PRODUCERS XCHANGE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED PRODUCTION COMPANIES IN GERMANY

In cooperation with Film- und Medienverband NRW

The worldwide concentration of global players has already reached the German market for audiovisual content. Sought-after licensing catalogs, low production cost through synergies, and the acquisition of distributors of original German content have given the international companies in this country gigantic turnover. Additionally the broadcasters have taken to produce whatever content they need through their own subsidiary companies, while brands found their own content units for advertising, thus pulling their budgets from the marketplace. It‘s time to act. 

The PRODUCERS XCHANGE was all about exchange of experiences, business updates, future perspectives and the pooling of competences, because especially the diversity of small providers can provide chances through individualization and demarcation against global multinationals and the tonalities of broadcasting conglomerates. 

Host: Torsten Zarges, Editor in Chief, DWDL Medienmagazin, Cologne 

14.00 – 14.15 hrs Welcome 

14.15 – 14.30 hrs Keynote The Production Reality of Small and Medium Producers in Germany Wolfgang Link, CEO, UME, Cologne 

14.30 – 15.15 hrs Best Practice What to Learn from UK – Small and Medium Producers in Great Britain Dawn McCarthy-Simpson, Director of International Strategy, PACT, London 

15.15 – 15.45 hrs Presentation The Chances that Digitalization, Virtual Reality etc Hold Prof. Dr. Christian Zabel, Professor for Business Leadership and Innovation Management, TH Köln, Cologne 

15.45 – 16.30 hrs Closing Panel The Business Model of the Future – Collaboration instead of Cannibalization? Oliver Fuchs, CEO, Fabiola GmbH, Cologne Georg Hirschberg, CEO, Prime Productions, Cologne Christiane Ruff, CEO, ITV Studios Germany, Cologne Stefan Oelze, CEO, Seapoint Productions, Cologne

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