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Realscreen Summit

Realscreen Summit 2011, 31 January – 3 February, Washington, DC.

The Realscreen Summit is the most important non-fiction film & television industry event. Now in its 13th year, this highly anticipated annual event is dedicated to the development of business and creative opportunities for those in non-fiction and factual programming and content creation. Over 1,300 delegates attended the 2010 Summit representing 630 companies from 23 countries, and over 200 Commissioning Editors, Programmers and Acquisitions Executives attended the event actively seeking product to purchase.

Master class: Doing Business in the US
Date: Thursday 20 January 2011, 10am - 4.30pm
Venue: Arnolfini, Bristol

South West Screen has teamed up with Alec Mcphedran at Skills Channel TV to deliver a pre-market masterclass for companies attending the Realscreen Summit 2011.

Alec is a creative industries trainer, coach and business mentor and is a well known facilitator in developing creative projects. He works with a wide range of broadcasters, screen agencies, film schools and production companies across the UK in helping individuals and businesses in their growth. Previously head of learning and sector talent development at Channel 4, Alec is also a Business Link Creative Sector Adviser and a Prince’s Trust Mentor for Creative Businesses.

This session will explore distribution, rights, co-production, brands, models and contract laws; how to make it work for you and pitching. Click here to access a programme for the day.

Those attending previous master classes have said:

“Many, many thanks for a really well structured, extremely helpful day. My head is still spinning from all the information and tips you managed to pack in and I'm not sure I've yet recovered from the hell of an elevator pitch. Although, seriously, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, it was better to mess up in front of friends, very useful to hear what other people's pitches are like and nice to discover it's not so difficult after all! Something lots of people there agreed was how good your own presentation was most importantly because there was no "salesman" in it, but a genuine belief in what you do which came across very well." Lydia Conway, Moondance Productions

“Just to say how useful I found yesterday's pre market briefing. It was really good to meet up with everyone else going and have such a good set of speakers. As you know, it has taken me a while to get up to speed on the trip (we have been out filming quite a bit) and this was just the spur I needed to get me thinking about Reelscreen as a priority for planning. The group talked about getting together again before the market, if that happened then I would very much like to invite everyone out to Halo for the get together. We have a big room with an open fire and a very local pub next door to us. I know it is a drive but it might make a different type of meeting place.” Peter Georgi, Halo Films Ltd

To book your place on the master class complete and return the booking form to Johanna Bolhoven.

To read about our trip to the Realscreen Summit 2010 click here.



 

 

 

 

SWS at Realscreen