Graziella Bildesheim, appointed new President of EWA Network
EWA Network is delighted to introduce the new president, Graziella Bildesheim and new members of the board. We thank the outgoing president Marit van del Elshout for her work in these years.
Graziella has said:" I’m ever so honoured to have been entrusted with this prestigious assignment. I set forward to work with the Board and the members, with energy and respect, to affirm EWA Network’s presence and importance in a better future, thus contributing to strengthen it to serve the needs of our vast community of Women in Europe and beyond".
The new board is composed by Graziella Bildesheim, as president, Isabel Castro as treasurer, Flaminia Graziadei as Secretary, Madeleine Ekman as vice president, Melanie Hoyes as member, Francine Raveney as vice-president, Juliane Schulze as Decputy Secretary and Iris Zappe-Heller as member.
Graziella Bildesheim has over 30 years of widespread experience in the European audiovisual sector. She has initiated and directed numerous international vocational training initiatives among which the well-known pan-European MAIA Workshops aimed at supporting emerging producers wishing to enter the international market. She has also devised a series of unique workshops focusing on different aspects of the industry that she presently holds in partnership with Anica Academy in Italy. Bildesheim also lectures at a number of film schools and labs in Italy and abroad. She is currently working as a free-lance consultant with both directors and producers in the creative and financial development of their audiovisual projects.
Bildesheim is a senior expert working for MEDIA, Eurimages and several regional Funds in Italy. She served on the evaluation Commission for the national Film Fund from 2014 to 2019. She has served as a juror on numerous international competitions and festivals and has contributed to the creation of several training and industry activities in cooperation with private and public institutions.
She is a member of the David di Donatello Italian Film Academy and of the European Film Academy, having also served on its Board from 2018 to 2023.
