Here are some of the most prominent talking points from the sessions.
I saw what Brady went through to get the film made and its not sustainable, Vachon said.
Anything with some energy or kineticism to it or feels like a communal experience.
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Thats whats working right now in the United States.
Films that are currently struggling in the marketplace, Shooman continued, are projects that skew older in age.
The audiences for those films, he said, have yet to entirely return to cinemas following the pandemic.
Right now, the life of a broken film is not theatrical, Shooman said.
The film that is not executed to perfection has a tougher time theatrically.
And where were seeing that threshold of quality being most relevant is on old-skewing dramas.
They really have to stick to the landing.
There will be more people who are able to afford that film.
Star Warsand all these big films are being made in the UK.
The budgets for locally funded films are becoming smaller and smaller while the big international films are getting bigger.
Local productions are disappearing.
Perkins added: And weve had a change of government this year.
The previous governments seemed determined to destroy BBC and Channel 4 who are the main financiers of indie films.
So there are opportunities now but it is tough.
ElysiansMagic Faraway Treeis a modern adaptation of Enid Blytons popular novel.
Starring alongside Garfield are Claire Foy, Rebecca Ferguson, and Jennifer Saunders.
The pair, with host Roeg Sutherland, were resolute in their conclusions that the film industry wasnt dead.
They instead preached that change is frequent in cinema and must be embraced.
When I first started, the first tech boom was TV with HBO and Showtime.
And that was a monumental change on how people were making money, Linde said.
And then we had VHS, which changed how people approach the film business.
And after that came DVD and BluRay and streaming.
Linde said that change in the industry is cyclical.
Things are happening so quickly, he said.
Maraval added: We just need to adapt.
Were in a world where people consume more.
TheSan Sebastian Film Festivalruns until September 28.
