David Chase, Sharon Horgan, Bond Casting Director Head To Karlovy Differ
David Chase, the seven-time Emmy winner and showrunner of HBO collection The Sopranos, is about to be a key speaker on the upcoming version of the Karlovy Differ’s Business Days program, the trade strand of the Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Competition.
Additional audio system this 12 months embrace Unhealthy Sisters writer-actress-producer Sharon Horgan, Succession director and cinematographer Andrij Parekh, Riff Raff Leisure’s Ben Jackson and Katie Sinclair, Nomadland producer Mollye Asher, The Damage Locker producer Greg Shapiro and Debbie McWilliams, the legendary casting director who has spent many years casting James Bond movies.
Chase will take part in an on-stage dialog at Karlovy Differ on July 8 the place he’ll replicate on his extraordinary contribution to tv and movie storytelling whereas discussing the evolution of the audiovisual trade and inventive dangers. He’ll draw from his greater than fifty years of expertise within the trade, throughout which he has earned credit on notable collection similar to The Magician, Kolchak: The Evening Stalker, The Rockford Information, Off the Minnesota Strip, Northern Publicity and I’ll Fly Away.
The Sopranos, arguably his most celebrated work, ran six seasons and earned quite a few awards, together with 21 Emmys, 5 Golden Globes and a George Foster Peabody Award.
BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated actress-writer-producer Horgan is thought for her work on Unhealthy Sisters, Disaster and Divorce whereas Czech cinematographer Parekh is thought for his work on Succession and Searching. The 2 will be a part of the stage collectively for a session on July 8 title ‘The Cinematic Collection: Storytelling within the Age of Streaming’.
British casting director McWilliams, who has forged each James Bond movie since 1981’s For Your Eyes Solelyand who additionally labored on cult comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail will participate in a KVIFF Talks particular panel on July 10.
In the meantime, Mollye Asher, producer of Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland and The Rider will be a part of The Damage Locker producer Greg Shapiro on July 7 for a panel dialogue titled ‘Curating Initiatives and Constructing a Producing Id.’ Asher may also participate in a Movie Unbiased workshop organized for Czech and Slovak producers.
Riff Raff Leisure’s Ben Jackson and Katie Sinclair may also contact down on the pageant this 12 months to debate their firm, which Jackson based with Jude Regulation. The corporate is behind a raft of tasks similar to Black Rabbit and crime thriller The Order which premiered on the Venice Movie Competition in 2024.
Juan de Dios Larraín, co-founder of Fabula, which he runs together with his brother Pablo Larraín, may also contact down on the pageant this 12 months. The producer, whose credit embrace A Implausible Girl, The Everlasting Reminiscence, Spencer and Maria, will be a part of curator Steffen Kottkamp for a dialogue about different distribution paths for movies via their respective new corporations Pijama and Administrators Assortment.
A key theme at this 12 months’s version will likely be technological transformation and storytelling within the period of synthetic intelligence. Cecilia Shen, alumna of the worldwide Forbes 30 Beneath 30 class of 2026 and CEO of Utopai AI, will current her imaginative and prescient of the technological way forward for movie and tv manufacturing.
Moreover, KVIFF’s movie program is ramping up its native presence by including two Czech titles – The Cursed Warrior, from Vojtěch Frič and Tomáš Dianiška, and 6 part-miniseries Filter – to its lineup this 12 months.
The 60th version of KVIFF takes place July 3-11, 2026.
