Your fundraising secret weapon
Festivals are overrated and conferences are underrated. Leverage special events in your film’s target audience area to connect with funders and supporters.
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Festivals are overrated and conferences are underrated. Leverage special events in your film’s target audience area to connect with funders and supporters.
Save a seatSave a seatWatch the RecordingYour fundraising secret weapon
Festivals are overrated and conferences are underrated. Leverage special events in your film’s target audience area to connect with funders and supporters.
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Conferences are a critical part of an effective fundraising strategy. Whether you’re in production, post, and distribution, conferences will help you reach unexpected funders. Join Karen Everett (New Doc Editing) and Keith Ochwat (Show&Tell) to discuss how conferences will open new funding doors and how you can edit an effective conference cut of your film.
About Your Instructor
About Your Instructors
Keith Ochwat
Keith is a filmmaker and Founder of Show&Tell. Over his 12 year career as a documentary filmmaker, Keith produced three films that appeared on PBS and Netflix.
His film Age of Champions screened in over 3,000 communities and generated over $1.5 million—powered by partnerships with groups like AARP and the Alzheimer’s Association and companies like Cigna Health.
Since starting Show&Tell, Keith has taught and advised hundreds of filmmakers on their distribution and fundraising strategies helping his community of filmmakers raise over $25 million and counting in PBS sponsorships, partnerships, educational licensing and more.
He's delivered keynote presentations on distribution at filmmaking organizations like IDA and IFP and his work has appeared in IndieWire and Documentary Magazine.
Karen Everett
Karen Everett is one of the world's leading documentary Story Consultants, as well as an award-winning filmmaker. Founder of New Doc Editing, she has helped hundreds of filmmakers structure documentaries for PBS, HBO, Sundance, and other top venues.
Karen taught documentary editing for 18 years at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, named the #1-ranked documentary program in America by "Documentary Magazine". Her business also provides experienced editors.
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