Complete Summit Audio Set

You Get An Additional Bonus Item:
“What Do You Do?” Developing Your 30-Second Elevator Pitch
An Audio Strategy Session with Hollywood Career Strategist Tanya Kersey
and Hollywood Correspondent/Media Expert, Gayl Murphy

(6 hr. 27 min./MP3 audio download/$89.95)

Session #1 - Who's Financing What, How, Where, When & Why?

This panel of high-powered film financiers, bankers, producers and financial executives engaged in a no-holds-barred discussion of where the money is and how you can get it.  They discussed who's financing independent films and what type of financing they are offering.  They also offered creative strategies on how you can raise money for your movie -- from investor financing (private equity capital), institutional investors (hedge funds and wealth funds), and bank financing to co-productions, foreign pre-sales and tax incentives. 

Moderated by Tanya Kersey, Founder/Executive Director, Hollywood Black Film Festival; the panelists included Roy Salter, President, Salter Group; Jeff Gonzalez, COO and CFO of Maya Entertainment; Douglas Lowell, Financial Executive, Gillen Group; Jeff Begun, Business Development Executive, The Incentives Office; Michael Stewart II, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney; D. Jeffrey Andrick, Founder/Owner, XL.Ent Media Group

(1 hr. 35 min./MP3 audio download/$29.95)

Session #2 - Structuring, Packaging & Negotiating the Deal

Writer/director/producer Bobby Mardis moderated this panel of film financiers, producers, consultants and attorneys, as they discussed what investors and financiers are looking for in a film project package.  Everything from story, budget, ROI, attached talent, marketing and foreign sales potential was discussed.  The panel also shared insightful tips on how to secure talent without money and how do I get money without talent. 

The panelists on hand for the discussion were Anne Marie Gillen, Independent Producer & Consultant, Gillen Group, LLC; Dama Claire, Production Executive; Bonnie Berry LaMon, Esq., Vice President, Preston Picture Co.; Louise Levison, Film Finance Consultant, President of Business Strategies; Peter Graham, Managing Partner, 120dB Films Tax Finance

(1 hr. 25 min./MP3 audio download/$29.95)

Session #3 - Strategies for Selling Your Film and Maximizing Distribution & Revenue

A panel of acquisitions and distributions executives talked about distribution opportunities for the independent filmmaker -- how you can really make money in secondary markets and alternative distribution channels -- from innovative theatrical service deals and direct to DVD models to digital distribution platforms.  Outside of a theatrical release, what options do you have?  What’s the cost benefit analysis for undertaking your own distribution?

Moderated by entertainment attorney Mychal Wilson, Esq., Mindfusion Law; the panelists included Mike Williams, Head Filmmaker Relations & Acquisitions, Indieflix; Tanya York, President, York Entertainment;Valerie Watts Meraz, Vice President, Content Acquisitions, Showtime

(1 hr. 52 min./MP3 audio download/$29.95)

Session #4 - Pitch Clinic: You Have to Know How to Pitch Well in Order to Sell your Project

The panelists offered valuable feedback and advice to filmmakers on how to leverage their project elements into an attractive package for distributors, acquisitions executives, financiers and investors.  They also offered up useful packaging and financing tips on the effective ways to present projects for cable, television, direct-to-video and theatrical distribution.

Moderated by writer-producer-manager Richard Willis, Jr.; the panelists includedBrian Stevenson, Senior V.P. Film Distribution, All Channel Films; Lonnie Ramati,  Executive VP Business And Legal Affairs, Nu Image/Millenium Films; Melvin Butters, Vice President of Acquisitions, North American Motion Pictures, Barnholtz Entertainment; Stu Pollard, President, Pollard Film; Angela Northington, Production Consultant/Producer's Rep

(1 hr. 35 min./MP3 audio download/$29.95)