SHOOT Magazine, the leading publication for commercial and entertainment production, today opened registration for the first ever Directors Symposium. Held in conjunction with SHOOT’s 8th Annual New Directors Showcase Event, the Symposium has been specifically created to provide a learning and networking opportunity to keep film & commercial directors, producers, agency & studio creatives, production company entrepreneurs, and other artists & executives involved in production & postproduction abreast of current filmmaking and commercialmaking trends.
2010 marks the sixth time that the SHOOT New Directors Showcase event will be held at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Theatre on West 57th Street in New York City. Both, the daytime Directors Symposium and the New Directors Showcase Evening Event, combine to provide an ideal environment for filmmakers 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).
We’re expanding the reach of our Directors Symposium and New Directors Showcase Event during a year in which SHOOT celebrates its 50th Anniversary, and when our Showcase event is being held to coincide with CreativeWeekNYC May 10-16, a week long series of events that will be attended by creatives and creative management from all over the world.
Here’s A Preview Of The Daytime and Evening Agendas Where Education & Entertainment Will Take Center Stage
The SHOOT Directors Symposium: 9:30am-3:30pm
Series of panel discussions and Q&A sessions featuring leading directors, agency creatives, production company entrepreneurs, and other leading artists and executives who will share their expertise, helping to define opportunities in an evolving marketplace spanning advertising and entertainment (and the coming together of those two worlds), the tools needed to take advantage of these opportunities, and the art of building an individual director’s brand. We’ll break mid-day for lunch downstairs.
Topics addressed during the day will include:
— Welcome & opening session
— Advertising & Entertainment: Key Creative & Business Issues of today & tomorrow
— Creative Tools including film & digital cameras, digital workflow and 3D
— Lunch Casual Conversation with old friends and new cotnacts downstairs at the DGA.
— In The Directors Chair Interview with leading director involved in film and commercial production
— Showcase Perspective, a look back at some select past SHOOT New Directors Showcase directors, and how their careers have progressed, providing inspiration for our latest crop of talent.
New Directors Showcase Screening, Panel & After-party: 6:00pm-10:00pm
From laughter to tears, drama to horror, spots to movie excerpts, 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 spring. We will screen the work that made the final cut for this year’s Showcase. Here’s the agenda:
— Welcome SHOOT and The DGA welcome audience and thank sponsors
— Screening of the 2010 New Directors Showcase reel which will include 25-30 pieces of work culled from submissions from this year’s New Directors Search
— Panel introducing six of the featured new directors with two industry pros providing insight and perspective. Moderated by SHOOT editor, Bob Goldrich.
— After-party we head downstairs at the DGA for the after-party. New directors mingle with more experienced directors, event sponsors, and event attendees. The party is always a great time with a fantastic mix of guests, including advertising, media and entertainment industry producers, creatives, executives, artisans & brand marketers. Guests will top off the 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.
SHOOT Directors Symposium and The SHOOT New Directors Showcase Event Sponsors
SHOOT is pleased to announce that The DGA along with production companies harvest and ONE at Optimus, and Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, are confirmed as “Leading Sponsors” for 2010. Kodak and media & entertainment law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz are confirmed as “Silver Sponsors” This marks the sixth year that the DGA and harvest have been sponsors, the fourth for Kodak, third for Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, and second for ONE at Optimus and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
SHOOT Directors Symposium plus New Directors Showcase Event Information & Event Registration
Registration for the Directors Symposium Daytime Event includes the all-day Symposium, lunch & guaranteed seating to the evening New Directors Showcase Event & gauranteed entry to the After Party. Click here to register. Individual tickets are $175. thru April 15th and $195. after. Groups of 3 or more receive 10% discount For further event details and Registration information is available at www.shootonline.com/go/showcase
Become an Event Sponsor
Please check out the SHOOT Directors Symposium & New Directors Showcase Event Sponsor Information [ PDF | Powerpoint ] and join us as a 2010 sponsor — you’ll start to enjoy sponsor benefits immediately through July!
For additional information on becoming a sponsor of this event, please contact Roberta Griefer at 203/227-1699, ext 13 or email marketing@shootonline.com.
About The New Directors Search / The New Directors Showcase Reel
Each year for the last eight 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-April 5th, 2010. 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 last month Ross Katz won the DGA Award for outstanding achievement in movies for TV/miniseries on the strength of his HBO film Taking Chance, the same film which garnered him inclusion in SHOOT’s ’08 New Directors Showcase. (Katz is available for select spot assignments via TWC.) 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 and to print out The New Directors Search official submission form. The entry period extended now ends on April 5th, 2010.
About SHOOT Magazine
SHOOT® Magazine is the leading publication for commercial and entertainment production. SHOOT covers news and trends including the global paradigm shift toward digital video content creation. SHOOT Magazine is edited for agency & studio creatives & producers, commercial and entertainment production/post industry executives and artisans, and brand marketer production executives. Through its “News” and “ScreenWork” sections, “Columns” and in-depth “Features”, each issue publishes timely news, relevant information and a behind-the-scenes look at the best new work and profiles/interviews with industry news makers. In addition, SHOOT reports on the latest cinematography, post & editing technology and equipment. If the work involves advertising and entertainment motion picture content that consumers view on a screen—a TV screen, Cinema screen, Computer screen, Mobile screen or Game screen, SHOOT is searching out who’s doing the most innovative work and what’s coming next. For further information please visit SHOOTonline®. Follow SHOOT on Twitter.
