Mathilde Henrot

CEO and cofounder of Festival Scope & Festival Scope Pro. She has degrees from HEC Business School, INALCO (BA in Chinese), Paris X (BA in philosophy), and Paris II (LLM in literary and artistic copyright law). She worked for eight years at MK2 as sales director, also handling acquisitions. In 2010, in collaboration with Alessandro Raja, she founded Festival Scope Pro, the benchmark online service for film professionals, allowing them to watch films on demand from over 150 of the most prestigious international film festivals and markets. Festival Scope, launched by the duo in 2016, focuses on festivals’ catch-up screenings for an audience of film lovers worldwide.

Henrot also founded Maharaja Films, a production company with a lineup that includes The Strife of Love in a Dream, directed by Camille Henrot, recipient of the Silver Lion at the 2013 Biennale for Grosse Fatigue; Smugglers’ Songs, directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, winner of the Jean Vigo Prize in 2011 and official competition at Locarno in 2011; Alps, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, which competed at Venice in 2011 and won Best Screenplay; and Saturday, directed by Camille Henrot (Carte Blanche at Palais de Tokyo, October 2017). Since 2012, she has curated the Kinoscope program of the Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 2018, she became a member of the Selection Committee of the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland). She also became a member of the Selection Committee of the Villa Medici Film Festival (Italy) in 2022.

Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia