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EXCITING BREAKING NEWS FROM BAWIFT...
NEW PANELIST ADDED TO PANEL EVENT:
"NEW DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVES, TOOLS AND TACTICS FOR DIWO ("Do-It-With-Others") FILMMAKERS"
Saskia Wilson-Brown
, Manager of Filmmaker Outreach,
Current TV
will now join our esteemed group of panelists for Bay Area Women in Film & Television's September 10th Event.
Our other panelists for the evening include:
Danae Ringelmann
, Founder and CFO,
Indiegogo
Sara Pollack
, Global Product Marketing Manager, Film & Animation,
YouTube
Please see panelists' bios below and information about their companies.
Now, with this incredible line-up of panelists, you
can't miss
this
timely panel discussion featuring women leaders in the digital
film/marketplace from IndieGoGo, YouTube's new Screening Room and now
Current TV!
Space is filling up fast so click here to register today.
The
conversation will focus on the new tools and tactics DIWO filmmakers
are using for fundraising, audience building, and distribution.
Come
hear from the experts on how their companies are helping film and
mediamakers navigate the shifting film distribution systems with new
tools to harness the power of the internet and audiences to help fund,
create and distribute media.
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"NEW DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVES, TOOLS AND TACTICS FOR DIWO ("Do-It-With-Others") FILMMAKERS"
RSVP: Please signup online;
Click here to register!
DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
TIME:
7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments
7:20 - 9:00 p.m. Panel
9:00 - 9:30 Networking
LOCATION:
The
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking , 2565 Third St., Suite
#337, between 22nd & 23rd Streets, San Francisco, CA. Street
parking is usually available.
ADMISSION:
FREE for current BAWIFT Member
s, $5 general, $3 students with ID
Please
refer to the information on location and directions to the School
provided on our website. There are two campus locations for SF School
of Digital Filmmaking if you look on their website. We provide the
correct location for this event at
www.bawift.org
Reminder:
Unlike our special events, this month's meeting is for women only.
PANELIST BIOS:
Danae Ringelmann
is a founder and the Chief of Finance and Customer Development for
IndieGoGo. Danae founded IndieGoGo to democratize the film funding
process. Passionate about helping filmmakers embrace new opportunities
online, Danae often speaks at conferences and in classrooms on Film
2.0. Recent speaking engagements include Los Angeles Film Festival,
Hollywood Black Film Festival, International Documentary Association,
California Lawyers for the Arts, IFP Labs, and various university film
programs. Danae brings entertainment industry and film finance
expertise. Prior to IndieGoGo, Danae was a securities analyst at Cowen
& Co. where she covered entertainment and video game companies
including Pixar, Lions Gate, Disney, and Electronic Arts. Danae also
focused on cable network, NFL, newspaper and hedge fund clientele while
at JPMorgan's Investment Bank and Private Bank. In the wake of 9/11,
Danae co-produced a concert reading of Incident at Vichy, an Arthur
Miller play addressing the politically charged topic of racial
profiling. Danae is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA from the Haas
School of Business at UC Berkeley. Danae was also a Morehead Scholar
and Varsity Rower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sara Pollack
is
the Global Product Marketing Manager, Film & Animation at YouTube.
She is responsible for building and executing You Tube's business
strategy for film across the marketing, Product, Business Development,
PR, Sales and Editorial Teams, in order to ensure that YouTube remains
at the cutting-edge of digital entertainment.
Prior to joining YouTube, Sara was a Production Executive at Big Beach,
an independent film production and finance company, where she worked on
both feature and documentary films including Little Miss Sunshine,
Everything is Illuminated and Sherrybaby. Before Big Beach, Sara worked
at Miramax Films, directly reporting to the President of Production
during the studio's release of such award-winning films as Finding
Neverland, The Aviator, and Cold Mountain. Sara received her B.A. in
English from Brown University.
Saskia Wilson-Brown
was raised between California and France, obtained her Bachelor's ast
UC Berkeley, and her Masters at Central Saint Martin's College in
London. Starting her media career in the art department for music
videos and commercials - working with such luminaries as Dayton &
Faris, Madonna and Marilyn Manson - she quickly moved into production
design for the likes of hip-hop don Master P. - eventually moving on to
become co-director of the Silver Lake Film Festival. Saskia honed her
chops by creating a parallel festival devoted exclusively to digital
content dubbed MP4Fest. Aimed at showcasing emerging online content
ranging in style from Machinima to viral videos, MP4Fest was one of the
first large-scale digital media exhibition programs of its kind in LA.
Her focus in her directorial capacity at SLFF was in implementing a
multi-arts, community-driven approach to film exhibition, and placing a
strong programming emphasis on local, documentary, and music films.
Since leaving SLFF, Saskia has maintained her ties to the film festival
world. Serving as programmer, film juror, board member, advisor and/or
panelist for festivals and organizations such as Slamdance, Gen Art,
IFP, the Queer Lounge, MixFest LA, and more. Saskia currently works at
Emmy-Award winning Current TV as the head of Filmmaker Outreach for VC2
(viewer-created content) and CJ (Collective Journalism), where she
spearheads projects designed to gain new short format documentary
content for the network from international filmmakers, while initiating
content partnerships on a global scale.
ABOUT THEIR COMPANIES:
IndieGoGo
is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make
independent film happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for
project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling the audience
to discover and connect directly with filmmakers and the causes they
support. Founded on the principles of opportunity, transparency,
choice, and action, IndieGoGo launched in 2008 to address the
fundraising challenges and market inefficiencies affecting independent
filmmaking today. IndieGoGo enables this "filmocracy" by providing
filmmakers an open platform to pitch their projects to the world, and
giving the fans a vehicle to experience and influence the once
inaccessible world of filmmaking.Filmmakers get new resources to build
and engage a loyal fan base to assist in making their projects happen.
Filmmakers can raise money and awareness, find cast and crew, and gain
credibility through the help of their number one resource: their fans.
The
YouTube Screening Room
is an exciting, new initiative from YouTube connecting films and
audiences in the world's largest theater and is also a platform for top
films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve. Every
other Friday, four new films are featured in the YouTube Screening Room.
Since its inception in 2005, Emmy award-winning
Current TV
has been the world's leading peer-to-peer news and information network.
Current is the only 24/7 cable and satellite television network and
Internet site produced and programmed in collaboration with its
audience. Current connects young adults with what is going on in their
world, from their perspective, in their own voices. With the launch of
Current.com, the first fully integrated web and TV platform users can
participate in shaping an ongoing stream of news and information that
is compelling, authentic and relevant to them. Current pioneered the
television industry's leading model of interactive viewer created
content (VC2). Comprising roughly one-third of Current's on-air
broadcast, this content is submitted via short-form, non-fiction video
"pods". Viewer Created Ad Messages (VCAMs) are also open to viewer's
participation. Current's programming ranges from daily pop culture
coverage to political satire in "SuperNews," unprecedented music
journalism in "The Current Fix," and unique insights into global
stories through Vanguard and Citizen Journalism. Current is now viewed
in the U.S., U.K. And Italy in more than 51 million households through
distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107 nationwide), Time Warner
(nationwide), DirecTV (channel 366 nationwide), Dish Network (channel
196 nationwide), Sky (channel 193) and Virgin Media Cable (channel 155)
and in Italy on Sky Italia (channel 130).
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