Peter Carlton, the UK producer of Netflix series Adolescence, French-Senegalese producer Yanis Gaye, and Marie Garrett, SVP sales & acquisition
Peter Carlton, the UK producer of Netflix series Adolescence, French-Senegalese producer Yanis Gaye, and Marie Garrett, SVP sales & acquisitions at XYZ Films, are among the speakers participating in the one-day Explorer Conference taking place at Filmfest Hamburg in Germany on October 2.
Carlton and Gräfe-Höft, whose credits include Spirit In The Blood, will join a panel about co-producing with the UK, while Garrett and further speakers including Ruby Walden, executive producer of Brady Corbet’s multi-award winning The Brutalist, will offer insights into the potential of tapping equity investment for European films in a roundtable.
They will be joined of European co-production experts Sarah Nagel and Isabell Wiegand of Berlin and Paris-based in between film, who, among other projects, are handling executive production on behalf of Match Factory Productions for Karim Ainouz’s Rosebushpruning.
Meanwhile, the French-Senegalese innovative producer Yanis Gaye, who serves as head of studies for Locarno’s Open Doors platform, Ivi Muiruri, a Kenyan participant at this year’s African-European Distribution Academy, will draw on their own regional experiences to address the issue of equitable co-production and suggest ways that can be followed to foster ethical and sustainable co-production practices across diverse territories.
The sixth edition of the conference will open with a keynote address by French executive coach Nolwenn Bernache-Assollant on how industry leaders and company heads can address such challenges as AI disruption, geopolitical instability, and economic uncertainty.
Panels on issues such as the role of immersive technologies in transforming narrative in games and audiovisual media and the pros and cons of using AI in non-fiction television will take place alongside film and TV case studies.
The conference will close with an overview of the changes to Germany’s public film funding landscape from Helge Albers, CEO of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein’s regional fund MOIN. He will also look ahead to further legislative initiatives and given an indication of what these changes could mean for international co-productions with Germany.
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