias, Giorgio Moroder and Alexandre Desplat. Since 2017 Valerie joined Post Bills, a Brussels-based Press & Communication Agency, specializing in PR for film, TV & film music projects.
Valerie is currently founding her own company 'Strike A Score', a PR & Talent Agency for European Screen Composers which will be launched in Oct 2021.

Jakob Eisenbach

Jakob Eisenbach is a german composer, sound designer and audio engineer,
living and working in Zurich Switzerland.

​​In 2021 he finished his MA degree in composition for film, theatre and media at the
Zürich University of Arts.
His final project was an elaborate orchestral and choir music for
a unrivalled virtual reality project by TrueVR Systems.

In 2020 he was elected to the board of directors at
Forum Filmmusik.

In 2019 he founded the
Vection Music GmbH.
Being the CEO of this company, he gained the possibility to take on
internationally realized projects under his own lead.

Since 2018 he works for the
Swiss Virtual-Reality Gaming Brand
TrueVR Systems.

Since 2017 he is active as Director of Media and Composition for the
Swiss Classical Music Society
Kulturfreund.

Anne-Françoise Emery

Anne-Françoise Emery, Head of the Film Department, has been at SUISA for over 20 years. The Film Department is responsible for all areas of audiovisual production throughout Switzerland, from feature films for cinema or television to documentaries, industrial films and commercials. It is SUISA's only department that covers the entire workflow from collection to distribution of copyright royalties.

Anton Feist

Born in Siberia in 1978, moving to East-Berlin, Germany in 1980, Anton Feist got in touch with music early on by getting piano lessons from the age of 7.

At the age of 14 he started to learn programming electronic music with sequencers and synthesizers, singing in the school choir, playing electric guitar and bass which resulted in being member in several bands since then.

Following an internship in a studio for sound design and film score, he studied from 2000-2006 at the Film-University in Potsdam-Babelsberg to be a „soundengineer for audio-visual media“.

Since then he was involved in many productions as sound mixer on set, sound editor, composer, sound designer, adr-, foley- and rerecording mixer...nevertheless, he also produced music albums and was touring europe and visiting international cities with different bands.

Milena Fessmann

Since 1991, Milena Fessmann has worked as a full-time DJ (2001-2014 Radio Eins After Work Lounge, Trompete/Berlin, European Film Awards 2015 etc.) and has worked for various radio stations. Since 1997 she works for Radio Eins/RBB and her own weekly show called "Free Falling".

In 1989 she founded CINESONG. She is moderator of several national events and panels such as the "Cartoon Movie Award"/Postdam 2002-2008, Reeperbahn-Festival 2014-21, c/o pop Cologne 2014-2021 and many more. Milena Fessmann teaches music supervising and copyright clearing at film schools such as DFFB Berlin and is advisory board member of the World Soundtrack Academy. She founded a film production company called Sugar Town Filmproduction Gmbh & Co.kg in 2011. The first project was "The Potential of Noise- Conny Plank" by Stephan Plank and Reto Caduff. She is executive-producer of "When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit", directed by award winning director Caroline Link and is co-producer on "Evaluation", "Girl made of Dust", Director: Hiam Abbass, “Prince of swans” and a few more.
Her newest documentary Project is called “ Jung kaput spart Altersheime”, directed by Christine Franz about female punk and new wave in german speaking territory from 1979-89 which is currently in pre-production.

Photo: Jürg Lauber

Adina Friis

Adina Friis (*1988) is a jazz pianist, singer, songwriter and composer for film and theatre. She studied jazz piano, singing and composition in Lucerne, Zurich and Copenhagen.

Her main musical project is the jazz trio "Luumu", with which she transforms her most personal thoughts and ideas into art. Since 2010 she has been playing concerts in Switzerland and abroad. Since 2015 she has been writing the music for various theatres and from 2017-2019 she was responsible for the musical design of the "Berner Reden" at the Konzerttheater Bern.

In 2020 she had the chance to demonstrate her skills as a film composer for the film "Eden for Everyone" directed by Rolf Lyssy."

