IIFF New York City Film Financing Townhall in Manhattan (July 2011): Networking & Education for Financiers & Filmmakers

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (ET)

New York, NY

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Event Details

NYC Film Financing Townhall at SVA in Manhattan

Film Meets Finance:
Networking & Education for
Filmmakers & Financiers

Five Insightful Talks by Leading Experts & More

*** Don't miss other events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Kansas City and New York ***

Abstract

"To-the-point presentations on the latest trends and targeted networking with like-minded pros set this event apart from the rest. IIFF delivers no-nonsense insight and real opportunity." — Thomas Trenker, film financier

The New York City chapter of the Institute for International Film Financing (IIFF) continues its popular monthly gatherings at the junction of film & finance with a special Film Financing Townhall at the renowned School of Visual Arts (SVA). Their facilities are conveniently located near the corner of 23rd Street & 3rd Avenue.

This grassroots community get-together is designed to foster & inform productive relationships between attendees. It provides unbiased insight & education about the business of film and film financing in particular. The event features a powerful roster of highly topical speakers from the filmmaking and financial industries. We are delighted to welcome real-world financiers among our guests!

The evening's five presentations plus panel discussion address key issues relevant to filmmakers, financiers and anyone interested in the economics, business mechanics, and financial dynamics of motion pictures. They are followed by Q&A time. Attendees also have ample opportunity to interact & network with our featured experts and amongst themselves.

An informal après-meeting celebration will take place at a nearby restaurant.

Attendees

Who should attend?

Entrepreneurs, consultants, attorneys, bankers, investment managers, venture capitalists, angel investors and other professionals with an interest in the movie business will find this event worthwhile. Everyone who cares about independent film is cordially invited to join us.

Are you considering taking an active role in film, or would you like to expand your current involvement? Don't miss this high-value yet low-cost learning experience and the opportunity to connect with like-minded peers.

Established & aspiring filmmakers looking to raise capital for their projects, production companies, movie slates, film funds or other ventures are, naturally, more than welcome as well.

Why attend?

New to film finance? Need to brush up your topical knowledge? Want to deepen your understanding? Care to participate in an ongoing conversation & community dedicated to the subject? This uniquely valuable gathering is right for you!

Gain crucial insights from leading experts in their field. Network with fellow film & finance professionals. Meet potential collaborators and future business partners. All this at a price that is hard to beat.

Program Details

Placing Products in Movies: The Art & Science of Brand Integration

Risa Crandall (bio), Sr. VP & Brand Integration Director at marketing firm Brand-Aide, representing producers, distributors & financers of movies, TV programs & digital media; sources relevant brands/products for film & TV scripts/content; clients include P&G, Milk, Nestle, Honda, Verizon, Kraft, American Express, Merck, Hilton; fmr. VP, Brand Director & Publisher at Scholastic, grew unprofitable division's revenue by 400% & led it to $8M+ profit; named "Integrated Marketer of the Year" by Marketing Information Network & recognized on Adweek hotlist; fmr. Director of Business Development at Conde Nast; fmr. Publisher of 4 magazines at Time Warner; fmr. Publisher of Crayola Kids at Meredith Corp.; fmr. Eastern Manager of McCall's at NY Times … »
Chasing the Tail: How Distribution Savvy Should Drive Film Finance Strategy

Bob Alexander (bio), President & Co-Founder at Independent Film Development Group; IFDG owns & operates several businesses under "IndiePix" brand incl. consumer website IndiePixFilms.com, filmmaker reporting & production business IndiePixStudios.com & subscription-based film streaming service IndiePixUnlimited.com; Executive Producer on multi-award winners "Entre Nos," "Billy the Kid," "P-Star Rising" & other features; led substantial distribution campaigns for "End of America" (Naomi Wolf), Venice Silver Lion winner "Women Without Men" & Cannes Camera d'Or winner "Samson & Delilah" … »
Swedish Cool: Opportunities in Scandinavian Film Funding

