Annick Mahnert (born 1975, Geneva) is a film festival curator and film producer. She is the director of programming at Fantastic Fest and Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival and was named executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform Frontières.[1]

Early life and education

Mahnert studied film production at the New York Film Academy and worked as a production assistant at Roger Corman's Concorde-New Horizons.

Career

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 International Fantastic Film Festival, and head of programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. [3] In April 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 Austrian Film Institute, 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]

References

  1. ↑ "Annick Mahnert to head Frontières as July market goes online"; in: Screen Daily, 15 April 2020
  2. ↑ About 'Screen Division'
  3. ↑ "Women who keep Fantastic Fest frightful"; in: CherryPicks; 1 October 2019
  4. ↑ "European Genre Forum Announces 2018 Projects"; in: Film New Europe; 28 February 2018
  5. ↑ "THE LONG WALK: New Trailer And Poster Mark The Release of Mattie Do's Sci-fi Mystery"; in: Screen Anarchy; 26 January 2022
  6. ↑ "Concorso Cineasti del presente: Jury Members". Locarno Festival. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
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