Speakers

Séverine Abhervé

Film composers agent

Séverine Abhervé is an agent for film composers (Glaz Composers Agency).

In addition, she is the Music Project Manager for SPOT THE COMPOSER, a program she launched for the Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film.

She began her career as Executive Director of the French Union of Film Music Composers (2002-2008). She is the originator of the Centenary of Film Music in France celebration (2008) under the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Republic. She also participated in the launch of the International Pavilion of Film Music at the Cannes Film Festival (2005-2007) where she welcomed renowned composers such as Antoine Duhamel, Eric Serra, Alberto Iglesias, John Powell, Howard Shore and Maestro Ennio Morricone.

Between 2007 and 2014, she shared her expertise in university-level teaching positions (Paris 1, Paris 3 and Paris 8) and worked in the programming department of the Lumière Festival in Lyon alongside Thierry Frémaux (2011).

Séverine Abhervé is a musician, sound engineer, Doctor of Cinema (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and author of several books and articles specialising in film music and the film composing profession (Ph.D.: Film composers within the French film industry: definition, characterisation, and issues of a career in transformation).

Gabriel Baur

Film Director, Author, Producer

Gabriel Baur is a Swiss director, author and producer known for boundary-pushing films that move fluidly between fiction and documentary. 

Her feature VENUS BOYZ had a worldwide festival run starting at Locarno, Berlinale and Karlovy Vary, was released theatrically, broadcast and streamed internationally, and has since become a genre classic. Her most recent film, GLOW, was theatrically released and streamed in Switzerland (2017) and the USA (2023). She is currently developing the feature TAKOTSUBO with co-author Stéphane Mitchell. 

Baur's work has received national and international awards. She is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA) and the Swiss Film Academy, and was co-founder of ONIX Film and ONFEATURES. From 2010–2014 she served as vice-president of the Federation of European Screen Directors (FERA), and as co-founder and co-president of the Swiss Women's Audiovisual Network (SWAN) until 2021. 

She currently lives and works between Zurich and Lisbon.

Yevgeni Birkhoff

Composer, Music Producer, Sound Designer

Yevgeni Birkhoff is a composer, music producer, and sound designer working across media productions, international large-scale events, song production, and acoustic sound art. His musical language ranges from authentic EDM productions and Musique Concrète soundscapes to cinematic orchestral scores.

Over the course of his career, Birkhoff has created tailored music and sound design for internationally renowned brands and organizations, including Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Electronic Arts, the Chinese Ministry of Tourism, and Emaar Properties. His sound installations have been exhibited at prestigious institutions worldwide, including the German Rock and Pop Museum in Gronau, Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

In 2010, Birkhoff received the Peer Raben Award at SoundTrack_Cologne for Best Music in a Short Film. In addition, numerous large-scale events featuring his music have received international recognition within the event industry, including the BrandEx Award (2019), the German Design Award (2016), and The Special Event Gala Award (2015).

In recent years, Birkhoff has expanded his artistic and technological spectrum into the fields of game audio and artificial intelligence. He regularly gives lectures and workshops, sharing his expertise and innovative perspectives on the application of these technologies in music and audio post-production. Since 2025, he has served as Advisor on Artificial Intelligence to the Executive Board of the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesmusikrat NRW).

Alex Black

Music producer, CEO of Sonoton

Alex Black is CEO of Sonoton Music and a highly experienced executive in the global production music industry. He previously spent seven years as Global Director at EMI Production Music (Sony Music Publishing), where he worked with management teams worldwide and led the development of renowned brands including KPM, MusicHouse and Juice, as well as overseeing sub-publishing interests.

Prior to joining EMI in 2013, he was Managing Director of Imagem Production Music, where he drove the transition from Boosey & Hawkes Production Music, created its classical library label, and expanded the company’s media catalogue, including work on major productions such as BBC News and Strictly Come Dancing / Dancing with the Stars.

Earlier in his career, Black founded the PR company Rocketscience Media, worked with artists such as Basement Jaxx, Carl Cox and Radiohead, produced music for West One, and collaborated with producer Trevor Horn at Sarm Studios in London.

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Noah Bohnert

Film producer

Born 1991 in Switzerland. Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Media and Cinema at University of Zurich.

2015 – 2016 further education in European Co-Production and Distribution with the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and la Fémis).

Works as creative and service producer for his own company and since 2021 for hugofilm features, where he produced the Netflix film EARLY BIRDS and two Zurich TATORT episodes for SRF.

Member of the Atelier Alumni Network and the German-French Film Academy. He is also a board member at Zurich for Film and co-president of the producers association Independent Swiss Producers (IP, formerly IG).

Maria Brendle

Film director and screenwriter

Maria Brendle is an award-winning director and screenwriter known for her powerful films that explore complex women's issues. She received an Academy Award® nomination in 2022 for her short film ALA KACHUU - Take and Run and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Maria holds a bachelor's degree in film from Zurich University of the Arts as well as a master's in cognitive neuroscience from the Academy of Neuroscience (aon) Cologne. She is also a graduate of the Drehbuchwerkstatt Munich screenwriting program. Her nuanced, character-driven films that tackle challenging social topics have garnered widespread critical acclaim, earning her numerous awards and honors at top international film festivals. Her feature film debut FRIEDAS FALL (Frieda's Case) was released in 2025.

Stefania Burla

Film director

Stefania Burla is a Polish-Swiss filmmaker. In 2019, she did an exchange year at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2022, she completed her bachelor's degree in film at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

Her graduation film MACIERZ (2023) was screened at several international festivals and won an award at the Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival.

