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.

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.

Traditionally BANANA FILMS was exclusively engaged in French and European films. Our horizons, however, expanded with the production and release of our first international film in English, Goodbye Bafana, directed by Academy Award and double Palme d’Or winning director Bille August, and we are now presently involved in financing and developing several international co-productions.

Our mission is to focus on the creative relationship between writer and director, affording them the space to explore and develop the full potential of a project, maximizing the chemistry of their collaboration to produce a final product that exudes originality, uniqueness and commercial viability.

We presently have a slate of eight projects, all at various stage of development, three of which are due for production in 2010. Through the Belgian tax-shelter system we are also involved in two to three international co-productions per year.

Filmkameratene AS is Norway’s most successful film production company. It has been active since 1986, and consistently delivered box office hits to Norwegian cinemas. Among the company’s more profiled productions have been the Oscar nominated “Pathfinder” (‘87) the first film in the Sami language; the south sea adventure “Shipwrecked” (‘91), made for the Walt Disney Company; the black comedy “Head Above Water” (’93), which was later remade in the US starring Cameron Diaz; the winner of the Ingmar Bergman Prize “Only Clouds Move the Stars” (’98) and the special effects extravaganza for children “Chasing the Kidneystone” (’98). In 1993 the company decided to enter animation. Its first feature, “Gurin with the Foxtail”, opened in 1998, and become one of Norway’s biggest box office hit ever. In 2002 the company produced the feature “Karlson on the Roof” based on the books by Astrid Lindgren. The last few years Filmkameratene have produced the feature film “Izzat”, a film set among the Pakistani gangs of Oslo, and the animated TV-series and feature film about “Elias – the Little Rescue Boat”. The CGI animated “Elias” was nominated for an International EMMY award as best international children programme.

Filmkameratene's latest film, the major World War II drama MAX MANUS ('08), sold more than one million tickets only in Norway.

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 1970, José Antonio Vicuña founded the production company IMPALA ENTERTAINMENT, which has one of the largest catalogues of Spanish cinema from the past 35 years. He is currently the Chairman.

Promoter in the last years of the film studios CIUDAD DE LA LUZ, in Alicante, he is currently Vice President of Aguamarga, a company chaired by Luis Berlanga that manages these film studios.

José Luis Olaizola is the Business Managing Director at Producciones Aguamarga, a production company which runs the film studios CIUDAD DE LA LUZ, in Alicante.

CIUDAD DE LA LUZ STUDIOS provides state of the art facilities for film and television productions. The facilities currently include 4 soundstages of 1.620 m2 (17,405 sq ft) and 2 soundstages of 2.340 m2 (25,184 sq ft). All stages are built in pairs and interconnected by elephant doors, 12 hectares (30 acres) of back lot, mill and workshops and production support buildings. NEW EXTERIOR WATER TANK: 100 m x 80 m (328 x 262 ft) with a total depth of 5.2 metres (17 ft) equipped with wave generating system, tip tanks and water canons and a 120 m long (394 ft) blue screen.

Production and distribution company, coproducing mainly with Latin America and distributing films from Europe and Latin America.

Making Movies Oy (Ltd.) is a Finnish film production company based in Helsinki. Established in 1996 the company produces and co-produces fiction and documentary films for international market. The managers, founding members and shareholders of the Making Movies are Kai Nordberg and Kaarle Aho.

Since 1996 Making Movies has produced two features and more than 70 documentary and short films. The films produced by Making Movies have been distributed in more than 60 countries worldwide.

The feature films are Black Ice (2007) premiering in the Berlinale 2008 competition, and Homesick (2005) a prizewinner in several international film festivals.

KASANDER is an internationally operating production company set up by Kees Kasander. Since 1981 he produces films, documentaries, exhibitions and new media projects for cinema, television, museums, opera and internet

Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc met in filmschool in 1992 and have been partners since then. They have produced more than 40 features films, with audience and critic successes like Little Nicholas by Laurent Tirard, or the films by François Ozon (8 Women or Swimming Pool).

