Low Budget Film Finance and Distribution
Location: University of Wales Newport, City Campus
Date: 16th & 17th March and 30th March
Cost: Fully/Part Funded - Please contact us for details
Course designed and delivered by
- Understanding film markets in the UK and internationally
- Demystifying the ‘no-to-low budget’ dynamic, and finance options
- Establishing web-profiles and interactive funding and distribution profiles
- Understanding distribution and exhibition, including contract options
- Budgeting for film
By the end of the course you will be able to...........
- Adapt scripts and treatments for the low-budget market in the UK and internationally
- Confidently identify and approach sources of finance
- Understand the link between finance and distribution
- Develop budgets for a range of production models
- Understand the use of web profiles and marketing
Tutor
Mike Parker is an award winning Independent Producer whose credits include “Satellite City”, “A Mind to Kill” “Rancid Aluminium”, “I Know You Know” and “7Lives” . His projects have been successfully distributed internationally and Mike is currently developing a self distribution plan for the comedy series “Satellite City”
Industry Expert
Michael Cowan, partner in Stealth Media Group, an international sales, finance and executive production company working in theatrical, TV, and home video/dvd, as well as international sales of film, and structured financing for film. Credits include Crash, The Merchant of Venice, Lord of War, Head in the Clouds, and Woolfcreek.
Robert Graham, Director at Independent Moving Pictures, and Thunderball International Films, specializing in finance and film accountancy. Recent credits include 7 Lives (Danny Dyer), City Rats, Panic Button, Stormhouse (Kathryn Flynn, The Man Inside (Michelle Ryan, Peter Mullan)
