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San Sebastian’s 3rd Creative Investors’ Conference Draws the Contours of a Post-Covid Film-TV Landscape
Key issues: The impact of new cinemagoing audiences, tapping Europe’s soft money, opportunities for independents.
Things you could not release in a specialty way before, you now can, as audiences are more receptive and have gotten younger,” said Scott Shooman, head of film at AMC Networks, during the opening round table Conference, Taking The Temperature Of The U.S. Market. At the best, there’s a “handful” of territories – Germany, Japan and Latin America – that are “really active” where projects can work, sell and trigger financing, said Jonathan Kier at Upgrade Productions. One, “Sukwan Island” by Vladimir de Fontanay, is produced by Haut et Court, Versus, and Good Chaos which brought in another member, Maipo Film as a co-producer, since it shot in Norway.
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