💬 Diana Elbaum Lecture: BFFL Your Producer is Your Best Friend

​Renowned producer Diana Elbaum shares key insights into one of cinema’s most vital creative partnerships: the director-producer relationship. Drawing on her collaboration with auteurs such as Chantal Akerman, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, and Paul Verhoeven, and her experience producing over 100 films, documentaries, and series through her companies Entre Chien et Loup and Beluga Tree, she provides a candid, practical look at how this dynamic shapes a film’s development, production, and impact.