Adaptations. Artistic Choices and Distribution Strategies in Cross-Media Stories

Stories increasingly travel across media: from book to screen, game to television, theatre to cinema. In some cases, stories are born in one medium and adapted into another; in others, worlds are created with a transmedia approach from the get-go. This panel will explore different models of collaboration, both from a business and a creative perspective, and address the promotional and distribution strategies of cross-media stories.

Speakers:

JOHN GIWA-AMU | Founder & Producer
Good Gate Media

CHELSEA MORGAN HOFFMANN | Producer
Element Pictures

CARTHEW NEAL | Producer
Piki Films

Moderator:

NADIA M. OLIVA | Film & Culture Programmer

About the speakers:

JOHN GIWA-AMU
John Giwa-Amu is Founder & Producer of the award-winning Cardiff-based film, HETV & gaming studio Good Gate Media. His films have won awards at BAFTA Cymru, BIFA, Berlin, Toronto, Tribeca & Sundance. GGM projects include The Man in My Basement with Disney, which premiered at TIFF, & held the number one streaming spot on Hulu; BAFTA-nominated H is for Hawk with Plan B and Lionsgate released at Telluride; and Lady a BFI/Film4-backed thriller feature which premiered at Sundance winning the Special Jury Award for Acting Ensemble. GGM is currently in development with major studio partners on multiple projects across film, television and games.

CHELSEA MORGAN HOFFMANN
Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann is a producer at Element Pictures where she has an extensive slate across both Film and TV. Recent projects include THE LISTENERS, a four-part series for the BBC, adapted by the author, Jordan Tannahill and directed by Janicza Bravo, starring Rebecca Hall, and SEPTEMBER SAYS, the feature debut of director Ariane Labed, based on the Daisy Johnson novel SISTERS which premiered in Un Certain Regard in Cannes 2024. Upcoming productions include the feature THE LOST CHILDREN OF TUAM, directed by Frank Berry, written by Rebecca Lenkiwicz, and starring Monica Dolan, and THE RACHEL INCIDENT with PageBoy and Universal Picture Group for Channel4, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Caroline O'Donoghue.

CARTHEW NEAL
Carthew Neal is an Academy nominated producer, who formed Piki Films with Taika Waititi, & also produces through Fumes. Carthew produced Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit & Hunt For the Wilderpeople, Jackie Van Beek & Madeleine Sami’s The Breaker Upperers. He is executive producer on Rachel House’s The Mountain, Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s We Were Dangerous, Damon Fepulea’i’s Red, White & Brass, Tanu Gago’s Picking Crew, & Curtis Vowell's Baby Done. He also produced David Farrier’s Tickled, & TV series Dark Tourist, Jessica Hansell’s Aroha Bridge, Sami’s Super City, Thomas Sainsbury’s Small Town Scandal, Angella Dravid’s Age/Sex /Location, & conceived & produced Wa$ted.

NADIA M. OLIVA
Nadia Maria Oliva is a film + series programmer, writer and interviewer with a passion for amplifying bold voices in international cinema and lessening barriers to access in the industry. Nadia leads curation for the UK + Ireland at MUBI, having previously developed public-, industry- and talent-facing programming at the Tate, Netflix, BAFTA, the BFI and Film London. Prior to her decade-long run in London, Nadia’s film journey began in her hometown of Toronto, Canada where she spent many years on the year-round programming team at the Toronto International Film Festival.