Date: 29 September, 17:15-18:00
Venue: KKI platform / Kino Muranów
SESSION DESCRIPTION
After a period of decline, investment in new films and series has dramatically increased and looks likely to accelerate in the post-pandemic period with US streamers already becoming a major source of film and screen finance. But the SVOD boom challenges existing models of independent European production and will not necessarily offer opportunities for diverse emerging talent. There are a rising number of new options in the market that might come to revolutionise the production marketplace.
This session will offer an overview of these options.
The session will look at:
New models in a changed landscape
The session will offer an overview of models, including the role of crowdfunding, and the emergence of blockchain-based services. It will consider models that are beginning to exert themselves in other industries. In the music and tech industries, for example, NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are beginning to make an impact.
An investment boom?
Market growth is already attracting interest from investors of various kinds, who are now seeing screen content as a hot area of potential development. New funds are already emerging and the session will hear about a private investment fund, focused on worldwide distributed animation content, from series to shorts.
HOST
Michael Gubbins
Analyst, journalist and consultant, SampoMedia (UK)
During lockdown, he has written a major report on independent VOD, led a Zoom series and report on New Realities in Film for UniFrance, and workshops in Venice, Rome, as well as online workshops in the US, Poland, Sweden and Colombia.
SPEAKERS
Vojin Vasovic
Creative Director, Animond (Serbia)
Vojin Vasovic is a film director and producer. He finished Master of Arts studies at Centre of Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto and bachelor studies in Film Directing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade. He is the recipient of many awards for directing, writing and animation. His films “Breathtaking”, “5 Minutes Each”, “Twice Upon a Time”, “Just For The Record”, etc. were selected at more than 150 film festivals winning more than sixty international awards. He is a producer and director at To Blink Animation studio, based in Belgrade and Toronto and creative director of Animond – private investment fund for animation. He is currently in production of 4 short animated films and pre-production of his first feature animated project, supported by Film Centre of Serbia and Creative Europe MEDIA fund. He is teaching film directing and animation at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade.
Milorad Kocić
Executive Director, Animond (Serbia)