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The European Film Academy has appointed its first-ever cohort of section principals crossed 8 filmmaking disciplines arsenic it expands its committedness to supporting nan arts and crafts professions of European filmmaking.
The move follows nan preamble successful 2025 of chapters dedicated to casting directors, cinematographers, composers, costume designers, editors, make-up and hairsbreadth artists, accumulation designers, and sound designers.
Appointed by nan Board of nan European Film Academy, nan section principals will enactment arsenic ambassadors and figureheads for their respective disciplines.
They comprise casting head Nina Haun, cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, composer Zbigniew Preisner, costume designer Pascaline Chavanne, editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis, constitution creator Waldemar Pokromski (for nan hairsbreadth and constitution chapter), accumulation designer Antxón Gómez Santanderz and sound designer Tarn Willers,
Their ngo will beryllium to fortify connections among members, summation nan visibility of their craft, and support nan continued maturation and cohesion of nan European movie community. The domiciled of section main is honorary and voluntary, recognising outstanding creator accomplishment and world opinionated wrong nan world movie industry.
“The assignment of these first section principals is simply a earthy and important adjacent measurement pursuing nan preamble of personnel chapters past year. Each of them represents excellence successful their section of work, and nan database of films they person contributed each guidelines for nan immense richness of European cinema,” said Matthijs Wouter Knol, CEO and Academy Director.
“The European Film Academy wishes to springiness greater visibility and nickname to nan galore disciplines that style European films each year. With nan support of nan section principals, we purpose to fortify our members’ consciousness of organization and create caller opportunities for speech and collaboration crossed Europe.”
Hailing from Germany, casting head Haun caller credits see Paweł Pawlikowski Cannes 2026 Palme d’Or contender Fatherland arsenic good arsenic Ildikó Enyedi Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi (2025), Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness and Pablo Larraín’s Spencer.
Dutch cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, Netherlands is champion known for his agelong collaboration pinch Christopher Nolan connected films including on Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer, for which he won Academy Award, Bafta Award, and ASC Award for Best Cinematography.
Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner is champion known for his collaboration pinch head Krzysztof Kieślowski and writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz, and scores for No End, Dekalog, The Double Life of Véronique, and nan Three Colours trilogy.
Belgian Costume Designer Pascaline Chavanne has worked pinch a big of European board including Christophe Honoré, Roman Polanski, Leos Carax, but is champion known for her agelong moving narration pinch Ozon, astir precocious connected The Stranger.
Greek editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis has edited than 1 100 characteristic films, which see astir each nan useful of Yorgos Lanthimos. His activity connected The Favourite earned him Oscar and Bafta nominations arsenic good arsenic nan European Film Award for European Editor. Most recently, he edited Olivia Wilde’s characteristic movie The Invite.
Polish make-up creator Waldemar Pokromski has worked connected much than a 100 movie productions, including Oscar-winning films Schindler’s List, The Pianist, The Counterfeiters and The Zone of Interest.
A long-time collaborator pinch Pedro Almodóvar Spanish accumulation designer Antxón Gómez Santander’s astir caller in installments includes Cannes 2026 Palme d’Or contender Bitter Christmas. He was nominated for European Production Design successful 2011 for The Skin I Live In and won nan European Film Award for Best Production Design successful 2019 for Pain and Glory, some Almodóvar collaborations.
UK sound designer Tarn Willers has been signaling movie sound crossed Europe for much than 20 years. In 2023, he served arsenic Production Sound Mixer connected Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, for which he won nan Academy Award, Bafta and European Film Award for Best Sound Design together pinch Johnnie Burn. In 2025, Tarn returned to nan UK to collaborate connected Charli XCX task The moment directed by Aidan Zamiri and connected Rowan Athale’s Giant before he reunited pinch Paweł Pawlikowski for Fatherland successful Poland.
