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AMERICAN FILM MARKET® & MARCHÉ DU FILM ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION ON NEW INNOVATION HUB AND AI PROGRAMMING FOR AFM 2025
The AFM Classes to Characteristic Weapons’ Producers and Executives from Adobe, Asteria/Moonvalley, Blumhouse, Caviar, Cineverse, Largo.ai, Lyrical Video games, Pressman Movie, Revelations Leisure, Display screen Engine, UTA, Waypoint Leisure, and Extra!
Los Angeles, CA – October 20, 2025 — The American Movie Market® (AFM®) and Marché du Movie at the moment introduced the 2 Markets are collaborating on the Innovation Hub and AI-focused programming at AFM 2025. Marche’s profitable innovation focus, Cannes Subsequent, was the catalyst for the 2 Markets to embrace this new initiative. The Innovation Hub will highlight cutting-edge artistic and enterprise know-how instruments that help the event, financing, and manufacturing of content material. Designed as each an exhibition and concepts discussion board, it’ll showcase firms on the intersection of creativity, commerce, and know-how, connecting AFM attendees with innovators from throughout tech, media, and leisure. AFM is ready to return for its 46th version to Los Angeles November 11–16, 2025, on the iconic Fairmont Century Plaza. As a part of the collaboration, featured AI Classes that can be introduced embrace:
- Visualizing the Way forward for Business Content material: What AI Means for the Business
Thursday, Nov 13 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Audio system embrace Darren Frankel, Head of Movie & TV, Adobe; Scott Martin, Founder, Aspen IP Consulting LLC and former Deputy Normal Counsel, Paramount Photos; and Lori McCreary, CEO, Revelations Leisure
- AI in Motion: The Platforms Remodeling Filmmaking – From Creation to Distribution
Friday, Nov 14 | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Audio system embrace Will French, Head of Movie & Tv Finance, Fallbrook; Scott Greenberg, Co-Founder & Government Chairman, Othelia Applied sciences; Bryn Mooser, Founder & CEO, Asteria and Co-founder, Moonvalley
As well as, AFM at the moment introduced the preliminary lineup of programming and audio system confirmed for The AFM Classes introduced by Wrapbook and IMDb Professional. Happening alongside the gross sales and licensing exercise, LocationExpo and Screenings, The AFM Classes will deliver collectively greater than 100 thought leaders, consultants and influencers for 30+ panels, workshops, and displays analyzing the forces shaping the trade at the moment and the way forward for movie and content material throughout 4 days (November 12–15).
Different key highlights of this 12 months’s Classes embrace:
Finance I – From Packaging to Payback: Funding, Incentives & Worldwide Markets
Wednesday, Nov 12 | 9:30AM – 10:30AM
Audio system embrace Ryan Broussard, VP of Gross sales & Manufacturing Incentives, Wrapbook; Jeaneane Davey, Founder, Callisto Advisory, Inc.; Sam Pressman, CEO, Pressman Movie; Josh Rosenbaum, Associate & Producer, Waypoint Leisure
Finance II – How They Did It: Methods That Introduced Initiatives to Life
Thursday, Nov 13 | 9:30AM – 10:30AM
Audio system embrace Mark Fasano, Associate and the CEO, Nickel Metropolis Photos; Jeffrey Greenstein, Founder & CEO, A Greater Customary; Allison Hironaka, Head of Movie & TV LA, Caviar; Laura Lewis, Founder & CEO, Rebelle Media
Degree Up: The Evolving Relationship Between Filmmaking and Gaming
Thursday, Nov 13 | 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Audio system embrace Russell Binder, Associate, Striker Leisure; Amanda Krouse, Vice President of Enterprise Improvement, Blumhouse; Blake Rochkind, Head of Lyrical Video games, Lyrical; Patrick Sweeney, Founder, Interactive Leisure Regulation Group
Dealmakers’ View: Inside Impartial Movie Gross sales and In the present day’s World Market
Thursday, Nov 13 | 3:00PM – 4:00PM
Audio system embrace Clay Epstein, President, Movie Mode Leisure; Kevin Goetz, Founder and CEO, Display screen Engine; George Hamilton, Chief Business Officer, Protagonist Photos; Steven C. Miller, Filmmaker (Line of Obligation)
Fright Membership: The Energy Gamers Behind Trendy Horror
Thursday, Nov 13 | 4:30PM – 5:30PM