Mikael Södersten (bio), 20+ year veteran of Nordic film industry; Co-Founder of Wilderness Films, develops & produces original projects & facilitates co-productions between US & int'l partners; consultant to Scandinavia's leading producers, directors, film associations & TV stations; worked closely with acclaimed director Tomas Alfredson ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"), bestselling author Henning Mankell ("Wallander" series) & actor Michael Nyqvist ("Millennium Trilogy"); developed Tribeca & Sundance winners ("Let the Right One In", "King of Ping Pong"); fmr. Board Member at Swedish Independent Filmmakers Association; co-organized Swedish Film Institute's annual conference; Director/Script Editor of numerous Nordic features, docs, shorts & TV series such as Oscar winner Susanne Bier's mini-series on Ingmar Bergman … »
The Bottom Line: Producer Craft to Maximize Budgets

Kim Jackson (bio), producer with 15+ years experience creating high-quality film, broadcast & commercial projects; credits include Spike Lee's "Inside Man" (Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Jodi Foster), Steven Spielberg's "Munich" (Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush), "Click" (Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken), award winner "Children of God," Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee "Gun Hill Road," official Sundance & SXSW selection "Tub," "Young Americans" (Lukas Haas), "Good Intentions" & Hamptons Film Festival selection "Tran.si.tions" … »
Leveraging International Production Partners to Make Your Movie

Stefan Schaefer (bio), Founder of production company Cicala Filmworks; worked in independent film for 15 years; premiered films & won awards at Berlin, Rotterdam, AFI, South by Southwest & other festivals; wrote/directed/produced 8 feature films over past 6 years incl. "My Last Day Without You," "Get a Job," Michael Imperioli's "Hungry Ghosts," "Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela," "Arranged" & "Confess"; worked with Golden Globe & Oscar winner Melissa Leo, Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine, Ali Larter, William Sadler, Zoe Lister-Jones … »

Featured Moderator

Moderator headshot The event will be moderated by Kaiser Wahab (bio), a seasoned media, entertainment and tech attorney and partner at entrepreneurial law firm Wahab & Medenica. He routinely handles such issues as emerging growth, partnerships, financing, e-commerce and intellectual property for his diverse clientele. A graduate of Cornell University and Columbia Law School, Kaiser has assisted individual filmmakers, entrepreneurs and small business owners as well as multinational corporations manage their business operations. As Executive Vice President of independent film company Anywhere Road Entertainment, he was intimately involved in the financing and distribution of all the company's movies, including multiple award winner "Black Irish" (Michael Angarano) and Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee "A Very British Gangster." Kaiser currently also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, teaching feature film finance. »

Schedule

From	To	What
7:00 PM		Kick-Off & Welcome
7:00 PM	8:00 PM	Three Featured Presentations with Q&A (3x 20 mins)
8:00 PM	8:15 PM	Networking Break (15 mins)
8:15 PM	9:15 PM	Two Featured Presentations with Q&A (2x 30 mins)
9:15 PM	9:30 PM	Networking Break (15 mins)
9:30 PM	10:00 PM	Moderated Panel Discussion with Q&A (30 mins)
10:00 PM+		Community Time at Area Restaurant

Questions? Get answers in IIFF's Film Financing Forum!

Townhall Venue

School of Visual Arts: Film, Video & Animation Department

209 E 23rd St
(between 2nd & 3rd Ave)
Rm 502 - 5th Fl
New York, NY 10010
(212) 592-2000

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Our Host

This month's Film Financing Townhall in New York is hosted by the prestigious School of Visual Arts (SVA), one of the nation's largest independent, regionally accredited art and film schools. Located in the heart of New York City, SVA is an established leader and innovator in the education of artists, offering graduate, undergraduate and continuing-education classes.

From its inception in 1947 as a trade school with three instructors and 35 students, SVA has grown into a dynamic, multidisciplinary institution with a faculty of more than 800 and a student body of almost 3,500. The School distinguishes itself by its extensive facilities, state-of-the-art equipment, unique program philosophies, and the size, breadth and professional standing of its faculty.

Very special thanks for making this event possible go to SVA's Film, Video and Animation Department and its Chairman, Reeves Lehmann. Department members are industry-renowned for turning ideas into cinematic works of art. The faculty even includes Oscar winners. SVA is one of the best-equipped film and animation schools in the country with industry-standard digital facilities that rival many professional studios.

Registration

Filmmaker-friendly affordable online registration is available at the top of this page.

