Global Film Ventures - April Finance Seminar
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Paid tickets recieve a free copy of the 2013 Labor Guide courtesy of Media Services Inc! All the information you could need about payroll rates for unions and guilds. It's a 59.99 Dollar Value!
Topics:
How Do I Pay My Crew?: How to make the IRS your BFF.
By Tina Bassir: more than 14 years' experience in the entertainment production industry, specializing in payroll management and accounting for commercials, music videos and corporate media. She is also a trainer and advisor on production software for commercial coordinators, such as Showbiz Budgeting and Scheduling. Tina is currently Vice President of Commercial Sales at Media Sevices, a leading production accounting, payroll, commercial crew and software provider.
By Marc Smolowitz: Marc Smolowitz is an Academy Award® nominated film, TV & new media producer ("The Weather Underground" 2003, "Trembling Before G-d" 2001), multi-award winning director ("The Power of Two" 2011) and executive producer ("Still Around" 2011) with 20+ years of experience across all aspects of the entertainment and media business. His most recent documentary as a Director/Producer “Keep The Promise: The Global Fight Against AIDS,” narrated by Margaret Cho, had its world premiere at the 2013 Vail Film Festival. Smolowitz's career focus has been powerful social issue filmmaking across all genres, and his current projects include: "The Campaign" (Producer, funded by ITVS, world premiere, June 2013), "Lone Soliders" (Producer, in post), and "The Beachhead (Director/Producer, in production). In recent years, he was the in-house producer at TellyTopia, a Silicon Valley start up specializing in interactive television, IP-TV and VOD products for cable & satellite companies. In 2013, he works full time as an independent filmmaker, while maintaining a thriving consulting practice called 13thGEN that guides non-fiction filmmakers through key stages of development, fundraising, production, post, completion, and distribution. As a freelancer, he regularly works on special projects with a diverse slate of SF Bay Area-based media and technology companies, nonprofits, and philanthropies. Finally, he is a Lecturer in the Film & Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and serves on the board of directors of the San Francisco Public Press, a nonprofit local news organization.
Crowdfunding to Completion: Kickstarting a Career in Feature Films
Ben Yennie is an experienced producer, Founder and CEO of Films By Neptune, and Founding Principal at Global Film Ventures. Former Chapter Leader for the Institute for International Film Finance for San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, and Los Angeles, where he hosted and organized many seminars on Film Finance. He has attached well known starts to projects, including Jodelle Ferland of Twilight: Eclipse and Claudia Christian of Babylon 5. He's co-ran a Kickstarter campaign that raised 28,000 dollars, and has secured multiple six figure distribution deals while in the script stage. He's attended the American Film Market for 3 years, and is currently writing a book on his experiences there.
Organizer Global Film Ventures
Organizer of Global Film Ventures - April Finance Seminar
Global Film Ventures is the Answer to independent film incubation and acceleration. Founded by Ben Yennie and Gary Tomchuk, Global Film Ventures nurtures and educates filmmakers, cultivates investors, and foster's entrepreneurship in the independent film world. We seek to find enthusiastic, ambitious, and driven filmmakers and instill them with a mindset of openness, willingness, and diligence as well as coaching and mentoring the skills and knowledge neccessary to thrive as an Independent Film Entrepreneur. We seek to cultivte investors by clearly laying out the ins and outs of investing in independent media. We synergize the two groups through the creation of transparent, sustainable, and diversified investments in film and media that focus not only on profitability but also benefit to society as a whole.
In short, we combine the Silicon Valley startup mentality and independent film.