In 2023, she started her Master's in fiction film directing at ZHdK. Her short film NEST (2025) celebrated its world premiere in the 'Pardi di Domani' section at the 78th Locarno Film Festival. She is co-founder of rumor filmkollektiv GmbH and is currently developing her first feature film, SEZON (AT).

Misha Bushkov

Film Director

Misha is a Zürich-based filmmaker, photographer, and former Google engineer. He studied filmmaking at Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School in Los Angeles and at Razbezhkina/Ugarov School of Documentary Cinema in Moscow.

He co-wrote the feature film SHORT SUMMER, winner of the Lion of the Future for Best Debut Film at the 82nd Venice Film Festival (2025). His first photobook, The Black Rat Has Died, was published in 2025. He is currently developing TAYLOR, his first fiction feature as writer-director.

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Antonio Cárdenas

Artist manager

HEARTFELT MANAGEMENT was born of Antonio Cárdenas’s desire to help artists tell their stories and realize their respective visions. With a background in music technology, he is a natural connector and weaves both technical and industry knowledge with empathy to amplify and solidify the talent that inspires him. His approach with everyone he chooses to work with is, well, heartfelt.

HEARTFELT MANAGEMENT represents the following artists: Viktor Orri Árnason, Donata, Simon Goff and Benyayer.

Antonio Cárdenas studied physics at the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, specialising in particle physics with a project done at Paris 11 and CERN. He holds a master degree in Acoustics, Signal Processing and Informatics Applied to Music (ATIAM) from IRCAM and Paris 6. He has worked at ABLETON and NATIVE INSTRUMENTS, and in different projects with artists like Peaches, Jean-Michel Jarre, Max Richter and Austra, among many others.

Antonio has been a Reeperbahn Festival Delegate (2018, 2019, 2020), Berlin Music Ambassador (2022, 2023), and German Music Export Delegate (2023, 2024).

HEARTFELT MANAGEMENT is a member of the BERLIN MUSIC COMISSION (BMC).

Camille Chanel

Film Producer

Camille Chanel has been working since 2017 in distribution, international sales and production.

She worked between 2021 and May 2026 at Panama Film (AT) as a junior- and line producer on a.o. bluish by Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky (2024, FID Marseille, Grand Prix), WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter (2025, Locarno Competition) and EVERYTIME by Sandra Wollner (2026, Cannes Un Certain Regard Winner).

She produced TERESA'S BODY by Magdalena Chmielewska (2026, Max Ophüls, Best Director).

Greta Cozzani

Sync and licensing consultant

Greta Cozzani is a sync and licensing consultant at Sonoton Music with eight years of experience across music licensing, catalogue management, editorial curation, and digital music platforms.

She specializes in connecting music with creative projects across advertising, film, television, and digital media. Fluent in Italian, German, and English, she brings an international perspective shaped by living and working across Europe.

Beyond her professional work, she has spent years DJing and engaging with independent music scenes, particularly within indie rock and post-punk.

Mara Cracaleanu

Film Producer

Romanian London-based producer, Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree and TEDx speaker, Mara Cracaleanu is the founder of Melancholia, a UK-Romania production company focused on international film and series co-productions.

Her projects have received over 70 international awards and selections and have been developed through Ex Oriente Series Lab, WEMW, European Genre Forum, Netflix Women's VP Training and MIA Market. Her work spans film, documentary and emerging media.

Enrico Delamboye

Musician, Conductor

Enrico Delamboye was born in Wiesbaden and is a Dutch citizen. He studied piano with Joop Celis, orchestral conducting with Jan Stulen and viola as a minor subject at the Maastricht Conservatory. In 1999, he made his opera debut at the International May Festival at the Wiesbaden State Theatre with Benjamin Britten's ‘The Rape of Lucretia’.

He has worked as a conductor and solo repetiteur at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Mainz, Wuppertaler Bühnen and the Cologne Opera, among others. From 2007 to 2014, he also worked as a lecturer in orchestral conducting at the Maastricht Conservatory. Between 2009 and 2019, Enrico Delamboye was chief conductor at the Koblenz Theatre. Since 2023, he has been associated with the International Opera Academy in Ghent (B) as a lecturer in conducting techniques.

He has a long-standing collaboration with the WDR Funkhausorchester in Cologne. He was appointed 1st guest conductor of the orchestra at the start of the 2018/19 season.

Guest appearances have taken him to the Komische Oper Berlin, the Basel Theatre, the Volksoper Vienna, the Konzert Theater Bern, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the ballet of the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen, the Opera Zuid and the Zomeropera, the Braunschweig State Theatre, the Darmstadt State Theatre and the Bonn Theatre, among others. He has also performed with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Deutsche Staatsphiharmonie Ludwigshafen, the Munich and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestras, the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie in Koblenz, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Bern Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, the Artur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra Lodz and the Philharmonie Zuidnederland.

Enrico Delamboye's symphonic and operatic repertoire covers a wide range from baroque to modern.

Lucile Delrieu Alauzy

Music supervisor, sync agent

With nearly a decade of experience as both a Music Supervisor and Sync Agent, Lucile has developed a hybrid approach that brings together two sides of the music-to-picture industry often kept separate.

Combining creative music supervision with sync expertise, rights negotiation and catalogue representation, she has built a distinctive way of working across international markets, bridging creative vision with the realities of the global music business.

Her work spans film, TV, advertising and branded content, connecting directors and producers with artists, composers and rights holders worldwide. This dual perspective places her at the heart of the evolving role of music supervision in Europe, exploring new ways to connect music, storytelling and sync.

Hannah Dobbertin

Film director

Hannah Dobbertin (1999) loves colorful stories and a good punchline. After completing internships, spending countless hours on film sets, and realising over a dozen of her own short films, she brings both of these passions to life as a freelance director.

