Match Me!
A networking platform for upcoming producers
An informal networking platform for young producers with distinct focus and strong visions since 2015.
© Locarno Film Festival / Samuel Golay
An informal networking platform for young producers with distinct focus and strong visions since 2015.
© Locarno Film Festival / Samuel Golay
Match Me! provides an informal networking platform for new and upcoming production companies with distinct focus and strong visions.
As with every year since 2015, Match Me! confirms itself as the networking platform through which producers can find their bearings in the industry. The program starts from a simple idea: what, if not the professional network, can enrich a producer’s work?
The goal of Match Me! is to help selected producers by expanding the horizons of their collaborations, relations and partnerships: an essential step for those wishing to understand how to move within the exciting universe of international (co)production.
Confirming the strength of this essential process, Match Me! 2024 took place in partnership with: Cinecittà, Cinema Chile, Cinema do Brasil, Dominican Republic Film Commission (DGCINE), Estonian Film Institute, German Films, Finnish Film Foundation, Lithuanian Film Centre, National Film Centre of Latvia, Polish Film Institute, ICA Portugal, ICAA Spain, Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and Unifrance.
Match Me! 2024 took place from 9 to 11 August, through individual meetings and tailor-made networking activities with potential business partners, with the aim to strengthen relationships and mutual interests, find potential co-producers and consolidate the producers’ international visibility.
In the past years, Match Me! welcomed producers from all over the world, thanks to partnerships with institutions such as Cinema do Brasil, Cinema Chile, Estonian Film Institute, Istituto Luce Cinecittà - Filmitalia, Latvian Film Centre, Lithuanian Film Centre, Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), Polish Film Institute, ICA Portugal, ICAA Spain, Proimágenes Colombia, Singapore Film Commission, Israel Film Center, SWISS FILMS and more.
Among others, one of the previous Match Me! selected producers was Pedro Duarte (Primeira Idade, Portugal), who was working on the project The Metamorphosis of Birds by Catarina Vasconcelos, which has already won 15 international awards, like the Berlinale Fipresci Award 2020.
A Metamorfose dos pássaros | Trailer | Berlinale Encounters 2020
Another partecipant was Paola Wink (Tokyo Filmes - Vulcana Cinema, Brazil), who produced Rifle by Davi Pretto (Brazil / Germany), selected a Berlinale Forum 2016, and Casa no Campo by Davi Pretto, presented at Berlinale Coproduction Market 2020.
Rifle, by Davi Pretto
Tan Si En (Momo Film Co, Singapore), another participant, was selected at the Berlinale Talents 2020, whereas Alessandro Amato (dispàrte, Italy) was working on Hogar (Maternal) project, a Locarno 72's Concorso Internazionale contender, during Match Me! 2017. Alessandro has also been selected as Berlinale Talent alumni 2020.
Maternal, by Maura Delpero
Giovanni Pompili took part in Match Me! in 2017 with Sole, by Carlo Sironi. Sole grew during the Locarno days and went on to premiere in Venice and screen in Toronto and Berlin, and then it won the European Discovery prize at the 2020 EFA ceremony.
That Pompili's story climaxed in February 2022 with the victory of Golden Bear. Pompili, via his company Kino Produzioni, is one of the producers of Carla Simón’s Alcarràs, the winner of Berlinale 2022. Read the story!
Sole, by Carlo Sironi
Marta Gmosińska (Lava Films, Poland), Match Me! 2018 with Never Gonna Snow Again by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert, which competed at the 2020 Venice Film Festival and was chosen to represent Poland at the 2021 Oscars; and Mila by Christos Nikou, which played in Orizzonti at the 2020 Venice Film Festival
Never Gonna Snow Again, by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert
In 2023, Match Me! welcomed 31 emerging producers coming from all over the world, thanks to several partnerships with Cinecittà, Dominican Republic Film Commission (DGCINE), Estonian Film Institute, German Films, Israel Film Fund, Lithuanian Film Centre, National Film Centre of Latvia, Polish Film Institute, ICA Portugal, ICAA Spain, Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and Unifrance.
In 2022, Match Me! welcomed 32 emerging producers coming from all over the world, thanks to several partnerships with British Film Institute, Dominican Republic Film Commission (DGCINE), Estonian Film Institute, Film Development Council of the Philippines, Istituto Luce Cinecittà - FilmItalia, Lithuanian Film Centre, National Film Centre of Latvia, Polish Film Institute, ICA Portugal, ICAA Spain, Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and Unifrance.
24 producers from all over the world, but with a shared destination: Locarno. They’re arriving from Estonia, Great Britain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, the Philippines and Spain.
