Evan Horan is 2024's Irish Producer on the Move
Posted: 30th April 2024
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is delighted to congratulate Evan Horan, who has been selected by European Film Promotion (EFP) as Ireland’s Producer on the Move for 2024.
Twenty promising, up-and-coming producers from Europe have been selected to take part in EFP’s promotion and networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE before and during the Festival de Cannes. As the programme celebrates its 25th anniversary, it will also be casting a spotlight on the numerous collaborations which have developed in its previous editions – representing around 500 participants from 37 European countries.
The 20 selected producers will take part in a tailor-made programme to foster international co-productions, intensify the exchange of experiences and help create new professional networks. The Pre-Festival online programme, which starts today and runs until Friday, 3rd May, includes 1:1 speed meetings, roundtables and pitching sessions. The producers will then meet in person during the Festival de Cannes from 16th to 20th May and take part in a five-day on-site programme including case studies, social events and an extensive promotional campaign via the international trade magazines.
Commenting on his selection, Evan Horan said:
“I am delighted to be selected as the Irish representative for EFP Producer on the Move 2024, an incredibly prestigious programme now in its twenty fifth year. I am very thankful to EFP and Screen Ireland for this recognition and support in my career as well as in my slate of female and LGBTQ+ focused projects with talents such as Kate Dolan, Claire Frances Byrne, Karen Healy, Cara Holmes, Rory Fleck Byrne, and Siofra O'Meara. I'm very excited to head to Cannes, meet with the other participants, and continue to grow my professional network and work towards the development of new creative collaborations across Europe.”
Evan Horan is a producer at film and TV production company Keeper Pictures, based in Dublin, Ireland. He has worked across various dramatic, documentary and genre projects including Sunlight, Mr. Malcolm’s List, About Joan, Come to Daddy and A Dog Called Money. He has previously been selected for the EAVE Producers Workshop, Berlinale Talents; Emerging Producers, the industry flagship project from the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Rotterdam Lab and completed the Advanced Producers Programme post graduate certificate course managed by Screen Ireland and TU Dublin with distinction. He is on the Board of GAZE International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival and also manages X-Pollinator – a professional development and networking initiative, now in its fifth year, that seeks to address gender diversity in the Irish screen industry. Recent and upcoming projects include SXSW Midnighters Audience Award winner Oddity; Whitetail, a Screen Ireland supported Dutch/Irish/Belgian co-production from writer/director Nanouk Leopold currently shooting in Kenmare, Co. Kerry and the Screen Ireland and New Dawn Fund supported documentary Lesbian Lines, by Cara Holmes, which will go into production later this year.
Previous Irish Producers on the Move include Kathryn Kennedy (Atomic Hope) Jessie Fisk (Wolf), Ruth Treacy (The Lodgers), John Wallace (Rialto), Cormac Fox (Animals), Alan Maher (Song of Granite), Katie Holly (Vita & Virginia), John Keville and Conor Barry (The Hole in the Ground), Juliette Bonass (A Date for Mad Mary), Rebecca O’Flanagan (Papi Chulo) and Macdara Kelleher (Black '47).
The other producers selected this year are Katharina Posch (Austria), Elisa Heene (Belgium /Flanders), Kalin Kalinov (Bulgaria), TiborKeser (Croatia), Tonia Mishiali (Cyprus), Kristýna Michálek Květová (Czech Republic), Lina Flint (Denmark), Delphine Schmit (France), Fabian Driehorst (Germany), Maria Kontogianni (Greece), Sara Nassim (Iceland), Giedrė Žickytė (Lithuania), Katarzyna Ozga (Luxembourg), Angela Nestorovska (North Macedonia), Anita Rehoff Larsen (Norway), Isabel Machado (Portugal), Dragana Jovović (Serbia), Wanda Adamík Hrycová (Slovak Republic) and Eva Åkergren (Sweden).
EFP PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE is made possible thanks to the support of Creative Europe – the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Eurimages, Film i Väst and MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the participating national film promotion institutes (EFP’s member organisations) from the Producers on the Move countries: Austrian Films, Bulgarian National Film Center, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Deputy Ministry of Culture (Cyprus), Czech Film Center, Danish Film Institute, German Films, Greek Film Centre, Iceland Film Centre, Lithuanian Film Centre, Film Fund Luxembourg, North Macedonia Film Agency, Norwegian Film Institute, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual I.P./ICA (Portugal), Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Film Center Serbia, Slovak Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, Unifrance and Wallonie Bruxelles Images. The main media partner is Variety, with Cineuropa as an additional media partner.