Enterprise|UK tutors announced

Olsberg|SPI, in association with the Film Council's Training Fund, PACT and IPTF, have announced the tutors for Enterprise|UK: Business Strategies for the Independent Producer.
Enterprise|UK, an advanced workshop for independent producers in film, television and new media, is to take place at the Castle Combe Manor House Hotel, Wiltshire, at the end of November 2002.
The course is open to owner/managers of film, television and interactive media production businesses who are already successful in creating projects and now wish to develop skills in strategic aspects of building and managing companies.
The tutors are:

• Richard Lorber, a specialist in film and television distribution, he now concentrates on extending traditional media content to new media applications and currently runs Lorber Media in New York.
• Jason Kingsley, founder and chairman of internationally successful UK-based games company, Rebellion, and its film production arm, Fearnot.
• Eero Iloniemi, a venture capitalist specialising in media at Helsinki based company CIM, one of the first companies to secure financial support from the new European Investment Bank programming i2i.
• Frank Byrne, a senior specialist in organisational behaviour at the Irish Management Institute in Dublin, who has designed and presented management development programmes in Ireland, Europe and Africa.
• Juan Gordon, an experienced producer who ran Spanish production and distribution house, Esicma and American Entertainment Investors, before setting up the Spanish film production company, Morena Films.
• Per Neumann, a leading lawyer in Media and Entertainment with Danish legal firm Dragsted Schulter Aros, and board member of Film Finances Scandinavia and the collections agency ECA.
• San Fu Maltha - an experienced producer who set up and runs Fu Works in the Netherlands. He also runs distribution company A-Films Distribution, is a partner in development company A-Lab and co-runs the production company Terras in Belgium.
• Christine Corner, Head of the film and TV group at leading UK accounting & audit firm Baker Tilly.
• Bernie Stampfer, an experienced producer who now runs the film investment sector of the Deutsche Bank in Germany.
• Richard Miller, Managing Director, Olsberg|SPI, and former producer of acclaimed independent American films Heavy and Songcatcher.
• Jonathan Olsberg, course Leader. Chairman of Olsberg|SPI and producer, Dakota Films, London.

The application deadline is Friday October 25 2002. The residential workshop runs from November 20-23 2002.
The surgery session runs at the end of January 2003.
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