Premiere at the Filmfest Hamburg: Explorer Konferenz docks in Hamburg

Under the motto "2024 - Producing for cinema, streaming and TV", Executive Producers, creatives and film policy stakeholders will meet for the first "Explorer Konferenz" on 27 September at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The conference will shed light on new trends and analyse the challenges and opportunities of the current upheaval in the film industry. The Explorer Konferenz is embedded in FILMFEST HAMBURG, which runs in the city from 26 September to 5 October 2019.

Helge Albers,CEO of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH): "In recent years, the environment of our production landscape has changed rapidly. Constant and dynamic development is the great constant of producing. I am delighted that we have two wonderful partners in Filmfest Hamburg and the Producers' Association, who will join us once a year at the Explorer Konferenz to take a look into the near future. With the concentrated expertise of the speakers and organisers, we want to make the Explorer Konferenz in the heart of Hamburg a fixture for forward thinkers from the worlds of film, tech and politics."

Erwin Schmidt, CEO of the producers' association"At the Explorer Konferenz, we want to explore the developments and upheavals that will shape production for cinema, streaming and TV in the coming years. We are very pleased to be working with Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Filmfest Hamburg to establish this beacon - the Explorer Konferenz is unique with its focus on the diverse challenges of production and will have a far-reaching impact on the national and international production landscape in the coming years."

Albert Wiederspiel, Director of FILMFEST HAMBURG"We are looking forward to the Explorer Konferenz, which further enhances the industry meeting character of FILMFEST HAMBURG and are sure that all producers and filmmakers will now get to know and appreciate the film location of Hamburg and our festival."

Excerpt from the programme: The opening keynote will be held by entrepreneur and "How to Hack" podcaster Tijen Onaran. With her initiative "Global Digital Women", she is committed to the networking and visibility of women in the digital industry. She publishes regularly as a member of the Handelsblatt Expert Council, and her podcast in cooperation with the magazine "Business Punk" appears weekly.

Founder Nadira Azerma wants to revolutionise the storytelling business with the help of artificial intelligence. At the Explorer Konferenz, she will explain how her start-up "ScriptBook" works and show how filmmakers can use this ground-breaking forecasting system to objectively evaluate film and TV projects and avoid financial crash landings.

Media analyst and Script Writer Johanna Koljonen will present the key findings of the Gothenburg Film Festival's "Nostradamus Report 2019". The report forecasts the future for the next three to five years. The focus of the current edition: the uncertain future of public funding, the major upheavals on the streaming market, the role of cinema and the need for a debate on technology.

Are streaming services and pay TV the new avant-garde of filmmaking? Dr Lisa Blumenberg, Executive Producer of Letterbox Filmproduktion's "Bad Banks", Marcus Ammon, Senior Vice President Original Production at Sky Deutschland and Cüneyt Kaya, Script Writer and Director of the Netflix film "Betonrausch" (in post production) will be among those discussing at the closing panel of the Explorer Konferenz. Tijen Onaran will be the moderator.

More about the conference: The Explorer Konferenz is organised by the Producers Association, with the kind support of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, in cooperation with Filmfest Hamburg. The network partners of the conference are Chili VoD, Unverzagt von Have, Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Hamburg, KinoHerz VoD and Hamburg lebt Kino!

Registration and programme: Tickets for the conference are now available on the websitewww.explorer-konferenz.de can be ordered online. The conference programme is regularly updated and expanded online.