THE PARK INN HOTEL, FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER 2015, 9.30am - 4.00pm

Creative Europe Desk UK (Wales)

Supported By:

SCHEDULE - Friday 9th October 2015 9.30 Coffee and Registration 10.25 - 10.30 (LLandaff Suite)

Welcome from the host of the Producers Forum: Christopher Racster

10.30 - 11.30 (LLandaff Suite)

SESSION ONE: TALENT DEVELOPMENT You’ve made a short. You’ve won an award. You have your next project - Piece of cake?

11.45 - 12.45 (LLandaff Suite)

SESSION TWO: FUNDING The faces behind the names with the cash (Ffilm Cymru Wales, BFI, Pinewood Studios, Creative Europe Desk UK Wales)

1.00 - 1.50 LUNCH2.00 - 3.00 (LLandaff Suite)

SESSION THREE: THE BUSINESS OF FILMMAKING Country focus: Ireland - focusing on development, production, distribution and exhibition

2.00 - 3.00 (Breakout Room 1)

SESSION FOUR: TALENT DEVELOPMENT - STRAEON IRIS A Welsh medium session focused on developing short film scripts

3.00 - 3.55 (LLandaff Suite)

SESSION FIVE:EXHIBITION - WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE?What do audiences like? and what makes them angry?

3.55 - 4.00 DIOLCH YN FAWR / THANKS Closing comments from the host of the Producers Forum: Christopher Racster (US)

Media Surgeries 10.30 (Breakout Room 1) Judy Wasdell (Creative Europe Desk UK Wales) 10.30 -3.00 (Breakout Room 2) Katherine Piffer, Hannah Thomas, Adam Partridge (FFilm Cymru Wales) 11.00 - 2.00 (Breakout Room 2) Gwawr Thomas (Skills Investment Fund) 11.30 (Breakout Room 1) Sion Clwyd Roberts (Capital Law) 2.00 - 3.00 (Breakout Room 2) Sian Gale (BECTU) More info on media surgeries (PG 6)

10.30 - 11.30 SESSION ONE: Talent Development You’ve made a short. You’ve won an award. You have your next project - Piece of cake?

During this session we would like to point out it is never that easy! Award winning film makers from Wales, Scotland and England will share with us their experiences following the excitement of winning an award.

Jay Bedwani Katie White . Lloyd Eyre-Morgan

Chair: Andrew Smith, Pinewood Studios

11.45 - 12.45 SESSION TWO: Funding The faces behind the names with the cash

This session gives an opportunity to meet the peple working for the organisations who might want to invest in your next film project. The panellists include funders who have responsibility for Wales, the UK and Europe.

Adam Partridge, Ffilm Cymru WalesDeborah Williams, Diversity Manager, BFIAndrew Smith, Pinewood StudiosJudy Wasdell, Creative Europe Desk UK Wales

Session supported by Creative Europe Desk UK Wales

1.00 - 1.50 LUNCH

Everybody is invited to enjoy lunch in the spacious dining room of the Park Inn Hotel. Take advantage and network, but try not to eat and speak at the same time - there is an art-form to networking successfully!

2.00 - 3.00SESSION THREE: The business of filmmaking Country Focus: IRELAND An opportunity to discover more about the business of filmmaking in Ireland, covering development, production, distribution and exhibition. This business session compliments the Iris Prize focus, which is looking at how LGBT people from Ireland are represented on film. The Ireland focus is produced in association with Gaze film festival in Dublin and with support from OUTburst, Belfast. Speakers include:

Eoin Maher Cian Smith Roisin Geraghty

Chair: Hannah Raybould, Director, Bafta Cymru

2.00 - 3.00SESSION FOUR: Talent Development: Straeon Iris The aim of the Straeon Iris scheme is to encourage more LGBT stories for the screen, from Wales, about Wales and in Welsh. The scheme is focused on developing up to six short film scripts (max 10 mins duration) before selecting one to go into production. Today’s workshop, through the medium of Welsh, will see some of the short-listed finalists pitch their script ideas to the audience, who in turn will offer valuable feedback.

