Cécile Tollu-Polonowski
Producer, The Match Factory, Germany - France
Cécile Tollu-Polonowski studied German Studies and Culture Management in Paris, Berlin and Saarbrücken. From 2007 on, she worked as an organisation manager for Berlinale Forum and from 2011 to 2020 as a programme consultant. From 2011 until 2016, she studied Film Producing at the German Film and Television Academy, Berlin. Her graduation film, the feature-length film Zhaleika by Eliza Petkova, celebrated its world premiere in 2016 at Berlinale and won the Grand Prix at Sofia FF. Since 2015, she has been working closely with Match Factory Productions as an executive producer, where she was lucky to work on films by Alice Rohrwacher, Karim Aïnouz, Pietro Marcello and so on. She is a member of the editorial team of the German Magazine Revolver, Zeitschrift für Film, and programme advisor for the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg. In January 2022, she joined exclusively The Match Factory as Producer and head of Development.