The Renaissance man of the film industry. Distributor, film and television producer, marketing specialist, creator of the biggest festival website in the world… Bruno Chatelin will take part in this year’s REGIOFUN.

Bruno Chatelin started his professional career in the biggest international advertising agencies such as Publicis, DMM Masius and JWT, where he cooperated with e.g. Unilever, Mars Foods and Mastercard. In 1985 he went into film distribution on behalf of Sony, which he left after ten years, so as to create a fusion of 20th Century Fox with UGC in France. After the fusion, he quickly situated the company on the second place on the market, by releasing over 200 titles. In 1995 he was proclaimed, by the Film Français, one of the leading figures in the branch.

Bruno Chatelin is the creator of the FilmFestivals.com website which is a regular partner of the festivals in Cannes, Locarno, Toronto and Venice, and he also a supporter almost 4000 other film events in the whole world. He also established the Major Buzz Factory consulting company specializing in internet marketing for the film and music branches, and Emotion Film Factory devoted to film production. Apart from that, Bruno Chatelin is a juror at multiple festivals in the whole world, and an expert at countless branch conferences. He is also a board member of the European Film Academy.