The Upside Down and Inside Out of Co-Producing and Co-Financing with Australia and New Zealand
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday, Dec. 2
session room: Savoy 2
Australian producers made an art form of co-producing and co-financing long before the GFC. Reduced budgets and higher costs are now driving more and more producers and broadcasters to engage with multiple partners. Leading Australian production companies plus some of their international financing partners will present a number of successful and some not-so-successful projects, contrasting finance models ranging from treaty co-productions to multiple co-financing. Their compelling stories and varied experiences illustrate and illuminate the hard but generally rewarding path of working with international partners.
Session Producer
Penny Robins, Executive Producer/Producer (Australia)
Moderators
Kevin Dawson, Head of Corporate Communications, RTÉ (Ireland)
Pat Ferns, President and Executive Producer, Ferns Productions (Canada)
Panelists
Stephen Amezdroz, Executive Producer, December Films (Australia)
Pat Ferns, President and Executive Producer, Ferns Productions (Canada)
Mark Hamlyn, Head of Specialist Factual, ScreenWorld (Australia)
Chris Hilton, CEO and Executive Producer, Essential Media and Entertainment (Australia)
Christine Le Goff, Consultant, Doc Services (France)
John Luscombe, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Beyond Production (Australia)
Andrew Ogilvie, CEO and Executive Producer, Electric Pictures (Australia)
Marco Visalberghi, Managing Director, Doclab (Italy)
Sponsored by ABC