“We Aren’t Financing Small Things”: Finance Execs From Ipr.Vc & Zurich Avenue Talk Growth Areas & The Projects They Want To Invest In — San Sebastian

Some of the industry’s most prolific investors were onstage this morning at San Sebastian’s Creative Investors’ Conference, where cash and how it’s being spent was the central topic of discussion.

In the session chaired by CAA Media Finance exec Sarah Schweitzman, financiers Andrea Scarso (Ipr.Vc), Frederic Fiore (Logical Pictures), Alexandra Tynion (Tricky Knot), and Karl Spoerri (Zurich Avenue) discussed the projects they are investing in and the work they are planning to stay clear of in the future.

“We aren’t financing small things,” Tynion explained during the session. “Urchin is the smallest film that we did this year, and the reason that we backed that is our relationship with Harris [Dickinson] and the belief we had in the strategy for how we were going to market it with theatrical distribution, leveraging Harris, his connections, and his audience.”

Tynion continued to say that Tricky Knot, an entertainment financing…