MICROBUDGET REALITIES | Industry Dialogues | Festival 2013

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Producers and content creators are increasingly expected to do more with less. This panel will use a case study format to deconstruct the decisions that are required to deliver a successful micro-budget film from those who have succeeded in the range below $100,000. Michel Pradier Director, Projects Financing, Telefilm Canada (MODERATOR) Michel is a 13-year veteran of Telefilm Canada. Beginning as a financial analyst for the film and television units, he became head of the television unit before being appointed interim director of the Quebec regional office in 2001. The following year, Michel was appointed Director of French Operations at the Québec regional office. Before arriving at Telefilm, Michel occupied executive and financial analyst positions at SODEC between 1991 and 1997. He had been associated with film and media production for 10 years before that. In his current role, Michel is responsible for the full range of feature films productions being considered for funding. He is adept at target-setting and performance measures that have a great bearing on Telefilm's decision-making process. John Christou Producer, Rhymes for Young Ghouls John is an award wining producer and founder of Prospector Films. He's produced multiple films, including Last Woman Standing, Up The Yangtze, Sound Asleep, File Under Miscellaneous, The Colony and Sorry, Rabbi. His first fiction feature film, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, is premiering at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Chris Collins Senior Production & Development Executive for Film Fund, BFI Chris has strategic responsibility for shorts and low budget film, as well as projects which are pushing the envelope of traditional filmmaking. He previously managed the Feature Film Development Programme at the UK Film Council's Development Fund. Before joining the UK Film Council, he worked as an independent producer. Credits include Brick Lane, Tomorrow La Scala!, Last Resort and My Summer of Love. He was an associate producer for BBC Films where he worked on a series of short films for BBC2 including films by award-winning writer/directors Andrea Arnold and Vito Rocco, and also worked as a development/production executive with the former public production funder, BFI Production guiding films such as Love is the Devil and Beautiful People to realization. Enrique López-Lavigne Senior Production & Development Executive for Film Fund, BFI Enrique is one of the most recognized producers in Spain. He is a producer for Apaches Entertainment, which he co-funded together with Belén Atienza in 2008 after working separately on some of the major film productions in the country for 10 years. Apaches Entertainment, under Enrique's and Belén's guidance, has produced some of the most original and succesful titles in the European cinema over recent years such as 28 Weeks Later, Pan's Labyrinth, The Orphanage, and Intruders, to name a few. Big box office success came with the film The Impossible, Juan Antonio Bayona's second feature, with which his company broke the national record of viewers and became the most succesful Spanish movie ever in-house. With plenty of experience in filmmaking, Enrique stands as one of the referente producers in Europe. For the fourth year in a row, he is presenting his fifth film in Toronto's International Film Festival: People in Places by Juan Cavestany. Graeme Mason Senior Production & Development Executive for Film Fund, BFI Graeme worked in both factual and entertainment TV programming in his native Australia before moving to the UK. In Britain he worked across all aspects of film production, sales & acquisitions and distribution for companies such as Manifesto and Polygram Filmed Entertainment. From 1998 to 2002 he was President of Worldwide Sales and Acquisitions for Universal Studios. He then joined Channel 4 Television as Head of Media Projects and later as Managing Director of Rights. Katriel Schory Senior Production & Development Executive for Film Fund, BFI Katriel Schory studied film production at New York University and returned to Israel in 1973 to become Head of Production at Kastel Films, at that time the leading production company in Israel. In 1984 he formed his own production company, Belfilms Ltd., and produced more than 200 films, including award-winning feature films, television dramas and international co-productions. He has been the Executive Director of the Israel Film Fund, which supports and promotes Israeli Feature Films, since 1999. tiff.net/industry/industry-programming/conference/microbudgetfilms

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