The Final Cut: 2025 in Review, 2026 in Focus
join focus for our final event of 2025, a talk from k7’s clare thompson analysing trends, failures and opportunities in the screen sector, followed by festive networking drinks.
📆 Wednesday 10th December 2025, 4.00 - 5.15pm
📍 Film City Glasgow, 401 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 2QJ
After another challenging year for the screen sector, K7 Media's Clare Thompson will outline the key viewing, content, tech, financial trends that shaped and impacted us all in 2025 and highlight the practical opportunities indie should be aware of in the UK and globally in 2026. This special FOCUS seminar will look at what has shaped all sectors of the industry in the last 12 months, who has thrived or struggled, plus strategies for success going forward.
From shifts in commissioning priorities to emerging buyers, evolving funding models, new tech tools and fresh revenue sources across scripted and non-scripted, this session from FOCUS offers a clear snapshot of where we stand now and where our strategies should be for next year to ensure we have a successful and sustainable Scottish indie sector.
As well as offering invaluable insights into the industry and a chance to look at the year in review across the sector for indies and producers, this talk event will be followed by festive networking drinks. We hope to see you there!
About the speaker:
Clare Thompson is Non-Executive Director of the UK’s leading TV consultancy K7 Media, regularly writing and presenting on global content trends, the international non-scripted formats market and branded entertainment for their broadcast and production clients around the world. She spent her early career producing and developing entertainment and reality, much of it at ITV, where she ran the company’s in-house development team for several years. Since then, Clare has helped TV companies big and small to hone their ideas and creative strategy, running development and pitching workshops, team training sessions and channel commissioning projects for broadcasters and indies, including via Channel 4’s Emerging Indie Fund and Indielab in the UK, and internationally in the US, Europe and Asia.
General Information:
Accessibility:
This event will be held in the seminar room at Film City Glasgow which has step free access and is wheelchair accessible. The area for networking drinks after the talk will be held in the cafe. Accessible toilets are available in the venue. If you have any further accessibility requirements, please contact the FOCUS team in advance: hello@filmcityfutures.com
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COVID-19 statement:
Please do not attend in-person events if you, or anyone in your household, has had any symptoms or tested positive for COVID-19 within the past five days prior to the event.
If you have any access requirements for attending this event, please contact us: hello@filmcityfutures.com