Welcome to Independent Filmmaker Day!
Rubenstein Business Law and Ornstein Schuler State Film Tax Credits present Independent Filmmaker Day, held Live via Zoom on March 24th & 25th, 2021.
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced producer, this event is for you. We help independent creators from around the world develop new projects, connect within the industry, and champion collaborative and impactful storytelling at all stages.
For beginners, you will hear from industry experts providing you with real-world practical advice to help turn your dream idea or screenplay into reality. Rather than paying thousands of dollars to attend film school or lengthy monthly/weekly courses, in only 2 days with IFD you will learn how to pitch your idea, structure your project, find funding, and locate distribution.
For experienced filmmakers, you will hear from Oscar and Emmy Nominated Experts that will teach you how to add value to your projects. You will learn new strategies on how to finance your film/tv project, how to market your film/tv project using social media, how to attract A-List talent, how to maximize tax strategies under IRS Code 181, and how to sell your film/tv project to networks, Netflix and Amazon.
We are also extremely proud to present our Direct Access Speed Dating Panel where you will get a chance to network with Producers, Financers, and Distributors about your project so you can establish real connections that you cannot find elsewhere.
March 24, 2021 -
3 pm - 10 pm EST - Film/TV Panel Discussions!
Panel Discussions: Hear from industry experts on a variety of topics in film/tv including: acting, directing, producing, film funding, distribution, social media, product placement, post-production, entertainment law, and more. Each panel lasts one hour and includes Q&A from the audience. When you register on Eventbrite, you will receive an email 3 days before the event to register on Zoom, which will provide the Zoom link.
3 pm - 3:50 pm EST - How I Made My Project a Success
1) Howard Gould - Howard is an acclaimed Executive Producer and Writer. In television, Howard was executive producer and head writer of Cybill when it won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series, and held the same positions on Instant Mom and The Jeff Foxworthy Show. In film, Howard wrote and directed the feature film The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, starring Tim Allen, Elisha Cuthbert, Andie MacDowell and Jenna Elfman. Other feature credits include MR. 3000 and Shrek the Third.
2) Anjul Nigam - Anjul Nigam is a veteran Actor and Producer who has been working in the entertainment industry for over 20 years. In television, Anjul has recurred on or guest-starred in more than 50 prime-time series including "Grey's Anatomy," "Childrens Hospital," "Ghost Whisperer," "Lie To Me," "Crash," "Supernatural," "CSI," "CSI: New York," "Medium," "Huff," "Shark," "ER", "MDs", and "NYPD Blue."
3) Erman Baradi - Screenwriter and Hollywood event producer often referred to as "Top Networker in Hollywood." His brand, Ermantourage, finds creative ways to give back to his community of creatives in film and music.
4:00 pm - 4:50 pm EST - How do I Finance My Project?
1) Emily Best - Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed & Spark, an online crowdfunding and subscription streaming platform for content creators and audiences that emphasizes diversity and inclusion. Best founded the company in 2012 and is responsible for business development, fundraising and overseeing all day-to-day operations.
2) Grady Craig - VP of Development & Business Operations for Bondit Capital which finances feature films. After selling the company that put him through college, Grady joined BondIt Media Capital in 2018 as the first employee in company history. Now, the VP of Business Development and Operations, Grady is responsible for investment structuring and analysis, business development, and supporting the company's financing, accounting, operations, marketing, and administration.
3) Tyler Gould - Executive Producer and VP for Bondit Capital which finances feature films. Tyler is an integral member of the deal team, taking point in negotiating, structuring, and contracting deals in addition to risk analysis, business development, and other ongoing operations. Gould also oversees the internal development slate of projects by reviewing, developing, and packaging projects for original productions
5:00 pm EST - 5:50 pm EST - Direct Access Speed Dating Round.
Your chance to network with Producers, Financers, and Distributors about your project so you can establish real connections that you cannot find elsewhere.
6:00 pm EST - 6:50 pm EST - When Reel Life Plays Into Real Life
Presented by The Creative Coalition and moderated by CEO Robin Bronk. The Creative Coalition is an organization comprised of entertainment professionals to promote education of the arts.
