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Producing for Factual Programming


When: 
New dates announced soon!

Where:
DFG, London

Want to become a producer, or have more control over your documentary by producing it through your own company? Then look no further than Producing for Factual Programming.

This is an intensive three day workshop that will give you the core skills you need to run your own small production company - from the basics of raising funds and negotiating with broadcasters all the way through to delivery and transmission.

Producing for Factual Programming is designed for filmmakers wanting to expand into producing and APs, researchers or emerging filmmakers who want to have more control over their work by producing it through their own company. The course will cover the full spectrum of issues you will face as a producer, from setting up your company to improving your pitching technique.

The course will include:
industry overview
proposals/pitching
sources of funding - UK and Europe
commissioning, co-production, pre-buys and acquisitions
contracts, rights, negotiating
commissioning contracts
agreements, optioning, freelance agreements with crews
essential organisations
contacts and networking
career strategy and long term planning

Previous Course Tutors:
Richard Sattin
Richard is one of the UK’s most experienced
Executive Producers of domestic and international factual programming. He has excellent working relationships with broadcast Commissioning Editors at home, the US, Asia and Europe.

Over the past 15 years he has worked with every major UK and US broadcaster supplying science, music and arts to history, exploration and investigation, factual entertainment, docudramas and reality formats. He has won 25 industry awards for outstanding shows such as Hardcore (Channel 4), (ITV) and Gunpowder Plot After The Warming (PBS).

His independent production company Principal Films forged the first UK co-production relationship with Discovery’s networks in the early 1990s.

In 2005, Principal merged into Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) where Richard has since been Head of Documentaries. As well as supervising Gunpowder Plot (ITV), Science of Survival (Discovery Channel), The Real Phil Spector and (Channel 4), Me & My SlavesRoman Vice and Weird Weapons (History Channel), he has developed a drama on Tutankhamun, a special on Egypt’s Drowned Kingdom, American Bones - a format unlocking human mysteries found in burial sites and a feature length drama documentary on building the Berlin Wall. Find more details on Richard Sattin's website
 


How much:
Freelance rate: £450 + VAT
Corporate rate: £800 + VAT

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To book your place, call us on +44 (0)20 7249 6600 or email training@dfgdocs.com

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