Beathe Hofseth is a producer and CEO of Fri Film, behind documentaries such as Flophouse America, The Golden Swan, and Light Fly, Fly High. She has been a festival director at The Norwegian Film Festival and a jury member at several festivals. Beathe participated in producer workshops: Berlinale Talents (2019), CineKid (2020), Eurodoc (2021) and EAVE (2023).
FRI FILM is based in Oslo, Norway, and is driven by three female filmmakers. FRI FILM focuses on creative feature-length documentaries with international potential. Company is primarily engaged in topics such as human rights, discrimination, and gender equality, and looking for strong, personal, character-driven stories that are made into creative features. The company always aims to portray those stories with visual artistry and aesthetic expression, and the goal is to make documentaries that reflect the world people live in and make them see their lives from a new perspective.
Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė has over 20 years of experience in film and television. In 2007, she founded the studio Just a Moment, producing a wide range of audiovisual projects, including feature films, media projects, and documentaries. Dagnė is an active member of several prestigious industry organisations, including the European Producers Club, European Film Academy, ACE, EAVE, Eurodoc, and Lithuanian Association of Film Culture. She regularly enhances her expertise through international professional training. She serves as a mentor, lecturer, and expert for organisations such as the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Lithuanian Short Film Agency (Lithuanian Shorts), the training and consultancy program First Cut Lab, the arts agency Artscape, the Lithuanian Film Centre, etc. Her recent productions include Dance Plus City, a series of short dance and architectural films co-produced with partners from Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, and France, featuring nine directors from five countries; Twittering Soul, the first Lithuanian 3D film by Deimantas Narkevičius, showcased at Rotterdam, Marseille, and Tallinn Film Festivals; and Burial, a documentary by artist Emilija Škarnulytė, which has been featured in over 30 festivals and art spaces worldwide.
Giacomo Nudi is a co-founder of Cosmos Films and a member of Eurodoc with a wealth of experience in marketing and impact strategies. Giacomo has accompanied impactful, award-winning films shown at Berlinale, New Directors/New Films, Fantasia, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, AFI, and nominated for the LUX Awards and Gotham Award.
Katarzyna (Kasia) Kuczyńska is a producer at HAKA FILMS. Graduate of the Film School in Lodz, she has gained experience for more than ten years, working at all stages of production on international co-productions such as Anna Zamecka's Communion (European Film Award for Best Documentary), TheMute by Oscar-nominated director Bartosz Konopka, and Mads Matthiesen's Model. She is an executive producer of two short films: Spitsbergen by Michał Szcześniak and Marcel by Marcin Mikulski. Kasia was part of the Ji.hlava Emerging Producers 2023 program.
Since 2018, she has worked at HAKA FILMS as a producer, responsible for developing her own projects. She supervises the financing of films, manages contacts with broadcasters, funds and co-producers, builds festival and promotional strategies, and oversees all stages of production.
HAKA FILMS’ first documentary film, Bogna Kowalczyk's Boylesque, premiered at Hot Docs 2022 in the Main Competition, winning the Best International Emerging Filmmaker Award. In 2023, HAKA FILMS (as a co-producer) screened the premiere of We Will Not Fade Away, directed by Alisa Kovalenko, at the 73rd Berlinale in the Generation section. HAKA FILMS' third documentary, on which Katarzyna Kuczyńska worked as producer, Lili, directed by Sylwia Rosak, had its world premiere at the 39th Santa Barbara Film Festival in California in 2024.