Market Ready

Satesh is a distribution and financing expert, former Production Financial Officer at Terra Mater Studios, and Chief Operating Officer of Mel Gibson’s Icon Entertainment International.

Satesh’s career has spanned a few decades, and during this phenomenal journey, he handled the finance and distribution of the likes of Wild at Heart, The Piano, Little Buddha, Muriel’s Wedding, Secrets & Lies, Virgin Suicides, What Women Want, The Ivory Game and Sea of Shadows.

Satesh has been heavily involved in the creation of the International Screen Institute and currently holds the position of treasurer, where he also acts as course director for the Market Ready programme.

Xavier Henry-Rashid started his career as a photographer, which introduced him to the festival circuit some 18 years ago. Thereon he contributed to publications including Variety, Screen, Esquire, and GQ, as well as being a writer for the original Yahoo Movies, Film247, and BBCFilms news websites.

He has worked in various festival positions, from previewing for Sheffield Doc/Fest, in sponsorship for Sundance London/AEG and the East End Film Festival, and in management as a programmer and executive director of Raindance Film Festival, where he also ran the year-round training programme.

Since 2012, he has run Film Republic, a London-based world sales company that specialises in director-driven features and young auteurs. He is a Berlin Talent Campus alumnus, a Screen Institute alumnus, and a member of EAVE.

Xavier attended the Business and Legal Course in 2022 and is one of the Sceen Institute’s esteemed alumni.

Eun-Zi Kim, an Austrian media executive with Korean roots, has a diverse background in legal training and film production across Europe and Korea. She’s produced documentaries like FEMMEfille and managed business affairs for DCM, contributing to hits like “BIBI & TINA.” As General Manager of THE AOS, she’s developed numerous audio projects.

There are two hearts beating inside of Kim. One, which flourishes in the business side, i.e., the development, packaging, financing, production, and licensing of films. And another one, which is Kim discovering, furthering, and producing creative talent and content with unwavering passion and alert curiosity. Hence, she continues to work as a creative producer. Kim is an alumna of ACE Animation, Inside Pictures, Torino Film Lab, EAVE Ties That Bind, and HFF Munich’s Script Lab (Drehbuchwerkstatt München).

David is a creative producer and script consultant working internationally. Consultations include TIGER STRIPES, winner of the Jury Prize Critics Week Cannes 2023 and candidate for Best International Film Academy Award 2024, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT, a candidate for Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award 2019, and TRUTH OR JUSTICE, a candidate for Best International Film Academy Award 2020.

He was Creative Producer on the feature film THE GOAT (2023). Among many other contributions, he is the annual advisor for the Rotterdam Lab at IFFRPro, an external advisor for Eurimages, and co-founder of Stowe Story Labs in the US.

Lena Vurma is Head of Acquisitions for Filmweltverleih (GUNDA, THE SALT OF THE EARTH, LUNCHBOX, BEAUTIFUL BOY).
She is also a producer with companies in Germany and Scotland. On release is ADVENTURES OF A MATHEMATICIAN (D-PL-UK) about the Manhattan Project, and her 4th feature, LEONORA IN THE MORNING LIGHT, is currently in post (D-MEX-UK-ROM).

Lena is a Film Independent and Tribeca Film Institute fellow, Alfred P. Sloan grant winner and eave & Inside Pictures alumni, programme delegate for the Zurich FilmFestival, ScreenSkills mentor, lecturer at film schools and runs the Skye Community Cinema.

Stephanie Fuchs has been a part of the Autlook Filmsales team since 2014 and has been assigned Managing Director 2024. Stephanie licenses films to theatrical distributors, broadcasters, and VOD platforms worldwide.
She offers her expertise as a consultant, industry advisor, and panellist and has been part of several international festival juries.

Autlook Filmsales is a leading world sales agent for documentaries, hybrids and series. Autlook offers a full spectrum of distribution, in-house, customised sales and festival strategies that help maximise revenues and audience engagement that fosters filmmakers’ careers.