Sponsored by S4C, Ffilm Cymru Wales via BFI NET.WORK and the Iris Prize.

3.00 - 3.55SESSION FIVE: Exhibition Who is your audience?

An opportunity for those who have a direct relationship with the audience to tell a few tales! What do audiences like and what makes them angry? Sometimes you feel that the audience might have been ignored when a film goes into production? In an industry obsessed with development and production this is an opportunity for the public-facing side to discuss and share their experiences.The panel are: Adam Silver - TLA Distribution Will Machin - CEO, Metro International Noel Sutton - Producer GAZE Film Festival, DublinPaul Sweeney - Film Consultant / Vue CiinemasHana Lewis - Film Hub Wales

Chair: Jayne Graham-Cummings (Queer Film Network)

3.55 - 4.00DIOLCH YN FAWR / THANKS Closing comments from the host of the Producers Forum: Christopher Racster (US)

Delegates are also invited to the official launch of Queer Film Network at 6pm in the Bafta Bar at Cineworld. The drinks reception will follow the screening of Iris Prize Best British - Programme one at 4.30pm also screening at Cineworld.

Media Surgeries Judy Wasdell - Breakout Room 1 Judy Wasdell is Manager of Creative Europe Desk UK Wales. Judy has worked in the film and TV industry for over 25 years formerly for Richard Attenborough Productions, the BBC and MEDIA Antenna Wales. Creative Europe Desk UK Wales was established in April 2014 to promote the new European Union Creative Europe Programme that brought the previous MEDIA and Culture Programmes together under one new Programme.

Sion Clwyd Roberts -Breakout Room 1 Sion joined Cardiff law firm Capital Law in February 2010 is a Media and IP Specialist at having previously spent over 20 years in programme Finance, Legal and Business Affairs Departments at S4C and ITV gaining extensive knowledge of the film and television production and broadcasting businesses. He currently heads up the Media team which advises a range of companies and individuals in broadcasting, film, television and commercials production and compliance; music publishing and production, book and online publishing and IP matters generally. He also manages the relationship between Capital Law and sports clients, Cardiff City and Cardiff Blues.

Sian Gale - Breakout Room 2Siân juggles managing the BECTU led CULT Cymru learning project funded by the Welsh Government with working as a qualified trainer and consultant specialising in Business Skills and Equality and Diversity.Siân is passionate about supporting people in their career progression. She is a trustee of the Welsh Broadcasting Trust.

Gwawr Thomas - Breakout Room 2 Gwawr Thomas is the Director of Creative Skillset Cymru, the skills body for the creative industries in Wales. Her role is to establish and oversee all industry-led skills and training programmes for the creative industries, offering support to employers, freelancers, new entrants, training providers and sector support organisations.

Katherine Piffer - Breakout Room 2 Katherine coordinates the Development & Production team, as well as the BFI NETWORK. She has worked in Script Development for Matador Pictures, Sonia Friedman Productions and Minnow Films. Holding a BA in Scriptwriting for Film and Television, Katherine has demonstrated her passion for screenwriting winning Best Short Film, Best Screenplay and the coveted Rising Star Awards at Monaco International Film Festival 2013. She continues to write alongside script development consultancy.

Hannah Thomas - Breakout Room 2 Hannah Thomas is Head of Creative Sector Development at Ffilm Cymru Wales, where she heads up the talent and development team. Before joining Ffilm Cymru Wales she worked for the drama department at the BBC where she had more than ten years experience in development and production. She produced PyC for BBC Wales which was the first ever Welsh language multi-platform drama and she produced Becoming Human, the multi-platform extension of Being Human for Touchpaper amongst numerous other projects. Hannah is studying for an MA in Film and Television Production and is specialising in cross platform/cross media storytelling.

Adam Partridge - Breakout Room 2 Adam joined Ffilm Cymru Wales in January 2007 and has worked across a range of projects including Ivan Kavanagh’s psychological horror The Canal and Louise Osmond’s documentary Dark Horse.

