Marion Klotz has experience of over 15 years in the cinema industry. She worked with Memento Films International, Arte, Doha Film Institute, Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR). Since 2014, she has collaborated with the Locarno Film Festival as Project Manager of the Industry Academy, a program she has developed over the past ten years in Latin America, the USA, the Middle East, Southeastern Europe and Southern Africa. Since 2015, she is based in Argentina, where she developed the Industry Academy America Latina and U30 LatAm programs with Locarno Pro. She recently moved to Mendoza in the Andes to develop a permaculture and organic winegrowing project with her family.