She has directed commercials for Swiss Post, SBB, Raiffeisen, Betty Bossi, and others, in both German and French. In 2024, she won silver and gold awards for two commercials at the Cannes Corporate Media Awards, and in 2025, her music video SCHÖN won two awards at the Edi. Her latest short film, RABE, was screened at the 2025 Cannes Indie Shorts Awards. 

She is currently working on her first TV series screenplay as part of the writing workshop LA SALLE DE SPORT. What all her projects have in common: precise theatrical timing, close collaboration with the art department, and the belief that a film can always be a bit more colorful.

Anna Drubich

Composer

Anna Drubich is a Los Angeles–based, award-winning composer whose work spans film, television, documentaries, theatre, ballet, and the concert stage.

Her credits include the Academy Award and BAFTA-winning documentary NAVALNY, Zach Cregger’s BARBARIAN, SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, co-scored with Marco Beltrami, Netflix's FEAR STREET: 1994, WEREWOLVES WITHIN, STING, FORBIDDEN FRUITS, BRICK, and THE MASTER AND MARGARITA.

Drubich has composed music for more than 70 film and television projects internationally and is the recipient of multiple International Film Music Awards. Her stage work includes OUR CLASS, directed by Igor Golyak in New York, and THE GREAT GATSBY ballet for World Ballet Company, choreographed by Ilya Jivoy.

Her music combines orchestral, electronic, and experimental elements, creating distinctive sound worlds across genres and forms.

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Moris Freiburghaus

Film Director

Born in 1989 in Chur, Switzerland. 2010-15 Attendes ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Film department. 2015 Bachelor's in Film from ZHdK.

His short films PARADOX (2013) and SUMMERLOCH (2019) were selected by various national and international festivals, culminating in the San Sebastian Film Festival. Lives and works in Zurich as freelance director and editor.

His feature-length directorial debut I LOVE YOU, I LEAVE YOU (2025) received the Golden Eye for Best Documentary and the Audience Award at the Zurich Film Festival and later won the Swiss Film Award (2025) for Best Documentary. Moris Freiburghaus lives and works in Zürich and is co-founder of "Sabotage Kollektiv". 

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Adina Friis

Composer

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 called Luumu, through which she transforms her most personal thoughts and ideas into art. Since 2010, she has performed with the band in Switzerland and abroad and has released four albums featuring songs in English, Danish, Swedish, French, and Swiss German.

Since 2015, she has been composing music for various theatre productions, and from 2017 to 2019, she was responsible for the musical design of the BERNER REDEN at Konzert Theater Bern.

In 2020, she had the opportunity to demonstrate her skills as a film composer for the feature film EDEN FÜR JEDEN, directed by Rolf Lyssy. In 2023, her composition LEBEN IN ANBETRACHT DER ENDLICHKEIT for choir and chamber orchestra was performed in four cities across Switzerland.

She is currently working on a collaboration with an animated filmmaker, who will bring Luumu's music to the screen while the band performs the songs live on stage. Alongside this, she works as a pianist and singer in a wide range of projects and as a composer and arranger for film, theatre, choir, and ensembles.

She has been a speaker at SoundTrack_Zurich since its first edition.

Laura Gabay

Film Director

After studying social sciences, Laura Gabay studied film at HEAD, EICTV and EQZE and co-founded the production company Écran Mobile, where she has produced films since 2018.

Her debut feature PARA NO OLVIDAR (2023) premiered at Visions du Réel, while her short VIENTO DULCE SALADO screened at Visions du Réel and IDFA.

She has co-produced award-winning shorts including CRIATURA, CARBÓN and FANTASMAGORÍA, screened at over 100 festivals. She also teaches Super 8 and 16mm filmmaking and is currently in post-production on her second feature-length documentary, EMBRACING THE WORLD.

Ben Galler

Music manager, publisher

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Annette Gentz

Founder ANNETTE GENTZ | MUSIC & FILM ARTS, General Manager UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING CLASSICS & SCREEN GAS

Annette Gentz is one of Germany’s premiere agents for film music. Her company Annette Gentz Music & Film Arts has been supervising score productions for European and international films for more than 10 years, collaborating with film directors and producers, music supervisors, choreographers and opera houses, publishers and record labels worldwide.

Previous film projects she was involved in include soundtracks by among others Michael Nyman, Volker Bertelmann, Dascha Dauenhauer, Carsten Nicolai/ Alva Noto, John Gürtler & Jan Miserre, Freya Arde, Annette Focks and Max Richter.

In May, 2023 Annette Gentz has joined Universal Music as General Manager GSA, Classics & Screen | Ricordi.

Marcus Goldhahn

Film Producer

Marcus is a Berlin-based film producer and photojournalist with over ten years' experience in the audiovisual industry. His work focuses on fictional and non-fictional projects with social relevance, strong social conflicts and a clear, authentic narrative style.

Alongside his work on TV dramas, streaming series and feature films, Marcus develops and produces his own (short) films and documentaries, which have garnered recognition at international festivals.

He is a member of the European Film Academy.

Søren Green

Film Director

Søren Green is a Danish writer-director whose films explore intimacy, longing and emotional vulnerability, often through characters searching for connection but struggling to let others in.

His feature debut, B.O.Y. – BRUISES OF YESTERDAY, premiered internationally in 2024. His previous work includes the short-film trilogy AN AFTERNOON / AN EVENING / A NIGHT, which screened at more than 120 festivals worldwide. He began his directing career with the documentary THE HIDDEN CHILDREN.

Brigitte Hofer

Film Producer

maximage is an independent production company based in Zurich, led by producers Brigitte Hofer and Cornelia Seitler. Since 1997, they have successfully produced documentaries and feature films for the international theatrical and festival markets.

