El Deseo S.A was founded in 1986, by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Agustín. They have produced all the films that Pedro has written and directed, and have also produced other young directors. Their films have opened all around the world: “All about my mother” (Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Golden Globe, among others); “Talk to her” (Academy Award for Best Script, 5 European Film Awards), “Bad Education” (Best Foreign Film by the New York Critics’ Circle), “Volver” (Oscar’s nominated, Palme d’or for Best Screenplay, EFA) and “Broken Embraces”.

El Deseo has produced other films, highly rated throughout the world for their value and delicacy (“My Life Without Me”, “The Holy Girl” and “The Secret Life of Words”).

Over the past 25 years, Constantin Film has positioned itself in both the German media community and the international film industry as the most successful independent German producer and distributor.

Constantin Film has always succeeded in attracting millions of enthusiastic film fans with major German productions: DER BEWEGTE MANN, WERNER – BEINHART, BALLERMANN 6 or THE SUPERWIFE are just a few of the early theatrical hits. However, Constantin Film made a name for itself on the international film production market too as long as more than 20 years ago with such international in-house productions as THE NEVERENDING STORY or THE NAME OF THE ROSE. They were followed by further global hits such as THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, the action horror thriller RESIDENT EVIL and its sequel RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE (which have generated total worldwide sales of more than US-Dollar 700 million so far in the various stages of exploitation), DOWNFALL or THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX.

6 of the top 10 German blockbusters of the last 20 years were produced by Constantin Film; 23 of the top 50 German theatrical films since 1988 were released to theatres by the company. 14 of the 30 most successful German theatrical films of the past 10 years were distributed by Constantin Film. (source: Top 50 List since 1988, SPIO statistics).

Constantin Film AG with its subsidiaries and associated companies has established itself as by far the most successful independent German production and distribution company since it was founded in 1977 by Bernd Eichinger, who is still one of Constantin Film's most important producers, and went public in 1999. We have improved the company's strategic alignment, continued to broaden our business base purposefully and developed into an integrated media group in recent years by the systematic addition of licence trading, in-house home entertainment exploitation and intensified TV service production, with a particular focus on TV entertainment to the two classic areas of operation.

Nord-Ouest was founded in 1999. It is owned by 2 associates, Christophe Rossignon and Philip Boeffard and is willing to produce feature films and more recently documentaries.

Eyeworks Sweden is one of the largest production companies in the country. In 2009 the company expanded to become a total provider of TV and entertainment. Our new drama department strongly complements the firmly established departments of entertainment, game shows, reality and features. We possess one of Sweden’s strongest in-house studio complexes, including two large studios, which gives us full control of the production chain. This new breadth enables Eyeworks to be an even stronger partner to both Public Service and commercial channels.

Our emphasis on creativity has seen a wide range of productions vastly different in nature as well as in-house developments. Highlights 2009 is: Den stora resan-SVT (Ticket to the tribes) , Jag vet vad du gjorde förra fredan –TV3 (I know what you did…) Lotta på Liseberg–TV4 (Sing along summer show) På liv & död – SVT (A fight aginst death) Maria Wern-TV4 (TV drama Maria Wern) AP TV Zilla & Totte-TV4 (Children show) Teknikens Värld-K8 (Motormagazin) Drömmen om Italien-TV4 (The Italian Dream).

We also have the unique ability to work in large three-party collaborations which is a vital, visionary and complex part of the commercial TV industry today. At present this suits large popular productions such as The Postcode Millionaire (Postkodmiljonären)* and Bingolotto, Sweden’s two top lottery shows.

Kick Film is an independent production company for high quality theatrical and television films. It was created in 1981 and is located in Munich. Kick Film’s general manager is producer Jörg Bundschuh.

One of Kick Film’s specialties is the creation of portraits of actors, directors, composers, musicians, painters, photographers, writers, philosophers and politicians, as well as people who don’t usually find themselves in the limelight. Another mainstay at Kick Film continues to be the epic feature documentary film, ranging from docudramas and reality comedy to historical subjects and long-running studies and observation projects. The use of a cinematically-oriented dramatic structure draws the viewer in while offering him a new way of looking at reality.

Feature-film productions cover an equally wide spectrum, ranging from the Patricia Highsmith story "The Tremor of Forgery" shot in New York and Tunisia (“Trip to Tunis”, by Peter Goedel), Bavarian comedies such as “The Big Day” and “Radio Bavaria”, or the filmic version of Sam Jauns’ thriller “Night on Fire” by Markus Fischer, starring Bruno Ganz and Barbara Auer, set in Switzerland.

In 1984, Jean Cazès created his first company, Initial Groupe, which produced feature films and television series particularly in animation. It took over France-Animation, which became the European leader in the sector within a few years. With the support of the Caisse des Dépôts, another company, IDA (Investissements en Droits Audiovisuelles) was created in 1987 and built up a large film catalogue. In 1992, after purchasing the Thorn-EMI-Weintraub library, representing about 35% of all the British films produced since the silent era, Initial and IDA merged to form Lumière, chaired by Jean Cazès.

