How will it be working five years from now? How do we fund arthouse storytelling when all the windows are changing? Answers in our informative and passionate sessions on July 7 and July 9!

Nostradamus Report 2021: Transforming Storytelling Together
10:00 Palais Stage (Palais -1) and online, July 7

In an engaging talk, industry analyst Johanna Koljonen updates the eighth annual Nostradamus report specifically for Cannes. She discusses changing structures, global trends, new production technology, and audience behaviours, describing both what outcomes are known, and where our choices in the next few years will shape the industry for decades.

Speaker: Johanna Koljonen, Screen industry analyst, Participation Design Agency
Moderator: Wendy Mitchell

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Film’s Financial Ecosystem in an Uncertain Future
10:45 Palais Stage (Palais -1) and online, July 7

How do we fund arthouse storytelling when all the windows are changing, the actual value of any individual property or right is almost impossible to ascertain, and costs of production are both rising and falling at the same time? Experts with perspectives on public funding, sales, distribution and exhibition discuss the current funding ecosystem as well as the five-year view.

Speakers: Roberto Olla, Executive Director, Eurimages, Helene Aurø, Sales & Marketing Director, REinvent Studios, Jakob Abrahamsson, President & CEO, Non Stop Entertainment, Johanna Koljonen, Screen industry analyst, Participation Design Agency
Moderator: Wendy Mitchell

The Nostradamus report is commissioned by the Göteborg Film Festival; the project’s main partner is Film i Väst.