Annick Mahnert (born 1975,

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) is a film festival

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and film producer. She is the director of programming at ''

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'', programs the ''

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'', and has been named executive director of the Canadian genre industry platform ''Frontières''.

Life and work

Annick Mahnert studied film production at the NYFA and worked as a production assistant at

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's ''Concorde-New Horizons''. Back in her native Switzerland, she went on to work in distribution and programming at ''20th Century Fox'', ''Warner Bros.'', ''Pathé Cinémas'', and ''Frenetic Films''. She worked at ''Maximage Filmproduktion'' as a production assistant. In 2012 she moved to Paris to join ''Celluloid Dreams'', handling sales and acquisitions. Since 2013, she is working as a freelance producer, acquisitions consultant, and festival programmer and was hired in November 2013 as Foreign Representative for the Market & Festivals department at ''Swiss Films'', the promotion agency for Swiss filmmaking. Mahnert is a programmer at the ''

'', and the head of programming at ''

'' in

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. In April 2020, Mahnert became the executive director at the Frontières Co-Production Market, an industry initiative for genre film professionals. She is a consultant for the ''Austrian Film Institute'', the ''Zurich Film Foundation, the Cineforom in Geneva'', and co-founded the ''European Genre Forum''. As a film producer she worked on

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's ''

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'' (2019),

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's documentaries ''78/52: Hitchcock's Shower Scene'' (2017) and '' Memory: The Origins of Alien'' (2019), and other productions. In 2022, she was selected as jury member in the ''Filmmakers of the Present'' competition category at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mahnert, Annick 1975 births Living people Swiss women curators Swiss women film producers