Their collaborations with innovative and inquisitive writers and directors have resulted in award-winning films, including WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS and GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD by Peter Mettler, LES COURAGEUX by Jasmin Gordon, WET SAND by Elene Naveriani, (IM)MORTELS by Lila Ribi, ABOVE AND BELOW by Nicolas Steiner, KÖPEK and AL SHAFAK by Esen Isik, HEIMATKLÄNGE and ACCORDION TRIBE by Stefan Schwietert, BERGFAHRT by Dominique Margot, and AVANT IL N’Y AVAIT RIEN by Yvann Yagchi. And last but not least, the award-winning short films KURT UND DER SESSELLIFT and BANDWURM ALEXIS UND DIE OPERNDIVA by Thaïs Odermatt.

Renato Horvath

Music Supervisor

Renato Horvath (Hungary) founded Eastaste, Eastern Europe's first sync licensing agency, in 2012. Its main focus is music licensing, music supervision, and consulting for rights owners and filmmakers alike. Over the years, he has licensed songs for 300+ commercials and films from domestic and foreign performers and authors, and his speciality is licensing well-known foreign compositions and covers as well as difficult-to-find works. He is also building Music Oracle, a self-built tool that answers sync fees and rights questions before picture lock.

Affiliations: UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors member; partner in the Europe in Synch and Artistic Futures Creative Europe consortia.

Ksenia Ignatenko

Media Composer, Classical Singer, Songwriter

Ksenia Ignatenko (*2001) is a film and media composer and classically trained singer who works across styles from electronic to orchestral writing.

In 2026 she won the Peer Raben Music Award at SoundTrack_Cologne for A BETTER YOU (dir. Arina Popa), a dystopian dark comedy about toxic positivity, co-composed with Leticia Goás.

She made her singing debut at eight at Moscow's Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theatre, and trained for an opera career in Moscow and, from 2014, in Krakow. At seventeen, she turned to film through her first composition competition, which led to an invitation to the film music festival in Krakow.

In 2019 she moved to Zurich to study at the ZHdK, completing her Master's in Composition for Film, Theatre and Media in 2025. Her credits range from feature-length documentaries to narrative shorts, video games and her own original releases. Since 2025, she has been president of SWAN, the network for women in Swiss film and the audiovisual industry.

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Audrey Ismaël

Composer, Producer, Singer, Songwriter

Self-taught composer and songwriter Audrey Ismaël draws on her roots in Réunion Island for an instinctive sense of rhythm and polyrhythm that runs through her work.

After co-founding the band Smoking Smoking (2011), she turned to film scoring, co-composing with Olivier Coursier the score for Vanessa Filho's Angel Face (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2018). She has also scored several notable series — Les Grands, Germinal, Vortex, Belphegor, Enchaînés, Désenchantées — before scoring Wild Diamond by Agathe Riedinger and The Kingdom by Julien Colonna (Cannes 2024), then Marmaille by Grégory Lucilly, shot in Réunion Island, which earned her the Révélation prize at the Les Arcs Film Festival.

In 2025-2026, she scored A Place for Her by Melisa Godet and expanded internationally with for example Cronos (Fernando González Molina) and Dua by Blerta Basholli (Cannes Critics' Week 2026). 

Gio Israel

Film Director

Gio Israel is the creator and director of SEEKERS, a cinematic docuseries and platform exploring ancient wisdom, mental health, and human transformation.

For over two decades, he has worked across cultures documenting rituals, ceremonies, and disappearing traditions. An initiated Sema-Zen in the Mevlevi Sufi Order, he co-founded Frequency, led strategy for Midburn, Burning Man's largest regional event, and built a major ceremonial instrument music label as a DJ on Splice.

Claudia Kempf

Head of Members Department at SUISA

After studying sociology and anthropology, Claudia Kempf worked in film production as a production manager and assistant director. Alongside her professional work, she also studied cultural and media management.

From 1999 onwards, she took on various roles within SUISA. Since 2011, she has headed the Members Services Department which supports SUISA members across all areas of rights administration, from member onboarding and works registration to handling distribution inquiries in Switzerland and abroad.

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Michael Künstle

Composer

Andrea Lässig

Music supervisor, musician

Andrea Lässig has studied music tuition and french horn in Munich, followed by music journalism at the National Academy for Music and Theater.

She has been working in music consulting at BAYERISCHER RUNDFUNK for 14 years and has been part of the Sync & Licensing team at SONOTON Music - the world’s largest independent production music library - since November 2025.

Jannis Lenz

Film Director

Jannis Lenz is a Vienna Film Academy graduate, where he was mentored by Jessica Hausner and worked as an assistant to Michael Haneke.

WANNABE received the Prix Clermont-Ferrand and was nominated for the European Film Award, his graduation film SOLDAT AHMET premiered at Visions du Réel and won several international awards. Lenz is a Berlinale Talents alumnus and a member of the European Film Academy.

His debut feature OASIS premieres in the Orrizonti Competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival.

Luca Leonetti

Music Consultant, Music Documentalist

Luca studied musicology and history at the University of Zurich whilst also working at the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich, playing guitar in different bands and working behind the scenes on theatre and concert productions.

After obtaining his bachelor's degree in 2025 he began working as a music supervisor and a music documentalist at the Swiss national radio and television corporation SRF.

He provides music for various radio, television and online formats as a music supervisor and documents music in the Swiss national radio database as a music documentalist.

Olav Lervik

Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator, Lecturer

Olav Lervik is a Norwegian-French composer, orchestrator and arranger based in Zurich, whose work bridges contemporary music, film, games and immersive media.

