Annick Mahnert studied film production at the NYFA and worked as a production assistant at Roger Corman’s Concorde-New Horizons. Back in Switzerland, she went on to work in distribution and programming at 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros., Pathé Cinémas and Frenetic Films. Early 2012 she moved to Paris to join the renowned sales agency Celluloid Dreams, handling sales and acquisitions. Since 2013, she is working as a freelance producer, acquisitions consultant and festival programmer. She is an expert at the Austrian Film Institute, the Zurich Film Foundation and the Albanian National Center of Cinematography for film funding, a programmer at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival and the Head of Programming at Fantastic Fest in Austin. In April 2020, Mahnert became the Executive Director at the Frontières Co-Production Market, the leading industry initiative for genre film professionals.
