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Film Business 2015: Financial and Legal Issues of the Industry

22 June 2015, 12:08

VIII International Conference and Workshop Film Business: Challenges, Features, Opportunities will be held on September 9 in the course of KYIV MEDIA WEEK 2015. 

Financial support of film business will traditionally become the most extended topic of the conference. Organizers decided to consolidate Financial and Legal Workshops taking into account that themes mostly overlap and supplement each other.

For instance, experts and participants will have an opportunity to discuss such issues:

- State support and funds. State support, national and international funds, possibilities for the Eastern Europe and Ukraine, necessary changes to the legislation, existing incentives for the filmmakers, co-production opportunities;

- Private investments and commercial films. Filmmaking as a business, how to manage without state financing and make successful feature films, cases. Questions regarding the types of financial participation in film projects – investments, bank loan services, advertisement and product placement, etc;

- Low-budget film – how to make a film with a budget close to zero;

- Legislative initiatives for film business development and recent changes in 2015;

- Legal forms of participation in TV and film content production for TV & radio broadcasting companies; concept of indivisibility of rights, and how to divide the rights between co-producers; special aspects of production and distribution of content for theatrical distribution; definition of national product and European product.

Expert speakers from a whole range of countries will share their international experience, speak about film business perspectives in CIS region as well as answer all the questions from the audience. 

All the details in about the conference can be found in Film Business 2015 program. To participate in Film Business please proceed with registration for KYIV MEDIA WEEK.

Film Business 2014 results can be found here.  

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