Katie Holly Selected as Irish 'Producer on the Move' for Cannes Film Festival
One Hundred Mornings producer Katie Holly from Bl!inder Films has been selected as one of the 23 film producers for The European Film Promotion's (EFP) ‘Producers on the Move' programme at the Cannes International Film Festival next month.
Katie co-owns the production company Bl!inder Films with director Kieron J. Walsh and has produced the award-winning shorts The Basket Case, Lowland Fell, Mea Culpa, as well as programmes for Irish television and three feature films. Her first feature production One Hundred Mornings had its world premiere at this year's Slamdance Film Festival in Utah where it got a Special Jury mention. Suzie Lavelle, DoP on the project, has since received an IFTA for her cinematography on the film.
The aim of the EFP is to select enterprising producers from various European countries, to focus the spotlight on them, supporting their networking on a European level and attract the attention of the international film industry and press. The programme, which is funded by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the EFP member organisations and sponsors, is successfully used by the participants at the film festival in Cannes as a platform to make new contacts.
From May 12th - 23rd, the selected 23 up-and-coming producers, who have displayed talent with their productions in their home countries, but are embarking on international success, will get the opportunity to take part in roundtable meetings and pitching sessions to discuss the themes, planning and financing of current projects as well as future works. The EFP also invites all the participants from previous years to the traditional Producers Lunch.
As a result of these diverse meetings and the focus from the international festival publications in Cannes, the selected producers will develop many new ideas and gain many new contacts. In 2008, Irish ‘Producer on the Move' Macdara Kelleher of Fastnet Films, consequently went on to co-produce the feature films Nothing Personal with Reinier Selen of Rinkel Film & TV Productions, The Netherlands, and the co-production feature film The Runway with Bernard Michaux of Lucil Film, Luxemburg.
Katie currently has two feature films in post-production, Sensation and Come On Eileen.