1:45pm- 2:45pm Unlock Your Festivals Ticketing Potential

This panel will provide a comparison of ticketing and pass models addressing pros and cons along with companies to consider working with. Hear what models are appropriate for your festival, printing issues, day of sale issues and more.

Moderator: Bruno Chatelin, COO, Filmfestivals.com

Some of the following questions will be answered by our esteemed panelists/

Which percentage of ticketing is achieved online

Individual tickets

Fest passes

What to your knowledge is the extreme range of the percentages (ie online tix business vs total box office max)

Can festivals operate with multiple ticketing solutions?

which business models are in the market, how  do the ticketing make money?

What a typical turnover breakdown for ticketing companies (ie what do they sell)

Concerts, theatre musical movie, sports... 

What are the key rules to move smoothly into online ticketing...

Our panelists:

Keith Weckstein, Director of Ticketing, Tribeca Film Festival
 

Erik Jambor, Executive Director, Indie Memphis 

Erik has been associated with Sidewalk (Birmingham, Alabama) and BendFilm (Bend, Oregon) before moving to Memphis earlier this year, he will be able offer a regional film fest perspective that will compliment Keith.

He will be talking about the planning before approaching the ticketing companies and how it's important for the ticketing companies to actually show you the functionality you are being told about rather than just taking the Sales person's word for it.

Brian Arnone, VP of Business Development, Enta USA

Enta USA is a ticketing software company that has been in the US market for about 2 years now. Enta was created in the UK and currently works with over 200 organizations in 24 countries. They work with Film Festival organizations like the British Film Institute in the UK and the New Orleans Film Society in the US. Brian has personally worked for a variety of ticketing companies during his career including Tickets.com, Ticketmaster, TicketWeb, MAXtix and now Enta. He has worked with the San Francisco International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and the Dubai International Film Festival to a name a few.