Cinema Workshop for Producers and Directors

Cinema Workshop for Producers and Directors with Peter Newman.
11-13.06.2010

Peter Newman has established himself as one of the motion picture industry’s leading producers of theatrical films. New York-based Peter Newman Productions has worked with some of the world’s most important filmmakers, including Robert Altman, Paul Auster, Jonathan Demme, Nancy Savoca, John Sayles, and Wayne Wang among its 30 films. Peter Newman Productions have received a total of 21 nominations for the Spirit Awards the leading honor in American Independent Film.

Most recently he produced Noah Baumbach’s THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, which won the Best Writing and Directing Awards at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE which stars Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney, was a co-production with Wes Anderson’s American Empirical Pictures. It was nominated for six Spirit Awards, including Best Picture; three Golden Globes, including Best Film - Musical or Comedy; and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

Mr. Newman has been a featured speaker at the Sundance Institute’s Producers Conference in 1991 and 2005; as well as appearing on numerous film festival panels, including Cannes and New York. Additionally, he has lectured on the movie business at Yale, Columbia, and New York University. He is presently a professor at New York University in the Graduate Film program at Tisch, and the Graduate MBA program at Stern. In August of 2008, Peter Newman was appointed the Head of the joint MFA/MBA Graduate program at NYU. It is the first program of its kind in the nation. Peter Newman Productions, Inc. presently has over twelve feature film projects in active development. He is currently preparing films based on the lives of Janis Joplin, Bill Veeck, and Strom Thurmond.

Mr. Newman is a member of the ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES, the PRODUCER’S GUILD OF AMERICA, as well as the BRITISH ACADEMY OF TELEVISION AND VIDEO ARTS.

Newman lives in New York City with his wife, Antonia and their three children. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.

The Workshop -
The geography of the film world is rapidly changing. It no longer revolves exclusively around Hollywood, or even the U.S. There are growing and thriving film industries throughout the International map, with foreign directors, writers, and actors becoming artistically and commercially successful on a world wide basis.

Foreign financing is evolving into an essential component of funds available to make films anywhere in the world. For a film producer and/or director hoping to get their films made, understanding how the industry works on a worldwide basis is a key element in having a successful film career.

This workshop is geared towards producers, directors and anyone in the movie industry who is interested in the process from having an idea, to writing a script, making the movie, selling it and sending it out to festivals.

Schedule:

Friday, 11 June: Session 1 ( 17:30 – 21:00 )
Saturday, 12 June: Session 2 ( 10:00 – 13:00 )
Saturday, 12 June: Session 3 ( 14:00 – 17:00 )
Saturday, 12 June: Session 4: ( 18:00 – 21:00 )
Sunday, 13 June: Session 5: ( 10:00 – 13:00 )
Sunday, 13 June: Session 6: ( 14:00 – 17:00 )
Sunday, 13 June: Session 7: ( 18:00 – 21:00 )

Fees for Cinema Workshop: €300
Registration: Please email or call to reserve your place.

For more information:
Tel: +357 99 676017
E-mail: [email protected]