Young Talents at Young Horizons Industry 2024

Let’s welcome 13 talented students and recent graduates from Czechia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden. All of them will take part in the third edition of the Young Talents programme for international film and art school students.

The Young Talents programme was created to promote up-and-coming filmmakers and introduce them to the international film industry representatives present at the Young Horizons Industry forum.

If you are coming to the Young Horizons Industry forum (30.09–2.10.2024), we strongly encourage you to book a meeting with our Young Talents participants – get to know them before the rest of the world finds out about them!

What awaits the participants?

The Young Talents programme starts on 30 September before the opening of the forum.

During Young Horizons Industry, our participants will have a chance to learn and experience how international film industry events work, how to schedule the agenda to make the most of the time while they are at the forum, and why networking activities are so beneficial from the beginning of their professional career.

They will take part in a talk “Business Development – How to Present Your Portfolio and Yourself on the International Market”, prepared by Mikołaj Błoński, Biz-Dev & Strategy Director at BluBlu and former participant of the Producers LINK programme.

After that session, they will take part in a workshop prepared by Agata Darlasi, development consultant and screenwriter from The S Gene, titled “How To Present Yourself and Gain Self Confidence – The Exercises to Become Aware of Emotion, Story and Delivering a Message”.

Our talents will use the knowledge from the sessions to network and promote themselves among Young Horizons Industry guests.

All the Young Talents participants will attend the Young Horizons Industry 3-day programme and stay in Warsaw until 2 October.

Meet the participants in the Young Talents programme!

• Adriana Bendžalová, Tomas Bata University, Czechia
• Eva Matejovičová, FAMU – Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Czechia
• Kristina Husová, Graduate of FAMU – Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Czechia
• Júlie Sroková, FAMU – Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts, Czechia
• Christian Kaufmann, Graduate of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Marianna Bozantzoglou, Stavrakos Film & TV School, Greece
• Patrik Varga, University of Theatre and Film Arts, Hungary
• Damian Handzlik, Graduate of the University of Silesia, Poland
• Ewa Japola, Lodz Film School, Poland
• Szymon Radzio, Lodz Film School, Poland
• Viktória Zimmermannová, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Madeleine Ljungberg, Sörängens Folkhögskola, Sweden
• Keso Lundgren, Sörängens Folkhögskola, Sweden

Young Talents partners

Programme is organised in partnership with Sörängens Folkhögskola, The University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest, Animation Production Days, Zlín Film Festival, Olympia Film Festival, APAF – Slovak Association of Animated Film Producers. Many thanks to KFF Industry and Polish Animation Producers Association (SPPA).