I can finally attend one of these forums! Despite my obsession with interactive geekery, I never seem to be in the same city as the Power to the Pixel events. This year the lovely people at IFP have partnered with PttP to bring the Cross-Media Forum to NYC. Hooray! Speakers include Starlight Runner’s Jeff Gomez, GMD Studio’s Brian Clark and advertising guru Ty Montague. I’ll be on a panel with Lance Weiler (The Workbook Project) and Hughes Sweeney (NFB Interactive)…

The call for entries is now open for the Good Pitch at Hot Docs. The Good Pitch gives filmmakers a unique opportunity to pitch social-issue documentary projects and associated campaign strategies to an audience of NGOs, foundations, campaigners, advertising agencies, brands and media. The Good Pitch at Hot Docs welcomes submissions from filmmakers of any nationality working on documentary projects with a human rights focus. There is no entry fee to apply. Deadline: 20 Feb 2009. Apply at www.britdoc.org/goodpitch. The…

I’m moderating this panel on Monday at 10am at the Conference during Independent Film Week. If you want to find out where the money is, and I know that you do!, please stop by. FILMMAKING 2.0 Show Me the New Money Where do you begin when navigating the wide variety of traditional and new media services, sites and opportunities being promoted to assist filmmakers in raising money? How do these tools and services differ from traditional private equity and film…

I’m moderating this panel on Monday at 10am at the Conference during Independent Film Week. If you want to find out where the money is, and I know that you do!, please stop by. FILMMAKING 2.0 Show Me the New Money Where do you begin when navigating the wide variety of traditional and new media services, sites and opportunities being promoted to assist filmmakers in raising money? How do these tools and services differ from traditional private equity and film…

The Independent Filmmaker Conference takes place during Independent Film Week in NYC September 14-19. The Conference covers lots of great areas: Making Your First Feature, Filmmaking 2.0, The Global Marketplace, Alternative Distribution, The Truth about Non-Fiction, Film and Philanthropy. Click here for full schedule. You can also hear conversations with Kevin Smith, Robert Greenwald (Brave New Films) and Rick Allen (SnagFilms).

I know I have been rabbiting on a bit about last week’s Filmmaker Conference but there are so many great resources available online which I think will be extremely useful for all those filmmakers who couldn’t make the event itself. As usual Lance Weiler has tons of great links and video on the Workbook Project for your viewing pleasure. This panel on consumer viewing habits, moderated by Weiler, will give you lots of good techy tips on how to create…

Come to think of it, where did September go? Sorry for my blog silence but the IFP Market and Filmmaker Conference sucked me into a worm hole of activity and I’ve only just re-emerged. I mentioned this on the Shooting People bulletins but for those of you who want to catch up on everything that happened at the Conference you should read the Filmmaker Magazine Blog and Scott Kirsner’s CinemaTech Blog for some good coverage (because Shooting from the Hip…

I’m moderating a panel on “Creating Content for New Platforms” this afternoon so if you’re attending the IFP Filmmaker Conference come on by and find out more about what’s happening on the web and on a teeny tiny screen near you! There are lots of great people in town for IFP and the panels I attended yesterday on festival/marketplace strategy and finding your audience provided plenty of food for thought. We’ll be excerpting transcripts from Brian Geldin, the trusty Film…