With the global film industry descending on the south of France for the 79th Cannes Film Festival, Film London was there to bang the drum for the capital’s screen industries and help make meaningful connections between creatives, funders and infrastructure partners. As well as individual meetings with execs, studios, partners and screen commissions from all over the world, we ran and took part in a series of events throughout the festival. Film London was on hand to support our partners from the British Film Commission and UK Screen Alliance as they ran a successful panel championing the UK’s VFX and post-production capabilities, covering areas like VFX, sound, colour and film laboratory services, as well as the UK’s generous tax incentives. We then hot-footed it from the UK Screen HQ to the Marché du Film, where Film London CEO Adrian Wootton OBE moderated a panel entitled All change, please: identifying new content strategies, partners and IP in a shifting landscape, which explored the changing world of filmmaking, with a particular eye on areas like development, funding, acquisitions and the impact of the creator economy. Adrian was joined by Jordan McGarry, Senior Creative Advisor, PFM New Talent & Upstream; Abdi Ali, Acquisitions and Development Manager at Bankside Films and two members of the team behind hotly-tipped UK-Jamaican folk horror feature Duppy: writer-director Ajuán Isaac-George and Development Producer Dorottya Székely.