Press Release: EPI has selected 15 experienced media professionals for the upcoming third edion of the female leadership programme aiming at fostering inclusivity, diversity, and gender equality in the media industry. The transformative programme is designed to enhance the managers’ skillset to enable and empower them to master current industry challenges, develop innovative business models, and embrace the opportunities of digitization.
AUDIOVISUAL WOMEN is directed at female mid- to senior-level managers working across the audiovisual value chain. Through a variety of elements, the women will increase their competitiveness, build professional networks, and gain more business opportunities, thus ensuring the sustainable and successful development of their businesses.
The programme focuses on topics such as (digital) leadership and entrepreneurship, innovation and change management in a VUCA world as well as communication and self-marketing. Another unique element of the leadership programme is a training module designed especially for HR managers or respective decision-makers in the women’s companies providing them with tools to implement more diverse and gender-equal hiring practices.
AUDIOVISUAL WOMEN is funded by Creative Europe – MEDIA and FFF Bayern. Partners of the programme are FOCAL, Vlanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), EAVE – European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, EWA - European Women’s Audiovisual Network, and Women in Film & Television International (WIFTI).
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Nadia Acevedo, Show & Tell Films (Portugal)
Greta Akcijonaite, Greta Garbo Films (Lithuania)
Nicole Barras, Schweizer Syndikat Film und Video SSFV (Switzerland)
Gunda Bergmane, Nafta Films(Latvia)
Theresa Berres, Dynamic Frame (Switzerland)
Jessica Drum, Screen Guilds Ireland (Ireland)
Jennifer Jones, Kern des Ganzen (Germany)
Annee Kraska, Saxonia Media (Germany)
Marianne Ostrat, Alexandra Film (Estonia)
Maya Reichert, Dok.fest München (Germany)
Thea Røhr, Paradox Regheter AS (Norway)
Gabriela Seidel-Hollaender, Freelance (Germany)
Greet Stevens, Mooov (Belgium)
Katre Valgma, ACME Film OÜ (Estonia)
Tine Van Dycke, Filmpact (Belgium)
Dina Rubanovitš , Head of International Training & Business Development at EPI: “AUDIOVISUAL WOMEN has been training successful European media professionals for three consecutive years. Again, it is designed to help the selected media managers to advance in their careers through new valuable insights and skills and building on individual strengths. The programme aims at contributing to a more diverse, inclusive, gender equal and, thus, more sustainable European media industry.”
AUDIOVISUAL WOMEN will run in five modules from November 2024 until April 2025.
More information: hps://en.epi.media/av-women/
Contact EPI
Mathias Barkhausen
Project Manager International Training
+49 (0) 331-76 99 15-36 | mb@epi.media
Press Contact
Marijana Harder
+49 (0) 177 7942 871 | mail@marijanaharder.com
