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Industry Panel 1
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Time 7pm-9pm
Subject: "How to get your film project in front of TV Executives" This includes pitching your idea, getting them to produce your project, dealing with Acquisition Executives and more.
Location: Frederick Douglass Creative Art Center Drama, 270 West 96 Street, NYC
Fee: $8
Panelist include:
ROSALIE MUSKATT
Rosalie Muskatt, Court TV’s Vice President of Original Movies, joined the channel in May 2000 to help create and launch the Original Movies Division.
Under Rosalie’s guidance and leadership, with its first three original movies--GUILT BY ASSOCIATION, THE INTERROGATION OF MICHAEL CROWE (winner of the prestigious 2002 George Foster Peabody Award) and most recently, CHASING FREEDOM--Court TV’s original movies have been broadcast to critical acclaim and have helped to bring new viewers to the channel.
Prior to joining Court TV, Rosalie was an Executive Producer of Movies and Mini-Series for Columbia TriStar Television. Her credits include MIDWIVES for the Lifetime Network, based on Chris Bojhalian’s best-selling novel starring Sissy Spacek, and INTO THIN AIR: DEATH ON EVEREST for ABC, based on Jon Krakauer's best-selling book.
Rosalie was also responsible for identifying and developing many other properties for cable and broadcast outlets, including the award-winning mini-series LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND: ME AND MY SHADOWS, and THE FACE ON THE MILK CARTON, based on the award-winning young adult novel for CBS.
Rosalie has also held executive positions at 20th Century-Fox, MGM, MTM Entertainment, and Interscope Communications.
Rosalie is the co-founder of Roseville Productions, an independent production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York, which focuses on programming for the young adult and children’s markets.
Industry Panel 2
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Time 7pm-9pm (reception at the end)
Subject: Spot light on Distribution
Location: Peter Norton Symphony Space’s Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre
2537 Broadway (southwest corner of 95th Street)
Fee: $10 to NYWIFT members • $15 to Nonmembers, There will be a networking reception immediately following.
Attention all filmmakers: whether your film is in the can, or you’ve only finished the final draft of your script, it’s never too early to start looking for a distributor. Knowing the multitude of distribution channels available will only benefit your project as you make your pitch.
Join NYWIFT at this year’s Through Her Eyes: Women of Color Film Festival 2004 (June 28 - July 11) for a frank and enlightening discussion on distribution in today’s market. Led by moderator Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director of Women Make Movies, this panel of experts will cover all genres as they offer an inside view on what distributors are seeking, and reveal how filmmakers can find the appropriate distributor for their work.
This is the second annual Women of Color Festival. Formed by Jacqueline Wade and Sharon Hope, the festival serves the needs of emerging playwrights, directors, filmmakers, actors, dancers, visual artists, and musicians—especially women of color.
Panelists include:
 Alice Elliot’s The Collector Of Bedford Street was nominated for a 2002 Academy Award in the Short Documentary Category. It is distributed through New Day Films, a cooperative distributor Elliot is involved with. The film won 18 other awards at numerous festivals, including the Aspen Short Film Festival, the USA Festival, the Florida Film Festival, the Heartland Festival, the Silver Street Film and Video Festival, and the Big Bear Lake Film Festival. It was a finalist in The Special People Category of the 2003 FREDDIE Awards from MediMedia’s International Health & Medical Media Awards, and is part of the National Council on Foundations touring festival. Currently Elliot is working on three new projects and applying for outreach funding.
 Afua Kafi-Akua is Distribution Director at Third World Newsreel. She began her media career over 20 years ago as a development assistant at The Museum of the Moving Image, then known as the Astoria Film Archive. She soon moved to Film/Video Arts, co-producing the documentary Just Because Of Who We Are, distributed by Women Make Movies. That led to positions as Coordinator of Educational Sales and Outreach at Women Make Movies, Sales Director at distributor The Cinema Guild, and Sales and Project Coordinator at Advanced Media Concepts, where she produced DVDs, CD-ROMs, enhanced CD’s and websites. Kafi-Akua plans to produce documentaries, educational, experimental multimedia and narrative films with her son, an apprentice editor.