Catherine Grieves

Catherine Grieves is an award winning and EMMY nominated Music Supervisor, working across television and film.

Credits include the international hit drama Killing Eve (EMMY nominated for Outstanding Music Supervision, Hollywood Music and Media Award winner for Outstanding Music Supervision), Lynne Ramsay’s feature You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix (Music Week Award winner for Outstanding Film Soundtrack), and critically acclaimed BAFTA and EMMY winning dramas Brexit: The Uncivil War for Channel 4 and HBO, The Long Song for the BBC, The Durrells for ITV, Collateral for BBC/Netflix, London Spy; and JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.

Most recently, Catherine supervised the film Together, starring James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan and directed by Stephen Daldry, BBC drama series Bloodlands, from acclaimed writer Jed Mercurio, Us, the adaptation of David Nicholl’s novel starring Tom Hollander; and LIFE, the new Doctor Foster spin-off from Mike Bartlett, both recently broadcast on BBC One; romantic drama Trigonometry for BBC Two, the third series of Riviera for Sky; BAFTA nominated feature film His House for New Regency Pictures, released on Netflix; and musical comedy The Man In The Hat. Up-coming projects include The Offenders for the BBC and Amazon, written and directed by Stephen Merchant, and the fourth series of Killing Eve.

In 2020, Catherine founded music supervision and consultancy company Eyeline Music. She also represents a roster of award-winning film and TV composers at Faber Music.

Vasco Hexel

Vasco Hexel is a media composer, author and educator, who composed music for award-winning animations, documentaries, commercials and feature films. For nearly 12 years, until early 2020, he ran the Masters Programme in Composition for Screen at the Royal College for Music. Vasco has composed music for award-winning animations, documentaries, commercials and feature films.

Vasco is the author of “The Film and Media Creators’ Guide to Music” (New York: Routledge, 2018) and “Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s The Dark Knight – A Film Score Guide” (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Swiss Media Composers Association (SMECA) and the British Academy for Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).

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Stefan Jäger

Stefan Jäger studierte an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg Drehbuch und Regie. Er schloss die Ausbildung 1997 mit Diplom ab. Seit 2002 ist er in der Lehre tätig, u.a. als Leiter der Drehbuchabteilung der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, als Regiedozent in Ludwigsburg oder an der Schauspielschule in Stuttgart.

Er hat zahlreiche Dokumentarfilme („Mathias Gnädinger – Die Liebe seines Lebens“, „Cyrill trifft“ u.a.) und Spielfilme („Monte Verità“, „Der grosse Sommer“, „birthday“, „Hello Goodbye“ u.a.) inszeniert, sowie mehrere Theaterstücke („Alte Freunde“, „57’ 38’’ Ewigkeit“ u.a.). Mit seiner Firma tellfilm ist er als Produzent („Blue my mind“, „Tiere“ u.a.) tätig.

Jäger ist Mitglied der Schweizerischen und der Europäischen Filmakademie.

Gina Keller

Gina Keller was born 1992 in Zurich and works as sound designer and re-recording mixer for feature and documentary films. Her previous work includes MONTE VERITA by Stefan Jäger 2021, MY LITTLE SISTER by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond 2020 and BLUE MY MIND by Lisa Brühlmann 2017. She studied at the Zurich University of the Arts where she obtained her M.A. in sound engineering/ Tonmeister in 2018. In the same year she was selected for the Berlinale Talents program and 2021 she was nominated with MY LITTLE SISTER for the Swiss Film Award for «best sound».

Claudia Kempf

After studying sociology and anthropology at the University of Lausanne, Claudia Kempf worked as a production manager and assistant director in film production. While working, she studied cultural and media management at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. From 1999-2011, she worked in SUISA's communications department; since 2011, she is the Head of SUISA's members department. In addition, she was, among other things, editor-in-chief of swissdisc.ch, one of the first internet platforms for Swiss music production, founding member of Swiss Music Export and, until 2018, on the Board of Directors of mxLab ag, the operator of the music portal mx3.

