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San Sebastian CAA Media Finance Unveil Creative Investors’ Conference

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September 16, 2024

CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Goodfellas’ Vincent Maraval and Recorded Picture Company’s Jeremy Thomas look set to attend the San Sebastian Festival’s 2024 Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organised for the third year running in collaboration with CAA Media Finance.

The Conference will run Sept. 24-25 at San Sebastian’s Tabakalera center.

Other high-profile execs who look set to ascend on the festival as the world’s film industry debates ways forward for growth despite still lagging post-pandemic box office recovery and the contraction of global streamer investment, are Netflix’s Teresa Moneo, Mubi’s Bobby Allen, Anton Corp.’s Louis Balsan, Charades’ Yohann Conte, Caroline Benjo at France’s Haut et Court, David Davoli at Anonymous Content, Infinity Hill’s Axel Kuschevatzky, Good Chaos’ Mike Goodridge, Matías Mosteirín at K&S Films, Bronte Payne at Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment, Killer Films’ Christine Vachon and Michael Weber at The Match Factory.

Sutherland, from CAA Media Finance will participate in the Conference while he and CAA’s Sarah Schweitsmann and Nick Ogiony will moderate some talks, as will Wendy Mitchell, San Sebastián delegate and advisor.

Thomas will be the subject of a fireside chat.

The 3rd Conference looks set to take a bull by its horns, with at least one panel focusing on the U.S. landscape, at a time when a lack of options for U.S. domestic distribution bedevils film financing.

Further issues on the table include Europe’s film-TV landscape, as U.S. producers look ever more to Europe’s soft money sources to co-finance projects, one reason for this year’s Conference quite possibly larger focus on both Europe and beyond, such as South Korea.

Also set to be debated are international opportunities for the Spanish market; an examination of the Korean film marketplace; how producers are benefitting from new ways of collaborating; and where the film industry and film financing is heading in the future, the San Sebastian Festival announced Monday.

A detailed schedule will be announced in the next few days.

“We are so thrilled to have the support of the Spanish government to present this unique conference that brings together some of the leaders of the film industry from around the globe for thought-provoking discussions as well as the opportunity to interact with the Spanish film industry and the festival as a whole. We thank our friends CAA Media Finance for their great collaboration on this event, which has grown over the past two years to welcome again executives and investors in 2024.”

The 3rd San Sebastian Creative Investors’ Conference forms part of the Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech, one of the axes of Spanish Screenings XXL: an international market platform for Spanish production a project backed by Spain’s Ministry of Culture through its ICAA film agency and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service, channeling their support through ICEX Spain Trade and Investment, the Malaga Festival and the San Sebastian Festival.

Conference Delegates Confirmed to Date:

Bobby Allen, MUBI;

Louis Balsan, Anton Corp.;

Caroline Benjo, Haut et Court;

Sol Bondy, One Two Films;

Jeffrey Clifford, Heyday Films;

Yohann Comte, Charades;

David Davoli, Anonymous Content;

Samuel Duque, TIS Productions (Paramount Group);

Jennifer Fox, Jennifer Fox Productions;

Lorenzo Gangarossa, Our Films;

Mike Goodridge, Good Chaos;