Two-day seminar to include:
* Development/Fundraising
* Option agreements
* Legal documents
* Script Breakdown
* Scheduling principles
* Scheduling stripboard/daily schedule
* Budgeting
* Pre-Production/Production/SAG
* Deliverables/Marketing/Film Festivals
Friday, February 3, 2012 - 6:30 to 9:00 pm
Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 9:00 am to 5:30 pm
The George Washington University International Building - 1957 E Street, NW, DC
$175 WIFV Members/$225 Public
Pre-registration REQUIRED
MAUREEN A. RYAN is a NYC-based producer concentrating on feature films and documentaries. She is co-producer of James Marsh’s Man on Wire (2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best British Film) and co-producer of Project NIM (Best Director World Cinema Documentary at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and shortlisted for the 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary).
She is also a producer of the independent narrative film BOMBER which premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival, has won numerous film festival awards and is currently distributed by Film Movement. She produced a short film Red Flag that was written and directed by Sheila Curran Dennin. The film was honored as part of the Best of the Fest for Comedy at the 2009 Palm Springs International Shorts Fest and also won the 2009 Best Short Comedy award at the Woods Hole Film Festival.
Ryan’s other producer credits include The Gates, Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway, The Team, The King, Torte Bluma, Last Hand Standing and Wisconsin Death Trip. Additional awards have included a Peabody award, three AICP awards, a Billboard award, a Freddie, a CMA award, an ACM award, 11 Addys and 5 Tellys.
She is on the full time faculty at Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program.
Her book, Producer to Producer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Low Budget Independent Film Producing was published by Michael Wiese Publishing in June 2010 and the companion website is www.ProducerToProducer.com.
Venue sponsored by The Documentary Center at The George Washington University.
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