Media Arts for the 21st Century
Tuesday, September 18 2:30-5:30p
Furman Gallery, Lincoln Center
An invitation-only series of short talks by innovators who have radically rethought the way they approach the art and business of media arts for the 21st century. Topics will include an exploration of creative expression, new models of distribution, production, curation, marketing and audience engagement: all redefined
This series of presentations and talk-backs showcases new thinking from those enacting change in the ways we’ve always done things, and new ideas on how filmmakers and media makers can work together with the distributors and gate keepers to make a better, more sustainable future for independently produced media arts.
This is an opportunity for both camaraderie and networking, but also a chance to get in deep into some of the big questions/conversations swirling around indie film, and hear about the work our colleagues across mediums are doing.
To inquire about attending, please email Rose Vincelli Gustine, IFP Producer & Program Manager, rvincelli@ifp.org
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Confirmed Speakers
Bob Berney
Leslie Fields-Cruz, VP Operations & Director of Programming, National Black Programming Consortium
Matt Grady is the founder of Factory 25, an independent film distribution company launched in 2009. Factory 25 is a home for conceptually provocative narratives and documentaries. Grady’s mission is to deliver specialized film and music titles in an aesthetically captivating way while exposing the indie world to under-the-radar films, music, and other curiosities theatrically, digitally, on TV, VOD, via subscription, limited edition DVDs with vinyl LPs and books. Recent titles include Frownland, The Color Wheel, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and Fake It So Real. Factory 25 headquarters are in Brooklyn, New York.
Eugene Hernandez, Eugene Hernandez is the Director of Digital Strategy at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, developing new initiatives for the nearly fifty-year-old organization and its magazine, Film Comment. Responsibilities include management of the relaunched FilmLinc.com, as well as Film Society’s social media platforms, streaming content, planning talks and panel discussions, as well as oversight of the organizations new Convergence program for immersive media. In 1996, Eugene founded indieWIRE, serving as Editor-in-Chief until 2010. He has served as a consultant to non-profit arts organizations including the Creative Capital Foundation, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts and ITVS, as well as an instructor at The New School in Manhattan. He has also participated as a juror or panelist at numerous international film festivals including Sundance, San Francisco, Tribeca, IDFA and is a member of the annual selection committee for the Independent Spirit Awards. As a journalist, Eugene has written for The Wall Street Journal, Variety, Filmmaker Magazine and The Hollywood Reporter. He spent 5 years at ABC-TV, working in its multimedia division as a producer of websites for ABC News and the Academy Awards. While a student at UCLA, he lead the Campus Events Commission.
Susan Margolin is Co-President of Cinedigm Entertainment Group, a state of the art digital distributor of award-winning independent films and alternative content. She has built her career on more than 25 years in the distribution business and independent film community. Through Docurama Films®, launched in 1999, Susan has championed more than 300 award-winning documentaries, from D.A. Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back to Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War and Oscar®-nominated films including Hell and Back Again, Waste Land, GasLand and Restrepo. Margolin and Co-President Steve Savage launched Flatiron Film Company in 2011 as a brand for narrative independent films and original web series, including the cross-platform release of José Padilha’s Elite Squad: The Enemy Within. With Savage, Susan is a 2011 Producers Guild of America “Digital 25: Leaders in Emerging Entertainment” honoree. She is a board member of BAFTA and a member of IFP and New York Women in Film and Television, where she serves on the advisory board.
John Sloss is the founder of the entertainment and media advisory firm Cinetic Media and a co-founder of Cinetic Rights Management. He is also the founder of and a partner in the entertainment law firm Sloss Eckhouse LawCo LLP. Additionally, he recently co-founded Producers Distribution Agency, the theatrical distributor of Exit Through the Gift Shop, Senna, The Way and the upcoming Brooklyn Castle.
Through Cinetic Media, Sloss has facilitated the sale and/or financing of well over 300 films including the high profile 2012 Sundance Film Festival sale of Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed, Jamie Travis’ For a Good Time, Call…, Jennifer Westfeldt’s Friends With Kids, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin, Kevin Smith’s Red State, Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right, Lee Daniels’ Precious, Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan project I’m Not There and Sundance Film Festival hits Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, and Super Size Me. Sloss has executive produced over 60 films including the Academy Award®-winning The Fog of War and Boys Don’t Cry. His law clients include Killer Films, Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Bob Dylan, John Hamburg, Louis C.K., Justin Lin, Jake Kasdan, the Isle of Man’s CinemaNX and Big Beach Films. Prior to founding Sloss Law Office in 1993, Sloss was a partner at the international law firm Morrison & Foerster. Sloss received his J.D. and B.A. from the University of Michigan. Additionally, he is currently an adjunct professor in the Graduate film program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in New York with his daughter Loulou and son Henry.
Michel Reilhac is currently the executive director of ARTE France Cinema and director of film acquisitions for ARTE France. Previously, he was the executive director of Forum des Images in Paris and general manager of the American Center in Paris. In 2000, he started his own production company, MELANGE. He has produced several documentaries for French television. His first film production, a first short by Licia Eminenti, Intimisto, was selected for the official competition as the opening film at Venice Biennale in 2001. He also produced a weekly talk show in complete darkness filmed with infrared cameras for French television, Guess who’s coming for dinner.
He has also produced 3 international feature films: Cry Woman by Chinese director Liu Bing Jian (Un Certain Regard, at Cannes), The Good Old Naughty Days (Directors fortnight at Cannes) which he also directed, and 7 days, 7 nights by first time Cuban director/writer Joel Cano.
Michel Reilhac just recently announced his resignation from ARTE to pursue his own projects as writer, developer and maker of transmedia stories as of December 2012. He will be based in Berlin and Paris.
Lance Weiler is a storyteller, entrepreneur and thought leader. An alum of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Lance is recognized as a pioneer because of the way he mixes storytelling and technology. WIRED magazine named him “One of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.” He has successfully self-distributed his films The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma to more than 20 countries while grossing over 5 million dollars in the process. The Last Broadcast, which he co-wrote and co-directed, became the first film to be distributed digitally to theaters in 1998.
Currently, Lance is developing a number of film, TV and gaming projects with his writing partner Chuck Wendig. Lance’s next feature film entitled HiM won the Arte France Cinema award and was selected by the Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, marking the first time the lab has supported a feature film/immersive storytelling project. HiM is being produced by Ted Hope (21 Grams), Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry) and Anne Carey (The American). On a television front, Lance and Chuck are developing a TV series with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick. Of this dark episodic tale that is being developed for a major cable outlet, Lance is a creator, co-writer and executive producer.
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