Whilst we will be screening over 100 films, we also have some wonderful talks lined-up for filmmakers as part of the festival as well.
Live Talks
I’ve made my Film. Now what? How to increase your chances of Festival Success.
Friday 15th September from 10:30-11:30 in North Lecture Room
Mark Brennan from Festival Formula and the Festival Director of Exit 6 Film Festival talks through the festival process and potential red flags to look out for.
Crowdfunding for Success
Friday 15th September from 14:00-15:00 in North Lecture Room
Learn how to crowdfund your next project from Greenlit, a British-based crowdfunding platform designed specifically for creatives. In this introductory session, Greenlit will guide you through the key concepts behind running a successful crowdfunding campaign. Speaker: Pete Storey from Greenlit.
Pitch Your Story, Find Your Audience
Friday 15th September from 15:00-16:00 in North Lecture Room
Learn how to pitch your next project from Greenlit, a British-based crowdfunding platform designed specifically for creatives. In the session, Greenlit will take you through the process of pitching your project, creating your page, and using crowdfunding to expand and mobilize your existing network. Speaker: Pete Storey from Greenlit
5 Minute Speed Pitching
Friday 15th September from 16:00-17:00 in North Lecture Room
Pitch your latest idea to the team at Greenlit, who will give you feedback on the pitch and next steps to make your project a reality.
Virtual Production with Paul Franklin
Saturday 16th September from 14:00-15:00 in the Auditorium
Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor will talk through the process used to make his latest short film Fireworks.
Online Talks
Filmmaker Q&A
Friday 22nd September (12:00)
We sit down with the filmmakers behind the films Echo (Jo Southwell, winner of Best Local Film 2023), Friday Night Blind (Scott Krahn, winner of Best Documentary 2023), Manicure (Carluccio) and Unthinkable Conversations (Emma Richards, first time filmmaker).
Law? What law? The contracts you need to know if you want to bullet proof your film.
Friday 22nd September (17:30-18:30)
This talk by Silvia Schmidt will cover the basic legals every producer and filmmaker should know about. If you are a producer or filmmaker and you want to avoid legal pitfalls, then this talk is for you. Taking it from the development stages, Silvia will talk about how to get complete ‘chain of title’ – the contracts to acquire the copyright and intellectual property in the underlying rights and story. Moving on to pre-production and production, the talk then moves to contracting cast/crew in a cost-effective way. Finally, you will learn how to deal with and contract any investors and financiers and in talking about this last point, Silvia will also give you some tips about how to approach which kind of investor and financier and what sort of documents they would typically want to see.
Silvia Schmidt is an experienced media and entertainment lawyer. She trained at a finance law firm (Clifford Chance LLP) and then moved to the boutique media firm (Sheridans) and gained in-house experience in film and tv finance at Ingenious Media. She has worked as freelance legal consultant for producers, scriptwriters, investors and financiers since 2019: https://silviaschmidt.org/about. When she is not looking at contracts, she likes picking up the camera herself and is currently working on a feature documentary.
The Film Festival Doctor’s Guide to Navigating The Festival Circuit
Saturday 23rd September (15:00-16:00)
Run by award winning film festival strategist Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith, The Film Festival Doctor helps filmmakers create a film festival strategy so their films are seen by audiences around the world. In this presentation, Rebekah guides you through how to get organised so you can start submitting your film to festivals. She also shares with you some essential tips with regards to how to adapt the right type of mindset as you enter the world of film festivals.
Online talks are open to all, the links to join will be shared on our festival Facebook page.
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