Dr. Anselm Kreuzer

Anselm Kreuzer began playing the Cello at age 9 and soon discovered composing as his major passion. Already back then he combined the classical approach with modern sounds. After finishing school he studied musicology, media science and phonetics at the Cologne University and achieved a Ph.D. with a dissertation on Film Music. During his time as a student he got several assignments for media compositions, especially in the field of radio and television.  Now he is a designated specialist for TV title themes, station IDs, scores for series and TV drama as well as music for new media and advertising. Also he has an oeuvre of more than 1000 internationally successful production music titles. Among the magazine and news shwos he composed for are „Weltreisen“ (ARD), "Check Eins - Neuneinhalb" (ARD), „Die Chefin“ (ZDF), „Die lustigsten Schlamassel“ (RTL), „Lebensläufe“ (MDR), „RBB UM6 (RBB), ZIBB (RBB), „Täter Opfer Polizei“ (RBB). He recently scored for TV series like „Küstenwache“, „Kripo Holstein - Mord und Meer“ (ZDF), „Rosenheim-Cops“ (ZDF), “In Aller Freundschaft” (ARD) and  documentaries like „Natur Exklusiv"  (BR). He is co founder of the production music label MUSIC SCULPTOR. Whether symphonic orchestra or electronic approach - Anselm has a passionate faible for emotional, narrative and often catchy thematic music that merges with moving pictures and stories. He often sounds the borders between composition and sound design and passes on his know how to students as a guest lecturer at several universities and media schools. Also he is engaged as a working group leader in the media industry association Eyes & Ears of Europe and as a board member of the Composers Club.

Ivana Kvesic

Ivana Kvesic (*1978) is the future director of Fantoche – International Animation Film Festival Baden. She is the former Co-Director of the youth film festival Schweizer Jugendfilmtage in Zurich and is part of the selection committee of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and Rote Fabrik Zurich. 

She is executive committee member of SWAN (Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network) and president of the executive committee at the cinema Xenix in Zurich. She is also known as a curator, artist and cultural project manager. 

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Cornelia Köhler

Cornelia Köhler has been working in the media industry since 2000, first as a producer of the sitcoms "Das Amt" and "Bernds Hexe" for Cologne-Gemini film, later in the script development for Constantin Entertainment. Since 2007 Cornelia Köhler has been an independent script-writer for cinema, TV formats and stage. Together with the composer Camille van Lunen she wrote the youth operas “Talitha, come back!” and „Over the Wall“ in 2020. She is editor of the magazine “Rundbrief” (Film-und Medienbüro Niedersachsen) and director and scriptwriter for a series of documentaries about German Literature, worked among others as dramaturge for the feature films “Low Lights” (produced by dagstarfilm, 2009), “Pattys Catchup” (dagstarfilm, 2011) and as co-writer for the German-Lithuanian documentary “Liebe Oma, Guten Tag” (dagstarfilm, 2017, supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.) Since 2009 she has been a member of Women in Film and Television Germany and since 2010 she has been a board member of WIFT Germany. Cornelia Köhler is represented by the agency "charactors"

Judith Lichtneckert

Studies of Media Science, Sociology and English Literature & Linguistics in Basel.
From 2001 - 2012 she joined “point de vue” Basel focusing on documentaries.
From 2005 she worked on many fiction features, tv movies, serials and commercials as an AD, PM and producer.
2013 founding of Emilia Productions.
2016 release of her first feature doc as a director.

After managing six seasons of the Swiss TV Serial “The Undertaker” she joined the Zurich based Snakefilm as a producer in charge of the mystery-drama “THE BLACK SPIDER”, a CH/H coproduction shot in Hungary in 2020. Simultaneously she founded Perron X Gmbh in Basel and with Emilia P. she produced their winner of the Swiss documentary competition “LES NOUVELLES EVES”, directed by a collective of 6 female directors - release at -ZFF 2021.

