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CAA’s Roeg Sutherland Discusses Bridging Gaps Between Artists, Financiers and Helping Indie Film Market Thrive at Zurich Summit


CAA's Roeg Sutherland received the Game Changer Award at the Zurich Film Festival.

“Our goal, our job is to make sure that whatever happens, if there’s a pandemic, if there are two strikes, if the studios aren’t buying, if China closes down, if Russia’s at war, whatever happens, we need to figure out a way to get these movies made. If you spoke to Darren about it and his vision, it was clearly going to be a psychological thriller, and it was going to be, ‘You’re going to be out of breath the entire time,’ which is exactly what a movie delivered, except it wasn’t on the page. A career in acting, like father Donald and brother Kiefer, was never in the cards, especially after a less than impressive performance in a musical play in college and a short stint as a stand-in a movie with an irate Marlon Brando.

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