His music and orchestrations have been performed by leading ensembles and orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Danish National Symphony Orchestra. His credits encompass original scores, orchestration, arrangement and the reconstruction of historic film music, alongside work in interactive and electroacoustic music.

He teaches composition for film, theatre, media and sound design at Zurich University of the Arts.

Geo Lomuntad

Film Producer

Geo Lomuntad is a young producer from Manila, Philippines. He is an alumnus of Talents Tokyo, Busan Asian Film School, Full Circle Lab, IFFR Producers Lab and Berlinale Talents. His first feature film, THE MISSING (dir. Carl Joseph Papa), which won Best Animated Film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2024, was the Philippines' official submission to the 96th Academy Awards. His recent film, SUNSHINE, had its World Premiere at Toronto IFF 2024, and won the Crystal Bear in Berlin IFF 2025.

In 2025, he founded his production company Super! to champion more Filipino films around the world.

Noah Martin

Lawyer, general secretary at SUISA

Noah Martin is a lawyer who examined copyright protection requirements as part of his doctoral thesis. Since early 2022, he has been working at SUISA Cooperative, where he leads the Secretary General’s office. In his professional role, he also deals with business development issues related to ongoing digitalisation, particularly in the area of generative artificial intelligence.

Alun Meyerhans

Alun Meyerhans completed his Bachelor's degree in Cast Audiovisual Media at Zurich University of the Arts in 2016. In his filmmaking, he experiments with different formats – from mockumentaries to classic documentaries to essayistic works. He is particularly drawn to the documentary form as a way of showing people and their stories from unfamiliar angles, thereby revealing underlying social dynamics.

His film ROGER FEDERER: THE REUNION is available on Netflix, and his most recent work, AIMING HIGH, premiered at the Zurich Film Festival in 2024. In his latest documentary project, MAI BODY YOUR CHOICE, he turns his attention to the world's largest sex doll manufacturer, exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping ideas of intimacy, femininity, and desire. 

Since 2022, he has been teaching in the Cast Audiovisual Media program at Zurich University of the Arts.

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Elena Miraglia

Licensing manager

Music sync and licensing was somehow written in the stars for Elena. With a lawyer father and a fashion designer mother, balancing the legal and the artistic has been in her blood since birth.

A former university lecturer (with a PhD in English poetry), songwriter, and musician, she transitioned from Shakespeare and Fiona Apple to a decade of high-level legal translation, before finally finding her ultimate calling at the intersection of music and the law.

As Licensing Manager at Four Flies and Head of Licensing at Sync Flies, she manages the complete sync journey. Whether she is digging for the perfect track or navigating the fine print of a contract, Elena can rely on her multifaceted background, her creative intuition, and her rigorous attention to detail. And yes, she genuinely loves every single part of it.

Kathleen Moser

Sound Editor, Sound Designer, Re-Recording Mixer, Location Sound Recordist

Kathleen Moser completed their bachelor's degree in video/documentary filmmaking with a focus on sound at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2019 and subsequently focused on working in the field of sound. They work as a sound editor, sound designer, re-recording mixer and location sound recordist for documentaries, fiction projects, short films, and art projects.

Mauro Mueller

Film Director

Mauro Mueller is a Swiss-Mexican filmmaker and an MFA graduate of Columbia University. His short film A WORLD FOR RAÚL won a Student Academy Award, while DEAR CHICKENS, starring Philip Baker Hall in his final role, qualified for the Academy Awards.

His work has been supported by Sundance, Tribeca, Locarno, Rotterdam and the Berlinale. He directed the features THE JANITOR, 111: ECHOES FROM HALIFAX and A FEW DAYS IN THE SUN, and co-directed the Swiss crime series WILDER IV. 

He also served as showrunner and producer of the SRF comedy series OUR LITTLE EMBASSY. His producing credits include COPENHAGEN, the Venice-winning CANDELARIA, the Canadian sci-fi film COSMIC DAWN, and THE UGLY CHICKENS, produced alongside George R.R. Martin.

A Sony Pictures Television Fellow and co-founder of Fidelio Films, Mauro is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where he serves on the Executive Committee. He also writes regularly on Substack.

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Matteo Pagamici

Musician, Film Composer

Matteo Pagamici is a Swiss musician and film composer. In 2014 he received a nomination for the Golden Eye "Best International Film Music" at the Zurich Film Festival. He is also a Berlinale Talent Alumnus.

His most recent film work includes PLATZSPITZBABY (director: Pierre Monnard), the SRF/Netflix series NEUMATT (director: Pierre Monnard and Sabine Boss) and the French-Swiss series HORS SAISON (director: Pierre Monnard), as well as one of the official 2024 SuperBowl adverts.

Hanna-Greth Peetson

Music Supervisor

Hanna-Greth Peetson is one of Estonia’s first dedicated music supervisors, working primarily across film and advertising. With a background in both film and music, she has built an active creative and professional network within the fields. Her work combines creative music selection with a strong understanding of the detailed metadata and rights information needed to make music searchable, usable and ready for audiovisual projects.

Hanna-Greth is also the Program Manager of Music Meets Film, a practical training programme for emerging film composers, part of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event’s Discovery Campus in parallel to Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The programme connects composers with filmmakers and industry professionals through workshops, masterclasses and hands-on learning, providing practical knowledge and tools that composers can directly apply to their careers.

Katharina Pfennich

Sound Artist, Sound Designer

Katharina Pfennich is a sound designer and sound artist with a strong interest in immersive storytelling through sound. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University before continuing with a Master's degree in Sound Design at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

Growing up in an international environment, she has lived in Austria, France, the UK, Canada, and Switzerland, experiences that have shaped her sensitivity to place, atmosphere, and cultural context. Early on, she developed a deep interest in documenting, shaping, and transforming sonic environments. This exploration continues to define her practice today and inspires her to make immersive soundscapes for film and art exhibitions.

