Caroline Burnett Email and Phone Number

Selling to FRANCE, GERMANY & NETHERLANDS across children's imprints Big Picture Press, Templar, and Studio Press

As a Foreign Rights Manager, my territories include: Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Hungary and Poland. I sell a diverse list of Adult and Children's non-fiction illustrated titles, mainly on co-edition.

I provided complete administrative support to a small team of creative engineers and freelancers on projects ranging from commercial film productions to audio-visual installations and events, and assisted with costing projects and creating financial projections.

I translate between French, English and German. My clients include:• Palais de Tokyo, Paris (contemporary art centre)• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (modern and contemporary art museum)• Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (art gallery)• Meininger Hotel Group, Berlin (travel magazine)• Centre Pompidou Metz (modern and contemporary art centre)• Daros Latinamerica, Zürich (contemporary Latin-American art collection)• Editions d’Ailleurs, Paris (publisher specialising in books on travel)• La Découverte, Paris (social sciences publisher)• Editions Albin Michel, Paris (publisher)

I founded and operated a cultural café and arts venue in Berlin. I handled all aspects of running the business, including:• Accounts, budgeting, financial planning and projections.• Booked and coordinated events such as film screenings, book clubs, live concerts,exhibitions and food events.• Promoted events by creating flyers, updating our blog and using social media.• Curated and managed a yearly outdoor stage with a full programme of live music in June2010, 2011 and 2012.• Gained extensive local press coverage as well as international appearances in TheGuardian, The Monocle, Inflight Magazine by Easyjet and the New York Times Style Magazine.

Co-authored a French travel guide on Berlin in the "Weekend Pas Cher" series, published by Editions Parigrammes, Paris:http://www.amazon.fr/Week-end-pas-cher-%C3%A0-Berlin/dp/2351790499

Media consultancyAs part of a team of consultants, I was responsible for the following project:• Film festival programming: searched for, booked and coordinated the print traffic of film prints from each EU country (135 in total) for a European film festival - UGC Fête l’Europe - sponsored by UGC Cinema Group in FranceAssistance on other projects included:• Conducting research and drafting sections of a study on digital media for the European Commission (in English)• Conducting all research for a comparative study on film production costs and regulations in 15 countries (in English) and creating the final document that was delivered to the client.

• Coordinated as many as 200 articles simultaneously throughout the various stages of the editorial process: peer-reviewing, copy-editing, translating, proofreading• Defined issue content and supervised the publication calendar• Contributed to upgrading and fine-tuning the newly created electronic article-tracking system, Elsevier Editorial System

Contemporary art bookstore, ParisAs assistant manager of this well-respected contemporary art bookstore in Paris, I was directly responsible for sales and artist relations, organising book signings and in-store events logistics, updating the website and handling all English-language company communications.

• Coordinated two international exchange programs for booksellers, publishers and translators• Planned and organized a three-day program with conferences, meetings with German and French book professionals and cultural visits• Assisted the organizing committee of the Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship Programme

Editorial assistant for the French and foreign literature departments.

• Read and reviewed manuscripts in English and French• Managed manuscript flow and coordinated a team of external copy-editors and translators; performed occasional rewriting and translating; edited proofs