 William Keys heads the acquisitions department at Film Movement, identifying American independent, international and documentary films at top film festivals, then negotiating select films for North American distribution. He began his career over a decade ago at The Washington Post as a documentary researcher. After serving as a special assis- tant to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Keys worked on numerous feature films, commercials and music videos for such directors such as Nick Gomez, Spike Lee and Taylor Hackford. Through The Shooting Gallery he directed a sports television program and various 30-second spots. Keys developed his knowledge of the studio side of the business at Artisan Entertainment, Miramax, and USA Films, now Focus Features.
Nicole Murphy is the Sales Representative at Sony Pictures Classics, where she has worked on and released such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Talk To Her, Winged Migration, Pollock, Sweet and Lowdown, Good Bye Lenin!, Dogtown and ZBoys, Triplets of Belleville, Fog of War, Bon Voyage and Mario Van Peeble’s current film Baadassss! After college Murphy went to work for C.N.A Re as a broker in the Latin American Reinsurance Division, before moving to Sony Pictures Classics.
Seymour Wishman has been the president of First Run Features for 20 years. Prior to that, he was a trial lawyer for 16 years, served as a deputy assistant to President Jimmy Carter, and in his spare time wrote five novels and several screenplays. First Run Features was founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers to advance the distribution of independent film and quickly gained a reputation for its controversial catalog of daring fiction and non-fiction works. In 1987, First Run Features and Icarus Films merged their non-theatrical divisions to create First Run/Icarus Films, now one ofthe leading distributors to nontheatrical markets in the United States and Canada. First Run Features remains one of the largest independent theatrical and home video distributors in the US, releasing 12 to 15 films a year nationwide, and 40 to 50 videos and DVDs.
 Moderator Debra Zimmerman has been the Executive Director of Women Make Movies, a non-profit feminist media organization, since 1983. During her tenure, the organization has grown into the largest distributor of films and videos by and about women in the world. Its Production Assistance Program has assisted such features as Boys Don’t Cry and Love & Diane, a recent WMM theatrical release. Zimmerman lectures on women’s media, media distribution and fundraising throughout the world, has been a grants panelist for government and private foundations and has served as a jury member for numerous festivals.
Produced by Nicole Franklin, Cyrille Phipps, Barbara Meyer and Jacqueline Wade.
Industry Panel 3
Thursday, July 1, 2004
Time 7Pm - 8:30pm
Subject "From Fespaco to Britain and Brazil: Great Black and Pan African Film Festival/Television Markets and the World"
Fee: $8.00
Location: TBA
Panelists include:
Jaymes Hines, Chairman of the Public Relations the FESPACO Paul Robeson Award Initiative (PRAI). The Fespaco Paul Robeson Award is the coveted award, established by Fespaco officials to pay tribute to the legacy of Black people in the African Diaspora and Paul Robeson, an international legend of African descent. The prize goes to the best film, in the Diaspora section of the festival, for its remarkable technical and artistic qualities.
Fespaco was founded in 1969 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, thanks to the efforts of a few serious African film enthusiasts. Due to the admiration and hope that it inspired amongs the general populace and filmmakers alike, the festival became an institution by governmental decree on January 7, 1972. It is a bi-annual festivbal starting the last Saturday in February every odd year. The next FESPACO festival convenes February 26 thry March 5, 2005. For additional info, go to www.robesonaward.com
Director, Writer and Newmedia Producer, Jaymes A. Hines has spent nearly 20 years in music, film, television and the newmedia industries in numerous creative and executive positions in Europe, USA and Canada. Jaymes was recognized during the dotcom boom as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential People of the Web" by WebSight, and Internet trade publication, for he is a visionary and advocate of the "Digital Revolution" in the cultural industries of music, film, television, visual arts and publishing.
Mr. Hines is currently co-developing a multi-part documentary music special, "We Sing!"which tells the story of the beginnings of Black Gospel music-tracing its roots from the early 16th century origins of Christian hymns, sung by enslaved Africans, to the current worldwide appeal of today's most popular gospel singers and its impact on American culture and history.
Tanya Kersey is one of the Hollywood's most respected and well regarded entertainment journalists and commentators. As the founder and editor-in-chief of the Black Talent News, the leading trade publication for Blacks in the entertainment industry, and the founder and executive director of the Hollywood Black Film Festival, Kersey has an enviable reputation for having her finger on the pulse of what's happening in Hollywood.
A frequent keynote speaker and lecturer, Tanya recently gave the keynote speech at the 16th Annual Howard E. Mitchell Memorial Conference Luncheon for the Black Wharton Undergraduate Association at the University of Pennsylvania's pretigious Wharton School.
