SHOOT Magazine, the leading publication for commercial, branded content and entertainment production, today announced the agenda for the SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum. Held in conjunction with SHOOT’s 9th Annual New Directors Showcase, the Forum will provide a learning and networking opportunity to keep directors, producers, ad agency creatives/producers, studio executives, production company entrepreneurs, and other artists & executives abreast of current filmmaking and commercialmaking trends.
2011 marks the seventh 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/Producers Forum and the New Directors Showcase evening program, 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). SHOOT is proud to be a Sponsor for the second year of Creative Week NYC and is pleased to present the SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum & New Directors Showcase as a part of the weeklong series of special events, www.creativeweeknyc.org.
SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum plus New Directors Showcase Information & Event Registration
Event Registration for the Directors/Producers Forum Daytime Program includes the all-day Forum, lunch & guaranteed seating to the evening New Directors Showcase & After Party. Event Registration Click here to register. Individual tickets are $50 thru April 20th and $60 after. Groups of three or more receive a 10% discount.
2011 Directors/Producers Forum Theme: Get Plugged Into The Future
Where is the industry going? Where are you going? If you want to answer these two essential questions with an optimistic, informed take on your and your company’s future, for starters you should be going to the SHOOT Directors Producers Forum & 9th Annual New Directors Showcase.
The 9th annual New Directors Showcase, our evening program, enables you to get a look-see at and meet some of the best up-and-coming directors who based on their initial work show promise to make positive contributions to advertising and/or entertainment in its traditional and hybrid forms. Having your finger on the talent pulse of the business is a perennial must to stay plugged into the present and future of our industry.
Similarly, get a leg up on the future with our daytime Directors/Producers Forum featuring panel discussions that offer insights into where our industry is headed creatively and from a business standpoint. Gain perspectives on and visions of what’s in store so that you and your companies can stay ahead of the curve, continuing to be relevant in an ever changing marketplace.
Here’s A Preview Of The Daytime and Evening Agendas Where Learning, Latest Trends & Networking Will Take Center Stage
Entering Another Dimension
While 3D has become a force in cinema, it’s only just starting to make inroads into the consumer/home entertainment world but the long-range implications of that encroachment should carry substantive weight in the advertising/marketing sector. Should companies be preparing for this possibility? What have leading houses done thus far? Panelists address 3D prospects and how much of a priority it should be for the ad industry.
The Media Are The Message–Transmedia, Social Media, Digital Media, Integrated Media
New platforms and combinations thereof as well as different forms of content for them continue to emerge and evolve. This panel offers multifaceted perspectives on that evolution and how it is affecting the production, ad agency and client communities. How are traditional media and new platforms meshing? What philosophies and approaches are surfacing to help connect brands with the right audiences? What misnomers are out there relative to the coming together of art and commerce, advertising and entertainment? Get a handle on where you and your company fit and how you can leverage your expertise across varied media.
Modelmaking: Production Companies
What business models are taking shape for production houses? How are so-called “traditional” companies adapting to more diverse content needs for a more diverse array of platforms? What new breeds of production house have hit the scene and what is the thinking behind how they’re structured? What does the the entrance of traditional talent agencies and entertainment companies into the marketing sector mean for marketers and traditional commercial production suppliers? We’ll canvas such issues and compare hybrids vs. speciality houses, in-house resources vs. and/or complemented by partnerships, a work-for-hire model vs. content equity. Get a more well-defined sense of how to fine-tune your business and offerings so as to attain the best niche for yourself and your company.
From The Director’s Chair
Q&A session with a leading multidisciplinary filmmaker
So take a proactive step toward gaining insights into your and your company’s future. During the course of our daytime program, gain insights, network and mingle with the next generation of directorial talent as well as top-drawer producers, directors, creatives & executives who are shaping our industry’s landscape from the agency, production, post and entertainment sectors.
New Directors Showcase Screening, Panel & After-party
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 2011 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/Producers Forum & New Directors Showcase 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 “Lead Sponsors” for 2011. Kodak, Company 3 and media & entertainment law firm Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz are confirmed as “Silver Sponsors” and production company, the Argyle Brothers, is a “Bronze Sponsor”
Become an Event Sponsor
Please check out the SHOOT Directors/Producers Forum & New Directors Showcase Sponsor Information [ PDF | Powerpoint ] and join us as a 2011 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 nine 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 was conducted from January 1-April 4th, 2011. 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 year 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. Also in the ’08 Showcase was Harold Einstein of Station who shortly thereafter saw three Crest toothpaste spots he directed for Saatchi NY earn a Gold Lion in the Campaign category at Cannes. And Pete Circuitt of The Ebeling Group, another ’08 Showcase inductee, went on to direct CBS-TV’s half-hour primetime Xmas special Yes, Virginia for Macy’s and JWT NY, which last year won a One Show Entertainment Awards Gold Pencil.
About SHOOT Magazine
SHOOT® Magazine is the leading publication for commercial, branded content 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.
