Upcoming deadlines
Calls for application for: CLOSING THE GAP: EQUITY INVESTMENT TRAINING & PITCHING, THE PIXEL LAB, DOK.INCUBATOR.
CLOSING THE GAP: EQUITY INVESTMENT TRAINING & PITCHING
Application deadline is: 18 February 2014.
Seeking funding for your film, TV, or transmedia project?
Interested in pitching to equity investors?
Want to learn how to close your project’s budget gap?
Closing The Gap is a training course and pitching session for film, TV, and transmedia producers organized by creative industries financing consultancy peacefulfish (Berlin/London/Brussels/Cannes) in association with the pan-European investor network Media Deals (Paris/Berlin) and with the support of the Apulia Film Commission (Italy) and the Investitionsbank Berlin (Germany).
Launched in 2010 with co-financing from the MEDIA Programme of the European Commission and now in its 5th edition, Closing The Gap has been attended by over 65 international producers. The course addresses methods to identify, approach, and pitch to equity investors, teaching business skills that producers can use to find additional sources of financing in the current financial climate.
- Investors participating on the pitch panel include:
- individual business angels
- representatives of business angel funds
- venture capital financiers
- gap equity fund managers
Through Closing The Gap, producers learn innovative financing strategies, prepare business plan content and pitch presentations targeted to an equity investor audience, have a range of networking opportunities with the invited investors and tutors, receive extensive one-to-one feedback and pitch coaching and—at the course’s conclusion—pitch their projects to a panel of equity investors.
Producers should apply with a specific project. About half the projects selected will be early stage and about half will be late stage (in past editions, we have had projects at the treatment/script phase as well as projects in post-production, and several of the investors on our pitch panel can investment in development while several invest in production).
The course fee is 900 euro per producer, which includes the individual Skype consultations with the course tutors, access to the two on-site sessions (the financing strategies workshop and the equity investor pitching event), and lunches and some dinners for the attending producer during the on-site sessions. Producers must cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Scholarships are available from peacefulfish.
For additional information about Closing The Gap including locations and dates of the on-site sessions, as well as to download the application form, visit: www.closing-the-gap.net
The Pixel Lab 2014 is open for applications!
Applications close 28 March 2014, 18.00BST.
Designed to give participants the skills and knowledge needed to create, finance and distribute stories across multiple platforms, The Pixel Lab is the ultimate cross-media workshop for European media professionals wanting to capitalise on the value of their intellectual property.
Do you work in film, TV, interactive, games, publishing, the arts or other media industries? Do you want to get your creative juices flowing, learn from the global leaders in cross-media, and find out how to get your multi-platform projects off the ground with the new breed of financiers and commissioners? Then The Pixel Lab is for you! The Pixel Lab is a project-focused development course designed to equip participants with the skills they need to create, finance and distribute multi-platform stories to maximise audience engagement and build a sustainable business.
Kicking off with a 6-day residential week in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, at the beautiful Traube Tonbach Hotel, participants will learn the A to Z of cross-media storytelling through a combination of 1-2-1 meetings, group work, presentations and case study analysis from the biggest minds in media including:
- Nuno Bernardo, beActive (PT)
- Sean Coleman, Red Kingdom (UK)
- Diana Elbaum, Entre Chien et Loup (BE)
- Thomas Howalt, Games Producer & Writer (DK)
- Michel Reilhac, Venice Biennale College (FR)
There are also plenty of networking events and a smoking £3,000 Pixel Lab Prize up for grabs for one lucky project producer! So what are you waiting for?
Head to the website for further information, entry guidelines and to apply! www.powertothepixel.com
DOK.Incubator: New Call Opened
DEADLINE: MARCH 3th 2014!
Apparently, the age-old documentary has been brought to its knees. To call broadcasters to invest massive amounts of money into the creative productions – like they did in the last decades – is, despite their good will, like beating a dead horse. But actually, there is still an audience, ready to come to the cinema, to a festival, to watch, support, and promote these films; but just the outstanding, special, excellent ones. So what is the difference between a good and an excellent documentary? Time, money, and a lot of energy.
DOK.Incubator has come to support documentary projects in the rough-cut stage, willing to work hard – and fly high. For half a year more than 20 experienced lecturers will inspire eight selected films from all over Europe, each represented by three team members (producer, director, editor). They will be working vigorously in the editing room, building a clever, tailor-made distribution plan and marketing strategy, as well as meeting with important international distributors.
The workshop is divided into three week-long residential sessions:
- May 18th -25th Krakow /PL/ = ROUGH CUT
- August 24th – 31st Bratislava /SK/ or Prague /CZ/ (TBC) = FINE CUT
- October 25th – 30th Leipzig /DE/ = PRESENTATION
Page published 30 January 2014. Updated 31 January 2014.
