SHOOT Magazine, the leading publication for commercial, branded content and entertainment production returns to the DGA with its annual Forum & New Directors Shwocase Event for a day where learning, discussion, entertainment and inspiration will come together. The date is set for Thursay, May 23, 2013. The SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum & 11th Annual New Directors Showcase is a one day event that includes daytime Forum panels and lunch and evening New Directors Showcase 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 marketers.
The daytime Directors/Producers Forum and the New Directors Showcase evening programs combine to provide an ideal environment for filmmakers, videomakers, commercialmakers, ad agency creatives & producers, TV/Cable/Online/Movie development & production executives 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.
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 11th Annual Showcase and ninth year of being held at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Theatre on West 57th Street in New York City. 2013 marks the 4th year for the daytime Forum featuring an agenda of speakers and panel discussions.
Here’s A Preview Of The May 23rd 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..
• Screening Room: SHOOT shows a notable short that made its mark this awards show season, followed by an interview with the filmmaker behind the lauded work.
• Production Line: A mix of producers spanning varied disciplines discuss their work and the overlap of those disciplines as the advertising and entertainment communities come together.
• The Visual Flow: Leading cinematographers and production/post artisans discuss how they dovetail with respect to workflow stemming from the growing prominence of digital cinematography.
• PR, The Difference Between Good Work & Award Winning Work: new & traditional public relations methods that Directors, Producers, Production Cos., studios, agencies can integrate into their work process to increase their “brand” success rate in award shows, film festivals and for landing new projects.
• In The Director’s Chair Leading directors whose work spans features, TV and commercials reflect on their endeavors in commercials, TV and Movies.
