Making Media Now Conference: May 30, 2008 from 9:00 am – 6:30 pm

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Stay tuned for this year’s spring conference, Making Media Now, to be held at Bentley College on its beautiful Waltham campus.

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The theme this year is “The Art and Business of Filmmaking.” Workshops included:

* Documentary Financing: What Does the Future Hold?
* Finding Work in the Massachusetts Film Industry
* Story Structure: From Great to Excellent!
* Marketing Your Film for Engagement and Impact
* Music for Film 2.0
* Equity Financing Panel – Cutting Edge Ways of Gaining Equity Funding
* Incorporating Animation in your Feature or Documentary Film
* The Future of Documentary in the Age of Internet Video
* How to Perfect Your Pitch
* Pitch Panel

Speakers Included:

  • Bonnie Abaunza – Vice President of Campaign Development & Operations, Participant Media
  • Carol Atwood – CEO of Spartacus Media Enterprises
  • Chris Boebel – Manager of Multimedia Development in the MIT Libraries
  • Dan Cogan – Co-Founder and Executive Director of Impact Partners
  • Jeanine Cowen – composer and Vice President, Curriculum Academic Affairs at Berklee College of Music
  • Lisa Crafts – animator and painter
  • Bill Elliott – teacher, arranger and orchestrator at Berklee College
  • Sandra Forman – entertainment attorney
  • Nettrice Gaskins – Computer Arts Academic Liaison at MassArt
  • Marc L. Grubb – owner and chief technologist of fusion IT
  • Ryan Harrington – Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund
  • Robin Hobart -visual effects artist at Brickyard VFX
  • Artemis A.W. Joukowsky, III – a venture capitalist, asset advisor, entrepreneur, non-profit activist and film producer
  • Scott Karambis – Partner and Director of Strategy at MECHANICA, a brand strategy company
  • Scott Kirsner – journalist for Variety and The Boston Globe on technology issues and author
  • Alla Kovgan – filmmaker
  • Lyda Kuth – Executive Director of the LEF Foundation
  • Cynthia López – Vice President for American Documentary/P.O.V
  • Suzanne Lyons – BAFTA award-winning co-founder of Snowfall Films, Inc
  • Scott Masterson – filmmaker
  • Robb Moss – filmmaker and professor at Harvard University
  • Chris O’Donnell – Business Manager for IATSE Local 481, which represents over 600 motion picture technicians and crafts people in five New England states
  • Nicholas Paleologos – Executive Director of The Massachusetts Film Office
  • Bryan Papciak and Jeff Sias – animators at Handcranked Productions and professors at Rhode Island School of Design
  • Alison Plante – Director of Audio Production at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
  • Tom Phillips – composer
  • William C. Rogers – director, producer and writer of numerous films and screenplays
  • Fernanda Rossi – “The Documentary Doctor”
  • Slava Rubin – co-founder of IndieGoGo
  • Ellen Stanley – leads communication efforts for National Geographic Films
  • David Tamés – filmmaker and media technologist
  • Roland Tec – writer, director and composer
  • Tim Van Patten – manager of Central Booking Service
  • Judith Vecchione – Executive Producer, WGBH
  • Kathryn Washington – program manager for the Diversity Development Fund (DDF) at ITVS
  • Anne Zeiser – founder and CEO of Azure Media

Sponsored by:

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Posted: Jan 24th, 2008
Category: Archived

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