18/09/2025 - Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech is organising a series of panels to analyse the current landscape of the film industries, as well as the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge

A picture from last year's Creative Investors’ Conference (© Ulises Proust/SSIFF)

The San Sebastián International Film Festival will host its fourth-annual Creative Investors’ Conference on 23 and 24 September within the scope of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’. The gathering will include a series of panels and discussions (open to festival industry badgeholders) and private networking activities.

Again organised in collaboration with CAA Media Finance, the conference will welcome top global executives and experts (listed in alphabetical order by surname): David Arroyo of Suma Capital; David Atlan-Jackson of Vuelta Group; Javiera Balmaceda of Amazon MGM Studios; Rodolphe Buet of Studio TF1; Akunna Cook of Next Narrative Africa Fund; Élisabeth d'Arvieu of Mediawan Pictures; Frédéric Fiore of Logical Pictures; Mike Goodridge of Good Chaos; Robin Kerremans of Caviar; Sam Kozhaya of Legendary Entertainment; Axel Kuschevatzky of Infinity Hill; Juan de Dios Larraín of Fabula; Alexandra Lebret of AXIO Capital/Together Fund; Vincent Maraval of Goodfellas; Teresa Moneo, independent producer; Matías Mosteirín of K&S Film; Skye Optican of Annapurna Pictures; Sébastien Raybaud of Anton; Laura Rossi of MUV Capital; Andrea Scarso of IPR.VC; Karl Spoerri of Zurich Avenue; Lars Sylvest of Thank You Pictures; David Taghioff of Library Pictures International; Alexandra Tynion of Tricky Knot; Christine Vachon of Killer Films; Christian Vesper of Fremantle; Patrick Wachsberger of 193; Robert Walak of Iconoclast and Michael Weber of The Match Factory.

Several of the companies are attending the conference for the first time, including 193, Amazon MGM Studios, Annapurna Pictures, AXIO Capital/Together Fund, Fabula, Fremantle, IPR.VC, Legendary Entertainment, Mediawan, MUV Capital, Next Narrative Africa Fund, Studio TF1, Thank You Pictures, Tricky Knot and Vuelta Group. 

Topics of discussion will include the new European studio model; what private investors are looking for in 2025; how producers are staying nimble working across series and cinema as well as across country borders; the global growth of Latin American content; exploring new funding models launching around the globe; and forward-thinking predictions about how the industry will continue to reinvent itself.

The panels, talks and discussions will be held from 10 am to 2 pm on 23 September and 24 September at Tabakalera. The detailed talks schedule will be available on the festival’s website.

The San Sebastian International Film Festival also hosts, as part of ‘Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech’, Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, to be held on 25 September.

(Translated from Spanish)