Head of Program @ Tallinn Digital Summit, Strategic Advisor @ Cannes Next | PhD candiate, Content, Technology, Innovation & Resilience
IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS MUST BRING DATA (INCLUDING YOU!) Its no new news that the entertainment industry is going through a massive pivot. The value chain is going from producer centric to creator/audience centric (kudos Doug Shapiro for outlining it very clearly). Streaming landscape is ultra competitive (as Evan Shapīro has pointed out in his recent excellent writings). Add European elections, economic pressures, conflicts and reverberations of COVID and SAG strikes. In this enviroment executives, ecosystem leaders, and policymakers (either straight in governments, film and media orgs or elswhere) have to make some tough decisions. And gut feeling does not help (always). Our colleagues Jakob Isak Nielsen, @Cathrin Bengesser, @Ivana Kostovska, Marius Øfsti & et al at CresCine have put together a remarkable dossier on the State of small European (film) markets. Its comprehensive, solid, interactive and easy to explore - a total must read for anyone in this business. Dive in, it will help you to make better decisions and bring you the data-> AC Coppens Manu Guddait, Tine Fischer, Edith Sepp, Rolandas Kvietkauskas Laimonas Ubavičius, Dita Rietuma, Ene Katrine Rasmussen, Roosa Toivonen, Ross Keane, Luís Chaby Vaz, Virginie Nouvelle Heidy Purga Karlo Funk Sarah Geeroms Ezra Eeman Sofie Hvitved Loïc De Visscher Anssi Komulainen Eleni Sharp, Rafaël Huybrechts, Ricardo Tomé, Wouter Quartier, Matthijs Wouter Knol.
Curious about the current state of the European film industry? 🌍🎬🤔 Ivana Kostovska (Film & TV Economics Researcher, IMEC-SMIT-VUB) and Jakob Isak Nielsen (Associate Professor, Aarhus Universitet) delve into the key insights from CresCine’s dynamic panel at Cannes! CresCine, a Horizon Europe-backed project aimed at boosting the competitiveness of European small markets, was proud to present its first-ever interactive “Small European Film Markets: Portraits and Comparisons” report at this year’s #MDF24 edition. The report meticulously researched and compiled by Jakob Isak Nielsen, Ivana Kostovska, Marius Øfsti and Cathrin Bengesser focuses on the characteristics of the seven European film ecosystems and the development of their industries, production capacity, approaches to public creative industries policy, as well as the key challenges facing each one, as well as the comparison of the ecosystems’ levels of domestic audiences, theatrical exports, average budgets, production volumes, and festival recognition from 2014 to 2022. A special thank you to our other guest speakers who joined us on stage: Fatih Abay, Manuel Damasio, Rūta K. and Ulrike Rohn, as well as our moderator and Head of #CannesNext, Sten Saluveer. Discover the highlights here! 👇