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Anne Löhr

Psychologist Anne Löhr is co-founder of the "Mental Health in Music" Association (MiM). In her profession as a trained systemic therapist and coach, she advises and supervises artists, bands, individuals and teams in the music and creative industries throughout Germany. 
In her work, she combines her many years of expertise from working in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic settings with her insights into the industry as a musician and creative. Her consulting focusses on main mental health topics in the industry such as stress, anxiety, depression and burnout, prevention, conflict, crisis management and mediation, personality and team development as well as dealing with publicity and feedback. In early 2020, she founded the Mental Health in Music Association (MiM), which works to raise visibility, awareness and improve mental health in the music industry. In addition to workshops and talks, the association offers funded individual counseling. As a musician, she is also a member of various female-in-music networks (Raketerei, V-Breakfast, MusicWomenGermany).

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Lele Marchitelli

Lele Marchitelli is an Italian composer, record producer, film score composer, songwriter and author of several television themes. His experience as a composer covers a vast variety of areas: avant-garde cinema and variety shows which currently in Italy have a cult following such as: “Avanzi” (Leftovers), “Tunnel”, “Pippo Kennedy Show” and “L’Ottavo nano” (Eighth dwarf).

As the musical director of the house band of these variety shows he invited different international musicians like Nirvana, Elvis Costello and Youssou N’ Dour, some of whom made their television performance debut under the guidance of Marchitelli.

Marchitelli has collaborated with acclaimed directors such as Giuseppe Piccioni, Maurizio Sciarra, Francesco Bruni, Renato De Maria, Cinzia TH Torrini, Riccardo Milani and Carlo Verdone. One of Marchitell’s most recognized collaborations comes from the work of award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino. Together they worked on the film “La Grande Bellezza”, which won the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards.

He also scored the original soundtrack for the TV series “The Young Pope” directed by Sorrentino and his last movie “Loro”. Marchitelli’s most recent work can be heard in the hit HBO series “Mare Of Easttown”.

Pirmin Marti

In 10 years Pirmin has worked on over 100 Swiss and some international films/TV-shows and many advertisement projects as a music supervisor and music consultant. His Pirmin Music one-stop “sync” service  has licensed hundreds of songs from its catalog to film/TV/advertisement which is now available through Mojo 3. Pirmin’s background is in sales, marketing and project management and for Mojo 3’s own record label he also wears the A&R hat or in his case a A&R baseball cap. He has a real passion for the Swiss music community and history and through Mojo 3 Records and Swiss Treasure Recordings digitally releases albums from Swiss artists from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.  He resides in sunny San Diego.

Thaïs Odermatt

Thaïs Odermatt

Born and raised in Stans, Switzerland. Graduated with a Bachelor degree from Lucerne School of Arts and Design and with a Master degree in Documentary Film Direction from the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.
Thaïs Odermatt has been working as a freelance filmmaker, editor and video artist since 2009. Her work as a director (among others „Nid hei cho“ and „Kurt und der Sessellift“) as well as an editor (“En la Boca”, „Blaulicht“ or „Caves“) have been shown and awarded at numerous international film festivals.
Her first feature-length documentary won the 2021 Swiss Film Prize "Quartz" for best graduation film.

Elena Pedrazzoli

1985 Degree in Romance Studies at the University of Zurich
Since 1985 Over 500 commercials and corporate films
Since 1991 Co-owner of Peacock Film
2000 Member of the Short Film-Jury “Pardi di domani”. Locarno Film Festival
2002 Member of edi-Jury for commercials
2003-2006 Member of the selection committee for short films, students’ films and animation (Federal Office of Culture FOC)
2005 President of GARP Groupe Authors, Directors, Producers, 2006 Vice President
Since 2009 Member of network ACE Ateliers du cinéma européen
2012-2015 Member of the selection committee for fiction and doc (FOC)
Since 2015 Member of the European Film Academy
2016-2019 Member of the Federal Film commission EFiK
Since 2018 Co-president of GARP

Elena Pedrazzoli is Managing Director of Peacock Film AG

Katrin Renz

Katrin Renz has been working as a producer and script consultant for tellfilm, based in Zurich, since November 2007. Since 2014 she is CEO and shareholder. In summer 2013 tellfilm Germany, situated in Berlin, was founded. Shareholders are Katrin Renz, Oliver Schütte and Stefan Jäger.