Andres Pfister

Musicologist at SUISA

Raised in Lenk in the beautiful Bernese Oberland, Andres Pfister completed a commercial apprenticeship in Bern before studying musicology and social anthropology.

Since earning his master's degree in 2018, he has worked as a musicologist for SUISA in Zurich while also engaging in various roles to promote musical practice and preserve Switzerland's cultural heritage. He holds volunteer board positions with several associations (Musikförderung Bern, RISM), serves as a lieutenant in the Cultural Property Protection service, and is active as a musician, producer, and writer in the field of popular music.

Additionally, he teaches general music one day a week at a secondary school in the Canton of Bern.

Timofey Pozhitkov

Film director

Timofey Pozhitkov is a filmmaker based in London. His films explore Eastern European identity and how history shapes individual lives.

His debut short film, KATYA, premiered at the 2026 Seattle International Film Festival and was a finalist for the Sundance Ignite fellowship. He was born in Vladivostok, Russia.

Florian Prengel

Music supervisor

Jeanette Rehnstrom

Music supervisor

Jeanette Rehnstrom is the lead Music Supervisor and Director of Avant Music Port, an Irish independent boutique music sync and music supervision agency started in 2015. Avant Music Port specialises in providing, sourcing and licencing music for creative projects in film, television, advertising, and games, through an extensive ready-to-use Irish focused catalogue of contemporary music, a collection of great artists/composers/producers/editors, as well as through an award-winning music supervision service.

Jeanette won the Best Music Supervision BIFA for her work on the Oscar-nominated feature film KNEECAP, and joined the BIFA voting panel in 2025. Currently she is working on a number of TV Series and Film projects, such as, for example, the Cannes Winning documentary TIN CASTLE, numerous Marvel and Disney projects, the seventh season of the A&E/PBS TV Series MISS SCARLET (with Kate Phillips, of PEAKY BLINDERS, in the lead), as well, as the second season of the new TV series  THE PUZZLE LADY, also on PBS in the US (led by BAFTA winner Phyllis Logan of SECRETS & LIES and DOWNTOWN ABBEY).

Sarah Rimkus

Music Supervisor, Sync Expert

Sarah is a Berlin-based music supervisor and sync expert with experience across advertising, music and film. She started her career in advertising before joining Universal Music Publishing in 2016, where she discovered the world of sync. Since then, she has worked across the industry, from MassiveMusic to Senior Sync Manager at Concord Music Publishing, alongside her independent work as a music supervisor.

Moving between film and advertising, her work is driven by a feel for music, storytelling and the business behind bringing the two together. Her projects range from supervising films such as “The Conscience of Clothing”,  “The Devil’s Drivers”,… to global campaigns for Porsche, MINI, Telekom and many more. She has also worked on international sync camps, bringing artists and composers together for visual media.

Drawing on her experience across the creative and business sides of sync, Sarah is now launching her own sync agency, PIECE OF CAKE, bringing these perspectives together under one roof.

Giulia Rocca

Sync manager

Giulia Rocca works in music synchronization and catalogue exploitation, helping music find new contexts and audiences across film, television and advertising. As Sync Manager at Sync Flies, the synchronization division of Four Flies Records, she works across a diverse catalogue that spans both contemporary music and the rediscovery of overlooked Italian recordings, from rare 1960s and 1970s soundtracks and archival material to newer artists and releases.

Drawing on previous experience across film festivals, international sales, and streaming platforms, she works at the intersection of music, storytelling, and visual media.

Jean-Michel Roufosse

Data Scientist at Deezer

Jean-Michel Roufosse is a French-American data scientist at Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming platform. He is responsible for developing and operating data-driven systems to detect and help mitigate artificial streaming, compromised accounts, and other forms of platform abuse at scale. He turns complex listening data into practical safeguards that protect listeners, secure the service, and help ensure that music activity is measured and rewarded fairly.

As AI-generated music increases the volume and accelerates the pace of streaming fraud, his work sits at the intersection of technology, artist rights, and the future of music.

He is passionate about making digital music more transparent, resilient, and trustworthy while leaving room for legitimate innovation.

Photo: Jozo Palkovits

Sara Schär

Music Supervisor, Music Consultant, Musician, Composer

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Beda Senn

Music consultant, music curator, producer

Freelance music consultant and founder of the new production music label Motif Works. From 2006 to January 2025, Beda Senn worked as a music consultant at Swiss Television (SRF), where he was involved in up to 600 documentary film projects

Since 2018 conception & production for new library/production music under Tonangeber GmbH, he is expert in the implementation of new sounds for current and future topics:
What does today's modern urban environment sound like? (Sounds Of Urbanity). What does music have to sound regarding sustainability, the new food movements, healthy and sustainable nutrition and lifestyles? (Organic Food Sounds). How do you create a sound image that depicts the regions of the world in a new and timeless way? Without all the clichés and stereotypes, but with the by integrating the traditional sounds of the regions concerned. What are new alpine sounds? What is the new sound for stories in today's alpine region (including Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and the north of Italy and France). Creating sounds that make the colours ring. And much more.

Another important motto: Modern Modular Motif-based Production Music. The goal are minimal and modular structured mood tracks, which have unique and modern sounds as core element and thus on the one hand perfectly underscore fitting and not overloaded but on the other hand have strong motif expressiveness. For each track there are several variations, which may differ in instrumentation of the motif, tempo, time signature etc., but which play around the central element (the leitmotif) in some form. And all this under the aspect of making it as close, touching, high quality and timeless as possible for all kinds of audio-visual productions and suitable for stories in the here and now.

