Now in its fourth year, The Televisual Intelligent Factual Festival is the leading forum for business information and debate for ALL factual television filmmakers, business executives and project leaders.
Televisual brings together the biggest names from across the UK factual TV community for a series of well-informed and insightful keynotes and panel sessions designed to tell you what the major factual TV commissioners are looking for and how to get your programmes funded. Sessions are themed across all the major documentary genres as well as covering digital channels and new media and are chaired by prominent experts in the business.
IF ’09 brings today’s factual TV programme makers up to date with what’s happening in their world in a two day event. Over 600 people attended the panel sessions, 10 x 10 evening and workshops last year.
All of the high impact sessions go to the heart of current business and content issues in factual TV. The primary focus for all sessions is how to succeed within the factual programme making business.
New content for 2009
This year there is an even sharper business focus on finding alternative routes to market – be it new media or digital channel commissions, alternative ways of raising finance or how to make TV for the web. While at the same time, the festival remains true to its roots by exploring beyond the sound bite with robust and revealing discourse and the strongest chairs and interviewers working in the media space.
The sessions are split into four main streams:
MEET THE COMMISSIONERS: get your programme made
In five panel discussions covering network factual, digital channel, specialist factual, factual entertainment and current affairs commissioning you can find out what to pitch, how to pitch and how to make sure you get your programme made. All of the commissioner sessions include presentations from senior commissioners and commissioning editors from the UK terrestrial and major digital channels.
SHOW ME THE MONEY: make your business work
From the art of finding funding for high end documentary to alternative sources of funding for factual TV and how to successfully run a factual Indie in a downturn, all of the ‘show me the money’ sessions have a sharp business focus to help the factual programme maker in the current economic climate.
NEW OPPORTUNITIES: the future of factual
Find out how leading factual programme makers are partnering with digital agencies to maximise exposure of their content. IF ‘09 profiles some recent award winning examples and talks to experts in the world of multiplatform. Elsewhere the festival covers the future of factual with a panel of senior executives and examines the current debate around safeguarding the future of factual television at a time when funding for public service genres is in jeopardy.
DELIVER THE CONTENT: the biggest and boldest ideas in factual content
Deconstructing what makes great programmes: IF’09 teams up with some of the most successful factual programme makers to find out how they got it commissioned, funded and made with a view to determine the key to their success.
Who should attend?
Within independent production companies
Chief executives, managing directors, commercial directors and managers, department heads (including production and development), executive producers, senior producers, producers, directors and researchers
Within broadcasters
Channel controllers, commissioners, commissioning editors, department heads (including production and development), executive producers, senior producers, producers, directors, commercial managers and researchers
Freelancers
Independent filmmakers, freelance producers, directors and researchers
Others and general statement
All those who are actively involved in the commissioning, funding and creation of factual content, including rights management agencies, content distributors, NGOs and charitable foundations. The Intelligent Factual Festival is a highly focussed, two-day event for those who are active in the world of factual television with upstream, in-the-know discussion to help them create the best content for the UK and international marketplace.
New venue for 2009
This year the festival has moved to Gisbson Hall (in London City EC1) - a stunning spacious venue, a 2-minute walk from Bank and Liverpool Street stations. The venue has a beautiful on site garden area where we’ll be serving complimentary coffees, teas, soft drinks throughout the day with lunchtime club sandwiches for one and two day pass holders.
Same competitive rates
What hasn’t changed is the extraordinarily keen delegate rate held at £249 (plus VAT) for both days. Not forgetting that this is the only central London event for documentary makers and that the entrance fee includes free refreshments and lunch.