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“We Need To See A Change Of The Guard:” WME Independent’s Alex Walton & HanWay’s Katie Ellen Headline Keynote On State Of Indie Film Biz — Locarno


The Locarno Film Festival runs from August 7 – 17.

Ellen was joined on the panel by WME Independent co-head Alex Walton and Romanian producer Ada Solomon of Hi Film Productions & microFILM. The global picture was much more dire for Solomon, who is best known for her collaborations with staunchly independent filmmakers who reside in the arthouse world like Radu Jude and Calin Peter Netzer. Solomon — who, across her career, has won Berlin’s Golden Bear and multiple Romania Academy awards — added that critical acclaim also now rarely helps smoothen the production and distribution process.

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