Alina Mazzarella, Estudio Giz, Brazil
Andre Mielnik, If You Hold a Stone, Brazil
Daniel Pech, Multiverso Produções, Brazil
Maario Masing, Kinosaurus Films, Estonia
Elina Litvinova, Three Brothers, Estonia
Joana Domingues, Caracol Protagonista, Portugal
Pedro Duarte Primeira Idade, Portugal
Vasco Esteves, Fado Filmes, Portugal
Simona Pelliccioli, Dandy PR, Italy
Antonella di Nocera, Parallello 41 prod, Italy
Daniele Segre, Redibis Film, Italy
Kristians Alhimionoks, Plataforma Filma, Latvia
Marta Romānova – Jēkabsone, Film Studio Devini, Latvia
HUANG Junxiang, Zhao Wei Films, Singapore
Si en TAN, Momo Film, Singapore
Ling TIONG, Aand Company, Singapore
Gabriela Gavica, Mandarina Cine, Mexico
Jorge Ramire Varela, Stereosonique, Mexico
Daniela Contreras, Terra Nostra Films, Mexico
Magdalena Sztorc, Before My Eyes, Poland
Rafal Sakowski, Iris Media, Poland
Natalia Grzegorzek, Koskino, Poland
Daniel Mendez, Mano Negra Films, Spain
Patricia Franquisa Ruiz, Gadea Films, Spain
Mayi Gutierrez, Tourmalet Films, Spain
Ticiana Lima, Tardo Filmes, Brazil
Deborah Osborn, BigBonsai, Brazil
Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro, Ausgang, Brazil
Evelin Penttilä Stellar Film, Estonia
Kristjan Pütsep, Alasti Kino, Estonia
Tammy Cohen , Independent Producer, Israel
Yoav Roeh, Gum Films, Israel
Oren Rogovin, Rogovin Brothers, Israel
Laura Andina, Fair Play Movies, Italy
Cinzia Bomoll, Amarcord Film, Italy
Jean Denis, Le Dinahet, b24 Film, Italy
Kristele Pudane, Tritone Studio, Latvia
Matiss Kaza, Deep Sea Studios, Latvia
Ieva Biliūnaitė, In Script, Lithuania
Medeina Birgilaitė, Artbox, Lithuania
Eva Ruiz de Chávez, Panamericana Pictures, Mexico
Andrea Toca, Un Beso Cine, Mexico
Carlos Sosa, Viento del Norte Cine, Mexico
Ewa Szwarc, Kosmos Production, Poland
Karolina Galuba, Furia Film, Poland
Malgorazata Malysa, Furia Film, Poland
Marta Gmosińska, Lava Films , Poland
Flavia Zanon, Close Up Productions, Switzerland
Olivier Zobrist, Lang Film, Switzerland
Tolga Dilsiz, 8 Horses, Switzerland
Luana Melgaço, Anavilhana, Brazil
Fernando Sapelli, Claraluz Filmes, Brazil
Mathias Mangin, Igloo Films, Brazil
Alba Gaviraghi , Agosto Cine, Chile
Felipe Azúa, Avispa Cine, Chile
Catalina Donoso, Cusicanqui Films, Chile
Pablo Calisto Equeco, Chile
Pepe Rovano, Tototral Films & Media Lab, Chile
Elad Peleg, Daroma Productions, Israel
Naama Pyritz, Ingenue Production, Israel
Michael Rozenbaum, Transfax, Israel
Alessandro Amato, Dispàrte, Italy
Luigi Chimienti, Dispàrte, Italy
Giovanni Pompili, Kino Produzioni, Italy
Donatello Della Pepa, Revok, Italy
Alexander de Graaf, Marsupial Media, Mexico
Michael Rowe Marsupial Media, Mexico
Paulina Valencia, Spécola, Mexico
Pablo Zimbrón Alva, Varios Lobos / Malacosa Cine, Mexico
Dominika Osas, Badi Badi, Poland
Izabela Igel, Harine Films, Poland
Maria Krauss, Plesnar & Krauss Films, Poland
Jessica Luz, Besouro Filmes, Brazil
Marta Biavaschi,Besouro Filmes, Brazil
Denis Feijão, Elixir Entretenimento, Brazil
Rafael Sampaio, Klaxon, Brazil
Gisela Camara, Tacacá Filmes, Brazil
Augusto Matte, Jirafa, Chile
Isabel Orellana, Aracauria Cine, Chile
Macarena Lopez,Manufactura de Peliculas, Chile
Yennifer Fasciani, Niebla Producciones, Chile
Keren Michael, Dori Media Paran, Israel
Adar Shafran, Firma Film, Israel
Orit Lerner Halevi, ImpactIsrael
Baher gbariye, Majdal Films, Israel
Socorro Mendez Diaz, Cinemagico Producciones, Mexico
Mariana Monroy, Animal Tropical Cine, Mexico
Valeria Arinez, Anomia Contenidos, Mexico
Emilio Santoyo, Anomia Contenidos, Mexico
Can Kilcioglu, DeliCe Film, Turkey
Emre Oskay, Istanbul Film Production, Turkey
Andac Haznedaroglu Istanbul Film Production, Turkey
Muge Ozen, Solis Film, Turkey
Nathalie Sejean, Solis Film, Turkey
Tatiana Leite, Bubbles Project, Brazil
Gustavo Rosa de Moura, Mira Filmes Brazil
Aleteia Selonk, Okna Produ, Brazil
Graziella Ferst , Okna Produ, Brazil
Paola Wink, Tokyo Filmes, Brazil
Isabel Orellana Guarello, Araucaria Cine, Chile
Constanza Arena, CinemaChile,Chile
Daniela Camino, Valdivia Mimbre Producciones, Chile
Juan Ignacio Sabatini, Villano, Chile
Maria Camila Arias, Antorcha Films, Colombia
Alfonso Acosta, Cabecitanegra Producciones, Colombia
Oscar Ruiz Navia, Contravia Films, Colombia
Nestor Oliveros, Ghia Producciones, Colombia
Alexandro Aldrete, Agencia Bengala, Mexico
Joaquin Del Paso, Amondo Films, Mexico
Santiago De la Paz Nicolau, Nomadas, Mexico
