IIFF San Francisco Film Financing Townhall (February 2011): Networking & Education for Filmmakers & Financiers

Thursday, February 24, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

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SF Film Financing Townhall at Academy of Art

Film Meets Finance:
Networking & Education for
Filmmakers & Financiers

Five Insightful Talks by Leading Experts & More

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Abstract

"To-the-point presentations on the latest trends and targeted networking with like-minded pros set this event apart from the rest. IIFF delivers no-nonsense insight and real opportunity." — Thomas Trenker, film financier

The San Francisco chapter of the Institute for International Film Financing (IIFF) continues its popular monthly gatherings at the junction of film & finance with a special Film Financing Townhall at the renowned Academy of Art. Their facilities are conveniently located in the South of Market area.

This grassroots community get-together is designed to foster & inform productive relationships between attendees. It provides unbiased insight & education about the business of film and film financing in particular. The event features a powerful roster of highly topical speakers from the filmmaking and financial industries. We are delighted to welcome real-world financiers among our guests!

The evening's five presentations plus panel discussion address key issues relevant to filmmakers, financiers and anyone interested in the economics, business mechanics, and financial dynamics of motion pictures. They are followed by Q&A time. Attendees also have ample opportunity to interact & network with our featured experts and amongst themselves.

An informal après-meeting celebration will take place at a nearby restaurant.

Attendees

Who should attend?

Entrepreneurs, consultants, attorneys, bankers, investment managers, venture capitalists, angel investors and other professionals with an interest in the movie business will find this event worthwhile. Everyone who cares about independent film is cordially invited to join us.

Are you considering taking an active role in film, or would you like to expand your current involvement? Don't miss this high-value yet low-cost learning experience and the opportunity to connect with like-minded peers.

Established & aspiring filmmakers looking to raise capital for their projects, production companies, movie slates, film funds or other ventures are, naturally, more than welcome as well.

Why attend?

New to film finance? Need to brush up your topical knowledge? Want to deepen your understanding? Care to participate in an ongoing conversation & community dedicated to the subject? This uniquely valuable gathering is right for you!

Gain crucial insights from leading experts in their field. Network with fellow film & finance professionals. Meet potential collaborators and future business partners. All this at a price that is hard to beat.

Program Details

Everyone's Going Digital: What It Means for Indie Producers & Investors

Greg Berkin (bio), President, CEO & Founder of Think Digital, a film and video production studio shooting industrial films, music videos commercials and television pilots including "The Antiques Roadshow"; served as Intel's DVD Evangelist for 6 years, working with Hollywood studios to make the DVD the most successful consumer electronics product of all time; served as Manager of Intel Productions; host and/or chair of four Intel DVD PlugFest's; co-writer, director, producer and star of "Act of Magic," an independent feature film; served as Marketing Manager for Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC) at Stanford; private investor in Broadway plays and musicals; Duke University MBA, Potsdam College BS in Computer Science… »
Get the Goods: Successful Casting Strategies for the Indie Film Producer

Jenna Donatelli (bio), Media Liason, Associate Producer and Casting Director with Nina Henninger Casting; fmr. assistant to Sarah Kliban of International Talent Casting in San Francisco; film & TV casting projects have included "On the Road" (Dir. Walter Salles), "Alcatraz" (NBC TV pilot), "Contagion" (Dir. Steven Soderbergh), "Cuff Me If You Can" (Discovery); credits include "101 Years," "The Wisdom Tree," "Trauma," "True Grit," "All About Evil," "100 Proof," "Parenthood" & "Curb Your Enthusiasm"… »
Small Markets 2011: What's Happening Outside the Traditional Industry

Doc McDonald (bio), seasoned venture capitalist & lifelong entrepreneur; Partner at venture capital firm Strategic Venture Partners, pursuing new model of VC investing by focusing solely on corporate investors as LPs and working with them for due diligence and portfolio company growth; currently raising $3M for "Jerry - The Movie," the first-ever authorized documentary biography of Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead… »
Independent in the Bay: The San Francisco Media Renaissance

Sheridan Tatsuno (bio), Top Silicon Valley business strategist & serial entrepreneur; Principal at Dreamscape Global; helped raise $10M for 7 tech startups since 2000; business writer whose books have been produced by PBS & Central Independent Television; screenwriter working on 15th screenplay; advisor to Steven Okazaki, winner of 1980 PBS Documentary Award for "Survivors"; founding team member at IIFF; advisor at movie investor group FilmAngels… »
Manufacturing Madeline Minx: Pushing Your Package

Noemi Zeigler (bio), aka Madeline Minx, is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter, web show host, singer/songwriter & standup comedian; her feature script "What Do You Thinx of Madeline Minx?" won Best Farce at the Broad Humor Film Festival in Los Angeles and Best Fresh Voice at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto; produced and hosted Pushy TV, a weekly genre-bending reality/talk show which gained a cult following in San Francisco; hosts and co-produces a satirical web show on Revision3 Beta called "The Minx Mandate," with guests including celebrity blogger Perez Hilton… »

Featured Moderator

The event will be moderated by Nicholas Thomas (bio), a four-year IIFF member and seasoned producer of video content in the San Francisco Bay Area. »

Schedule

From	To	What
6:30 PM		Arrivals, Registration & Check-In
7:00 PM	8:00 PM	Featured Presentations with Q&A (Part 1)
8:00 PM	9:00 PM	Featured Presentations with Q&A (Part 2)
9:00 PM	10:00 PM	Panel Discussion with Q&A
10:00 PM+		Community Time at Area Restaurant

Questions? Get answers in IIFF's Film Financing Forum!

