New Digital Media Initiatives, Tools & Tactics for DIWO Filmmakers

It's another NOT-TO-BE-MISSED monthly event from Bay Area Women in Film & Television (BAWIFT)...as always - the second Wednesday of the month and as always - bringing you the most topical and informative panels in media!

If you haven't joined BAWIFT as a registered member yet - we have TWO amazing September events (this monthly meeting event on the 10th AND the SF PGA/BAWIFT Mixer on September 4th)...if you are a registered member you can attend both for free!

SEPTEMBER MONTHLY MEETING EVENT INFORMATION:

BAWIFT's General Meeting Event: Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Topic:

NEW DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVES, TOOLS AND TACTICS FOR DIWO
("Do-It-With-Others") FILMMAKERS

Panelists currently scheduled to appear:

DANAE RINGELMANN - Founder and CFO, INDIEGOGO
SARA POLLACK - Global Product Marketing Manager, Film & Animation, YOUTUBE

This timely panel discussion features two women leaders in the digital film/marketplace from IndieGoGo and You Tube's new Screening Room and will focus on the new tools and tactics DIWO
("Do-it-with-others")filmmakers are using for fundraising,
audience building, and distribution. Come hear from two experts on how their companies are helping film and mediamakers navigate the shifting film distribution systems with new tools to harness the power of the internet and audiences to help fund, create and distribute media.

PLEASE SIGN UP ON LINE AT www.bawift.org to reserve your spot for this event!

IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling the audience to discover and connect directly with filmmakers and the causes they support. Founded on the principles of opportunity, transparency, choice, and action, IndieGoGo launched in 2008 to address the fundraising challenges and market inefficiencies affecting independent filmmaking today. IndieGoGo enables this "filmocracy" by providing filmmakers an open platform to pitch their projects to the
world, and giving the fans a vehicle to experience and influence the once inaccessible world of filmmaking.Filmmakers get new resources to build and engage a loyal fan base to assist in making their projects happen. Filmmakers can raise money and awareness, find cast and crew,and gain credibility through the help of their number one resource: their fans. www.IndieGoGo.com

The YouTube Screening Room is an exciting, new initiative from
YouTube connecting films and audiences in the world's largest theater and is also a platform for top films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve. Every other Friday, four new films are featured in The YouTube Screening Room

PANELIST BIOS:

DANAE RINGELMANN is a founder and the Chief of Finance and Customer Development for IndieGoGo. Danae founded IndieGoGo to democratize the film funding process. Passionate about helping filmmakers embrace new opportunities online, Danae often speaks at conferences and in classrooms on Film 2.0. Recent speaking engagements include Los Angeles Film Festival, Hollywood Black Film Festival, International Documentary Association, California Lawyers for the Arts, IFP Labs, and various university film programs.

Danae brings entertainment industry and film finance expertise. Prior to IndieGoGo, Danae was a securities analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment and video game companies including Pixar, Lions Gate, Disney, and Electronic Arts. Danae also focused on cable network, NFL, newspaper and hedge fund clientele while at JPMorgan's Investment Bank and Private Bank. In the wake of 9/11, Danae co-produced a concert reading of Incident at Vichy, an Arthur Miller play addressing the politically charged topic of racial profiling. Danae is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Danae was also a Morehead Scholar and Varsity Rower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

SARA POLLACK is the Global Product Marketing Manager, Film & Animation at YouTube. She is responsible for building and executing You Tube's business strategy for film across the marketing, Product, Business Development, PR, Sales and Editorial Teams, in order to ensure that YouTube remains at the cutting-edge of digital entertainment.

Prior to joining YouTube, Sara was a Production Executive at Big
Beach, an independent film production and finance company, where she worked on both feature and documentary films including Little Miss
Sunshine, Everything is Illuminated and Sherrybaby. Before Big Beach, Sara worked at Miramax Films, directly reporting to the President of Production during the studio's release of such award-winning films as Finding Neverland, The Aviator, and Cold Mountain. Sara received her B.A. in English from Brown University.

RSVP: Please register online at www.bawift.org!

DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2008

TIME:
7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments
7:20 - 9:00 p.m. Panel
9:00 - 9:30 Networking

LOCATION:
The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking , 2565 Third St., Suite #337, between 22nd & 23rd Streets, San Francisco, CA. Street parking is usually available.

ADMISSION: FREE for Current Members, $5 general, $3 students with ID

Please refer to the information on location and directions to the
School provided on our website. There are two campus locations for SF School of Digital Filmmaking if you look on their website. We provide the correct location for this event at www.bawift.org

NOTE: **** Reminder: Unlike our special events, this month's meeting is for women only. **** .

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WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOU JOINING US ON SEPTEMBER 10th!

Submitted by Simone Nelson