Great film buyers from all over the world!
Kelly Lui
Company: Ouat Media
Canada, Toronto
Ouat Media specializes in distribution and worldwide sales of short films, with a particular focus on titles by industry’s rising stars premiering at the world’s leading film festivals. To date, Ouat Media has represented 12 Oscar nominees including three winners. A wholly owned subsidiary of the independent Canadian media group Channel Zero, Ouat Media is celebrating its 18th anniversary this year.
Ouat Media’s network of licensing partners spans across multiple continents and media, and includes global platforms and broadcasters such as Al Jazeera, Amazon, ARTE, BBC, Canal+, Condé Nast Entertainment (including The New Yorker), Disney (including ESPN), France Télévisions, HBO, Kanopy, LRT, Movistar, MUBI, Netflix, PBS, PTS Taiwan, Rai Cinema, Samansa, Searchlight, Showtime, SRF, SundanceTV, The Criterion Channel, Tënk, UR, UniversCiné, VGTV, VPRO, YLE and many more. Including, most recently, Tencent Video, the highest grossing entertainment app in China.
Sales Agent
Takayuki Toyama
Company: SAMANSA, INC.
Japan, Tokyo
Short film streaming service in Japan.
SVOD/VOD Platform
Aki Isoyama
Company: Pacific Voice Inc.
Japan, Tokyo
Pacific Voice Inc. is the operation company of SSFF & ASIA, along with international and domestic short film distributor in Japan. As distributor, it has been active more than 10 years. It has worked with TV stations, airline companies, VOD and streaming platforms. It has also organized screening events throughout Japan.
Buyer
Jason Todd
Company: Tënk Canada
Canada, Montreal
Tënk Canada is a VOD platform based in Montreal, Canada, dedicated to the promotion of creative documentary cinema. Through curation and cultural mediation, Tënk’s mandate is to make this film genre more accessible and to encourage the discovery of socially important documentaries that sometimes struggle to reach their audience.
SVOD/VOD Platform
Guadalupe Arensburg
Company: Movistar Plus+
España, Madrid
Pay TV Channel.
Acquisition of international and national short films.
Acquisition of Pay TV and SVOD rights.
One year license period for international films and six month for spanish short films.
Television Channel
Hasan Celil Tombul
Company: Cineshort
United States, Sheridan
Cineshort is a new-generation SVOD service for curating, promoting, and monetizing great short films.
SVOD/VOD Platform
Gregory Audermatte
Company: Arte France
France, Issy les moulineaux
We are interested in international animation shorts and mid-lengths movies (30′ to 59′). We buy only French speaking or French produced shorts.
Television Channel
Catherine Habib
Company: COMMUNICATION ONLY
France, Paris
VODMANIA is a French label movie created in 2006 which is the property of Communication Only.
VODMANIA has an expertise on VOD concerning shorts , and employs Catherine Habib movie journalist who works for the company.
SVOD/VOD Platform
Katarina Eriksson
Company: UR Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company
Sweden, Stockholm
UR, Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, is a part of the public service broadcasting group in Sweden, together with Swedish Radio (SR) and Swedish Television (SVT).
UR is a digital channel for knowledge and learning that broadcasts its programs on SVT and SR’s channels. UR’s mission as an individual public service company is to contribute to knowledge and education as well as to broaden, strengthen and supplement the educational efforts of others. By starting from important societal challenges and combining journalism and pedagogy, UR creates programs that arouse interest, emotions and understanding – so that our users can look at themselves and the world with greater knowledge.
From January 1, 2019, UR is financed by a public service fee which is income based and collected as a tax
SVOD/VOD Platform
Agustí Argelich
Company: FILMETS BADALONA FILM FESTIVAL
SPAIN, BADALONA
I am the director, founder and programmer of the festival. This year we will celebrate the 50th edition.
FILMETS is the most important short film festival in Spain and a benchmark on the global scene, with more than 200 short films on the program each year.
I am also a short film programmer at 3cat, the public television of Catalonia and director of BCN SPORTS FILM.
Film Festival
Yi-Wen Wang
Company: Kaohsiung Film Archive
Taiwan, Kaohsiung City
Kaohsiung Film Archive (KFA) is the first cultural base to specifically promote image and digital art in southern Taiwan and provide funds, production support and showcase opportunities to local and international filmmakers/VR creators.
KFA also hosts the Kaohsiung Film Festival (KFF), which is the largest and most prestigious international short film platform in Taiwan. Serving as a bridge to connect Taiwanese talents with the global film industry. This year, KFA presents over 16 original contents, including short film collections “Kaohsiung Shorts”and “The Post-90s Generation”, and virtual reality program “Kaohsiung VR FILM LAB Originals”. KFA not only holds a local viewpoint but makes a great contribution to the Taiwanese culture.
Festival Distribution
Yvonne Ashley Kouadjo
Company: The New York Times Op-Docs
United States, New York
Op-Docs is The New York Times’s award-winning short documentary film series. Curated from works by both renowned and emerging filmmakers, the collection of more than 400 short films have sparked global conversations, influenced national policies and garnered an array of industry distinctions, including Emmy Awards, Peabody Awards, and an Oscar.
Digital Platform
Pascale Faure
Company: l'oeil en plus
France, Paris
Short and long film consultant A key specialist in short films in France, Pascale Faure is cinema, the reference in the field. Immersed in the small world of artistic and cinematographic creation since 30 years, she was co-director of «The Eye of the Cyclone», the magazine of the image, from 1991 to 1999, co-writer of the feature film «Filles perdus cheveux gras» by Claude Duty (Prix Michel d’Or- nano in Deauville for best first screenplay in 2001) and directed, 2001 to 2020, the Canal+ Short Programs and Creation Unit.
She has screened and accompanied a hundred short films per year and produced The Collection an original creation of short films. In 2021 she created her structure. The eye in addition.she accompanies the development of projects. She is a scripdoctor and scenarist.
She works in writing residencies for short cuts (label Clermont-Ferrand) and the festival nouveau regard Guadeloupe. She selects short films for the Cannes Film Festival and the Arcs film festival.
Film Festival