1) Robin Bronk. Robin Bronk is Chief Executive Officer of The Creative Coalition—the leading national, nonprofit, nonpartisan social and public advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment industry. As CEO, Bronk is dedicated to educating, mobilizing, and activating the entertainment industry and arts community on issues of public importance, particularly the First Amendment, arts advocacy, arts in education, and media literacy.
2) Tim Daly. An American actor and producer, Tim is known for his role as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings and his voice role as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series, as well as his recurring role as the drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos (for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award). He starred as Pete Wilder on Private Practice from 2007 to 2012. From 2014 until 2019, he portrayed Henry McCord, husband of the Secretary of State, on the CBS drama Madam Secretary.
3) Yvette Nicole Brown: American actress, comedian, writer, and host. Brown starred as Shirley Bennett on the NBC comedy series Community. She had a recurring role as Helen Dubois on the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh, and voiced the character Cookie on the American-Canadian animated series Pound Puppies. Brown also starred as Dani in the 2015 version of The Odd Couple on CBS and as Dina Rose on the ABC sitcom The Mayor.
7:00 pm EST - 7:50 pm EST - How do I Sell My Project to Networks/Streamers?
1) James Parris: Director of Animation. Cutting his teeth in traditional animation during the 90's Disney animation renaissance, he later migrated to visual effects for live-action features, writing/directing short films, television animation and development of upcoming feature and series content through Paper Tiger Films. His credits include Transformers, X-Men, Spiderman, Lion King, Mulan. James is also Animation Director for Doug Unplugs (Apple TV), and Shimmer and Shine (Nickelodeon).
2) Ken Mok: Ken Mok is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominated producer, veteran writer, and director. Under his banner 10x10 Entertainment, Mok has created and overseen numerous television series and films. On the television side, Mok is acknowledged as one of the first innovators of the unscripted genre; his television series Making the Band was the first unscripted show to air on network television in 2000 on ABC. He is most well known as the Creator and Executive Producer of America's Next Top Model, one of the longest running fashion series on television. The series has spawned dozens of international spin-offs.
8:00 pm EST - 8:50 pm EST - Renegade Entertainment: Shepherding Maverick Content in a Perpetually Disrupted Landscape
1) Thomas Jane - American actor and director. He is known for appearing in such films as Evening Raga of the West (1987), Boogie Nights (1997), Deep Blue Sea (1999), The Punisher (2004), The Mist (2007), Mutant Chronicles (2008), 1922 (2017) and The Predator (2018). Jane's television roles include Mickey Mantle in the television film 61* (2001), starring in the HBO series Hung (2009–2011) and the Syfy/Amazon Video series The Expanse (2015–2021).
2) Courtney Lauren Penn - Courtney is a producer and executive, known for From a Buick 8, Altitude (2017) and Gallowwalkers (2012). Thomas and Courtney Co-Founded Renegade Entertainment in 2019.
9:00 pm EST - 9:50 pm EST - How do I Produce a Successful Film?
1) Mark Damon: American film actor and producer. Mark rose to fame through acting roles in films like Roger Corman's House of Usher, before moving to Italy and becoming a notable Western star and member of the 1960s Dolce Vita set of actors and actresses in Rome. After starring in over 50 films in the United States and Europe, he quit acting and reinvented himself as a film producer and pioneer of the foreign sales business in the 1970s, and became one of Hollywood's most prolific producers. His films have been nominated for 10 Oscars, including Monster starring Charlize Theron where she won Best Actress. Other credits include: The Last Full Measure, Das Boot, 2 Guns, Lone Survivor, 9 and 1/2 Weeks, Short Circuit, and The NeverEnding Story.
2) Mark Koch: Mark is the Producer behind Huge Box Office Successes, The Passion of the Christ, Lost in Space, and Black Dog. For The Passion of the Christ, Mark helped build a coalition of more than 50 faith-based organizations to help propel The Passion of the Christ to a record-breaking opening.
March 25, 2021 -
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm EST - Expert Roundtables.
Your opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from experts in the film and tv industry about your specific project. We will have a total of three different Expert Roundtables with a different expert at each table (limited to one hour and only 15 attendees per expert). When you register on Eventbrite, you will receive an email 3 days before the event to register on Zoom, which will provide the Zoom link.
