Shooting People » IFP http://shootingpeople.org/blog Shooting People : Independent Filmmakers Network Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 IFP and Power to the Pixel bring the Cross-Media Forum to NYC http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/04/ifp-and-power-to-the-pixel-bring-the-cross-media-forum-to-nyc/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/04/ifp-and-power-to-the-pixel-bring-the-cross-media-forum-to-nyc/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:15:26 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=620 ...]]> 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) on financing CrossMedia work.

Get a 20% discount to the Forum with this code: %PART20D

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2011/04/ifp-and-power-to-the-pixel-bring-the-cross-media-forum-to-nyc/feed/ 0 Call for Entries – The Good Pitch at Hot Docs http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/02/call-for-entries-the-good-pitch-at-hot-docs/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/02/call-for-entries-the-good-pitch-at-hot-docs/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:14:50 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=269 ...]]> 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 Good Pitch will make its first stop at the Toronto Documentary Forum (TDF), May 6-7 2009, part of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto, April 30-May 10, 2009. See www.hotdocs.ca for more info.

The Good Pitch will then call at SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival in Washington D.C. (June 15-22, 2009) and IFP’s Independent Film Week in New York City in September. Sign up for email updates at www.britdoc.org.

The first Good Pitch was held at the BRITDOC Film Festival in 2008 – see the trailer at: www.britdoc.org/goodpitch. The Good Pitch North America tour is a partnership between the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (DFP).

APPLY HERE.

Here’s the announcement that was made by Cara Mertes and Jess Search about the partnership between the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program during the Sundance Film Festival in January this year.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2009/02/call-for-entries-the-good-pitch-at-hot-docs/feed/ 0 Show Me The New Money – Panel at Independent Filmmaker Conference, NYC http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/show-me-the-new-money-panel-at-independent-filmmaker-conference/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/show-me-the-new-money-panel-at-independent-filmmaker-conference/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:31:46 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=161 ...]]> 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 financing models? How can the right mix of all three help you access new sources while getting you that much closer to production?

Monday, September 15th, 10am – 11am

Panelists:
Miles Beckett, CEO, EQAL
Ryan Harrington, Indiepix Studios
Slava Rubin, CEO, IndieGoGo
Joel Wright, VP Interactive Media, Paradigm

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/show-me-the-new-money-panel-at-independent-filmmaker-conference/feed/ 0 Show Me The New Money – panel at Independent Filmmaker Conference, NYC http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/show-me-the-new-money-panel-at-independent-filmmaker-conference-2/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/show-me-the-new-money-panel-at-independent-filmmaker-conference-2/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:29:22 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=478 ...]]> 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 financing models? How can the right mix of all three help you access new sources while getting you that much closer to production?

Monday, September 15th, 10am – 11am

Panelists:
Miles Beckett, CEO, EQAL
Ryan Harrington, Indiepix Studios
Slava Rubin, CEO, IndieGoGo
Joel Wright, VP Interactive Media, Paradigm

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/show-me-the-new-money-panel-at-independent-filmmaker-conference-2/feed/ 0 Independent Filmmaker Conference in NYC http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/08/independent-filmmaker-conference-in-nyc/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/08/independent-filmmaker-conference-in-nyc/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:41:30 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=128 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).

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/08/independent-filmmaker-conference-in-nyc/feed/ 0 Geek Delights http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/geek-delights/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/geek-delights/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:07:58 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip2/?p=71 ...]]> 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 an audience for your work and keep ‘em loyal:

Those of you who read my previous post on copyright will be interested to see that Brett Gaylor is on this panel talking about Open Source Cinema, “a collaborative documentary project to create a feature film about copyright in the digital age.” You, yes you, can get involved in this project too so visit the website to find out more.

If all this geek-talk is getting you hot under the collar and you find yourself muttering words like long tail, crowdsourcing and, oh yes, string theory smackdown, then you should have a browse through the Wired Geekipedia. Do you know your DRM from your SEO? You will after reading this.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/geek-delights/feed/ 0 Where did the week go? http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/where-did-the-week-go/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/where-did-the-week-go/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:11:13 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip2/?p=70 ...]]> 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 will be no good to you whatsover, useless, useless girl).

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/where-did-the-week-go/feed/ 0 The Future is Now http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/the-future-is-now/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2007/09/the-future-is-now/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:54:54 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip2/?p=68 ...]]> 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 Panel Notetaker, on the Shooting People bulletins all this week.

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