“Film has become a place where capital meets opportunity… What’s harder for us is financing vehicles that are very dependent on testing the market with different talent… We will continue to see independent product coming to various festivals, of a quality that festivals have not seen in prior years.” The bankers talk about The New Investor, as the market shivers and stabilises.
A panel discussion “The New Investor” was put on by Magnet Media Group in conjunction with Screen International for the Film Finance TV show during Cannes 2013. The session kicked off with media and entertainment advisor Hal Sadoff assessing the state of the industry, and echoing another Film Finance TV panel that talked about how middle budget films are being squeezed out. But he looked more deeply to the implications of this.
