Lucky Red's Occhipinti at Locarno: Algorithms Would Have Killed 'Ida' and 'Moonlight'

At Locarno Pro's StepIn panel on 6 August 2026, Lucky Red founder Andrea Occhipinti said the distributor uses no algorithms, citing 'Ida' and 'Moonlight' as films that looked unviable on paper. The panel, themed 'Power. People. Data.', split mk2's Yasmine Talli, Design Otherwise's Doris Ruth Eikhof and Occhipinti on whether data should drive or serve creative choices, according to the Hollywood Reporter.