CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Benjamin Kramer on Protecting the Independent Film Business

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Roeg Sutherland and Benjamin Kramer, who co-lead CAA Media Finance, have been working on the agency-led virtual market in Cannes, and spoke to Variety about the prospects for the independent film s…

Was there any reluctance on the part of the buyers or the producers to go ahead with the market now or did some of them want to wait until the autumn to see if things will have changed?No, no one wanted to wait until the autumn. It is so important that we stay connected. And it’s easy for people that are in the U.S. to do so; it’s very easy for local businesses to stay connected amongst themselves. It demands work to be able to stay connected to the rest of the world.

We are all working at the same hospital and trying to work together to keep the business alive and thriving. Production is starting up. We have movies that are going to be shooting in Australia, Ireland, France, Italy, and Germany. Filmmakers are going out to the desert and they’re going to go and film a movie in a house or they’re going to go and film a movie that involves car chases. They are going to create content. Looking at the trades, you see how much movies are selling for. There’s never been a bigger appetite for buying films.

 

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