San Sebastian’s Creative Investors Conference: What a WGA Strike Hasn’t Solved, What Sells, Trends in a World That Is Ever More Local
variety.comthe end of the Writers Guild of America’s 148 day strike. That set the tone of proceedings at the two-day confab and maybe added a slightly larger sense of forward momentum to the central issue at stake: a State of the Union take on the challenges and opportunities for the U.S and global film industry, from a market and producers’ perspective.
Multiple audience members, many from Spain and Europe, commented on their delight at the caliber of panelists and attendees, many at the top of their game.
Their answers to questions marshalled by CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland on one key panel and San Sebastian’s Wendy Mitchell on many more, were often direct and sometimes counter-intuitive but convincing; which is what the audience of course was looking for.
Below, a baker’s dozen of preliminary takeaways from the Conference. More from Variety on an overall industry wrap on Friday. So How Has the WGA Deal Left Hollywood? In the wake of the WGA agreement, “it seems like the SAG strike will be resolved, hopefully, relatively soon,” said Sutherland.
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