PRODUCTION SHOW ATTRACTS TOP FILM FIGURES

THE Production Show 2001 have secured some top names from the film world to appear at the Movie Day seminars.
Danny Boyle, Director of ‘Shallow Grave’, ‘Trainspotting’, ‘A Life Less Ordinary’ and ‘The Beach’ will hold a Question and Answer session with Colin Brown, Editor in Chief of Screen International Magazine. Also prolific Director John Mackenzie of ‘The Fourth Protocol’ and British gangster film ‘The Long Good Friday’ and currently directing Michael Cain in ‘Quicksand’ is to feature in a one-to-one interview organised by the Director's Guild of Great Britain.
Alongside these star attractions comes the flipside in the form of the harsher reality of two of the fundamental business elements necessary for a film to come to fruition, pitching and funding.
The film industry in the UK has been given a multitude of options to secure funding for new movie ideas in the past. The seminars aim to give a complete guide to these new sources through a panel discussion in 'Show Me the New Money'.
Robert Jones, Head of the Premiere Fund at UK film body The Film Council, will illustrate how subsidies are being streamlined into one organisation and how to gain access them.
While the high profile collapse of Goldcrest in 1987 made the City wary of providing financial support to the film community, recently private investment is on the rise. The seminar will lift the lid on these possible new funding sources. (CD)