CHRISTIAN POPP
After studying History and Literature, Christian Popp worked as a journalist for print and television. In 1997, he became a program manager for the European channel ARTE, first in Strasbourg, then in Berlin. A producer since 2005, successively for the companies Interscience Film, DOCDAYS Productions, YUZU Productions, and TAG Film, he has produced more than fifty documentaries and several short fiction and animated films. His productions have been selected for numerous festivals, including Cannes.
(Becoming Cary Grant), Sundance (Sepideh, Reaching for the Stars), Berlinale (Beyond Punishment), Venice (Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature), IDFA (Letters from Baghdad, The Life of Hawa), CPH:DOX (The EUkrainian), Sheffield Docfest (Cuba & Alaska), among others. Since 2025, Christian has managed TANJO FILMS while also producing several projects with the company YAMI 2.
Christian regularly works as a documentary development consultant and teaches at IDFAcademy, Ex Oriente, EAVE, Documentary Campus, and other training programs. He regularly participates in the selection of projects in France and internationally: Ciclic, Procirep/Angoa, IDFA Bertha Fund, MEDIA Suisse, IDFA Forum, Sunny Side of the Doc. He was Head of the FIPADOC Professional Days in 2020 and 2021 and a jury member for several festivals (IDFA, Duisburger Filmwoche, TIFF, Astra Film Festival).
NATHALIE VALLET
Nathalie Vallet is a producer and production manager with over twenty years of experience in film and television, specializing in international co-productions and feature films. Since 2022, she has served as executive producer on TV and film documentaries with several companies, including PULP Films, Lardux Films, Grande Ourse Production, TAG Film, and Lila Productions.
From 2014 to 2022, she was a senior producer at Les Films du Poisson, where she co-produced feature films such as "Et il y eut un matin" by Eran Kolirin (2021), "Filles de joie (Working Girls)" by Frédéric Fonteyne and Anne Paulicevich (2020), "The Burglar (Haporetzet)" by Hagar Ben-Asher (2019), and "Le Passe-muraille" by Dante Desarthe (2016). Previously, from 2007 to 2014, she was a production manager there, in charge of artistic, legal, and financial oversight, financing, and co-productions on films such as "Tournée" by Mathieu Amalric, "Les Interdits (Friends from France)" by Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski, and "La Terre outragée (Land of Oblivion)" by Michale Boganim.
Previously, she created the "Afghan Itineraries" festival and worked in cultural programming and production at the Théâtre de Suresnes as well as at the French Institute in Vienna, Austria.
She graduated from Sciences Po Strasbourg (1997) and holds a DESS in management of cultural institutions from the University of Paris-Dauphine (1998).
KATYA PANOVA
Katya Panova is an executive producer and production manager with over fifteen years of experience in the editorial and operational coordination of international documentary projects, from scriptwriting to delivery. Based in Paris, she currently works freelance with several production companies in France, after having worked at Artline Films, where she progressed from intern to executive producer, and then at Yuzu Productions.
Her filmography includes Paradis (Petit à Petit Productions), Israël, les ministres du chaos and Nomad Solitude (Yuzu Productions), Donetsk, la bataille de l'Ukraine and Archi vrai & Archi faux (Artline Films), La Générale (Allumage), Trump and the FBI (Pumpernickel Films, Allumage), as well as the VR project The Real Thing. She also joined Christian Popp in the final stages of production on the film Writing Hawa (TAG Film), which won awards at numerous international festivals.
A specialist in international co-productions, she is involved in editorial development, financial structuring, organizing film shoots in over forty countries, as well as budget monitoring and post-production. She also works on archive research, rights negotiation, and relations with markets and festivals.
She has completed several professional training programs (EAVE B'EST, Digital Production Challenge, Asfored) and holds master's degrees in sociology (Nizni Novgorod Linguistic University), cultural policy (Paris Diderot University), and audiovisual management (Media Business School). She also pursues a writing career, with several stories published in 2021.
ARNAUD MÉTHIVIER
Arnaud Méthivier is a post-production director and manager of Gisèle Productions, specializing in supporting feature films and documentaries. He oversees the artistic, technical, and financial stages of post-production, working closely with directors and producers.
He coordinates image editing workflows, conforming, color grading, and master production. He manages schedules, negotiates with laboratories and technical service providers, optimizes post-production budgets, and ensures the proper management of deliverables for distributors, broadcasters, and platforms.