Page to Screen - keynote with Jason Lust
A must-attend Keynote exploring Screen Adaptations of Children’s Content. Producer Jason Lust and his company Soluble Fish Productions has set-up a wide variety of movies throughout his career, most recently The History of Tom Thumb. Previously, Lust had a producing partnership with Animal Logic Entertainment, and during his tenure there the Lego Movie was produced. Lust was responsible for contracting over $1 billion dollars’ worth of pipeline business, in conjunction with setting up approximately fifteen features including Peter Rabbit (Sony) which was the second highest grossing feature in the UK for Sony in their company’s history behind James Bond. While serving a 7-year tenure as head of Jim Henson Company’s feature film division, Lust built a feature slate which includes Guillermo Del Toro’s 'Pinocchio' (Netflix). Lust is one of two founding partners at Circle of Confusion ('The Matrix' and 'The Walking Dead'), where he began his practice of using visual material to support the development and sale of genre movies.
Chair
Jessica Fox
XpoNorth Sector Specialist
Jessica Fox is a tv/film director, author and story consultant. She created/starred in the Youtube series “My Famous Dead Boyfriend”, directed commercials for PictoProductions and her short “Bluebeard” featured internationally at festivals. Her memoir, “Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets” was ‘romantic memoir of the year’ (Daily Mail) and is in development with Endeavor Content. Most recently she wrapped on her first feature film, “Stella” set in 1937 Scotland and co-founded Innerwell Media. Off set, Jessica created The Open Book, Airbnb’s most popular destination, and is a storytelling consultant for science organizations like NASA. Jessica is proud to be XpoNorth's film sector specialist.
Speakers
Jason Lust
Producer
Producer Jason Lust and his company Soluble Fish Productions has conceived, set-up, and developed a wide variety of movies throughout his career, most recently The History of Tom Thumb at Fox and a multi-film animated musical slate deal with a major European studio with a major universal musical talent as his partner to be announced shortly.
