{"id":61021,"date":"2026-05-06T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/61021\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:06:11","slug":"filmnations-glen-basner-to-recieve-zurich-summit-game-changer-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/61021\/","title":{"rendered":"FilmNation’s Glen Basner to Recieve Zurich Summit Game Changer Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGlen Basner<\/a>, founder and CEO of FilmNation Entertainment<\/a>, will be honored with this year\u2019s Game Changer Award at the 2026 Zurich Summit<\/a>, the film industry event<\/a> that accompanies the Zurich International<\/a> Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tBasner has built FilmNation<\/a> into one of the world\u2019s leading independent production, finance and sales companies, with credits that include such Oscar winners as Sean Baker\u2019s Anora<\/a><\/a>, Edward Berger\u2019s Conclave and Denis Villeneuve\u2019s Arrival<\/a>, alongside indie breakouts including Promising Young Woman, The Big Sick, and Knives Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside its premium label, FilmNation operates genre label Infrared, producing such movies as Novocaine<\/a> for Paramount and the upcoming Skeletons for Sony Pictures. The company is also active on the small screen, with recent series including Amazon Prime Video\u2019s The House of the Spirits, and HBO\u2019s Emmy Award-winning I Know This Much is True<\/a>; on stage with production like 2024 Best Play Tony-Winner Stereophonic, and in the podcast space with Ed Helms\u2019 SNAFU.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSince its founding in 2008, FilmNation Entertainment, under the steady leadership of Glen Basner, has grown into a major and dominant independent force with global ambitions,\u201d said Zurich Film Festival<\/a> CEO Christian Jungen in a statement announcing the award. \u201cBasner has consistently championed bold and distinctive cinematic voices\u2026His commitment to high-quality filmmaking is matched by a strong belief in the theatrical experience and a dedication to protecting and empowering directors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCommenting on the award, Basner said, \u201cwe all need to be game-changing in today\u2019s independent entertainment business,\u201d adding he was \u201cexcited to talk\u201d in Zurich \u201cabout why I remain entirely optimistic about our future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPrevious Zurich Game Changer Award winners include Neon CEO Tom Quinn, CAA Media Finance and International Film Group Head Roeg Sutherland, Legendary-193 CEO Patrick Wachsberger, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group Co-Chair and CEO Pam Abdy, and Sony Pictures Classics Co-Presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year\u2019s Zurich Summit runs Sept. 25-27. The 2026 Zurich Film Festival runs Sept. 24-Oct. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glen Basner, founder and CEO of FilmNation Entertainment, will be honored with this year\u2019s Game Changer Award at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33667,33668,33669,33670,272,33671,51,27085,33672],"class_list":{"0":"post-61021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zurich","8":"tag-anora","9":"tag-arrival","10":"tag-filmnation","11":"tag-glen-basner","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-knives-out","14":"tag-zurich","15":"tag-zurich-film-festival","16":"tag-zurich-summit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116528020703901175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}