BIG MONEY: Private and Equity Financing | TIFF Industry Conference 2013

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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[@ErynRea]

wow. Thanks for sharing this.

[@mattshaffar7969]

Moderator was so disrespectful to Yewande.

[@jimianmcavoy4808]

I thought I was the only one who thought that. The moderator was incredibly dismissive of her .. and the fact is, when she started to speak on emerging markets and the financing of films in those markets, I really wanted to hear her perspective because it is something you don't hear often.