Festival Co-located
Event to Feature Marquee Film Panels, Seminars, Presentations and Networking
Opportunities with the Top Executives in Hollywood
Panels Will Be
Live-Streamed Courtesy of Dyal Productions with Showbiz Store and Cafe Hosting
Multiple Sessions
On the heels of the upcoming HollyShorts Film Festival which takes
place August 11-18 in Hollywood, the festival's organizers are unleashing the
inaugural HollyShorts Indie Film Summit, a week-long conference that will
feature marquee panels, seminars, presentations and events for filmmakers and
executives. The HSFF Indie Film Summit will take place in various locations
throughout Los Angeles. The core of the sessions will take place at the
Mondrian Hotel and the Showbiz Store and Cafe will also host multiple panels.
Participating companies include executives from Lionsgate, Relativity,
Shorts International, Freestyle, FilmLA, DigitalLA, Freestyle, Gersh, IM
Global, Route 1 Films, Movieola, International Cinematographer's Guild ICG,
Institute For International Film Financing (IIFF), Eventful, Film
Closings, and more! Topics range from Short Film Distribution, Theatrical
Distribution, Filming in LA, Film Financing, new technologies to fund
productions, and social media marketing to name a few.
Below please find the preliminary schedule. Sessions will be
live-streamed on hollyshorts.com courtesy of Dyal Productions! Tickets
available at HollyShorts Schedule.
HollyShorts Indie Film Summit 2011 (August 12-18)
Friday August 12th
12:00pm Mondrian
Digital LA - Indie Film Social Media Marketing @ HollyShorts
- How to increase your Twitter followers and Facebook likes
- How often to tweet? About what? When is the best time?
- Help from friends: getting your cast and partners to help
promote
- Engaging: how to engage from development to film festival
circuit and release
...- Reaching out to niche communities for support
- Example from our speakers on how they use social media to market
indie films
Speakers (more to be added)
- Aaron Grasso, Producer of Closure, a crowd-sourced film from
development to production, as part of the 30 Day Film Challenge http://www.30dayfeaturefilmchallenge.com/
@30dayfilm
- Jennie Kong, Miller PR, VP. Has helped Cracked, Machinima, Sony
on social media marketing campaigns
- Jordan Glazier, CEO of Eventful, which has used grass roots
social media marketing so users can "demand-it" for indie films like
Paranormal Activity @eventful
Sunset.
Tickets: Digital LA Panel
2:30pm Mondrian
Film LA / Film Works-How To Film/Shoot in Los Angeles, The A-Z of
Film Locations, Permits and Scheduling
Tickets: Film LA Panel
Saturday August 13th
12:00noon Mondrian
Institute For International Film Financing (IIFF) Panel
The panel will give indie filmmakers a general understanding of
the key elements of getting a film financed. What makes a successful
"package" and its elements, how to talk to investors, structuring
your deal, selling your film to financiers and sticking out from the rest of
the pack.
Speakers:
Film
Consultant Tanya Kersey; Jeff Kalligheri, CEO Waterstone Entertainment; Thomas
A. Trenker, Chairman, IIFF; Jeff Steele CEO, Film Closings; Roger Lay,
Jr, President, Urban Archipelago Films, Inc; Babacar Diene, Director,
Acquisitions IM Global & Apsara Distribution.
Tickets: Film Finance Panel
2:30pm Mondrian
Agents, Managers, Producers 101
Reid Carolin, Ken Kokin, Mark Stolaroff, Megan Hughes.
Tickets: Producer/Agent Panel
5pm Mondrian
Breaking into the Industry/ Screenwriters
Sean Hood, L. Philippe Casseus, Peter Russell.
