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19 Jun 23
Location: Ground Floor Industry Badge Desk
Location: Ground Floor Café
A relaxed and fun get-to-know-you session to meet the other creative people you'll be spending the next four days with.
Location: Ground Floor Café & First Floor Restaurant
Our brunches allow for informal group talks with a range of industry experts, providing opportunities to ask questions and hear about their careers and current work. Each day's speakers will be confirmed the evening before. Full list of brunch speakers below.
Location: Screen 2
Speakers: Joana Vicente, CEO, Sundance Institute; Eugene Hernandez, Director of the Sundance Film Festival and Head of Public Programming; Kim Yutani, Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival
Moderator: Wendy Mitchell (Sundance Film Festival: London Producer)
Learn all about the work of the Sundance Institute – including its festivals and year-round artist programmes – from key members of the team. We hear what excites them now about independent filmmaking, how Sundance supports artists across its various programmes, and the career paths for each of them that led to working at Sundance.
Location: Screen 3
Speakers: Ollie Charles, Senior Communications Manager, Global, MUBI; Melanie Iredale, director, Reclaim the Frame; Micallar Walker, founder, Dark Matter
Moderator: Sam Clements, Head of Marketing, Picturehouse
After making a brilliant film, the next step is connecting it to the right audience. As audience behaviours rapidly change in both cinemagoing and online viewing, distribution and marketing experts have to constantly think of innovative ways to reach audiences – not to mention ways to attract underserved audiences. This session will offer plenty of practical advice for marketing, press and social media strategies to get your stories into the world.
Location: First-Floor Restaurant
Interviews with top filmmakers and industry guests visiting Sundance London.
Location: Members' Bar
Our daily happy hour welcomes badgeholders, industry guests and filmmakers to get to know each other over drinks and snacks.
Location: Ground floor café & First-Floor restaurant
Our brunches allow for informal group talks with a range of industry experts, providing opportunities to ask questions and hear about their careers and current work. Each day's speakers will be confirmed the evening before. Full list of brunch speakers below.
Location: Screen 5
Speakers: Clare Chadburn, Director of Original Content at Audible; Sheun Adelasoye De Nicola, Executive Producer at RAW
Moderator: Nicole Davis, Writer, podcaster and creative producer
In this discussion, the teams from Audible, a leading provider in spoken word entertainment, and RAW, the multi-award winning film & TV production company behind films such as The Imposter and Three Identical Strangers, will discuss how podcasting can create more depth and open up new opportunities in documentary storytelling.
Location: Screen 2
This lively, interactive session will invite selected Industry badgeholders to pitch their film idea in front of a live audience and a carefully curated panel of experts, who will offer instant feedback. All Industry badgeholders can enter their names to be considered to pitch – those selected to pitch will be drawn out of a hat the night before. The session starts with a short talk with the experts explaining what kinds of pitches and projects impress them. We expect 8 filmmakers will do pitches of 3 minutes, followed by the experts' feedback. The experts will pick their best pitch winner, and the audience will also vote on their favourite.
Expert Panel
Mary Burke, Producer, Public Dreams Ltd.
Anthony Andrews, We are Parable
Lizzie Francke, Consultant
Megan Gilbert, Development Coordinator, Film4
Ruby Kaye, CAA
Tejinder Jouhal, Director of Marketing & Distribution, HanWay
Danny Perkins, CEO, Elysian Film Group
Moderator: Sam Clements, Head of Marketing, Picturehouse
Location: Screen 2
Veteran US producer Anthony Bregman talks about the lessons learned producing dozens of acclaimed films over the past 20 years, including hits such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Foxcatcher and In The Heights; as well as Sundance Film Festival: London 2023 closing film You Hurt My Feelings, directed by Nicole Holofcener. In addition to reflecting on his own career, Bregman will offer his insights into the current landscape for independent film and how emerging creatives can find the best opportunities to tell their stories.
Speaker: Anthony Bregman, Producer & Co-founder, Likely Story
Moderator: Wendy Mitchell, Sundance Film Festival: London producer
Location: First-Floor Restaurant
Interviews with top filmmakers and industry guests visiting Sundance London.
Location: Members' Bar
Our daily happy hour welcomes badgeholders, industry guests and filmmakers to get to know each other over drinks and snacks.
Location: Ground Floor Café & First-Floor Restaurant
Our brunches allow for informal group talks with a range of industry experts, providing opportunities to ask questions and hear about their careers and current work. Each day's speakers will be confirmed the evening before. Full list of brunch speakers below.
Location: Screen 3
Speakers: Katie Bignell, founder, Festival Formula; Kristy Matheson, BFI Festivals Director; Axel Danielsson and Maximilien Van Aertryck, directors, Fantastic Machine
Moderator: Mike Plante, Senior Programmer, Sundance Film Festival
Film festivals are an integral part of the independent film ecosystem, but emerging filmmakers are often perplexed about film festival strategies. This session will include some practical advice about everything from the submissions process, to hiring a publicist, to getting the right materials (stills, poster, texts) ready for your festival launch. We'll cover festival journeys for shorts as well as fiction and documentary features, along with some advice about making the most of your time on the ground at any festival.
