EFM Startups: Insights and Tools Shaping the Industry’s Future

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In today’s rapidly changing world, the film and entertainment industry continues to face unprecedented challenges: declining theater attendance; corporate consolidation which is cutting out small and medium sized independent companies; reduced production budgets; a failing theatrical distribution sector; and platform proliferation focusing on mainstream content - all of which is driving an overwhelming need to rethink and rebuild our struggling industry. We’re at an inflation point, and the only way out, is forward….

EFM Startups stands at the forefront of this revolution of change, driving it with groundbreaking tools, AI solutions and proprietary software designed to re-define and re-build an industry in flux. This vision is the heartbeat of EFM Startups. Our selected entrepreneurs are risk-takers - pioneers with disruptive ideas - offering lifelines to those ready to move beyond the conventional.

Join us for a series of ten 3 minute pitches by a cohort of entrepreneurs, as this year’s EFM Startups demonstrate how their fresh, bold ideas are setting the stage for a sustainable, creative and dynamic future in the film and audiovisual industries.

Embrace the change with EFM Startups!

In collaboration with

Speakers

Volha Paulovich (she/her)

co-founder & COO

Pento Pix, USA

Ana Betancourt (she/her)

CEO

Black Goblin, UK/Scotland

Jaspar Graham (he/him)

CEO & Founder

Hieros Technology LTD, UK

Gabriel Isserlis (he/him)

Founder & CEO

SuperScout, UK

Frinny Lee (she/her)

CEO

A.V. Mapping, Taiwan

Frederik Merkel (he/him)

Co-Founder, Product Lead

Phont, Germany

Anna Giralt Gris (she/her)

Co-Founder and CEO

Roadmovie, Spain

Elaine Sturgess (she/her)

CEO/Founder

BooksOffice Limited, UK

Jure Pavlović (he/him)

CEO & Founder

FilmConnect, Croatia

Zoe Ramushu (she/her)

Founder & CEO

Wrapped, South Africa

David Larkin (he/him)

Head of Business

Letterboxd.com, New Zealand

Moderator

Tim Dams (he/him)

Europe Editor

Screen International, UK