EAVE Impact Think Tank 2026: from Cannes to Toronto

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Upcoming: DIALOGUES — Holding the Center: Producing Under Pressure

TIFF | September 13, 17:00 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Independent producers are the creative, financial, and emotional backbone of the screen industry, yet their own wellbeing is rarely addressed. Building on the findings of the EAVE Impact Think Tank 2026 Report, Producers in Focus: Mental Health, Resilience, and Support, this conversation explores the unseen pressures producers carry and shares practical strategies for care, resilience, and sustainable practice. Together, the panel will examine how producers and the wider screen sector can share responsibility for creating a healthier production culture.

Speakers:

• Marina Serrão (Film in Mind, UK)
• lori lozinski (Violator Films, CA)
• Sara Beate Nilsdatter Eira (Screaming Fox Productions, NO)

Moderated by EAVE expert Tamara Dawit (Gobez Media, CA/ET)

More information here

Missed It in Cannes? Watch the Talk Again

Before Toronto, the conversation started in Cannes!

Revisit impACT | Producing Under Pressure: Producer Care and Sustainable Practice, presented as part of the 2026 EAVE Impact Think Tank at the Marché du Film in May.

The session brought together practical tools and new perspectives to help producers strengthen wellbeing across personal life, family life, and work life, while rethinking how the wider screen sector can better support the mental health of independent producers.

Speakers:

• Rebecca Day (Film in Mind, UK)
• Linda Mutawi (Fikra, Sweden)
• Heejung Oh (Seesaw Pictures, South Korea/Netherlands)
• Steven Rubinstein Malamud (GROM Productions, Netherlands)

Moderated by EAVE expert Tamara Dawit 

Watch the recording here:

The EAVE Impact Think Tank 2026 was organised in partnership with WEMW. Canada Media Fund (CMF), Telefilm Canada, and the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, with the support of DW Akademie, funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and the British Council Travel Grant Fund, delivered in partnership with the BFI (using National Lottery Funds).

Page published 1 September 2026. Updated 30 September 2026.