Ada Solomon
credit: Vlad BascaBUCHAREST: Romanian producer Ada Solomon was voted Deputy Chairwoman of the European Film Academy’s Board on the occasion of the European Film Awards meeting in Berlin last weekend. She will hold the position till 2021.
Ada Solomon was awarded the European Co-Production Award – Prix Eurimages in 2013 and became a member of EFA’s board the same year.
British producer Rebecca O’Brien was also voted Deputy Chairwoman of EFA’s Board, while the British producer Mike Downey is the new Chairman of EFA’s Board, replacing the Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
Other CEE countries members in the Board are the Croatian producer Anita Juka and the Polish producers Ewa Puszczyńska and Joanna Szymanska.
The Film New Europe (FNE) Association is the networking platform for film professionals in the CEE/SEE/Baltics region. The webportal and FNE newswire was chosen as the MAIN TOOL to achieve the network’s objectives of the sharing of know how, visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the VOICE of the region.
FNE’s objectives include VISIBILITY for the region and AUDIENCES for films by providing a special focus on the region.