A graduate of the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, ANDREA TASCHLER has been working in the film industry since 2000. During a decade of collaboration with Hungarian cinema’s new generation and leading the production at the most important film studios of new talents like KATAPULT FILM and INFORG STUDIO, she participated in award-winning, internationally acclaimed films. From 2004, she worked as a freelance line producer on international productions, gaining a wide perspective on leading productions outside of Hungary. In 2010, she launched MIRAGE FILM, a Budapest-based production company with two main goals: focusing on emerging talents from the Eastern European region and giving an absolute priority to artistic vision and author cinema.

In 2018, she started a new company with director YASSINE MARCO MARROCCU. The Casablanca-based ECLIPSE FILMS aims to strengthen collaboration between North Africa and Eastern Europe, and to open new doors for Moroccan filmmakers. A member of the EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY, she is a graduate of EAVE 2012 and was selected for Producers on Move 2013.

YASSINE MARCO MARROCCU graduated from audiovisual arts at the University of Udine in 2003. He has a wide knowledge of international productions, working in Morocco and Italy as a producer and director since the 2000s. As the owner of Casablanca-based ECLIPSE PRODUCTION, he helped the development of many new ideas and the formation of young filmmakers, directed advertisements, short films, and participated in various humanitarian projects in the North-African region and refugee camps in South-East Europe. He directed his first short film in 2001, and GNAWAS was invited to many international film festivals. For his short film ENTROPYA, he received the grand prix at the Festival du Cinéma Maghrébin Alger 2013, among other prizes. He completed his first feature film, CATHARSYS OR THE AFINA TALES OF THE LOST WORLD in 2018, a co-production of Morocco, Italy, and Serbia, which had the world premiere in Tallinn Black Nights, and became the film of the year in its origin country, Morocco.

In 2018, he started a new company with producer ANDREA TASCHLER. The Casablanca-based ECLIPSE FILMS aims to strengthen collaboration between North Africa and Eastern Europe, and to open new doors for Moroccan filmmakers.