Lumière expanded in the USA, Brazil, Spain, the UK, Australia and Japan. Investing in ten to fifteen films per year, it became one of the leading financiers/distributors in the European cinema sector. Lumière was sold in March 1996 to UGC-DA and this group was immediately sold to Canal Plus to form the heart of what is now Studio Canal.

Since 2001, Jean Cazès has revitalized his film production activities and advises companies in the European entertainment sector with regards to financing and in the areas of mergers and acquisitions.

During his career, Jean Cazès has produced or co-produced nearly forty films, mostly French or American, some of which have been very successful both critically and in the marketplace.

Founded by Riccardo Tozzi in 1997, Cattleya has quickly become Italy's leading independent theatrical producer. In 1999 Giovanni Stabilini and Marco Chimenz joined the company, which expanded its domestic and international film production slate and began television production activities. In 2000 the publishing and media group De Agostini and the financial group of SanPaolo IMI Private Equity joined Cattleya as minority partners. Cattleya has established strong ties with the most prestigious Italian writers and directors and selected those with the strongest commercial potential. The company’s Production plan for 2006-2008 relies on projects involving many of Italy’s most important directors.

After serving as an advisor to French Prime Minister Raymond Barre, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre was nominated in January 1979 as Chairman of Sociéte de Production (SFP), a company managing all the studios and facilities of French public television.

He left SFP in July of 1981 to become Chairman of Editions Mondiales, one of the largest magazine publishers in France. There he diversified the company’s activities in the field of film and television, creating REVCOM in 1984 and acquiring Films Ariane in 1986. In January of 1992, he and his wife, Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre, created their own production company, MACT productions.

Among his credits as producer or co-producer are the following: for Société Française de Production, The Return of Martin Guerre by Daniel Vigne. For Films Ariane, as Producer: Réunion by Jerry Schatzberg, The Favor, The Watch and The Very Big Fish by Ben Lewin, The French Révolution by Robert Enrico and Richard Heffron and Vanille Fraise by Gérard Oury. And as Co-Producer, Cinéma Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore which won the Special Jury prize at Cannes for Best Foreign Film, Stanno Tutti Bene, also by Giuseppe Tornatore, La Familia by Ettore Scola.

Antoine de Clermont Tonnerre was elected as Unifrance President in January 2009.

Zephyr Films is an independent London based Production Company which specializes in the financing and production of films for the international marketplace. In the last decade we have produced, executive produced and co-produced over twenty films with combined budgets of over $250,000,000. Our recent releases include Hannibal Rising, The Last Legion, Penelope and Death Defying Acts, with The Last Station due for release later this year. We started principal photography on Black Death this spring, and recently helped finance Gurinder Chadha's It's a Wonderful Afterlife.

Chris Curling is a member of the European Producer’s Club, ACE and the European Film Academy. He also serves on PACT’s film committee and BSAC’s co-production working group.

After studying management, she entered the film industry, and worked actively as a publicist. She worked especially to introduce films from Eastern Europe and the former USSR around the time when the Perestroika was beginning. In 1992, she founded a film production company called CDP. She has produced an array of short films, features, documentaries and television programs that won a host of prizes at international film festivals.

Cine plus Filmproduktion GmbH is a Berlin-based film production company, which develops, produces and co-produces feature films and documentaries for the national and international market.
The main focus is to discover new talents, to develop unique stories and establish creative partnerships. Cine plus has coproduced the award-winning documentary feature film “Into great Silence“ by Philip Gröning and “November Child“ by Christian Schwochow. The feature film “The Silence“ directed by Baran bo Odar will be released in summer 2010.
Cine plus Filmproduktion is an affiliated company of cine plus Media Service - a nationwide Full Service Company operating in the area of digital television and film post-production. The cine plus portfolio covers all areas of audiovisual production: Rental, Editing, Sound, VFX/Graphics, Copy,
Studio, broadcasting and also media-production with a spectrum from EPKs, TV items and documentaries to top-quality image films.

With its headquarters in Barcelona, FILMAX is one of the main independent Spanish groups providing audiovisual content. Organised in three areas (production, distribution and industrial), the FILMAX Group responds fully to the business opportunities of the European and international markets in the entertainment sector.

Prokino is one of the most important and top-selling distributors of cross-over and arthouse Films. Prokino’s film library contains more than 70 films – between 6 and 8 films being added every year. Our latest acquisitions include Gomorrha, Slumdog Millionaire and Hachiko.

The Production department of the distribution company has a long tradition in German as well as European feature films. Picking projects we take particular interest in well known auteurs and riveting plots. We are discerning and meticulous in our selection process. Therefore we are able to produce commercially successful films of artistic value.

