UCLA FILM SCHOOL & SEEfest PANEL: EASTERN GATE
Monday, April 14th @ 7PM
Apps are all the rage!
Micro drama / Verticals Global Boom
Perspective from the festival circuit: impact of documentary cinema
Co-Productions: Today‘s innovative practices
PANELISTS:
Thomas Pallier, director
Hettie Lynne Hurtes, actor
Toni Bell, documentary impact producer
Valentina Ganeva, director
Magda Marcella, actor, writer, producer
Moderators: Vera Mijojlic and Hans-Martin Liebing
The panelists will engage in a lively conversation and share their perspectives with film school students and local independent filmmakers on processes involved in domestic and international fiction and nonfiction development of properties for streaming services, and apps. Some of the topics will include:
– bridging the gap between markets and tastes
– evolving global streaming landscape
– latest trends in fiction and nonfiction development
– creative and business practices for emerging filmmakers
– international co-productions
SEEfest program and activities are supported, in part, by ELMA Foundation for European Movies in America, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies , the California Arts Council, a state agency; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply grateful for their past and current support of our programs. The Dutch film program is supported by Dutch Culture USA of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.