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\n\tDavid Chase<\/a>, the seven-time Emmy winner and showrunner of HBO series\u00a0The Sopranos<\/em>, is set to be a key speaker at the upcoming edition of the Karlovy Vary<\/a>\u2019s Industry Days program, the industry strand of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tFurther speakers this year include\u00a0Bad Sisters\u00a0<\/em>writer-actress-producer Sharon Horgan<\/a>,\u00a0Succession<\/em> director and cinematographer Andrij Parekh,\u00a0Riff Raff Entertainment\u2019s Ben Jackson and Katie Sinclair, Nomadland\u00a0<\/em>producer Mollye Asher,\u00a0The Hurt Locker<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>producer Greg Shapiro and Debbie McWilliams<\/a>, the legendary casting director who has spent decades casting James Bond films.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tChase will participate in an on-stage conversation at Karlovy Vary on July 8 where he will reflect on his extraordinary contribution to television and film storytelling while discussing the evolution of the audiovisual industry and creative risks. He\u2019ll draw from his more than fifty years of experience in the industry, during which he has earned credits on notable series such as\u00a0The Magician<\/em>,\u00a0Kolchak: The Night Stalker<\/em>,\u00a0The Rockford Files<\/em>,\u00a0Off the Minnesota Strip<\/em>,\u00a0Northern Exposure\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0I\u2019ll Fly Away<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe Sopranos<\/em>, arguably his most celebrated work, ran six seasons and earned numerous awards, including 21 Emmys, five Golden Globes and a George Foster Peabody Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated actress-writer-producer Horgan is known for her work on\u00a0Bad Sisters<\/em>,\u00a0Catastrophe\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Divorce<\/em>\u00a0while Czech cinematographer Parekh is known for his work on\u00a0Succession<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Hunting<\/em>. The two will join the stage together for a session on July 8 title \u2018The Cinematic Series: Storytelling in the Age of Streaming\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBritish casting director McWilliams, who has cast every James Bond film since 1981\u2019s\u00a0For Your Eyes Only<\/em>and who also worked on cult comedy\u00a0Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em>\u00a0will take part in a KVIFF Talks special panel on July 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tMeanwhile, Mollye Asher, producer of Chloe Zhao\u2019s\u00a0Nomadland\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Rider<\/em>\u00a0will join\u00a0The Hurt Locker\u00a0<\/em>producer Greg Shapiro on July 7 for a panel discussion titled \u2018Curating Projects and Building a Producing Identity.\u2019 Asher will also take part in a Film Independent workshop organized for Czech and Slovak producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tRiff Raff Entertainment\u2019s Ben Jackson and Katie Sinclair will also touch down at the festival this year to discuss their company, which Jackson founded with Jude Law. The company is behind a raft of projects such as\u00a0Black Rabbit<\/em>\u00a0and crime thriller\u00a0The Order\u00a0<\/em>which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tJuan de Dios Larra\u00edn, co-founder of Fabula, which he runs with his brother Pablo Larra\u00edn, will also touch down at the festival this year. The producer, whose credits include\u00a0A Fantastic Woman<\/em>,\u00a0The Eternal Memory<\/em>,\u00a0Spencer\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Maria<\/em>, will join curator Steffen Kottkamp for a discussion about alternative distribution paths for films through their respective new companies Pijama and Directors Collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tA key theme at this year\u2019s edition will be technological transformation and storytelling in the era of artificial intelligence. Cecilia Shen, alumna of the global Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 2026 and CEO of Utopai AI, will present her vision of the technological future of film and television production.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAdditionally, KVIFF\u2019s film program is ramping up its local presence by adding two Czech titles \u2013\u00a0The Cursed Warrior<\/em>, from Vojt\u011bch Fri\u010d and Tom\u00e1\u0161 Diani\u0161ka, and six part-miniseries\u00a0Filter\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 to its lineup this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe 60th<\/sup>\u00a0edition of KVIFF takes place July 3-11, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Chase, the seven-time Emmy winner and showrunner of HBO series\u00a0The Sopranos, is set to be a key speaker at the upcoming edition of the Karlovy Vary\u2019s Industry Days program, the industry strand of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.\u00a0 Further speakers this year include\u00a0Bad Sisters\u00a0writer-actress-producer Sharon Horgan,\u00a0Succession director and cinematographer Andrij Parekh,\u00a0Riff Raff Entertainment\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2483246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[342529,388518,488894,486354,347816,360481],"class_list":["post-2483245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-david-chase","tag-debbie-mcwilliams","tag-karlovy-vary","tag-karlovy-vary-international-film-festival","tag-sharon-horgan","tag-the-hurt-locker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/David-Chase-Sharon-Horgan-Bond-Casting-Director-Head-To-Karlovy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483247,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483245\/revisions\/2483247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2483246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}