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Europe's most influential association of producers

Gathering since 1993 influential independent film and TV drama producers from all over Europe, we act as a network, a think tank and a lobby.

Who we are

To this end, we have become experts in the organization of events that bring together film professionals from around the world, whether for conferences, networking events within or outside Europe, or workshops.

In addition to the individual companies that are members of the EPC, the EPC coordinates an alliance of national Producer Associations across Europe through the EPAA (European Producer Associations Alliance) and thus boasts a network of over 3000 industry professionals. The EPC opened a representation office in China in 2013.

The association is now headed by Dariusz Jablonski, assisted in the role of Vice Presidents by Mariela Besuievsky, Carlotta Calori, and Pandora da Cunha Telles.

The European Producers Club (EPC) is an association of 185 influential independent film and TV drama producers from all over Europe.

Founded in 1993 within the framework of the GATS negotiations, we act as a network, a think tank and as a lobby. Our mission is to keep our members up to date with the latest developments in the film industry in Europe and across the world; we encourage collaboration, joint financing and coproduction across countries; we also lobby on a political level to protect and further the interests of the European industry and European producers.

Our partners

Cofiloisirs is a credit institution specialized in cinema and audiovisual, which manages around €500M of credit, and finances every year almost one of two French films

SERIES' WOMEN sets off to increase the visibility of female producers and female-driven projects and strives to tackle underrepresentation in the industry in the general.

dariusz jablonski

President

Dariusz Jablonski is a producer, director and founder and CEO of Apple Film, one of the leading independent producers in Central & Eastern Europe.

He has produced over 40 features and and a similar number of full-length documentaries, as well as many successful drama series, including the first high-budget and legendary Polish series, The Cop, in 2004 for TVP. He has co-produced with most European countries, and also US and Canada, and his work has received over 300 international and national awards.

He is president of the European Producers’ Club, president of the Polish Film Academy, a member of the European Film Academy and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy. In 2004 he created ScripTeast, the screenwriting program for the best CEE scriptwriters, in 2015 EAST SERIES contest for CEE drama series, in cooperation with Odessa IFF.

In 2019-20 he directed and produced THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE (aka Géométrie de la mort), 10 x 50, the first ever high-end drama series originated and shot in Central & Eastern Europe, and a co-production between Poland, Czech Republic and Ukraine. It was broadcast to great acclaim on Canal+ (Poland), Czech TV and 1+1, pre-sold to ARTE, RAI, and Channel 4 and sold all around the world by Beta Film.

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ALEXANDRA LEBRET

Managing Director

After graduating with a master's degree in Macroeconomics at Dauphine Univesity, and an MSc in International Economics at ESSEC and at the Università di Bocconi, Alexandra has dedicated her career to the cinema industry.

In 2002, she was named Managing Director of the EPC and has driven since then the association into a new era, working at transforming the association into the renowned actor it has become.

She was decorated in 2013 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for her work and dedication in favor of the European cinema.

In 2014, she became a producer herself, founding the production companies Mare Nostrum Productions and Halley Production, and produced 8 films in 2 years which received 16 awards. Her most recent film is Iciar Bollain’s latest work called "La Boda de Rosa" which was presented at the 2020 San Sebastian International Film Festival. In 2020, Alexandra also participated in the APPLE FILM production of Oleg Sentsov’s film "Numbers" as a coproducer which premiered at the Berlinale.