EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Macdonald (The Final King of Scotland), Maria Schrader (She Mentioned), and Ramin Bahrani (White Tiger) are among the many filmmakers set to attend this 12 months’s Floodlight Summit in Cartagena, Colombia.
This 12 months’s occasion — the second annual Floodlight Summit gathering — will run December 6-8 in Cartagena. The summit gathers investigative journalists from throughout the globe who current their work to filmmakers and producers for potential display variations.
Different headline visitors set to attend embody William Horberg (The Queen’s Gambit), Ziad Doueiri (West Beirut), Sarah Timberman (Justified), Alexander Rodnyansky (Leviathan), and Rodrigo García (Information of a Kidnapping). Ryan Murphy Productions Senior Government and Lawyer Craig Emanuel will even be in attendance to supply authorized steering.
The 2024 cohort of Floodlight journalists contains reporters from greater than 25 nations throughout 5 continents, together with a Pulitzer Prize winner, impartial journalists, and battle reporters. Audio system from the career set for Colombia embody Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (The New York Instances, She Mentioned) and Patrick Radden Keefe (The New Yorker) who might be in dialog with producer Brad Simpson (Loopy Wealthy Asians). The pair will talk about collaborating to show Keefe’s guide Say Nothing right into a Hulu tv collection of the identical identify.
Floodlight launched with the primary summit in December 2023. Attended by movie and tv collection creators Graham Yost (Band of Brothers), Charles Randolph (The Massive Quick), Janine Jakowski (Toni Erdmann), and Nico Celis (Roma), a number of growth offers are stated to now be in progress following final 12 months’s version.
Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), who attended the Floodlight Summit final 12 months and might be returning once more this 12 months, described the occasion as “a uncommon and invaluable alternative to listen to from a worldwide group of investigative journalists who’re doing among the most essential, consequential, and harmful reporting on this planet proper now.”
“The Floodlight initiative is a large reward to each the journalists and the filmmakers – and to the audiences who will profit from these variations sooner or later,” Grant stated.
In a joint assertion, Floodlight’s Chief of Inventive Alesia Weston and Government Producer Philippa Kowarsky added: “We had been overwhelmed by the response and dedication from the trade for each editions of Floodlight. The alchemy that we witnessed at play in Cartagena is already seeding impactful new tales. We will’t wait to see what is going to come of this 12 months.”
