Ingrid Rudefors works with international outreach and advice for Film Region Stockholm Mälardalen Film Commission. With her colleagues from the other Swedish film-commissions, she also operates the national film commission Sweden Film Commission.

She works with marketing the Stockholm region as a location for foreign film production and will advise on all co-production issues making Scandinavian and European funds available for projects.

She worked closely on securing the Hollywood version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for Sweden.

Ingrid has a back-ground in film-production, having worked on over 25 feature films in the USA and Sweden with producers like Ted Hope, Lydia Dean Pilcher and Eric Fellner and with directors like Hal Hartley and Mike Fiigies She has been on the board of directors of the Association of film commissioners Int. AFCI for six years.

Truls Kontny is the President of European Film Commission network, Scandinavian Locations and Norway film commission. Given a taste of what SXSW Film provides as a platform for outreach to filmmakers, through the first SXSW film panel experience with an enthusiastic driven crowd, he returns to Austin in March 2016 determined to bring US - Europe co-productions to an entirely new level.