“I think we’re in the middle of a big sea change,” said Toronto International Film Festival chief Cameron Bailey during a Zurich Summit panel about the role of film festivals.

“Certainly, there’s much more media coverage on the business of film and the screen industry generally than there used to be. This is not as ‘inside baseball’ as before, where only people who were in the industry followed the media about the industry. Now, everybody does, and so this is affecting what happens in film festivals. Sometimes internal workings end up in headlines in trade media.”

Bailey was joined by Berlinale chief Tricia Tuttle , Golden Globes President Helen Hoehne and WME Independent’s VP of Marketing Melissa Martinez in the opening session of the Summit where they discussed at length the ro

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