Kick-Starting
a New Era.
Start 9:00 – Coffee & Registration
09:30 Start Conference
Christian Jungen (Artistic Director, ZFF) & Reta Guetg (Head of Industry, ZFF)
Host: Wendy Mitchell
09:30-10:00
PRESENTATION: Play Suisse – an exclusive sneak preview
- Gilles Marchand Director General, SRG SSR)
- Bakel Walden (Direktor Entwicklung und Angebot, SRG SSR
- Pierre-Adrian Irlé (Project Leader, SRG SSR)
10:00-11:00
PANEL: HAS THE FILM BUSINESS TURNED LOCAL
- Toufik Ayadi (SRAB)
- Mikael Fellenius (CEO, Film i Väst)
- Livia von der Stay (International Sales, Wild Bunch International)
- Agathe Valentin (Partner, Totem Films)
- Moderator: Roeg Sutherland
11:00-11:15
PRESENTATION: The Answer to Cinema on demand: GoGoCinema - WHAT MOVIE, WHEN AND WHERE, IT’S ALL UP TO YOU!
- Andy W. Bohli (CEO & Owner of Imaculix / GoGoCinema Europe)
11:15-12:15
PANEL: Is the theatrical Business dead?
- Kim Magnusson (Head of Creative , Scandinavian Film Distribution)
- Danny Perkins, (Chief Executive, Elysian)
- Torsten Koch (Managing Director, Constantin Film Verleih)
- Stéphane Célérier (Mars Films)
- Karl Spoerri (CEO and Co-Founder, SPG3)
- Christoph Daniel (Producer, Managing Director at DCM)
- Moderator: Roeg Sutherland
12:15-13:00
KEYNOTE: A short history of (audiovisual) innovation
- Prof. Martin Vetterli (President, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
- Prof. Sarah Kenderdine (EPFL, Laboratory for Experimental Museology)
Lunch
14:00-14:30
CONVERSATION: Are the lines between film and television permanently blurred
- Thomas Benski (Pulse Films)
- Yann Demange
- Moderator: Wendy Mitchell
14:30-15:15
PANEL: Production during a Pandemic and How we move Forward
- Thomas Benski (Pulse)
- Cecile Gaget (President of Int'l Production and Distribution, ANTON)
- Christophe Barrall (SRAB)
- Tommaso Marzotto (Co-founder of Texit Films)
- Katrin Renz (Owner, Producer, Tellfilm)
- Moderator: Wendy Mitchell
15:15-16:00
CONVERSATION: Is the solution to all our problems in the COVID era Animation?
- Roeg Sutherland (CAA)
- Livia von der Stay (International Sales, Wild Bunch International)
- Laurent Zeitoun (Founder, CCO, GOOD HERO)
- Cecile Gaget (President of Int'l Production and Distribution, ANTON)
Coffee Break 16:00-16:15
16:15-17:00
PANEL: Future of Film Festivals and Film Market
- Carlo Chatrian (Artistic Director, Berlinale)
- Lili Hinstin, (Former Artistic Director, Locarno Festival)
- Paolo Moretti (Director’s Fortnight Cannes)
- Salma Abdalla (CEO, Autlook Filmsales)
- Moderator: Wendy Mitchell
17:00
Closing Remarks & End of Conference
