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CAA’s Roeg Sutherland, Zurich Summit Game Changer Recipient, On Harnessing The Power Of The Independent Sector & Why He Didn’t Follow His Family Into Acting
Co-head of CAA's Media Finance Department Is Being Honored With The Zurich Film Festival's Game Changer Award For HIs Support Of Independent Film
Long-time collaborator Basner suggested 60 to 70% of the independent films successfully released over the past 20 years, had been supported in some shape or form by Sutherland and the Media Finance team. “That’s maybe true,” Sutherland said of Basner’s estimate, “but it doesn’t come from our group, it comes from our clients and we’re lucky to represent some of the best people in the world that give us the ability to deliver the packages that you finance. Sutherland said pulling together the finance for early films in his career such as Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, had been part of his learning process.
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