PROMOTION/PUBLICITY FOR INDIE FILMS - Laura Pennino, CEO of Pennino and Partners. Tips & techniques to assist filmmakers in attracting investors, audiences, and distributors to their films using public relations, advertising, social media and special events. www.penninoandpartners.com

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THE WRITE STUFF: Nick Nicholson moderates this panel that focuses on what critics are looking for in your film. Nick Nicholson President of The Houston Film Critics Society, Forum www.houstonfilmcritics.com CNN Radio, Forum guests include Michael Bergeron, Free Press Houston; Doug Harris - KGLK-FM; Larry Harrison - Fort Bend Independent, Eric Harrison, Daily Smackdown.com

DOCS ON A DIME ~ Alan Mendehlson ~ Multi award-winning (High River Blues, The Road to Partition, The Disappearing Male) Canadian producer Alan Mendehlson is back by popular-demand to present his detailed and focused Master Class on getting the best bang for your buck to achieve your creative excellence as an Indie documentarian.
www.docsonadime.com

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DISTRIBUTION FOR INDIE FILMMAKERS ~ Stuart Strutin, Founder ~ Panorama Entertainment was formed in 1987 to specifically distribute ‘niche’ films. Panorama has a solid track record and has acquired many films from various winners at WorldFest through-out the last ten years. www.panoramaentertainment.com

MASTER CLASS WITH JOHN CONES
Los Angeles–based, for 23 years and now residing in Austin, Texas, John Cones is a film finance attorney (UT Austin School of Law with a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree) author of 7 books and lecturer working in the broad field of film finance with a focus on investor-financing of independent entertainment projects (primarily independently produced feature and documentary films) and business start-ups. Film finance legal services include investor financing of independent film; provides film finance contracts, film finance books, film finance articles, lectures and seminars. http://www.filmfinanceattorney.com

Mini Bio: Mr. Cones engaged in the private practice of law in Houston and Dallas from 1981 through 1986. In that practice he supervised state securities compliance aspects of Regulation D (private placement) limited partnership and corporate offerings (including movie production/ distribution, oil and gas, real estate, equipment leasing, night clubs, restaurants, cattle breeding/feeding, thorough-bred breeding and medical technology. In his securities law practice, Mr. Cones has participated in the preparation of disclosure documents and the supervision of federal/state compliance for 130+ public or private limited partnership, investment contract or corporate stock offerings. In addition, he has worked with clients who sought active investor financing of their entertainment projects utilizing investor financing agreements and joint venture entities. Mr. Cones moved his law practice to California in 1987 specifically to work with independent film, television, video and theatrical producers in the manner described above.Mr. Cones is the author of state and national association magazine articles and his law journal article "Feature Film Limited Partnerships" was published in the January 1992 edition of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal. He is also the author of a book entitled Film Finance and Distribution--A Dictionary of Terms, a dictionary with more than 3,600 entries relating to film finance and distribution in which such terms are defined, discussed and explained. The terms in this monograph were extracted from this larger work. He also wrote the Entertainment Law & Finance article "Maximizing Producers' Negative Pick- Up Profits" (June 1992).He has lectured extensively (in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Houston and San Francisco) on "Investor Financing of Entertainment Projects" for the American Film Institute, the University of Southern California Cinema-Television Alumni Association, UCLA Extension, Loyola Marymount Continuing Education Division, Cinetex '90 and other film industry organizations. Mr. Cones has also presented a one-day UCLA Extension sponsored seminar on "The Film Distribution Deal" and appeared as a guest speaker on film finance and distribution in the UCLA extension evening courses "Financing Feature Film Production" and "Contractual Aspects of Producing, Financing and Distributing Film".

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WORLDFEST INDIE FILMMAKERS FORUM - Feature film directors from this year’s Official Selection share their experiences on how they were able to complete their award-winning film.