Matchmaking for Women

Lucy Bright

Music Supervisor

Lucy Bright has music supervised some of the most critically-acclaimed British film and television of recent years: Lynne Ramsey’s "The Swimmer", John Maclean’s "Slow West", Sean Durkin’s "Southcliffe", "The Nest" and "The Iron Claw", Shane Meadows’s "This is England ’90", "The Virtues" and "The Gallows Pole", Charlotte Wells’s "Aftersun" and "Todd Field’s Tár".

Most recently she has music supervised "The History of Sound" starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor and the Marianne Faithfull documentary "Broken English". Her music publishing company Bright Notion Music represents a stellar roster of composers including Hildur Guðnadóttir, Oliver Coates, Rob Simonsen, Anne Nikitin, Tamar-kali, Alex Heffes, Jed Kurzel, Alex Baranowski, Ré Olunuga and Herdís Stefánsdóttir.

Camille Budin

Director, camera assistant, camerawoman

Born in Paris in 1979, Camille Budin has lived and worked as an independent filmmaker in Zürich since 2005. During her Studies in French Literature and Cinema in France and Italy, she discovered the work of documentary filmmakers such as Chris Marker, Raymond Depardon, Johann Van der Keuken, Robert Kramer... and fell in love with documentary filmmaking. In Zürich, she majored in Image as a camerawoman at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. She then worked as a camera assistant, camerawoman and director (“Be Free”, “Grand et Petit” “Les Nouvelles Eves”) and collaborated with different filmmakers such as Peter Mettler (“The End of Time”).

Gabriela Bussmann

Film producer

In 1990, she was part of the founding team of Critics' Week in Locarno.

Since 1995, she became member of the Festival leadership of Visions du Réel in Nyon. Head of the Industry, she has established an international market to foster international co-productions.

In 2012, she founded GoldenEggProduction in Geneva. She has produced films such as Putin's Witnesses by Vitaly Mansky, which won several awards and was nominated for the European Film Award, Tadmor by Monika Borgmann & Lokman Slim, The Despossessed by Mathieu Roy and Laissez-moi by Maxime Rappaz. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

Amélie Cochet

Director, animator, illustrator and storyboard artist

Amélie Cochet (*1996) grew up bilingual (de-fr) in Bern and discovered her enthusiasm for drawn and moving images at an early age. In 2019, she successfully completed her studies in 2D animation at HSLU Design Film and Art with her graduation film «IHR».

Since then, she has been working as a freelance animator, illustrator and storyboard artist in Bern, where she is involved in various films, carries out a wide range of commissioned projects and realises her own projects, such as her new short film «Across the Board» (produced by marumaru GmbH).

Amélie is also a board member of the GSFA (Groupement Suisse du Film d'Animation) and, since 2021, co-curator of Industry Day at the Fantoche Int. Animation Film Festival. She also teaches the course  "Animated Narration" at the School of Visual Arts in Biel.

Eleonora Danese

Music Supervisor, Songwriter

After almost seven years as a Graphic Designer and Art Director, and with almost fifteen years of professional experience in the music industry, Eleonora Danese has focused solely on music supervision for the past few years. 

She has worked with all the major streaming and TV platforms, including Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, and Sky, as well as some of Italy’s most important movie production companies (like Groenlandia and Filmauro).

Her working experience led her to be interviewed by international entities like EMMA - European Music Managers Alliance, EMEE - European Music Exporters Exchange, Linecheck Festival, and Fabrique du Cinéma.

She also held lessons about Music Supervision in Italian universities like Università degli Studi di Roma Tre and Luiss Guido Carli. 

While working on her career, she also managed her project as a songwriter: her stage name is Kuni, and her debut EP was released in June 2023 via Factory Flaws. 

Mara Deuschle

Sync Manager

Mara Deuschle has been working in the music industry for over a decade as a concert promoter and artist manager around Switzerland, during her business studies at the University of St. Gallen. Eager to develop her perception of the music industry on an international level, Mara moved to Denmark for her master’s degree in Management of Creative Industries at Copenhagen Business School.

Currently based in Copenhagen while still working with Swiss artists as a manager, Mara started working in music licensing in 2021 and she is now the global sync manager for APL Publishing. Her main focus at this Nordic music publisher is representing their catalogue for all types of visual media on an international level, working together with broadcasters such as ARD, SRF and the BBC, and acquiring placements on programs like VICE on Showtime in the US.

