Board and Staff

ITALY / Vinicio started his career as scriptwriter for the sci-fi comic series "Legs Weaver". In late 90's his first feature script "A casa di Irma" became a movie. Since then he shifted to audiovisual, working for the first italian soap opera "Un posto al Sole" from its first season, starting as staff writer and becoming the head of script editors team. In the meantime, his second feature script for the comedy "Non lo sappiamo ancora" was produced and successfully distributed. His credits include, between others, dozen of scripts for three cops series, "La squadra", "Distretto di Polizia" and "RIS - delitti imperfetti" the latter adapted for French and German television.
Vinicio is co-creator and writer of the supernatural thriller series "Il restauratore" and the prized miniseries "L'amore strappato", for which is writing an unexpected second season.
"They talk", his last supernatural thriller feature script, has been screened in 2021 and distributed in U.S.A.

AUSTRIA / Jacob Groll was born and raised in Vienna, educated in New York, Denmark and Los Angeles. His limited series Janus won numerous international awards (and could have won more - but if you wanna loose, at least do it against Steven Knight and his amazing Peaky F*cking Blinders :-) )
For a US-remake of Janus, a pilot script was commissioned by Luc Besson‘s Europa and ABC Network via Paradigm Agency. Jacob also writes for various European Shows and he got hooked on the Writers Room by Frank Spotnitz and Simon Mirren at EPI/MediaXchange‘s Series Lab. But enough with the name-dropping – Jacob is a new member of the FSE board, back home he also serves on the board of the Screenwriters Association.

SPAIN / "Born in Vigo (The Galician city where Christmas lives, as its enthusiastic mayor says), and after fourteen years as a civil lawyer, I entered the audiovisual world as short film maker with “Tupper”, that wins several national and international awards. And I continue along this path, adding being stand-up comedian, screenplay teacher, podcaster, non-fiction screenwriter, script analyst... and lawyer again.
I am legal advisor to AGAG - Galician Screenwriters' Union Association and President of FAGA - Forum of Audiovisual Screenwriters' Associations. Oh, and I'm not a bad cook either."

BULGARIA / Teodora is a writer, showrunner and director, with several screenwriting awards. She has created some of the most successful TV series in Bulgaria, among which the internationally acclaimed "Under Cover" (2011), nominated for Best Foreign Series at Monte Carlo TV Festival and distributed in 187 territories.
The latest series, co-created and co-written by Teodora – the Latvian "Soviet Jeans", has achieved notable success, receiving the Audience Award at Series Mania 2024, a selection for Berlinale Series and other international festivals.
Teodora has penned four feature films, with "Bubblegum" (2017) earning her the Best Screenplay Award at the Bulgarian National Festival Golden Rose. Teodora is a board member of the Bulgarian Association of Film, TV and Radio Scriptwriters and a member of EWA – Bulgaria.

GERMANY / Screenwriter, novelist and director.
Carolin Otto has been a scriptwriter and director since 1995. She studied documentary film and scriptwriting at the Munich Film Academy (HFF) and received her doctorate (PHD) at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She worked as a scriptwriter for many popular series and films, such as "Bier Royal". She was author, director and producer of the feature films "Aphrodite's Night" and "The White Raven". Her first novel, "Berchtesgade"n, was published in early 2025. he She was FSE president from 2019 to 2025.
www.carolinotto.de

UNITED-KINGDOM / Gail Renard is a BAFTA and WGGB award winning screenwriter; former Chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and its current Treasurer. She is a former board member of ALCS.
She has written hundreds of comedy and children's television shows, including the globally popular FAMOUS FIVE series. She has written and co-produced a new BBC children's live action puppet series, MONTY & CO.
More recently, Gail has written a screenplay about the Hillsborough football disaster.
Her book, GIVE ME A CHANCE, based on her true story of sneaking into John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for peace in Montreal when she was 16, is being developed for film. It was John Lennon who taught Gail to stand up for people's rights. She hopes to continue to do so as a board member of the FSE.

FRANCE / After graduating from La Sorbonne and UCLA, Cyril worked in production, notably for Chuck Lorre at 20th Century Fox Televison, then he wrote, developed or supervised the scripting of TV I.P.s such as "Marvel’s Fantastic 4" and "Iron Man","Casper", "Code Lyoko", "Gormiti", "Marsupilami", Warner’s "Xiaolin Chronicle"s, Luc Besson’s "Arthur & Les Minimoys", Playmobil’s "Super4". After a few successful years in animation, Cyril went back to live action and has developed several series for Canal+, Netflix, Mediawan, Banijay and France television, including the French/German series "OUIJA" and the co-creation of the hit series "SKAM France" that ran for 12 seasons.

FSE policy and lobbying, European Affairs

Holding a Master’s degree in Intellectual Property, Denis Goulette has been working for twenty years in the media and cultural sectors. His legal career initially developed within two major French audiovisual groups. His strategic vision and leadership have strengthened the legal frameworks of these entities with a constant focus on better respecting authors' rights.
As the head of La Guilde française des Scénaristes for four years, Denis Goulette deepened his understanding of the various issues related to authors' rights and the vulnerabilities of creators facing the industry. He also served as French representative to FSE during the key negotiation phase of the 2019 Copyright Directive. Founder of the Cabinet Avocat-DG law firm, he now brings his expertise as a lawyer in contractual law to clients, mainly artists-authors and professional organizations.

Coordination of projects, network and events, communication, office management

Amélie worked for many years in Arts management in France and Belgium, focused mostly in the field of Performing Arts on behalf of European cultural networks (ietm, Fonds Roberto Cimetta, IYMF). On the artistic side, she freelances in illustration, comics and graphic design. She collaborates part-time with FSE since 2009.