Townhall Venue

Academy of Art

79 New Montgomery St
(between Market & Mission, across from Palace Hotel)
Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105

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Our Host

This month's Film Financing Townhall in San Francisco is hosted by the esteemed Academy of Art, a leading private university founded in 1929 in San Francisco. With nearly 10,000 students that occupy its 30+ buildings in downtown San Francisco, AAU is considered the largest private school of art and design in the United States. It offers both traditional on-campus and online distance-education degree and certificate programs in a wide variety of fine arts-related majors, including Motion Pictures & Television and Animation & Visual Effects. In May 2007, AAU was granted regional accreditation by the Senior Commission of the prestigious Western Association of Schools & Colleges (WASC), one of the six major regional accreditation commissions recognized by the US Department of Education.

Very special thanks for making this event possible go to Curran Engel, Full-Time Instructor in AAU's film school.

Registration

Filmmaker-friendly affordable online registration is available at the top of this page.

Ticket type	IIFF Member*	Non-member	Registration deadline
Early bird	$25	$45	3 weeks before event
Regular	$35	$55	1 week before event
Last minute	$45	$65	1 day before event
On-site (at the door)	$55	$75	Day of event

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Speaker Bios

Greg Berkin

Speaker headshot 1 President & CEO of Think Digital TV, a film and video production studio in New York shooting industrial films, music videos commercials & television pilots including The Antiques Roadshow, a popular PBS show; served as Intel Corporation’s DVD Evangelist for 6 years, working with Hollywood studios to make DVD the most successful consumer electronics product of all time; in March of 2000, Greg was named one of the Top 20 Most Influential DVD Executives Worldwide; served as Manager of Intel Productions; host and/or chair for four Intel DVD PlugFest’s; author of various industry DVD interactivity whitepapers, architect of a DVD media application taxonomy, and author of several DVD-ROM discs; one of the leading industry proponents of DVD-ROM compatibility and interoperability on PCs; co-writer, director, producer and star of Act of Magic, an independent feature film, based on an old O’Henry short story, Ransom of Redchief; served as Marketing Manager for Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC), a Stanford Research concern; founded Think Educational Software, Inc.; was the first Apple developer and publisher of award-winning Macintosh educational software; private investor in Broadway plays and musicals, including Art, Rent, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Laramie Project, The Last Five Years and many more; MBA with Duke University, sponsored by Intel Corporation; Bachelors in Computer Science from Potsdam College in upstate New York. »

Jenna Donatelli

Speaker headshot 5 Media Liason, Associate Producer, and Casting Director with Nina Henninger Casting; fmr. assistant to Sarah Kliban of International Talent Casting in San Francisco; film & TV casting projects have included "On the Road" (Dir. Walter Salles), "Alcatraz" (NBC TV pilot), "Contagion" (Dir. Steven Soderbergh), "Cuff Me If You Can" (Discovery), "I Faked My Own Death" & "I Almost Got Away With It" (3rd. Season); currently working with Noemi Zeigler as Associate Producer & Casting Director on "What Do You Thinx of Madeline Minx?", scheduled begin shooting this spring; about to begin production on second feature film this fall, as principal member of Openin Doors Production; credits include "101 Years," "The Wisdom Tree," "Trauma," "True Grit," "All About Evil," "100 Proof," "Parenthood" & "Curb Your Enthusiasm"; Academy of Art (Film Production), A.C.T., Otis College of Art & Design. »

Doc McDonald

Speaker headshot 1 Seasoned venture capitalist & lifelong entrepreneur; partner at venture capital company Strategic Venture Partners, pursuing new model of VC investing by focusing solely on corporate investors as LPs & working with them for due diligence & portfolio company growth; currently raising $3M for "Jerry - The Movie," the first-ever authorized documentary biography of Jerry Garcia & The Grateful Dead. »