Studiocanal, the movie company of Canal, is actively involved in the production, co-production, acquisition and theatrical distribution of European features films. Studiocanal distributes its products to worldwide Tv broadcasters and is also active in distribution of Video and DVD outlets, in the exploitation of ancillary products as well as in the records production.

In 1982 the two Frankfurt based cinema operators Karl Baumgartner and Reinhard Brundig established Pandora Film Distribution. The name was inspired by G.W Pabst's film "Pandora's Box". With the first films that came out under this label, the thematic focus was clear: Films such as YOL by Yilmaz Günay, NOSTALGHIA by Andrej Tarkovsky or FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE by Chen Kaige all stood for highly ambitious International Art house Cinema. Before long, close working relationships were formed between Pandora and directors such as Aki Kaurismäki and Jim Jarmusch. But it was with Jane Campion's THE PIANO, that Pandora made its first big commercial breakthrough. The concept of presenting excellent cinematographic masterpieces by internationally renowned filmmakers to a German audience paid off, and Pandora Film became one of the most distinguished Distributors within this segment of the market.

Alongside the distribution, Pandora Film soon undertook an increasing amount of the actual production work. Gradually many projects were acquired early in the development phase. Soon co-productions began to emerge out of what had originally been a licence and distribution company. With Emir Kusturica's film UNDERGROUND, the transition to production was fulfilled. In 1996 the production company was moved to Cologne. In 1998 the distribution department in Frankfurt was closed and the extensive library of distribution rights were sold to KINOWELT. The change in market conditions, especially the changed purchase policy of the television stations, and the massive structural changes that came about through the so called "New Market", were just two of many factors involved in this decision.

Alain Goldman created LEGENDE in 1992 in order to produce “1492 – Conquest of Paradise” (Christopher Colombus) directed by Ridley Scott.

Légende has always chosen to produce its films paying especial attention to the artistic qualities that will touch an international audience. The films economy is therefore built on international sales, an advantage we consider being essential to financing.

To this day, in Europe, “1492, Christopher Colombus” directed by Ridley Scott, is by far the most important independent production ever made. Légende has chosen to expand towards European and international film markets, as we did with “Casino” directed by Martin Scorsese and “Vatel” by Roland Joffé.

Alain Goldman was the first producer in France to create a sequel franchise with “The Crimson Rivers” (“Les Rivières Pourpres”). The first film was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, the second one by Olivier Dahan. The two first seasons of ”The Crimson Rivers” tv series will be in production in the near future. Alain Goldman is also developing many other projects for television.

Alain Goldman is a very active French producer on the international level: in 2007, « La Môme » (« La Vie en Rose ») has been released in more than 45 countries and has grossed over US$ 100.000.000. During the summer of 2008, « Babylon AD », directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh and Gérard Depardieu, was released worlwide and grossed over US$. 80.000.000

Last year, Légende released “The Round Up” (“La Rafle”) about the French collaboration with the Germans. Rose Bosch wrote and directed it, starring Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent and Gad Elmaleh. “The Round Up” (“La Rafle”) was a big hit in France, it rated 3rd at the box office in 2010. The film has been sold in more than 40 countries.

Fisher King Production Ltd. produces high-quality feature films and TV drama for domestic and international markets. Company is focused in commercial films which have international distribution potential.

Svensk Filmindustri is Scandinavia’s largest film company operating offices in every major Scandinavian territory. A market leader for almost 90 years, SF is active in all facets of the industry i.e. production, exhibition, theatrical distribution, home video distribution, television distribution and multimedia distribution. Svensk Filmindustri is a subsidiary of the Bonnier Group – the major media company in the Nordic region.

Since its founding in 1973, Ziegler Film (with branches in Berlin, Cologne and Munich) has produced nearly 400 movies, documentaries and TV features. Within Germany Ziegler Film ranks among the largest independent companies for film and television production. From the outset the company has focussed on cinematic productions: “Korczak” (Cannes Film Festival), “A Year of the Quiet Sun” (Golden Lion, Venice), “Kamikaze 1989” (Venice 1982), “Fabian” (Oscar and Golden Globe Nominations), and the “Erotic Tales” (Oscar Nomination for “The Dutch Master”). Recently TV features such as “The Publisher” and “In the Shadow of Power” have also merited particular attention and praise. At the end of 2008 Ziegler Film finished the shooting of “Henri IV”, a 19 million Euro co-production.

The company has received numerous awards – Golden Rose at Montreux, German Film Prize Golden Shell, Grimme Prize, etc – for a wide variety of productions. In 2006 Ziegler Film was honoured by a special retrospective tribute at the Museum of Modern Art.

The company strives to remain independent and to be present in the German as well as in the international film and television market, while growing and continuing to attract audiences with the highest standards of creativity and quality.

Asta Film was founded in December 2002 by PH3 (a holding company owned by Per Holst).

Asta Film is a production company working primarily with fiction features but also in the field of television series (fiction) and short films. As of this day Asta Film has dedicated it’s time to development but several projects are ready to move into production in the very near future.