Partners

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.

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.

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 that represents and promotes the commercial interests of independent feature film, television, children's and animation media companies.

Pact is the largest representative group of screen-based content producers in the UK and the largest trade association in the film, television and interactive media sectors.

Pact offers a range of business services to its members; actively lobbies government organizations at local, regional, national and European level and negotiates minimum trading terms with the major UK broadcasters.

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.

Raw Cut Television was set up in 2002 by two of Britain's most experienced crime and reality producers, Steve Warr and Bill Rudgard.  Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength making programmes for all the major broadcasters.

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.

root6 is characterised by a high level of technical competence. Many of the team have worked in technical and creative areas of the industry and understand the priorities and processes. As the business evolves and embraces the world of IT alongside traditional engineering, knowledge and experience are paramount.

The systems integration division specifies, designs, project-manages and commissions technical installations so nothing is left to chance. Clients include Channel 5, MTV, The Moving Picture Company, The VTR Group, The Farm, Molinare and London South Bank University.

root6 offers customer support from individual products to systems and facility-wide installations and many facilities large and small have come to rely on a service which can be tailored to suit individual requirements. root6 mission-critical editorial support for major feature films and reality TV series has been contracted for such titles as 'Casino Royale' and 'Big Brother'.

ROOT6 Technology, the product development arm of the company, develops innovative productivity solutions including the extremely popular universal encoding and management platform, ContentAgent.