Her latest venture is the host/producer of the online entertainment newsmagzine show, "Inside Urban Hollywoood with Tanya Kersey," which will beging airing on EUR-TV in the Spring 2004. "Inside Urban Hollywoood" will provide viewers with entertainment news analysis, interviews and in-depth information on the issues of the day that urban Hollywood will be talking about tomorrow.
Industry Panel 4
Saturday, July 3, 2004
Time 4pm
Subject: How to finance your film
Price $8
Location: Julia de Burgos Cultural Center (1689 Lexington Avenue at 105th St.).
Industry Panel 5
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Time: 7:30 to 9pm
Subject: “One-On-One” with Warrington Hudlin , host: Tanya Kersey of Black Talent News (please see: Thursday, July 1, 2004 for more info. on Tanya)
Location: Millennium Film Workshop (66 East 4th Street, NYC)
Panelist Warrington Hudlin
“Warrington Hudlin is the Founder & Chief of dvRepublic.org and the President of the Black Filmmaker Foundation (BFF). Warrington Hudlin has built a distinguished career as a pioneering black filmmaker , organizer, and curator. Savoy Magazine listed Warrington Hudlin as one of the top 100 most influential blacks in America. Warrington Hudlin is the executive producer of three television pilots for the MTV Networks’ Spike TV channel: Big Head People, an animated political sketch comedy show; a political activist reality show, Here Comes Mustafa; and a televised social issue forum, The Watchmen: Defenders of Democracy. In addition, Warrington Hudlin is the host/producer of an upcoming Starz/Encore cable television special which will feature a dialogue between Hudlin and
The legendary pioneers of African American cinema, Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Pebbles. Warrington Hudlin is best known as the Producer of popular feature films HOUSE PARTY, BOOMERANG, and BEBE KIDS and the award winning HBO special, COSMIC SLOP. HOUSE PARTY, produced for $2.5 million dollars, grossed $27 million dollars at the U.S. box office.”(DV REPRBLIC) Join us for an evening with Warrington Hudlin
Host: Tanya Kersey
Tanya Kersey is one of the Hollywood's most respected and well regarded entertainment journalists and commentators...A frequest keynote speaker and lecturer, Tanya recently gave the keynote speech at the 16th Annual Howard E.Mitchell Memorial Conference luncheon for the Black Wharton Undergraduate Association at the University of Pennsylvania's pretigous Wharton School. Tanya has just completed the 6th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival in LA, in which she is the founder. Next, Tanya will be speaking at the upcoming Black Caucus 2004. Please join us for what should be a memorable evening with host: Tanya Kersey and special guest: Warrington Hudlin.
Fee: $8.00
Industry Panel 6
Thursday, July 8, 2004
Time: 7pm-9pm
Subject IFP and other support organizations
Fee: $8
Location: Julia de Burgos Cultural Center (1689 Lexington Avenue at 105th St.).
Industry Panel 7
Friday, July 9, 2004
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Subject: “Thinking Out of the Box: National and International Connections.” We will explore avenues to raise money including investors outside the US and local government based film initiatives.
Location: Julia de Burgos Cultural Center (1689 Lexington Avenue Ave. at 105th St.)
Fee: $8.00
Panelist
Hisani DuBose, Founder/director of NJ Movie Maker’s Network/ A service organization for independent movie makers in New Jersey offering monthly seminars, which covers topics that will help filmmakers move their projects forward. Panelists are always working professionals in the industry. A recent workshop was on: the “Business of Animation”, with professionals from Disney Studios on the panel. Hisani is also, Screenwriter/Director/Producer for Seven Generations Productions. Other credits include: Associate Programmer for New Jersey Performing Arts
Center, Co-produced the “Brick City Blues” ‘play-on-words’ project with Grammy and Tony nominated author of “Bring in Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk,” Reg E Gaines. As a playwright, Hisani wrote, “Different Kinda Blues” author of book and lyrics. It performed at Seton Hall University then moved to a professional theater in Newark, N.J for a successful 10 show run.
Panelist:
Jaymes Hines, please see July 1,2004 panelist for more details on Jaymes.
Subject: "From Fesaco to Britian and Brazil: Great Black and Pan African Film Festival/Televison Markets around the World. |
