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Behind the camera. In front of the mountain.

An exclusive look at the reality and workings of international film productions in the mountainous region of Tyrol

Date26.09.2026
Time15:00 – 16:00
VenueSt. Bartlmä / Halle 5
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A panel discussion on film, production, and Tyrol as a filming location.

Tyrol is more than just a backdrop. Thanks to its mountains, infrastructure, and international visibility, it has developed in recent years into a film location whose influence extends far beyond the region.

Together with Cine Tirol, the panel turns its attention to those who make productions possible: producers, networkers, and the people behind the camera.

Moderated by Esther Krausz, director of the International Screen Institute, the discussion will focus on the conditions of filmmaking, Tyrol as a filming location—and the question of how perspectives change when women take on production responsibilities.

A conversation about images, structures, and the work behind what meets the eye.

Register nowA maximum of 40 participants

Esther Krausz works in the European film industry in the areas of professional development and training, funding, and networking. Before becoming director of the International Screen Institute in February 2024, she was head of the Creative Europe-MEDIA Desk at the Austrian Film Institute. Together with Ursula Wolschlager, Esther Krausz developed and led ProPro—The Women Producers Program, an initiative of the Austrian Film Institute aimed at empowering women film producers. She has served as a guest lecturer on the European film industry at the film, television, and media production colleges in Krems, St. Pölten, and Vienna, and as a jury member at various film festivals throughout Europe.

She currently serves on the festival advisory board of the film department at the BMWKMS and is a member of the film financing review committee of the Department of Art and Culture in the Lower Austrian provincial government.

Esther Krausz has participated in numerous workshops, conferences, and labs on topics such as project development, financing, pitching, production, co-production, marketing, sales, new business models, audience development, sustainability, gender awareness, diversity, unconscious bias, anti-racism, and many others.
Esther served as workshop manager at EAVE, a networking and project development program for European producers, and was involved in organizing industry events such as the Producers Network and the Producers Workshop at the Marché du Film during the Cannes International Film Festival.
She worked as a freelancer in film production and held various positions, ranging from set publicity to production manager. She worked in the marketing and PR office of Twentieth Century Fox Austria (Dohr Werbe GmbH) and coordinated marketing and PR strategies for the theatrical releases of TCF films in Austria. In addition to her native language, German, Esther speaks English, French, and Greek. She is a trained project manager and holds an MA in Intercultural Competencies from Danube University Krems.