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CAA Media Finance’s Roeg Sutherland, Benjamin Kramer on Protecting the Independent Film Business
Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentRoeg Sutherland and Benjamin Kramer, who co-lead CAA Media Finance, have been working on the agency-led virtual market in Cannes, and spoke to Variety about the prospects for the independent film scene.CAA Media Finance’s projects in the market include Antoine Fuqua’s “Emancipation,” starring Will Smith; Dan Gilroy’s “Faster, Better, Cheaper”; Ric Roman Waugh’s “Kandahar,” starring Gerard Butler; “Rebel,” directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah; and Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.”What was the thinking behind having a uniform, united market rather than every company just doing their own thing?Roeg Sutherland: In a time where everything seems a little decentralized and complicated, it was