First Look: What's Coming to FOCUS in December

Announcing the First FOCUS Conference Sessions and Speakers

Here’s your first look at the FOCUS 2026 Programme — where screen practitioners and pioneers come together to explore the business of production and the future of global entertainment.

Join us at London’s Business Design Centre, 7-8 December, for two days of insight, inspiration, and industry-wide connection. 

Across the Insight Theatre, sponsored by Shadowbox Studios Global, and Create Theatre, sponsored by Eastbrook Studios London, FOCUS will once again, bring together leading practitioners and thought leaders from all sides of the screen industries, with film and TV, advertising and games all represented. Here's just a taste of the sessions:

• Amazon in the UK
• UK Next Gen: Producers
• Opening Doors: International Co-Production in Film and Television
• Presenting WePresent
• Development to Distribution: Animol
• Small Budget, Big Incentive. The UK Advantage
• Meet the UK Global Screen Fund
• Rebellion and Rogue Trooper
• A Tax Credit for UK Commercials?

And here's a taster of our huge roster of Speakers

Meet the World on the FOCUS Show Floor 

FOCUS is the only UK event where you can meet production partners from over 70 countries — from film commissions and studios to film-friendly locations and much more.  See the line-up HERE. 

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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.