San Sebastian Festival’s fourth Creative Investors’ Conference (September 23-24) will play host to a series of panels and discussions with speakers including execs from 193, Tricky Knot, IPR.VC, Amazon Studios, Fremantle and Mediawan.
Speakers include Patrick Wachsberger of nascent US sales and production venture 193, whose slate includes Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes Competition entry Die, My Love and Colman Domingo’s directorial debut Scandalous!; Alexandra Tynion of US financier Tricky Knot, which backs UK actors Harris Dickinson and David Jonsson’s respective production companies; and Andrea Scarso of Finland-UK investment fund IPR.VC, which helped finance Celine Song’s Materialists and Ari Aster’s Eddington.
Topics of discussion will include the new European studio model; what private investors are looking for in 2025; how producers are staying nimble working across series and cinema; the global growth of Latin American content; exploring new funding models around the globe; and forward-thinking predictions about how the industry will continue to reinvent itself.
Further confirmed international speakers are David Arroyo of Suma Capital; David Atlan-Jackson of Vuelta Group; Javiera Balmaceda of Amazon Studios; Rodolphe Buet of France’s Studio TF1; Akunna Cook of Next Narrative Africa Fund; Élisabeth d’Arvieu of Mediawan Pictures; Frédéric Fiore of Logical Pictures; Mike Goodridge of Good Chaos; Robin Kerremans of Caviar; Sam Kozhaya of Legendary Entertainment; Juan de Dios Larraín of Fabula; Alexandra Lebret of AXIO Capital/Together Fund; Sébastien Raybaud of Anton; Laura Rossi of MUV Capital; Karl Spoerri of Zurich Avenue; Lars Sylvest of Thank You Pictures; David Taghioff of Library Pictures International; Christine Vachon of Killer Films; Christian Vesper of Fremantle; and Robert Walak of Iconoclast.
The conference is organised in collaboration with CAA Media Finance, as part of the festival’s Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech strand, and is open to festival industry badgeholders.
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