Although music is his life, he never learned to play an instrument well. He spent a few years as a drummer, but never really gained a foothold as a musician. Despite, or perhaps because of it, he has immersed himself (associatively), in what kind of images does music create, which images need which music. He finds the exploration of music exciting. And he has immersed himself in it.

He also sees himself as a diver for musical pearls in the playlists of Tonangeber. He curates and mixes them together.

Afsar Sonia Shafie

Film director

Afsar Sonia Shafie is a Swiss-Iranian filmmaker based in Zurich. She studied philosophy at the University of Tabriz in Iran. After completing her BA, she studied filmmaking at the Young Cinema Society in Tehran. In 2000, she moved to Switzerland to further her education in filmmaking at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL).

Drawing on her lived experience in Iran and her life in exile in Switzerland, her work brings the cultural and emotional realities of these two worlds into dialogue. Informed by her background in philosophy, she explores themes of identity, belonging, and women’s struggle for emancipation and self-determination through deeply personal and often autobiographical narratives shaped by her experience of growing up within Iran’s political and ideological realities.

She has written and directed several documentaries and short films, including CITY WALLS - MY OWN PRIVATE TEHRAN, which received multiple awards.

Mirjam Skal

Composer

Annie Song

Film Producer

Annie Song is a film producer and curator focused on auteur cinema, emerging filmmakers, and cross-cultural collaboration.

A UC Berkeley graduate, she works with filmmakers across China and Asia. Her credits include THE WIND WILL SAY (Busan IFF), HAVE A NICE DAY and GHOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Berlinale).

She was selected for Berlinale Talents Tokyo, Busan IFF CHANEL × BIFF Asian Film Academy, SGIFF Asian Producers Network, and BIFAN Fantastic Film School.

Andreas Suttner

Cellist, Music Manager, Music Consultant for TV

Andreas Suttner has studied Violoncello and music tuition and has been awarded as a cellist at several well-known contests.

After completing his MA in Arts Management at City University of London he has turned his attention to music management.

From 2004 he is also working as a music consultant for the film department of Bavarian Television.

In 2007 Andreas Suttner founded the production music label KLANGIDEE and since then is focusing on his work as a composer and producer for filmmusic in TV, radio and web.

Esra Tas

Film Producer

Esra Tas is a producer working across fiction and documentary. She studied Digital Film Production and gained experience in different roles within film production.

She has produced two feature-length films and is currently developing several new projects. Her work focuses on social and cultural themes and stories that cross borders.

Laura Thomann

Music supervisor

After completing her master's degree in applied linguistics, Laura found her way into the Swiss cultural sector and worked for several years at SONART, the Swiss professional association for musicians. She also gained valuable experience in other professional fields, including subtitling film and news productions for Swiss television and administrative work in public cultural funding.

Since 2025, she has been working as a music supervisor at the Swiss national radio and television corporation SRF, where she curates and provides music for various radio, television and online formats and advises journalists on music selection.

Additionally, Laura is involved in various cultural associations with a musical and organisational capacity, including fundraising, communication and booking.

Bigna Tomschin

Film director, producer, editor

Bigna Tomschin studied film at the Zurich University of the Arts and graduated in 2014. With an interest in experimental forms and innovative collaborations, she enjoys working at the intersection of documentary and fiction. Her first feature film A Donkey Called Geronimo was a hybrid documentary that she co-directed with her partner Arjun Talwar. While moving between Switzerland, Germany, Poland and India, she has since edited and co-written over a dozen feature films. Her work has been screened at festivals such as the Berlinale (Letters from Wolf Street, 2025), Locarno and IDFA.

She is the founder of the Zurich-based production company lo-fi films where she is currently developing Der Rutsch as producer and director.

2028 DER RUTSCH – Fic 95 min / CH / R: Bigna Tomschin (in development) – director, producer
2026 SWEET BELONGING – Doc 83 min / CH / D: Benjamin Bucher (in postproduction) – editor
2026 KALARI KID – Doc 93/52 min / CH, IN / D: Maria Kaur Bedi, Satindar Singh Bedi – editor
2025 LETTERS FROM WOLF STREET – Doc 97 min / PL, DE / D: A. Talwar – editor, co-writer
2025 NORMA DORMA – Fic 86 min / CH / D: Lorenz Suter – editor, co-writer
2023 DICIASSETTE – Doc 17 min / CH / D: Thomas Horat – editor
2022 POLISH PRAYERS – Doc 86 min / CH, PL / D: Hana Nobis – editor
2019 WIR ELTERN – Fic 94 min / CH / D: Eric Bergkraut, Ruth Schweikert – editor
2019 LETTERS TO A.– Doc 50 min / PL, CH / D: Wiktoria Szymanska – editor
2018 A DONKEY CALLED GERONIMO – Doc / 80 min / DE,CH / D: A. Talwar, B. Tomschin – director, producer
AND MORE

Borja Torres

Music supervisor

Borja Torres is part of Lovemonk, an independent music supervision company working across television, film and, primarily, brands and advertising.

Over the course of his career, he has worked on more than 500 projects for clients in Spain and across Europe, from finding the right song for a campaign to shaping the musical universe of a film or the identity of a brand. His work combines creative judgement, cultural awareness and a deep understanding of the music industry.

His approach to sync draws on a broad knowledge of the music business and audiovisual culture, while retaining the curiosity of a DJ and a digger, always looking for new sounds and keeping a close eye on the currents shaping subcultures.

Lovemonk also runs a fiercely eclectic record label, releasing music by artists including Gecko Turner, Linda Mirada, ZA!+Perrate, Daga Voladora, Chip Wickham and Pajaro Sunrise. They also make an almost decent cup of coffee.

