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Vancouver Women in Film & Television presents a PRODUCERS' PITCH WORKSHOP WITH MICKEY ROGERS AND PANELISTS JAYME PFAHL AND MARC STEPHENSON Saturday, May 29, 2010 10:00 am - 4:30 pm (doors open at 9:30 am) in room C550 at UBC Robson Square Register at the door: $140 / Everyone Prices include: all gst & service charges, snacks and refreshments (bring your own lunch).
ARE YOU READY TO PITCH AT THE BANFF WORLD TELEVISION FESTIVAL? Join pitching coach MICKEY ROGERS and a panel of industry representatives for an intense one day workshop on the art of pitching. In the morning session, Mickey will cover how to pitch, pitch materials, the sizzle reel, and how to incorporate multi-platforms into your pitch. In the afternoon, practise your pitch (features welcome, as well) in front of established producers JAYME PFAHL and MARC STEPHENSON who will give you feedback and guidance on your presentation. Mickey is an entrepreneur, broadcaster, producer and distributor. She has over 20 award winning years in the media business and knows what it takes to launch a profitable project into the Canadian and international market place. With her strategic knowledge and complete honesty, Mickey will work with you to present your ideas clearly and persuasively.
As a global media strategist to clients such as Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Corus Entertainment, Creative Business Wales and the National Screen Institute, Mickey has dramatically expanded her clients’ international business opportunities. She has negotiated multi-million dollar deals, facilitated strategic partnerships, and created successful marketing plan. _______________________________________ JAYME PFAHL: Jayme holds the position of President for Crescent Entertainment and has been involved with the film industry in British Columbia for over 20 years. A versatile and skillful manager of both people and money, as well as a keen creative eye, he has extensive producer credits ranging from feature films to drama to documentary to reality-based television. Jayme was Associate Producer on the television movies Other Women's Children (Crescent/ABC Productions), and Frostfire (CBC/Alliance). He has also acted as Co-Producer on three television movies for ABC/Lifetime, and Produced the television movie Beauty’s Revenge (NBC). He was Executive Producer on the feature film Naked Frailties, Co-Producer on Marine Life, a feature staring Cybil Sheppard. Jayme was the Supervising Producer on the Discovery Channel’s 13 hour documentary series Storm Warning as well as on several other series and six one-hour specials for The Discovery Channel and The Learning Channel. His newest venture is the company Gang Of 2 with partner Angus Fraser. Read Jayme's full bio here. MARC STEPHENSON: Marc began his producing career over 12 years ago in his home town of Winnipeg, Canada. He has worked in a large variety of positions including as an analyst at Telefilm Canada, business affairs at Front Street Pictures, line producing the series “The New Ren and Stimpy show”, and as a Producing instructor at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Film School. Marc’s producing credits include the award winning films, “Heater” and “On the Corner” and Canada’s first stop motion animated feature, “Edison & Leo.” Currently he is packaging a feature film with Fox Searchlight and developing an animated series with DJ Kid Koala. www.sheepnoir.com ______________________________________ Women In Film & Television Vancouver (WIFTV) is an internationally affiliated non-profit society committed to advancing & celebrating women in screen-based media.
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