Tomas Eskilsson - FEST PRO Masterclass
22 JUN // 10:00 // Auditorium Centro Multimeios Espinho
Film Industry Role: Founder and CEO Film i Väst;
Major Works: "Another Round" (2020) and "The Worst Person in the World" (2021);
Public film funding is at a crossroads. The world is changing dramatically and rapidly, and the urgent challenge is to find a new balance between history/the old world and future expansion/the new world, while catering for the needs, and embracing the opportunities of the present. In this session we will explore the current reality of public finance available, and what the future might be holding for a new generation of filmmakers.
The report ‘Public Film Funding at A Crossroads’ and the two side studies ‘Streaming Giants and Public Film Funding’ and ‘Creative Overload’ could be downloaded for free: analysis.filmivast.se or via: filmivast.se. There you can also find the ten territorial reports (Eastern Europe, German speaking Europe, Greece and Cyprus, Flanders and Netherlands, French speaking Europe, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain, The Nordics, and UK). I recommend the participants to take a look at the main report ‘Public Film Funding at A Crossroads’ before the talk.
Moderator: Daniel T. Halsall
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Tomas Eskillson is founder and CEO at Film i Väst - the Scandinavia’s major regional film fund and one of the biggest in Europe. He will unveil findings from a pan-European study currently being prepared, titled Public Finance at the Crossroads.
During the last 25 years, Film i Väst has co-produced close to 775 feature films. Some examples are: Dancer in the Dark and Melancholia (Lars von Trier), The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg), Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev) and most recently four time EFA- award and Oscar winner Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg) and The Worst Person in the World.