We are currently representing NO OTHER LAND (Berlinale awarded 2024) by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor; FAVORITEN (Berlinale 2024) by Ruth Beckermann; IBELIN (Sundance 2024) by Benjamin Ree; SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD (Sundance awarded) by Anna Hints; THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES (Cannes awarded) by Asmae El Moudir; and THE CORRIDORS OF POWER by Dror Moreh. THREE MINUTES – A LENGTHENING (Giornate degli Autori, Telluride, TIFF, Sundance) by Bianca Stigter; A COMPASSIONATE SPY by Steve James; BELUSHI by R.J. Cutler; WRITING WITH FIRE by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh (94th OSCARS® nominee); FOR SAMA by Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts (Emmy® Awarded, 92nd OSCARS® nominee); and OF FATHERS AND SONS by Talal Derki (91st OSCARS® nominee).

Vlad Ketkovich. Born in Moscow in 1971. In the 1990s, worked in visual anthropology and organised expeditions to Asia, Africa and the Amazon. Published materials in Geo, Nat. Geographic, and other media. Producing films since 2005. Graduated from several European producers’ workshops, including EuroDoc, Ex-Oriente, Documentary Campus Masterschool, and EAVE (2017). Has produced and co-produced over 30 films with various European countries. The films have screened and won prizes at many notable festivals, including IDFA, CPH:DOX, HotDocs, Zurich, EI Gouna, Krakow, DokLeipzig, DocAviv, Shanghai, and have been broadcast on ARTE, ZDF, WDR, BBC, MDR, ORF, YLE, SVT, VPRO, Czech TV, and The Guardian.

Patrick Fischer is a media entrepreneur and film financier, a partner in post house Creativity Media, financier Creativity Capital, VFX house Koala FX, producer Big Safari, and sales agent Architect. He began as a producer and in 2010, he co-founded post house Creativity Media, delivering post on over 100 films, including “47 Meters Down” and “God’s Own Country.”

In 2014, he launched Creativity Capital, backing 40 titles like “McQueen” and “Under The Shadow.” Patrick holds an MBA from Bayes Business School and a BA in Film Production.

Yana is Head of Sales at Bankside Films, with extensive experience in international film sales, production, and distribution. Over the past decade, she has played a key role in bringing a wide range of acclaimed independent films to global audiences, leading sales on titles such as ORDINARY LOVE, TALK TO ME , BRIAN& CHARLES, THE QUIET GIRL, KOLN 75,BALLAD OF THE WALLIS ISLAND, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, I SWEAR, &SONS, CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN, and many more.

Kate Gerova has worked in cultural cinema and brand identity, developing audience strategies. She was Head of Distribution at award-winning Soda Pictures, working on international and British films before taking over Birds Eye View Film Festival as Creative Director, where she established Filmonomics, a training programme for underrepresented filmmakers. She then joined the boutique cinema circuit Curzon Cinemas, as director of brand and marketing, overseeing brand architecture and digital experience across the group before leaving in 2020 to co-found Mustard Studio.

Ariane Buhl is a Paris-based passionate film industry executive, with a 15 years experience in international film promotion, sales and festivals strategy. For Gaumont, she has been desigining and leading the execution of the festival strategy for the films produced & distributed by the Studio. She also created and developed the digital sales line of business for the French Studio, with library management & curation.

Working as an independent festival manager since 2023, she is now building and implementing festival strategies for independent films.

With The Right Ones, she accompanied about 20 films so far, with more than 130 selections overall, including new works by Jaime Rosales, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, or David Baute among others. Led by her desire to showcase the debut films of talented filmmakers, she also brought “Paul & Paulette Take a Bath” by Jethro Massey to La Settimana Della Critica (Venice – Audience Prize Winner 2024), “King Baby” by Kit Redstone & Arran Shearing to the IFFR (Rotterdam) and more.