CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Goodfellas’ Vincent Maraval and Recorded Picture Company’s Jeremy Thomas are set for the San Sebastián Festival’s 2024 Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organised for the third year running in collaboration with CAA Media Finance.
The Conference runs Sept. 24-25 at San Sebastian’s Tabakalera center. Other high-profile execs confirmed 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 Kuchevatzsky, 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 as well as 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.
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.

“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,” said San Sebastián director José Luis Rebordinos.
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. It is backed by Spain’s Ministry of Culture through its ICAA film agency and the Ministry for Digital Transformation, channeling their support through ICEX Spain Trade and Investment and the Malaga and San Sebastian festivals.

John Hopewell