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Author: Kasey Martin
August 2, 2015
Power Players: How Women Producers & Executives are Changing the Entertainment Business
Panels
October 24, 2015 Though women are under-represented in the entertainment industry, a number of prominent female producers and executives are successfully leveling the scales. This panel will focus on the ways that women are influencing all areas of the business, from ind...
August 2, 2015
The Foreign Language Film Crisis: Are Subtitled Movies Fading on U.S. Screens?
Panels
October 24, 2015 The U.S. box office for foreign-language films has declined precipitously in the last several years. And with cable and VOD outlets not particularly hospitable to subtitled movies either, where is the next Bergman, Godard, or Almodóvar to go? This panel...
August 2, 2015
How to Build a Booming Chicago Film Industry
Panels
October 24, 2015 Film and TV production in Chicago has tripled over the last five years. To continue this growth, what can the city, the state, and its local industry do to keep the business flourishing? This panel gathers together leading forces in the City's entertain...
August 2, 2015
Is the Future of Indie Film in TV and on the Web?
Panels
October 23, 2015 As more filmmakers turn to producing content for television and online, this panel addresses the career and creative opportunities provided by new media outlets, and the implications and consequences of this trend on the traditional filmmaking landscape....
August 2, 2015
Critics Panel: Friend or Foe – Can Critics and Filmmakers Get Along?
Panels
October 21, 2015 How do film critics view the people behind the movies they write about? Do they ignore them and their feelings? And what happens when they get to know the directors—and actually like them? And how do they maintain their critical distance with an "auteur"...
