International Matchmaking

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.

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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).

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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. 

Daniel Welbat

Film producer, director, musician, author