Biographies

Producer Forum Chair - Christopher RacsterChristopher is the director of development at Outfest - the leading organization that promotes equality by creating, sharing and protecting LGBT stories on the screen. He is also an award winning independent film producer that has raised over $5m to produce narrative films and documentaries.

SESSION ONE:

Jay BedwaniJay is a documentary filmmaker from Wales. His first two films played in a number of international film festivals, with MY MOTHER winning Best British Short at the Iris International and London Lift-Off film festivals. He has just shot his third short with the support of Ffilm Cymru, and he is currently developing his first feature to be filmed in California in 2016.

Lloyd Eyre-Morgan Lloyd Eyre-Morgan is a film director, producer and writer who trained at UCLA Film School and has 3 feature films released with TLA Releasing. Lloyd has also directed 5 theatre shows in Manchester. Lloyd’s latest short film film Closets is currently being developed into a feature film.

Katie WhiteKatie White is an award winning, Scottish BAFTA NTA nominee and a pro-active member of the Scottish Independent filmmaking scene. She wrote / co-produced last year’s Iris Prize winning Best British short Middle Man. Katie is at present looking into funding her first feature film and Edinburgh Festival play in 2016.

Andrew Smith - Chair Andrew is the director of stategy and communications at Pinewood Studios, as well as company secretary. Prior to this he was Managing Partner of The Policy Partnership. He is a member of the Film Skills Council, the Skillset Craft and a Technical Skills Academy Industry Board, the British Film Commission Advisory Board and the Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership. He is a Non-Executive Director of Bucks Business First Ltd.

SESSION TWO:

Judy WasdellJudy Wasdell is Manager of Creative Europe Desk UK Wales. Judy has worked in the film and TV industry for over 25 years formerly for Richard Attenborough Productions, the BBC and MEDIA Antenna Wales. Creative Europe Desk UK Wales was established in April 2014 to promote the new European Union Creative Europe Programme that brought the previous MEDIA and Culture Programmes together under one new Programme.

Adam Partridge Adam joined Ffilm Cymru Wales in January 2007 and has worked across a range of projects including Ivan Kavanagh’s psychological horror The Canal and Louise Osmond’s documentary Dark Horse.

Deborah Williams Deborah joined the BFI in June 2015 as the diversity manager, where she has been overseeing the implementation of the wide reaching diversity remit ‘3 ticks’. With over thirty years experience working as an artist, consultant and manager Deborah is an established leader in disability arts, playing a significant role in the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act and Equality Act across the creative and cultural sector.

Andrew SmithAndrew is the director of stategy and communications at Pinewood Studios, as well as company secretary. Prior to this he was Managing Partner of The Policy Partnership. He is a member of the Film Skills Council, the Skillset Craft and a Technical Skills Academy Industry Board, the British Film Commission Advisory Board and the Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership. He is a Non-Executive Director of Bucks Business First Ltd.

Christopher Racster - Chair Christopher is the director of development at Outfest - the leading organization that promotes equality by creating, sharing and protecting LGBT stories on the screen. He is also an award winning independent film producer that has raised over $5m to produce narrative films and documentaries.

SESSION THREE:

Cian SmythCian Smyth is a producer and curator with more than 15 years experience in delivering festivals, events and public artworks of scale. Building creative partnerships between artists and organisations, he has worked for The Space, 1418 Now, London 2012, the UK Film Council and Northern Ireland Screen. He founded the Maysles Award at Belfast Film Festival, previously been programme director at GAZE - Dublin International LGBT Film Festival and is currently Chairperson of Outburst Arts.

Roisin Geraghty Roisín is the film programmer for Gaze LGBT Film Festival in Dublin. She is also an independent documentary producer, and is passionate about the creation and curation of narrative and documentary film. Pre-Gazing, she worked with various film organisations in both Ireland and the US, including Galway Film Fleadh, Irish Film New York, and the Independent Filmmaker Project.

