SPI CEO Participates on Berlin International Film Festival Panel About How Co-Productions and Tax Incentives Can Boost Local Industry
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SPI CEO Leon Forde on Friday 14th February participated in a roundtable at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival on how co-productions and production incentives can boost a local industry.
The panel was moderated by Elisabet Cabeza of Screen International and sponsored by the Film Basque Country and Basque Audiovisual and hosted by Screen International.
During the discussion, Leon was quoted in Screen Daily discussing related findings from SPI’s 2024 economic impact assessment of Spain’s film production incentive. Leon stated, “What we found is how much business the international incentive had brought, investment that otherwise might have gone elsewhere.” He further underlined that a production incentive “is only part of an ecosystem that has to be developed together, including the supply chain, studios.”
Other panelists included:
· Andrea Scarso, UK-based Partner and Investment Director at fund management company IPR.VC Management
· Constanza Arena, Executive Director of Chilean talent agency La Luz Films & Talents.
· Denis Leroy, Senior Director of Central Scripted Team and Head of Scripted Formats at Banijay (France)
· Ignacio Corrales, CEO of Buendia Estudios
· Meg Thomson, EVP Worldwide Content at Globalgate Entertainment
· Paul Thiltges, Founder and Managing Director of Luxembourg’s Paul Thiltges Distribution;
· Ruth Aristondo, Head of Film Basque Country
· Tomas Eskilsson, Head of Analysis at Film i Väst
The international producers present included:
· Aleksandra Kostina of Bosonfilm (Ukraine)
· Alex Lo of Cinema Inutile (US)
· Augusto Matte of Maquina (Chile) and Deptford Film (UK)
· Gabriela Tocchio of Gullane (Brazil)
· Iris Cohen of Head Gear Films (UK)
· Jonas Weydemann of Weydemann Bros (Germany).
· Koji Nelissen, Producer at Keplerfilm (Netherlands)
Read the Screen Daily article here
More on SPI’s previous conferences and seminars here