The EFA was founded by Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders in 1988. Wenders serves as chairman of the eleven-member board, whose members, in addition to Kántor and Szabó, include the producers Yves Marmion, Nik Powell, Per Holst, Mike Downey and Antonio Saura, the directors Volker Schlöndorff and Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, and the actor Pierre-Henri Deleau.
Board members are elected by EFA's 1,800 members, who are a who's who of Europe's film profession.
Kántor has produced a number of Hungarian films and international co-productions, including, most recently, Abandoned, Eastern Sugar, Dallas Pashamende and Tableaux. He is also one of the producers of the Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production The Trap, directed by Srdan Golubovic. The Trap is Serbia's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the next Academy Awards.