Location: Screen 4
Speaker: Gregg Araki
Moderator: Michael Blyth
In this exclusive industry masterclass, acclaimed US filmmaker Gregg Araki talks about his filmmaking journey.
Location: First-Floor Restaurant
Interviews with top filmmakers and industry guests visiting Sundance London.
Location: Members' Bar
Our daily happy hour welcomes badgeholders, industry guests and filmmakers to get to know each other over some drinks and snacks.
Location: Ground Floor Café & First-Floor Restaurant
Our brunches allow for informal group talks with a range of industry experts, providing opportunities to ask questions and hear about their careers and current work. Each day's speakers will be confirmed the evening before. Full list of brunch speakers below.
Location: Screen 7
Melanie Dicks, founder of Greenshoot and CEO of Fingerprint Content
Moderator: Wendy Mitchell, Sundance Film Festival: London producer
We all know the film industry needs to be more sustainable in all its work, but what are some steps we can take to achieve this goal? One of the UK's top green film experts, Melanie Dicks, talks about best practices for how productions at any budget level can be more green and also why we also need more sustainable storytelling themes on screen.
Location: Screen 7
Speaker: Nicole Holofcener, writer/director of our closing film, You Hurt My Feelings
Moderator Nicole Davis, Writer. Podcaster. creative producer
Lauded American filmmaker Nicole Holofcener talks about how her filmmaking has evolved across films like Walking and Talking, Friends with Money and Enough Said. She'll also discuss her new feature, Closing Night selection You Hurt My Feelings, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies.
Location: First-Floor Restaurant
Interviews with top filmmakers and industry guests visiting Sundance London.
Location: Members' Bar
Our daily happy hour welcomes badgeholders, industry guests and filmmakers to get to know each other over some drinks and snacks. Celebrate with us at the festival's final happy hour.
Akua Gyamfi, British Blacklist
Alejandra Vasquez, filmmaker
Alice Lowe, filmmaker
Alison Owen, Monumental Films
Ama Ampadu, BFI, Senior Production & Development Executive
Ana Souza, Sundance
Andrew Orr, Sky Cinema
Anna Higgs, BAFTA
Axel Danielson, filmmaker
Bobby Allen, MUBI
Carlo Dresto-Dina, Tempesta Film
Cath Le Couteur, Shooting People
Catherine Bray, British Council
Chris Harris, Picturehouse
Christos Michaels, Lee & Thompson
Claudia Yusef, BBC Film
Emily Morgan, Quiddity Films
Emma Hindley, BBC Storyville
Eva Yates, BBC Film
Eve Gabereau, Modern Films
Farah Abushwesha, producer and founder, Rocliffe
Farhuna Bhula, Film4
Faye Ward, Fable Pictures
Finn Halligan, Screen International
Frederic Tcheng, filmmaker
Hannah Boulton, The Agency
Hannah Bush Bailey, Doc Society
Harpa Manku, A24
Heather Basten, casting director
Iyare Igiehon, BBC and S.O.U.L. Fest
Jonathan Rutter, Premier PR
Julie La'Bassiere, Apple
Karina Gechtmann, Anton Corp
Kate Leys, script consultant
Kristin Irving, BBC Film
Kristy Matheson, BFI Director of Festivals
Len Rowles, Protagonist
Lisa Higginson, Senior Director of Content Acquisitions, Audible
Luane Gauer, Black Bear International
Lucie Kon, BBC Storyville
Marianna Palka, filmmaker
Matthew James Wilkinson, Stigma Films
Maximilien van Ayterck, filmmaker
Melanie Iredale, Reclaim the Frame
Mia Bays, BFI Film Fund
Mia Powell, Pretty Bird
Mike Plante, Sundance
Miriam Newman, Talent Executive, BFI Short Circuit
Nainita Desai, composer
Naomi Joseph, Film Team Manager, ScreenSkills
Naomi Rhodes, BFI Network Coordinator
Negeen Yazdi, Fifth Season
Pamela Koffler, Killer Films
Paul Mayeda Berges, writer/producer/director, Bend It Films
Phil Hunt, Bohemia, Bankside and Headgear
Prano Bailey Bond, filmmaker
Roosa Toivonen, Aurora Studios
Ruby Kaye, CAA
Sam Osborn, filmmaker
Sarah Brocklehurst, Brockmedia
Shanida Scotland, Doc Society
Shaun Harrison, BFI NETWORK
Sophie Green, Bankside Films
Tejinder Jouhal, HanWay
Tom Lazenby, A24
Tony Grisoni, screenwriter
Toyin Ayinde, Directors UK
Tristan Goligher, The Bureau
Vicki Brown, BFI, Senior Executive, Sales and Distribution
Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, producer
Zeina Durra, filmmaker
(all speakers subject to change)
The Industry talks are only open to Industry pass holders. The number of passes sold is capped to protect the intimate nature of the event – please note that last year's badges sold out before the festival.
Sundance Film Festival: London runs from Thursday 6 July - Sunday 9 July at Picturehouse Central.
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