First Look: What's Coming to FOCUS in December
Here’s your first look at
FOCUS 2025 — where screen practitioners and pioneers come together to explore the business of production and the future of global entertainment.
To celebrate 10 years of FOCUS, we're excited to launch the brand-new
CO:LAB Pass — created exclusively for producers, directors, and key creatives ready to connect, collaborate, and spark new ideas.
Join us at London’s
Business Design Centre, 8–9 December, for two days of insight, inspiration, and industry-wide connection.
New for 2025, The CO:LAB Pass — an exclusive upgrade with tailored networking and deep-dive workshops for eligible participants, designed in direct response to delegate feedback.
Spaces are limited.
Workshops include:
- Navigating the Legal Landscape to Protect your Production with Lewis Silkin LLP
- From Vision to Venture: Turning Creative Independence into Sustainable Business with Coleman Moser
- Production Finance & AVEC: Getting It Right First Time with Saffery
..plus more workshops to be announced.
Speed Networking sessions, away from the hustle and bustle of the exhibition floor, offer the perfect place to meet with like-minded creators, each with a different theme (Collaborators, Changemakers, Groundbreakers).
The Business & Leadership Stage puts the 'business' in showbusiness — from co-production to creative finance. Highlights include:
- Disrupted Distribution: How Tech Reshaped Film Financing – and What We Missed
- Freelancing in Focus: Sustainable Careers with PGGB
- Building the Next Generation of Leaders with ScreenSkills
- TV Commercials: The Biggest Hits with Advertising Producers Association
The Craft and Innovation Stage explores the creative minds and emerging tech shaping tomorrow’s productions including:
- The Art of Collaboration: Blending Effects and Design for 'Warfare' with Cinesite
- Human Intelligence v. AI in Film Creation with Producers Without Borders
- Paying for Ideas: What’s Creativity Worth Now? featuring Elevator and IPA
- emPOWER Breakfast: Peace Down to Scale Up: Why Slowing Down is the New Way To Leap Forward
...and more!
See the latest programme info
HERE.
FOCUS is the only UK event where you can meet production partners from over 100 countries — from film commissions to studios to film-friendly locations, and more. See the line-up
HERE.
Interested in exhibiting? Only a few stands remain! Enquire Now
The FOCUS conference is developed in consultation with
Pact, The Production Guild, Directors UK, BFI, BFC, UK Screen Alliance, ScreenSkills, Advertising Producers Association, and Games London. It is presented in association with
Variety.
Register for a Complimentary Delegate Badge HERE
