Our 15th Annual International Film Finance Forum in Partnership with the Marché du Film will be taking place on Friday, May 16th on the Festival Main Stage.

Experience the cutting edge of global film financing at the 15th Annual International Film Finance Forum. This premier gathering unites visionary filmmakers and industry executives to explore groundbreaking trends in entertainment finance, innovative funding approaches, and cross-border collaborations.

Engage with thought leaders through dynamic panel discussions focused on the latest developments in sales, distribution, and content creation. Gain exclusive access to intimate fireside chats with industry luminaries who will share their personal journeys and candid insights.

In a year of unprecedented transformation for the entertainment industry, join us on May 16th as we navigate the future of film finance and explore the tools essential for success in today's evolving landscape.

FULL AGENDA TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

• State of the Industry; State of Finance

• Independent Greenlight: The Method Behind the Madness”

• The Power of International Partnerships & Co-Productions

• Navigating the Global Landscape of Tax Credits and Incentives in Film

• Exciting Fireside Chats!

MORE SPEAKING FACULTY TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Jon Gosier - Founder and CEO, FilmHedge

Jon Gosier has built a remarkable career as a serial entrepreneur, investor, and innovator. His company FilmHedge, is backed by more than $350 million in which it uses to finance Film and TV productions globally. FilmHedge is revolutionizing how financial institutions evaluate, monitor, and invest in Film/TV productions using artificial intelligence tools that assist banks and institutional partners with media underwriting, risk analysis and credit-rating. The company also recently launched a liquidity marketplace, creating the first ever secondary market for Film/TV investors to buy, sell and trade media investments.

Prior to FilmHedge, Jon built several tech companies as a serial entrepreneur. Gosier's entrepreneurial journey reached a significant milestone in 2024 when Experian acquired his company Audigent in a nine-figure deal. Prior to the acquisition, Audigent had been recognized as one of America's fastest-growing technology companies by INC5000, Financial Times, and Deloitte. He is also the founder of Southbox Capital (d/b/a Gosier Holdings), his family office, where he oversees a diverse $200M+ portfolio spanning technology, real estate, venture capital, and media.

Elsa Ramo – Founder and Managing Partner, Ramo Law

For 20 years, Elsa Ramo has been at the intersection of entertainment law and content innovation, architecting groundbreaking deals for industry disruptors and major studios alike.  She guides her clients into innovative terms that optimize their reach and prevalence with reputable velocity. In an era where content comes in an increasing number of forms, Ramo’s ability to successfully monetize the deal for her clients sets her apart on this evolving frontier.

Ramo works with content-creating powerhouses Imagine Entertainment, Concordia Studio, Skydance TV, Skydance Sports, Lion Forge Entertainment, French Tuck, Campfire Pictures, The Wonder Project, Boardwalk Pictures, and Scout Productions. In 2024 alone, Ramo’s clients won nine Creative Emmy Awards.

She represents independent prolific producers such as Zackary Drucker (whose HBO documentary Enigma premiered at Sundance 2025), Unified Pictures Keith Kjarval (upcoming feature The Beast, featuring Samuel L. Jackson), Lee Broda (whose film The Apprentice received an Oscar nomination), and founder of Los Angeles Festival of Movies Sarah Winshall. Additionally, Ramo represents film financiers Bondit Media Capital, V42 Management, Head Gear Films Financing, and SSS Film Capital.

Beyond directly overseeing high level clients, Ramo is the founder and managing partner of her boutique firm with 23 attorneys spanning from Beverly Hills to New York City the firm has 22 attorneys across the country based in Beverly Hills and New York. Ramo is also a Forbes.com contributor, speaking on current issues and topics in the entertainment industry. She was recently recognized among Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards 2024, LA Times 2024 Entertainment Business Visionaries, Variety’s 2023 Legal Impact Report and 2022 Dealmakers Impact Report, Daily Journal’s Top 100 Women Lawyers; and her firm was featured by Los Angeles Business Journal as a 2024 Disruptor and Most Admired Law Firms. Whether through exploring new forms of content, such as AI, or investing in sports entertainment, Ramo Law is anticipating and shaping the future of content, delivering the power to turn creative ideas into reality. 

Christopher Woodrow - Founder and Chairman, Media Capital Technologies (MCT)

Christopher Woodrow is the founder and chairman of Media Capital Technologies (MCT), a specialty finance company focused on strategic investments in premium content. The company provides capital to media and entertainment businesses, including major motion picture studios, significant independent production entities, and preeminent intellectual property rights-holders. He is responsible for guiding the strategic vision of MCT and oversees global corporate and business development for the company.

MCT closed a multi-year film slate co-financing transaction with Lionsgate in 2023. The company is making a significant investment in Lionsgate's film slate over a multi-year period. MCT has provided Lionsgate co-financing for 18 films over the past two years, including "Saw X", "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare", "Flight Risk", and numerous other films. Upcoming titles include the "John Wick" film "Ballerina", "The Long Walk", and "Good Fortune".

MCT partnered with iconic filmmaker Eli Roth ("Cabin Fever" franchise, "Hostel" franchise, and "Thanksgiving") to launch The Horror Section (THS) in 2025. The 360 media company is focused on building a robust library of intellectual property and creating the world's premiere horror brand. THS has already completed its first film acquisition and will go into production on its first four films this year, two of which will be directed by Roth.

