At the San Sebastian Film Festival's Creative Investors' Conference, American execs underlined the importance of the global landscape There was some much overdue optimism on the first day of the Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organized by CAA Media Finance, in San Sebastian on Tuesday, as execs from an established U.S indie distributor and new market entrant both celebrated the record breaking figures from the summer box office. I think it’s also really important to reset our stage because, really, we’ve gone through a lot in the U.S. marketplace.” Federoff argued that major changes in the people’s behaviour — such as rise of streaming, gaming and social platforms — was now proving to be an opportunity to help boost the box office, rather than simply the opposite. We’ve seen the opportunity for the things that maybe we would say have set us back,” she said.
Distributors were sometimes reluctant to spend the money for a film to go there.” Cannes, of course, is where “Club Kid” premiered earlier this year, sparking a bidding war eventually won by A24 for $17 million. Romanski said she was now thinking a “lot differently” when it came to taking debuts or second features from directors to Cannes and putting more value on the international market. So that’s like a little bit of a shift.
We’re really thinking that’s the right pace to center some of the talent that we’re working with.” Federoff at Neon, which has won seven consecutive Palm d’Ors in Cannes, including the current holder “Fjord,” underlined how the “global landscape” was “more important today than ever before.”
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