Annick Mahnert
Manager, Acquisitions, Raven Banner Entertainment
About Speaker
Born in Geneva, Annick Mahnert studied film production at the NYFA and worked as a production assistant at Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons. Back in Switzerland, she went on to work in distribution and programming at 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Pathé Cinémas and Frenetic Films. Early 2012 she moved to Paris to join the renowned sales agency Celluloid Dreams, handling sales and acquisitions. Since 2013, she is working as a freelance producer, acquisitions consultant and festival programmer and is an expert at the Austrian Film Institute for film funding and at the Zurich Film Foundation for Marketing and Distribution grants. Annick coproduced Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentaries 78/52, Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist and Memory: The Origins of Alien. Her production Huachicolero (The Gasoline Thieves) won the Award for Best New Narrative Director at the Tribeca Film Festival in May 2019. Her latest production, The Long Walk, had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival Giornate degli Autori in 2019. Annick Mahnert is a programmer at the Sitges Film Festival, the Director of Programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin and the Executive Director of the Frontières Co-Production Market.