SHOOT Magazine, the leading publication for commercial, branded content and entertainment production, today announced the date of May 17, 2012 for SHOOT’s Directors/Producers Forum & 10th Annual New Directors Showcase. This one day event includes daytime Forum panels and lunch and evening New Directors Showcasecase Screening, Meet the New Directors Panel & After Party, providing packed agenda of learning and networking opportunities for directors, cinematographers, ad agency & Movie studio producers and creatives, film & TV producers, executives & artists, production/post company execs & artisans, online & mobile creative executives and brand managers.
The daytime Directors/Producers Forum and the New Directors Showcase evening programs combine to provide an ideal environment for filmmakers, videomakers and commercialmakers to capitalize on new business opportunities, share expertise, meet new project partners, initiate creative collaboration, source new possibilities for work and help define opportunities in an evolving marketplace now clearly spanning advertising and entertainment (and the merging of those two worlds) and the tools needed to take advantage of these opportunities (with a look at cameras & production workflow.)
From laughter to tears, drama to horror, spots to movie excerpts to online video, dialogue driven to visual effects fantasy–that’s just a sampling of the range of emotions, genres, mediums and styles exhibited annually by a new generation of directors at SHOOT’s New Directors Showcase Event every May. This will be the 10thh Annual Showcase and eigth year of being held at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Theatre on West 57th Street in New York City. 2012 marks the third year for the daytime Forum featuring an agenda of speakers and panel discussions.
Here’s A Preview Of The May 17th Daytime and Evening Agendas Where Education & Entertainment Will Take Center Stage
The SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum
SHOOT has more to showcase than ever before with exciting new panel discussions and Q&A sessions featuring leading directors, agency creatives, production company entrepreneurs, and other top flight artists and executives who will share their expertise, helping to define opportunities in an evolving marketplace spanning advertising and entertainment, technology and resources to take advantage of these opportunities, and multi-disciplinary talent to breathe life into that content so that it realizes creative visions and objectives. We’ll break mid-day for lunch downstairs. Speakers & Panels to be announced early April. Topics to be addressed include..
— New Directors Showcase A Ten Year Perspective On Up-And-Coming Directors& Look Into The Future
— Advertising & Entertainment Production: The Maturation Of The Coming Together Of The Advertising & Entertainment Communities
— Lunch Break Downstairs at the DGA for Food & Casual Conversation Among Speakers and Attendees
— Production Workflow: Getting “Flow-ent” In The Language Of Camera–To– Post Workflow
— Screen Play: Content Creation in a Multi-screen World Exploration of new platforms and different forms of advertising & entertainment content for them.
— In The Director’s Chair Leading directors whose work spans features, TV and commercials reflect on their endeavors in commercials, TV and Movies.
Some of Last Years 2011 Panels
New Directors Showcase Screening, Panel & After-party
The evening program showcases the screening of work from all the New Directors Search finalists and we will hear from several of them as to their backstories and strategies for gaining exposure in the marketplace–along with critiques/observations from industry pros. And as always, the after-party affords attendees the opportunity to meet many of the new directors first hand.
1. SHOOT and The DGA welcome audience and thank sponsors
2. Screening of the 2012 New Directors Showcase reel which will include 25-30 pieces of work culled from submissions from this year’s New Directors Search.
3. Panel introducing six of the featured new directors with agency Creative director and production company head providing insight and perspective.
4. Next, we head downstairs at the DGA for the after-party. New directors mingle with more experienced directors, speakers, event sponsors, and event attendees. The party is always a great time with a fantastic mix of guests including leading advertising, media and entertainment industry producers, creatives, executives, artisans & brand marketers. Guests will top off a day and evening by enjoying great food, cocktails, and the opportunity to meet the new directors and mingle with industry friends and make new contacts.
Event Registration
Registration is open at www.shootonline.com/go/register
SHOOT has announced one low cost all-inclusive registration fee. Those registering before April 20th midnight EDT will receive early bird rate of only $65.00. Ticket includes the SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum, Lunch, guaranteed seating and entry into The SHOOT New Directors Showcase Screening & After Party, and interactive PDF Attendee Directory for business networking purposes. Additional 10% discount is given to 3 or more registrations from same company.
Sponsors Announced for The SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum and The SHOOT New Directors Showcase
SHOOT is pleased to announce that the initial lineup of 2012 sponsors includes The Directors Guild of America (DGA) along with production companies harvest and ONE at Optimus as “Lead Sponsors”. Kodak and Media & entertainment law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz are confirmed as “Silver Sponsors,” and Moxie Pictures and film commission, the Nevada Film Office, have come on board as a “Bronze Sponsors”. This marks the eighth year that the DGA and harvest have been sponsors, the fifth for Kodak, the fourth for ONE at Optimus and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, and first for Moxie Pictures and the Nevada Film Office.
Sponsors of the May 17th event will enjoy enormous exposure to potential clients for three months before, during and after the event. One sponsorship fee includes sponsorship of both The Directors/Producers Forum and the New Directors Showcase! (Other past New Directors Showcase sponsors include Sony Cine Alta, Crossroads, Form, Backyard, Tool of North America, ARRI, Pump Audio, West Virginia Film Commission, CT Film Division, Hungry Man, RSA Films, Anonymous Content, Biscuit Filmworks, Grass Valley and Getty Images) SHOOT will be accepting sponsors through mid-April but to fully take advantage of all the great promotion, it’s best to commit as early as possible. For information on becoming a sponsor, please contact Roberta Griefer at 203/227-1699, ext 13 or email marketing@shootonline.com.
SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum & New Directors Showcase Program Information & Event Registration
Registration will open on March 16, 2012 at www.shootonline.com/go/register. One low registration fee includes the Directors/Producers Forum, Lunch, the New Directors Showcase Screening and After Party. Early bird Fee is $60. prior to April 21st, and $70. after April 21st. Multiple/group registrations from same company receive discount.
About The New Directors Search / The New Directors Showcase Reel
Each year for the last ten years, SHOOT has conducted a worldwide search to discover the best up-and-coming directors who, based on their initial work, show promise to soon make major positive contributions to advertising and/or entertainment in its traditional and emerging forms. The search was conducted by SHOOT’s editorial staff with input from advertising agency creative directors & heads of production, as well as production company heads and established directors. This year’s search will be conducted from January 1-March 31, 2012. Over the years, there have been assorted cases of New Directors Showcase helmers going on to gain industry prominence. Consider David Gray who was in the 2005 Showcase and a year later went on to be nominated for the DGA Award as best commercial director of the year. (Gray was at Hungry Man when included in the ’05 Showcase and has since moved over to Station Film). And then there was Ross Katz who won the DGA Award for outstanding achievement in movies for TV/miniseries on the strength of his HBO film Taking Chance, which earlier garnered him inclusion in SHOOT’s ’08 New Directors Showcase. If you are a new director or represent one, be sure to visit The New Directors Search page to see if you or your director meet the entry criteria. official submission form. The entry period ends on March 31.
About SHOOT Magazine
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