Julian Tynan

Film Director

Growing up in the bottom-right corner of Australia, Julian photographed his early life on a goat farm. He cut his teeth making Behind-the-Scenes documentaries for film & TV. Working with many of Australia's most highly regarded creatives informed & sharpened his skills on set & in the edit.

His work is striking with a disarming sensitivity and an interest in the unusual. His films, incl. SIBLINGS, HOW TO SELL A CAR & WIDOWERS, have screened internationally at Palm Springs, SXSW Sydney, Vancouver & London Short FF, & features on Nowness, VICE & Directors’ Notes.

Julian is based in Eora/Sydney, Australia.

Jonas Ulrich

Writer, director, editor

Born in Zurich and working as a writer, director and editor since 2012. Co-founder of the production company DYNAMIC FRAME.

His short film PEOPLE ON SATURDAY won the Golden Leopard at the 73rd Locarno Film Festival.

His feature debut WOLVES premiered in the feature competition of the 21st Zurich Film Festival was selected for the Mostra São Paulo, Göteborg Film Festival, Glasgow Film Festival, and more. The film deals with toxic masculinity and political extremism in the underground music world and features a striking mix of professional and non-professional actors, in the lead Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia (from the Oscar-nominated film CORPUS CHRISTI). A fictional metal band was formed just for the film. 

James Varghese

Music supervisor and music consultant at Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)

After completing his MA in Jazz studies at the Zurich school of fine arts (ZHdK) James Varghese toured in various bands and projects through Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom, Israel, China, India and Japan. He also produced different artists of various genres anywhere between pop, jazz, experimental and electronic.

In 2018 he founded QUIET LOVE Records with an adjacent publishing edition and has released artists with international acclaim such as Rosa Anschütz, Robot Koch and Egopusher among others.

Since 2023 James Varghese is part of the music supervision team at the Swiss national radio and television corporation SRF, consulting and curating all things music for various formats on radio, TV and online.

Martin Villiger

Composer, focused on film music

Martin Villiger has scored more documentary films than any other Swiss composer of his generation. He has written music for more than 140 films and series, 50 advertising campaigns and over 500 series episodes. And an archive of more than 2,000 of his pieces lives in the internal library of Swiss television.

He has a habit of being first. With the DVD The Voyage (2004) he was one of the first composers in Switzerland to score consistently in 5.1 surround. Today he works in Dolby Atmos and explores where human creativity meets AI. As a lecturer at the University of the arts Zurich he mentors students on their way to become film composers.

Beyond film, Martin develops sonic identities for companies and also broadcast series. Some of his advertising campaigns feature names like APPLE, SAMSUNG, SWISSCOM, SALT, SNICKERS and REGA, alongside film and series work for NETFLIX and SRF. On stage, he founded the Culture Clash Concerts in 2022 and has performed his Emotional Composing format since 2006 - composing live in the moment, shaped by the audience in real time.

BLICK called him "the Swiss Hans Zimmer.”

Daniel Welbat

Film producer, director, musician, author

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Vuk Vukmanović

Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer

Born in Serbia in 1996, he studied classical guitar at the Isidor Bajić Secondary School of Music in Novi Sad, then cinema at the University of Art and Design – Geneva (HEAD).

He holds a Bachelor's in Cinema from HEAD – Geneva (2017) and a Master's in Cinema with a specialisation in Sound from ECAL–HEAD (2020).

Since 2020, he has worked as a re-recording mixer and sound designer on productions selected at prestigious international festivals (Cannes, Venice, Locarno, IFFR, IDFA, SXSW, BFI, Series Mania, Visions du Réel, Clermont-Ferrand).

He coordinates the Sound specialisation of the Cinema Bachelor program at HEAD and teaches cinematic techniques to postgraduate students at EPFL. He also directs the Audio-Visual Center, the creative hub for all HEAD students.

In 2026, he serves as a consultant and sound design mentor at Cinéma de Demain, the Festival de Cannes' development initiative (SFC | Rendez-vous Industry).

Photo by Laurent Koffel

Gabriel Yared

Composer

Oscar-winning composer Gabriel Yared is one of the most well-respected composers in film. Yared won an Academy Award for his score for Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient, which also won him a BAFTA, Golden Globe and Grammy. Yared was originally known for his work in French cinema, starting with Jean-Luc Godard, and later Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) and Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Lover). He also composed ballet music for works such as Clavigo for The Paris Opera, and Wayne McGregor's Raven Girl for the Royal Opera Ballet. He worked with Xavier Dolan on It's Only the End of the World, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2016. Yared was an official member of the Cannes Film Festival Jury in 2017. In December 2017, Yared performed a concert of his film music at the Paris Philharmonie, alongside the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dirk Brossé.

In 2019, Yared received the esteemed Max Steiner Award, presented by the city of Vienna at the Hollywood in Vienna concert gala, where his music was performed by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and a number of internationally acclaimed soloists.

His recent work includes: Judy, a Judy Garland biopic starring the award-winning Renée Zellweger and directed by Rupert Gould; Broken Keys directed by Jimmy Keyrouz which was selected for the 2020 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Eduardo Ponti’s The Life Ahead starring Sophia Loren, a deeply masterful and moving score, and Valérie Donzelli’s film L’Amour et les forêts for which he was nominated for the 2024 edition of the Césars.

Yared was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Soundtrack Awards at Film Fest Gent in October 2020. His music was performed by the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and broadcasted worldwide at a special online ceremony.

In January 2021, Yared gave a concert alongside the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dirk Brossé, and in the same year he received the prestigious Michel Legrand Honorary Award for his career as a composer.

He is currently preparing an album for trio (Piano, Violin, Violoncello) for Fall 2027.