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International Delegates to Attend Sithengi

Sithengi 2001, the 6th Edition of The Southern African Film and Television Market, promises to be a huge calendar event in the media world, with many notable international figures attending.
These are the invited guests confirmed so far:

FEATURE FILM:

Dianne Weyermann - Sundance Film Festival Script Laboratory
Pat Ferns - BANFF Television Festival
Sandra Den Hamer - Rotterdam Film Festival
Bengt Toll - Gotheborg Film Festival
Jonathan Wacks - Producer/Director, New Mexico, USA
Rudolph Wichmann - Producer, Nova Films, London
Olivier De La Haye - Producer, Odelion, Paris
Jacques Bidou - Producer, JBA Productions, Paris
Himesh Kar - Film Council, London
Paul Trijbits - Film Council, London
Luciano Gloor - Metropolis Films, Berlin
Brett Marotolli - Starz Encore Channel, Denver, Colorado
Esther Van Driesum - Script Reader/Advisor Dutch Film Fund
Anita Roxburgh - Migma films,Sweden
Katarina Krave - Film in West, Sweden

DOCUMENTARY:

Nick Fraser - Commissioning Editor, Storyville, BBC Worldwide
Mette Hoffman Meyer - Commissioning Editor, TV2 Denmark
Catherine Olsen - Commissioning Editor, Passionate Eye, CBC, Canada
Ikka Vehkalahti - Commissioning Editor, YLE, Finland
Mathew Frank - Commissioning Editor, RDF,UK
Pierre Merle - Commissioning Editor, Arte, France
Mark Atkins - Commissioning Editor, SBS, Australia
Bjorn Arvas - Commissioning Editor, SVT, Sweden

DRAMA:

Jason Daniel - FremantleMedia, Head of Creative Development (Pearson TV)
Eve Vercel - Producer (Drama), Dune, Paris
Julian Friedmann - Blake Friedmann Literary Agency, Director of Scriptease
Esther Van Driesum - Script Reader/Advisor , Dutch Film Fund

Source: Sithengi

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