“Alternative Financing & Business Models for Indie Filmmakers”

Join the Black Documentary Collective for an exciting panel!!

Limited Seating!! Get Your Tickets Online Now!!

Date: Thurs. April 10, 2008

Time: 7pm-9pm with networking reception to follow

Place: Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue @ 2nd Street

2nd Floor Courthouse Theater

$10 BDC members

$20 nonmembers

Tickets available through PayPal at: www.myspace.com/bdcny

Panelists:
Brian Newman – Renew Media and Tribeca Film Institute; Renew Media funds $1 million to media artists annually through Media Arts Fellowships.

Mark Walton – The Africa Channel, EVP sponsorship & corporate development; a new 24/7 indie network that has an affiliation agreement with Comcast

Drunia Duvivier – financial services affiliate consultant and Wall Street funded documentary filmmaker

Dexter Davis – CEO STREET Releasing, specializing in Foreign Film Distribution with such marketing partners as Volkswagen

Esther Franklin – Starcom MediaVest Group, EVP/Director of Cultural Identities, one of the largest brand communications groups in the world

Dana Offenbach – President of Production, NEHST (pronounced Next); a new NY production company with a $250 million fund

Moderator: Michelle Materre, professor of media studies at The New School and an independent media consultant.