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST - Expert Roundtable 1
Howard Gould - Howard is an acclaimed Executive Producer and Writer. In television, Howard was executive producer and head writer of Cybill when it won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series, and held the same positions on Instant Mom and The Jeff Foxworthy Show. In film, Howard wrote and directed the feature film The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, starring Tim Allen, Elisha Cuthbert, Andie MacDowell and Jenna Elfman. Other feature credits include MR. 3000 and SHREK THE THIRD.
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm EST - Expert Roundtable 2
Raul Torres is a Mexican-American actor/producer, know for "Wonderstruck" with Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, directed by Todd Haynes by Amazon pictures, Showtime's "Billions", NBC's "New Amsterdam", "The Blacklist", "Gone" and "Blindspot", Marvel's "The Punisher", CBS' "Madam Secretary" , and Starz' "Power."
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm EST - Expert Roundtable 3
David Rubenstein is an Entertainment Lawyer who has been voted a "Super Lawyer Rising Star" for 7 years in a row, an award given to less than 5% of all attorneys. Most recently, David helped raise funding for the acclaimed film, 1917, which won 3 Oscars, and also served as a Producer's Consultant on the highly regarded film, Human Capital, starring Marisa Tomei and Liev Schreiber, which premiered on the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival.
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm EST - Seminar: Master Your Pitch!
Prepare for the Pitch Competition with this special pitching seminar by Entertainment Lawyer and Producer David Rubenstein . You will learn:
1. What a producer, agent, or manager is really looking for when they hear a pitch.
2. How to succeed at pitching if you're shy!
3. The 3 keys to every successful pitch.
4. How to avoid the 5 most common pitching mistakes.
5. How to find pitchable elements even in a "low concept" or "character driven" project.
6. How to find your hook and make producers salivate without "selling out!"
7. Unique pitching techniques specifically designed for pitch fests.
About David Rubenstein:
David Rubenstein is an Entertainment Lawyer who has been voted a "Super Lawyer Rising Star" for 7 years in a row, an award given to less than 5% of all attorneys. Most recently, David helped raise funding for the acclaimed film, 1917, which won 3 Oscars, and also served as a Producer's Consultant on the highly regarded film, Human Capital, starring Marisa Tomei and Liev Schreiber, which premiered on the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival.
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST - Pitch Competition.
Your opportunity to Pitch your film/tv project for a chance to win over $40,000 in in-kind services to help make your project. Each pitch is limited to 3 minutes in a "shark-tank" style format before a panel of 3 judges. The fourth vote will be comprised of an audience member vote, so bring your family and friends to cheer you on for your best chance to win! (limited to only 40 pitches on a first come first serve basis). You will be able to share your screen during your 3 minute pitch if you want to incorporate video. All film, tv, and documentary projects are eligible to win. When you register on Eventbrite, you will receive an email 3 days before the event to register on Zoom, which will provide the Zoom link. The day before the event we will email you a list of which order you will pitch. The order will be comprised based on the order in which contestants signed up (ie first to sign up will go first).
Judges include:
1) Jennifer Wallace - President of Artists United, a community of over 30,000 artists in all disciplines coming together to empower each other and to be a force for social good in our world.
2) Raul Torres is a Mexican-American actor/producer, know for "Wonderstruck" with Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, directed by Todd Haynes by Amazon pictures, Showtime's "Billions", NBC's "New Amsterdam", "The Blacklist", "Gone" and "Blindspot", Marvel's "The Punisher", CBS' "Madam Secretary" , Starz' "Power."
3) David Rubenstein - Entertainment Lawyer who has been voted a "Super Lawyer Rising Star" for 7 years in a row, an award given to less than 5% of all attorneys. Most recently, David helped raise funding for the acclaimed film, 1917, which won 3 Oscars, and also served as a Producer's Consultant on the highly regarded film, Human Capital, starring Marisa Tomei and Liev Schreiber, which premiered on the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival.
4) Audience Vote
10:00 pm to 11:30 pm EST - Virtual After Party
Party and Network with your fellow attendees and panelists in a virtual setting using the popular app TapRoom. You will be emailed the download instructions and link to join after buying a ticket.
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