Roundtable: Indie dealmaking

May 01, 2008 On the eve of the Festival de Cannes and its attendant market, The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Galloway discussed those matters with five experts: (clockwise from top left) Newsweek film critic David Ansen; Kirk D'Amico, president and CEO of Myriad Pictures, a production and sales company; Cassian Elwes, co-head of William Morris Independent; Mark Gill, CEO of finance and production company the Film Department; and Avi Lerner, co-chairman and CEO of Nu Image/Millennium Films. The independent film scene is as flourishing as it has ever been. There's a lot of money that's been sloshing around from Wall Street and all the high-net-worth individuals, and you'll start seeing them gradually fade out.

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