Tobias Pausinger

Tobias was trained in international film production and financing in Ludwigsburg, Los Angeles and Rome and is a MBA graduate of the TU Munich. 2003 till 2009 he was responsible for the acquisition of various multi-award-winning films for international sales at Bavaria Film International and The Match Factory. With The Match Factory, he also co-produced Yesim Ustaoglu’s San Sebastian Golden Shell winning feature film Pandora’s Box. Together with Jacobine van der Vloed, Tobias consults film professionals and visual artists on development, financing and distribution as well as international film festivals on strategic matters and lectures at various training initiatives throughout Europe. In 2011, together with CineMart and CPH:DOX both co-founded the Art:Film initiative, a platform to enhance and nurture highly artistic cinema and visual arts. He is also a voting member of the European Film Academy.