The San Sebastian Festival will host its third-annual Creative Investors’ Conference on September 24 and 25 within the scope of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’.

The gathering will include a series of panels and discussions (open to festival industry badgeholders) and private networking activities; conference attendees will also have the opportunity to attend the Zinemaldia & Technology event on 26 September.

Again organised in collaboration with CAA Media Finance, the conference will welcome top global executives and experts including Bobby Allen of MUBI; Louis Balsan of Anton Corp.; Caroline Benjo of Haut et Court; Sol Bondy of One Two Films; Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films; Yohann Comte of Charades; David Davoli of Anonymous Content; Samuel Duque of TIS Productions (Paramount Group); Jennifer Fox of Jennifer Fox Productions; Lorenzo Gangarossa of Our Films; Mike Goodridge of Good Chaos; Jeongin Hong of Plus M Entertainment; Robin Kerremans of Caviar; Jonathan Kier of Upgrade Productions; Axel Kuschevatzsky of Infinity Hill; David Linde; Vincent Maraval of Goodfellas; Teresa Moneo of Netflix; Matias Mosteirín of K&S Films; Sara Murphy of Fat City; Bronte Payne of LuckyChap Entertainment; Danny Perkins of Elysian Film Group; Vania Schlogel of Atwater Capital; Scott Shooman of IFC Films; Wenxin She of Tencent/Huayi/Honey; David Taghioff of Library Pictures International; Meg Thomson of Globalgate; Christine Vachon of Killer Films; Michael Weber of The Match Factory; and Fabien Westerhoff of Film Constellation.

Topics of discussion will include analysis of the current landscape of the US and European film industries; 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. The detailed talks schedule will be available on the festival’s website in the next days.

The conference will also include a fireside talk with veteran UK producer Jeremy Thomas, the founder of Recorded Picture Company and its sister company Hanway Films. He won an Oscar for The Last Emperor by Bernardo Bertolucci and has also produced works by filmmakers such as Wim Wenders, Nic Roeg, Takeshi Kitano and David Cronenberg, among many others. His latest film, Ayuko Tsukahara's Grand Maison Paris, will premiere in Culinary Zinema.

Roeg Sutherland, Sarah Schweitzman and Nick Ogiony from CAA Media Finance will participate in the Conference and also moderate some of the talks, as will Wendy Mitchell, delegate and advisor of the San Sebastian Festival.

The panels, talks and discussions will be held from 10 am to 2 pm on September 24 and September 25 at Tabakalera.

Jose Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastian International Film Festival, says, “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. We thank our friends CAA Media Finance for their great collaboration on this event, which has grown over the past two years to welcome again executives and investors in 2024.”

About Spanish Screenings and Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech

Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech is part of ‘Spanish Screenings XXL. An international market for Spanish audiovisual production’, a project enjoying the involvement of the Ministry of Culture through the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) and by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service, ICEX Spain Trade and Investment, the Malaga Festival and the San Sebastian Festival.

The San Sebastian Festival also hosts, as part of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’, Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, to be held on September 26.