One week after announcing participating buyers at TIFF: The Market (September 10-16), top brass have published a roll call of sales and film pro
One week after announcing participating buyers at TIFF: The Market (September 10-16), top brass have published a roll call of sales and film promotional agencies that will participate in the inaugural event in Toronto.
AGC Studios, FilmNation, Anton, Global Constellation, Plus M, SND, Raven Banner, and WME Independent are among sales agents confirmed to attend alongside Cinema do Brasil, Unifrance, ICEX, Flanders Image, and Ukrainian State Film Agency, among others.
Players including A24, Protagonist Pictures, Black Bear, HanWay Films, Pathé, Charades, and Cornerstone are categorised as “Regular TIFF attendees expected to attend”.
When asked by Screen whether the latest class of attendees will set up offices in official venues, TIFF: The market sources said some will be at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre while others have booked suites at the market’s two partner hotels, The Ritz Carlton and InterContinental.
For a number of years some sales agents have been operating out of Soho Metropolitan and other spaces outside the official TIFF footprint while they conducted business at the unofficial market that has existed alongside the festival. That has been something of a bugbear for TIFF: The Market organisers, who will be looking to maximise revenue through renting official exhibition space.
Top brass are helping to cover some costs for 200 invited buyers – they will announce more invitees from the acquisitions sector in due course – and want to facilitate sales through TIFF’s ongoing series of tailored market screenings where recruited audiences attend buzzy screenings like recent examples The Holdovers and Cliffhanger. Market screenings are discounted at 50% and official hotels up to 40% for exhibitors.
TIFF: The Market staff emphasised last year’s $14m transaction at TIFF between Focus Features and Capstone Global for most of the world on Obsession, Curry Barker’s horror feature smash that currently stands at more than $342m worldwide. While any market would relish transactions of that order of magnitude, the deal was a pure festival play.
“We designed the Market to meet the needs of a global sales community seeking more buyer engagement through access to premium screening facilities, cost-effective exhibition solutions, and a compact footprint that reduces travel time and maximizes opportunities for face-to-face meetings,” TIFF: The Market head Charles Tremblay said.
TIFF: The Market is funded by a $16.9m (C$23m) investment by the Canadian federal government over three years and is supported by Telefilm Canada.
Confirmed participating sales companies:
AGC Studios
Alliance Media Partners
Anton
Backstage
Barunson E&A
Bendita Film Sales
Borealis
CAA Media Finance
Cinemavault
CJ 4DPLEX
CJ ENM
Con Un Pack De Peliculas
Content Panda
Film Factory Entertainment
Film One
Filmax
FilmNation
Finecut
Gaga Corporation
Galloping Entertainment
GDH 559
Global Constellation
Goodfellas
Indywood Distribution
Iris Indie International
Japan Concierge Inc.
K-Movie Entertainment & Studio
KT StudioGenie
Lady Red Producciones
Lantia Publishing
Lucky Number
Luminescence
Maestros Cine
Mandarin Motion Pictures Limited
NH Studioz
OneTwoThree Media
Paragon Pictures/Osiris Entertainment
Pink Parrot Media
Pinnacle Peak Entertainment
Playtime
Plus M
Premiere Entertainment
Pyramide
Ramoji Film City
Raven Banner
Redice Entertainment
Seven Islands Productions
Shoreline Entertainment
Sideral Cinema
Sinking Ship Entertainment
SND – Group M6
Starfield CreatorCo
The Pool
UTA Independent Film Group
Visit Films
WME Independent Film Group
XYZ Films
Confirmed participating organisations:
4th World Media AFCI – Association of Film Commissioners International
Ausfilm
Austria Business Association
Bahamas Film Commission
Baja Film Commission
Baton Rouge Film Commission
BFI CANEX
Cinema do Brasil
Colorado Office of Film, Television and Media
Czech Film Centre
Dallas Film Commission
Danish Film Institute
European Film Promotion (EFP)
Film Columbus Film
Dallas/Film USA Film
Fiji Film
Institute Of Greenland
Film Lauderdale
FILM.GL
Finnish Film Foundation
Flanders Image
German Films
Icelandic Film Centre
ICEX – Spain
ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival
Indigenous Cinema Alliance
Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual International
Sámi Film Institute Italian Trade Agency (ITA)
Korean Film Council (KOFIC)
MAD Arab Cinema Center
Māoriland Film Festival
Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission
Mullu
Netherlands Film Commission
New Mexico Film Office
New Zealand Film Commission
Ngā Aho Whakaari
Norwegian Film Commission
Norwegian Film Institute
Ontario Creates
Orlando Film Commission
Pacific Islanders in Communications
Panama Film Commission
Polish Film Institute
Portugal Film Commission
Proimagenes Colombia
Saudi Film Commission
Screen Australia
Screen Ireland
SEE NL (The Netherlands)
SODEC
Swedish Film Institute
Swiss Films
TAICCA
Thai Trade Centre
Thailand Film Office
Tokyo Film Commission
TwelveP Animation
Ukrainian State Film Agency
Unifrance
Unijapan
Utah Film Commission
Vienna Film Commission
Wallonie Bruxelles Images
Winda Film Festival
Regular TIFF attendees expected to attend:
A24
Alpha Violet
Altitude
Anonymous Content
Best Friend Forever
Black Bear
Blue Fox Entertainment
Capstone
Charades
Cinetic Media
Cornerstone
Embankment Films
Films Boutique
Gaumont
HanWay Films
Heretic Indie Sales
Kinology
Latido Films
LevelK
Lionsgate
Luxbox
Mk2
Myriad Pictures
Neon
OUAT Media
Pathé Films
Picture Tree International
Protagonist
Radiant Films International
Range Media Partners
Reinvent International Sales
Rocket Science
Square Eyes
Studiocanal
Submarine Entertainment
Swallow Wings Films Co. Ltd.
TF1
The Match Factory
The Party Film Sales
The Yellow Affair
True Colours G.F.
TrustNordisk
Verve Ventures.
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