Spanish rights group Egeda hosted a round table Sept. 23 at the San Sebastian Festival to shed light on its bid to find and explore solutions to the stickiest challenge facing filmmakers – access to financing.
The panel featuring ICAA head Ignasi Camós, Luis Cueto from the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Public Service, Javier Villaseca of Sego Finance, Jesus Prieto of Sego Creative and executive producer Miguel Torrente of Balment, analyzed the benefits of Sego Creative, a financing tool that specializes in the creative and cultural industries, and is the offshoot of the collaborative agreement that Egeda inked with crowdfunding platform, Sego Finance Group, last May.
The round table was moderated by Egeda’s Carlos Antón who pointed out that if Spanish filmmakers were to be competitive on a global scale, such an innovative financing tool was…