In addition to the successful production of various feature films (Monte Verità, Youth Topia, Blue my Mind, Tiere, Der grosse Sommer, Horizon Beautiful), TV movies (Tatort - Wunsch­denken) as well as documentary films and series for Swiss television she has just closed financing for the new feature film BACHMANN & FRISCH by Margarethe von Trotta, a 4-country co-production to be shot in 2022.

Katrin Renz is a member of the European Film Academy and the Swiss Film Academy.

Reverend Beat-Man & Milan Slick

Reverend Beat-Man ist eigentlich eine One Man Band auf der Mission für Blues Trash und Wild Wild Rock'n'Roll Geboren 1967 in
Bern der Schweiz, im Sommer der Liebe und des Hasses, seit 1992 auf Tour (ca. 200 Shows pro Jahr) als One
Man Band,oder mit seiner Band the Monsters spielte er ganz Europa, N + S Amerika, Japan, Vietnam,
Neuseeland, Australien, Afrika, CBGBs, Montreux Jazz, Muddy Roots usw. ist Gründer von Voodoo Rhythm
Records (1992)
Wenn er ein Politiker wäre, würden ihn sogar seine Feinde respektieren (der Bund)

Er wurde 2014 für den Schweizer Musik preis Nominiert und betreibt in Bern einen Schallplatten und
kuriositäten laden wo er Milan Slick (geboren 2004) zum ersten mal getroffen hatte und beide über musik
quatschten, Milan Slick musiziert im Konservatorium für musik in Bern an diverse instrumente herum und macht
musik für verschiedene Musiker und Musikerinnen, seine Vorliebe sind aber Analog Synthesizer und das piano..
wie der Zufall wollte hatt sich das Film Festival „2300 plan 9“ (NIFFF) sich für das Projekt interessiert und ihnen
eine angfrage für den Iranischen Vampier Film von Ana Lily Amirpour einen Live Soundtrack zu schreiben
geschickt.. das Festival wurde dan wegen Corona 3x verschoben bin die premiere mit viel erfolg im 2021 stat
fand

Rebekka Stange

Zora Rux

Zora Rux studied at dffb and Columbia University. Her short films were shown at Palm Springs, Austin, Montreal World, Tel Aviv, Riga, Sao Paulo, Reykjavik, Talinn Black Nights and sold to ARTE.

Having worked for Roy Andersson's films About Endlessness and A Pigeon as Casting Director, Zora teamed up with some of Andersson's crew for her first feature ICH ICH ICH. She is currently writing her second feature MEN BEHIND FAMOUS WOMEN and co-writing the Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein-funded feature GIRLSPLAINING.

Dominik Scherrer

Dominik Scherrer has created award-winning music for some of the finest film and television dramas in recent years. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for the critically-acclaimed series The Missing, and recently won his second Ivor Novello Award for his score on Netflix’s Requiem, which he co-composed with Natasha Khan, aka Bat for Lashes.
 
Dominik first won the prestigious British Ivor Novello Award and received a Royal Television Society (RTS) nomination for his riveting score on Ripper Street. He earned two additional Ivor Novello nominations for Amazon’s The Collection and the British crime series Agatha Christie’s Marple.
 
Dominik recently reunited with the Williams brothers to score Amazon’s thriller series The Widow, starring Kate Beckinsale. He also scored the landmark dramas An Inspector Calls and Monroe.
 
Equally accomplished in film scoring, Dominik’s credits include The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz for which Dominik won the Best Music Award at Spain’s Estapona Film Festival; Alice Through The Looking Glass starring Kate Beckinsale; Alina Marazzi’s Tutto Parla Di Te (All About You); and Scenes of a Sexual Nature starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Bonneville. He scored Appetite starring Ute Lemper, and wrote the film’s title song which reached No. 2 on the UK classical charts.
 
Dominik also created, directed and composed the kinetic opera Hell for Leather, which premiered at Sundance and won 10 awards on the festival circuit.
 
