Producing & Pitching Panel

Producing Panel with leading Producers
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MARIE-CLAUDE POULIN a well-established reputation in the film industry. With some 25 years of experience, she worked for Malofilm, Lionsgate, TVA Films and Equinoxe Films before co-founding the production company Item 7 Inc.

TIM SUTTON  is the writer and director of numerous critically acclaimed feature films.  Pavilion  was an opening night selection at SXSW 2012, had its New York Theatrical Premiere as a New York Times Critic’s Pick and was a selection of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Visions 2012. His second feature,  Memphis , was the winner of the inaugural Venice Biennale Cinema grant in 2013, had its World Premiere at the 70th Venice Film Festival and North American Premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, was theatrically released in 2014 by Kino Lorber and was named to The New Yorker Magazine’s Top Ten Films of 2014.  Dark Night , loosely based on the Aurora Cineplex massacre, had its World Premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and International Premiere in Competition at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.   Donnybrook , produced by David Lancaster ( Drive , Whiplash ) and starring Jamie Bell, Margaret Qualley, Frank Grillo, and James Badge Dale, had its World Premiere as the opening night selection of the Platform Competition at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and won Best Picture at Fantastic Fest. It is distributed by IFC Films. His fifth film,  Funny  Face , starring Cosmo Jarvis and Johny Lee Miller, had its World Premiere in Competition at the Berlinale 2020.  During the pandemic he made  The Last Son , a western saga starring Sam Worthington and Heather Graham and the LA-based music opus  Taurus  with Machine Gun Kelly which premiered at the Berlinale 2022. He has enjoyed retrospectives of his work at Copenhagen's Film Institute and the Filmoteca in Barcelona and is the founder of Video Kid Brooklyn. NYC-based, he is repped by Anonymous Content and Granderson Des Rochers .

JIB POLHEMUS founded the literary management company, Source Management + Production where he represents cutting-edge screenwriters and directors. In addition, Jib is President of Simon West Productions where he produces Film and TV with British director,  Simon West  (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Expendables 2).