Glen Basner , founder and CEO of FilmNation Entertainment , will be honored with this year’s Game Changer Award at the 2026 Zurich Summit , the film industry event that accompanies the Zurich International Film Festival.

Basner has built FilmNation into one of the world’s leading independent production, finance and sales companies, with credits that include such Oscar winners as Sean Baker’s Anora , Edward Berger’s Conclave and Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival , alongside indie breakouts including Promising Young Woman , The Big Sick , and Knives Out .

Alongside its premium label, FilmNation operates genre label Infrared, producing such movies as Novocaine for Paramount and the upcoming Skeletons for Sony Pictures.…