The Distribution Experience

THE DISTRIBUTION EXPERIENCE
Sunday December 9th 2019 5-8 PM

CONFIRMED DISTRIBUTORS

• FOCUS FEATURES - Courtney Cunniff – Head of Acquisitions
• VISIONS FILMS/SONY – Lise Romanoff
• ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS – Howard Cohen
• INDIE RIGHTS – Michael Madison & Linda Nelson
• GRAVITAS - Tony Piantedosi - Director of Acquisitions
• EPIC - Yulissa Morales - US Dist. Sr. Manager
• CBS FILMS - Scott Shooman - Acquisitions
• TRICOAST - Daisy Hamilton - Acquisitions
• COHEN MEDIA - Brooke Iskra - Acquisitions
• INDICAN - Shuan Hill - President
• FREESTYLE RELEASING - Bill Vergas
• THE ORCHARD - Danielle DiGiacomo - VP of Acquisitions
• FLOURISHING FILMS – Efuru Flowers – CEO & Founder
• FANDOR – Gail Gendler – Head of Programming
  
  

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WHAT -

5-6:30 Learn from Sydney Levine & Peter Belsito and Susan Johnston, as they share wisdom on strategy, monetization, the International Film Circuit, your career & distribution.
6:30-8
Meet & Engage with Distributors & Independent Sales Reps.

• Anyone with a project from pitch phase to finished is welcome.
• All distributors attending will receive registration info with your project info
• Receive a U.S. Film Distributors A-Z Report ($59 value)
• Iced Tea, Water & Nosh provided. Optional $1 cocktail w/ Hooch.co app

WHEN - Sunday, December 9th 2018 5-8PM

WHERE - White Horse Tavern in the Great Room 41 S De Lacey Ave, Pasadena, CA 91105

WHO -
Sydney Levine - has been in the international film business since 1975. In 1977, 20th Century Fox International hired her as the first woman in international distribution. She has also worked in shorts acquisitions and international distribution from 1978 to 1980, before moving to international feature film acquisitions for U.S. distribution until 1988. From 1988 to 2008 with her own company, FilmFinders, tracked rights for film buyers of all indie feature films worldwide. In 2008 she sold her company and database to IMDb, an Amazon company.

She continues working with the Cannes Film Festival's Industry Workshop and the Short Corner, often giving the opening presentation, with the Kisakes Short Film Festival in Istanbul and other film markets and festivals around the world, presenting workshops and presentations about the international film circuit and emerging filmmakers’ career strategies. In January she will chair The Women’s Film Conference at the Dhaka Film Festival In Bangladesh.
Peter Belsito - was a founding member of Newsreel, a radical anti-war student filmmaking collective. He was a founding member of the Independent Feature Project (IFP) in New York City in 1981 and opened the IFP office in Los Angeles (now FIlmIndependent). He was a founding member of the Chicano Cinema Coalition.

He worked in publishing for ten years for Charles T. Munger, Vice Chairman of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, and assisted Sydney Levine in founding FilmFinders in 1988 as a blue chip film acquisitions tracking and consulting firm. He came on board full time in 1995 as a FilmFinders partner, Executive VP. Fourteen years after Ms. Levine's successful launch of FilmFinders, He has a profound sense of seeking just compensation for filmmakers and their works.
Susan Johnston - known as a Media Futurist, is President of Select Services Films, Inc. and founded the critically acclaimed New Media Film Festival ® in 2009.  The festival honors stories worth telling by bridging story and technology with innovative mediums and ever changing delivery platforms.

Susan has spoken at major conferences including American Film Market, NAB & NATPE about the future of media, content and technology space. An Emmys® New Media Interactive member, Professor Emeritus New Media and was Knighted in 2017. As an innovator, Susan produced the 1st live stream HD talk show, 1st mobile series, 1st to screen AI created content, 1st to offer Emmys consulting and Broadcasting, 1st to show VR as a collaborative experience, 1st to distribute micro content.


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 Your receipt will have a registration link to put in your project and contact info for the distributors.