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Speaker Bios

Risa Crandall

Speaker headshot 1 For more than two decades, Risa Crandall has been recognized as a revenue-driving, brand-building and results-oriented corporate executive and strategic consultant. She worked with Scholastic for five yeas, developing a large scale integrated marketing concept for clients. During her Scholastic tenure, Risa increased revenue by 400% and brought a media division from an unprofitable position to over $8M in profit. And while at Scholastic Risa was named "Integrated Marketer of the Year" by Marketing Information Network, and her marketing achievements were recognized on the Adweek hotlist. At Conde Nast Risa established the integrated selling strategy for the Conde Nast Bridal Group. She developed the platform and structure to successfully integrate digital, television, print, events and local marketing, resulting in over $6M in incremental revenue to the division. Her integrated marketing clients include: P&G, Milk, Nestle, Honda, Verizon, Clorox, Kraft, Kimberly Clark, Allstate, American Express, Merck and Hilton. »

Bob Alexander

Speaker headshot 2 Bob Alexander is the President and Co-Founder, with Barnet Liberman and Sally Plourde, of the Independent Film Development Group, LLC, the entity that owns the "IndiePix" registered mark. With his colleagues, he organized the company in the summer of 2004 and they turned on the switch to the website IndiePixFilms.com in January of 2005. Today, IFDG owns and operates several businesses under the "IndiePix" brand including the consumer facing website IndiePix Films.com; the filmmaker reporting and production business IndiePixStudios.com; and the wholly owned subsidiary IndiePixUnlimited.com, offering subscription based streaming of independent films. During the last 6 years, Bob was the Executive Producer on "Entre Nos," the award winning film from Paola Mendoza and Gloria LaMorte; on "P-Star Rising," focusing on Priscilla Diaz, the young woman hip-hop entertainer and lead actress on the "Electric Company;" and on other projects. He has led the substantial distribution campaigns for "End of America," featuring Naomi Wolf, produced by Avram Ludwig; for "Women Without Men," the Venice Silver Lion award winning film from globally renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat; and "Samson & Delilah," the Cannes Camera d'Or film from Warwick Thornton. »

Mikael Södersten

Speaker headshot 3 Mikael Södersten has spent over twenty years in the Nordic film industry, consulting to Scandinavia's leading producers, directors, film associations and TV stations. As Co-Founder of Wilderness Films, he develops and produces original projects and facilitates co-productions between American and Scandinavian partners. On the content side, he has worked as a Script Doctor or Story Editor on over thirty Nordic features and three Swedish TV series, including an upcoming dramatic mini-series on the life of Ingmar Bergman, to be directed by Oscar winner Susanne Bier. He worked closely with internationally acclaimed directors Tomas Alfredson ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy") and Tomas Vinterberg ("Celebration"), bestselling author Henning Mankell ("Wallander" series) and actor Mikael Nyqvist ("Millennium Trilogy"). Projects he has developed include winners at Tribeca ("Let the Right One In") and Sundance ("King of Ping Pong"). As Chair of the Gothenburg Film Festival's Swedish Film Day for three years, he programmed over a hundred Swedish shorts and features. He has also been on the board of The Swedish Independent Filmmakers Association and co-organized the Dream Factory, the Swedish Film Institute's annual industry-wide conference. Mikael is currently co-producing an English-language feature with Swedish and Danish partners. As a director, he has made docs, shorts and films for Swedish TV. He earned his BA from Harvard University and studied film at Stockholm University. »

Kim Jackson

Speaker headshot 4 Kim Jackson is the Founder, CEO and President of Streetwise Pictures Entertainment. She has over 15 years experience creating and delivering high quality projects in the film, broadcast media and commercial industry. As a New York Producer and Production Coordinator, Kim's feature credits include "Inside Man," directed by Spike Lee, starring Clive Owen, Denzel Washington and Jodi Foster; "Munich," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "Click," starring Adam Sandler, directed by Frank Coraci. As Producer, her credits are "5G," directed by Alesandro Tanaka; "Young Americans," starring Lukas Haas; "Pedalfoot," starring Tom Noonan, directed by Ben Hayflick; the award winning "Children of God," directed by Kareem Mortimer; "Tub," a 2010 official Sundance selection, directed by Bobby Miller; the 2010 Hamptons Film Festival selection "Tran.si.tions," directed by Mark Lee; the official 2011 Sundance competition selection "Gun Hill Road," directed by Rashaad Green; and "Good Intentions," directed by Soraya Selene. Kim is currently in production on the feature "The Shells," directed by Max Finneran, and the two documentaries "The Wavemaker," directed by Kiira Benzing, and "Zangdokpalri," directed by Justin Strawhand. »

