Explorer Konferenz docks for 2nd round in Hamburg

23.06.2021 | Future Congress in autumn

From producing in the digital age, the reinvention of public broadcasters to diversity as a business opportunity: the second Explorer Konferenz will take place at the beginning of October, docked to FILMFEST HAMBURG. On 8 October, everything will once again revolve around producing for cinema, streaming and TV. The half-day conference will focus on the challenges and opportunities of the current upheaval in the film industry - partly on three stages in parallel.

After a successful start in 2019 and a break in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the second edition of the Explorer Konferenz will take place on Friday, 8 October 2021, bringing together the European community of independent Executive Producers live in the Hanseatic city and virtually via stream. The conference programme covers a wide range of topics that are currently of interest to film producers in Europe. In keynotes, case studies and workshops, topics such as diversification as a business strategy, virtual and lean production, mega-mergers, EU regulatory projects, producing for streaming services and the situation of arthouse cinema films will be debated.

German and international Speakers provide insights into their work and strategies and impart future-oriented knowledge. In their contributions, they will shed light on current phenomena and developments in a film industry in a state of upheaval. Speakers include Maja Cappello (EU Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg), Alexandra Lebret (European Producers Club, Paris), Christoph Fey (copyright lawyer, Berlin), Stephen Robert Morse (Producer, London), Tomas Eskilson (Film y Väst, Trollhättan), Raymond van der Kaaij (Executive Producer, Revolver, Amsterdam), Malika Rabahallah (MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein), Dr Florian Kumb (Head of the ZDF Film Fund). Florian Kumb (Head of the ZDF Programme Planning Department), Marlene Slot (Executive Producer, Viking Film, Amsterdam), Andrea Giannone (Filmarket Hub, Barcelona) and many more.

Community partners of the Explorer Konferenz are ACE Producers, European Producers Club, European Film Promotion, Young Nordic Producers Club. Co-operation partners are Filmarket Hub, Pensionskasse Rundfunk and the Creative Europe Desks Hamburg and Berlin-Brandenburg. Media partners include Screen International and Blickpunkt Film.

The Explorer Konferenz is organised by the Producers Association, with the support of MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, in cooperation with FILMFEST HAMBURG.

Registration and programme

Tickets for the conference are available via the website www.explorer-konferenz.de until 10 July at the Early Bird rate with a 50% discount on the regular ticket price. The conference language is English. The duration of the Explorer Konferenz is 13:00-19:00.

The complete conference programme will be announced gradually on the website www.explorer-konferenz.de.

Queries from the media

Erwin M. Schmidt | Producers Association Phone: 030 2577 1690 e-mail:es@produzentenverband.de

Claudia Hartmann | MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Phone: 040 3983 716 e-mail:hartmann@moin-filmfoerderung.de

Helen Peetzen | FILMFEST HAMBURG Phone: 0179 1196 515 e-mail:peetzen@filmfesthamburg.de

To the participating organisations

The Produzentenverband e.V. is the leading representative of independent cinema streaming and television producers in Germany with currently 118 members.

MOIN! We are Moving Images North. As MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, we move images in and to the North. We support cinema films, high-end series and innovative audiovisual formats of all genres - from the first draft to production, distribution and festival presentation.

FILMFEST HAMBURG is a public festival and will take place from 30 September to 9 October 2021. Around 120 productions from all over the world will be shown as European, German or Hamburg premieres. The festival cinemas are the Abaton, CinemaxX Dammtor, Metropolis, Passage and Studio-Kino.