10th Annual New Media Film Festival

10th NEW MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL Los Angeles, California - USA June 4-6, 2019 The Landmark 10850 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles CA  90064 www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com Since the festivals 2009 inception, Honoring Stories worth Telling has been New Media Film Festivals mandate. As the 1st Major Festival celebrating innovation, story, mediums & platforms, New Media Film Festival has led the way in the pursuit of stories worth telling, the exploration of new media technologies, boundary pushing resulting in new distribution models and creating and establishing new methodologies in the global monetization of content. The New Media Film Festival embodies the transformative power of the cinematic arts and it reaches across cultural bridges to wed story and technology for everyone. In 2018 the festival had 110 New Media Films & Content from 40 countries. 36 world – 7 US – 26 Los Angeles Premieres. Dedicated to producing a cutting-edge, fair, upscale festival devoted to upcoming and seasoned content creators. More than 20 competitive categories are now open that collectively celebrate a broad spectrum of storytelling – podcasts, web series, Mobile media, virtual reality, augmented reality, drone, 3D, and many more. Huffington Post aptly describes the festival, "Makes the cutting edge accessible." As noted by SAG & Golden Globe Winner Matthew Modine, "New technologies have empowered and enabled creators outside of a studio or network system to make their own movies and develop cutting edge entertainment. Affordable cameras and editing software allow artists to create and express their skills for a multitude of new distribution platforms. We are presently witness to how storytelling is being redefined in the 21st Century. New Media Film Festival highlights and showcases what will come next." The festival extends its forward thinking to promote a positive future and proudly honors luminaries with its Socially Responsible Conservationist Award. Recipients have included Jeff Bridges, Sir Paul McCartney and Leonardo DiCaprio. The festival is designed to both discover and cultivate highly creative work from emerging and seasoned content creators. Judges at the New Media Film Festival include representatives from HBO, Marvel, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and other pioneers in the entertainment industry. Filmmakers vie for a chance at $45,000 USD value in awards. Accepted Filmmakers will benefit from a Red Carpet Press Junket, VIP Soiree, Web Series Superstar Panel, live music, technology panels, networking lounge, international art exhibit, Q&A's, audience awards, and much more. MISSION AND OBJECTIVE Honoring stories worth telling. As stories are part of media, New Media Film Festival explores storytelling by showcasing thematically the merging of “cutting edge” (Huffington Post) content and technology.   MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL 10th Annual New Media Film Festival honoring stories worth telling. The festival’s culture is honoring stories worth telling by bringing the best of story and technology together with content creators from around the world. New Media Film Festival has the transformative power of the cinematic arts that reaches across all cultural bridges to wed story and technology for everyone. At the festival, meet the content creators, engage with their work, and learn about innovative mediums being utilized today and how constant emerging technology is changing how we experience content. "I thank the New Media film festival for what they've done for young filmmakers," legendary director, Roger Corman. Put your innovative work forward and join the unique community of content creators at www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com

                                Contact: Crystal@NewMediaFilmFestival.com 310-288-1100

   2355 Westwood Blvd. #381 Los Angeles CA  90064 USA www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com

                                                                

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Top 25 New Media Awards

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For Immediate Release:

New Media Film Festival Announces the Top 25 New Media Award Winners

Every individual irrespective of the profession need some sort of motivation to move forward with the profession. New Media Film Festival understands this and so motivates content creators with the right awards, $45,000.00 in awards. Judges from Marvel, HBO, Emmys to name a few.

Los Angeles (September 23, 2018) – With a view to honoring the stories that are worth telling, New Media Film Festival is conducted every year.

Jeff Bridges, who was awarded Socially Responsible Conservationist Award said “Thanks to the New Media Film Festival for honoring me with the Socially Responsible Conservationist Award, that’s really beautiful, it means a lot to me. And thanks for supporting our film, Living in Futures Past”.

