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Martin Schweighofer

Executive Director of AFC – Austrian Film Commission, Austria

Martin Schweighofer
Martin Schweighofer studied journalism and art history at the University of Vienna. He worked as a film critic and art editor in different periodicals in Austria until 1993. Since 1993 he has been the Executive Director of AFC – Austrian Films. He is a founder and Director of the Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film. He is one of the founders of the Pan-European organisation, European Film Promotion (EFP) established in Hamburg, where he was first the President, and from 2013 to 2019 he was the President of Organisation. He is a co-founder and drama consultant of the theatre company Theater im Kopf. He was a jury member at different international film festivals, including Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Dubai, Sydney, Thessaloniki, Trieste, Wroclaw, Yerevan, and Zagreb. He lives in Vienna.