The Explorer Konferenz focusses on all things Producing for Cinema, Streaming and TV. This half-day, dynamic exchange format for professionals highlights new trends and analyzes challenges and opportunities created by the current disruption in the film industry. International and German speakers give insight into their strategies, share future-oriented knowledge, and debate critical aspects of their work with the audience. The Explorer conference addresses producers, film makers, financiers, and policy makers.

The full program will be announced at the explorer Impuls on September 7.

Here is a preview of confirmed slots

Public Funding at a Crossroads | Tomas Eskilsson, Head of Strategy, Film i Väst, Trollhättan/Sweden & Malika Rabahallah, Head of Funding + International Coproduction, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein

Producing with streamers | Alexandra Lebret - Producer, Mare Nostrum Productions and Managing Director, European Producers Club, Paris

Digital Transformation of Public Service Broadcasters | Dr. Florian Kumb, Head of ZDF Programm Planning, Mainz

Quo Vadis, Arthouse? | speakers tbc

Current European Legislative Projects and their Impact on Independent Producers | Maja Cappello, EU Audiovisual Observatory, Strassburg

Digital Filmdistribution. Made easy | Ole Hellwig & Henriette Ahrens, Founders, notsold Distribution, Hamburg

Virtual Production | Raymond van der Kaaij, Producer, Revolver, Amsterdam

Diversification as a Business Strategy | Marlene Slot, Producer, Viking Film, Amsterdam & Maximilian Leo, Producer, augenschein Filmproduktion, Cologne

Identifying audiences, trends and territories for TV series development using metadata and artificial intelligence | Andrea Giannone, CEO and Co-Founder, Filmarket Hub, Barcelona & Remi Tereszkiewicz, CEO, BetaSeries, Paris & Thierry Baujard, founder, Media Deals, Berlin

Lean Production, as in Lean Startup | Stephen Robert Morse, Producer, Lone Wolf Studios and Observatory, London

Megamergers | Christoph Fey, Copyright Attorney, von Have Fey Rechtsanwälte, Berlin