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Trade Forum Highlights
Everything you need to know about film making, both the art and the business, from industry leading producers and directors:
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Interview: Michael Monello Co-Producer, The Blair Witch Project
Interview: Peter Broderick
President, Next Wave Films
Interview: Peter Dekom Management Consultant / Investment Banking
25 Years of Cinematography. Michael Chapman in Conversation
Michael Chapman is a two-time Oscar-nominated director of
photography (for Raging Bull and The Fugitive) whose career has
included films as diverse as Hal Ashby's The Last Detail, Martin
Ritt's The Front, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and The Last
Waltz, and Carl Reiner's The Man with Two Brains. Recent credits
includes Gregory Hoblit's Primal Fear and Ivan Reitman's Six
Days, Seven Nights as well as the upcoming White River Kid and
Rob Reiner's The Story of Us. Additionally, Chapman's
directorial credits include The Viking Sagas, Clan of the Cave
Bear, Annihilator and All the Right Moves.
Highlight: Motion pictures and the death of
opera. (1:19)
Highlight: "This new technology is . . . going
to invade our lives." (:50)
Highlight: Escape from the "tyrany of story".
(1:28)
Highlight: "I was a complete fraud!" (1:50)
Interviewer:
Jack Vermee Programming Consultant
Vancouver International Film Festival
Showrunners: The Juggling Act From concept through to finance
and broadcast, an increasing number of writer/producers are
creating and producing their own series. The responsibility of
taking on two major roles in a series production, the different
skill sets involved, the vision and tenacity required to get the
show up and running... who are the Wunderkinds that accomplish
these feats? The showrunners of Law and Order, Traders and
DaVinci's Inquest take us behind the scenes and, as an added
bonus, tackle a simulated project.
Highlight: Script changes and the Mink factor
(2:53)
Highlight: Why Law and Order is like Bew
itched (3:15)
Moderator:
Christine Shipton Senior Vice President, Creative Affairs Alliance Atlantis
Communications
Guest Speakers:
René Balcer Executive Producer/Head
Writer/Showrunner Law & Order
Alyson Feltes Executive Producer/Creator/Writer
Traders and Justice
Chris Haddock Executive Producer/Writer/Director Da Vinci's Inquest
Second Time Around Shoestring budgets are the rule for
first features. but at least there. s artistic control! However,
what if the big guys like you? If a deal comes along with more
cash for feature number two, what else comes with it ? Who will
call the shots from script to final cut? Will you have to work
with cast and crew who aren. t your choice? Will you be pegged
into a certain genre? Are you prepared for the transition?
Explore this territory with directors who know the lay of the
land.
Highlight Doug Liman explains the significance of
touch football for Swingers
(4:43)
Moderator:
David Hauka Producer/Director
Guest Speakers:
Doug Liman Director Go
Alexander PayneDirector, Election
Jeremy Podeswa Director, The Five Senses
Packaging & Presales From packaging to pre-sales, bonding and gap financing
independent feature film financing packages can be constructed
in a variety of ways. A group of seasoned professionals from LA
and Canada help you discover which angles are best for your
project, the risks involved, pulling the deals together and the
names of the players.
Highlight Packaging your pitch (5:50)
Highlight The advantages of filming in Canada (30:6)
Highlight "The first thing you need to do" (:40)
Moderator:
Steve Hegyes Executive Producer, Dirty interview
Guest Speakers:
Sergio Aguero Agent, Endeavor
Scott Boras Vice President, Im
perial Entertainment
Group
Kirk D'Amico President
Myriad Pictures interview
Mary-Pat Gleeson Vice President Red Sky Entertainment interview
Brick by Brick
Diversification, international and
interprovincial co-productions, alternative releasing methods
and the establishing of a distribution arm are some of the
strategies used by successful production companies. Rhombus
Media, Shaftesbury Films, Cadence Entertainment and Crescent
Entertainment are open for business.
Highlight Internet as a distribution medium
(1:58)
Highlight Risky Business(3:46)
Moderator:
Sharon McGowan Producer Better Than Chocolate
Guest Speakers:
Niv Fichman Partner
Rhombus Media interview
Christina Jennings Chairman Shaftesbury Films interview
Scott Kennedy President/CEO Cadence Entertainment
Jayme Pfahl Vice Managing Director Crescent Entertainment
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