Karl Spoerri #ZFF2018

October 15, 2018

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Karl Spoerri, director of the Zurich International Film Festival.

Festival Director Karl Spoerri takes stock of ZFF’s life and reveals how a successful festival can be run: with always an open mind and ear towards the world and a good team that shares the same passion.

Karl Spoerri began studies at Zurich’s University of the Arts in 1993. During the summer of 2004, Karl Spoerri and Tim Geser brought the English digital film festival “Onedotzero” to Zurich. This small-scale event led to the development of the Zurich Film Festival and brought together its core team. The following seven years saw Spoerri and his colleagues develop a comprehensive network of agents and managers in Europe and the USA, offering him and his team a unique overview of prevailing trends and the latest talent. Spoerri was the managing director of Millbrook Pictures AG from 2008 until 2011. Millbrook financed and coproduced, amongst other things, Oliver Stone’s W and David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method with Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen, which subsequently sold to over 80 countries. In March 2010, Spoerri closed a first look deal with Marc Forster and his production company, a collaboration that led Millbrook to finance the development of further projects. In 2010 Karl Spoerri became the Chairman of the Zurich Summit (Film Finance Forum Zurich) – an international forum focussing on film financing and production, which takes place annually in Los Angeles, New York, Cannes, Moscow, Singapore and Zurich.

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Karl Spoerri Nicolo Comotti