Matthijs Wouter Knol is stepping down after six years as director of the Berlin Film Festival's European Film Market. The Dutch executive will leave his current position as the EFM's boss in November.
"The arrival of someone of the quality and caliber of Matthijs to lead the Academy on the next phase of its onward journey," said EFA chairman Mike Downey in a statement. "Marion is a hard act to follow. But if anyone is up to the task it is Matthijs, whose vertically and horizontally integrated depth of knowledge of the European film business and European cinema itself, is second to none.
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