Stefan Schaefer

Speaker headshot 5 A founder of the production company Cicala Filmworks, Stefan has worked in independent film for almost 15 years. His films have premiered and won awards at festivals such as Berlin, Rotterdam, AFI and South by Southwest, among many others, and have been successfully released theatrically, via cable outfits such as HBO and the Sundance Channel, and on DVD. In the past six years he has written, directed and/or produced eight feature films, among them "My Last Day Without You" (2011), the Maui-set comedy "Get a Job" (2010), Michael Imperioli's debut "The Hungry Ghosts" (2009), Olaf Johannesson's "The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela" (2008) and "Arranged" (2007). On these and other projects, he worked with Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine, Ali Larter, Zoe Lister-Jones, William Sadler, Ken Duken, Nicole Beharie and many more. »

Kaiser Wahab

Moderator

Speaker headshot 10 Kaiser Wahab is a seasoned business, intellectual property, technology and entertainment lawyer with the Manhattan firm of Wahab & Medenica LLC, whose attorneys are hands-on business people and counselors. A graduate of Cornell University and Columbia Law School, he routinely assists film producers and entrepreneurs in crafting investment structures. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, instructing students in venture financing and private offerings of securities for feature film vehicles. Kaiser's client list has included Das Films ("Veronika Decides to Die" with Sarah Michelle Gellar), Yash Raj Films, Anywhere Road Entertainment (as Executive Vice President), Andrew Paquin and his movie "Open House" featuring Oscar winner Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, Faulkner Award winning author Phillip Jennings, and others. Kaiser has broad experience, having worked on films that run the gamut from Bollywood productions such as "Ta Ra Rum Pum" with Rani Mukerji and Saif Ali Khan, to indie comedies such as "The Oh in Ohio" starring Parker Posey, Paul Rudd and Danny DeVito. With Anywhere Road, he was intimately involved in the clearance, financing and distribution of all the company's films, including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated documentary "A Very British Gangster" and "Black Irish" (Michael Angarano, Brendan Gleeson) by Brad Gann, writer of "Invincible." He also developed the financing and business model for Imagine Fashion's video collective, which features top fashion photography and modeling names. Beginning his career with Pryor Cashman LLP, Kaiser later joined Day Pitney LLP, where he handled licensing, trademark/copyright and contractual issues for companies like Microsoft and UTC. In addition to that, he clerked at the US Court of International Trade. Kaiser is published in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Journal, and he has lectured and presented at Harvard Law School, Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts on film financing, copyright and digital media. He has also served as Chair of the Corporations Law Committee at the New York County Lawyers Association. He sits on the Advisory Board for Heart Gallery NYC, a nonprofit that places foster children with families. »

Thomas Trenker

Founder

Speaker headshot 11 A Wall Street investment banker and Silicon Valley startup executive turned independent film financier, Thomas (LinkedIn profile | full bio) serves as Chairman of the Institute for International Film Financing (IIFF). An innovative and ambitious social-impact organization, IIFF endeavors to bridge the gap between the worlds of filmmaking and finance for the benefit of all stakeholders including the public at large. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, IIFF has active chapters in multiple cities across the U.S. and continues to expand.

In his role as Managing Director of FilmAngels, Thomas also runs the world's first professional angel investor group for film. FilmAngels has been modeled after the way successful angel networks function in Silicon Valley and adapted to the unique characteristics of the movie industry. It focuses exclusively on funding independent films and film-related ventures. FilmAngels address the unfilled need for a structured, highly efficient and ultimately more effective environment for the vetting and financing of high-risk film projects.

Don't hesitate to connect with Thomas on LinkedIn or at an upcoming IIFF meeting near you. »

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IIFF New York City Film Financing Townhall in Manhattan (July 2011): Networking & Education for Financiers & Filmmakers

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (ET)

New York, NY

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Film Meets Finance: Networking & Education for Filmmakers & Financiers

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School of Visual Arts: Film, Video & Animation Department

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (ET)

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School of Visual Arts 209 E 23rd Street Room 502 - 5th floor New York, NY 10010

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Film Meets Finance:
Networking & Education for
Filmmakers & Financiers

School of Visual Arts
209 E 23rd Street
Room 502 - 5th floor
New York, NY 10010