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EVA is one of Germany’s fastest growing media companies with an international approach towards sales, acquisitions & financing and (co-)production in the area of film and television as well as film fund management; Odeon Film AG, located in Berlin, is the majority shareholder of the EVA Holding company while Kai Grueneke is the majority shareholder of EVA’s operational units. EVA has become a first class address for talent that is looking for financing and worldwide exploitation of content through a team of both passionate and realistic entrepreneurs in entertainment.
Groenewold is heading Odeon Film’s board of directors. He was born in Berlin in 1973; he attended Schloss Salem public school and then studied political economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He started off in 1997 at Promedium – an association for movie financing. A couple of years later, in 2001, the son of a well-known tax lawyer, was appointed Managing Director of the media fund German Filmproductions (GFP). GFP financed and produced cinema and TV movies like „Das Wunder von Lengede” („A Light In Dark Places“), the Edgar Wallace persiflage „The TriXXer” (UK), „Hui Buh: The Goofy Ghost“ / „Hui Buh: The Castle Ghost“ (UK/USA) and „Atomised“ / „Elementary Particles“ (UK/USA). All in all GFP manages close to 20 film projects with a total volume of EUR 100 mio.
