Headline sponsors
Sony’s continued support of the festival fits closely with their desire to fully engage with the independent production and broadcast community. Sony is at the forefront of the tapeless HD revolution with far more UK productions using Sony cameras and formats than any other. They have earned this position by listening to what their clients and end users have to say. I hope you take the opportunity to catch up with their representatives at the festival and let them know about your production needs and experiences. At the festival, you’ll also note that we’re shooting the sessions using Sony EX cameras to deliver live play-out on large HD plasmas to add considerable A/V value to the main sessions.
All of our sponsors are integral to making the festival work, but Sony’s contribution allows us to keep attendance costs down for the conference sessions and enables us to offer the production workshops free of charge.
The Heights
Brooklands
Weybridge
Surrey
KT12 0XW
Tel 0870 6060 456
4Rights is the rights exploitation arm of Channel 4.
Combining the flexibility of a boutique team of rights experts, with all the support and brand recognition of one of the UK’s leading broadcasters, 4Rights generates income from IP across a range of different businesses, including DVD distribution, UK secondary sales, live events and publishing.
From the top selling TV-based DVD of 2009, to T4 On The Beach, one of the UK’s biggest summer music festivals, the 4Rights team has a proven track-record for developing and managing successful brand extensions and consumer products based around Channel 4 programming and talent.
In addition, the team works closely with indie producers to maximise the value of their UK secondary rights and has the expertise and resources to advise on all aspects of rights exploitation.
In 2009, they delivered around £15m to their producer clients and invested some £6m in rights. Recent investments include Keo Films’ Channel 4 series Three Hungry Boys, and new Channel 4 commission Being… N-Dubz, produced by Whizz Kid Entertainment.
124 Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 2TX
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Alias Smith and Singh was established in 1999 by Mike Smith and Bal Sanghera and developed from a small Hire Company to become one the UK's prominent supplier's of VTR, Cameras, Monitors, lighting and Audio equipment. We stock most product ranges including tape as well as tapeless formats. Our quality of service is second to none and our equipment is kept to an impeccable standard. Investment into new and resurfacing technologies such as 3D is part of our commitment to offering our customers a great choice of resources to fit each project. We have offices in Soho and Pinewood Studios our Hackney Wick (next to the Olympic site) and Manchester offices will be fully manned later in 2010.
ALL3MEDIA International is one of the UK's leading independent television programming distributors, offering programming to broadcasters around the world. In 2009,ALL3MEDIA International were awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in recognition of their growth and their sales service.
ALL3MEDIA International has a catalogue of over 2200 hours, covering all the major genres, with the Factual output including Fifth Gear, Homes under the Hammer and Undercover Boss.
ALL3MEDIA International aim to work closely with producers to develop, finance and distribute internationally appealing formats and to maintain and grow strong, established relationships with leading broadcasters around the world.
As one of the primary sponsors of the Televisual Road Show, Avid positions itself as a trusted and core production partner who fully understands the diverse needs of the production community. This is clearly reflected in their technology portfolio. Avid provides businesses with reliable, open solutions and responsive services that help them realise new economies, turn challenge into success, and seize opportunity. Avid is constantly pursuing innovations that make production more efficient and capable, so businesses can save time and money while delivering the content and quality that retains and builds audiences across any channel.
Avid prides itself on the power and features of its creative solutions, offering customer complete workflows tailored to their individual needs. Avid also understands that tight integration and close working partnerships with companies like Sony provide even greater flexibility and choice for our customers. Offering complete lens to final master and transmission workflows, which are straightforward to implement and flexible enough to cover many genres like news, sports, drama or commercials production for example.
Avid’s innovative digital audio and video solutions continue to revolutionise the art of creative storytelling, and have earned the company hundreds of awards, including 2 Oscar® statuettes, a Grammy®, and 12 Emmys®. I hope you take the opportunity to catch up with their representatives at the Road Show and let them know about your production needs and experiences.
Fine art, cultural and historical still images
Bridgeman works with museums, art galleries and artists to make the best art available for licensing. From the masterpieces of national museums to the hidden treasures of private collections, fine art is just one of the sources of images; documentary photography, design, antiques, maps, architecture, anthropological artefacts also feature as well as portraits of all the leading personalities throughout history from Archimedes to Obama.
Search and download over a million high quality resolution images. Contact our expert picture researchers who can advise on copyright and provide free searches in our extensive archive offline.
STING IMAGES
Bridgeman Art Library supplied the images used in the festival sting
Images used:
The Signing of the Concordat of 1801 between France and the Holy See - by François Gérard (1770-1837)Chateau de Versailles / Bridgeman Art Library
Teddy Bear c.1970 – by Bill Phillipps
© Look and Learn / Bridgeman Art Library
Medieval navigators in the Indian Ocean using an astrolabe, page from an illuminated manuscript entitled ‘Livre des Merveilles du Monde’, c.1410-12
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris / Bridgeman Art Library
Voted as best factual specialist in the Broadcast Peer Poll 2009, Cineflix International’s catalogue offers 1400 hours of quality programmes covering all major non-fiction genres.
With a proven track record of successfully leveraging rights opportunities and building international TV brands, Cineflix International is a leading global distributor of non-fiction entertainment. While striving to be the best at sales and service, we are focused on meeting the individual needs of our producers and buyers, providing the expertise and resources to sell programmes and expand businesses globally.