Audio system embrace Jake Carter, Agent, UTA, Jacob Jaffke, SVP, Oddball Leisure (MaXXXine, Pearl); J.D. Lifshitz, Founder, BoulderLight Photos (Weapons, Barbarian); Raphael Margules, Founder, BoulderLight Photos (Weapons, Barbarian)
Latinos Navigating Hollywood: Challenges and Alternatives
Friday Nov 14 | 3:30PM – 4:30PM
Audio system embrace Rafael Agustin, Author (Jane the Virgin); Yolanda Macias, Chief Movement Photos Officer, Cineverse; Robert Munoz, President, Mucho Mas Media; Anthony Nardolillo, Director (7th & Union, Chicago Med); Patricia Riggen, Director (G20, Dopesick)
The AFM Pitch Convention
Saturday, Nov 15 | 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Speaker/Judges embrace Cassian Elwes, Elevated Movie Gross sales; Lee Jessup, Lee Jessup Profession Teaching; Loni Rodgers, Impartial Producer & Guide
View the present Programming Lineup
AFM will once more function the 12 months’s most important assembly level for the worldwide impartial trade — the place tasks are packaged, offers are made, and the enterprise of movie and sequence takes middle stage. Greater than 260 exhibitors, together with main gross sales, manufacturing and finance firms, worldwide commerce organizations and nationwide umbrella stands, and contributors from greater than 70 international locations are already confirmed for AFM25, with further firms nonetheless signing up day by day. With distributors and patrons from 58 territories additionally confirmed, AFM is ready for a full home. Exhibiting Corporations embrace:
A24, AGC Studios, All Rights Leisure, Altitude, Anton, Architect, Artedis SA – Cinema Arts, Ashland Media Finance, Bankside Movies, Beta Cinema, Blue Fox Leisure, Charades, CONTENTS PANDA, Cornerstone Movies, Electrical Leisure, Epic Photos Group, Embankment Movies, Epsilon Movie, Important Movie Group, Fantawild Animation, Movie Manufacturing facility Leisure, Movie Seekers, France TV Distribution, Gaumont, World Constellation, GOODFELLAS, HanWay Movies, Highland Movie Group, K5 Worldwide, Kinology, Lionsgate, Mister Smith Leisure, mk2 Movies, Mokster Movies, NEON, north.5.six, Pathé, Palisades Park Photos, Protagonist Photos, Pulsar Content material, Purpose 8 Movies, RedRover Co., Ltd, Rocket Science, SND M6 Group, STUDIOCANAL, Studio TF1, The Match Manufacturing facility, The Playmaker Munich, Toei Firm, TrustNordisk, Unifrance, Imaginative and prescient Media, Voltage Photos, WME Impartial, WTFilms, XYZ Movies, and many extra.
In regards to the American Movie Market® (AFM®)
The AFM is the place the worldwide movie and tv enterprise involves life each November. The one independently produced worldwide gross sales market, lots of of finance, manufacturing, gross sales and distribution firms and 1000’s of pros from each phase of the trade, convene at AFM for six days of discovery, growth, deal making, networking, market discussions and world-class conferences. The AFM is produced by the Impartial Movie & Tv Alliance® (IFTA®) and serves because the annual fundraiser for the affiliation.
In regards to the Impartial Movie & Tv Alliance® (IFTA®)
IFTA is the worldwide commerce affiliation for impartial movie and tv manufacturing, finance, distribution, and gross sales firms. The group represents the impartial sector earlier than governments and worldwide our bodies and gives vital leisure trade providers to impartial firms all over the world.
About Marché du Movie – Competition de Cannes
The Marché du Movie, the enterprise hub of the Competition de Cannes, is the world’s largest worldwide gathering of movie professionals, bringing collectively over 15,000 contributors from all over the world, together with gross sales brokers, producers, distributors, competition programmers and movie establishments. Annually, the market hosts greater than 1,500 unique screenings, 4,000 tasks in growth, and 250 trade occasions. Web site: www.marchedufilm.com
About Cannes Subsequent
Cannes Subsequent is the Marché du Movie’s innovation-focused platform for enterprise, networking, and exploring the way forward for leisure. From AI to digital manufacturing, immersive storytelling and different new applied sciences, Cannes Subsequent dives deep into the tech tendencies and transformations which can be shaping our trade.
Media Contact: Jennifer Garnick
VP, Communications & Programming
jgarnick@ifta-online.org | 310-446-100
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