Recorded live on stage at the Cannes Film Festival 2022, this special conversation features a stellar lineup of senior leaders from national film organisations from across the world:
Kjersti Mo, Director of the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI)
Teresa McGrane, Deputy Chief Executive at Screen Ireland
Francesca Accinelli, VP Promotion, Communications & International Relations at Telefilm Canada
Annette Novak, CEO at Swedish Film Institute (SFI)
In a wide ranging conversation, the guests discuss how film can respond to an entertainment ecosystem massively disrupted and transformed in recent years – and consider how innovation can play a pivotal part in this process.
This episode is broought to you in partnership with Cannes NEXT, Marché du Film and Creative Europe.
Speakers Bios
Kjersti Mo, Director of the Norwegian Film Institute
Kjersti Mo is CEO of the Norwegian Film Institute. She has a background as a media executive from broadcast and print. She has extensive experience with change management and organisational development in the evolving media industry, most recently from Egmont Publishing, a leading Nordic media company. She has also worked as a journalist, program host and PM for Norway’s national broadcaster NRK and as editor in chief for a large portfolio of lifestyle magazines. She holds a degree in political science from the University of Oslo. Since assuming the role as CEO in 2019, Mo has spearheaded the Norwegian Film Institute’s new strategy to position the Norwegian audiovisual sector for growth in an ever-changing media landscape.
Teresa McGrane, Deputy Chief Executive at Screen Ireland
Teresa McGrane is the Deputy CEO of Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland. She works across all aspects of the agency’s activities, from the commercial and financial aspects of projects that Screen Ireland invests in, to the marketing and promotion of Irish films and the Irish film sector, domestically and internationally. She also works closely across the agency’s strategy for the future of the audio-visual industry, in particular skills development, to increase the creative and business capacity of the sector. Prior to working in Screen Ireland, Teresa was an independent producer and also a production accountant on many large-scale feature films that shot in Ireland. She also worked for many years in the UK television sector. She is a qualified Certified Accountant and has a Masters’ degree in Business Administration.
Francesca Accinelli, VP Promotion, Communications & International Relations at Telefilm Canada.
Francesca Accinelli joined Telefilm Canada in 2006 as the Deputy Director, English Market for the Canadian Television Fund by 2008 she was promoted to Director of that team and helped to implement the Canada Media Fund at the organisation. In 2014 Francesca took a leadership role as the Director of National Promotions and Communications and is currently in her role of Vice-President, Promotion. Communication and International Relations leads a team of 30 passionate employees across Canada dedicated to amplifying Canadian talent at home and abroad and ensuring the sustainability of the ecosystem through the financing of festivals, training, discoverability and international presence. She began her career as a cultural administrator and producer of theatre and then spent a number of years working on big budget TV series and MOW in Ontario. She has a B.A in Fine Arts from York University where she focused on film studies.
Annette Novak, CEO at Swedish Film Institute (SFI)
CEO of the Swedish Film Institute since April 2022, Anette Novak was previously the Director-General of the Swedish Media Council, a government agency in charge of film classification. Former CEO of RISE Interactive, a research institute conducting applied research on interaction design, with expertise in sound design and big data visualisations. With her background as a journalist, she has specialised herself on change management and building innovation culture as a media executive.
