Back of the Room
Katharina BenjamimFilm financing, festivals, and the parts of the industry nobody puts in the press release. From a producer who's usually at the back of the room.
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Five Oscars Didn't Keep the Drawer Open
Note: this was due on the 18th. It's out on the 13th. Unlike most public money, it came early.
Last time: Brazil’s name is two names, and standing doesn’t travel.
This time: does it protect anything at home, and what’s the new money wor...
Brazil Has a Name Now. But Standing Doesn't Travel.
Transactable at home. Hopeful abroad.
TIFF: The Market · Essay Two of Five, Part I
Laurels weigh nothing at the teller window.
The ledger
It’s late, and the route changed. Essay Zero promised dispatches every other day from the flo...
Two Brochures, One Building
Written Monday night with my shoes off,
after three days of rooms that weren't the one I flew here for.
TIFF: The Market · Essay One of Five
The ledger
The bar, posted last week and unmoved: a quarter of the named list on the finan...
Toronto Is Building a Film Market. I Know Film Isn't What It's Selling.
TIFF started today without me.
I land Saturday, and I'm publishing from the floor every other day until the 21st.
TIFF: The Market · Essay Zero of Five
It’s midnight in Manhattan and I’m finishing this in a hotel room roughly 550km...
TIFF isn't selling films
I’ve been up since early. I’m still in a hotel bed in Manhattan, writing, because I have a theory about Toronto.
Essay zero of Back of the Room goes out today, by noon NY time. It’s called Toronto Isn’t Building a Film Market, and it’s abo...
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Brazilian film producer. I write about money, culture, and who gets left out of the room. Currently writing a TIFF Series, counting something nobody else is.
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