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Production 101
March 1, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cinema Village Theater 1, 22 East 12th Street
New York,NY10003United States
New York,NY10003United States
Filmmakers love nothing more than chatting endlessly about cameras and equipment and stories and scripts. But what about all that other stuff you need to deal with in order to make a film? This panel will cover everything you need to know about the nitty-gritty bits needed to produce your film, including getting Music, Scheduling, Budgeting, Insurance, Immigration Legal Issues, Software and more!
Moderated by filmmaker Zachary Grinfeld. This event is FREE and open to the public.
Get answers to all the questions you were afraid to ask, such as …
- How do you put together a budget for a film when you have no money? Can I do the whole thing in Excel?
- Gack! How do you get cast, location and crew to the right place at the right time?
- What about permits? Do you really need them?
- Do you need Worker’s Comp insurance? Equipment insurance? Other insurance? Can you really get sued if someone trips and falls coming to your shoot?
- How do you select the music for your film? What about copyright issues? When should you should start thinking about it, and how do you communicate your thoughts to a musician?
- If you are a filmmaker looking to use non-citizens in your film, what are the rules?
- If you are not a US citizen, what sort of Visa do you need to work on a US film? What status do you need to get paid? What is your recourse if you get ripped off?
- There are a ton of different editing packages out there. Are they all the same? How do you pick? How do you get the most out of your purchase?
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About The Speakers
Anthony Lopez
Anthony Lopez is Vice President of Sales at Media Services. He has been with the company since 2013 on the payroll sales team where he works with all types of content creators providing best in class production payroll services ...
Gary Rebholz
Gary Rebholz leads a team to develop and create VEGAS Pro and other video and audio editing products. He uses close contact with customers and industry professionals to help him understand their needs and plan the new features and product improvements that will address those needs ...
Hassan Heyword
Hassan Heyward was born and raised in New York City in the coolest area of Money Making Manhattan, called Washington Heights. If you are growing up in the Heights, it means you are growing up with a heavy Hispanic and Black influence. Hassan is a Field Representative in the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment ...
Lauren DeBellis Aviv
Lauren DeBellis Aviv, Partner, represents foreign nationals seeking employment and family-based visas. She focuses on obtaining visas for individuals of extraordinary ability, and for entertainment/music companies, the film/TV industry, theatres, dance companies, advertising/digital agencies, and start-ups ...
Phyllis Bishop
Industry legend Phyllis Bishop, is the new Director of Development and Publicity for the Winter Film Awards. Her career started with the Audrey Hepburn film, Wait Until Dark at WB. She is an Indie Film Publicist, representing films at Film Festivals and on successful Oscar® and Hollywood Foreign Press (Golden Globes®) campaigns. She currently works with distributor Passion River Films. Also active in TV, she is Chair of Events for the membership of NYEMMYS.ORG and was the 2016 and 2017 NY Emmy® Awards Gala, Operations Manager ...
Skylar Wilman-Saylor
Skylar Wilman-Saylor is an Account Executive with Reiff & Associates, LLC specializing in Film/TV Production, Staging, Rigging/Live Events and Drone coverage ...
Zach Grinfeld
Zach Grinfeld is a recent graduate of Hofstra University with a degree in film studies and production and a minor in engineering. He is working as an assistant editor on several upcoming documentaries, and was a production assistant with CBS for the first 2016 presidential debate at Hofstra ...
