Making Your Projects Happen

Making Your Projects Happen: Essential Film/TV Producing & Financing

An acclaimed & intense 5-hour workshop geared toward producers, directors, writers, actors, key crew, and other working and successful creative professionals who want to produce films, TV or new media productions.
 
This is an insider's presentation to doing what one needs to do to produce a film, play, web series, fictional or reality TV series. It is based on 30 years of analysis of the qualities and traits that successful film producers share. It is also based on the 30 years of personal and active producing experiences of its speaker.

We will cover the following:

• Selecting and researching the right script
• Literary gold mining
• Distinguishing yourself and your projects
• Creating superb promotional materials
• Pitching yourself and your projects
• Where the financing comes from
• How to find, approach, research and convince investors
• How to produce or invest in theatre, television and new media
• How to package yourself as a creative
• What you need to know about domestic and international tax incentives and other soft money
• Film Producing advantages of holding a foreign passport
• Current status of the independent film industry
• What genres/budget ranges are working now
• Effective networking and an easy networking system
• Art of the schmooze
• Assembling a team whose sum is greater than it's parts
• Overcoming creative career self-sabotage
• Understanding and succeeding with agents and managers
• Distributors and sales agents - - what you need to know
• Branding your film
• Do it Yourself Distribution
• Social Media Marketing for producers
• Making it happen on your own