Chongyan Liu was selected for the 'Doc Station' in the prestigious Berlinale Talents in 2024, and attended with a feature documentary project, Niche of the Dragon. Gerard has been consulting on the project, now renamed The Missing People, which is in active development. The producer is Carla Alis of Les Films du Chrysanthème; co-producers are sought. This was Chongyan's entry in the Talents catalogue:
https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt//talent/chongyan-liu/profile
Gerard's consultancy on Chongyan Liu's and Thomas Moore's future work in production and distribution (through their company Random Headache), has led to involvement in a number of short films, starting with festival submissions for Hanul Seo's After That from South Korea, picked up after its World Premiere in Seoul, and for three films from Chinese filmmakers. These are Yifei Tang's Facing East, Chenzhe He's Meander on Through and Baowei Guo's The Apple Never Falls. The latter received its World Premiere at the Avanca Festival in Portugal, was presented by Thomas Moore at MOVE Summit, Scotlaned’s premiere animation industry gathering., and was next seen at the Alpinale in Austria in August. The film plays in the UK on 24th October at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester https://fantastic-films.uk/, and the ticket link is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/festival-of-fantastic-films-2026-manchester-tickets-1982137590892
Its next festival, in late October, is BANG, the international animation film festival - another festival held in Portugal. Another Austrian festival will soon be announced.
https://alpinale.at/veranstaltung/2026-donnerstag-wettbewerb-international/
Gerard is Consultant on Strangers Need Love Too, Sabrina Mertens' second feature film, which is her graduation film from Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. (Sabrina's first feature, Time Of Moulting, was selected for Rotterdam and played commercially in the US.) Strangers Need Love Too is produced by Lorenzo Gandolfo; post-production is complete. The film's trailer was shown to German distributors at a BVR (German directors) event during the 2026 European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival, with Sabrina and Gerard in attendance. More about Sabrina and about Lorenzo:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9707564/
https://lorenzo-gandolfo.com/vision/
Gerard is consulting with Ernesto Livon-Grosman on 'The Explorer, the Filmmaker and the Banker', a feature-length "found footage” documentary film he is developing (Argentina – USA – Spain), and helping him place his feature music documentary Wolff On Composition. The first link leads to that film's beautiful website, and the second to Ernesto's company, Surynorth.
https://www.wolffoncomposition.com/
Deborah Phillips' short film 1014, on which Gerard was Associate Producer, had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam, and was later selected for FICUNAM, Kassel, Bolzano, Prisme (Nantes) and other festivals. Here's a link to the Rotterdam programme:
https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/1014
(Deborah was back at Rotterdam in 2026 with Detritus, co-directed with Zuza Marczak.)
Gerard is an Executive Producer on a tetralogy of feature films, Light and the Beginning of Future, directed by Tin Dirdamal: Dark Light Voyage (now taken out of circulation by its maker) and the forthcoming films Beyond Eden, No God Above and The Last Film. Meanwhile, Saigon, Kosovo - one of Tin's The Thing About AI is... pair of short films, on which Gerard was also Executive Producer - premiered at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival in October 2024, in the 'Fascinations' section, and won the section's main award. (Tin is a previous award-winner at the festival with Dark Light Voyage.) Saigon, Kosovo later played the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and Ambulante Festival in Mexico. Here's a link to the film's programme entry for Ji.hlava:
https://www.ji-hlava.com/filmy/saigon-kosovo