Big Money: Private and Equity Financing

Learn how the largest envelopes make their decisions on what to fund and how to fund it. This panel will demystify the role and the relationships of private capital in the film industry, and what steps need to be secured by the producers in order to unlock these resources.

Cassian Elwes, Independent Film Producer and Agent (MODERATOR)
Kerry Barden, Casting Director, Barden/Schnee Casting
Michael Benaroya, CEO, Benaroya Pictures
Yewande Sadiku, CEO of Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited, Executive Producer Half of a Yellow Sun
Jamin O'Brien, Producer, Hateship Loveship and Founder, The Film Community
Jay Cohen, Packaging Agent, The Gersh Agency

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