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ALL EYES ON ME | The Battleground for Attention in the Digital Age 


Faced with evolving financing models, shifting audience engagement and a rapidly changing market, the series industry stands at a crossroads. Following an Ampere Analysis that unveils the latest trends, challenges and opportunities, our industry experts will offer insights on how creatives and producers can thrive in this high stakes drama.

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Conference
DAY 1 | Mo 16.09.24 12:00-13:00
Fotografiska Berlin - Ballroom
Speaker:
Rahul Patel
Marc Lorber
Nataly Kudiabor
Stewart Clarke (Moderator)
Jan Ehlert

Speaker

Rahul Patel
Senior Research Manager
Amper Analysis

Rahul is a Senior Research Manager at the research company Ampere Analysis. He leads Ampere’s AVoD content tracking product and works within the Analytics team to evaluate trends, popularity, and distribution in the global Video on Demand market. Rahul’s research covers a diverse range of areas, such as the content and expansion strategies of VoD platforms, approaches to content releasing and timing, the value of IP ownership, and distribution window patterns across the theatrical, broadcast TV and OTT spaces.

Marc Lorber
Executive Producer
The Art of Coproduction

One of the most experienced international content production, acquisitions, and formats executives, and an award-winning producer; skilled in scripted and unscripted originals and formats, in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia; as well as Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and encompassing the CIS, CEE and MENA regions, amongst the 20+ non-English speaking countries Marc has lived and/or worked in.

Marc, as the founder of The Art Of Coproduction, is currently consulting for various producers across a slate of international series from Italy to Quebec, Australia to the UK - has set up financing and co-production for three series this year already – “Video Nasty” (Ireland/BBC/WDR), “The Boy That Never Was” (Ireland/RTE), and “Mix Tape” (Australia-Ireland/Foxtel Binge), and distribution of two seasons of “Unclassified” with SBS and DCD Rights; executive produced the first format version of NBCU’s “Million Dollar Listing” outside the US - in the UAE for ImageNation and Starzplay, and created/produced a new competition series “Unstoppable: The Italian Dream, for the same parties alongside Pure Health and Series A Italy.

Nataly Kudiabor
Managing Director, Executive Producer
UFA Fiction

Nataly Kudiabor has 30 years of professional experience in the film industry and started her
career at Medienruppe RTL. Soon followed positions at RTL II, ARD Degeto, Ziegler Film and
Grundy UFA.
As Head of Development and producer, she headed the Berlin office of ndf, neue deutsche
Filmgesellschaft, for eleven years.
From 2015 until 2018 Kudiabor was Managing Director of the production company “good
friends” and led the company to success within a few years. The most notable developments
were the award-winning comedy noir series "Arthur's Law" and the German adaptation to the
Swedish series "Bonus Family".
Since May 2019 Kudiabor has been working as Executive Producer for UFA Fiction and was
appointed to the management in June 2022.
The series „All you need“ (ARD Mediathek) and „The Mopes“ (TNT) were very well received,
both by critics and audience.
The director of “All you need” - Season 1 was nominated for Bunte New Faces Award 2021.
“The Mopes” was honoured with Audience Award of Grimme Award 2022.
In 2022 her romantic comedy “Die Liebeskümmerer” (The Heartbreak Agency) (Netflix) was
completed and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film 2024 by National Film Awards.

Nataly Kudiabor is one of the Executive Producers of the recent produced first German-
language serie of Apple TV+ “Where's Wanda?”

She is a member of European Film Academy and International Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences.
Nataly Kudiabor is committed to promote diverse narrative perspectives in front of and behind
the camera.

Stewart Clarke
SVP, Content, International
Deadline

Stewart represents the Deadline brand at Festivals and industry events, and writing news and features for the website. He joined Deadline in late 2023 after a four-year stint as Creative Director at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the largest event of its kind in the UK. Prior to that, Stewart was a London-based International Correspondent for Variety, reporting from events around the world for the trade publication. He started his career in film and TV journalism at Informa, where he was rose to the position of Editorial Director.

Jan Ehlert
Chief Content Officer for series, streaming, TV
Constantin Film

Jan Ehlert joined the Constantin subsidiary MOOVIE in 2000, initially working in script
development and subsequently as a producer. In his 24-year long career at
Constantin Film, he has realized a large number of successful TV projects.
These include shows such as VERBRECHEN and SCHULD, based on the stories by
Ferdinand von Schirach, TV events such as DIE HEBAMME for Sat.1 or FAMILIE! and the
high-end crime series DIE PROTOKOLLANTIN for ZDF.
Since joining the management of Constantin Television in 2018, he has produced
high-profile multi-part series such as GLAUBEN, STRAFE after Ferdinand von Schirach
for RTL+ and DIE HEIMSUCHUNG as well as FEINDE for ARD/Degeto. His most recent
productions include ACHTSAM MORDEN for NETFLIX and HAGEN feature film and
series. Jan Ehlert has been the new Chief Content Officer (CCO) for Constantin Film's
non-theatrical division since 2024. In this position, the experienced filmmaker is
responsible for the content of series/streaming/TV. This also includes the supervision of
the Development and Creative Affairs divisions as well as the further development of
the company's creative direction.