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Executive Committee
Elected Members of the Executive Committee
(Elected at the General Assembly of Dublin on June 2008)
Mr Peter Carpentier, Chairman
Vice-President
Bundesverband Der Fernseh Und Filmregisseure in Deutschland (BVR)
Germany
Born 31.12.1956 in Flint, Michigan, USA. High school at St Joseph Jesuit College in Turnhout, Belgium. Theater School (actor) at Studio Herman Teirlinck, Antwerp, Belgium. Dutch Film & TV Academy, Amsterdam, Holland (Director, Screenwriter, Producer). American Film Institute, Los Angeles, USA (MFA Directing).
Assistant director for over 25 international feature and TV productions. As of 1989 director and writer for TV movies, series and features. Teacher at film schools and academies in Munich (HFF), Berlin (DFFB) and Film Academy Baden-Würtenberg Ludwigsburg.
Ms Trish McAdam
Vice-President
Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (SDGI)
Ireland
Trish McAdam films include: SNAKES AND LADDERS 1996 (writer/director), 1998 HOODWINKED (director/producer), a three-part TV series, 2002, FLIRTING WITH THE LIGHT (director/producer) – a television documentary. Currently directing a TV documentary WHAT AM I DOING HERE? and writing a screenplay adaptation the James Stephen’s novel, THE CROCK OF GOLD.
Founder member of Temple Bar Studios, Filmmakers Ireland, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (Chair 2002-2006, current board member), former board member of Irish Film Institute and Cork Film Festival.
Mr Ger Poppelaars
Vice-President
Chairman of the Dutch Directors Guild
Netherlands
Ger Poppelaars was born on the November 2nd 1953 in Roosendaal, Netherlands. He got his bachelor’s degree in history at the University of Amsterdam and studied screenplay, directing and editing from 1976 till 1980 at the Dutch Film Academy. He has been writing and directing documentaries, television plays and feature films since then. For many years, he worked for the cultural branch of NPS television where he directed many art-documentaries. He directed films on dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, painter Rob Scholte, French theatre director Bartabas, cinematycoon Abraham Tuschinski. He also made many Jazz Portraits.
He wrote and directed the five part series on a mental hospital, Verhalen Van Vogelenzang, for public television. In close co-operation with Ton Koopman, he directed ‘Bach Cantates’, a six part serial on Bach and his Cantatas. This series has been sold to more than twenty-four countries. He wrote and directed the following wide-acclaimed and award-winning feature films: ‘The Three Best Things in Life’, ‘Missing Link’, ‘Paramaribo Papers’, ‘Sloophamer’ (Sledgehammer). Since 2006 Ger Poppelaars has been President of the Dutch Directors Guild. Before that he had been the president of the Dutch Network of Screenplay Writers.
Mr Kurt Mayer
Honorary Treasurer
Austrian Association of Directors (ADA)
Austria
Born in Vienna, Austria in 1951. Studied psychology and sociology at the University of Vienna. Involved in various art and performance projects and Austrian feature films. Director and producer of documentaries for TV and for theatrical release. President of the Austrian Filmmakers Association and Treasurer of the Austrian Directors Association (ADA). Curator of the Vienna Film Fund. Member of the Advisory Board of the Fernsehfonds Austria (RTR).
Ms Birgitte Staermose
Samenslutningen af Danske Filminstruktorer (SDF)
Denmark
Birgitte Stærmose, a Copenhagen based director, holds an MFA from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Her award-winning shorts have screened worldwide. SMALL AVALANCHES, based on a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, won UIP Prize for Best European Short at Edinburgh IFF 2003 and was nominated for Best European Short at the European Film Awards. Birgitte Stærmose has directed a monologue for the compilation film LETTERS FROM DENMARK – a reaction to the Mohammed cartoon crisis – which is aired on Al Arabyia in 2007. PRINCIPLES OF ATTRACTION, four stories about four women, is her latest film. SOPHIE is the last of these stories and as a short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2007. Birgitte Stærmose is currently writing and directing her first play, LOVE BITES, for Aveny T, a major theatre in Copenhagen.
Mr Hrvoje Hribar
Chairman of the Croatian Film directors Guild (DHFR)
Croatia
Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Hrvoje Hribar graduated from ADU (Academy of Dramatic Arts) with a diploma in Film directing. He has worked as a first assistant director, scriptwriter, radio play writer, cook, essayist. In his company FIZ production he produced and directed the feature comedy ‘What’s a Man without a Moustache?’ Before that, he also produced, directed and wrote two Adriatic documentaries (’The World is Great ‘ and ‘Once there was a Man’) and his first feature ‘The Tranquilizer Gun’. As a director and a scriptwriter, Hribar is also the author of ‘Croatian Cathedrals’ (television film produced by HRT-Croation National Television) and the short film ‘Between Zaghlul & Zaharias’ (produced by Tuna-film). In 2001, he directed the TV series ‘New Age’ (HRT production). He was awarded the Oktavian (best Croatian film of the year) for several times (’Tranquiliser Gun’, ‘Once there was the man’, ‘Between Z&Z’). ‘What is a Man without a Moustache’ was the most attended film in Croatian cinemas in 2006 and was shown in more than 30 international film festivals worldwide.
Mr Michel Andrieu
Member of the Executive Committee of Société des réalisateurs de Films (SRF)
France
Born in Marseille, Michel Andrieu studied political economy and then joined the director’s course at the IDHEC, the national film school in Paris. He made his first short film in 1964: “A l’ombre des jours” (Dark Days”). He co-directed several documentary films. In the early 1970s, he wrote thirty or so television film-scripts including: “La Lettre Volée” (“The stolen Letter”), based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe (1972) for Alexandre Astruc with Laurent Terzieff and François Simon.
From 1967 until now, he wrote, co-directed and directed several feature films, including “Bastien, Bastienne”, 1979, which opened the directors Fortnight in Cannes and received international awards, ” Le Voyage entre Paris et le Caire”, (1984), “L’Île des loups” (“Wolf’s island”), 1994-95, a TV thriller, and many more. He also directed some documentaries and portraits.
In 2003, he achieved a 3 years work « The ultimate particle », a metaphysical road-movie looking for the origins of our world in which he plays the main caracter : a detective.
His last movie is called “Clemence’s holidays” (Les vacances de Clémence).