Ben Browning

We had great speakers as well.

We had Olly Madden from Netflix, Elizabeth Darvier from MediaOne, John Gore from John Gore Studios, Harriet Finney from the BFI, Ben Browning from Pathé UK, and some top UK producers, including Gabrielle Tana and Emily Morgan.

The discussions, I think, were pretty galvanizing.

I would say the mood was pretty upbeat as well, even though the day, of course, makes it very clear that it's tough out there for anyone involved in UK independent film.

The conversations weren't all about this.

They were very, nobody shied away from them, but there were a ton of encouraging signs, you know, that we had execs from, you know, Pate UK, which has decided to reopen in the UK.

Ben Browning's Heading Up that you know he comes from Film Nation in LA you know he knows how to make high budget English language films and he wants to make them in the UK Fred Fiore from Logical Pictures he is using private equity from um private individuals, from institutional funds, and he's making big English language films in the UK.

And they cited, you know, UK talent agents, crews, VFX houses, obviously the enhanced AVET, the IFTC.