Cross-Media Financing
by Website Update on May 11, 2011 in Film Videos and Podcasts
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Creating cross-media projects demands a whole new set of collaborators and finance partners from across the media industries. This session examines potential new alliances and partnerships with online networks, multiplatform broadcasters, brands, agencies and other new financiers.
From the 2011 Cross-Media Forum
Moderator
Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-Chief, Filmmaker Magazine
Scott Macaulay is a New York-based producer and co-president, with producing partner Robin O’Hara, of the production company Forensic Films. He is also the editor and co-founder of Filmmaker magazine, and one of the founders of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. Among Macaulay’s producing credits are a number of prize-winning and acclaimed films including Peter Sollett’s debut film, Raising Victor Vargas, Alice Wu’s debut feature Saving Face, Tom Noonan’s What Happened Was…, Frank Whaley’s Joe the King, Harmony Korine’s Gummo and Jesse Peretz’s First Love, Last Rites. Other credits include Jesse Peretz’s comedy, The Chateau, Harmony Korine’s Dogma 95 feature, julien donkey-boy, and John Leguizamo’s directorial debut Undefeated.
Panelists
Ingrid Kopp is the New Media Consultant for the TFI New Media Fund and is Editor-in-Chief of Shooting People – an international networking organization for independent filmmakers with over 38,000 members. She began her career in the Documentaries department at Channel 4 Television in the UK before moving to New York. Ingrid also teaches Digital Bootcamp workshops for filmmakers, focusing on audience engagement and harnessing technology for storytelling.
An early advocate and pioneer of cross-media storytelling, digital distribution and filmmaking, Liz is a digital film and media expert.
She is the Founder and CEO of Power the Pixel (PttP), a leading cross-media organisation that specialises in new ways for content creators and businesses to create, finance and distribute stories and engage with audiences across multiple platforms. PttP runs the renowned annual Cross-Media Forum in London, connecting the film and media industries with key international innovators in a conference, market and think tank; and The Pixel Lab, a first of its kind project-focused business development course for cross-media properties.
Liz advises many international media organisations including the UK Film Council, where was Digital Strategy Advisor, and is regularly invited to keynote at international conferences and film festivals, including Berlin, Cannes, Rotterdam, London.
Liz was the Programme Director of Digimart’s Global Digital Distribution Summit, in Montréal, an international forum that brought together for the first time ever leading filmmakers, innovators and digital pioneers.
Liz set up and ran the UK office for Next Wave Films (a company of the Independent Film Channel US) from 1998 to 2002. Pioneering Next Wave Films helped exceptionally talented filmmakers, such as Christopher Nolan, Jo Carnahan and Amir Bar-Lev, launch their careers.
After studying philosophy and multimedia, Hugues Sweeney worked at Radio-Canada as program manager for Bande à part (www.bandeapart.fm), a multiplatform project using web, radio and television to promote emerging musicians and artists. He joined the NFB in 2009 to develop interactive production rooted in the great tradition of documentary and animation.
Lance Weiler is a critically acclaimed award-winning writer / director. Recognized as a pioneer because of the way he makes and distributes his work – WIRED magazine named him “One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” He has successfully self-distributed his films THE LAST BROADCAST and HEAD TRAUMA to more than 20 countries while grossing over 5 million dollars in the process. Lance is currently developing a number of film, TV and gaming projects.