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Emilia de Paola - Partner

Emilia holds a degree in Public Relations and Political Sciences
For the last five years she has been the Head of Programming of a range of film festivals and events such as the UGC EuroCine 27 film event, which celebrates European film in six European cities every year on 9 May and the "Vita e Cinema " Italian Film Festival in Belgium.
She works currently as an audiovisual expert for a framework contract of the European Union which manages the participation of the MEDIA Programme and of the DG COMM at the major audiovisual European markets.
She holds the position of Head of Public Relations in this operation (see media-stand.eu).
Previously, she has made an assignment for the International Expo Zaragosa 2008 on the subject of water and sustainable development.
She was also the General Secretary of ECRIF – av (European Coordination of Regional Funds – Audiovisual), an operation which has been partly financed by the European Union Interreg program and which led to the creation of Cine-Regio, a network of 33 European regional film funds, of which she is a founding member.
Emilia speaks Italian (mother tongue), French, Spanish and German.
Daniel Zimmermann - Partner

Daniel holds a degree in Physics.
He works currently as an audiovisual expert for a framework contract of the European Union which manages the participation of the MEDIA Programme and of the DG COMM at the major audiovisual European markets.
He holds the position of Programme Manager in this operation (see media-stand.eu).
Daniel was previously the Financial Director of ECRIF – av (European Coordination of Regional Funds – Audiovisual) and is a founding member of CINE – REGIO.
He has also led a mission for the EUROMED AUDIOVISUAL II programme in order to advise the Lebanese authorities on their audiovisual strategy.
Between 1999 and 2003, Daniel was an adviser to VIVENDI DEUTSCHLAND and CANAL PLUS on European Affairs and film financing.
Between 1996 and 1999, he was Director General of the ASSOCIATION OF COMMERCIAL TELEVISION, where he represented the main European commercial television channels on strategic issues.
Before that he was Executive Director of EURO – AIM, a Media Programme of the European Union.
Daniel speaks French, Polish (mother tongue) and English.
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