OPEN KITCHEN FILMS is a sales company based in Marseille (France), Akranes (Iceland) and Ljubljana (Slovenia),
stretching the possibilities of creative documentary distribution to its maximum potential.
Being a company founded by experts from different sides of the industry, we share the expectations of directors and producers looking to reach an audience.
We aim to work with uncommon POVs, challenging subjects, diversity in style; and directors with a clear artistic approach, standing behind the creative force of filmmakers.
Most of our films are international co-productions, like our kitchen is multi-cultural.
We cover all aspects of distribution, festival strategies and international sales.
Martina Droandi
Martina Droandi is a sales agent for documentary films, currently based in a train between Austria and Italy.
While obtaining a BA in Anthropology and Music (SOAS, UK) she began turning her interest towards visual anthropology first,
and documentary after, still driven by a strong curiosity for people and their worlds.
She was granted a scholarship for the joint-master DOCNOMADS,
during which she grew fond of trying to make sense of the mysterious industry side of things.
She started in sales and distribution by helping friends with festival submissions of their shorts,
Slowly turning it into a career, while flirting as well with the idea of production (Was Bleibt by Chiara Fleischhacker & Milena Aboyan).
Eight European countries later, in 2019 she landed in Austria, where she worked at Autlook Filmsales as Sales and Acquisition Manager.
Since June 2024, she has been seen collaborating with Victor, Ingibjörg and Petra into making DysFlims thrive.
She’s an Alumni of the Atelier Ludwigsburg- Paris (2018) and Locarno Industry Academy (2021).
She loves consulting filmmakers and producers on strategies, contracts and sales matters of any kind.
Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir
Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir lives on a farm and is extremely thankful for modern technology.
She has worked as a project manager in fields as diverse as construction and the arts. In her work, Ingibjörg is particularly focused on building connections between people and ideas. After studying film theory and art history, she began her journey with film festivals in 2013, taking on roles such as festival coordinator, production manager, programmer, and director. In recent years, she has also managed projects in theatre, comedy, and for the Reykjavík Arts Festival. Currently, she helms IceDocs – the Iceland Documentary Film Festival, which she co-founded in 2019 in her hometown of Akranes. The festival, with its slow pace, is designed to cultivate relationships between local and international filmmakers.
Ingibjörg is a member of both DAE and the Icelandic Film Academy. She has served multiple times on the selection committee for documentaries at the Icelandic Film Awards and is frequently invited to participate as a jury member at various film festivals.
She's the co-founder of:
(Docfest ehf. Festival production since 2018)
The Workshop Cultural Association
An on going project for a creative space ( since 2023)
(World Sales since 2024)
Petra Seliškar
Petra Seliškar is a director, producer, festival art director, and programmer
born and based in Ljubljana, Slovenia and is responsible of curating our retirement plan.
Educated in the Netherlands and UK,
she has a degree in documentary directing and an MA in media studies.
In 2003, she founded Petra Pan Film Production, which primarily produces and distributes documentary films.
She is also one of the founders of the festival MakeDox taking place every summer in Skopje in North Macedonia since 2009.
Petra has the ability to clearly see the importance in hidden details, revealing the essence of art, culture, nature, and all aspects of life. This creative strength is evident in her documentaries, which have toured extensively at festivals, won
international awards, and been sold to European broadcasters.
She’s the co-founder of:
(Films production)
(Festival in Skopje, North Macedonia since 2009)
(World Sales since 2024)
Victor Ede
Victor Ede lives and works in Marseilles, France but he can’t stand the sun light. He has had a transversal carrier in documentary and audiovisual. in the fields of picture, post-production, and a detour through art books publishing.
After early years directing art-videos and couple of documentaries, he started editing documentaries. Ten years after, he wanted to resume the project initiative, to accompany filmmakers and singular projects. He began to find ways to achieve this production desire in 2014 with Cinephage and participated to several workshops such as Eurodoc or Emerging Producers...
He’s part of DAE, SPI (Independent Producers Union), LPA (Regional Union), member of PROCIREP and associate of TENK (french platform). Victor Ede is currently Creative Media expert, former deputy member of the Cinemas du Monde commission (CNC), and used to be member of the FAIA grant (CNC) and the Procirep Angoa commissions.
He is often animating workshops or mentoring projects.
He’s the co-founder of:
(Films production since 2007)
(Theatrical distribution in France since 2019)
IMAGE FANTÔME Films
(postproduction since 2018)
(World Sales since 2024)