Eoin Maher Writer and Director of ‘No Strings’ which is screening as part of this years Iris Prize competition. His film recently won Filmmaker of the Future at the Oscar Qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival. Recently graduated from London Film School he works as a script reader and sound recordist while he seeks funding for future projects.

Hannah Raybould - Chair Hannah has worked in creative media and training/education in Wales for 18 years, starting out as a location assistant and coordinator for the Celtic Media Festival. She has managed a portfolio of EU, British Council and BFI funded training programmes as well as projects linking academics and creative practitioners for Knowledge Exchange, as part of Creative Skillset Media Academy Wales.She is now the Director of BAFTA Cymru following engagement with the organisation’s charitable remit as a Committee member and regular partner on events.

SESSION FOUR: Gwawr Martha Lloyd Gwawr Martha Lloyd is the Content Commissioner responsible for Drama and Rural Programmes at S4C. Previously Gwawr was as a Drama Producer at the BBC and worked on many popular drama series’ including Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley), the long-running Welsh soap opera. She was the Assistant Producer on the BBC1 series Mistresses, and was involved in developing projects and talent within BBC Wales’ drama department.

Tracy Spottiswoode Tracy oversees Talent Development for the BFI NET.WORK and joined Ffilm Cymru Wales in 2010 having established a career as an award-winning writer, director and animator, as well as professional script editing and creative writing consultancies. Screen work includes commissions from BBC Films, S4C and indies such as Fiction Factory and Red Planet. Her animations picked up Gold in Chicago, First in BAF, plus 3 BAFTA Cymru & 2 Celtic Film Festival awards.

SESSION FIVE:

Adam SilverAdam Silver has been at the helm of TLA UK, one the world’s most prominent LGBT distributors, for going on 8 years. In addition to managing all UK operations, he also acquires films for all of their territories.

Will MachinPrior to becoming a partner in Metro International Entertainment, Will was head of Ealing Metro International, created through a merger between Ealing Studios International and Metropolis Film Sales. Before the merger, he was Head of Distribution at Ealing Studios International (DORIAN GRAY, ST TRINIANS franchise) responsible for international distribution and day-to-day operations at the company. He was previously head of the Capitol Films (GOSFORD PARK) specialist division, Thinkfilm International where he was responsible for a diverse slate of films from directors such as Nigel Cole and Alex de la Iglesia. He was also the sales representative on Dan y Wenallt / Under Milk Wood.

Noel Sutton,Festival Director with GAZE International LGBT Film festival. Noel took the lead with GAZE in 2011 and has produced and developed the biggest festivals to date, with a very well established, behind the scene, career in film and TV. Noel is campaigner and activist on LGBT right in Ireland, he worked on the recent Marriage Equality Referendum campaign that successfully seen Ireland be the first country in the world to legalise marriage equality.

Paul SweeneyPaul is a film consultant at VUE Cinemas, he was previously the senior film buyer at Cineowlrd Cinemas, the number one cinema chain in the UK and Ireland. With over 15 years’ experience in the film industry, recent career highlights include selecting two time Scottish BAFTA 2011 winner Donkeys and Fast Romance that picked up the audience award for exclusive screenings.

Hana LewisHana is the Strategic Manager of Film Hub Wales (FHW). Led by Chapter and funded through the BFI’s Film Audience Network, FHW aims to increase access for audiences to independent cinema through training, research and project support for the exhibition sector. Hana has an MPhil in American Film and Literature from the University of Birmingham and previously held roles with Ffilm Cymru Wales, Flatpack and Leeds Film Festival.

Jayne Graham-Cummings - Chair Jayne Graham-Cummings is the Director of Queer Vision, Bristol Pride’s film festival and a project manager of the Queer Film Network. Launched in April 2015, Queer Vision has been developed over the past four years into a five day festival within Pride plus strands throughout the year. Inspired by the transformative ability of film, Jayne sees the development and promotion of Queer cinema as political, personal, and having an essential place within LGBTQIA+ culture and it’s community.