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Rodrigo Teixeira and other producers of 'Fjord,' 'All Bill Evans,' and 'The End' changed course at a BFI London Film Festival industry session held in partnership with The Hollywood Reporter.
Some of the year's most acclaimed films were screened on Monday at the BFI London Film Festival's industry panel on the realities of co-production. The producers behind the Cannes Film Festival winners Paper Tiger, All Bill Evans and The End, and International Oscar winners Emotional Value and I'm Still Here share lessons on cross-border filmmaking.
Moderated by podcast and film programmer Wendy Mitchell, Shared Vision: Co-Produced Visions, co-hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, Duke Beverley Griever, producer/partner at Eye Eye Pictures (Fiord), Alan Maher, managing director and co-producer at Cowtown Pictures, and founder at Cowtowns Pictures, at Bill. (The End), and Rodrigo Teixeira, founder and producer of RT Features (I'm Still Here, Paper Tiger).
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Differences in paperwork were an issue discussed by Maher and others, with panelists noting that manufacturers in the UK and Ireland tend to have "more lawyers and meetings" than elsewhere in Europe.
Different work approaches in countries and regions were also part of this discussion. "I think maybe the biggest cultural difference I've experienced in a film," Bjørkly Graver from Norway shared, "is a Norwegian-Greek co-production. "Norwegians are very together and unemotional - very low conflict level, low drama."
Having a Greek producer he trusted helped him sort out the difference. I'm so glad I made this one with one of my closest industry friends in Greece who walked me through it. The director would come up to me and say, “They're yelling at me. we fight And [my Greek producer friend] was like, "It's just a normal conversation in Greece."
Teixeira noted the contrast with Hollywood. Hollywood is different. It is industrial." "It's a meeting with 25 people, ... 30 people talking to you," he explained. You have no power."