These last years, they have decided to expand their scope of activity. They now produce TV series for prime time on French Television. But most of all, they are definitively turned towards internationals projects. They have produced Emir Kusturica’s films (Promise Me and Maradonna by Kusturica), Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void, Gilles Bourdos’s Afterwards starring Evangeline Lilly and John Malkovitch.

In 2009, they have produced Neds, by Peter Mullan in Scotland and The Next Three Days (with Paul Haggis and Michael Nozik), by Paul Haggis and starring Russel Crowe, the remake of their film Pour Elle.

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.

Solar Films was founded in 1995. Today it is the leading production company in Finland in the fields of feature films and TV productions, and produces and co-produces films from commercial features to arthouse and films from upcoming talent. Movies produced by Solar Films have won altogether 26 Finnish Movie Awards and six viewer poll awards for the most popular movie of the year. Solar Film´s The Tough Ones (Häjyt, 1999) and The Home of Dark Butterflies (Tummien perhosten koti, 2008) were the Finnish submissions for the Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Besides feature films and television drama, Solar Films has also produced thousands of hours of extremely varied TV entertainment for Finnish TV channels. The shareholders of Solar Films are Nordisk Film and Markus Selin (Head of Production and Chairman of the Board). The managing director of the company is Jukka Helle.

Solar Films has collaborated with European production houses such as Zentropa (Denmark), Icelandic Film Company (Iceland), Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon (Norway) and Ugly Duckling Films (Great Britain). The films produced by Solar Films have been distributed in over 40 countries worldwide.

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.

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.

Greenlight Media AG, headquartered in Berlin, is a successful film company operating globally.

We provide development, financing, production and distribution for high-quality theatrical and television films and -series. We produce event documentaries, animation and life action.

Greenlight Media is committed to delivering strong entertainment brands to audiences worldwide.

Founded in 1993, Greenlight Media launched with the wildly successful animated TV series SimsalaGrimm. Distributed to over 120 territories, SimsalaGrimm became Germany’s number one TV-series export of all time. The Greenlight Media/BBC Worldwide co-production/co-distribution event documentary Deep Blue was a German box-office hit and became the most successful German film abroad in 2004. Earth, the second Greenlight Media/BBC Worldwide partnership, is currently following in its wake setting box office records for a natural history documentary worldwide. We are happy to introduce SimsalaGrimm II (26x26) as a Greenlight Media, Magma Films, Millimages, NDR Co-Production for sales.

One of the UK's top film producers, Nik Powell embarked on an entrepreneurial career in the 1960s, when he set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson. His long partnership with Stephen Woolley, with whom he founded Palace Pictures and Scala Productions, brought an unrivalled slate of award-winning features to the screen, including Neil Jordan's Company of Wolves, Mona Lisa and The Crying Game. Nik's films have garnered many awards and nominations, including an Oscar, several Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe. His more recent films include Little Voice, Calendar Girls and, most recently, Ladies in Lavender starring Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.

Patrick Quinet founded Artémis Média in 1992 which later became Artémis Productions in 1994. Second largest producer within the company between 2000 and 2004, Oliver Rausin produced and co-produced a number of films. Since 2001, Patrick Quinet is President of the Union of French Film Producers (UPFF). In that capacity, in close collaboration with the Belgian Minister of Finance (Didier Reynders), he worked to create a "tax shelter" with the Belgian legislation is applicable from April 2003.

In March 2003 Patrick Quinet created the French production rights company LIAISON CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE sarl, with majority of shares owned by ARTEMIS PRODUCTIONS together with SAMSA FILM (Luxembourg) and NORD-OUEST PRODUCTIONS (France), ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP (Belgium).

Artemis Productions has received a Mention spéciale du Jury au Grand Prix Entreprendre 2005 organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Brussels and the Union of Enterprises in Brussels.

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.

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.