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Northern Film & Media, BAFTA, Shooting People present...Short Sighted!

  If you're a filmmaker, making your short film is only half the battle. Short Sighted! is the essential day-long programme to help you plan an effective distribution and exhibition strategy in the digital age.

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The following speakers have been confirmed:

  • Simon Ward , Independent Cinema CEO
  • Chris Tidman, Shorts International
  • Laurence Billiet , Babelgum
  • Andy Smith, MOFILM
  • Rebecca Mark-Lawson, Lifesize Pictures
  • Lisa Laws, Northern Lights Film Festival
  • Melanie Iredale, Berwick Arts Festival

Sessions will cover:

- benefits of a strong festival run and useful online tools for planning festival strategy
- a survey of the traditional short film sales landscape for theatrical screenings, broadcast and DVD
- tips on selecting and making the most of a relationship with a sales agent
- how and when to put your film online
- key digital distribution and VOD players
- revenue streams in online distribution
- rise of piracy, and the advent of the Free model
- using the internet to develop and source an audience for your work
- future trends in short film distribution including working with brands to produce and exhibit new work

Previous speakers include reps from British Council, regional screen agencies, MySpace, YouTube, MOFILM, Encounters Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, The Times BFI London Film Festival, Lifesize Pictures, Shorts International, Future Shorts, Babelgum, Current TV and many more.

When: Wednesday 3 February 2010, 9.30am - 6.30pm
Where: Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG

Download a full list of previous speakers here.
Download the day's schedule here.

Tickets will only be open to filmmakers based in the Northeast.

This event is funded through Northern Film & Media and the Sustain Partnership.

February 01 2010