Like Jeff, many other creators from different world destinations were honored at the New Media Festival Event. Announcing the Top 25 new Media Award Winners for the right talents under different categories, full listing here:

Grand Prize - #Tagged

Audience - Two Strangers who meet Five Times

3D - Deadline the Magician

AR - Greetings from Columbus Villa

AI - Smartest S**t in the Room

Animation - Anna

Apps - The Me App

Digital Comics - Scrimshaw

Documentary - 50/10 Saul Turteltaub

Drone - The Faroe Islands

Feature Length -  Living in Futures Past

Mixed Reality - Live VR Corridor

Mobile/Tablet -  Vote for Me

Music Video - Bad Karma 

New Media - Played

Pilot - Bear Whisperer

Scripts –Top 3: Rust – Gumboots – Making Peace.  Best Script - Rust

Short - Bruce 

SRC- Socially Responsible Content - Your Laughter

STEAM - Drain Rangers

Student - When we are Right

Trailer – Alpha Go

Virtual Reality – Best VR Doc Big Air with Elliot Sloan, Best VR Narrative – The Train Hamasen

Web Series - Om City

All the awardees were highly happy that their work has been honored.

About New Media Film Festival:

New Media Film Festival holds the pride of being the first major festival that celebrates platforms, mediums, stories and innovation, now celebrating its 10^th year.

For more information, please visit www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com

Media Contact:

Crystal Z

crystal@newmediafilmfestival.com

New Media Film Festival

2355 Westwood Blvd. #381

Los Angeles CA  90064

310-288-1100

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The Future Of Entertainment - New Media Film Festival

Honoring Stories Worth Telling

The 7th Annual New Media Film Festival

June 9 – 10 – 11, 2016 in Los Angeles CA

Deadline to submit April 25, 2016 Midnight PST

www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com

New Media Film Festival – The Future of Entertainment, celebrates the Best in New Media to the world in all media that are innovative, imaginative and hailed for making “the cutting edge accessible” by Huffington Post.

New Media Film Festival intersects the interactivity of new technologies & formats for Media & Cinema which exemplify the power of the cinematic arts to inspire and transform. A festival Honoring Stories Worth Telling that are created by people of All Ages-All Cultures-All Media. New Media Film Festival highlights New Technology, Financing & Monetization, the Convergence of Media, and where Traditional Media meets New Media.

As noted by NMFF attendee and Academy Award-winning producer Nicholas Reed, “The New Media Film Festival seemed like an outlier when it started in 2010 with their strange categories. All of a sudden, web series, 3D storytelling, and digital comics have become the new normal. The NMFF is always looking to the future, challenging creators, the market and the audience to discover new storytelling. There are not many festivals pushing the limits. Go NMFF!”

While many festivals have stuck with “old-school” programs of shorts and features, the NMFF exhibits a stunning diversity of emerging media across 20 categories, including Digital Comics, 3D, and mobile content. Besides envisioning the future of media, the festival is also concerned with the future of the world itself.

As always, the festival will include several high-octane panels with industry experts, a Red Carpet Press Junket, VIP Soiree, 3D Opening Night, Networking, Award Ceremony, and Screenings conclude with Q&A sessions of the filmmakers and participants. The 7^th Annual New Media Film Festival will be held in Los Angeles CA June 7, 8 & 9^th 2016.

-"Worth The Entry Fee"- Movie Maker Magazine

Script and audiovisual works in all formats, genres, and languages are accepted. Programming is categorized into existing and emerging technologies that make up the contemporary mediascape. This includes 3D, Animation, Apps, Digital Comics, Documentary, Feature, LGBT, Machinima, Made on Mobile/Tablet,  Music Video, New Media, Pilots, New Media Scripts,  Shorts, Shot on RED, Sniplers “ 30 second pitch, SRC- Socially Responsible Content, STEAM-Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math, Trailers and Web Series.

Judges from Marvel, Oscars, Grammys, Emmys and SAG/AFTRA.  $45,000.00 in Awards - 20 categories.  Submissions accepted until April 25^th of each festival year.  Each entry is considered for Programming, Competition & Distribution

http://www.NewMediaFilmFestival.com