| THE BOARD OF THE FSE
The Board of the Federation – Christina Kallas, Sven Baldvinsson, David Kavanagh, Bernard Besserglik and Willemiek Seligmann - were elected by the members of the FSE at the Annual General Meeting in November 2006.
Christina Kallas (Dr. phil.) is a screenwriter and producer and the President of the FSE, the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe. She is a member of the European Film Academy and of the German Film Academy and a member of the presidium of the Screenwriters´ Guild of Germany. Christina Kallas is the artistic director of script development film fund for South-Eastern Europe “The Balkan Fund”, which runs in the frame of the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki and forms part of the coordination scheme of the European Film Festival Funds, as well as a member of the German Federal Film Board FFA commissions for the financing of feature film development and production. She is teaching screenwriting since 1998 at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, and since 2004 at the Cinema Department of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.
She wrote and/or produced a number of awarded feature films. Among her credits are: “i.d.” (Parallax/Polygram), “Love Lies”, which won the First Film Award at the Munich Film Festival, as well as “The Commissioner”, a political thriller starring John Hurt and Armin Mueller-Stahl, which was in official competition at the Berlin Film Festival in 1998. She has also written for television, and in 2001 and 2002 she was part of the writing team which delivered the Best German TV-awarded series “Edel & Starck”. She is the writer of three books: “European Coproductions in Film and Television” (Nomos, Baden-Baden 1992), “Screenplay. The Art of Invention and Narration for the Cinema” (Nefeli, Athens 2006) and “Creative Screenwriting“ (uvk, Konstanz 2007).
E-mail address: christina.kallas (at) web.de
Sven (Sveinbjörn) Baldvinsson is a screenwriter working in Denmark and the U.S as well as in Iceland, his home country. He has written three produced feature films and multiple episodes of TV drama. In the U.S. he has worked for and with such companies as Propaganda Films, Hawn/Sylbert and Spring Creek. In recent years he has taught screenwriting at several venues in Europe. He is the author of several books of poetry and prose as well as writing music and/or lyrics on a number of albums. He has been on the board of The Icelandic Federation of Artists, The Icelandic Writers Union and a member of the selection committee for the Nordic Prize for Literature. He is the vice president of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe, a boardmember of the Association of Icelandic Playwrights and Screenwriters and a member of the European Film Academy.
e-mail address: tundra (at) vortex.is
Willemiek Seligmann, formerly practising as an attorney at law, has been since 2001 director of the Dutch Guild of Screenwriters (Netwerk Scenariowriters).
Since 2002 she is co-director of the Association of Literary Writers and Translators (Vereniging van Schrijvers en Vertalers) of which the Guild of Dutch Screenwriters is a department. She has been one of the legal advisors of the FSE since the foundation in Athens, June 2001 and is since 2006 member of the FSE-board.
e-mail address: scenario (at) vsenv.nl
David Kavanagh is the Executive Officer of the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild. He has been Film Officer of the Irish Arts Council; Chief Executive of the Irish Film Institute; General Secretary of the European Script Fund. He is a board member of the Light House Cinema Exhibition and Distribution Company. He is a board member of the Federation of Scriptwriters in Europe and a member of the Policy Review Group of the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds. He is a member of the Irish Film and Television Academy and the European Film Academy.
e-mail address : david.kavanagh (at) script.ie
Bernard Besserglik is an English screenwriter living in Paris, working both in English and French. He combined screenwriting with a 20-year career as a news reporter with Agence France-Presse, which included a four-year posting in Moscow. He has been a member of the Union-Guilde des ScÈnaristes for the past 10 years, and its deputy treasurer for the past year. He was elected a member of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe in November 2006 and appointed Treasurer by the Board. He is currently working on a stage musical featuring Joseph Stalin.
Email address: besserglik (at) wanadoo.fr
Pyrrhus Mercouris
e-mail address: manager (at) scenaristes.org
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