Zoë Hart

Agent

Zoë is an agent in the European office of music talent agency First Artists (FAM), representing composers, music editors and music supervisors for film, TV and gaming and is based in London. The roster of composer clients include OSCAR, Emmy and BAFTA-winners and nominees, such as Carter Burwell, Hannah Peel and Antonio Sanchez, through to a diverse mix of emerging talent.

Prior to her time at FAM, Zoë headed up the film/TV composer department at Faber Music, where she worked with composers including Marc Canham, Paul Haslinger and Jonny Greenwood and also helped to develop the Faber Alt. publishing catalogue of artists and composers. Before this, Zoë was a creative at international sync agency A&GSync; representing independent artists, labels and publishers for music licensing. During her 5 years there, she secured placements in global campaigns for brands such as Google, Adidas, Uber, Samsung as well as numerous film, TV and trailer placements.

Zoë is a graduate of music at Manchester University where she specialised in composition, musicology and performance on piano and flute. She has first-hand experience in composition, having written music for TV, ballet and theatre productions.

Anja Kofmel

Director, producer

Anja Kofmel is a Swiss animation and documentary filmmaker and producer. She studied at the HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences & Arts (Switzerland) and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris. Her first feature length film, the animated documentary CHRIS THE SWISS premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2018, won over 20 awards, such as the Swiss Film Award and was nominated i.a. for Camera d’or (Cannes) and the European Animation Award. Since 2019 Anja Kofmel is a mentor at the HSLU, M.A. Animation. She is the owner of Zurich based production company Asako Film GmbH.

Paulina Márquez

Music Supervisor

Music Supervisor with twenty years of experience within the film and music industries, she began her career as a producer at MCO Studios, a multidisciplinary music and audio design studio based in Mexico City.

Later and independently, she dedicated herself exclusively to the Music Supervision of film productions, until moving to London, to study a Master’s degree in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, with a specialization in Music Management at Goldsmiths.

After her studies in London, she moved to Brussels where she co-founded "Schiev", a music festival dedicated to discovering, promoting and mobilizing the independent and experimental music scene in Europe. The festival was part of SHAPE (Sound Heterogeneous Music and Performance in Europe),
a European platform co-founded by Creative Europe.

She currently lives in Barcelona, where she continues her career working in Mexican, Spanish and British productions for platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple. Among her work there are titles such as "Elite", "The burning body", "Hurricane Season", in addition to a long lasting collaboration with director Manolo Caro.

Member of the UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors and Advisor for the Asociación de Supervisión Musical de Habla Hispana; Paulina has also contributed with educational programs, collaborating in various international workshops and panels in forums such as Spot+, Primavera Pro,
BIME, Monkey Week, Future Music Forum, to name a few. She has also been a guest lecturer at Berklee College of Music, giving a a seminar/workshop on Music Supervision for two consecutive years.

Veronica L. Montaño

Veronica L. Montaño was born on 3 April 1990 in Nebikon. She is a founding member of Eisprung Animation Studio GmbH and has been working as an art director and director. She graduated in 2017 with a master's degree from Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Design & Art with the graduation films Ivan's Need and Eisnasen. 

In addition to Eisprung, Veronica is co-curator of Fantoche Industry Day and SAIA – Swiss Animation Industry Award.

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.

Anita Wasser

Film producer

Anita Wasser has been active in the Swiss film industry since 1992. She spent 10 years as Managing Director and Programmer of the Arthouse cinemas Riffraff and Bourbaki, four years as Head of MEDIA Desk Switzerland, and was a member of the film commissions of the FOC (Federal Office of Culture) and the Zurich Film Foundation.

From 2006 to 2016, she worked as a producer at the renowned production company C-Films. Between 2012 and 2017, she held a part-time position as Head and Lecturer of Film Production in the Bachelor and Master of Arts programs at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Since 2016, she has been co-owner of Turnus Film in Zurich, producing national and international feature films, TV films, and TV series in the arthouse and high-end mainstream sectors, including WOLKENBRUCH by Michael Steiner, JAKOBS ROSS by Katalin Gödrös, as well as two seasons of the series DIE BESCHATTER and TATORT.