Graham Taylor, agent and true believer, is the last of the great cheerleaders of the independent film industry.
Either that or he’s the among the first to see the start of a robust return to viability with interest from capital, smart producers and companies with libraries to sell.
“The whole independent film space is ripe for change,” he says, chain-smoking (brave!) outside the Four Seasons in Toronto.
We knew that. But Taylor has a notion how.
The agent now runs the newly-merged William Morris Endeavor independent film division, having displaced longtime indie world agents Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson, who were ousted by the agency’s board after the two agencies merged earlier this year.