Zsuzsi Bánkuti

Started to work as head of acquisition and programming for an independent cinema and head of distribution in Budapest in 2000. Beside of being charge for all the acquisition activities she organized film festivals, programmed film clubs and directed the cinema program. In 2009 together with Kornel Mundruczo, Viktoria Petranyi and Peter Balassa) they opened Szuez Film (and Kino theatre) where she also become head of acquisition. After 10 years she become the president of board at Cirko Film but also worked as an advisor for many Hungarian independent productions about worldwide festival and distribution strategy. In the beginning of 2012 she moved to Cologne to start as head of Acquisition at The Match Factory. Here, for 8 years, she oversaw most of the independent film productions, sales activities, festival and marketing strategy, a bit of film production and development. Currently she is head of the Cutting Edge Talent Camp which is focusing on new German talents during the Mannheim IFF and working for the Open Doors section at the Locarno IFF as a Community Coordinator overseeing new talents coming from the focused territories beside working as an advisor on international strategies.