In addition to scoring film and TV, he produces sound design and composes for fine art installations - most notably for artist Suki Chan - and creates performance music for theatre.
 
Dominik is a British-Swiss composer and works from his studio in London.

Alice Schmid

1951, Lucerne. Studied Italian at the University of Perugia, Spanish at the University Complutense of Madrid. One semester at the Universotiy Bern with Fernando Pérez: The Language of Latin American Cinema; screenwriting at the Film Academy New York; directing seminar with Kieslowski; 1996-2010 writer/director for TV films; From 2011 feature films: The Children from Mount Napf (2011), The Girl down Loch Änzi (2016), Burning Memories (2020)

Beda Senn

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Since 2006 music supervisor at the SRF Music Consultancy on Swiss television. Since 2018 conception & production of new library/production music.
40 years of know-how in the field of music: programming and conception for various radios, music editor for TV shows, sound design and consulting for events, fashion and dance.

A navigator & sound designer who helps people & projects to find suitable sounds & new sound worlds. As a cultural director he realises special cultural projects at extraordinary locations. Creating game ideas and (game) concepts - therefore also: game designer

Mirjam Skal

Mirjam Skal (*1996) is a composer and orchestrator based in Zurich, Switzerland. She is currently completing her master‘s degree in film scoring at the Zurich University of the Arts and has been working as a freelance composer over the past few years. Her work includes music for several animated shorts, advertisements, documentaries and music for the national Swiss television (SRF). As a synesthete, Mirjam‘s approach to composing is very intuitive. She is fascinated by combining live instruments with electronic soundscapes to create evocative textures. Earlier this year, Mirjam was selected as a sound studio participant in Berlinale Talents. In addition, she was chosen to be part of the AWFC Mentorship program 2021 under the guidance of renowned composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi).

Martin Skalsky

Martin Skalsky is a director, producer, composer with Czech and Swiss origin. He studied voice in Vienna and Zurich and Contemporary Composition at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK).

2010-2020 Martin was part of a composers’ collaborative called Triplet Studios, based in Zurich and Berlin. Martin scored various feature films, TV films, TV series and documentaries amongst others, i.e. the award winning feature "The Fräulein and the Sandman" by Peter Luisi or "Zabuti / The forgotten" by Daria Onyshenko. From 2012 - 2020 he scored the German TV series "Die Lindenstrasse“.

In 2019, Martin had a well-received debut as a director, his feature length documentary “Cody - the dog days are over” premiered at the Zurich Film Festival and thus traveled around the world. He's currently working on selected new projects.

Reto Stamm

As production sound mixer and editor, Reto Stamm has over twenty years of experience and has traveled to five continents recording sound for film. Equally at home in the documentary and fiction genres, Reto maintains longstanding collaborations with Swiss and European filmmakers. He has recorded sound on set and on location for Neasa Ní Chianáin, Sabine Gisiger, Anka Schmid, Arami Ullón, Marcel Gisler, Greg Zglinksi and Peter Greenaway, among others.

Reto regularly teaches sound for film at art schools and master classes in Switzerland and Germany. He is a member of both the European and Swiss Film Academies.

Since 2010, Reto has recorded sound for Stefan Jaeger on several documentary and fiction film projects. Monte Verità is their latest collaboration.

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Giorgio Tebaldi

Before Giorgio Tebaldi gained a foothold in the music industry, he passed through various stations in the communications sector - from Oracle Software to the renowned Swiss PR agency Farner to the telecommunications company Swisscom. In 2014, he started at SUISA as Head of Communications, where he can combine two of his passions: music and corporate communications.

He studied English and German philology at the University of Zurich and holds a Master degree in Corporate Communications from the Universities of Lugano and UCLA.

