Unifrance’s executive director Daniela Elstner and Oscar-nominated director İlker Çatak ( The Teachers’ Lounge ) are among 18 industry professionals recruited to the new film funding selection committee at Germany’s Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB).

The executives have been recruited by Sarah Duve-Schmid, the new CEO of MBB, to help decide on which film and TV projects the €41m fund should support.

The creation of a selection committee marks a departure for MMB. Previouly all funding decisions on film and TV series projects were taken solely by the fund’s CEO without any recourse to a committee.

This so-called “Intendantenprinzip” was the unique feature of MBB’s funding structure when it was launched in 1994 as Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg. All other regional film funds in Germany

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