First Move Productions has an Advisory Board since the end of 2022. Meet our members:
Alain Galaski
“What better than a documentary to bring to life both individual stories and wider societal issues? And how admirable when it has impact and creates change!”
Alain was Director General of the European Brands Association for 25 years until he retired in 2017. As such, he led industry-wide initiatives, including as Managing Director of ECR (Efficient Consumer Response) Europe, a platform established to embed best practices for brand manufacturers and retailers, from its launch in 1994 to 2011. Others initiatives focused on sustainability, consumer policy, fair trading, fair competition and the protection of intellectual property.
Alain studied international relations and European affairs in Jerusalem and Strasbourg. He is now engaged in voluntary work with an intercultural and intergeneration dimension, in particular for the international youth exchange programme AFS and as a mentor in social enterprise Duo for a Job.
Truus Huisman
“Movies and documentaries give us a different perspective, they allow us to discover new realities. They have the power to change hearts and minds. First Move does all of this. I’m proud to join this journey of discovery.”
Truus has over 25 years’ experience in Communications with a specialisation in Sustainability, Public Affairs and Issues Management. Before joining the IKEA Foundation as Chief Communications Officer, she was part of Unilever’s European Leadership team in Rotterdam as VP Sustainable Business and Communications. Prior to this, she led Unilever’s Global Issues, Crisis Management and Media Relations in London, and was also responsible for Unilever’s EU Affairs office in Brussels.
Truus studied History and Management of International Organisations and specialised in Sustainable Business at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and in Social Finance at the Oxford Said Business School. She was a trainee with the US Congress and The European Institute in Washington, DC. Truus has also managed professional organisations, provided consultancy services and contributed to publications and articles on issues, crises and stakeholders management. She is a lecturer at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication in Rotterdam.
Sirkka Möller
Photo credit: Christian Vagt
“Helping a relatively new production company navigate those parts of the international documentary waters that I have had the fortune to explore extensively in my long career in the business is exciting – I hope that I can share what I have learned to bring First Move Productions ahead.”
Sirkka Möller (she/her) holds an MA in Social Anthropology, Dutch and Nordic Philology. For more than 35 years she has organised and curated for international film festivals, focusing on documentary and short formats. She has wide experience as programmer, catalogue editor and moderator at industry events.
Since 2006 she has been a member of the Advisory Selection Committee of the Panorama section at Berlinale and since 2014 she works on the project selection for the DOK.forum of DOK.fest München. She advises students and filmmakers on development, editing, project presentation and festival strategies and is a freelance film curator.
Sirkka is an active member of the Work Group Festival Labour within ver.di, working for the Fair Festival Award, and is a voting member of the European Film Academy. In the past she has worked for Berlinale Talents, DOK Leipzig, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, FID Marseille, DocPoint Helsinki Documentary FF, Tampere FF and world sales agent Deckert Distribution.