Robert Thalheim

Robert Thalheim was born on July 2, 1974 in Berlin, Germany. Between 1997-1998 he worked as Assistant Director at the Berliner Ensemble (theatre), followed by his studies of New German Literature, History and Politics at Freie Universität Berlin from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 Robert Thalheim started his studies of Film Directing at the University of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf" Potsdam-Babelsberg, where he directed several award winning short films. He graduated in 2006 with his feature film “Am Ende kommen Touristen” (“And along came tourists”), which premiered at the Festival de Cannes in the section "Un certain regard" (2007). In 2011 he co-founded the film production company "Kundschafter Filmproduktion" and wrote, produced and directed several feature films, television films and series since.

Anna Thommen

Anna Thommen was born in 1980 in Basel. After initially training as a primary school teacher, Anna Thommen begins a bachelor’s degree in film in Lucerne, before switching to Zurich University of the Arts where she graduates with a master’s in film directing with her award-winning cinema documentary “NEULAND” (Unknown Territory) in 2013.

Since then she has worked as a freelance director, author and editor on severals projects like „VOLUNTEER“ in 2019, „LES NOUVELLES ÈVES“ in 2021. 

Her first fiction „IN THE BARN“ and a cinema documentary „NAIMA“ are in development.

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Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen

Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen is a French film music composer and songwriter based in Paris.

From her classical background studying at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris she has developed a successful career as a film composer notably writing the music for Nicolas Bedos’ La Belle Epoque which was nominated for 11 César Awards and presented at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

La Belle Epoque follows a series of film releases including: Rayhana’s I Still Hide To Smoke (A mon age, je me cache encore pour fumer), Grand Prize winner at the Mediterranean film festival; Laurent Charbonnier's documentary Chambord celebrating the 500th anniversary of Chambord Castle for which she was nominated by the IFMCA as ‘Breakthrough Composer of the Year’; Mon Cousin, the latest film from Jan Kounen (Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky). She is currently working on Nicolas Bedos’ lastest film Alerte Rouge en Afrique Noire from the hit series of films OSS 117, set to be released early 2021.

Martin Villiger

It can be said that Martin Villiger already has some experience in the film music field.

That's over 110 films and series and well over 350 series episodes and counting.

„I love to bring different people and art forms together and to dare new things.“ Martin says. In addition to songs he writes and produces with pop greats, he has always tried new areas of music. For example, he has written the music for a circus show, for installations, numerous commercials and corporate sound for companies. Martin Villiger is also interested in spatial audio for VR (virtual reality) and games.

 Martin was born in Glasgow and grew up in Jerusalem, among other places. He feels at home all over the world and speaks 6 languages. His new concert series "Culture Clash" fits in with this. He is married to Catherine and together they have 4 children

Michael Wohlgemuth

Michael Wohlgemuth (born in 1987 in Basel, Switzerland) a is a music copyright lawyer, graduated as Master of Law (MLaw) from the University of Basel. After gaining experience in the private insurance sector, a court of first instance and a law firm, his strong affinity for music led him to the SUISA legal service in 2016, where he is now taking care of all legal support in SUISA's daily business.

His main responsibilities are the negotiation of national/worldwide online licenses with Digital Service Providers as well as consulting in copyright/music law for SUISA members.

Jürg Ziebold

As Chief Information Officer, Jürg Ziebold is responsible for SUISA's IT department. Since the advent of online use of music and audiovisual works in particular, SUISA has invested heavily in the development of its IT. This has enabled, among other things, the establishment of the Mint Digital Services joint venture with its US partner SESAC. Mint offers music publishers and collecting societies worldwide services for the billing of online music use. Jürg Ziebold has been at SUISA for 28 years.

Oliver Ziegenbalg

Oliver Ziegenbalg was born in Böblingen, Germany in 1971. Between 1991 and 1998, he studied Mathematical Economics in Karlsruhe and also got a degree in Media Art and Film from the Karlsruhe School of Design during that time. Later, he relocated to Berlin and began working as a screenwriter for television and feature films – his projects as a scriptwriter include among others: “Friendship” (2010), “Russendisko” (2012), Frau Müller muss weg (2015), “25km/h” (2017), “Roads” (2019) and “The Billion Dollar Code” (2021) – some of which he also produced. Oliver Ziegenbalg is co-partner of the production companies Sunny Side Up Films and Missing Link Films.