Antoine Simkine

Antoine Simkine is lead producer and managing director of the Paris based Les Films d’Antoine which was founded in 2004. As a producer for Les Films d’Antoine, he has produced or co-produced many feature films that were presented and awarded in Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, Karlovy Vary. Antoine has founded in 2013 Digifilm Corporation, a start-up offering an innovative solution for the long-term archival of film assets. Antoine has participated in ACE Producers , EA VE+ and INS IDE PICTURES , and he is a member of the European Producer’s Club, the EFA and the Cesars. Currently, he is the president of ACE Producers.

Antoine Simkine is mentor at the Post-Production Workshop.

Ewa Puszczyńska

Having worked exclusively for Opus Film for almost 25 years, Ewa Puszczyńska is now working through her own company, Extreme Emotions. Among her best known recent productions are Ida and Cold War by Pawel Pawlikowski, The Captain by Robert Schwentke, Kill It And Leave This Town by Mariusz Wilczyński. She is currently working on Fools, a new film by Tomasz Wasilewski ( in post production) and untitled project by Jonathan Glazer. Ewa is a member of European Film Academy and of AM PAS and has been listed in Variety 500, an index of the 500 most influential business leaders. Ewa was elected onto the EFA Board in 2015.

Ewa Puszczyńska is mentor at the Post-Production Workshop.

Neeltje van der Heijden

With a background in journalism & photography, Neeltje landed in film post-production in 2006. After having worked as a DI producer at an image post facility for nine years, she decided to become a freelance Post-production supervisor in 2015. Since then, she has worked on international co-productions like: Heartbound by Janus Metz, Tonio by Paula van der Oest and Romy’s Salon by Mischa Kamp. In 2020 she has finalised the Norwegian family film Dragevokteren’s Jul by Katarina launing. In 2021 she will be working on the documentary Occupied City, directed by Steve McQueen and a Dutch Netflix Original series to be relaesed end of year. Neeltje started teaching at APostlab in 2013 and became the workshop’s program manager in 2017.

Neeltje van der Heijden is mentor and speaker at the Post-Production Workshop.

Niko Remus

Niko has a background in film editing and works as a freelance Post- production Supervisor and a workflow consultant.With his base in Germany, he works mostly on international projects – fiction and documentary films for cinema release.His projects in the recent years include: Bal – Honey by Semih Kaplanoglu, Hannah Arendt by Margarethe von Trotta, Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch, About Endlessness by Roy Andersson, Eleanor & Colette by Bille August and Stowaway by Joe Penna. Niko gives lectures at various film schools and is a coach for the Torino Film Lab, the Rotterdam Lab and Berlinale Talents. In 2010 he was part of the very first APostLab workshop (then EP2C) and took on the role as Head of Studies for APostLab in 2017.

Nico Remus is speaker and mentor at the Post-Production Workshop.

Roshanak Behesht Nedjad

Roshanak began working in the film industry as a festival coordinator and production manager. In 1999, she started her first production company Flying Moon with Helge Albers and Konstantin Kröning. Until 2014 they produced arthouse films, with over 30 international awards, among them the German Film Award in Gold, the Golden Leopard and the Prix Europe Iris.
In 2012, Roshanak launched another company, LudInc together with Jan von Meppen, in order to produce Serious Games. LudInc’s first game, Professor S., was nominated for the European Innovative Games Awards, named a Pioneer of new education by the Lego Foundation and won the German Computer Game Award for Best Serious Game in 2016. In 2015, she started In Good Company in Berlin and 2019 also in Leipzig.
Roshanak also works as an expert and consultant for various institutions and training organisations such EAVE. She is a member of the German as well as the European Film Academy, an EAVE graduate and group leader.

Roshanak Behesht Nedjad is mentor at the Post-Production Workshop.

Thomas Lüdemann

After his studies of audio & visual engineering, Thomas started off as a sound designer for TV- and feature films in Cologne/Germany. The emergence of the first digital film cameras broadly used in production sparked his interest in being involved in the whole post production process. He started to coordinate the post production of his first projects, which finally led him to move to Munich in 2010, one of the main film and TV hubs in Germany. Thomas went on to supervise the post production of a broad spectrum of projects, ranging from mainstream German feature films, high end sports documentaries for Red Bull, international coproductions and arthouse films winning numerous awards at A-list film festivals. Some of his credits include Paradies – Liebe by Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, Marc Rothemund’s This Crazy Heart and Paradise by Andrey Konchalovskiy. In 2019 Thomas joined the Netflix Post Management team in Amsterdam.

Thomas Lüdemann is mentor at the Post-Production Workshop.