Woodrow was the founder and served as chairman and CEO of Worldview Entertainment and its successor, Vendian Entertainment, motion picture finance and production companies that produced over 30 notable feature films under his leadership. The films, including Fox Searchlight's critically acclaimed hit "Birdman", Warner Bros.' "Black Mass", and Lionsgate's "Hacksaw Ridge", grossed more than $700 million in worldwide box office revenue, were nominated for 16 Academy Awards, and won six Oscars, including Best Picture.

Prior to this, Woodrow was the managing director of Prospect Point Capital, an investment company focused on structured finance and venture capital opportunities in media and entertainment. He was previously a vice president at Citigroup Global Markets and worked in investment banking at Oppenheimer & Co. Woodrow began his career managing business development at Syrinex Communications, a pioneer in the manufacturing of the internet server appliance. He performed his undergraduate studies at the University of Alabama.

Jessamine Burgum – Founder and CEO, Pinky Promise

Jessamine Burgum is the founder and CEO of Pinky Promise. Over the past four years, she has produced or executive produced over 14 films, starting with Pinky Promise's debut feature Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul., which premiered at Sundance in 2022 and was released by Focus Features.  Subsequent features have earned Golden Globe, SAG and BAFTA nomination, as well as several awards at major festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Cannes, and TIFF. 

Most recently she produced Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut Eleanor The Great alongside Sony Classic and TriStar, which is set to premiere in Fall of 2025. She also served as an executive producer on Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl starring Pamela Anderson, and Andrea Arnold’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan.

In her role as founder Jessamine has been recognized as part of Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Variety’s New Leaders, and Inc.’s Female Founders 500. She holds a BFA from the Guthrie Theatre Actor Training Program at the University of Minnesota, as well as a BFA from Shakespeare’s Globe Education Program in London. She grew up in the Great Plains of North Dakota, and currently resides in Venice, CA.

Giammarco Cottani, Founding Partner, Noema 

Founder & Managing Partner of NOEMA Global, with 20+ years in tax policy, law, and tech across OECD, UN, WB, private practice, and in-house roles at Netflix and Agoda. Expert in transfer pricing, digital economy taxation, and VAT. Lecturer at WU Vienna, University of Amsterdam, and Tax Academy of Singapore.

Amy Baker – CEO and Co-Founder, Winston Baker

As CEO of WINSTON | BAKER, Amy Baker oversees the company’s global strategic planning, business development and vendor relationships. Amy Co-Founded the FILM FINANCE FORUM® in 2008, which provides the leading series of events dedicated to bringing seasoned finance and entertainment executives together from around the globe. Winston Baker is a renowned leader in the entertainment industry, known for curating content and organizing Forums worldwide. Amy has successfully organized sold out conferences, film festival programming and private events across the United States, Europe, Saudi Arabia, China, Pacific Asia and Latin America, along with a lineup of exciting virtual programs. 

Prior to establishing Winston/Baker, she was at SRI which was acquired by ALM. At ALM, as Vice President of Business Development, Amy provided finance executives and marketers with targeted channels for reaching decision-makers within the legal, entertainment, healthcare, sports and tech sectors. In her previous position, Director of Business Development at RPMC, she worked with entertainment, music, and sports companies, creating event marketing programs, travel incentive services, sweepstakes, and media promotions. 

Amy lived for many years in Europe, while working as a professional Model before receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with Honors from New York University. Amy proudly sits on the National Board of Advisors for the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida since 2018. She has recently started producing and developing projects for Film and Television.

Thank you to our Partners

Gold Partners

Founded in 2020, FilmHedge is one of the fastest growing lenders in media finance. As a senior lender, FilmHedge provides private credit and financing solutions to qualified TV and Film producers, offering up to $25 million per production. In addition to financing, the company collects financial data that assists other financiers (banks, hedge funds, family offices, etc) in determining the creditworthiness and risk of media borrowers.To date the team behind FilmHedge have underwritten more than 60 feature films. For more information on FilmHedge visit: https://www.filmhedge.com.

Supporting Partners

The Motion Picture Association, Inc. (MPA) serves as the global voice and advocate of the motion picture, home video, and television industries. It works in every corner of the globe to advance the creative industry, protect its members’ content across all screens, defend the creative and artistic freedoms of storytellers, and support innovative distribution models that bring an expansion of viewing choices to audiences around the world.

Its member studios are: Netflix Studios, LLC; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Universal City Studios LLC; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO.

Where Creativity Meets Counsel

Ramo provides full-service entertainment legal counsel – from development to delivery and beyond. Our end-to-end legal expertise and in-house packaging and sales team allows us to customize every contract to our client’s needs and power the full potential of every project.

NOEMA Global is a boutique tax and public policy advisory firm. With headquarters in Abu Dhabi and Amsterdam, the firm delivers tailored solutions in a rapidly evolving global regulatory environment.

The firm specializes in international tax policy, transfer pricing, indirect tax and customs, UAE tax structuring, and strategic advisory on public affairs. NOEMA Global possesses niche expertise in the entertainment industry, particularly around tax credits and tax incentives for the film industry. The name, derived from the Greek word for “depth of understanding,” reflects a commitment to deep expertise and insight.

The firm advises multinational enterprises, international institutions, and high-net-worth individuals across a range of sectors. It operates through a global network of independent, top-tier tax and law firms, with strong capabilities in the APAC region, the EU, the Middle East, and Washington D.C.

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