Barley Mow Centre
10 Barley Mow Passage
Chiswick
London, UK
W4 4PH
Tel (0)20 8996 1810
Established in 2006 to provide the widest possible range of freelance production and post production talent along with a total devotion to customer service and attention to detail, The Crewing Company has grown to become the UK Broadcast Industry’s first port of call for crewing and recruitment services.
With a pool of highly skilled and friendly freelancers spanning all areas of the UK and a diverse range of disciplines, short term engagements can be filled by tried and trusted candidates, whose skills and capabilities are fully understood by an experienced bookings team. From a one day, fully equipped news shoot to a twelve week light entertainment edit, TCC have the very best talent available at incredibly competitive rates. It costs no more to book through TCC than to book an operator direct, yet customers enjoy the confidence that comes with booking through an agency with an impeccable reputation, superb back up and out of hours support. With a caring, honest and open approach to recruitment by consultants motivated by finding the right candidates rather than by targets, TCC make the selection process a smooth and hassle free experience.
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Road
Iver Heath
Bucks
SL0 0NH
Tel 01753 655300
Davenport Lyons is a leading business law firm offering a partner-led service. They provide commercial advice across a broad range of market sectors and offer a unique combination of very strong corporate, tax, litigation and property capabilities coupled with specialist media and intellectual property expertise.
Through their membership of Globalaw, a leading global law firm network, they are linked into 94 law firms with over 4,500 lawyers, so are able to provide their clients with an international legal resource.
30 Old Burlington Street
London
W1S 3NL
A single aim links all their work: to encourage, stimulate, promote and support the growth of a strong community of documentary filmmakers and film audiences. Operating as a non-profit organisation since 2001, their presence, activities and community continue to expand, showing that there is real demand for a group dedicated to serving the needs of documentary film in all its aspects.
DFG is the leading provider of industry-focussed training for established and aspiring documentary filmmakers and a member of the elite Skillset Media Academy Network.
They run a range of networking, information and advice events for documentary filmmakers at different stages in their careers, as well as pitching opportunities and screenings. There are number of resources, vis their website and the DFG Comunity, a growing online community of nearly 1700 documentary filmmakers which shares insider news and a range of practical resources.
If you are interested in joining DFG and supporting its work, then please sign up as a member. It's only £27.50 for the year and you will get a whole host of additional benefits, including exclusive member resources, deals and discounts.
Pact is the UK trade association representing and promoting the commercial interests of independent feature film, television, digital, children's and animation media companies.
Pact offers a range of business services to its members, actively lobbies government organizations at local, regional, national and European level and negotiates minimum terms with the major UK broadcasters and other content buyers.
Music
Independent and established supplier of Production Music and the home of MyDrive - offering over 17,500 tracks across 17 libraries on USB hard drive, plus search, audition and download from our website, all backed up by a fast and efficient music search/response and supply service. Truly - Our Music - Your Way.
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The ProductionBase website is a multimedia environment which showcases the work, credits and talent of over 5,000 freelancers working across all grades of pre-production, production and post-production.
A key industry resource, ProductionBase has aided employers in finding crew and sourcing talent for over 12 years, providing an easy to use search and job posting service.
ProductionBase members can enjoy and benefit from the latest online recruitment, networking and media hosting technology.
A key feature on ProductionBase is ShowFolio. The industry’s most innovative online tool to allow freelancers and companies to search and dynamically showcase video, audio and still photography along with professional profiles.
Post production services
The largest, privately owned post production company in the UK, Molinare works across all story genres and distribution formats.
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Established more than ten years ago, Soho-based root6 is the most experienced and committed supplier of technology to the UK broadcast, film and post-production communities.
Still owned and run by the people who started the company, root6 is a reseller for industry-leading brands of hardware and software. Complementing the sales arm, root6 has a systems integration and installation division, a technical customer support service in which more than a third of our total staff are employed and a product development arm, ROOT6 Technology.
Target Entertainment Group is a leading international production and rights management business. With offices in London, New York and Los Angeles, it produces content and manages rights and brands.
Target Entertainment Group was formed by CEO Alison Rayson as an international TV distribution company in 1998. In 2004 it launched entertainment production, licensing, and home entertainment divisions. Since then it has expanded further by setting up a children’s and family production division. In 2007 Target acquired UK distribution company Minotaur International followed by leading UK drama production company Greenlit Rights in early 2008.
2nd Floor, Garfield House
86-88 Edgware Road
London
W2 2EA
Transcription services
Take 1 Transcription is the UK media industry’s favourite transcribers. It is relied upon by TV production companies, distributors and broadcasters as well as PR & Ad agencies, marketing companies, and digital media organisations to deliver accurate transcripts, post production scripts and translations.
Take 1’s regular clients include Discovery, BBC, ITV, Endemol, Fremantle Media, Talkback Thames, Ten Alps, Ricochet, Shine Television, Mentorn Media, Ten Alps, Optomen Television and many, many more.
Take 1 is chosen for its fast turnarounds, huge capacity, technological expertise, accurate scripts and excellent customer service.
Take 1’s main services include: Transcripts of unedited broadcast material, conferences, interviews, podcasts and group discussions. Timecoded transcripts are used to edit from and for publishing to print or web.
Translations of recorded media, interviews, press releases, documents, finished programmes and website localisation to and from most languages. Post Production Scripts of finished programmes. These accurate scripts are ideal to produce hard of hearing or foreign language subtitles from. They are used by production companies to deliver to broadcasters and for international programme sales.
As official transcriber for Televisual’s Intelligent Factual Festival, Take 1 will be professionally preparing full, accurate transcripts of the festival sessions for delegates.