Sheridan Tatsuno

Speaker headshot 4 Top Silicon Valley business strategist & serial entrepreneur; principal at Dreamscape Global; helped raise $10M for 7 tech startups since 2000; business writer whose books have been produced by PBS & Central Independent Television; screenwriter working on 15th screenplay; advisor to Steven Okazaki, winner of 1980 PBS Documentary Award for "Survivors"; founding team member at IIFF; advisor at movie investor group FilmAngels; writer-director-marketer, Mr. Tatsuno is a seasoned businessman with over 30 years of experience in the high-tech and urban planning industries; he began his video career by advising a student on a video class assignment, which won the 1980 PBS Documentary of the Year Award for Survivors about California survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings; during Japan’s heyday in the 1980s, he wrote two business books on Japan, The Technopolis Strategy and Created in Japan, which were optioned, respectively, by Central Independent Television plc of London for Japan Dreaming (1991) and Alvin Perlmutter Inc. of New York for The Creative Spirit 4-hour PBS series (1992); since 1991, Mr. Tatsuno has written 12 screenplays and is currently writing two screenplays slated for independent production, as well as brainstorming two new scripts. He is an active member of Film Angels (filmangels.org) and the International Institute for Film Financing (filmfinancing.org); in the high-tech industry, Mr. Tatsuno has advised over 700 companies in the U.S., Japan, Asia and Europe while working as a senior analyst at leading market researcher Dataquest/Gartner Group (1982-1989) and his own consulting firm, Dreamscape Global (1989-present). A visionary thinker, Silicon Valley business strategist, and thought leader, Mr. Tatsuno was involved with the early stages of the “Intel Inside” marketing campaign, Nokia’s global strategy planning, AMD’s breakthrough sub-$1000 PC, and Canon’s networked equipment strategy. His strength is helping companies develop breakthrough strategies. Currently, he is advising a videoconferencing startup and is conducting surveys on medical imaging, solar panels, fuel cells, batteries for electric cars, and smart grids; Mr. Tatsuno has studied in France and Germany, worked in Caracas, Venezuela and Japan, and traveled on business to Japan, Asia and Europe. He speaks and reads Japanese, Spanish and French. »

Noemi Zeigler

Speaker headshot 5 Noemi Zeigler (aka Madeline Minx) is an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter, web show host, singer/songwriter & standup comedian. Her feature script "What Do You Thinx of Madeline Minx?" —a comedy with musical numbers— won Best Farce at the Broad Humor Film Festival in Los Angeles (2008) and Best Fresh Voice at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto (2008). Kathleen Turner read the role of her mother Rochelle in a staged reading of the script at the Electric Lodge Theater in Venice, CA in 2009. In 2002, Noemi produced and hosted Pushy TV, a weekly genre-bending reality/talk show which gained a cult following in San Francisco. She hosts and co-produces a satirical web show on Revision3beta.com called "The Minx Mandate," with guests including celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. Former co-host of the German television documentary "Pop Secrets and Other Roadside Attractions," which aired across Europe on Arte and 3sat. Co-hosted Studio SX, a program for SXSW. Writes, performs and records electronic dance music on the independent record label Radio Charlie Records. Her single "Unleash Your Soul" has appeared on numerous dance charts around the country. Noemi has taught film and video courses at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico, the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and Laney College in Oakland. Advisory board member of Toronto's Female Eye Film Festival. MFA in Film Directing from the American Film Institute (AFI). »

Nicholas Thomas

Moderator

Speaker headshot 10 Nicholas Thomas is a four-year member of the Bay Area chapter of the Institute for Intenational Film Financing (IIFF), a San Francisco-based media producer of breakthrough lifestyle content, and a talented film entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Santa Fe with a BS in Film Studies. »

Thomas Trenker

Founder

Speaker headshot 11 A Wall Street investment banker and Silicon Valley startup executive turned independent film financier, Thomas (LinkedIn profile | full bio) serves as Chairman of the Institute for International Film Financing (IIFF). An innovative and ambitious social-impact organization, IIFF endeavors to bridge the gap between the worlds of filmmaking and finance for the benefit of all stakeholders including the public at large. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, IIFF has active chapters in multiple cities across the U.S. and continues to expand.

In his role as Managing Director of FilmAngels, Thomas also runs the world's first professional angel investor group for film. FilmAngels has been modeled after the way successful angel networks function in Silicon Valley and adapted to the unique characteristics of the movie industry. It focuses exclusively on funding independent films and film-related ventures. FilmAngels address the unfilled need for a structured, highly efficient and ultimately more effective environment for the vetting and financing of high-risk film projects.

Don't hesitate to connect with Thomas on LinkedIn or at an upcoming IIFF meeting near you. »

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True to our proven motto of "democratizing film finance," IIFF's frequent Townhall Meetings bring together a wide array of professionals from relevant backgrounds in film, finance and beyond for a vibrant evening of insightful presentations, inspiring discussion & focused networking. Past meetings have reliably delivered useful insights into the business of film, provided valuable networking opportunities and drawn large, enthusiastic crowds.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PT)

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Film Meets Finance: Networking & Education for Filmmakers & Financiers

Five Insightful Talks by Leading Experts & More

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Film Meets Finance:
Networking & Education for
Filmmakers & Financiers

Academy of Art University (AAU)
79 New Montgomery Street
Auditorium - 1st floor
San Francisco, CA 94105