Sunday August 14th
12noon Mondrian
State of Theatrical Distribution
Speakers:
Mike Polydoros (Lionsgate), John Sinay (Relativity), Mike Simon
(Freestyle),
Linda Olszewski (Shorts International)
Tickets: Distribution Panel
2:30pm
Mondrian
WebTV Workshop Digital Media and Web Series
Speakers:
Damian Pelliccione; Diahnna Nicole Baxter, Ramy Rahimi
Tickets: WebTV Workshop
5:00pm Mondrian
Breakout Directors 2012
Monday August 15th
Throughout HollyShorts, Showbiz Speaker Sessions
will be packed with expert panels on topics essential to budding and veteran
filmmakers alike: production insurance, budgeting & scheduling, raising
film financing, and setting up an LLC for a project. Sponsored by Showbiz Software and Media
Services, the panels will feature industry leaders in their respective
fields, delivering no-nonsense tools to help filmmakers get their next project
financed and made. All panels are included with Day Passes and All Access
Passes.
12-2pm-Mondrian
Showbiz Speaker Session: The ABC's of Production Insurance
Winnie Wong of Momentous Insurance
Tickets: Production Insurance Panel
Tuesday August 16th
12-2pm Mondrian
Showbiz Speaker Session: How to sell your movie without the middle
man
Jason Brubaker of Filmmaking Stuff
Tickets: Jason Brubaker Panel
2:30pm Mondrian
Making Your Next Production More Collaborative With Online Tools
Have you wondered about production in the "cloud"?
Are you interested in using new technologies to manage your next
production? Join us for a discussion of how online production management
systems can enhance workflow and ease the daily burdens of cast and crew
alike. We will demonstrate LightSPEED, a new online production management
system. You are encouraged to bring your own laptop, join the network,
and use LightSPEED in real time with the other participants!
Jim Fitzgerald, founder of Lightspeed eps, will host the event.
August 16 on location at Showbiz Store and
Cafe
Doors open 6pm
7-9pm
Showbiz Speaker Session: Producer's Toolbox - Prep Your Project
for Financing
presented by Showbiz Software and Media Services
Wed. August 17th
12noon ICG building
International Cinematographer's Guild HollyShorts Panel
The benefits or otherwise of digital versus film. The importance
of the ECA in promoting cinematography. Does the new technology make it easier
to produce high quality short films or do they encourage more lax standards in
production for the sake of realizing a low budget; different new
high-speed formats that are becoming more prominent, and file-based RED, ALEXA
etc. workflows.
Speakers:
Moderated by Jim Chressanthis
John Snedden (Brite Eyes)
Brian Udoff (Les Mouches)
Matthew Irving (Waiting...)
Tickets: Cinematographers Panel
2:30pm Mondrian
MOVIOLA PANEL - Pre production is the new post -- Everything you
need to know before you even pick up the camera on your indie film.
Pre production is the new post -- Everything you need to know
before
you even pick up the camera on your indie film.
With the advent of DSLR technology, pre-production has become the new
post-production. You absolutely must-have your deliverables known almost before
you pick up a pen. In this exclusive seminar, Johnathon Amayo, Vice
President of Production at Moviola, will give you the insider's look at at how
to save time, money and your creative juices by answering a few simple
questions in the beginning of your project, whether it be film, web or TV. If
you are a writer, filmmaker, director or producer, make this the one seminar
you attend this year -- you will be glad you did. **ALL ATTENDEES RECEIVE A
FREE FCPX CLASS AT MOVIOLA.
www.moviola.com
Johnathon Amayo
Johnathon Amayo has worked in television production and music videos
for more than a decade. He got his official start directing, shooting and
editing documentaries in the U.S. Air Force's 2nd Combat Camera Sq. where he
spent time in combat operational zones documenting real-world events.
Tickets: Moviola Panel
Thursday August 18th
12-2pm Mondrian
Showbiz Speaker Session: LLCs for Filmmakers: Why You Need Them
MyLLC.com
2:30pm Mondrian
Short Film Distribution & Festival Strategy Panel
Roberta Munroe is back for the third year in a row
moderating her kick ass Short Film Distribution & Festival Strategy Panel!
Join us on Thursday, August 18th 2:30pm for a refreshingly candid
and straight forward conversation about what to do next.
Speakers:
Roberta Munroe, Effie Brown
Chatelin Bruno 
