| Film Business and marketing roundtables from SCI-FI-LONDON
5th May 12 – 1:15pm
A series of free intimate roundtable discussions on topics from marketing to crowd-funding and social engagement with your audience will help start the day and give some insight into shaping your project.
Each table is hosted by an expert in their field and we will invite you to have 20 minutes at up to 3 tables, they are not one-to-one sessions but group discussions where one or more projects will be discussed. See below for full details and how to book. |
Doomsday director by Neil Marshall, Production Design by Simon Bowles
| Meet the Filmmakers
5th May 1:30pm – 2:45pm
UK-based filmmakers talk about their favourite science fiction cinema as a way of exploring the creative possibilities of the genre: why are they drawn to it? What are the challenges for writers and directors working in the UK?
Speakers: Neil Marshall (Doomsday, The Descent, Dog Soldiers), Ruari Robinson (Oscar-winning short film director now working on his first feature, The Last Days on Mars), Daria Malich (Ukrainian writer, director, producer who is developing a low budget sci-fi feature for Sidebar films which she runs with Louis Melville, director of Man Who Sold the World) and Johannes Roberts (whose feature Storage 24, written by and starring Noel Clarke is released by Universal in late June 2012) Book for this session
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Dimensions: Directed, Produced and Designed by Sloane U’Ren
| Designing science fiction
Co-presented by the British Film Designers’ Guild
5th May 3 – 4:15pm
Creating a believable story world is essential and the designers- especially on low budget features - have to perform small miracles. Production Designers talk about their work by way of offering creative tricks and tools as well as some insight into pre-production and budget realities for directors and producers. How can generic conventions be achieved on the kinds of budgets films operate with in the UK?
Speakers: Simon Bowles (Doomsday, The Descent), Sloane U’Ren (Art Director, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Batman Begins and Director/Producer and Production Design on her own new sci-fi feature Dimensions), Caroline Greville-Morris (Wild Target, Mutant Chronicles) and Designer/FX pro Greg Aronowitz (whose special effects and model work can be seen in John Carter of Mars, Scooby Doo 2, Minority Report, Contact, Babylon 5. And White Room, the short film he directed is also screening in the Festival. Book for this session
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Monsters directed Gareth Edwards, produced by Vertigo
| Meet the commissioners
5th May 4:30pm – 5:30
Do you have a sci-fi project for the market? We’ll ask a panel of funders, commissioners and distributors help us answer some key questions about the market for science fiction in the UK and abroad. What are the challenges of producing sci-fi well? How does the UK industry sit in the wider world? Who are the key players in the UK for mid and low budget sci-fi film, and genre films more generally? What are they looking for in a project and what factors do they consider essential in a potential project?
Speakers: Sarah Scougal, Head of Development at Vertigo Films (Monsters, Pusher), Mia Bays (Film London’s Microwave scheme), Jeremy Baxter (Head of Acquisitions, Protagonist Pictures- an international sales and financing company with credits such as Kill List, Sightseekers, How I Live Now), Andrew Orr(Managing Director of Independent- production, sales and distribution company - who represent such upcoming sci-fi titles as Safety Not Guaranteed and Storage 24, and recent titles like Moon, Exam and high-end drama like We Need to Talk about Kevin) and Jamie Wolpert (Development Editor, BFI Film Fund). Book for this session
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