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COST: FREE for Film Co-op members in good standing.

Class Limit: 25

Instructor: Walter Forsyth

ONLINE WORKSHOP

Workshop Description:

The workshop focus is grant-writing and distribution for web series - the two ends of filmmaking that are often the hardest to get right.

The Art of Grantwriting: Where to go for dough

Ownership: Rights and exploit-ability

Promotion: Building awareness/audience

Distribution: Getting the film out there and ROI (Return on the Internet)

Instructor’s Biography:

Walter produces the web series/TV comedy hour, Everyone's Famous, with the IPF and CBC, nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards. Most recently he co-wrote and directed the bravoFACT funded short The Luckiest Most Unlucky Man in the World; directed a Canada Council funded cine-poem, Walls; and began a documentary about why we run called Run for Your Life. In 2011, Walter Forsyth was a Bell Media Fellow, won TIFF's Pitch This!, received a Sundance Doc Fund grant, and produced the award winning dramatic feature, The Disappeared. He produced How to Be Alone, which has been viewed over 6 million times on YouTube and directed the Scott Pilgrim music video that spawned the graphic novel series and feature film, Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. He teaches film studies to share his knowledge gained from fifteen years as a writer, director and produce