Berlin-based entrepreneur Thierry Baujard is the CEO of financing consulting company for the Creative industries peacefulfish. President of European Pan investment Network focusing on Creative Industries Media Deals and Co-Founder and Director of Just Temptation (film music investment).
Before, he has spent 15 years working for the Vivendi Group in London, Los Angeles and Studio Babelsberg in Berlin as Film Finance executive.
Working from Berlin since 1999, he has been involved in more than 70 film finance projects in Europe inc Tax credit projects in Malta, Croatia, the Netherlands, Lithuania and recently in Portugal. He is the coordinator of Video Games Funding markets at Game Connection in Paris (supported by Creative Europe), Investment Booster in Berlin and at GIST in Istanbul and was recently involved in the co production of UK-German Video Game E1027 as well as in the set up of a Video game fund in Paris. He has also lead many different studies and projects on Access to Finance for the Creative Industries for the European Commission.
He is a regular speaker to many high level investment conferences and workshops in Europe.
Contact: thierry@feierabend.media
Berlin-based Swiss cultural entrepreneur Vincent Favrat is the CEO of Belgian music cognitive technologies company Musimap, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Just Temptation (UK-DE) – leader of film music investment in continental Europe, and Investor & Strategic advisor of the digital multi-effect processor company MOD (DE-USA-BR).
In his early career, Vincent worked as press manager for the Montreux Jazz Festival, led the Swiss Musicians Union, managed and supervised Stade (Ninja Tune, Sub Rosa, Kitty-Yo), co-directed the Lausanne Jazz Onze+ Festival and worked for Lagardère Active in Paris.
Vincent has been regularly invited as investor to markets such as Closing The Gap, 3D Content Financing Market, and Sonar+D and as lecturer to the Popakademie and the National Film and Television School (NFTS).
Vincent completed an MBA in Culture Management at the EAC in Paris, graduated in ‘Film Aesthetics and Praxis’ at Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, after studying Philosophy and Economics in Switzerland.
Contact: vincent@feierabend.media
Oliver Stoltz studierte Filmproduktion an der HFF Konrad Wolf sowie an der USC/ Los Angeles im Peter Stark Producing Programm (MFA Abschluss).
1997 gründete er die Dreamer Joint Venture Filmproduktion mit der er bereits TV-Filme & Dokumentationen für alle deutschen TV- Sender und Kinofilme für Warner Bros., Disney und verschiedenste Verleiher & Vertriebe produzierte. Der Dokumentarfilm LOST CHILDREN war sein Debüt als Autor und Regisseur. 2006 erhielt er hierfür den Deutschen Filmpreis und 2009 eine EMMY Nominierung. Die 2007 von ihm produzierte Kinokomödie LEROY wurde 2008 mit dem Deutschen Filmpreis in den Kategorien „Bester Kinder- & Jugendfilm“ und „Beste Filmmusik“ ausgezeichnet. GELIEBTES LEBEN (LIFE, ABOVE ALL), eine deutsch-südafrikanische Koproduktion, deren Weltpremiere in Cannes 2010 gefeiert wurde, schaffte es als südafrikanischer Beitrag auf die Oscar® shortlist 2011 in der Kategorie „Best Foreign Language Film“ und gewann 2011 alle Hauptkategorien bei den South African Film Awards. THE GREEN WAVE, ein Dokumentarfilm von Ali Samadi Ahadi, lief erfolgreich in den Wettbewerben der IDFA und Sundance. Die TV-Fassung des Films, IRAN ELECTIONS 2009, erhielt 2011 den Grimme Preis. In Koproduktion mit Pandora Film entstand RAISING RESISTANCE, der 2011 in Nyon und auf der IDFA im Wettbewerb lief. SPEED – Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit des Grimme Preis Trägers Florian Opitz, hatte ein Jahr später Premiere auf dem Max-Ophüls- Festival. 2012 koproduzierte Oliver Stoltz internationale Filme wie Richard Pakleppas TASTE OF RAIN (Namibia) und Markus Imbodens AM HANG (Schweiz). Derzeit produziert Stoltz UK, Namibia und Südafrika das Adventure Drama 3 WAY JUNCTION mit Tom Sturridge, Stacy Martin, Tommy Flannagan in den Hauptrollen.
Oliver Stoltz ist Mitglied der Deutschen Filmakademie und lebt in Berlin.
Josef Brandmaier graduated in business and economics and analyzed within his degree dissertation “the film finance market and development of a new generation of mediafunds.”
He started his career as a relationship manager for Bayerische Vereinsbank in 1993. In 2007 he became ICO / department director film finance for the Media Team of UniCredit Bank AG. In 2015 Josef founded UniFinance Media GmbH. Josef has been involved in organizing structured finance for a range of international projects including the new version of The Three Musketeers, Ironclad, Lily The Witch, Wickie, Cabin In The Woods, The Downfall, I Love You Philip Morris, and Eagle Eye.
In addition to his film banking work, Josef represents a group of individual business angels who make investments in film and TV projects. Besides that he is a member of the board of BBF (Bayerischer Bankenfonds), several Expert Groups, the European Film Academy and Managing Director of Argentum Media GmbH.