Annick Mahnert
Annick Mahnert is a film festival curator and film producer. She is the Director of Programming at Fantastic Fest and a programmer at Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya and was named executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform Frontières.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Mahnert studied film production at the New York Film Academy and worked as a production assistant at Roger Corman's Concorde-New Horizons.
Career[edit]
Mahnert returned to her native Switzerland, where she worked in distribution and programming at 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Pathé Cinémas, and Frenetic Films. She worked at Maximage Filmproduktion as a production assistant.
In 2012, she moved to Paris to join Celluloid Dreams, handling sales and acquisitions. Since 2013, she is working as a freelance producer, acquisitions consultant, and festival programmer and was hired in November 2013 as Foreign Representative for the Market & Festivals department at Swiss Films, the promotion agency for Swiss filmmaking.[2]
Mahnert is a programmer at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya and the Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, and Director of Programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. [3] In March 2020, Mahnert became the executive director at the Frontières Co-Production Market, an industry initiative for genre film professionals.
She is a consultant for the Zurich Film Foundation, the Cineforom in Geneva, and co-founded the European Genre Forum.[4]
As a film producer, she worked on Mattie Do's The Long Walk (2019),[5] Alexandre O. Philippe's documentaries 78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene (2017) and Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019), and other productions.
In 2022, she was selected as jury member in the "Filmmakers of the Present" competition category at 75th Locarno Film Festival.[6]
Annick Mahnert is a member of the Swiss Film Academy and the European Film Academy.
References[edit]
- ^ "Annick Mahnert to head Frontières as July market goes online"; in: Screen Daily, 15 April 2020
- ^ About 'Screen Division'
- ^ "Women who keep Fantastic Fest frightful"; in: CherryPicks; 1 October 2019
- ^ "European Genre Forum Announces 2018 Projects"; in: Film New Europe; 28 February 2018
- ^ "THE LONG WALK: New Trailer And Poster Mark The Release of Mattie Do's Sci-fi Mystery"; in: Screen Anarchy; 26 January 2022
- ^ "Concorso Cineasti del presente: Jury Members". Locarno Festival. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
