Film Finance Seminar Houston
An Arts Education and Economic Development Opportunity For Houston
Houston, Texas
For the first time ever, the Bayou City will host Film Finance Seminar Houston in the Fall of 2020. This event is an initial step towards establishing Houston as a profitable location to develop films and television productions.
Bird House Productions has partnered with Houston Creative Endowment to deliver a high-caliber panel of industry experts to teach investors and executive producers how to develop, fund, produce, market, and distribute profitable films and episodic series.
Film Finance Seminar Houston is part of a larger initiative to develop a profitable film arts industry in and around Houston and serves as the next major step in building the Houston creative economy through film.
“Around $800 billion is made in the creative industry in the United State of America annually. As the fourth largest city in the U.S., Houston doesn’t capture nearly enough of that revenue,” affirms Lynn Birdwell, Bird House Productions Executive Producer.
Film Finance Seminar Houston will be moderated by Vinca Jarrett, a successful and highly-acclaimed entertainment attorney, and experienced executive producer, who established a nationwide legal practice, focused primarily on entertainment and media issues, including work in Canada and London.
On stage and in person, attendees will meet and spend two days alongside some of the players that develop profitable projects every day and understand the nuances, insider secrets, and strategies to become a smart investor and executive producer in the film and television business.
An important aspect of this seminar will be the access all attendees have with each other and with the VIP speakers and presenters, which include:
Vinca Jarrett
Entertainment Lawyer, The Law Office of Vinca Jarrett
Vinca L. Jarrett, Esq. is an entertainment lawyer and president of FilmPro Finance, a financial consulting service for investors and producers for strategizing funding and distribution in the film and television industry.
Charlene Paling
VP & Deputy Head of Entertainment Finance Group, BHI USA
Charlene Paling is one of the top finance bankers in North America with expertise in entertainment lending and is a valuable member of the Los Angeles Entertainment Finance Group.
Steven Adams
Manager/Producer, Alta Global Media
Award-winning Manager/Producer Steve Adams is a Founding Partner at Alta Global Media where he represents international media companies and talent.
Robert Katz
Executive Producer/Founder, Shine Box Media Group
Robert Katz, a producer and production executive, has thirty years of experience in worldwide film production, development, finance, and distribution, on more than 26 motion pictures alongside on a range of projects with 13 Academy Award nominations and three wins and totaling nearly $1 Billion in worldwide revenues.
Experts in distribution/sales (foreign and domestic), federal film tax, and marketing, PR, and publicity will be announced in the coming weeks.
In the classroom-setting program, each speaker will discuss their invaluable perspective and knowledge on each phase of a project starting with development, pre-production and production, post-production, marketing and festivals, how films recoup, and sales and distribution. They will also target topics such as:
Profitability
Minimizing Risk
Investor Project Involvement
Shooting Union in Texas
Vetting Projects
Marketing
Benefits Beyond Return on Investment
Film Festivals
Ancillaries
Other Revenue Streams
Filming in Houston
State Incentives
City Incentives
The Players in Houston and in Texas
Building a Film Fund
Greenlighting Projects in a Fund
On day two of Film Finance Seminar Houston, professionals from Houston will gather roundtable-style to discuss the elements that make Houston unique in the production industry, our available state and city incentives for local projects and building up jobs, crew, and physical infrastructure. We’ll end the day with a discussion by our VIP panel on putting together a film fund.
To learn more about Film Finance Seminar Houston, expert speakers, schedule, and sponsorship opportunities, go to www.filmfinancehouston.com.
Event spokesperson Lynn Birdwell is available to do a sit-down interview or onset segment to discuss the event, how she and her peers are working to bring the film industry back to Houston, and her goal of building a thriving creative economy that would benefit Houston local businesses, economy, and creative arts. To schedule, please contact her at lynn@bhprod.com or call 832-439-2595.
Contact
Lynn Birdwell
lynn@bhprod.com
832-439-2595
LynnBirdwell.com
ABOUT BIRD HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Bird House Productions is a full-service production company, with the ability to produce cutting edge work at any level of cost or complexity. Acting as producer, co-producer or as the Texas production services company, Bird House Productions offers the very best, most cost-effective high-level production services available in Texas with expert mastery of filming in and around the Houston area.
ABOUT HOUSTON CREATIVE ENDOWMENT
The Houston Creative Endowment, a non-profit 501(c)3, is dedicated to preserving, protecting, developing, fostering, and supporting the creative industry by focusing on the film and television production industry in Houston, Texas.
ABOUT LYNN BIRDWELL
Lynn Birdwell is known as the primary developing force for television and film projects in Houston, creating relationships with like minds in the mayor’s office, HoustonFirst, the Greater Houston Partnership and all the major arts organizations to create the emerging film production industry here, in the 4th largest city in the U.S. With the creative economy industry development incubator, Bird Nest, and the non-profit 501(c)3 organization, the Houston Creative Endowment, her team creates and inspires new projects founded for, by and about Houston.