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.

A producer and composer, Andrey Sigle also is a member of the European Movie Academy (EFA).

Russian and foreign critics have described Sigle as one of the best Russian producers of auteur cinema films. Born in 1964, he graduated from the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (Zarukin's piano class). He went on to study in Sweden, where he was invited to attend the Swedish Royal Musical Academy in Goetheborg. Sigle graduated as a film composer, the only one in Russia.

Since the mid-1980s, he has been interested in new musical technologies, including the use of synthesizers. As an arranger and sound producer, Sigle participated in recording albums by Kino, Alisa, and Nautilus Pompilius, as well as solo projects by Sergey Kuryokhin and Boris Grebenshchikov. With Victor Tsoy and Kino, he worked on the films The Needle (1988) and The Heart of a Dog (1988). In 1989, he joined the team working on Lopushansky's fim The Museum Visitor (music by Alfred Schnitke).

In 2002, together with director Dmitry Svetozarov, Sigle founded ASDS Studio, which has produced several television series, including The Dancer, Three Colors of Love, Favorsky, and Crime and Punishment.

Sigle began a new stage in his career when he became acquainted with the director Alexander Sokurov; their joint projects Taurus and Father and Son were acclaimed at international festivals.

In 2004, Andrey Sigle founded the Proline Film Studio specializing in art house and auteur cinema. In 2004, the studio produced The Sun (directed by Sokurov in cooperation with Nicola-Film) where Sigle was both producer and composer. That movie competed for the main prize at the 2005 Berlin festival.

In 2006, the studio completed Konstantin Lopushansky's film The Ugly Swans based on the novel by the Strugatzky brothers and awarded over 20 prizes at various Russian and international festivals. The music written for the film brought Sigle the Michael Tariverdiev Prize at the festival Kinotavr-2006. In December, Andrey Sigle was awarded the title of Meritted Artist of the Russian Federation.

In 2007, Alexandra by Sokurov was completed, and the film went to the competition at the 2007 Cannes festival. At present, the studio is completely work on the fourth film directed by Sokurov, Faust.

Andrey Sigle was the co-producer of the French-and-Russian movie Serko (coproduced by CDP, producer Catherine Dussart), directed by Joel Farge. The film premiered in March 2006.

In 2007, Andrew Sigle was awarded the St.Petersburg Governmental Prize in arts and literature for the film The Ugly Swans.

A Atlanta Film is independent film and television Production Company based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, established in 1992. Owner and president is producer Branislav Srdic.

Connected with Sister Companies in EX Yugoslavia (Mainframe - Croatia, Belgrade Film Group - Serbia, Monte Negro, BAM Film - Macedonia)

Activities: Productions, Co-productions, Services, Distribution, Equipment Rental

Jacobo Gonzalez Suso de Xifra 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.

Gorjan Tozija graduated art history and archeology at the University "Kiril and Metodij" in Skopje.

From 1979 to 1993, he works for Jadran Film - Zagreb. In the period of 1993 till 1997 he is Director and Producer of Vardar Film. In that period Vardar Film realized Before the Rain, Angels of the Dump, Across the Lake, Gipsy Magic, but also several co-productions like: Felix (French, Slovenia, Macedonia), Night (Albania, Macedonia) and was involved in foreign productions that ware pictured in Macedonia: Peacemaker (Dreamworks) and Welcome to Sarajevo (Miramax).

During his career he worked on over 50 film and TV projects. In 2000 he was a president of the Macedonian Film Professionals Association.

RAI Cinema was set up in December 1999 and has become fully operational since June 1st, 2000 through the creation from the holding RAI of the corporate branch in charge of purchasing films and fiction programmes on the national and international markets and also in charge of the production and distribution activities.

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.

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.

Ruth Waldburger is the owner and business manager of the production company Vega Film AG and the distribution company Vega Distribution AG. Vega Film (founded in 1988) is a film production company in Switzerland. It stands for international co-productions (films by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Gianni Amelio, or the box office hit "The Chorus" by Christophe Barratier) but also produces numerous Swiss films, amongst which successful comedies such as "Komiker" or "Ernstfall in Havanna". Ruth Waldburger has also produced for television, for example the 26-episode TV-series “Die Direktorin“. Many of the films Ruth Waldburger has produced have been awarded; amongst them "Johnny Suede" starring Brad Pitt and directed by Tom DiCillo, that won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 1991 or "Same Old Song" by Alain Resnais (amongst other prizes, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998) or "Our Music" by Jean-Luc Godard (The San Sebastian Film Festival, The FIPRESCI Grand Prix "Best film of the year 2004").

In 2003 the Locarno Film Festival awarded Ruth Waldburger with the Raimondo Rezzonico life achievement award for the entirety of her production activities.

Since its inception in 2001, Eyeworks has rapidly become a major independent production company in the Netherlands. We have proven ourselves to be highly successful all-round producers, producing scripted and non-scripted television programs, feature films and sports for all major networks in the Netherlands.

As the origin of the Eyeworks group, Eyeworks the Netherlands is an important driving force for the international growth of Eyeworks as a group on a creative level. From the start, we have produced more new home-grown formats on air in the Netherlands than any other producer. In the Netherlands, Eyeworks consists of three units:

* Eyeworks Entertainment

* Eyeworks Film & TV Drama

* Eyeworks Sport