Getting Down to Business Workshop 2

Production: Moving Forward

Co-Presented by Filmmakers Collaborative SF and Re-Present Media

Workshop 2 in our Getting Down to Business series.

This workshop covers the business side of production. From working out how to build up your production in stages and create deliverables to best leverage your funds, to managing your team, navigating an evolving story, managing legal, HR, financial, insurance issues and more, this workshop is designed to put strategies in place to address the business challenges that arise during production.

Topics:

• Producing towards clear deliverables that help focus the production requirements and budget.

• Managing your team to effectively maintain positive team relationships.

• Navigating an evolving story while in production and aligning storytelling expectations with values and participants’ POV and rights.

• Thinking ahead to create a smooth post-production workflow during production.

• Setting up financial and accounting systems.

• Labor/HR, insurance, and legal resources.

Facilitated by Jennifer Crystal Chien and Kevin White.

Registrants will receive the Zoom link via email before the event.

Questions? Email info (at) filmmakerscollaborative (dot) org.

About the Speakers

Jennifer Crystal Chien is a documentary filmmaker with a focus on personal storytelling from immigrants and people of color. In 2017, she co-founded Re-Present Media, a grassroots nonprofit that advocates for personal storytelling in documentary film and nonfiction media. In addition to presenting films with community dialogues by established filmmakers, Re-Present Media also offers professional development for emerging filmmakers and coordinates field-wide advocacy campaigns to support and elevate voices from underrepresented communities. Jennifer is the Board President of Filmmakers Collaborative SF.

Kevin White is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social issues. He has more than a dozen films that are in distribution, including his most recent film, Wilder than Wild: Fire, Forests and the Future, which has had 450+ community screenings and more than 850 broadcasts on PBS, plus educational distribution with Video Project. Kevin is the Co-Founder and Executive Director for Filmmakers Collaborative SF, and frequently consults with filmmakers on story approach, fundraising, and distribution. He is also on the Board of several media nonprofits.