Marike Muselaers started her career at Fortissimo Films and RTL Netherlands before joining the Lumière team. After a 10+ year journey in sales, acquisitions and (co-)productions, Marike is now co-leading the Lumière Group. In addition to her “day job”, Marike is coaching Central Eastern European producers and writers in her role as Financing Tutor for the Midpoint TV Launch program, and she is a member of the advisory board of TV Drama Vision and Nostradamus at the Göteborg Film Festival. She also enjoys being a keynote speaker, moderator and panel guest at many industry events like SerieSeries, Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival and C21 London.

Although her passion is to find new compelling stories and characters, Marike is always looking for the sweet spot between creative and commercial. She is determined to create innovative business models and partnerships in this fast-paced, challenging, but never boring industry.

The Lumière Group is a full ecosystem in which production, financing, distribution, streaming platforms www.mylum.tv and www.cinemabijjethuis.be, 4 cinemas and 2 animation studios are all working closely together to bring the best stories to the Benelux audience and the rest of the world. Recently (co-)produced by Lumière are acclaimed films Cleo, Le Ciel Flamand, Josep and Un Monde, TV series seasons of The Team, Occupied, Sthlm Requiem, State of Happiness and Bullets, and animated pre-school series Ollie. Belgian repatriation TV drama/comedy Soil is currently in post-production for SBS Belgium, ZDF Neo and Netflix.