Principal and Founder

Fluently tri-lingual, Brigitte Hubmann has 30 years of experience in film marketing, business development initiatives and cultural diplomacy at the national and international level. 

She works in close collaboration with film and cultural agencies, 

filmmakers, festivals, distributors and exhibitors.  

She leverages her experience for clients at Film Associates International, a boutique consulting agency that she founded in 2021 focusing on festivals, film sales, marketing strategies and services for the industry. 

Serving both individual clients and agencies, her strengths range from managing curated business meetings and networking events to hosting trade missions and pitch sessions. 

As a veteran cultural initiatives manager, she is known for balancing strategic planning and creative programming. She has produced public events as well as industry programming and PR campaigns at international film festivals and markets at Toronto, Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Karlovy Vary and Shanghai.

She joined Telefilm Canada in 2001 as a core contributor shaping and delivering the agency’s international promotional strategies. The scope included festivals and markets as well as discoverability campaigns, spearheading CANADA NOW, the agency's promotion and export initiative in the U.S, UK, China, Germany and Mexico.

Brigitte began her career at the Goethe-Institutes in Montréal and New York as a film program manager, curating and promoting film series and retrospectives, for over 10 years. She then moved on to Germany`s national film PR agency (then known as Export-Union des Deutschen Films) as their Representative for Canada and USA (East Coast) from 1998 to 2001, as well as Executive Director of the Fassbinder Foundation in New York.

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