Festival de Cannes
Marché du Film at Festival de Cannes 2024
Moderation of the panels and events for Cannes Next
“Future of Entertainment and Virtual Production Summit 2024” with Caleb & Shelby Ward, Co Founders, Curious Refuge, Dave Clark, AI Filmmaker, Beatrice Bauwens, Head of MPC France and Jay Kim, Bucheon International Fantastic FF, SM Entertainment.
“Discover Future Trends and Power Players of Film and Content Financing, with CresCine” with Roosa Toivonen, Chief Creative Officer at Aurora Studios, Elisa Alvares, Founder, Jacaranda Consultants and Senior Advisor, IPR.VC and Louis Ladreyt, Project Director Business Development & Investments, Logical Pictures.
Hosting the session and pitches
“Next Tech On the Beach Investors & Corporates Summit, in partnership with Sprockit” (by invitation only). Cannes Next and the Global Open Innovation Platform Sprockit are matching media and entertainment titans with emerging tech start-ups. As part of the launch a Showcase of 6 global content, filmtech and mediatech scaleups seek partners & investors featuring Roy Conan Alonso, Founder, Quantic Brains Technologies S.L.,Ben Colman, CEO/Co-Founder, Reality Defender, Margarita Grubina, Business Development, Respeecher, Alex Petrenko, CEO, Zibra AI, Tim Lupo, Co-founder & CEO, Deeptune and Seneit Debese, Founder and CEO of Greta & Starks Apps GmbH.
“Producers Pitching Their Projects | Powered by AI Forecasts”
Largo.ai is teaming up again with Cannes Next this year to host " Producers Pitching Their Projects, powered by AI Forecasts ” — a high-intensity "shark tank" pitching session where global producers with projects in-development will go face-to-face with forecasts powered by Largo's revolutionary production intelligence platform. Come and find out how data and AI are being used as a tool to better understand a film's potential, audience, and story's strong and weak points. Selected producers will showcase their projects in front of financiers, distributors and other producers looking for co-production opportunities.
Marché du Film at Festival de Cannes 2023
Moderation of the panels for Cannes Next
“The Next Big Thing: How the European Metaverse Visionaires are Reshaping Storytelling & Entertainment” with Sofie Hvitved, Futurist, Senior Advisor & Head of Media, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Miikka Rosendahl, CEO & mastermind behind ZOAN Group and Julie Šislerová, New Business Development, Brainz Immersive. Read about it here.
“The Future of Film Financing and Production: How Creatives and Producers are Changing the Game with Web3 technologies” with Miguel Faus, Director / Producer, Calladita Film and Toni Thai Sterrett, Founder, Bad Grrls Creative Club.
And the following panels as a part of the Global Virtual Production Summit:
“How to Master the Creative, Technical and Visual Power of Virtual Production” with Addy Ghani, VP of Virtual Production, disguise, Connor Ling, Virtual Production Lead, Framestore, Stacia Pfeiffer, Virtual Production Producer, Dark Matters and Keith Sam, Director, Feature Post Production, Paramount Pictures.
“Investing & Managing the Virtual Production Business: What Producers, Funds, Policymakers & Studios Need to Know” with Rikke Crosby, Managing Director, Nordisk Film Shortcut, Nils Pauwels, Partner & Director of Virtual Production, Ready Set Studio & Owner of Immersive Productions, Emma Turner, Head of Film, Animation and Future Skills, ScreenSkills and Anna Moland, COO of Rubicon TV.
“To Shoot Traditional vs Virtual ? The ABC of Virtual Production for Independent Filmmakers” with Kathryn Brillhart, Cinematographer, Director, VP Supervisor, Armin Kurasz, Director, Martin Madsen, Head of VP and VFX, Nordisk Film Shortcut and José Granell, Director of Miniature Effects, The Magic Camera Company.
“Future Forward: Understanding Trends, Tools, and Platforms Shaping the Future of Cinema” with Cesar Caceres, Product Lead, Brompton Technology, Niall Hendry, VP Partnerships, Move.ai, Sander Saar, Innovation and Strategy Consultant, Red Bull Media House and Vadym Trembovetskyi, VP of Partnerships, Reface.
Marché du Film at Festival de Cannes 2022
Moderation of the panels for Cannes Next
“Future of Financing Summit: New trends in Equity, Venture Capital, tokenized film investment, NFT’s and beyond” with Yannick Bossenmeyer (CEO, Logical Pictures Group / Cascade 8), Maxime Cottray (Executive Vice President, Production & Finance, XYZ Films), Leo Matchett (CEO, Decentralized Pictures Foundation), Michael Musante (Co-Founder, Decentralized Pictures Foundation), Laura Olin (COO & Partner, ZOAN), and Hewie Rattray (Founder, NFT Studios). Read about it here.
“Europe as Global Leader in Virtual Production. Visionaries, Platforms and Studios” with Sarah Geeroms (Innovative/strategic partnerships & Head of Future Media Hubs, VRT Future Media Hubs), Martin Madsen (Senior VFX Supervisor, Nordisk Film ShortCut), Jannicke Mikkelsen (Film Director & Cinematographer, FNF), Miikka Rosendahl (CEO, ZOAN), Alex Willis (Chief Experience Officer, Disguise), and Gregg Young (Head of Video Snackbar, VRT). Read about it here.
Fireside Chat
“Future of Film Financing | New Trends in Equity, Venture Capital, Tokenized Film Investment, NFT’s” with Maxime Cottray, Executive Vice President (Production & Finance), XYZ Films.
MARCHÉ DU FILM AT FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2021
Moderation of the panels
"Powering Future Leadership in Europe through Film, Innovation and Technology" with with Nusrat Durrani (Media Executive, MTV Networks), Maria Tanjala (CEO and Co-Founder, FilmChain), and Lysann Windisch (Head of Programme, NEXT WAVE).
"What Creatives and Filmmakers can do with Data? Exploring the Future of Data-driven and Data influenced Storytelling" with Peter Greve (Co-Founder, The Looping Group), Sander Saar (Co-Founder and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development, Bundle), Nathalie Lethbridge (CEO, Atonik Digital), and Jon Morris (Experience Designer and CEO, Nowhere). Read the article we wrote about it here.
"Where’s the Money? New Currents in (European) Financing: NFTs, Venture Capital and MEDIA Invest" with Tomasz Kozlowski (Head of Mandate and Product Development, European Investment Fund) Uri Levanon (CEO, Haste Media) and Rain Rannu (Founder, Tallifornia Productions). Read about it here.
Hosting the session and pitches
“Showcase of NEXT WAVE and Future Industry Innovators”, as part of NEXT WAVE, a Berlin-based post-graduate program for young professionals.
MARCHÉ DU FILM AT FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2020
Hosting the Cannes NEXT Summit and Media Meets Tech, with European film and MediaTech startups and investors in focus.
NEXT / Marché du Film at Festival de Cannes 2019
Moderation of the Blockchain Summit and hosting of the Media meets Tech day.